Keynote Speakers - Phoenix 2012
Keynote 1 // VINCE POSCENTE
► Big Goals in Short Order
Learning to Thrive in a More-Faster-Now World
The four profiles organizations and individuals respond to in the speed of business and life. The final profile, a Jet, identifies the three qualities to thrive in the Age of Speed. Participants will identify the defining moments they’ve had in their life. These defining moments reveal patterns of decision making. Once these patterns are identified it’s easier for the individual to realize they have the choice to make decisions the same way or make new kinds of decisions.
FOUR PROFILES:
1. Zeppelins – Organizations and individuals are Zeppelins when they stubbornly resist the speed of change or anything new. Zeppelins lose out on future opportunity.
2. Balloons – When a company or person checks out from the speed in the business of life, he is a Balloon. Balloons aren’t just the realm of the idle rich. Balloons learn how to let speed go on around them in a flowing way.
3. Bottle Rockets – A Bottle Rocket embraces speed but doesn’t harness it. People and groups suffer when they charge ahead without addressing necessary adaptations along the way.
4. Jets – Individuals and companies that are aligned, agile and aerodynamic will respond the best in the age of speed.
a) Aligned – Groups must understand that alignment is not just an organizational issue. In fact, it starts with people who have an emotional connection to goals. This is called the emotional buzz. Participants become aware of the emontional buzz is WHY they do the job they do. Attaching emotion to a job makes the job easier and increases the level of commitment by the person on the job.
b) Agility – For optimum results at speed, agility is critical. Adapting efficiently to change in real time is possible when organizations and individuals have sufficiently prepared. The participant identifies the kinds of things someone like them at a competing company is not willing to do. Typically, those are the things the participant is not willing to do either. Hence they become clear on the kinds of actions that will produce the best results.) Participants become aware of the 360 Degree Research concept to better understand the variety of ways to “do what the competition is not willing to do.”
c) Aerodynamic – It is important for everyone to look for ways to eliminate drag in everyday life. Two areas that must be addressed are interruptions and multitasking. Use technology in a way that minimizes interruptions. Do not multitask significant responsibilities. Participants identify the list of things that cause drag in the business of life.
They split their list into Micro Drag (interruptions, multitasking, etc.) and Macro Drag (high fear, low confidence). Participants conclude the session identifying the ways they reconcile results, good or bad, in order to continue to reinvent themselves and how they show up at work and at home. Click on Vince Poscente's Bio to read more.
Keynote 2 // JOE CALLOWAY
► Minds Wide Open
MINDS WIDE OPEN is about:
• How market leaders think and the mindset that creates and sustains success.
• The passionate curiosity that drives people to look outside their comfort zone for new ideas.
• A propensity for action that means we actually DO things instead of just talking about them and having meetings about them then having more meetings about them.
• Tearing down barriers like the resistance that most people and (virtually all committees) have to new ideas…the fear of risk…and the biggest barrier of all:
- “We’re Experts! We KNOW how it’s done!”
- (famous last words of soon-to-be-dying companies)
• The creative power that comes from not knowing what you can’t do!
- (5 year olds are masters of this – we should be, too)
• Seeking out and destroying complacency like the evil force that it is!
• Knowing that the most important innovations are those that positively impact the customer experience.
• And finally, knowing the point…having a clear sense of who we are, what’s important, and what we’re all trying to accomplish.
"This is not a speech or lecture! This is a dynamic session of thinking, working, and engaging with new ideas. Come prepared to actively participate!"
Click on Joe Calloway's Bio to read more.