Tim Clue

Tim Clue: Program Outlines

Providing true ROI for your company’s valuable time, resources and energy, Tim addresses communication issues in 2011 and beyond. This communication defrag is a re-energizing booster-shot covering a wide range of contemporary communication pain-points, such as:

• Letterman is a pro – leave the sarcasm to him.
• What’s the point of power if the PowerPoint is powerless?
• Talking up, down, and sideways: How to know when your tone is right, when it’s wrong, and when you shouldn’t care.

These and other all-too-familiar issues will be addressed as Tim takes your group through the communication gauntlet.

Tim's high-energy, fun and interactive style uncovers new answers to old problems and offers solutions for new challenges.

The Meaningless Meeting
The Keys to More Potent and Productive Meetings
Too many meetings interrupting the work flow? Suffering from bullet point brain drain? The “meaningless meeting” is contributing to the stagnation of America’s productivity! But Tim Clue has the solution. Tim believes that meetings should be thought of as a company’s delicate circulatory system and that utilizing the straightforward tips in this highly interactive session will recharge the best meeting practices, bringing down your collective conference room cholesterol count.

Leading his clients through an entertaining, engaging and up-tempo rethink, Tim will ensure that your next meeting isn’t a ho-hum, white-noise, Dilbert-doodling waste of time. This professor of communication-turned-comedian uses his diverse background to create a stimulating conversation that will kick Analysis Paralysis—and many other bad meeting habits—right to the curb. Tim explores how some companies can lose trust among their team members by unconsciously building a risk-adverse meeting template that diffuses, defers and paralyzes even the simplest of decisions and action steps.

“The Meaningless Meeting” offers up elegantly simple take-a-ways that will help your people create and lead more potent and efficient gatherings.

The Unlikely Teacher
Life Lessons from a Bad Student
Tim Clue was one of the most unlikely pupils to ever become a teacher. Challenged by dyslexia and ADHD as a young man, he overcame and earned his master’s degree in communication and theater, channeling his creativity into the classroom as a college-level teacher and speech coach, then onto the stage, spring-boarding him into a life of professional humor and instruction.

Tim utilizes his decades as both a teacher and comedian to speak directly to educators’ angst over the key issues of our time. In this presentation, he focuses on the untraditional, the underestimated, and touches on the over-stressed relationships between teachers and students, administrators and parents. Now a published author, Tim has utilized his unique experiences to form new techniques to reach deep into the hearts and minds of all students, traditional and untraditional alike.

Self-deprecating, bold and honest, Tim’s personal story is what makes this keynote rich with value and emotion. “The Unlikely Teacher” is a wonderful way to reward an audience in any educational field; a bone-splittingly funny keynote about an improbable instructor coming to understand his real power in the classroom.

Tim has performed this keynote for in-services, convocations as well as at continuing education conferences.

Those and other topics also make great Break-Out Sessions.

Here are some of the other ways Tim can make your next event pop off the stage:

Conference Host / Master of Ceremonies / Talk Show Facilitator
Tim is the ultimate in “message multi-tasking.” Interviewing CEOs on stage, reinforcing messages, invigorating break-out sessions, Tim’s energy and improvisational skills are the comedic super-conductor to make your conference seamless and entertaining. Tim’s background as a communications professor explains his ability to be able to condense, distill and/or emphasize important messages that could be left behind.

His training with Second City coupled with his 20 years in stand-up makes Tim the perfect MC; high energy, exceptionally interactive, and capable of making others’ mistakes look intentional, brilliant, or at least hilarious.

Keep your CEO on message and looking great; give your managers a more natural and personable forum; make your IT people more interesting and, yes, even funny with the slick “talk show format.” A desk, some note cards, and a couple of microphones transform both message and messenger into a relaxed, entertaining and memorable presentation. Consult with Tim on variations on this theme.

Breakout Session Speaker
PowerPoint burn-out has set in and pupils are dilating… It’s time to bust-up your break-out with crack-up Tim Clue. Using his exclusive “energizer funny” techniques, his Second City training and professional writing experience, Tim can satirize and parody your “36 bullet points on core values,” or just provide a comedic oasis, reenergizing your group’s message-readiness with humor. Tim will put together an original, interactive session that integrates your messages and culture with his humor, making for an unforgettable seminar.

Choose the message you need driven home and Tim will seamlessly integrate it into his presentation. Or, use him as an Imposter presenter. Tim has impersonated everyone from the "expert consultant" to the "new boss" and even a prestigious "trainer" brought in to teach a seminar. This highly customized comedy aerobics concept can also be used before or after your breakouts, preparing them for the heavy lifting, or providing the perfect comedic warm-down after a hard day of content-riddled sessions.