Michael A. Podolinsky CSP

30 Minutes to One Day
Proactive Goal Attainment is Michael's practical approach to setting and achieving goals. Typically, everyone has heard that we OUGHT to have goals. Most professionals, at one time or another, have written down a goal or two in a journal or on a scrap of paper. VERY FEW, in fact, less than 5% have a complete set of written goals. To make it easy for people to be more successful in life through goals setting, this course will guarantee you leave with a complete set of goals.
Covered in this course:
1) WHY to set goals
2) How to set goals using the 5 steps essential to good goal setting
3) How to make goals stick and develop the discipline needed to succeed at your goals
4) Why it's essential to start with a Vision, Mission and Quest first before setting goals
5) Why and how to set the MAJOR goals first and then plan your life around them

Specific Objectives Learned:
• 5 Essential steps in setting good goal
• 7 Key ways to motivate yourself to achieve your goals
• How to establish a life-long goal and to find your mission in life
• 7 Deadly mistakes people make in setting goals
• 9 Magic ways to achieve your goals by keeping them in front of you and public
• Important steps to balancing work and personal goals • How to avoid the entropy trap
• in programs longer than 3 hours, actually come away with a complete set of goals!
• How to set your priorities and accomplish every task every time
• Essentials of power packing your personal time
• Learn the magic of multi-tasking
• Embrace the Goals Triad
• Discover the Productivity Principle of goal setting

Learn 8 secrets to motivate your employees, your family AND yourself that cost you little or no money at all! Find out why these motivators work a lot BETTER than salary and expensive welfare schemes. Discover how easy it is to change peoples behavior if you have the right tools. You learn the step-by-step process for transforming individuals behavior from poor to good, good to great or great to FANTASTIC!

30 Minutes to 3 Days - MIchael is the Pearson Prentice Hall Author of the book by the same name.

OBJECTIVE
To help managing directors, managers, meetings professionals, supervisors and team leaders unearth a wealth of ideas from their team. Never again should you or your organisation suffer from a lack of input or feedback from your people. This course will help everyone from the top leaders to HR people conducting meetings to get ideas and full participation from their people at meetings, employee information sessions, in trainings, at board meetings, employee and union sessions and anytime you have a group of people and want their input.

WORKSHOP OUTLINE
In this exciting one-day workshop, you will learn:
• Seven ways to get people to open up, including our proprietary "SystemitizeTM" 4-step model that NEVER fails to get people to share what's on their minds!
• Five magical skills to get people to trust you (and why trust is a must)
• Podolinsky's Power Points of Participation
• 10 essential skills which every facilitator must possess
• ADA - The Attention, Desire, Action Model of Facilitation
• Five "Must Have" stages of development in group dynamics
• The secrets of the Three Keys of Neural Linguistic Programming Applied to Facilitation
• Nine magical motivators for facilitators
• The Difference between facilitation,, workshops, speeches and seminars
• How to set up and control meetings environments
• How to ensure meetings are run properly, stay focused and stay on time and on track
• Essentials of setting up meetings with the OUTCOME in mind first and then designing the meeting, who attends, strategy and POA (Plan Of Action) around that outcome.

SUPPORT MATERIALS:
Every participant can receive an autographed copy of Michael A Podolinsky's Pearson / Prentice Hall Book, ‘Mining For Gold™...Facilitation Skills to Unearth a Wealth of Ideas From Your Team’
EVERY person WILL receive:
• MINING FOR GOLD Guide - a simple yet highly effective tool to guide you through your next facilitation session.
• Michael Podolinsky’s Room Set-Up Guide and Meetings Details booklet
• A host of published articles authored by Michael about meetings, facilitating and presentations

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
MDs, Senior managers, Team Leaders, HR Managers, meetings professionals, trainers and training executives, managers who run meetings, sales managers, sales people who conduct presentations, professors who want students to talk more in class, independent trainers, government officials who need more input from the people the talk to and anyone who runs meetings or is expected to get input from people.

30 minutes to 5 days
OBJECTIVE:
To internalize and develop the skills of leading a multinational team and what is essential to accomplish that task. How to work with and lead people from different cultures and make the team work cohesively and effectively even though much of the time you are in a virtual environment rather than a face-to-face workplace.

