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Career Advice: Seize Your Destiny - Make a Difference - Find Your Purpose. Motivational Keynote Speaker

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Career advice, personal purpose and fulfillment. Secrets of satisfaction and happiness. Career development, vocation and personal goals. Happynomics is the relationship between economic progress and personal happiness. Secrets of ethical leadership, corporate purpose and business strategy, change management and turning strategy into reality. Small business leadership and multinationals.

Team leadership, organograms and organizational structures. Leadership crisis, and how to develop strong leadership. Motivational leadership, and why motivation matters. Leadership in a crisis. Knowing your destiny. Leadership to command attention, win trust, connect with passion. ...

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How to improve your worklife balance World Women's Day - Workplace Keynote Speaker for European Commission

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Work-life balance -- how to improve balance at work -- lecture on World Women's Day for European Commission by conference keynote speaker Patrick Dixon. Work - life balance now priority for majority of executives in many nations. How to deal with awkward boss -- and get the career balance you want. Barriers to work-life balance. Virtual teams, remote working and homeworkers. How to get better balance in personal and family life. Children and parents. Friends and career direction. Job choices, workplace motivation and winning ...

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Happynomics - media interview on happiness and wealth. How global trends will impact us all - personal lives and careers. How to forecast the future as a Futurist. Patrick Dixon - Keynote Speaker - interview

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Every product and service is sold on a promise: buy this and it will make your life better, easier, more pleasurable and so on. Sadly many businesses are obsessed with making a profit and neglect really thinking about their customers, meeting their needs and seeing life from their point of view. Happynomics raises deeper issues. Satisfying a customer is not the same thing as making them happier. Take for example a medical company offering cosmetic surgery. Their customer may be happy that they delivered on the promise: removed some fat and wrinkles safely at an agreed price without leaving scars. But is she really more contented and fulfilled as a result? Did surgery really transform her whole life?

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Older Workers and Impact on Workplace - Futurist Keynote Speaker

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Older workers: impact of abolishing retirement age and of ageing workforce.

Different priorities and motivations of older and younger workers. How older and younger people respond to change.

Wisdom and experience at work and how some employers have targetted older workers to provide better service. How older people often sacrifice themselves for younger generations.

Older consumers and customers – and the importance of family in their spending decisions.

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Virtual Teams Save Time and Energy - Workplace Revolution - what it all means for the future of offices. Human Resources and Workplace Keynote Speaker

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Written in 2009 - anticipating future workplace trends very accurately.  

Life’s too short to travel to every meeting and the latest technology really makes you feel you are all together.   Three dimensional images can also be created of conference speakers for larger audiences, walking life-size on stage. Over 25% of many corporation’s carbon footprint is travel and air travel is a significant element of this.  If a third of business travel could be turned into virtual meetings, it would reduce annual global emissions of CO2 by over 120 million tons. Many business leaders are already spending up to six weeks a year cruising at 35,000 feet.  What happens in the next three to five years?

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"Friday Night feeling"? FED UP with your job? Job satisfaction, motivation - tips for team leaders. Workplace and Leadership Keynote Speaker

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Improve job satisfaction and staff engagement in your teams. Surveys of motivation, workplace engagement, wanting to find purpose at work. Mid-life crisis, passion for work, work-life balance and family life, hobbies, personal interests.

Satisfaction and morale at work in public satisfaction. Public sector workers, business workplace and lessons for leaders, team managers. Video by Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker for Welsh Parliament public sector workers, doctors, nurses, council workers, teachers, non-profit workers, social workers. Human resources. Management training programme.

Connect with passion -- mind, body and spirit. Passion to make a difference.

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How to improve productivity at work. Use technology more effectively. Tips for virtual teams and virtual meetings. Human Resources and Workplace Keynote Speaker

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"Practical values in virtual working" - Video.

Why most people do not enjoy traditional videoconferencing.

Most new technology applications fail to achieve what was promised...

...because of very simple human factors.

Post / video April 2000 - accurate forecasting / workplace trends analysis.

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Emotional intelligence, leadership, management, teams

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Emotional intelligence video: questions and answers with CEOs on Leadership.

Intuition is vital part of leadership judgment. Example from recruitment interviews and employment decisions.

How do you assess new candidates? Right brain and left brain intuition or logic or both.

