"…a godsend to every well-intentioned manager or frustrated employee. Bob Nelson makes a compelling case that recognition, rewards, and positive reinforcement all do work, and they can work for you."
- Dr. Ken Blanchard
co-author of The One Minute Manager

Bob Nelson

Opportunity:

In today's ever-changing economy employees must be pro-active in securing their positions. When layoffs are frequent and major corporations are struggling, if not bankrupt, fear and uncertainty need not takeover employees' focus. Instead, employees must be empowered to go beyond their job descriptions, find ways to save the company money, all in an effort to highlight valuable contributions to the company's mission.

Dr. Bob Nelson is recognized around the world as one of the leading authorities on energizing, motivating, and inspiring employees to new peaks of performance. Bob's natural energy and charisma on the speaking stage--combined with years of hands on business and management experience, and practical examples--is sure to rivet any audience's attention and create a positive and immediate charge. Over the past 15 years, Bob Nelson has delivered thousands of speeches and has worked with a wide variety of clients, including Bank Boston, Allied Signal, Walt Disney World, American Express Financial Services, AT&T, Chevron and American Airlines. As a speaker, Nelson provides a unique blend of insight, application, and inspiration that motivates listeners to want to improve. Both thoughtful and thought-provoking, Bob intertwines examples, stories, research, and group activities to make his points and engage audiences of all types and sizes.

Programs/Topics:

RECHARGE, REFOCUS: Making Work More Rewarding

Based on his newest book, Please Don't Just Do What I Tell You - Do What Needs to Be Done: Every Employee's Guide to Making Work More Rewarding, Bob Nelson hits on more than one relevant issue in the lives today's employee. "Simple, smart and savvy-this book shows employees how to reach for the sky and use initiative they never knew was there," says Dr. Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, of Please Don't Just…. "Self-empowerment is the future!"

Nelson can provide useful tips and illustrate more than a few examples for employees looking for ways to add value to their current positions including:

Being a person who makes things happen

Fear, Frustration and Failure: How to overcome risk-averse thinking

Make your ideas be viewed as their ideas.

The benefit of asking "silly" questions

Develop a reputation for being a cost-cutter. Be on the lookout for money-saving ideas that will help your employer.

Turn "needs" into opportunities. Examine organizational needs with an eye on how they can be creatively addressed.

MOTIVATION: Energizing and Rewarding Employees

"There's a big difference between getting people to come to work and getting them to do their best work," says Nelson. More often than not, what employees need and want is not more money, but appreciation for their efforts, information to make them feel "in" on things, and understanding and compassion for their personal situations.

As a presentation or workshop, management and executives will learn simple, virtually no-cost ways to reward their employees while increasing productivity. These include:

Top Motivators for Today's Employees: Research & Insights

Different Types of Recognition: Formal, Informal, Face to Face

ASAP-Cubed: Keys to Powerful Praise

How Disney Does It and How You Can Too

Creating a Motivational Baseline

Two Secrets of Managing Performance

Ideas & Techniques for Immediate Application

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE: Surviving and Thriving

With companies restructuring, downsizing and failing at unprecedented rates, managers and their employees must be prepared to adapt quickly. Responsibilities are broadening, skills need to be upgraded and life-cycles of positions are shorter. Bob Nelson can share his time-tested strategies for experiencing organizational change. These include:

The "20 -50 - 30 Rule"

Re-recruit Your People

Help New Teammates Join In

The Myths of Change: "This will go away." Reality: "Change is here to stay."

More Myths of Change: "My position can't make a difference." Reality: "You're the problem or the solution."

Creating a Positive Climate: Take ownership of the changes and be tolerant of mistakes

Bio:

Dr. Bob Nelson, Ph.D. is founder and president of Nelson Motivation, Inc., a fast-growing, innovative training and consulting firm headquartered in San Diego, California. As a practicing manager and a best-selling author, he is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of employee recognition, rewards, motivation, productivity, supervision, leadership, management, and suggestion systems.

He is author of the best-selling book 1001 Ways to Reward Employees - which has sold over a million copies worldwide - and 1001 Ways to Energize Employees and 1001 Ways to Take Initiative at Work (Workman Publishing).