When we understand how to most effectively structure our goals, we start a chain reaction within ourselves that generates the energy and the follow-through for bringing our goals into being. And there’s nothing more exciting than that!

Here is the first of FIVE TIPS on how to successfully STRUCTURE YOUR GOALS to genuinely motivate yourself.

#1: Begin by answering the question: “What do I truly want to create?”
This will shift you into a “creative orientation,” which is very important and very powerful.

To say it in simple terms… focus on what you want, rather than what you don’t want. Make your goal something you truly value. It’s about choosing what’s really important to you. And it’s best thought of as something you want to create, a result or experience you want to bring into being.

This may seem obvious, but many people incorrectly focus on what they’d like to get rid of, rather than what they’d like to create. Focusing on what you don’t want, what you’d like to get rid of, is a “problem solving” orientation. And even when you succeed at getting rid of what you don’t want, what have you got when you’re done? The answer is… nothing.

It’s hard to get motivated, to feel the natural excitement of really wanting to get your work done, when you’re problem solving. Because you’re not really working to create what you want.

So, Tip #1 is more important than you might think.
Get in the habit of asking yourself, “What do I truly want to create?”
This will shift you into a creative orientation. And it is from a creative orientation that you’ll begin to experience authentic motivation.

Let’s look at this a little further…

> Here’s a question for you: Each year, what is the most common New Year’s resolution?

You guessed it!… to lose weight. To get rid of something we don’t want!… a classic problem solving approach. And, as is so common with efforts to lose weight, a problem solving approach will almost always create an “oscillating experience.” Don’t let the word “oscillating” throw you. I’m talking about that experience best described as “two steps forward, followed by two steps back.” First there is some success. You lose 15 pounds. Hooray! But all too soon that is followed by a reversal as you gain back 14 pounds. Oh no! Two steps forward is followed by two steps back. Like a pendulum swinging back and forth. Like going around in circles.

If you’ve ever had that kind of experience with anything you were trying to accomplish — and who hasn’t? — chances are you were engaged in some kind of problem solving. This problem solving approach is an easy habit to get into. Our culture admires it and reinforces it. But it is structurally unsound. And you won’t experience natural motivation and follow-through this way.

So, to increase your personal motivation, be certain your goal is something you want to create, rather than something you want to get rid of or eliminate.

Staying with our weight-loss illustration for just a little longer, people who shift to a creative orientation about their bodies, who choose to create a trim healthy body, rather than focus on getting rid of weight they don’t want, are capable of sustaining action and changes in their behavior that successfully support the creation of long-term excellent health. And, their bodies slim down as a by-product of the choice they have made and the actions they take to create health and vitalilty.

When we are faced with what we perceive to be a problem, we certainly don’t want to ignore it or deny it. Our problems can be very real. However, when faced with a problem, learn to ask yourself what you would like to create instead, in this area of your life or work. This way, our problems do not become our primary focus. Our primary focus will be on creating results that are most important to us.

Develop the habit of asking yourself, “What do I truly want to create?”
This will shift you to a creative orientation. And that is the most powerful and highly motivating approach to living your life.

Where does the leverage come from?

For people, companies, and work teams the issue is always about creating desired results. In today’s economy it might be accurate to say the issue is about creating desired results with limited available resources. In other words, where does the leverage come from for creating results we care about, even when we have less resource than ever?!

The good news is, in this presentation Bodine shares what might be considered the best method available for generating innovative thinking, strategic action, and sustainable energy for execution and follow-through.

The Generative Creative Process

The productive method your group will learn for gaining leverage to create important results in challenging times is the Generative Creative Process. There’s a structure to this method and a primary tool. And when work teams understand this structure and begin using this tool, they gain immediate leverage in three compelling ways.

True Innovation

In today’s world it can seem like the usual ways to achieve our goals no longer work. Our resources can seem insufficient to the task of creating our most important outcomes. It’s easy for people to say we don’t have enough money or enough time. This is where innovation comes in.

