Peter McLaughlin TOPICS: Achievement/Peak Performance Motivation Productivity Sales Performance Improvement Innovation FEE CATEGORY:* 15.0k to 20.0k TRAVELS FROM: Colorado Video Profile Program Outlines Testimonials/Client List Request This Speaker

Peter McLaughlin: Program Outlines

Peter has a proven track record of providing spectacular programs that re-ignite your team's emotional commitment to be the best and give them the strategies and tools to achieve superior levels of performance. Peter's CatchFire programs speak directly to the crucial problems that confront businesspeople in today's high-pressure environment.
• How do I stay energized and focused in the midst of tough problems and heavy workloads?
• What can I do to transform my team into an enthusiastic, cohesive, and effective unit?
• How do I get people to set aside complaints and creatively attack problems?
• How can I achieve outstanding results on the job while living a healthy and enjoyable life?

Drawing from years of research on how individuals and teams perform at their best, Peter teaches new, insightful, rock-solid methods to help your people produce exceptional business results and enjoy a higher quality of life.

Whether you need a captivating keynote speech to energize your meeting... or a series of educational programs with integrated follow-up to recharge your team or company... Peter McLaughlin delivers the inspiration and concrete tools to make your initiative an unqualified success.

With each presentation, Peter takes time to learn about your company, the challenges of the attendees, the meeting theme, and the objectives for the program...and then tailors his message to those specific concerns.

Keynote Speeches

Packed with the most interesting research, inspiring stories, and entertaining movie clips, the keynote speeches are exciting, motivating, and fun. Audience members walk away with a renewed emotional commitment to realize their potential -- and the practical knowledge and tools to do it. The keynote presentations unfailingly create a spirit of enthusiasm and fun that energizes your entire meeting.

Half-Day or Full-Day Workshops

The half-day and full-day presentations incorporate discussion sessions and interactive exercises into a more in-depth presentation on maximizing individual or team performance.

Executive Retreats

The CatchFire Executive Retreats provide an ideal opportunity for your management personnel to reenergize themselves. (Spouses are invited and encouraged to attend.) The schedule and details of the retreats are flexible, revolving around your needs and objectives. But typically, the retreats cover all three of the CatchFire programs, and range from two to four days in length. According to your goals, you can take the opportunity to discuss company plans, strategies, or objectives.

Integrating the CatchFire themes throughout the seminar, the agenda features healthy meals, daily exercise or sports, and entertainment. The retreats offer a perfect chance for your executive team to build stronger personal relationships, enjoy themselves, learn how to improve their performance and quality of life, and renew their commitment to creating an exceptional organization. (Peter's team at McLaughlin Company can plan the entire event for you at one of their recommended venues.)

Follow-Up Initiatives

Peter has the capability to reinforce and extend the impact of his presentations with strategic follow-up initiatives. The initiatives provide your people with further information on the CatchFire programs -- in the form of newsletters, booklets, or audiocassettes -- to help them maximize their energy and performance.

Program 1 CatchFire:

Igniting Energy, Defusing Stress, and Maximizing Your Performance

Maintaining top levels of energy. Staying focused under pressure. Tackling problems with enthusiasm and determination. Living a balanced, healthy lifestyle. Creating a spirit of commitment and fun in your office.

CatchFire I teaches your people how to thrive in a demanding world. Based on CatchFire: A 7-Step Program to Ignite Energy, Defuse Stress, and Power Boost Your Career, the program comes from extensive research on peak performance, including scientific studies, hundreds of interviews with successful executives, and years of experience in helping people and teams improve their effectiveness. In brief, the program shows people how to make positive changes in their mind-set and lifestyle habits to maximize their health, energy, and performance.

The reason the program is so powerful is that it addresses both the mental and physical aspects of peak performance. So not only do your people learn how to stay enthusiastic, persistent, and focused under pressure. They also get practical information about eating habits, exercise, and sleep that enables them to sustain optimal energy levels and live healthy, enjoyable lives. What makes the presentation so interesting is how Peter communicates these performance strategies in a lively, compelling, humorous style. Audience members leave with both a recharged commitment to take their performance to a higher level, and the concrete tools to get there.

"The CatchFire program is just what businesspeople need -- a well- researched, straightforward plan to stay physically and mentally energized. Executing the commonsense steps will cause your focus and productivity to explode. I am passionately convinced that the program will help you achieve all your personal and professional goals."

