Thursday, December 17, 2009

Motivational Speaker for all employee celebration

I love being asked to be the motivational speaker for companies having record years. The people are always in great moods and excited to be there. This was certainly no exception.

Yup - believe it or not some are having record years still through the ups and downs of our non-stop economic news and unemployment figures. So many congratulations to CallCopy in Columbus, Ohio who have not only been amongst the fastest growing companies in Ohio the past two years but ALSO ranked as one of the "Best Places To Work" by Business First newspapers.

To be a Best Place to work you really need a team full of passionate people and thank is exactly what we talked about. How to combine the passion and teamwork to continue to excel. While I realize you've hit numbers that past two years....but NOW WHAT? What does it take to continue? How can we continue to think different about the solutions we offer and how they impact our customers business?

It was a great crowd and a great response. Thanks to all who were in attendance and made it such a wonderful event.

Monday, December 07, 2009

Corporate magician equals - a fun time of year to be an entertainer

ABSOLUTELY there are groups still having events for the holidays and what they wanted was a corporate magician! This past weekend working for the Dept of Education, ITT Technical Institute, American Family Insurance and private CEO client of a software company.

All of the events entailed the primary objective of "these people have worked hard. Please just let them laugh for a while." And that we did. ABSOLUTELY hysterical. I even brought along a new member of my team; Gordon, the mind reading goose....yeah really.

Thanks to all the great people I met and all the laughs we had. I appreciate the opportunity to be a part of your special events.

**And for those wondering. The US Dept of Education event was funded by employee dollars - not your tax dollars.**

Off to Reno Nevada today to work with BASF for a couple days then back home to Ohio for the remainder of the year. And what a year it has been!