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As a meeting planner, your reputation is on the line with every speaker you select. Take the pressure off . . . and give your audience the excellence they deserve. Cher Holton is a meeting planner’s dream. As a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), Cher presents keynotes that offer a flair for the dramatic, real-world practicality, honest-to-goodness “customer-ization,” and high energy with strong content. Cher’s most requested Keynotes are: Living at the Speed of Life: Staying in Control in a World Gone Bonkers! Cher’s message in this flagship program is: You’ll manage your life when you manage yourself, and you’ll manage yourself when you manage your choices. This highly motivating program, based on Cher’s best-selling book by the same title, shows audiences how to make wise choices in the critical areas of life, and describes a powerful AC/DC Model of Choice that can transform a person’s life! The 3 most important choices people will ever make segment is a favorite part of the program, which is filled with inspiring stories and proven examples, techniques, and tips to help each member of the audience become a “Choice Master” in Life! Move That Bus! Using the hit T.V. series, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, as a metaphor, Cher shows audiences how they can move past any obstacle, fear, frustration, or self-doubt to create the life they want. This is the perfect keynote to inspire audiences to identify anything that is blocking their peace, prosperity, and joy in work or life as they make purposeful and meaningful choices. Take This Job . . . and Love It! This keynote drives home the point that finding happiness and satisfaction in work is a matter of choice. You can either complain about your work, or you can find joy and meaning in it. This program takes you on a heartfelt emotional roller-coaster ride, and drives home the point that if you aren’t having fun in your work, you are paying too high a price! Even more important, YOU are the one responsible for creating joy and meaning in your work! Dance Through Life on Two Left Feet: Creating Balance in an Out-of-Balance World As a national amateur-student Ballroom DanceSport medalist, Cher combines her extensive training and consulting experience in the corporate world with her ballroom adventures, and presents a unique program that excites audiences everywhere. Using ballroom terms and experiences as a metaphor, Cher provides techniques to improve work partnerships, enhance communication, and enjoy the “dance” through life … one choice at a time. As a value-added option to this program, Cher and her husband/dance partner, Bil, appear in their full ballroom attire, and perform a special dance exhibition. Contact us for more information about these programs Standing-Room-Only Breakouts/Workshops Both Bil and Cher Holton offer practical, high-energy, interactive breakouts and workshops that will bring any meeting planner rave reviews for hiring them! Here are their most popular programs, which can be presented in formats ranging from one hour to three hours, based on your time commitments. All programs are customer-ized to address your specific audience and needs. Living at the Speed of Life: Staying in Control in a World Gone Bonkers! (The perfect complimentary breakout session to support the keynote by the same title—or a great stand-alone workshop) Do you feel frenzied, fragmented and frazzled? Is there too much change and not enough stability in your environment? Do you have too many responsibilities and not enough time or energy to enjoy life? Are you burned out — pulled in too many directions — exhausted by the effort of daily living? Are you seeking some sense of balance in your life? Do you feel like you’re living in a world gone bonkers? In this dynamic and interactive keynote, discover strategies that bring harmony and control to life. Based on Cher’s popular book (by the same title), these TurboTraining™ Sessions focus on the major areas that create frustration in today’s fast-paced world. And it’s customized for you! Select your action-learning areas from the following categories. (Call to receive more detailed outlines and to discuss how we can customize these topics to meet your specific needs.) • Creating Joy and Meaning in Your Work • Conquering Fears and Doubts that Sabotage Success • Adopting Attitude Adjustments for Work and Home • Navigating Through the Communications War Zone • Enriching Working Relationships With Team Members and Customers • Controlling Time Robbers Permanently • Turbo-Charging Teams • Building a Consciousness of Confidence, Courage, and Commitment Contact us for more information about these programs The Manager’s Short Course to a Long Career™ This powerful program gives leaders the techniques to build their leadership skills, create an environment conducive to productivity and teamwork, and serve as a mentor/coach to others. This program uses the Holtons’ award-winning book The Manager’s Short Course to a Long Career (selected as one of the top 30 business books by Soundview Executive Summaries) as a text. Put the STRESS on WELLNESS: Techniques to Stay Cool, Calm and Collected!