-Steve Gesing, Director of Training and Business Development Smith Barney Consulting Group

CatchFire 1 Presentation Outline

• The CatchFire Performance Zone Putting yourself in the "zone" in which you perform at your best by adopting the six key attributes of peak performers.
• Setting the Mind on Fire Mastering the psychological attitudes that lead to success.
• Eating for Performance Adopting eating habits that lead to peak levels of energy and mental focus.
• Working Out to Work Better Creating an exercise program that reduces stress and engenders positive emotions.
• Daily Breaks, Relaxation, and Sleep Incorporating "recovery intervals" into your day to optimize energy levels.
• Putting Humor to Work Sparking your sense of humor to eliminate tension and inspire creativity.
• Changing "Hindquarters" into "Headquarters" Creating an office environment infused with energy, passion, and fun.

 Program 2 Whole-brained Teamwork:

Orchestrating the Brains of Your Organization

The CatchFire II program presents an exciting new way to jumpstart team enthusiasm and effectiveness. Using the Emergenetics model, the program incorporates psychological and neurological research to help people understand their individual strengths and limitations, and shows them how to use their talents to create dedicated, organized, vigorous, supportive teams.

Central to the program is the Emergenetics Profile, an instrument completed by each participant that yields insights into individual thinking preferences and behavioral styles. Together with interactive exercises, the profile reveals how people think and interact differently -- and how they can use these differences to propel their team forward rather than hold themselves back. Key topics covered in the program include building strong relationships, working effectively with a diverse group of people, disagreeing without being disagreeable, and maximizing your group's brainpower.

The program helps people pinpoint areas for improvement -- individually and as a team. Then, using distinguished research on outstanding teams, people learn concrete strategies to create superior relationships and results. Overall, the program is a powerful, energizing, and fun learning experience.

CatchFire II Presentation Outline

• Introduction to Brain Research on Thinking and Behavior

  Brain research describes how you are genetically wired with a tendency to think and behave in certain patterns, and how your environment modifies those patterns.

• The Four Primary Thinking Preferences

  Analytical, organizational, conceptual, and interpersonal thinking.

• The Three Dominant Behavioral Styles

  Expressiveness, assertiveness, and flexibility.

• Understanding Your Individual Strengths and Limitations

  Gaining insight into yourself with the Emergenetics Profile.

• Communicating More Effectively

  Learning how to communicate with people who think differently.

• Building High Performance

  Teams Learning how to work with others to enhance creativity and efficiency.

  Geil Browning, PhD, and Wendell Williams, MBA, developed the Emergenetics program based on years of research in psychology, neurology, management, and other related fields.

Program 3 -

Creative Problem Solving

In today's world of knowledge and information, people don't use muscles to accomplish their work. They use brains. Unfortunately, most people severely underutilize a key component of their cognitive capabilities: the capacity to creatively solve problems. CatchFire III teaches people how to use their brains more effectively by teaching them creative thinking skills.

Whether your people are planning, organizing projects, creating products, delivering services, or solving everyday problems, the program gives them the spirit and tools to produce innovative, exciting, high-quality results.What makes the program so exciting is the combination of inspiring stories about how famous thinkers and great companies have achieved breakthroughs with practical tools and techniques that help your people more creatively attack their challenges.

Not only do people have a great time and recharge their creative batteries, they also directly apply the program ideas to their current problems and opportunities.

CatchFire III Presentation Outline

• Breaking Out of Inflexible Modes of Thinking

  Vanquishing stale or rigid thought patterns.

• Putting Yourself in a Creative State

  Assuming the mind-set in which you work innovatively and productively.

• The Creative Process

  Learning the 5-step stages of creative problem solving.

• Techniques for Idea Generation

  Specific techniques come up with new ideas and solutions.

• Practical Creativity

  Within the framework of heavy workloads and tight deadlines, knowing when to apply creatvitity techniques to augment your planning and problem solving.

• Organizing Genius

  Creating an environment that fosters innovative thinking.

 

* Please note that while this speaker's specific fee falls within the range posted at the top of this page (for Continental U.S. based events), fees are subject to change without notice. Also note that most celebrity keynotes begin in the $25,000 and up range (most list "Contact for Fee Schedule"). For current fee information or international event fees, please contact your Speakers Platform representative.