When using the primary tool of the Generative Creative Process, perceived scarcity of resources automatically drives innovative thinking. People and teams get new ideas. They become inventive. They begin using available resources more effectively, as well as discover and develop new resources to use in creating desired results

Change and learning become the norm. A thirst for learning develops. This sustains effective innovation and change. Change efforts and processes are seen as being part of the creative effort for bringing desired results into being.

• In this presentation Bodine will share the 4-part structure of the Generative Creative Process and the remarkable principle that provides this kind of leverage. It may be the most important principle you & your team will ever learn.

Strategic Action

The Generative Creative Process also drives efficient strategic planning and effective strategic action.
Important desired results are clarified and communicated, and virtually all actions are taken to bring into being what the organization and team truly wants to create. Challenging circumstances and problems are seen clearly, however they are not the primary focus. The primary focus is on the creation of results that are important.

• You and your team will learn an action charting tool that implements the goal structuring clarity of the creative process. This tool allows people and teams to easily create strategic action plans tailored to the creation of chosen results.
• You’ll learn how to structure your goals around Primary and Secondary Choices to drive the most efficient communication and most direct action. This is also part of the real key to follow-through.

Sustainable Energy

This may be the most valuable benefit of using this method. The structure of the generative creative process develops an energy dynamic that is sustainable. This is a form of energy that will not diminish, and does not require will-power manipulation. It will continue until you bring into being the positive result you are focused on creating.

• You and your team will learn how to use the structure of the creative process to generate sustainable energy for fueling your actions and following-thru to complete the results you’ve chosen.

An Exciting Learning Experience

Based on the brilliant discoveries and insights of Robert Fritz, and shared with his express permission, this is information that can make a difference for you and your work teams. Using this method, people and teams develop a clear sense of direction and alignment. Challenging circumstances and limiting conditions become part of the creative process itself, a process that focuses attention, generates innovation, develops strategy, and provides energy for execution and follow-through.

Bodine is a gifted speaker and trainer, and he delivers this wisdom in a way that truly gets it across and creates a learning experience that is exciting and empowering, the results of which last long after the presentation is over.

It’s about creating customer value and strengthening the customer relationship with each and every customer contact. Bodine will help your team realize this is not inspirational, it’s operational. Your business success depends on the two primary benefits obtained from creating loyal customers… customer RETENTION and business REFERRALS.

Creating authentically loyal customers is not an easy task in a world where the buyer has all the power, but it can be done. And it’s the key to business growth in the 21st Century. In this presentation Bodine shares modern service principles, effective communication behavior, and important work-culture values, for creating consistently high levels of customer service. It’s this consistent devotion to truly serving the customer, at every point of customer contact, that will allow you to retain the customers you’ve got and obtain a steady stream of new customer referrals.

Our values drive our behavior, and in this presentation Bodine will share:

• Four core values and five core behaviors for creating customer loyalty.
• Three Primary Principles for Creating Customer Loyalty.
• How to Create a Culture of Customer Focus & Consistent Customer Service.

This information will not only inspire your group, it will give your staff members new awareness and new tools that will immediately increase their customer focus and enhance their positive impact with their customers.

Creating a Culture of Customer Focus

We must realize once and for all, it’s not about great performance. It’s about great performance from the customer’s perspective. The creation of customer loyalty must be driven by an effort to learn — and continually re-learn! — what our customers value.

It’s about constantly gathering and collating customer feedback, to determine what they like and what they dislike, and then communicating this awareness to everyone in the organization.

This continually updated knowledge of “what our customers truly value” is then used to shape all of our procedures, inform all of our decisions, and drive all of our behavior. This builds a customer focus into the very structure of the enterprise itself.

This feedback process must be greatly simplifed to be effective. The latest research in this area tells us how to do this in a remarkably effective way. Bodine will share this information with your group:

• The one question you must ask — and how to ask it — that allows you to accurately measure the level of customer loyalty you and your team are currently creating.
• The best “employee engagement strategy” for getting everyone productively involved in creating loyal customers.
• An 8-step strategy for “Turning an Angry Customer into a Loyal Customer.”
  Every customer-contact employee NEEDS TO KNOW this strategy for recovering from inevitable blunders.

