LEAD WITH YOUR EDGE:

putting your edge into Your first impressions

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BE THE PHOENIX

-reversing disruption-

We live in a world where industries collapse overnight. Kodak, Blockbuster, MySpace and more... Whether your company, your career, or your certification, the assets we're so confidently using today could be useless tomorrow.

And yet you will keep going. And your direction is directed by you. What if you had a strategy for finding new opportunities, inside even the strongest upheavals? What if you could rely on a process for reversing disruption, even in chaotic times?

You'll learn the tools for reinventing Your Competitive Edge and driving your company forward. A forest must burn down to allow for new growth. Chaos creates opportunity. It starts with you, Your Edge, and your strategy for keeping it sharp...

YOU WILL LEARN:

• How The Science of Charisma can influence the world around you

• How you use the 5 Factors of Competitive Edge to regain control

• A simple trick to make yourself irreplaceable in the customers' eyes

• 3 Laws of Human nature you can use to harness loyalty

INSPIRE LIKE A ROCK STAR

-primarily for non-profits-

You already know the value of all you do. Now it’s time to build the team. More volunteers. Bigger donations. You’re about to engage the world with your excellence.

Hear the laughter. Feel the music. Enjoy the conference, as we explore the latest research in motivation and opinion formation you’ll discover that what rock stars accomplish by instinct, we can master through science.

TAKEAWAYS INCLUDE:

• The key to unlocking every team member’s motivation

• How to create viral excitement for your mission

• 3 critical steps to the communication cycle
  

GREATEST H.I.T.S.

Headspace - Income - Time - Significance

Because your in leadership, we need you to feel your best, and you deserve it too. Let’s talk about how we take care of you.

When it comes to your leadership, you’re the foundation. Your Greatest H.I.T.S. are yours to control, improve, and turn into impact. Here we’ll uncover the steps.

Headspace - are you taking care of your physical and headspace needs?

Income - How is the company’s income doing - are you investing into your company’s future growth and financial needs.

Time - If Time were money, do you get to spend it the way you like?

Significance - Imagine we lived in a world with no money… how would you then score you and your company’s value to the world?

TAKEAWAYS INCLUDE:

• The key to health and headspace

• 2 steps to better Income without sacrificing your Time

• Critical steps to separate your Time from your Significance - because you deserve a plentitude of both!

LEAD WITH YOUR EDGE

-how to Find, sharpen, and drive Your Competitive Edge-

When we’re born, we’re like a blade. There’s that sharp Competitive Edge, the thing we were born to do. Where if we put our effort, it gets effortless. 

Then there’s everything else we do, where progress is possible, but only with tremendous effort. Michael Jordan had a tremendous Competitive Edge for basketball. Putting his effort there made him a superstar. But when he put his effort into baseball and golf, he had to work harder for less success.

IN THIS SESSION YOU WILL LEARN:

• How to Discover Your Edge

• The two strategies for keeping it sharp, and which will work better for you

• How to use Your Competitive Edge to get where you want to go

• 3 Laws of Human Nature you can use to keep yourself and your team motivated, disciplined, and always putting your effort behind Your Edge

SAME SHOW, NEW MIC

-stay in front through rapid technological change-

KEYNOTE: 60-90 mins of transformative inspiration

You know the extreme satisfaction of helping others. You know what it takes to make the perfect sale and leave a happier customer behind.

Customer Service is your stage, and your people own the show. Sure we evolve. Though our message and brand stay the same, our mouthpiece keeps changing. What used to happen solely in person and on the phone has spread across Facebook, Twitter and more.

But you don't even care. You switch microphones at will. No way mere technology is going to stand between you and your team's passion for customer smiles.

TAKEAWAYS INCLUDE:

• The key to finding inspiration in technology

• A simple technique, proven at Stanford to help us learn new skills faster and more easily

• The secret to helping our team maintain their own self-motivation while making new challenges more festive and fun.

• Using the company's internal brand to make work more fulfilling

PODS

-Learning CEO Mindset-

You have the drive, the stamina, the smarts. You’ve always felt that voice inside, ‘what if i were in charge…’.

