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Motivate Like a CEO: Communicate Your Strategic Vision and Inspire People to Act!

Motivate Like a CEO: Communicate Your Strategic Vision and Inspire People to Act!

The most successful leaders seem to possess a remarkable gift for inspiring and motivating people. They are not only hard workers who possess great business minds; they rally others to drive forward with a powerful, common vision. Motivate Like a CEO demonstrates how leaders at every level can develop this skill and use it to bring their teams together around a common purpose.

In this follow-up to her bestselling Speak Like a CEO, Suzanne Bates explains how you can become a powerful force of influence within your organization and position your company for greatness. You'll learn how to translate simple, effective concepts into brilliant execution; get people working together on the highest priorities; and align warring factions to channel energy into the efforts that make your company profitable.

Motivate Like a CEO teaches you how to:
  • Inspire people to embrace and share your vision.
  • Speak with energy and confidence in tough situations.
  • Turn challenges into opportunities .
  • Get your team engaged, in the loop, and tracking real results.
  • Make time in your schedule for sharing your message of motivation throughout your company

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“Connect-Working” and Building Relationships Workbook

“Connect-Working” and Building Relationships Workbook

How to Build Your Professional Network, Connect with Powerful People, Work a Room, and Build Profitable Business Relationships!

People who know how to network attract the right kind of clients. We call it "connect-working," and it’s essential for anyone in business; professional service providers, business owners, sales leaders, and job seekers included.

The workbook is based on our popular workshop of the same name. Through the assessments, exercises, action plans, and readings; you’ll gain the tools to:

  • Attract people
  • Have productive conversations
  • Take small talk to “business talk”
  • Build and use a favor bank
  • End a conversation
  • Follow-up with gusto
  • Build long relationships
  • Use social networking to build your professional network

Make a Name in Business CD Set: Build Your Professional Profile through Speaking, Writing, and Media

Make a Name in Business CD Set: Build Your Professional Profile through Speaking, Writing, and Media

Have you ever wondered how some people achieve "star status" in their industries? Have you considered how you might be able to get that same visibility?

In this 4 CD set and workbook, Suzanne Bates - author, speaker, executive coach, and former television personality - shares how she has built a national reputation through speaking, publishing, taking leadership roles in non-profits, emceeing events, publishing an online newsletter and much more.

Through a series of teleseminars delivered in 2007, Suzanne reveals WHY visibility is important, WHAT it means for you and your company, and HOW to achieve the level of success you want.

You'll learn the top 10 techniques for "making a name", including public speaking, media appearances, great elevator pitches, an on-line presence, and more!

Suzanne gives you tools for developing a strategy to build your reputation using these techniques. Through the program, you'll

  • Find ways to get in front of your ideal audiences
  • Draft speeches to make a huge impact on these audiences
  • Plan to appear in the media your potential clients read or watch
  • Come up with ideas for writing a book or developing your own CDs
  • Develop a strategy for becoming highly visible in your company or industry!

How to Make a Name in Business Booklet

Speak Like a CEO Home Study Course

Discover the Secrets of Building Your Professional Profile through Speaking, Writing, and Media

This 90 page booklet gives you insight into why building visibility is essential to your business or career. Suzanne Bates lists the top ten strategies for making a name in business and gives you the proven tips and techniques to get there! Whether you're a small business owner, a professional climbing the corporate ladder or an executive craving the visibility of your colleagues, this booklet will be a great resource on how to make a name for yourself through speaking, writing and media.

Learn how to:

  • Get your name in the spotlight through speaking engagements
  • Make money and build your reputation with products that showcase your expertise
  • Strategically promote your business on-line
  • Become a go-to expert in the media

Jumpstart Sales with Powerful Presentations! Workbook and CD

Jumpstart Sales with Powerful Presentations!

How would you like to go into every sales situation confident, prepared, and polished? How much peace of mind would you get by knowing that your sales team will perform, impress your prospect and really connect with a potential client or customer? Sarah Woods, executive coach, sales trainer and principal, put together this booklet and CD set, offering practical, effective, proven techniques for preparing a dynamic, winning sales presentation. What will you learn? In this booklet and CD, Sarah will show you how to:
  • Analyze your prospect
  • Put the right information into the presentation
  • Guarantee your sales people stop talking about the product and start talking about the client
  • Demonstrate your knowledge of the prospect's challenges
  • Come across as professional, authentic, polished and tuned in to others
  • Build strong rapport with people no matter how competitive or challenging the situation
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SALES SUCCESS! Workbook and CD
"THE POWER OF ADVERSITY"


Discover how to communicate with confidence, make powerful connections, and thrive in challenging times!

By Suzanne Bates, Author of Speak Like a CEO and Motivate Like a CEO
The Power of Adversity

This booklet and CD set provides practical tips on how to courageously and confidently communicate with clients and prospects in challenging times, to seize opportunities and increase sales!

Now more than ever, the way you communicate with your customers and prospects will be the key to your success.

Inside, you'll discover how to execute your plan for surviving and thriving through difficult times. Exercises and take-aways include:

  • A 12-point confidence checkup to use prior to talking with customers and prospects;
  • Ten strategies for better meetings, phone calls and emails to clients in stressful times;
  • A list of questions to start a conversation with a client or prospect in difficult times;
  • An additional list of questions to help you discover how to provide value;
  • A personal plan for outreach so that every call, email and meeting is positive and productive.

Speak like a CEO: Secrets for Commanding Attention and Getting Results

Speak Like a CEO Home Study Course Speak like a CEO is a revolutionary new book for CEOs, executives and professionals who want to be at the top of their industry. Former television journalist and executive coach Suzanne Bates gives you proven strategies and practical advice to effectively communicate in every important situation.

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Speak Like a CEO Audio CDs

Speak Like a CEO Home Study Course The breakthrough book Speak Like a CEO is now available on audio CDs. The conversational format makes Speak Like a CEO easy to listen to, while you’re in your car on your way to work, at the gym, traveling, or just sitting at your desk. Wherever you are, you’ll be ahead of the rest and one step closer to becoming a star in your industry!

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Testimonials

"As a result of Bates' training…our executives are far better communicators than ever before, and the results show in our increasingly positive press and ability to move these audiences to action."

Matt Davis,
Corp. Director of Executive Communications,
Dow Chemical Co.


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