In today’s competitive marketplace this information is critical to your company’s success. Bodine communicates this important information with a humorous and entertaining showmanship that makes it unforgettable, and makes learning exciting and very enjoyable… and yes, even fun!

Most importantly, managers report positive behavioral change in their staff members, and a renewed focus on their customers, after they experience this presentation with Bodine.

He’s always had the urge to stay fresh and current with the message and strategies he shares with his clients groups at meetings and conferences across North America.

To meet the challenge of using online marketing strategies and social media networking to build his business as a speaker and workshop leader, Bodine has partnered with one of the top SEO experts on the west coast, Steve Wiideman.

As businesses continue to migrate marketing dollars to the Web, they are faced with an overwhelming task to capture as much saturation as possible, from social media networks such as Twitter and Facebook, and from the search engine giants: Google, Yahoo! and Bing.

Starting more than two years ago, Bodine faced this challenge to harness the power of the internet with his usual determination to learn everything he needed to know, to ride the front edge of the technology wave.

“I’ve developed truly valuable information that can help people succeed in challenging times, and I realized if I could harness the power of online networking and combine it with advanced internet marketing strategies, I could provide this valuable content to everyone in America. That was my vision two years ago, and that’s still my vision today,” says the upbeat Balasco.

But after failing to make the progress he wanted, with three so-called internet consultants, Bodine knew he needed to find not another consultant, but rather a true business partner who was a technology genius who could also see the full potential of his vision.

Enter SEO expert, Steve Wiideman, who Bodine met at a non-profit fundraiser where they discovered they had both been invited to join that organization’s governing board of directors.

“The benefits of a partnership between us seemed obvious to us both, right from the start,” says Bodine.

The first thing Steve did was map out the immediate action steps to lay the technical foundation for implementing Bodine’s vision. Steve insisted they create a dynamic and automated “WordPress website” for Bodine, complete with the most advanced SEO plug-ins, automated social media integration, and connections to the top internet newsfeeds.

Bodine’s online presence has been growing steadily ever since.

“The days of the static html website have come and gone,” says Steve Wiideman, a top-ranked SEO Expert, “Our work with Bodine is proving the effectiveness of creating a dynamic WordPress-based web presence, for distributing valuable content across the internet, to attract prospects and customers who are increasingly searching online to find vendors and services.”

“Content is marketing, and marketing is content,” says Bodine, “The key to online success is to be steadily distributing valuable content. And with the kind of dynamic WordPress site Steve has developed, it’s possible to easily integrate the distribution of all of my content out to my social media networks and the internet at large. Steve is leading the way in this strategic approach to integrated online marketing, and I think every forward-thinking business person will want one of his turbo-charged business-blog websites.”

“By using WordPress and subsequent plugins or add-on’s,” explains Wiideman, “Bodine now has the ability to write and publish his own content without the need for a webmaster. With each post Bodine creates, a signal will be sent out to his social profiles with a link sending his followers and patrons back to his website.” In other words, when Bodine hits “Publish” on a new page of content, all of his followers on Twitter, Facebook, and other networks will see the topic and be able to click a link to read Bodine’s content.

Bodine is one of the first Business Speakers to harness the power of a search engine-friendly website that syncs easily with all of his social networks and can be packed full of robust media, including video, free downloads and newsletter opt-in forms. Balasco and Wiideman are even expanding their vision of the training they want to offer online.

Balasco has also developed the ability to create his own videos which he houses on Amazon’s S3 cloud, an affordable and very fast alternative to self-hosting. With help from Steve Wiideman, Bodine is becoming well known for more than just his remarkable speaking skills. Lately several of Bodine’s clients have begun referring to him an a “Technology Expert,” and he’s even been coaching business operators on how to use online strategies to win in the new and challenging game of business.

