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Futurism
Roster of Speech Topics:
1. Executive Think Tank: The Big Picture of Business.
2. Futurism...It's Almost Tomorrow™
3. Pop Culture Wisdom.
4. Strategic Planning-Visioning Processes.
5. The High Cost of Doing Nothing™
6. Corporate Communications.
7. Leadership Executive Growth Strategies Program.
8. Corporate Philanthropy, Community Relations and Charity
Involvement.
9. Crisis Management and Preparedness.
10. Secrets of the CEOs.
11. Re-Engineering, Change Management.
12. Diversity...Confluence™
Synopses of Speech Topics
1. Executive Think Tank: The Big Picture of
Business.
- The Business Tree™ symbolizes the organization as a whole. Each major branch represents a
component of the company. Limbs and twigs on each branch constitute departments and individuals who
keep the organization running.
- The Busy Work Tree™ details the myriad of ways in which a person is expected to divide his-her
time. When people complain that other responsibilities keep them from doing what profession-career for
which they were educated, this tree explains why.
- The Learning Tree™ represents the phases of an individual's life...embodying the makeup,
education and culturization that one brings to his-her job.
- The Executive Tree™ embodies the abilities, mentoring, skills, sophistications and activities
that one must cultivate if he-she wishes to "go the distance" and remain truly successful in
business.
- The Management Tree™ represents the working style, practices, ethics, values and
resourcefulness with which one person manages other people, as well as processes, policies and
procedures.
- The Organization Tree™ parallels the various stages in professional, personal and career
development. Each plateau shows how far the individual should have come and what his-her abilities,
levels of accomplishment and values to the overall organization likely are.
- Healthy Trees from Little Acorns Grow™ encompasses the elements which will grow the company
and assure success. These include grooming emerging executives, the new international workplace,
multicultural diversity, team building, executive development, turning every member of the company
into a profit center, corporate imaging and fostering the vision.
- Trees in the Forest™ realizes that businesses cannot exist in a vacuum. They must interact
with the outside world, predict the trends and master front-burner issues affecting the climate and
opportunities in which they function. This includes stimulating "outside-the-box" thinking, building
customer coalitions and distinguishing your company from the pack.
2. Futurism...It's Almost Tomorrow™
Organizational Transformation...paving the way for Futurism. Takes Futurism and change
management out of the esoteric and into creative, effective and profitable daily business practice.
It includes capturing-building a shared Vision for the company, along with putting quality,
empowerment, crisis management and other concepts into practice.
- Futurism...Capitalizing Upon Change, including all criteria, factors and thought processes.
How We Emerged...What We Have Become.
- The Blossoming Tree™ . A plan for making and taking your company's own future. Healthy Business
Values and Practices...Developing Reasons to Believe and Reasonable Beliefs.
- Yesterdayism...Benefiting from the Past...fundamental component of Futurism. Reconciling the
Past and Widening Perceptions.
- Business Trees of the Future. How to Survive Tomorrow and the Next Days.
3. Pop Culture Wisdom.
Stroll down memory lane, reviewing music, movies and TV shows of your youth from the perspective
of life and work influences.
Business leaders are more products of pop culture than formal training. Subsequent efforts to
change or modify are often met with resistance. Presenting organizational strategies as an extension
of previously-held values gets more support.
Most leaders of today's corporations grew up in the 1950s and 60s. As a senior advisor, Hank
Moore has sat in countless strategy meetings where leaders cannot articulate business philosophies,
but they can accurately recite lyrics from "golden oldie" song hits or TV trivia. Being one of the
rare senior business advisors who is equally versed in pop culture, he found that bridging known
avenues with current realities resulted in fully articulated corporate visions. Many a Strategic Plan
was written by piecing together song fragments, nostalgic remembrances and movie scenarios...then
were aptly converted into contemporary corporate nomenclature.
This is likely the first to combine the two phenomena and look at business executives'
development through their own nostalgic eyes in pop culture.
4. Strategic Planning-Visioning
Processes.
Step-by-step process of planning a company's next 20 years (categories 6-7 on The Business
Tree™ ). The Strategic Planning process is only 20% of it. Further, this helps organizations determine
what they will be, how they will evolve and the character with which they will succeed.
5. The High Cost of Doing Nothing™
Examines why good companies go bad. One-third of the Gross National Product is spent to deal
with problems. It costs six times more to clean up, react to and recover from mistakes than to do
things right on the front end. Human beings are not perfect and don't do everything according to
advance planning, though we can develop expeditious ways to remediate damages before the highest
costs stack up.
- The Doing Nothing Tree™ examines the top 100 mistakes that companies make. Euphemisms analyzes
the top 100 excuses they make for the mistakes and the processes of rationalizing and covering up
company problems.
- 100 Biggest Excuses They Use. Euphemisms Most Often Heard. Rationales and Reasons Why
Businesses Fail.
- The High Cost of Doing the Wrong Things. Cases where numerous flaws and efforts of the system
compounded or out-cost the errors.
- The Fatal Flaws of Corporate Thinking. Corporate Arrogance, Barriers to Progress. Doing Things
that Count.
6. Corporate Communications.
Reviews the strategy for developing and the components of internal and external communications
programs (branch 5 on The Business Tree™ ). This includes marketing, investor relations materials,
public relations, research, advertising, newsletters, web site presence, letters, shareholder
communications and government relations.
