JIMPACT Enterprises, Inc.
POWER, PASSION AND PULL-THROUGH!
14 East Stratford Avenue, Suite 4C
Lansdowne, PA 19050
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“Customerized” Keynotes & Workshops

Please click on the links below to learn more details about the keynotes and workshops we offer. Contact us to schedule a "Customerized" Keynote and/or workshop.

MOTIVATIONAL KEYNOTE SPEAKING TOPICS

WORKSHOPS: ONE, TWO & THREE-DAY SESSIONS

 

MOTIVATIONAL KEYNOTE SPEAKING TOPICS

From Average to Awesome (Improving Results)

awesome manThe From Average to Awesome keynote highlights what people can do professionally and/or personally, to defeat procrastination, live their dreams, and change their mind set and behaviors to always strive for awesome results. Moreover during this moving, high-energy talk, Jim uses anecdotes, key learnings and tips from his From Average to Awesome book to help move one’s typical words of “I’m OK,” and “I’m hanging in there — same stuff, different day,” to “I’m feeling spectacular,” and “I couldn’t be better!”

Jim shares what people can do to live with passion, purpose and power — unwavering power!

Jim shares what people can do to live with passion, purpose and power — unwavering power! Some of the other keynote highlights include:

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High-Speed Connections (Communication)

hug“There is not enough darkness in the world to snuff out the light of even one small candle,” Jim reminds his audiences as he encourages them to let their light shine. Having a positive impact on all of those (e.g. customers, co-workers, employers, team members) you come into contact with is the continuing theme of this presentation. Jim provides direction and insight on what one can do to connect with others, energetically using one's gifts to make a difference.

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Who’s Directing Your Movie? (Personal Power)

Does your life control you or do you control your life? When things go wrong do you go with them? Do you order from the whine list of life? If you answered yes to any of the above questions then this session is definitely for you. During this self-introspective, professional and personal development keynote, Jim passionately provides tips for taking control of one’s life. The key, Jim shares in his high-energy style, is writing your own script, choosing a powerful and giving supporting cast, successfully handling your drama and your action packed moments and relentlessly working toward securing the outcomes you seek. Audiences leave invigorated and pumped, ready to regain control of their lives and take their personal power to a new, enhanced level.

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Oh, Yeah! (Customer Service)

This customer service geared keynote address highlights what workers can do to go above and way beyond to provide exemplary service. Customer service essentials, habits, best practices and strategies are discussed and provided in an interactive and engaging manner. Audiences enthusiastically return to their workplaces, searching for opportunities to exceed the expected levels of service; they know that customer service is oftentimes the difference between keeping and losing customers.

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Bounce Back! (Resiliency)Jim Smith and participant

Sometimes life deals you an awful hand. Sometimes life punches you in the gut. Sometimes factors outside of your control catch you off guard and bring you to your knees in pain and in tears. What can you do about it? What have you done about it in the past? How can you make sure that when things go wrong you don’t go with them?

You bounce back!

This self-exploratory keynote examines how to rebound from professional or personal pitfalls and change. During the session we take a look at why these situations occur (i.e., our role in it) and how we can respond and move on. Specifically, during the session we discuss:

This session, which is for leaders, managers, individual contributors, trainers, business owners, consultants and anyone who has ever had a stressful situation, will go a long way in helping you stand strong and firm during, and after, those difficult times in life. We’re going to help you bounce back!

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WORKSHOPS: ONE, TWO & THREE-DAY SESSIONS

LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS

— Bringing Out the Best Plus!

From the opening exercise to the closing action “next steps” assignment, this leadership workshop highlights what leaders can do to bring out the best in themselves, their team members, workshoptheir peers and their customers. During this high-energy session, participants interactively explore the following cornerstone leadership components: motivation, communication, diversity, empowerment, trust, staff development, customer advocacy and personal development. The workshop’s objectives are to:

Attendees should come prepared to go beneath the surface, stretch, share and step up —
to a new level of leadership.

Today’s business environment is extremely competitive. Moreover, today’s workers clamor exposure, development and empowerment opportunities. This can be challenging since, in many cases, distance and time creates an unwelcome void between management and staff. In addition, everyone is SO busy! Leaders are seeking creative methods to motivate and connect with their staff and peers. During the Bringing Out The Best Plus! session leaders really take a hard look at, and practice, what they can do to continuously bring out the best in everyone they come in contact with, thereby enhancing business results. Attendees should come prepared to go beneath the surface, stretch, share and step up — to a new level of leadership.