About Bodine Balasco

Bodine Balasco has established himself as one of the country’s most knowledgeable business speakers. His client list reads like a page from the Fortune 100 — AT&T, 3M, Warner Bros. Television, Verizon, Boeing, and Fedex to name a few. Known for his combination of valuable content, interactive style, uplifting energy, and humorous storytelling, members of the Institute of Management Consultants gave Bodine a “10+” rating on their 5-point scale. And, Successful Meetings Magazine has named him “one of the Top-21 speakers for the 21st century.”

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DEVELOPING YOUR “PEOPLE SKILLS & PEOPLE WISDOM

Clearly your employees are your greatest resource, if you can get them to become completely committed to their work, if you can get them focused on and excited about great performance.

All leaders face a challenge of leadership. The old models of leadership behavior don’t work anymore — and perhaps they never did. To influence others in a positive and productive way, we must continue to develop our people skills and our people wisdom.

In this presentation Bodine will answer the following questions:

• How can we influence our employees to be as committed as we are to the success of the enterprise?

• How do we get great performance when we can’t pay for it?

BUILDING COMMITMENT & INVOLVEMENT

To unlock the full potential of our employees we must create a new type of working environment. Each year, we are required by the demands of the marketplace to ask for more and more from our employees. Bodine will challenge you, as a leader, to examine what you can give in exchange, when you ask for more from your staff. (And no, it’s not more money or more benefits).

You will learn how to increase employee commitment & involvement by examining the latest Top-10 List of “What Employees Want from Work,” from a study by the Public Agenda Foundation. He will also share, from the latest studies, the core elements of what it takes
to create a working environment that will attract, retain, and motivate the best employees available.

You and your leadership staff will learn:

• The authentic Top-10 List of “What Employees Want from Work.
• And what these means to you as an influential leader.
• The 12 workplace characteristics for attracting, retaining and motivating the very best employees.
• This will allow you to benchmark your own “cultural architecture” for improvement;
• and that cultural improvement will have an immediate impact on your staff.

You and your leadership staff will also learn:

• How to keep employees focused on learning and improving.
• A group creative-thinking tool that will allow you to regularly gather an abundance of ideas from your staff. (The efficiency improvements, cost savings, and improved morale you’ll experience from using this tool will surprise you).

INCREASING YOUR POSTIVE INFLUENCE

This intriguing presentation will change the way you think about leadership, and help you update your leadership behavior. This presentation is for anyone who wants to develop their “people skills” and their “people wisdom,” and thereby greatly enhance their positive influence and leadership effectiveness.

It will work for you the first time you use it, and you’ll get better and better at it each time you use it.

Using this principle – and the remarkable tool involved – I’ve seen people double their business revenue, create profitable new businesses, find new jobs after giving up, and even save failing marriages!

Virtually everyone I have taught this method and this tool has remarkably increased their ability to create results in their work and in their life.

It’s a not a spiritual approach, or anything like that. And it’s not just

a new form of goal setting. It’s way beyond that. It’s a real method that really works, discovered and developed by an American genius from Vermont, and now used by some of the most successful companies and individuals in the world.

That genius has become a mentor to me, and he’s given me permission to teach this wisdom in my speeches & workshops, and now offer it to you. In another five years this wisdom will be known by everyone, but right now it’s just starting to make it’s way into the mainstream.

You can learn it and use it right now.

This approach to creating results even works when you have little or diminishing resources available. That’s why it’s such important wisdom to learn at this time in history!

Most of the frustration we experience in life, and actually most of the frustration in the world today, is a result of individuals not being able to create the results in life that they truly care about.

And I have some more bad news. Virtually all of the achievement methods we’ve been taught, that are still being sold and presented, are simply wrong.  They are structurally unsound. And that’s why they only partially work.

Don’t believe me?  Recent studies tell us that 95% of the people who sign up for a gym membership stop going after three visits.

