David Miln Smith TOPICS: Motivation Team Building Adventure / Travel Empowerment Change FEE CATEGORY:* 5.0k to 10.0k TRAVELS FROM: California Video Profile Program Outlines Testimonials/Client List Request This Speaker

David Miln Smith: Program Outlines

Take a Risk - Insure the Reward
Winning in the Corporate Jungle: Take Risks, Reap Rewards

Risk taking is invaluable as an everyday tactic, not just an occasional strategy. Today business environment is like perpetual whitewater. Navigating today's perpetual rapids of change requires risk oriented management skills. David teaches how to convert the fear of change from an enemy to an ally and reframes risk from aversion to excitement.
When my actions are in alignment with my values, my life is beautiful.

Reasons To Use Risk Taking As A Strategy
Complacency is dangerous to corporate health and it is also dangerous to our individual health. Playing it safe, status quo, mediocrity can lead to boredom, depression and dis-ease.
• Intelligent risks bring rewards in life and business.
• You are at you best when there is total involvement of body, mind and senses absolutely engaged in pressing up against you physical and mental exertion limits.
• What you pay attention to induces awareness, energy, vitality and enthusiasm.
• Leads to new and vital vision in business, education, relationships and health - Eliminates old fears that have dominated our lives.
• Feeling of control--taking charge of life.
• Encourages you to challenge conventional thinking and explore different avenues of action.
• Personal power--achievement.
• Bonding, camaraderie and teamwork.
• Maybe it's the only way to get to your dreams
• Knowledge is power when it is turned into action.
  

Master Taking Risk for Profit
• Contribute to your organization with leading-edge risk management concepts and insights.
• Prepare managers to address future challenges.
• Challenges your assumptions and methods of conceptualizing and implementing Change.
• Keen insights that reframe risk from aversion to excitement.
• New perspectives on the essential tools of change.
  

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Teambuilding Program, Fun with a Purpose
Teambuilding with David integrates leadership, problem solving, strategic planning, innovation, morale boosting and fun. High energy, total involvement, competitive adventure-based challenges offer an engaging vehicle for key organizational messages. The adventure games allow people to work/play with each other in an atmosphere different from the workplace. Participants relate to each other in a entirely new and positive way and a team is formed.

Purpose
More than ever, you are expected to work in teams. The essence of a team is shared commitment. The best teams translate a purpose into specific performance goals. The team becomes a powerful unit of collective performance. Team members become accountable to their teammates and the purpose. A team strives for something greater than its members could achieve individually. Thus, an effective team is worth more than the sum of its parts.

Objectives
• Improved communication
• Immediate results
• Change patterns of thinking by competitive, consequential fun activities  
• Breaking down barriers between people
• Getting to know each other - fast
• Trust - encourage cooperation
• A lot of fun, laughter and excitement
• An addition or alternative to golf at a conference
  

"Our team is more of a team because of you."
VP Human Resources Knight-Ridder

"Higher morale and greater team spirit to achieve our company goals."
Phoenix Leasing Incorporated

"The laughter that resounded in the halls made the process truly fun. Truly one team was formed."
New York Telephone



"The Spirit of Adventure is a light within each of us. With it, we are all capable of extraordinary feats of creativity, cooperation, and courage. Without it, fear wins". "As a speaker and teambuilder, my job is to show people how to harness it to overcome obstacles, take risks and manage change."


"A message of strength, endurance, a can-do attitude."
Manager, Special Services IBM

In stirring, inspirational presentations perfect for every type of business audience, David Smith shares his remarkable true-life stories of overcoming obstacles, taking action, and enhancing performance by embracing the unknown with passion, courage, and confidence.

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