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Make the Right Choice: Creating a Positive, Innovative and Productive Work Life

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• Joel Zeff: We All Need Applause

  

  We all need applause. Today's video discusses the power of positive support. If someone isn't giving you a round of applause, then give one to yourself. As soon as you start work today, give yourself...
  Keynote Speaker Joel Zeff and an Awesome Road Trip

  

  Here is another awesome Road Trip game from a recent keynote. All three audience VOLUNTEERS rocked the stage. The audience provided four emotions: joy, sadness, love and anger. No script. No...
• Joel Zeff: Stay in the Game

  

  I like things simple. Two of my favorite messages are "Stay in the Game" and ask the question: "How Do I Help the People Around Me Be Successful?"
  Joel Zeff: Opportunity and Positive Support

  

  Here is an awesome Road Trip improvisation game with three audience volunteers from a recent keynote. All three volunteers perfectly prove my point that opportunity and positive support are the...
• Emcee Joel Zeff Talks about the Mint Sponsor at the AGS Conclave

  

  My job as a conference emcee is to have fun, set the tone, build energy, and create a unique, memorable event. I also read the announcements. And sometimes, everything comes together in a beautiful...
  Joel Zeff TED style Keynote on Passion, Change and Collaboration

  

  My client, McKesson, invited me to speak at their national sales conference. For their opening general session, they wanted a TED-style format (15-20 minutes) with three speakers. I was the closing...

Joel Zeff Speaking Topics

• The Tao of Ta-Da: Watch What Happens When Work Becomes Play

  We’ve all witnessed the excitement of a three-year-old. They celebrate finding a ladybug. They celebrate drawing a flower. They celebrate going to the bathroom in the toilet for the first time. Somewhere along the way, too many adults lose this sense of excitement about our lives and our work. Our tanks are empty. There is no fuel for collaboration, productivity and innovation. When employees and managers are not having fun and enjoying their work, they become “Bye-Bye” people. “Bye-Bye” people don’t care about taking care of the customer, meeting goals, producing results, or having fun. Employees and managers who have fun at their jobs are more loyal, enthusiastic and passionate. They sell more, communicate more effectively, take better care of customers and produce more sustainable results. And fun increases employee retention. In Joel's dynamic and motivational keynote presentation, employees will appreciate the value of fun in the workplace and learn how to make the simple choices to have more fun, and increase their passion and success. Seven Lessons Learned:
  • Learn to celebrate work and create a positive environment.
  • Learn to improve teamwork and help all partners find success.
  • Learn the three keys to leading change: be prepared; be focused; be open and flexible.
  • Learn the key to success: staying in the game and keeping your passion.
  • Learn to promote ownership and accountability.
  • Learn to encourage innovation by creating opportunity.
  • Learn to enhance communication.

• Make the Right Choice: Taking Ownership and Responsibility for your Happiness and Success

  In Make the Right Choice, Joel shares his experience and insight on creativity, communication, teamwork, passion, and fun. With wit, a sharp observational eye, and playful irreverence, he discusses the choices we all encounter in our careers. We each have the ability to take initiative and make the right choice to live a more creative, passionate, effective, and productive life. How do your employees and managers Make the Right Choice? We all must take ownership of our work environment and create a foundation of opportunity and positive support. We can choose to be patient, supportive, and more flexible to change. We can choose to have fun in the workplace and still be productive. Joel teaches us just how easy it is to make these choices. He connects to his audience with humor that has them laughing so uncontrollably that their mascara runs, their cheeks hurt, and their bellies ache. And he doesn't do it alone. Volunteers from the audience join him on stage and play an integral role in an improvisation game in front of hundreds or thousands of people—something the audience members have never done. He expects nothing less than their success. He expects the volunteers to focus and work together as a team; communicate effectively; positively support each other; and take responsibility. Joel makes his audience laugh so hard that they forget about the corporate nonsense of conference calls, & strategic deliverables, & PowerPoint presentations with upside-down triangles, or & paradigm shifts in a cross-functional organization. Make the Right Choice is conversational, funny, and very informative. Yes, Joel will make you laugh, but he also make you think. This presentation delivers a combination of inspiration, essential business knowledge, and significant ideas to help audience members reconnect with their own passion, creativity, and success. Seven Lessons Learned:
  • Learn to celebrate work and create a positive environment.
  • Learn to improve teamwork and help all partners find success.
  • Learn the three keys to leading change: be prepared; be focused; be open and flexible.
  • Learn the key to success: staying in the game and keeping your passion.
  • Learn to promote ownership and accountability.
  • Learn to encourage innovation by creating opportunity.
  • Learn to enhance communication.

• Make the Right Choice: Leading Teams during Change with Passion and Success

  It’s hard to have fun and stay passionate at work during stressful times. Your employees build stress after each media report about economic challenges. Business today means surviving and thriving during a merger, layoff or the all encompassing “restructuring.” How do managers continue to motivate and energize employees during difficult times? Managers must help employees stay in the game; work in the moment; and take ownership of their happiness. Joel leads the audience through a series of exercises that demonstrates how easy it is to continue working creatively, effectively and productively while dealing with change. This interactive and hilarious presentation will teach managers the importance of creating opportunity and giving positive support to their employees. Just as important, managers must allow employees to create ownership. Ownership and responsibility will allow the employee to care. And once the employee starts to care, the next step is passion. Joel uses humor and improvisation to teach his audiences how important these simple choices are to success. During this keynote, audience members will laugh, have fun and be motivated, inspired and energized.

• The Tao of Teamwork: Chemistry, Trust, and Risk Taking

  It’s hard to explain, but we all know what happens when a partnership or group has chemistry: it’s important in any relationship. When co-workers have fun together, they communicate better and connect on a deeper level. And when they connect, this creates trust, which enables individuals to take greater risks with the knowledge that they have their team behind them. In order for a company to innovate, it must manage risk well, and it can only do so through the prerequisite communication and teamwork. Joel’s interactive exercises train audience members to enjoy their work so they communicate better and ultimately, take more risks.

• The Tao of Change: Flexibility, Reaction, and Persistence

  Change happens. We can either be open and flexible to it or let it steamroll us. Too many of our daily problems are not worth getting worked up about, but we react to these small events, and it impacts us negatively. We don’t always have control over our changing circumstances, but we do control our reactions. There’s only one reaction that’s not acceptable: quitting. You can’t quit. You may have to communicate your needs; you may have to try something new. But you can’t give up. Joel’s presentation reinforces this message through his dynamic interactive skits.