• juggle the personal and professional demands of life; • use the “Change/Cope Continuum" to take personal responsibility for stress management; • stay cool under pressure; • practice each of the all time top three techniques for managing stress; • handle emotional situations professionally; • select from a potpourri of strategies to develop a personal “Stress Decompression Kit." This could be the most important session you will ever attend. Practicing the techniques presented here can truly add years to your life — and life to your years! So, stop worrying about all the stress you are experiencing, take advantage of these practical ideas and — put the stress on WELLNESS! Lights! Camera! Action!: Creating Your Academy Award-Winning Life … One Choice at a Time Borrowing from the world of theatre and drama, this program spotlights key lessons that apply to the stage of life. Learn from the truly great actors how you can choose the right “parts,” rehearse the right lines, and play to the right audience to give award-winning performances in life — every time. Spotlighting Customer Relationships … One Choice at a Time Think about the incredible number of roles you may play in any given business day. You're part host or hostess, making customers feel at home. You're part detective, hunting down information about your services or asking questions about a customer's needs. You're part teacher, defining your product's benefits and demonstrating how they meet your customer's needs. You're part psychologist, dealing with emotional or frustrating customers and counseling others to show your concern. Apply the memorable techniques from this program to rejuvenate your customer service focus. Learn how to transform your customer service “DUH” moments into “Ta-Da” Moments, and your complaints into compliments by making customer-centered choices. Rekindling the Human Spirit … Who Rekindles the Rekindlers? As a leader, are you experiencing the challenges resulting from these tough times? Is it harder than ever to motivate people throughout your organization? Are you forced to accomplish more with less? Is uncertainty the only thing that’s certain? Are you working in constant chaos? Are you wondering who will rekindle YOUR spirit? This dynamic, interactive session will offer practical tools to help you rekindle your own spirit, so you are better able to rekindle the spirits of your employees. (An optional 3-minute inspirational patriotic slide/music presentation can be used to end this program, if desired.) Business Image and Telephone Professionalism How effective are the individuals charged with the responsibility of dealing with customers on the telephone? From receptionist to sales to customer service to manager to anyone who answers the telephone in an organization, it is critical to develop exceptional skills to create positive, professional impressions. From a customer’s point of view, the person with whom they speak on the telephone IS the company! People make decisions about who to do business with, what to tell others about a company, and even how to act based on the image and attitude of that individual on the telephone. Why not orchestrate the image to attract the best possible response? It’s good for your business image—and your bottom line! Do It With Style: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Team Building Workshop If you want your teams to work together more effectively, this unique half-day workshop is the session for you! Using the thoroughly-researched and ever popular Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) self-scoring instrument, Cher presents a highly-interactive, incredibly practical workshop which guides team members through the process of: • Discovering individual MBTI Styles; • Developing a Team Profile of MBTI Styles; • Assessing team strengths, blind spots, and areas for improvement; • Identifying strategies to enhance team relationships through understanding the MBTI Style preferences; • Determining Targeted Development Action Plans for Team Growth Low-Tech Presentations With Pizzazz Do your programs lack pizzazz and interest? Are participants yawning or nodding off during the most critical segments? Do you suffer from platform phobia? Do you panic when you need to use audio-visuals? This is the program for you! It is designed to provide basic presentation skills to individuals who will be involved in training a variety of topics, including technical and/or people skills. Whether you present in conjunction with your job, or do it on a full-time basis, this program will provide a wealth of tips and strategies to guide you in increasing your platform polish and adding value to every program you conduct . . . without using a lot of high-tech equipment! Contact us for more information about these programs Retreat (ri – tret) n.: Going back, withdrawal to a safe, quiet or secluded place; a place for contemplation or retirement from the world. Forward (for-ward) adj.: Toward, onward, ready or eager advance, bold, ahead, to send on toward the front, of or for the future Does your team need a jump-start in terms of building cohesiveness; clarifying goals, roles and expectations; or boosting morale and positive attitudes among team members? Under the expert facilitation of Cher and/or Bil Holton, your team can experience a customized, dynamic, highly interactive session that involves them in a variety of initiatives to achieve these goals. The activities are challenging and substantive, build in intensity throughout the session, and are debriefed to ensure transfer of learning back to the real world. The activities are designed to foster communication links between individuals and departments. Team members will be involved in group discussions, simulations and group challenges, and, if desired, outdoor events as they build their team synergy and cohesiveness. They will leave with a greater understanding of each other, a recognition of the Team Development Cycle, a measurement tool against which the team can critique its effectiveness on an on-going basis, and ideas on how to continue to grow as an effective, committed team. As a result of this team building summit, team members will: • Build group cohesiveness, camaraderie, and trust in support of shared objectives; • Improve the quality of interpersonal communications; • Appreciate individual differences and work styles; • Enhance problem solving/decision making skills; and • Reward team