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Jim Craig Speech Topics

Team Motivation/Corporate Picture

- How do I embrace the team concept - the team image?

- How do I win when people around me win?

- How do I help create contagious enthusiasm within the team?

Self Motivation

- How do I strive for and achieve personal excellence?

- How do I stay committed to my personal goals?

- How do I condition myself to be professionally tough – better than my competitor?

Team Building

Team Building

- Recruiting and selecting the right players

- Inspiring, guiding, and motivating team members to put "team" in front of individual interests

- Managing and coaching team members to work efficiently and in synchronicity

- Identifying "diamonds in the rough"

Creating Great Groups

- Instilling in people a sense of destiny and desire to accomplish greatness

- Maintaining a competitive edge and a view that the team is an underappreciated underdog that will win, shock, and inspire

Identifying the Right People for the Right Position

- As Coach Herb Brooks said when building the U.S. 1980 Olympic hockey team: "I'm not looking for the best players - I'm looking for the right ones."

- Selecting the type of players so that the whole (team) is greater sum of the parts (employees, players)

- Being on guard against prima donnas and disruptive influences

- Finding your captain and team leader

Innovation and Strategic Change

- Always be on the look out and the hunt for better ways to do things

- What tools and resources are available to help your team win?

- How Coach Brooks, a supreme innovater and strategist, taught and mentored us to play a revolutionary type of hockey that would enable us to beat the mighty Soviet machine: a hybrid of the bruising and physical Canadian form of play and the speed, fluidity, and finess of the Eastern European and Soviet game

- When needed, abandoning the old, unsuccessful, yet comfortable, for the new and uncomfortable, yet what will eventually enable success

Making a Difference -- Build Your Legacy

- Make it matter that you lived!

- Are you optimizing your God-given talents?

- Set the right example for your children, for all young people

- Improve the lives of others

The Keys to Peak Performance:

- Hard Work

- Sacrifice

- Humility: A Willingness to Ask for Advice and Seek Out the Counsel of Others

- Persistence

The Keys to Peak Performance:

- Hard Work

- Sacrifice

- Humility: A Willingness to Ask for Advice and Seek Out the Counsel of Others

- Persistence