7. Leadership Executive Growth Strategies
Program.
8. Corporate Philanthropy, Community
Relations and Charity Involvement.
Championing the right causes and benefiting your business. Ways to get employees and executives
involved at high-profile levels. Understanding the concepts of cause-related marketing.
9. Crisis Management and
Preparedness.
Predicting the six worst crises that can beset an organization will avert crisis 85% of the
time. Case studies of successful crisis management and pointers for crisis preparedness.
10. Secrets of the CEOs
Reviews and contextualizes case studies of failure and success. The Management Tree™ represents
the working style, practices, ethics, values and resourcefulness with which one person manages other
people, as well as processes, policies and procedures. The Organization Tree™ parallels the various
stages in professional, personal and career development. Each plateau shows how far the individual
should have come and what his-her abilities, levels of accomplishment and values to the overall
organization likely are.
11. Re-Engineering, Change
Management.
Strategies for company reorganizations, the sum and the parts. Creating Action Plans. Case
studies and methodologies for benefiting from change, rather than falling victim to it.
12.
Diversity...Confluence™
Workshop on diversity, benefiting from change and organizational ethics.
Think Tank
Major Speaking Topic:
The Business Tree™, analyzing the 7 parts-components of a successful company,
- Understanding how each interplays and the role which Visioning and Strategic Planning play with
each branch (business unit).
- 7 stages in the evolution of a business. This section subtitled The Path from Pleasure to
Success.
- Leadership development, mentoring and creative ways of retreading old knowledge to enable
executives to master change, rather than feel as they're victims of it. This section subtitled The
Learning Tree™.
Target Audiences:
- Senior executives who have innovated through the years...offering fresh approaches to old
lessons and original knowledge to master the balance of their careers.
- Rising stars, mid-management execs, entrepreneurs...insights into The Big Picture,
inter-relationship of business functions, seasoning to become a top executive and creative
approaches to staying at the top.
Expanded Version Available. Modules can be combined for an Executive
Think Tank (one or two days): Hank Moore's presentations are best suited to
day-long workshops with top corporate executives. These may include national manager annual retreats,
Visioning conferences, board of directors development and strategic planning processes.
The expanded version, Executive Think Tank, includes such other
modules as:
- Everything I Learned About Business, I Learned on Saturday Mornings.
- Values and Ethics with a Pop Culture Spin.
- The High Cost of Doing Nothing™, why good companies go bad.
- It's Almost Tomorrow. Capturing-building a shared Vision for your company. Putting quality,
empowerment, crisis management and other concepts into practice.
- Secrets of the CEOs, case studies of failure and success.
- Trees in the Forest™. Front-burner issues affecting the climate and opportunities in which
corporate executives function. Stimulating "outside-the-box" thinking. Building coalitions.
Distinguishing your company from the pack.
- The Organization Tree™. Grooming Emerging Executives, The New International Workplace,
Multicultural Diversity, Team Building, Executive Development, How to Turn Every Member of Your
Company into a Profit Center, Corporate Imaging.
Its Almost Tomorrow
presented by Hank Moore
(keynote and day-long Think Tank formats)
The Big Picture of Futurism -
Organizational Transformation
Need for more strategic thinking and planning
- Thinking Big Picture (rather than micro-process-task).
Being who you are (not what you do).
- Front-burner issues affecting the climate and opportunities in which business is conducted.
- High costs associated with refusing to change or putting the wrong emphasis on Futurism.
Positioning an organization via Visioning
- Building a true corporate culture, distinguishing your organization from others.
Positioning oneself as a visionary executive within the
organization
- Leadership development, mentoring and creative ways of retreading old knowledge to enable
executives to master change, rather than feel as they're victims of it.
Creating teamwork, both inside and outside the
organization
- Expectations, collaborations, empowerment and accountability issues.
Futurism--Organizational Transformation
- Definitions of Futurism. Capturing-building a shared Vision for the next 10+ years.
Capitalizing upon change
- The Search for Truths in Your Business.
- People's pre-occupation with each part, losing sight of the whole to which it belongs.
- Responding to markets, customer orientation, development of new marketplaces.
Decisions made based upon partial information
- Costs of acting too hastily. Costs of moving too slowly.
- Working Styles. Knowing how and when you do your best work.
The Big Picture of Futurism
- 7 Ingredients of Futurism,
- 7 Conditions for Futurism to Be Successfully Applied to Your Big Picture,
- 7 Requirements for Futurism to Succeed,
- 7 Reasons Why Futurism is Misunderstood,
- 7 Levels of Futurist,
- 7 Levels of Futurism,
- 7 Roles Which the Past Plays in Creating the Future.
- 7 Levels of Choices,
- 7 Levels of Change,
- 7 Steps Toward Mastering Change,
- 7 Levels of Quality.
Styles and Approaches to Futurism:
- Low-Power, Entrepreneur, Innovator.
The Blossoming Tree™. A plan for making and taking your company's own
future.
- Approaches to business life (individuals and corporate cultures).
- Plateaus of Futurism: • Continuity. • Change. • Choice.
- Study such things as trends, developments, crisis preparedness, the human condition.
- Changes are typified by multiple factors...not by one.
- Assess the judgment of decision makers and significance-probabilities of developments.
- Build scenarios: 1. Doing nothing. 2. Doing a little. 3. Doing a lot.
- Knowing where to draw the line between what can be done and what is impossible.
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