Michelle Tillis Lederman Speaking Topics

• Connected Leadership

  Foster and Retain an Engaged Team

  Do you want to be a leader people want to work for? Creating a strong, engaged team translates into a more positive work environment, lower turnover, and greater productivity and collaboration. It also has a direct effect on your organization’s bottom line: companies with highly engaged employees outperform others by over 200%.

  Connected Leadership will help you develop the specific skills you need to better connect with your employees. Discover how you can become a leader who attracts and engages an eager, committed team. Build stronger relationships that increase your value, influence, and impact.

  What You Will Learn:

  • Discover the correlation between a relationship driven leader and the bottom line
  • Increase your authenticity and productive energy in interactions
  • Build and retain trust to improve productivity, morale, loyalty and retention
  • Nurture your network and increase your influence
  • Connect in conversation and deal with difficult coworkers

  Perfect For: Leadership, Team Building, Improving Performance, and Strengthening Relationships

• Boost Your Likability, Boost Your Influence

  Research studies consistently reveal that people prefer to do business with, hire, buy from and work with people they like. Yet the desire to be liked is often minimized and even mocked in its importance in business. Discover how authenticity in our interactions, adopting a giving approach and finding common ground are the foundation for boosting your likability. The highest levels of achievement come to those who mix expertise with likability.

  When you are liked, you are listened to and viewed as trustworthy and credible. In this talk, Michelle Tillis Lederman explains how to leverage the Laws of Likability and the mindsets of a Connector resulting in more business, more influence, and a more engaged team.

  What You Will Learn:

  • Understand why likability matters in business
  • Increase your authenticity and productive energy in interactions
  • Discover how to find common ground with almost anyone
  • Learn multiple ways to add value to your network
  • Connect in conversation and deal with difficult personalities

  Perfect For: Business Development, Entrepreneurs, and Relationship Building

• How To Get What You Want

  Influencing Others into Action

  What do you want? How likely are you to make it happen in the time frame you want? The truth is we often need the actions of others to accomplish our goals. The best way to get what you want is to figure out why someone else wants you to have it.

  In this interactive talk, Michelle Tillis Lederman will reveal the three reasons people take action and how to increase your aptitude of each technique.

  Program Benefits:

  • Recognize the three reasons people take action
  • Incorporate the Inquiry vs Advocacy model to reveal motivations
  • Discover how to position requests using What’s In It For Them (WIIFT)
  • Adopt a Connector mindset to leverage relationships
  • Ask for what you want with ease and increase the odds of getting a ‘yes’

  Perfect For: Leadership, Team Building, Improving Performance, or Sales

• The Lost Art of Conversation in the Digital Age

  Relationship Networking

  In the fast moving world where everyone is communicating through email, text and instant messaging we have forgotten the power of face-to-face conversation. Communication and connection is the foundation for building a thriving network and business.

  During this talk, Michelle Tillis Lederman will inspire you to leverage the power of personal connection in the digital age while still incorporating the efficiency of virtual communication.

  What You Will Learn:

  • Move from first conversation to lasting connection
  • Learn what to do before the first conversation ends
  • Leverage technology and social media in simple ways to increase familiarity
  • Discover specific ways to increase your value to your network

  Perfect For: Effective Communications, Individual Impact, and Relationship Building

• You The Brand

  Determine and Drive How Others See You

  What do people say about you when you leave the room? Is it what you want them to say? How you show up in the room, get listened to and are known amongst your colleagues are all critical components of your future success.

  In this workshop, Michelle Tillis Lederman will discuss how to determine your brand attributes, demonstrate the nuances of body language on your professional presence, and discuss how to strengthen the lasting impressions you make on your network, expanding upon lessons from her books "The 11 Laws of Likability" and "The Connector’s Advantage."

  What You Will Learn:

  • Recognize the attributes that impact first and lasting perceptions
  • Tweak your body language to enhance your professional presence
  • Discover the verbal tools and distractors the impede your image
  • Learn how word choice impacts responses
  • Determine how to select your brand personality

  Perfect For: Individual Impact, Executive Presence, and Relationship Building

• Get Known, Get Connected, Get Ahead

  Personal Connection for Professional Results

  What do you need to get ahead? In this day and age, we live in a network economy – – it’s all about who you know, who knows you, and what they know about you.

  In this talk, "Connector’s Advantage" author Michelle Tillis Lederman explains the types of relationships you want and need, how to adopt the Connector’s mindset and move up the Connector spectrum to get better, faster, and easier results. At the end of the day it is the strength of your relationships that leads to your success.

  What You Will Learn:

  • The correlation between relationships and promotion, hiring, and business results
  • The key relationship types that impact success
  • The 7 mindsets of a Connector and how to move up the Connector spectrum
  • The anatomy of a conversation and specific ways to increase your value to your network

  Perfect For: Individual Impact, Networking and Career Advancement

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