Jim Smith Jr Speech Topics
A highly interactive workshop that provides participants the opportunity to overcome the limiting notions of mainstream diversity and to celebrate themselves and others for the unique contributions that they bring. This workshop focuses on key objectives such as exploring how diversity impacts...
Mutual understanding and appreciation creates opportunities for diverse teams to reach new levels of success, however diversity-related communication mishaps destroy trust and confidence. This workshop provides the tools to make a successful recovery by using mistakes as opportunities to build...
prevent us from becoming the people we are meant to be. This transformative workshop helps individuals develop steps to understand and assess how their blind spots impact their decision-making and relationships. We develop ways to work with our blind spots to create opportunities for continual...
designed to empower trainers, leaders and others who lead diversity initiatives in their organizations. This program provides key strategies to engage, inspire and create buy-in with participants. We provide techniques to deliver your session with power and purpose, effectively engage reluctant...
is a workshop that teaches the art and science of building successful teams. Through hands on exercises and activities, participants experience teamwork at its best and most challenging including making oneself vulnerable to establish trust, celebrating diversity, effective communication,...
provides critical leadership practices and multicultural communication skills for executives to succeed and support and coach their team members in the long term. This workshop is designed to help participants refine their personal vision of leadership. This workshop catalyzes a call to action by...
provides game changing insights for developing a professional reputation online and offline. Learn powerful communication techniques, ways to effectively engage with difficult people and positively influence others. Learn how to apply these time tested techniques through social media tools with...
based upon Jimʼs bestselling book of the same name, this workshop provides key insights on how to live with a renewed sense of passion, power and purpose. The session includes key highlights such as strategies to recover from setbacks, methods for self-reinvention, succeeding in the midst of...
enables participants to turn excuses into opportunities for performance breakthroughs that are driven by personal power and responsibility. Through techniques that empower the individual to take ownership for tangible outcomes, we help to create new levels of personal accountability for our...
Self-Reinvention Redefined.
More than a keynote, from Average to Awesome is a transformative journey that puts the participant back in the driverʼs seat of life by engaging the mindset and behaviors that produce awesome outcomes. Jim draws from his book of the same name, providing additional...
Personal Power.
During this introspective keynote on professional and personal development, Jim provides insight and passion for taking control of oneʼs life. The key, Jim shares in his high-energy style, is writing your own script, choosing a powerful and generous supporting cast, successfully...
Personal Power.
During this introspective keynote on professional and personal development, Jim provides insight and passion for taking control of oneʼs life. The key, Jim shares in his high-energy style, is writing your own script, choosing a powerful and generous supporting cast, successfully...
Customer Service.
In this high impact presentation, Jim highlights what workers can do to go above and beyond to provide exemplary service. Customer service essentials, habits, best practices and strategies are discussed and provided in an interactive and engaging manner. Participants are...
Recovery and Restoration
This self-exploratory keynote examines how to rebound from professional challenges, personal pitfalls and change. During the session we take an in-depth look at our role in creating these situations and how we can respond and grow from such experiences.
Focusing on Key...
From the opening exercise to the closing action “next steps” assignment, this leadership workshop highlights what leaders can do to bring out the best in themselves, their team members, workshoptheir peers and their customers. During this high-energy session, participants interactively explore...
This high-energy, quick paced workshop highlights what trainers, sales professionals, managers, leaders and anyone who facilitates, speaks, presents or leads meetings can do to make their trainings, meetings, sales calls and presentations more exciting, motivational or engaging.
Objectives...
As professionals we are always on. Our presence, communication behaviors, decorum, tact and service energy are vital for achieving the results we desire. Language, clarity, image and thoroughness play a key factor in every customer interaction. Every participant (e.g., managers, team leaders,...
Get ready for hours of non-stop high-energy, fun, sharing, networking and self-examination as we take a look at the mistakes trainers (and all speaking professionals) do in the classroom that demotivate their learners. Based on Jim’s upcoming book (same title), this session helps both new and...
This quick-moving session highlights what trainers can do to stay focused, energized and motivated before, during and after their workshops. Particular areas of focus include tips for:
Delivering the same content repeatedly
Inspiring and rejuvenating a tired group
Working effectively with your...
This advanced facilitation workshop is for trainers who are ready to take their training to even greater heights.
Trainers enjoy helping people grow, watching their students try on new concepts as they look for ways to apply the key takeaways back on the job (or in the field). Through these...
uring this workshop participants explore the diversity workshopbroad definition of diversity and its many elements. Age, class, thinking style, gender, physical and mental ability, sexual orientation, race, education, ethnicity and many others are discussed as learners assess the notion that...
Successful communication is certainly not always the easiest goal to achieve. This fact is greatly heightened when diversity factors are involved. Gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class and race differences, just to name a few, can play a significant role in how one receives and reacts...
“I can’t believe I missed it – it was sitting right there.” “I never realized she could…” “Who would of thought that he would be the one to…” “I must be going blind – it was right in front of my face.” People whose blind spots have affected their thinking, their communications or their behaviors...
So often participants dread coming to diversity workshops. They would rather play in traffic blind folded or drink a jar of wasabi sauce, nonstop, then attend a full day class on diversity. dancingEven the name (i.e., diversity) itself frustrates and scares some, especially if they’ve already had...
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