This keynote is critical for those wanting to understand all the moving parts. what’s it take to manage a company from the top. There is a strategy CEOs can employ to better see the bigger picture while simultaneously managing all the parts.

Utilizing our patent pending EdgeCraft tool, you’ll learn the 16 Resource PODS that make up a company’s strategy. Discover a process for identifying which of those PODS will be the Leading Edge that makes its competitive advantage clear. How do you compartmentalize, prioritize, strategize, and win!

TAKEAWAYS INCLUDE:

• The #1 mindset tool for effective CEOs

• The 16 Resource PODS that make up Competitive Edge

• A process for identifying your ‘Leading Edge’ and which PODS are most important for keeping it sharp

EdgeCraft

If you have customers, they chose you for a reason. They could have chosen anyone in the world. But they chose you, because in that moment, in that place, to them you are the best there is.

Why did they choose you. What compelling competitive edge did they see?

This facilitated workshop (and our patent pending tool by the same name) will help you uncover your competitive edge. Then we’ll put a strategy in place to drive it forward for greater marketshare and faster growth. This craft will carry your edge into the market, with clear direction to clarify for your shareholders, team, suppliers, customers, and even community members why they need to be supporting you. Because you’ve got the edge and everybody’s going to want a piece.

This workshop uses iTeam’s patent pending tool of the same name: EdgeCraft.

Lead with Your Edge.

Be Compelling

Let's teach your team The Science of Charisma. Our proprietary process leverages your company's Story, Brand, and Messaging for a consistent customer experience across every single interaction with your team. Let's help them not only become more engaging and influential, but make them motivated to promote your brand's messaging every time. Your team no longer interacts only with customers, but with family, friends, and many thousands thru social media in their time off. We can't tell them what to do in their free time, but we can motivate them to freely do the right thing. Let's get everyone enthusiastically advancing your vision, your message, and your goals throughout every interaction as we teach your team The Science of Charisma.

Your Team Will Learn how to:

• Keep themselves excited and self-motivated to boost the company’s goals

• Harness their inner Charisma to become more persuasive and compelling

• Not only recognize rapport’s biggest barrier, but sail right around it

• Leverage the 6 Elements of Audience Attraction

iTeam

Lead with Your Edge

For those who’d like to Lead with Your Edge - and collaborate with other CEOs who are doing the same thing, you might enjoy The iTeam.

Sure we love our client track record with enterprises like John Deere, Butterball, Australian Gold, etc., but The iTeam was created for B2B CEOs.

Why do they say it’s lonely at the top, when it’s actually a flurry of non-stop questions, suggestions, and demands on our time, it’s hard to find a safe place to reflect on a tough decision or get honest feedback on a new idea.

We bring CEOs together into private think tanks, with a focus on technology enablement, and a process to help find, sharpen, and drive your competitive edge forward. The ongoing results speak for themselves.

In 2019, every iTeam member experienced 20-145% top line growth Leveraged our process to drive revenue growth 80% in 6 months is not uncommon - one even increased profit margins 500% after implementing their new 18 month strategy.

TO PREQUALIFy FOR ITEAM, START here…

After submitting the form, you can expect a personal email or phone call within 72 hours. To ensure Quality of the group, Before you can make any purchase or join iteam, there is a vetting process.

Thaddeus's BIO:

Few presenters have been compared to both Dale Carnegie and David Bowie. Fewer still have the honor of being called “part Monty Python, part Dr. Seuss” by the Washington Post.

A PBS veteran, international keynoter, and award winning writer, Thaddeus Rex is an expert in Competitive Edge and founder of The iTeam, a series of Think Tanks for CEOs. He’s worked with Butterball, Australian Gold, John Deere, Chicago Bears, Rotary International, Morton Buildings, and many many more...

EXTRAS:

A former Big Brother of America, active Rotarian, entrepreneur, speaker, three-time father, and lucky husband, Thaddeus loves finding time to give back. He finds real life more exciting than any video game, prefers reading over Youtube, and believes your ability to identify and apply Your Competitive Edge is key to helping the world realize all you have to offer...

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