120 million people make New Year’s Resolutions in America every January 1^st. Guess how many of those goals actually get created. That’s right!  A very small fraction.

How can this be?

Don’t feel bad.  It’s not your fault.  Honest.  You’ve been taught the wrong approach by people who often don’t even know what they are selling and teaching is incorrect.  If you’ve followed one of those achievement programs and had initial success followed by a reversal of progress or a total drop-off in your motivation, then you know what I’m talking about.

Most of the achievement and success methods we’ve learned were originally thought up over fifty years ago.  Some of them are based on principles that date back over 100 years.  It’s old wisdom that was only partially correct to begin with.

What can we do?

The good news is… there is good news. There is a process for creating results that really works.  You can learn it and use it.  And the more you use it, the better you’ll become at creating the results you want in your life and in your work.

It’s the generative creative process. Those three words are a mouthful I know. What those words refer to is a process for creating results that don’t currently exist; a way of successfully generating new results for yourself.

This process is the most effective achievement approach ever discovered, and it’s been organized for us by a genius from Vermont who may be the most brilliant person I have ever had the pleasure to meet. His impact on my thinking and my life has been remarkable.

After seventeen years of searching for achievement wisdom that really works I came across this man’s brilliant discoveries and insights. And the first year I used the main principle in my business as a professional speaker, I doubled my business revenue.  That got my attention, as you can imagine.

I began sharing it with my audiences in my keynote speeches, and they started increasing their revenue results in substantial ways, as well.  That’s when I knew I had to go meet this man and somehow convince him to give me permission to share his wisdom with others.

Amazingly there is a STRUCTURE to the GENERATIVE CREATIVE PROCESS, and when you learn this structure you’ll immediately gain real leverage for creating results that matter to you. That’s why I call this wisdom GOAL STRUCTURING.

I’m convinced this information will eventually become well known and completely change the way everyone in the world organizes their thinking and their actions to create results more effectively.

In this workshop you can learn this wisdom right now.  And don’t be surprised to find yourself creating results faster than ever before, becoming more and more effective as you go.

This is the most exciting and productive wisdom I’ve ever discovered in 17 years of rigorous research. And we’ll have a great time together as I share it all with you, with the complete permission of the genius who has discovered it and organized it for us:

• YOU’LL DISCOVER why “will power manipulation” and “conflict manipulation” don’t work, and why using these approaches has been holding you back without you even knowing it. It will amaze you to discover how often you’ve been using these approaches that actually make it harder for you to create the results you want.

• YOU’LL LEARN the single most important principle for creating results you care about. This is truly the missing part of virtually every achievement method.  Once you learn this principle and begin using it in your life, you’ll immediately get better at creating what you want. (This is the principle that allowed me to double my business revenue the first year I began using it.)

• YOU’LL LEARN the 4-part structure of the generative creative process. Using this wisdom you’ll be able to structure action plans for achieving results that will literally “pull you forward” from where you are to where you want to go.

• YOU’LL BE ABLE TO USE an ACHIEVEMENT TOOL that is the most productive tool I’ve ever used. Nothing else even comes close.  (And believe me, I’ve tried them all.)

QUESTION: Is there something in your life you really care about, that you’d like to create or experience, that you’ve been procrastinating on?

QUESTION: Is there something you want to do or create but you don’t quite know how to go about making it happen?

Then this tool is for you.

It will give you the ability to move forward right now with a clear effective plan of action. And it allow you to create the energy required to follow-thru with your plan.

You’ll use your available resources more efficiently than ever, and you’ll develop additional resources as needed.

Sometimes when I write this stuff to inform people like this, it sounds just too incredible. So don’t get me wrong, there is work involved every time anyone sets out to create results that are important to them, whether it’s something they can achieve in a week or something that will take a couple of years.  Sometimes there’s a lot of hard work involved.

BUT HERE’S THE MAIN QUESTION… Are you going to use the old way of doing things, which never completely worked?… OR are you going to take the next step forward and start using an achievement approach that will completely change the game in your favor, when it comes to creating results in your work & your life?

