Keynotes and Training
All topics are available in formats ranging from a motivational keynote presentation to a half day, full day or multiple day training and development course. Michael customizes every presentation to bring the right content at the right time for each and every member of your audience. Contact us today to discuss your organization’s unique needs and goals.
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Engagement and Performance: ReCentering Performance |
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Knowing how to use adversity to transform productivity and performance in yourself and others is the most essential 21st century skill for realizing goals. Performance transformation is the skill behind all other skill development. This highly requested presentation delivers power tools and real-time strategies for creating performance transformation in the midst of intense situations, persistent challenges and difficult people. Thousands of business and education professionals are using ReCenter’s power tools to transform productivity and performance and realize diverse goals.
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Communication: Communication Is (almost) Everything |
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In this interactive presentation you will acquire a practical system for transforming communication from the inside out. You will experience power tools for synthesizing words, vibes and body language to communicate with confidence, clarity and purpose. Learn real-time strategies for communicating challenging information without losing the attention and support of others. Discover creative ways to authentically express yourself and connect with others. Thousands of business and education professionals are using ReCenter power tools to communicate more successfully in their professional and personal lives.
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Difficult People/Conflict: Making Peace with Difficult People |
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Knowing how to prevent and resolve conflict with difficult people is a critical life skill. Difficult people, intense situations and persistent conflicts offer the best opportunities for transforming performance in yourself and others. This high energy presentation delivers power tools for preventing and resolving conflicts with the difficult people in your life. Thousands of business and education professionals are using ReCenter’s power tools to make peace with the difficult people in their professional and personal lives.
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Positive Change: Transforming Uncertainty into Positive Change |
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Ever-accelerating change and uncertainty has become business as usual for most of us. Increased roles and additional responsibilities are aspects of every person’s daily work life. The theme being played out everywhere is, “we’re expected to do more with less.” All of this has left many of us feeling like we’re doing everything at half capacity and that too many things are unfinished. Striving to meet continuously shifting expectations has left many professionals feeling apprehensive, frustrated, under-valued and over-whelmed. It seems the more we get done the more that is undone, and there is no way out of this endless cycle. This paradox creates a challenging fact: We have never been more productive and we have never felt less productive. This real-world presentation delivers power tools for creating and sustaining positive change in the midst of uncertainty. You will learn how to engage real-time strategies for using uncertainty and forced change as a catalyst for enhancing productivity and performance. Thousands of business and education professionals are using ReCenter power tools to create and sustain positive change in every aspect of living.
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Teamwork: Building Centered Teams |
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Almost everything we do involves collaborating with diverse people, world views and skill sets. In every organization there are people who don’t communicate well, refuse to listen to others, and are oblivious to their attitudes and behaviors. Every success story is written by a team of people pursuing shared goals. We are all faced with the challenge of making individual contributions while simultaneously working effectively with diverse team members. During this interactive and practical presentation you will acquire power tools for transforming diverse individuals into high performing teams. You will learn real-time strategies for using intense situations and persistent challenges to boost communication, collaboration and productivity. Thousands of business and education professionals are using ReCenter power tools to optimize diversity and build centered teams.
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Negativity at Work: Transforming Negativity into Creativity |
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Negativity is one of the most powerful disrupting forces in our professional and personal lives. In every organization there are people who are constantly expressing negativity. Persistent negativity can have such a powerful ripple effect that a single negative person can bring down the attitudes and efforts of an entire team. In this real-world centered presentation you will acquire power tools for transforming negative reactions into creative choices. You will strengthen your capacity for transforming negative reactions before they disrupt productivity, performance and the pursuit of goals. Thousands of business and education professionals are using ReCenter power tools to transform negativity into creativity at work and beyond.
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Teachers: The Secrets of Successful Teachers |
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Academic Performance Index, standards, benchmarks, increased roles and additional responsibilities are aspects of every teacher’s daily professional life. Relentless change and uncertainty have become status quo for teachers in K-12 school communities. Expectations rise while support goes down. The theme playing out everywhere is, “we’re doing more with less.” Striving to meet continuously shifting expectations has left many teachers (students and parents) feeling apprehensive, frustrated, under-valued and over-whelmed. It seems the more we get done the more that is undone, and there is no way out of the endless cycle. This paradox creates a challenging fact about most teachers’ daily experience: We have never been more productive and we have never felt less productive. Knowing how-to transform teaching, learning, productivity and performance are the most essential 21st century classroom skills. Performance transformation is the skill behind all other skill development. The solutions to realizing goals and transforming challenges and opportunities can be found by developing you and your students’ capacities for productivity and performance improvement. This practical and experiential presentation delivers power tools and real-time strategies for transforming teaching, learning, productivity and performance inside and outside the classroom. Thousands of educators, students and parents are using ReCenter power tools to improve every aspect of living.
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Parents and Students: The Secrets of Successful Parents and Students |
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Intense academic expectations and ever-increasing social emotional pressures are aspects of every students and parents daily life. Relentless change and uncertainty have become status quo for parents and students in K-12 school communities. Expectations rise while support goes down. The theme playing out everywhere is, “we expect you to do more with less.” Striving to meet continuously shifting expectations has left many parents and students feeling apprehensive, frustrated, under-valued and over-whelmed. It seems the more we get done the more that is undone, and there is no way out of the endless cycle. This paradox creates a challenging fact about most parents and students’ daily experiences: We have never been more productive and we have never felt less productive. Knowing how-to transform your children’s academic, citizenship and social-emotional performance is the most essential 21st century parenting skill. Performance transformation is the skill behind all other skill development. The solutions to realizing goals and transforming challenges and opportunities can be found by developing you and your children’s capacities for productivity and performance improvement. During this fun and interactive presentation you will learn exactly what it takes to create success in your children’s primary, secondary, post-secondary education, and beyond. Parents are encouraged to bring their children to participate in this transformational experience for the entire family. You and your children will acquire real-time strategies for creating success, happiness and well-being inside and outside the classroom. Thousands of parents and students are using ReCenter power tools to create improvements in every aspect of their lives.
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