effort by celebrating success appropriately. The Holtons will travel to your site or a retreat location of your choice. They can assist you in the event planning or take care of all the details, freeing you to do other things like—anticipate an absolutely fantastic rekindling experience. Contact us for more information about these programs Also known as “Laugh and Learn Breaks,” these popular 45-minute sessions are based on the management principle that people improve their productivity when they take short breaks from busy work schedules to learn in an informal, relaxed environment. Quite often clients offer these programs in conjunction with a scheduled lunch break, to give people an opportunity to laugh a little and learn a lot during a structured “pause that refreshes.” Topics include: TeamProv™ Strengthen your flexibility and ability to think on your feet by playing improvisational games. These quick-thinking games are a ton of fun – and build job-related skills. Participants will build confidence, develop creative problem-solving skills, explore options and expand perspectives, and strengthen their adaptability and response to change. Snippets and Smidgens (a multi-media session) This session explores the answers to the “serious” questions of life, like: Why do we knock on wood for good luck?; What does the Q in Q-tip stand for?; Why do dogs walk around in circles before lying down?; Why do golfers yell Fore?; and other fascinating everyday facts that help participants laugh and learn about the world around them. The seemingly unrelated items come together during a powerful debrief, to bring home key points about team relationships, communication, and successful living. Wuzzles and Puzzles Develop your creative thinking by playing with fascinating word games and puzzles. For example, what familiar phrase does this Wuzzle represent? TOOTO (answer: Put two and two together). This joyful program enhances creative thinking, reduces stress, and energizes tired minds. Your Mental Spa Just as a workout at the spa improves your physical flexibility, this program improves your mental flexibility and creativity. Stretch, jog and power-lift your mind with these creative, energizing brain exercises. Contact us for more information about these programs Coaching On-Demand™ offers a private and confidential business partnership between coach and client that focuses on the client’s personal or professional development. Coaching On-Demand™ is unique because it provides real-time consultation on important issues and concerns that require a client’s immediate and long-range attention, rather than employing long, drawn-out projects. Typically, clients who employ Coaching On-Demand™ as a key strategy in their development are people who recognize that top performers need help from top performers, experts need help from experts, and doers need help from doers. They are people who are achievers. They want to make the best possible choices. They are results-oriented and pragmatic. They are good candidates for Coaching On-Demand™ because they welcome feedback and use it as a sounding board to confirm or challenge their thinking. Good Coaching On-Demand™ candidates see it as the perfect Obi-Wan Kenobi-type strategy to improve their choice management and self-development skills, rapidly and objectively. The Holtons work with individuals by telephone, e-mail, or in person. Their unique coaching strategies are customized for each individual, and offer a variety of options to fit any budget, work schedule, and time frame. Our most popular Coaching On-Demand™ opportunities are: It’s a Matter of Choice Sessions One-on-one or “Huddle” coaching experiences designed to help people master the art and science of pursuing their dreams … one choice at a time. This features the unique Me-Mapping process designed by the Holton's. Bottom Line Meditations for Busy Executives Improve your executive performance, clarity, insightfulness, and judgment through the powerful guided meditation techniques offered by Corporate Meditation Guru Dr. Bil Holton, His customized 30-minute meditations and visualizations are offered in the privacy of the executive’s office, and can focus on areas such as Board meetings, business relationships, conflict resolution, decision-making, global partnerships, organizational renewal, personal health and wellness, persuasiveness, and strategic visioning. Stretch Your Skills—Coaching for In-House Trainers On-Demand coaching to help trainers with program design; creation of specific activities; debriefing tips; etc. Presenting with Impact When people are required to make presentations, either in a meeting or at the podium on stage, they can dramatically improve their impact and power with some highly customized coaching. Dr. Cher Holton is a master presenter, and she coaches speakers, trainers and professionals in a variety of ways. She helps you: • Improve the quality and effectiveness of your presentations by handling anxiety and fear; analyzing the audience; rehearsing effectively; selecting appropriate delivery techniques; handling Question/Answer periods; and creating powerful openings and closings. • Reinvent your PowerPoint slides to deliver your message more powerfully so you keep the audience in the palm of your hand. • Improve the quality and comfort level of your interpersonal communications, with an emphasis on small group interactions: telephone and video-conferenced meetings, face-to-face group discussions. • Develop assertiveness and group process skills in group settings. • Speak with more projection, vocal variety and authority. • Improve your persuasiveness and ability to positively influence people to make the changes they want to make. • Use more powerful body language to build rapport and establish and air of confidence and charisma. Issues and Answers Round Table Strategy Sessions This highly customized and interactive coaching experience is designed for client groups who are looking for serious answers to specific topical questions, such as resolving nagging people problems, rekindling team spirit, solidifying team relationships and generating staff commitment, enhancing presentation skills, managing stress, exploring meditation and visualization, and more. The Holtons facilitate a group coaching session structured around the issues identified by the client. Contact us for more information about these programs |
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