Hey everyone, here we go. . . . . .
IN OUR WORLD
This week took me to the
I did a special invite dinner for some elite producers then did a 90 minute introduction to Repeatable Successful Acts for a larger meeting. I continue to be amazed at the instant value connect with this program. As I sat in the airport waiting to come home, my iPhone was receiving email from people who had just left the meeting! That’s INFLUENCE!
I have a ton of activity on the books now and just keeping up is a real challenge. Even when you have my bizarre biology that needs very little
I just received a report that shows where hits are coming from on my web site and where my blog and newsletter readers are coming from:
Are a few surprises!
Next week I am off to
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
For the past 6-8 weeks I have been honored to work with a wide variety of financial institutions working hard to keep their troops informed and inspired to do work in an environment that has become toxic.
Each week I sit at the back of large rooms filled with professionals as they listen to one analyst after another drone on about product or predictions. Each meeting, even though hosted by a completely different headline organization, is exactly the same.
One after another presenter takes the stage and goes through a series of the worst power point slides you have ever seen, filled with charts and graphs with 9 point font that no one can see. They deliver a message with no definable connection points that drive audience members to warm up their thumbs for another session of “under the table blackberry exchanges.” No one and I mean NO ONE says, “Boy, am I glad I came to this meeting”.
The organizations follow rote. They repeat the same type of meeting creating such a standard experience for the attendees that it’s really no experience at all.
Now all of this is great for me. I get up and do a multimedia, interactive program with compelling stories, supported by stunning visuals and walk away the star of the show, though it really is not saying that much based on the format I get to use to set my “presentation table”.
Enough is enough. There is no reason one of these fine institutions can not break a stale and ineffective mold to bust out of the pack with a truly unique learning experience. Sitting in the back of the room I did a famous “napkin” design of a new way to deliver this type of information that will provide a “Wow, that was fantastic” experience.
For all of you, who allow your lazy brain to take “meeting vacations”, shame on you! Here are a few new ways to think:
- Stop The One Way Street: All the content is provided one way, from the front of the room to the audience. Create an INTERACTIVE experience that allows the audience to PARTICIPATE. This creates learning.
- Revise Your Visual Delivery: You may have to run everything you say through your compliance department, but that does not mean you can’t be creative. Use images that add a compelling nature to your story. Stop with all the graphs and charts, no one is paying attention to them!
- Think Experience, NOT Meeting: You want people to walk out of the room saying; “My time spent was of great value”. You must create more value in your delivery. Build energy with excitement and they will say WOW!
- Take a CHANCE on Something NEW: In difficult times it is easier to be risk full. What is the worst thing that happens? The meeting can not be worse than your stale and standardized deliver. Heck, in a worst case scenario just dust off the old way.
Imagine the separation and differentiation you will get with a dynamic learning experience. Imagine the word of mouth you will generate when the meeting contains a resounding WOW factor.
Interested in the Napkin Idea? Contact me and I will change the way you think about meetings!
ENTERTAINMENT
MOVIES: Max Payne: Laura and I are Mark Wahlberg fans and this looks like great escapism. The last few movies have been disappointments with only 6.5 – 7.0 ratings for me on a scale of 1-10.
NetFlix Fans: Mongol – A great movie about the rise of Genghis Khan.
TV: For those of you who are not Boston Legal fans, you have really missed some great entertainment this season as each episode makes me laugh and think. Put it on your TiVo. The Mentalist (on Tuesday nights) is the only new fall show that seems to be a hit. CBS has picked up the series for a full season.
BOOKS: The Patriot Club by Reich. Oh Boy, I have discovered a new great writer. I am in my fiction phase of weekly reading and this book had me actually wanting my flight to be delayed so I could finish it before I got home! I will read all of his stuff!!
MUSIC: I have been listening to a lot of Tony Lucca lately and love his clever style of music. This song is one of my favorites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82lSOdSOdSo
WEB SITES: Here is a web site that will tell you all the movies released in any year.
http://www.movieweb.com/movies/releases/year.php
SOUTH OF
It is the final countdown to the end of politic season. Now I am not a very political person, I believe in the innate goodness of people and that whom ever is running for political office goes into that position with the intent of doing the best job they possibly can (how else can you think). I am also always amazed at how the public thinks or even better how they don’t think.
Charlie Reese, a journalist from
· The 545. That the number of people responsible for making decisions for our Nation. 100 Senators, 435 Congressman, 1 President and 9 Supreme Court Justices. That’s 545 people out of +/- 300 million of us.
· The President proposes budgets, he never approves them. Congress is the only body that can approve a budget. You probably should add the Federal Reserve because they kind of control monetary policy.
· The House of Representatives approves appropriations and taxes.
· There is no “disembodied mystical force” that makes things go up or down, good or bad, it’s these people. PERIOD. They are accountable for the situation we find ourselves in and more importantly they will be responsible for our tomorrows.
Exercise your Democratic given right to put those who share your beliefs in office and occasionally remind them, the buck stops with them!
There’s always another dream around the bend,
If I can’t make it real, I’ll just pretend.
Tony Lucca
Drop me a note with your comments at steve@creativeventures.com
Thanks for stopping by and until next time, Adios and Aloha.
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