Public Speaking

Speaking Summaries

7 Steps to Starting Your Own Business

learn the fundamentals of getting started, envisioning the business, avoiding legal traps, marketing guidelines, how to use experts.

"The coaching conversation afterward integrated things into my life. I’m a planner and I discovered that there’s a time to stop planning and get into action, and I was missing that action. I knew this was true about me but I have never confronted it before." Ilian Saat

You Can't Manage Time But You Can Manage You.

Managing yourself is hard enough! And you're flexible while time is not. When you understand why you cannot manage time, you can do a much better job of managing what you have control over.

"Dear Craig, As the president of the Gold Coast Business Network, I would like to thank you for the terrific presentation you gave us on December 7, 2004. The whole group was enthusiastically involved. I think you have plenty to offer to business professionals, and you really do make a difference!" Gabor Karsai

Winning Your Game

if you see life or business as a game, winning is far preferable to losing! On the other hand, like the professional poker players, you can't win unless losing is a possibility. If you want to win, you have to know what your game is. Too many businesspeople don't really know what their game is..

Christopher Columbus prepares his mission statement

How to develop a powerful mission-statement, vision and purpose for your business/yourself. Uses a newly-discovered Eyewitness News videotape from the Spanish Court around 1490 documenting conversations between Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella.

The Business Assessment Toolkit

A key to sales and success.

Who are you, really?!

Discover your strengths, make better decisions, play from your real strengths. The Assessment business toolkit holds some very pleasant surprises. Find out more about you, and more about others. Learn how to judge whether a direct or indirect approach is best.

"Dear Craig, I am thankful to you for the presentation to our networking group this morning. We all learned and as Jerry put it this presentation would definitely increase his sales close ratio by 20 to 30%. Thanks again and I look forward to more such opportunities" Rakesh Bhargava

The entrepreneur wears three hats

it can be confusing.. What happens when the small-businessperson is owner, CEO and chief employee? The comical view of an entrepreneur wearing 3 hats (or three heads) gets very quickly serious, and you discover what may be missing from your business - a specific version of you that can be costing you a lot of money!

Why you can't get good help these days!

A simple, sophisticated tool shows you how to solve many of your people-problems.

Emotional Intelligence - a new way of leading.

If you were raised in the command & control world of management, then you learned, as I did, the least effective of 6 management techniques you can use. Learn how E.I. measures and measurements can transform your business relationships.

Show me the money!

Tom Cruise made this remark famous, but many small businesses take their eye off the money. Learn 6 fundamental principles of how to get it and keep it.

Dear Craig, It was most appropriate that your presentation to our Rotary Club occurred on the Ides of March. You were the mental "Brutus" to the club's "Caesar," slaying old thought patterns and thereby creating a new era. Perhaps you can come back on a periodic basis to "slay" other tired thought patterns? Jeff Siegel, President, Rotary Club of Port Washington

Intentional Referrals

The small businessman usually doesn't have a big advertising budget, and "word-of-mouth" is accidental. This presentation shows the businessman how to generate referrals intentionally. For other speaking ideas, please have a look at the Newsletter Archives on this website.

Craig Jennings 516 944-6454 craig@craigjennings.com