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FACILITATION AND TRAINING WORKSHOPS

—JIMPACT Bootcamp

WORKSHOPThis high-energy, quick paced workshop highlights what trainers, sales professionals, managers, leaders and anyone who facilitates, speaks, presents or leads meetings can do to make their trainings, meetings, sales calls and presentations more exciting, motivational or engaging.

Objectives include:

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—Awesome Presenter Plus

As professionals we are always on. Our presence, communication behaviors, decorum, tact and service energy are vital for achieving the results we desire. Language, clarity, image and thoroughness play a key factor in every customer interaction. Every participant (e.g., managers, team leaders, individual contributors, project managers, generalists, directors, etc.) who attends this workshopwoman at workshop will be more effective when working with and presenting to customers (internal and external), leaders and with each other. They will be better communicators, engaging, thorough and confident and provide greater impact.

During this two- or three-day, high-energy session participants learn: powerful and engaging presentation, platform and facilitation skills, adult learning theories, proven practices for accelerated learning, group responsibility and learner retention. Participants also learn and practice methods for: opening and closing presentations, reviewing and revisiting content, story telling, developing, preparing and organizing their presentations. Creating an empowering learning and presentation environment and atmosphere, developing personal presence, poise and energy, dealing successfully with difficult presentation situations, overcoming stage-fright and nervousness, applying application methods, asking and answering questions, transitioning, gesturing, voice modulation, eye movement, using visual aids (namely power point and flip charts), and installing pre and post session assessments and goal review are also reviewed and applied.

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—Crash and Learn: Stuff Trainers Do in the Classroom that Make People want to SHOUT, sleep or Sneak out!

WORKSHOPGet ready for hours of non-stop high-energy, fun, sharing, networking and self-examination as we take a look at the mistakes trainers (and all speaking professionals) do in the classroom that demotivate their learners. Based on Jim’s upcoming book (same title), this session helps both new and experienced trainers, sales professionals, managers and other leaders (actually, any one who speaks in front of audiences), to:

There’s so much more to training, facilitation and presenting than just information dumping. Many speakers think that just because they taught it (i.e. their content) their learners have caught it OR just because it was said, it’s in their head. In the Crash and Learn workshop we polish, adjust, correct and fine-tune the delivery skills you are currently using.

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—Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah, Staying Alive, Staying Alive!

woman at workshopThis quick-moving session highlights what trainers can do to stay focused, energized and motivated before, during and after their workshops. Particular areas of focus include tips for:

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—Am I Going Through OR Growing Through Leadership

This purposeful workshop focuses on trainer leadership; primarily what trainers can do before, during and after their sessions to exemplify leadership. Topics covered include:

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—Unleashing Your Persona - Ways to Bring Out the True You (Advanced Facilitation Skills)

This advanced facilitation workshop is for trainers who are ready to take their training to even greater heights.

Trainers enjoy helping people grow, watching their students try on new concepts as they look for ways to apply the key takeaways back on the job (or in the field). Through these myriad experiences and more, WORKSHOPtrainers grow too, evolving into even more effective facilitators. Nevertheless, some trainers believe there’s a level they haven’t yet reached. There’s a standard they haven’t yet obtained. There’s a zone they haven’t yet experienced…at least up to now.

The Unleashing Your Persona workshop helps trainers to discern what’s needed to stretch even more. During this moving, challenging introspective workshop experienced trainers examine the role fearlessness, creativity and theater play in bringing out his/her best.

... trainers will develop a personal plan for unleashing their persona.

In addition, participants will experience the five “Persona Power Principles” as they create a personal action plan for taking their training to heights they’ve never reached before. The session also highlights “The Savvy Seven,” (i.e., seven principles every experienced facilitator should know and master in the classroom). The “Savvy Seven” are:

Through exercises, presentations, self-examination and feedback trainers will develop a personal plan for unleashing their persona.

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DIVERSITY WORKSHOPS
workshop— Managing Diversity

This workshop is geared for leaders, managers, supervisors and the like who are responsible for developing people and creating cultural change. Key subject matters include:

Participants also explore the 5-step Just the FACTS model for being a productive manager of diversity:

Focus
Accountability
Communication
Taking Risks
Support

Today’s leaders need all of the tools they can receive to effectively manage today’s diverse workforce. Yesterday’s organizational and societal mores and practices are quickly becoming outdated. We have to tap into the strengths and skills of all our employees. Everyone has to feel empowered. Everyone has to feel included. Everyone has to feel like part of the team. This workshop helps managers to get there.

