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Lunch today with Gregg Greggory

Today we had lunch with Gregg Greggory today. He is a sales trainer, but also does keynote speaking – mainly on team building and the dynamic of true north – changes within a company (new person, person leaves, new product, concept, etc – ANY change.) Gregg was a wonderful speaker and it was great to hear him live!

Here is a more information on Gregg Greggory
This perfect storm of real estate, mortgage banking, event planning and production, as well as radio and television broadcasting, provides a clear understanding of the different aspects of business and how different people work. More importantly, how to ensure different personalities work together successfully to accomplish the organization’s mission, goals and objectives. Gregg brings 25 years of real world business experience to being the dynamic certified professional speaker that he is today.

• Understanding the role of sales persons in the field, Gregg has insights to the operational challenges of processing and underwriting a loan, not to mention the administrative challenges of closing the loan timely in mortgage banking.
• He quickly adapted to differing station formats within a large media market in broadcasting.
• He quickly adapted to differing station formats within a large media market in broadcasting.

Gregg’s trademark is getting a variety of people to function across department lines and to Play Nicely Together in the Sandbox

He shares his strategies on teamwork with everyone from front line employees through senior management, with his energetic and entertaining keynote speeches, informative educational sessions, and highly interactive workshops.

25 years of experience, Gregg now helps organizations, such as New York Life Insurance, the Defense Logistics Agency, and the Club Managers Association of America learn how to get their employees to Play Nicely Together in the Sandbox. Click here for a more extensive client list and what others say about Gregg’s programs.

Motivational Speaker Danny Cox Helps Shake Things Up at Ford

At a Ford production plant, motivational speaker Danny Cox talked to 200 employees and suppliers about leadership and teamwork.

Here are a few main ideas from his program -

• “Great leaders work on the #1 priority. When finished, they don’t go to #2 but to the NEW #1 and so on down the list.”
• His signature story – “If you’ve got a frog to swallow, don’t look at it too long and if there’s more than one, swallow the biggest one first.”
• “Habit’s goal is to freeze you at your current level of confidence, which makes for repeated yesterdays.”
• “Keep your people informed on new ideas. They love to feel ‘in’ on anything new.”

These themes resonated with the Ford plant manager, who made the following comments:

“Now each morning we have a quality meeting.  We search for the plant’s biggest “frog” and assign a team to go to work on it to solve it permanently.  Then we select a new #1.”

“Signs are going up all over the plant reminding us to break old habits and try new things.”  

“A plant-wide communication meeting is scheduled to reveal new ideas and directions.  On the stage with me will be a frog mascot (costumed) and an 18-foot blow up frog.  The enthusiasm is building!  [Danny was] right on the money.”

Danny has earned a place in the National speaker Association Hall of Fame and is one of only twenty speakers elected to the distinguished Speakers Roundtable, an elite group of the most popular keynote speakers in North America.  He speaks on a variety of topics relating to leadership, motivation, sales and teamwork.

For more information on Danny Cox, or if you’d like to inquire about him speaking to your organization, contact FIVE STAR.

Keynote Speaker, Kivi Bernhard, does it again!

“As one of  the most talented  and sought after  professional keynote speakerstoday, Kivi Bernhard uses the hunting habits and techniques of the African leopard, the most successful feline predator on earth, to explore our “hunt” for success. Kivi seamlessly transitions between the “bush” and the “boardroom” with extraordinary platform skill that can only be described as captivating. With the aid of award winning video footage that is beyond riveting, Kivi will take your audience deep into the African bush on a virtual safari where he draws metaphors of personal and corporate success that will simply leave them spellbound!”1

Kivi is a keynote speaker on leadership and business and delivers a number of keynote speechesper year! He recently spoke to Holiday Inn and was a hit! This is what they had to say:

“23 years of corporate executive life and I have never heard a speaker of Kivi’s caliber. Ever!”
- W.Mervick – COO, Holiday Inn

Kivi also published a book this past year: Leopardology: The Hunt for Profit in a Tough Global Economy! This book uses the hunting habits and techniques of Africa’s most successful predator, the leopard. Leopardology links personal and business success to being continually on the prowl for market share and profit.

Technology and Business Leadership Speaker Scott Klososky Latest Post:A New Tech-Enabled Sales Model

A New Tech-Enabled Sales Model

September 30, 2009

by Technology, Sales  and Business Leadership Speaker Scott Klososky

Technology, Sales  and Business Leadership Speaker Scott Klososky is one the top keynote speakers with an emphasis technology and how it can accelerate the growth and develop of a business. Technology and Technology, Sales  and Business Leadership Speaker Scott Klososky is also a commentator on the impact of technology in our lives and business. In this weeks issue of his blog Technology Story, Technology, Sales  and Business Leadership Speaker Scott Klososky share some insight and trends about the impact of technology is having on sales and the selling process.