If you could bring in a keynote speaker to tackle one challenge in your business, what would it be?

[Motivational]

I’ve been thinking about the role external speakers can play in businesses, not just the traditional “motivational speaker”, but people who bring genuine experience and a fresh perspective to a particular challenge.

Every business has something it would like to improve. It could be motivating a team, managing change, improving sales, developing better leaders, dealing with stress and burnout, building confidence, strengthening workplace culture or simply getting people to think differently.

Sometimes hearing the same message from someone outside the business can land very differently from hearing it internally.

So, if you could bring in a speaker to tackle one challenge in your business right now, what would it be?

And what would you want your team to actually do differently afterwards?

 

[Paul Kelly ICHYB]

I wouldn't.

Either bring someone in to do the job or show/tell/train people how to do it.

 

[fisicx]

Don’t want a speaker. Bring me someone who can improve the business.

Motivational speakers are generally for the hard of thinking.

 

[cjd]

Dear god, save me from the 'motivational speaker' charlatans. Second only to 'influencers'; parasites on the backs of those businesses that actually do something.

 

[Ozzy]

I'm afraid I share the same view @Motivational , and this is coming from someone who does do public speaking.

A speaker is generally the entertainment at an event, to try and leave people with some nuggets to think about, leave them inspired to try and make a change in behaviour, or as the name suggests 'motivate' them.
What a motivational speaker does not do, in my opinion, is making lasting changes to a business. That needs consistent and reinforced behavioural change, which in turn needs consistent training and reinforcing, which needs someone there continually, working in the business with the team. A speaker who turns up, gets people fired up, and inspired is the warmup act to get people interested in the training program that is about to be introduced.

 

[JEREMY HAWKE]

I have said before if you people need inspiration and business help speakers look no further than me
I can furnish your team with the most direction focused ballshit you can find
Its no good getting a general speakers who can fire words into the air to tick boxes .I can talk the crap for your team to achieve the exact objectives .You loves I knows it

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