I’m a highly motivated person.  I’ve achieved some amazing success in my life. I even made my living for several years being a professional motivational speaker, but I’ve also experienced a lot of failure. I admit it. I’ve experienced what we call “achievement oscillation” in my life.

You know, where you start out strong and create some exciting initial success, only to have some serious reversals, not just challenges, but reversals in your progress.  And progressively my natural energy & enthusiasm would diminish down to nothing. And then what?

I’d start manipulating myself with a “will power” approach, trying to force my energy and my motivation, which produced only moderate progress and lots of stress. And the pattern of “initial success followed by a subsequent reversal” continued in my life.

I didn’t know it at the time, but I WAS STRUCTURING MY GOALS ALL WRONG!

Luckily I kept searching for a better way, and I found it. I came across the discoveries & wisdom of that genius from Vermont. I came across what I now call GOAL STRUCTURING, and it’s made all the difference in the world to me.

(In the workshop I’ll tell you all about that genius guy. He’s the smartest man I’ve ever been in a room with.)

AND GUESS WHAT? You don’t have to change yourself one bit to start using these principles & this tool. You won’t have to change your beliefs or your self esteem. Even if you don’t believe using GOAL STRUCTURING will work for you, it will still work for you.

I’ve had one reluctant, cynical person after another come to my workshops, and when they learn this approach and they use it in their lives, it works for them in ways they can’t wait to tell me about.

ADULT LEARNING, ONE STEP AT A TIME…

I’ve organized all of this for you to learn easily, one step at a time.  Each learning step will increase your capacity to use this wisdom & this tool. We’ll do this “hands on.”  You’ll learn GOAL STRUCTURING by doing
GOAL STRUCTURING, and by the time we’re done, you’ll really understand and you’ll really know it.  And you’ll be able to use it anytime you want to gain leverage to create a result you desire.

It will require that you make some primary choices and apply some authentic discipline, but I’ll show you how to make effective primary choices, and I’ll teach you the real structure of discipline.

It’s all part of the GOAL STRUCTURING method.

And we’ll laugh and have fun with this, because what’s more fun than increasing your capacity to create the results you really care about?

You’ll surprise yourself with how quickly you pick this up, and how much it will help you in your life and your work. I look forward to sharing it with you.
 
 

There is no shortage of people in the category we might call best business speakers, but like everything else, the excellent ones, the ones who can help you and your company succeed in today’s challenging economy, are few and far between!

Companies aren’t scheduling many meetings these days. This means the meetings you are planning are more important than ever. Your meetings must help your team accomplish your business objectives. But you also have to infuse the meeting with energy and excitement. It must be a productive learning experience for everyone, but you’ve got to get some humor and laughter in there also. There’s nothing worse than a totally “dry” meeting.

It’s a “yin and yang” thing. You’ve got to accomplish serious business objectives at your meeting, but without energy, some excitement, and some laughter, meetings can actually be demoralizing. It’s important to plan your meeting
to have a full range of elements for it to be truly effective.

It’s hard to find one of those best business speakers who can deliver valuable information and strategies, that people can learn and actually use right away. It’s even harder to find someone with that kind of great content, who can also add energy, excitement and humor to a serious business meeting, in a way that really works.

Here’s what one of Bodine’s clients had to say, after experiencing two of his presentations at two separate events…

          “I’ve seen some speakers try to combine information and entertainment.
           They always seem to be much better at one than the other.
           Bodine is the only speaker I’ve ever seen who delivers really valuable
           information and is also a great entertainer and humorist.
           Our group of contractors loved his presentation, and gave him an
           enthusiastic standing ovation.”
                                               James Keyes – Exec. VP
                                               Associated General Contractors of South Dakota

When selecting someone from a list of best business speakers, to be part of your important meeting, there’s only one thing to do when you find someone who can bring everything you’re looking for in a speaker.  Book them.

