Safety Speaker Talks About Communication Skills

Safety Speaker Mike Hourigan
Workplace safety is of utmost importance when you're dealing with dangerous chemicals in labs or raw materials likely to hurt people on construction sites. There's federal and state regulations to comply with along with additional safety protocols set by management. But safety isn't just about adhering to laws and making sure that your employees are paying attention when operating heavy machinery. It's about creating a culture of workplace safety...
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Safety Speaker on Listening Skills Training

Safety Training Speaker Mike Hourigan
Good communication may be paramount to understanding and absorbing the safety message. But what's also incredibly important for good communication skills is being a good listener. When it comes to workplace safety in particular, people may think about physical protections like PPE and hard hats. But while those things are designed to protect your body from the harm that equipment can inflict, they don't develop or protect one's ability...
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Negotiation Skills Training for Sales People

Negotiation Skills Training Speaker Mike Hourigan
A lot of things may have changed about sales and managing a sales team in the 21st century. But there's one thing that definitely hasn't changed: negotiation skills are so crucial for your sales people because 70% of purchase decisions are now made well before any contact with a salesperson is made. People are doing their research online, asking friends and family on social media about your products and...
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What Millennials Would Like a Millennial Speaker to Tell the Audience

How a Millennial Speaker can help with your Multi Generational Workforce Millennials are often scapegoated for a lot of society's problems. While this generation genuinely faces major shortcomings in soft skills thanks to the over-emphasis on technical proficiency in their education, their hard work and new perspectives often go unnoticed. Intergenerational communication breakdowns between Boomers and Millennials are a daily problem for most people and the workplace is certainly...
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Change Management isn’t always about Change Management

Change Management
It may sound redundant, but it’s true. A simple fact of life is that people change. While change management is a holistic and long-term strategy of preparing teams and other stakeholders for change and guiding them through the challenges arising from it, sometimes a change management strategy just isn’t solely about organization-wide change management itself. It’s about people’s reaction to change. How people themselves also change over time. Culture...
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Common Mistakes when hiring a Keynote Speaker

Keynote Speaker Mike Hourigan
  Common Mistakes in Hiring a Keynote Speaker You need a great keynote speaker for your event and in all the hoopla leading up to it, you might be getting overwhelmed. As a result, you can end up making some mistakes when choosing a keynote speaker: this can cause your meeting to totally flat flat, or other aspects of your event can go wrong. Here are some common mistakes...
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Keynote Speeches and Breakout Topics

Mike Hourigan is an experienced keynote speaker and breakout session leader with the uncanny ability to make large events feel intimate, and intimate groups feel epic. Offering a variety of popular topics as well as speeches customized to your company culture, Mike’s most in-demand sessions focus on leadership and communication, sales training, negotiation skills and change management. Keynote and Breakout Topics From the art and science of leadership to...
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