James Melton Speaking Topics

• High-Performance Leadership

  Who designates an individual as a leader? How does one enter the upper echelon of the rank of leadership? Do all leaders have the innate ability to inspire confidence and create an atmosphere conducive to trust, and agreement?

  This inspiring presentation offers powerful instruction with segments from his eight-part Public Television series, Reaching New Heights of Excellence, designed to enhance teamwork and communication, as well as provide the specifics of exemplary leadership. Methods will be presented to interpret the actions of others, respect individual differences and make choices to change behaviors. It will become clear why leadership is not so much the exercise of power as it is the empowerment of people. “Leaders are made, not born... If I’ve learned one thing, it’s this: You don’t get anywhere by standing on the sidelines waiting for somebody else to take action.” — Lee Iacocca, Author, Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

  OBJECTIVES:

  • Define the traits of exemplary leadership
  • Examine personal assumptions and beliefs
  • Identify barriers to effective communication
  • Select and apply appropriate leadership styles
  • Incorporate action attitudes for immediate use
  • Discover what inspires others to reach their potential
  • Recognize the duality of leadership through values & vision

  BENEFITS:

  • The Risk Factor
  • Visual Listening
  • Traits of Leadership
  • Activating People
  • Insight vs. Oversight
  • Trust and Integrity
  • The Power of Decision
  • Leadership Principles
  • Inspire Others to Achieve
  • Compassion and Achievement

• How To Communicate With Impact and Authority

  The most important ingredients to command leadership and the respect of your peers is the ability to convey your ideas in an intelligent, clear and concise fashion. This informative presentation offers powerful instruction designed to enhance teamwork and communication, as well as provide the specifics of exemplary leadership. Based on extensive research, these techniques are offered in a practical, ready-to-use format.

  In today's world, high performance is expected. This fast-paced and comprehensive presentation will address common-sense solutions for every-day situations when communicating to a group or an individual.

  OBJECTIVES:

  • Deliver your ideas with impact and authority.
  • Identify barriers to effective communication.
  • Make training valuable, meaningful and usable.

  BENEFITS:

  • Preparation • Visual aids
  • Voice power
  • Style and delivery
  • Audience response
  • Humor with impact
  • The professional image
  • Confidence enhancement
  • Handling resistant people
  • Consistent, dynamic delivery

Challenge The Limits

Enlightening, Vitalizing and Entertaining! Getting what you want in life demands a purpose in mind—you must be focused, dedicated and disciplined. This session provides immediate and practical help for guiding yourself and others toward higher levels of accomplishment.

Methods to overcome resistance to change, and the reversal of destructive to constructive behavior will be explored. This presentation is designed to provide a simple foundation for implementing ideas for greater productivity. Learn what change, risk and a take-charge attitude have in common.

OBJECTIVES:

1. Become aware of the myths of change.
2. Learn what fear and risk have in common.
3. Redirect negative attitudes for constructive result.
4. Encourage open communication for enhanced understanding.
5. Realize and tap individual innovative potential.

Benefits:

• Embrace Risk
• Create enthusiasm
• Develop action attitudes
• Redirect negative behavior
• Employ word magic
• Confront change

An Action Plan For Your Future

This session offers an eight-step action plan to establish and achieve effective purpose, balance and direction in business and personal life. The premise is that there are many ways to reach an end — some are better than others. As a focused, dedicated and disciplined process, it provides immediate and practical help to guide anyone toward higher levels of accomplishment. Methods are presented to overcome resistance to change. Also offered are creative and effective methods to move from the problem to the solution. Also, learn to effectively engage others in achieving solid, bottom-line results.

Objectives:

• Elevate individual management / leadership skills, and internalize the principles of self-confidence.
• Provide a foundation for implementing confidence-enhancing approaches in personal and business life.
• Acquire sensitivity for others to stimulate and encourage open communication toward goal achievement.
• Inspire, encourage and engage.

Highlights:

• Word Magic
• The 7+1 Action Plan
• Nine Cs of Leadership
• Creative Brainstorming
• Individual Decisiveness
• Constructive Alternatives
• Innovative Alternatives
• Focus, Dedication, and Discipline

Why Mars? Why Now?

Why is it so important for humans to go to Mars? How can we work together effectively to accomplish this? What makes us think this can and will happen? These questions have plagued humanity since we first looked up into the night sky.

As distant as Mars may seem, there are reasons why exploration and eventual settlement are important for our own survival. In addition, the spinoff technology that will immediately benefit us will be phenomenal. This program will reveal facts that make Mars so intriguing that you will wonder why we haven’t seriously embraced this idea sooner.

Highlights of this intriguing view into the short-term future:

• What opportunities await us in the new Martian world?
• Are we destined to become a multi-planet species?
• Insights on who will ideally settle the Red Planet.
• What role can you play in our new future world?
• Why we can no longer remain earthbound.