 
Bodine Balasco has established himself as one of the country’s most knowledgeable business speakers, known for his combination of valuable content, interactive style, uplifting energy, and humorous storytelling.

Members of the Institute of Management Consultants gave Bodine a “10+” rating on their 5-point scale.

And, Successful Meetings Magazine has named him “one of the
Top-21 speakers for the 21st century.

 
He is academically trained in public speaking & human behavior with degrees from UCLA in Speech Communications & Social Psychology.

While attending UCLA as a scholarship athlete, Bodine also earned honors as a team captain and stadium record holder.

Shortly after graduating, Bodine became fascinated with the art of sleight-of-hand magic. Six months later he was making his entire living as a sleight-of-hand magician, and he spent the next decade becoming one of the most successful sleight-of-hand entertainers in America, winning awards from his peers in the process. Even back then, his friends remarked about his ability to create extraordinary results in his work and in his life.

But it wasn’t until he was invited to create and deliver his first keynote speech at a business conference, 17 years ago, that he “came back to his formal training” in communications and psychology, and found his true calling in life. He received a standing ovation after that first business speech, and he’s been at it ever since.

Bodine’s path is that of a researcher and passionate communicator, who loves sharing wisdom and strategies that can make a difference for people and work teams. And he’s always updating his awareness. At the recent Expo for the California Association of Realtors, Bodine was invited to deliver the luncheon keynote speech on using technology to create business success in challenging times. Betty Thomas, the Expo manager, says she chose Bodine to be their luncheon speaker because “he’s so entertaining and he shares strategies that are productive and current.”

His academic training, multifaceted background, and years of research have given him an extraordinary knowledge of human behavior and strategies for success. Bodine has achieved national-class success for himself as an athlete, as a magician, as a speaker, and a workshop trainer. His client list reads like a page from the Fortune 100 — AT&T, Mitsubishi, 3M, Warner Bros. Television, Verizon, Boeing, and Fedex to name a few.

He delivers his information, insights, and strategies with an energy that makes his messages unforgettable, and truly makes learning exciting, productive, and fun.

Read the five points of his business promise and you’ll quickly realize he’s a speaker who can make a difference at your meeting, and also make a difference with your group that will last long after the meeting is over.

 
 
 

 
Bodine Balasco is a Business Keynote Speaker who often shares with his client groups, the latest Top-10 List of what employees want from work. This is truly valuable information for managers and leaders, derived from a study by the Public Agenda Foundation.

 On this Top-10 List, item #3 is… Recognition for work well done.

As critically important as this is, it is surprising how often this is overlooked in organizations. There are really only three basic types of recognition. We have the annual awards ceremony where we recognize those people who truly exemplify the values of the organization, and in honoring them we strengthen those values within ourselves and within the organization itself.  As well, we generally have some kind of “employee of the month” recognition. And finally, we have what we might call “moment to moments pats of the back for work well done.”

Of these three types of recognition, which one do you think employees like the best, and respond to the most?  You guessed it!  It’s that third one, “moment to moment pats on the back.”

Most managers and leaders greatly underestimate the productive effect this kind of recognition can have on their employees. 

As a business keynote speaker, Bodine offers this advice to managers and leaders, for using recognition on the job:

          >   Learn to know when praise is appropriate.
                Behavioral psychologists suggest recognition is most effective when
                it is slightly random and not over done.  Most managers are
                underperforming in this area, and should make a conscious effort to
                “catch their employees doing something right.”
                    
          >   Criticize in private, praise in private.
                There is still a debate going on about this aspect of praise and
                recognition. Praising in private is the safest approach.

          >   When giving praise and recognition, focus on the praiseworthy
                behavior, not the person. This is particularly important if you
                choose to offer praise publicly, in front of others. For example,
                when you informally and publicly give someone recognition,
                describe the behavioral characteristic that has earned them
                the praise.

If you are looking for a Business Keynote Speaker who can make a difference at your meeting, and also have a lasting impact on your organization, you’ve come to the right place.