How to listen to both sides of your brain in decision-making.

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Virtual Management - written in 2008 - turned out very accurate forecasting - Futurist Keynote Speaker on Global Workplace and HR Trends

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"Virtual Management means faster decisions" - Video Keynote Speaker on Workplace and Virtual Teams

• Virtual Management is about managing people at a distance using technology.
• Virtual Management can produce travel cost reductions of up to 50%.
• Virtual Management is a high risk strategy unless corporations are committed.
• Virtual Management means maintaining close working relationships with colleagues in many locations
• Need a world-class virtual management keynote speaker? Phone Patrick Dixon now or email

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Get a Life! Work-Life Balance, Passion at Work and Home, Motivational Leadership

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Work-life balance -- how to improve balance at work - by conference keynote speaker Patrick Dixon.

Motivational leadership - how great leaders create passion at work, and allow balance with home and family life.

Time management. Work - life balance now priority for majority of executives in many nations. How to deal with awkward boss -- and get the career balance you want. How to organise corporate events.

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Virtual Teams - Global Leadership Keynote Speaker

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"Virtual Teams" - Belgacom ICT Event 2007

Old team management models are: "if in doubt, go travel to sort it out". But this is highly inneficient in a ralidly growing global organisation. Many corporations are at the limit of what they can manage without huge structural changes, unless they develop a different way of working altogether. Virtual Teams are about managing people at a distance using technology. The office of the future. Need a world-class virtual teams keynote speaker? Phone Patrick Dixon now or email.

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Speed of change, meaning of life, making a difference, motivation at work - keynote speaker

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How speed of change, uncertainty, redundancy, insecurity, job losses, personal loss, all drive search for purpose, meaning, life fulfillment, identity, and desire to make a difference.

Impact on team leadership and motivation to change.

Keynote by Patrick Dixon to Welsh Parliament, public sector workers, non-profit sector, charities, foundations, care workers, council workers.

http://www.youtube.com/v/USlDYC_Ahe8

 

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Why SOCIAL CAPITAL is VITAL to business growth, leadership, marketing, management, motivation, customer retention - Social Capital Keynote by Patrick - Futurist SLIDES

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Social Capital keynote speaker Patrick Dixon for Malaysian Institute of Management and Urban Forum Malaysia.

Social Capital is all about using the power of relationships and social networks to drive business growth or social transformation - recruiting and engaging highly talented teams, as well as new customers or followers who become enthusiastic fans.

Every decision-maker in business and government needs to understand how to develop their own Social Capital, in an age which is increasingly influenced by social media, viral networks, tribalism and rapid globalisation. Tomorrow’s most successful companies will harness a highly relational model of leadership based on mutual trust, affirmation, collaboration and partnership, rather than fixed organisation hierarchies, rigid command structures and top-down change methods.

You can have the best “talent" in the world, but isolated teams and individualist leaders can hamper growth. Social Capital leaders thrive on agility, ambiguity, flexibility, creativity and have a dynamic approach to strategy in an uncertain world. They use networks, friendships, communities, interest groups and informal alliances to solve complex challenges rapidly.

Social Capital leaders encourage Open Innovation - collaboration with other organisations. They recruit through channels such as LinkedIn. They inspire strong loyalty, because they understand that friendship at work is one of he most important ways to increase team engagement.

Social Capital is also about common values, shared corporate identity. Social Capital often generates life-long links between people and organisations - a feeling of connection that lasts far beyond their time in the workforce. Customers The most important asset in any business is your community of highly satisfied customers, each of which becomes a recruiter of others as they recommend your products and services to those they know.

Therefore your customer’s social networks become a powerful extension of your own. Next-generation marketing is all about harnessing the Social Capital of such informal networks to amplify corporate messages, reach new people, and gain vital intelligence. Tribalism is the most powerful force in the world today: every brand creates a tribe, every customer group is a tribe, every social network is a tribe. Understanding how to harness

Tribalism is the key to extending into new markets, finding new customers, and keeping them loyal. It is easy to see the wide and rapid impact of Social Capital when a personal story about a bad customer experience goes viral. Companies need a comprehensive range of new strategies to harness social capital positively, including the ability to respond to social network activity at the speed of light. Government Every politician knows very well that their entire future depends on social capital - it makes no difference if they live within a democratic society or a dictatorship or a blend of both.

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