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—Diversity Awareness (Insights)

During this workshop participants explore the diversity workshopbroad definition of diversity and its many elements. Age, class, thinking style, gender, physical and mental ability, sexual orientation, race, education, ethnicity and many others are discussed as learners assess the notion that diversity is just about race and gender. Learners also participate in our staple “Pull Right Up” and “Ask Me Anything” exercises where they have the opportunity to personally consider the role specific diversity elements play in their lives. Through video, discussion, small and large group activities, this highly interactive workshop challenges learners to think (and perhaps live) outside the tiny box that diversity is often put in.

The workshop objectives are:

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—Recovery Skills

the impact of one’s behavior does not always match his/her intent

Successful communication is certainly not always the easiest goal to achieve. This fact is greatly heightened when diversity factors are involved. Gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class and race differences, just to name a few, can play a significant role in how one receives and reacts to communication or behavior directed toward him/her. Add to this the notion that the impact of one’s behavior does not always match his/her intent. We have to refrain from “blame the victim” thinking (i.e., thinking it’s always the other person’s fault or that the other person has to stop being so sensitive and learn to just “get over it”). Poor work relationships can develop just because someone has unknowingly said or done the wrong thing. During this communication’s workshop participants explore:

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—Blind spots

“I can’t believe I missed it – it was sitting right there.” “I never realized she could…” “Who would of thought that he would be the one to…” “I must be going blind – it was right in front of my face.” People whose blind spots have affected their thinking, their communications or their behaviors Jim Smith, Jr.have shared those sentiments and more. During this high-energy workshop, participants explore the myth and theory that, “what you see is what you get.”

Many of us, because of our blind spots, miss important opportunities and/or information. This could be in the areas of succession planning, coaching, mentoring, hiring, promoting, sales or development. And when you consider the critical role that perceptions and stereotypes play in our daily interactions, one could have quite a challenge. Invariably, all of these lead to unproductive work and work relationships. We have to take responsibility for acknowledging and eliminating our blind spots.

This workshop’s objectives are to:

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—Creative Diversity Training Techniques

So often participants dread coming to diversity workshops. They would rather play in traffic blind folded or drink a jar of wasabi sauce, nonstop, then attend a full day class on diversity. dancingEven the name (i.e., diversity) itself frustrates and scares some, especially if they’ve already had one trying diversity workshop experience. Learners come to the sessions expecting the worst and hoping for an early dismissal. What can trainers and managers do? This participant driven workshop is primarily for trainers, leaders and others who lead diversity workshops, trainings and meetings. The objectives for the workshop are to provide tips, tools and techniques for:

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TEAMBUILDING WORKSHOPS
— Synergy Energy

This highly interactive workshop highlights the vital components of teamwork and teambuilding. Through numerous experiential exercises and activities, participants experience teamwork at its best and at its most challenging. Workshop objectives include:

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COACHING WORKSHOPS

— The Reinvented Coach

During this moving, introspective workshop participants develop powerful coaching practices by first exploring the ideology and emotional connection between “what they have accomplished and how and who they are.”

Throughout the session participants engage in self discovery activities and discussions to get clear about their beliefs, their actions and the future they are creating for themselves and for those they manage and lead. Our coach approach is that, “you cannot successfully coach others if you’re not clear about your personal vision.” Participants move to the superior coaching model by focusing on developing a personal success orientation through mindset shifts, behavior modifications and a customized action plan.

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS
— The Polished Professional

The powerful P.I.E. (performance, image and exposure) are just a few of the factors Jim highlights during the moving and quick-paced The Polished women at workshopProfessional workshop. We’ve all learned that there are myriad contributors to one’s success in the workplace. Many of those intangibles we learned the hard way. Others we still haven’t learned (or we haven’t accepted that they are vital to one’s success). Unfortunately our parents and our college counselors and professors did not totally prepare us for many of the corporate hurdles and games that are so prevalent in today’s workplace. During this session you’ll explore, discuss and examine what it takes to be an awesome professional (both the saids and the unsaids). Come gather some quick tips for communicating powerfully, getting others excited about you, dealing with difficult people, sharing your energy, influencing others and much, much more.

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—From Average to Awesome:

The From Average to Awesome workshop highlights what people can do professionally and/or personally, awesome!to defeat procrastination, live their dreams, and change their mind set and behaviors to always strive for awesome results. Moreover during this moving, high-energy workshop, Jim uses anecdotes, key learnings and tips from his From Average to Awesome book to help move one’s typical words of “I’m OK,” and “I’m hanging in there – same stuff, different day,” to “I’m feeling spectacular,” and “I couldn’t be better!” Jim shares what people can do to live with passion, purpose and power – unwavering power! Some of the other session’s highlights include:

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