Announcements

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

"Use the natural talent of your people"

Geoff Appleton

Outcomes from Geoff's presentation:

-Understand how to pick the best from your short list of candidates.
-Get the best out of your team by using each person more effectively.
-Recognise the time to move people out of your business

Geoff Appleton

Working for large corporations, primarily in the travel and tourism industry, has given Geoff a real insight to how individuals respond to leadership styles, both in small and large teams. His work with major global airlines has seen him living in more than 20 countries providing a thorough cross cultural background, often leading teams of locally employed managers.

An appointment to oversee a cabin crew workforce of several thousand people provided a peak experience and understanding of delegation, people involvement and industrial relations negotiations, having also been involved in collective bargaining through the Betriebsrat system in Germany.

Geoff is a planner and strategist at heart but has had many operational roles including day to day management at major airports. This has led to more General Management roles including the control of one of the largest national corporate travel agencies, which experienced a significant financial turnaround during his leadership of the small management team there.

His sales and marketing activities have brought him close to advertising agencies, hotels and National Tourism Organisations, latterly becoming involved directly in the business of Outdoor Advertising.

More recently, Geoff was appointed by a major financial institution to manage their key national and global relationships in Sydney. This brought him alongside corporate executives in a variety of market segments, allowing an opportunity to study similarities and differences in the way business was being conducted.

During the last 7 years he has been running a small business helping leaders get the best from themselves and from the people that they lead.  He is the Joint Founder and Managing Partner of Polonious Resources, a Human Resource Consultancy.

 

http://www.polonious.com

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Adrian Rainey

Adrian Rainey is a world-leading authority on the power of commitment. He played professional rugby league at 18 years of age and was crowned rookie of the year. At 19 years of age, he tested positive for a performance enhancing substance. Banned from playing for two years, he worked and trained alone. Returning two years later, he played in a grand final squad with the Parramatta Eels. As if he had never been away from the game, he reestablished his early momentum. Soon an opportunity to move to England and play for Hull KR was given to him and he took it. At the age of 25, back in Australia playing for the Bulldogs, he decided to retire from playing professional rugby league. The thought of investing boundless energy into business excited him too much. He opened his first business and started training people outdoors.Very quickly he moved into a premises and went from no income to turning over black belt income in less than 6 months. Within 12 months he was managing up to 12 staff and became one of Australia's most successful personal training studios. Over the last 5 years he has sold millions of dollars worth of training programs by understanding the changing nature of consumer behavior.After starting out his career in the National Rugby League and overcoming a major setback to return to this elite level and then becoming a successful entrepreneur, he most recently authored his first pocket book, Blood In The Water: The Power Of Commitment.

Adrian shares his real world experience on commitment along with his natural ability to create a powerful message that will literally transform the way you think and feel about your career, business and your life.


Blood In The Water-

Blood in the water is a metaphor for whatever it takes commitment. This session looks at how to boost individual commitment in your  career or organization. Adrian uses his real world experience outlining how to start and build sustainable commitment with three  questions:  Why?    When?   How much?

What is in the workshop?
●Defining the most valuable asset in your team
●Understand what drives commitment
●Clearly exploring the benefits of commitment for you and your world
●Overcoming the limiting beliefs created by the conversation around your weaknesses
●Discovering the processes that will help you become a top performer and produce sustainable results in business today

What will attendees get out of the workshop?
1.You will learn how to shift,drive and get the results you want (step up)
2.You will learn the three questions that allow you to create 100% commitment and allow you to influence others with your ideas (commitment)
3.You will learn the key distinction for routine addicts and how you can use it to go all out and get what you want (mentally tough)
4.You will learn how to unlock your deepest motivation and how to enhance it in some satisfying way.(motivation)
5.You will learn that finishing things is all in your head and how you can use it to become a great finisher (nail it)
6.You will learn the inside secret professional athletes use to turn up and turn on (emotions)
7.You will leave with a far better predicator to your long term performance than your academic achivement or title. (dig deep)
8.You will learn how to talk about your weakness in a powerful way so others can be inspired by you. (authenticity)

Who should attend?
This workshop is perfect for managers, business leaders, innovators and people charged with the responsibility for enrolling commitment in their business or project to thrive in the next 5-10 years. Any one in an advice or strategy role must attend.