POSSIBLE TOPICS:
• How to structure a multinational team including Strategic Planning and long range development
• Understanding and using theories K & T for multinational teams
• Discover the 3 secrets of NLP (Neural Linguistic Programming)
• 8 Steps to a cognitive/behavioral approach to motivating people across cultures and around the world
• 8 Low Cost, NO Cost Motivators
• 9 ways to get people to work harder towards your goals
• 5 Deadly mistakes managers make
• The secrets of making workers want to continue working productively on your team
• How many managers chase their better workers away because they don’t understand their country, culture or approach
•12 essential steps to becoming a great leader
• How to CREATE your OWN unique culture
• 8 Steps to effective multinational performance reviews and appraisals
• The Solution Finder - a device to solve any problem every time
• 13 Difficult behavioral styles and how to deal with them
• 5 Powerful steps to effective delegation
• Michael's proprietary TEAM concept
• 5 Behavioral styles and how they impact our workers
• Cross Cultural Communication with kinesics, proximics, through filters and other non-verbal cues

• The Executives Guide to Understanding Culture:
• When it can be changed
•When we need to adapt
• What do Top Executives bring WITH us?
• Context VS Content in each culture, including the power of gender, age, credentials and
• How to set-up your team for success and avoid the pitfalls many have suffered
• Setting your Strategic Cultural POA (Plan Of Action) and how to set up a POA for each country you are working with
• From business cards to sitting, considerations in different cultures:
• The rules of business etiquette
• Food, the glue that binds us
• 8 Ways to endear yourself in almost any culture
• Don’t confuse culture with government regulations
• What is a Virtual Team and what makes it successful
• The 6 secrets of which teams can go virtual
• The 9 reasons why some Virtual Teams fail
• 9 Reasons for your organization to go "virtual"
• 7 motivators for your staff to embrace going virtual
• The 3 groups of employees ... which will support you, which will fight you
• 5 key commitments to make if your VT is to survive and thrive
• The Top 10 Steps to VT Communications
• 10 How-To Essential Steps to empowering a Virtual Team
• On-line resources you and your VT can tap into for FREE or at low cost
• Motivating Virtual workers... 12 ways to get people to work harder, smarter and make their targets even when you rarely or NEVER see them
• The importance of a Virtual Vision, Virtual Mission and Virtual Quest and how to create them within your Virtual Team
• Essential Virtual Monitors, Virtual Controls and Virtual Reporting
• Discussions with others forming virtual teams or who've formed them and find out what worked and what did not...invaluable sharing!
• Case studies shared and discussed
• Group exercises and activities to internalize the message

The perfect public speaking course for those who made it to the top… and still seek greater success.
Now you can learn platform excellence from a professional… not a trainer. Learn to speak like a pro from Singapore’s FIRST CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) and one of only 4 CSPs living in Asia and the Middle East.

Participants learn how to:
• Inspire your people
• Leverage the media
• Impress shareholders
• Grow your image
• Grow your career
• MASTER the secrets of professionals

WORKSHOP OUTLINE:
➢ The essential skills of figuring out what the audience wants to hear and how to deliver it
➢ Michael’s propriety and easy ABCD formula for scripting and delivering an AWESOME presentation every time you speak
➢ Stage presence… how to walk onto stage, where to stand for power and what to avoid.
➢ How to write or outline a DYNAMITE speech
➢ Acting as part of speaking… how to let the thespian come out of you
➢ Gestures and how to make them flow with the message
➢ What to do with your hands
➢ Humour and how to use it , where to get it and sources of material
➢ Attention getting gimmicks like jokes, magic and group participation, when how to use them for maximum impact and when NOT to use them
➢ How to field questions from the floor
➢ How adults learn and how to make your message STICK
➢ 3 Solid “come backs” if a joke or line doesn’t work for you.
➢ 8 Wonderful ways to open a presentation for greater impact
➢ 8 Colourful methods to close a speech and make it memorable
➢ The secret of vignettes… why they work every time
➢ How to use stories for greater impact and to have your message remembered
➢ The professional use of visual aids and why they cripple most speakers
➢ Overcoming stage fright and how to gain confidence to look, sound, act like a professional
➢ What to say when things go wrong
➢ Memory cues: How to give a talk without notes
➢ If you use notes, how to use them so you don’t look like you are using notes.
➢ Suggested resources and tools for future improvement and perfection of your speaking
➢ Dozens of new, fresh and creative ideas, tips and experiences garnered from Michael’s 26 years of full-time speaking around the world