Investigate • Innovate • Initiate [Success Acceleration Workshops]

We are working on our schedule for 2014.

Send us a email and we will send you the calendar for 2014.

Something magical happens with a LIVE workshop.

It's the experience, bonding, connection, interaction, discussion, perspectives, learning from others, making friends, sharing, and business/community building that demonstrates that you are not alone in your business issues, struggles, opportunities, and business decision making.

A lot of the value from our workshops doesn't come from your instructors but your participants. 

The investment is high but the results are greater. There is a deeper, more positive impact on the results. It is for that reason that we limit the total number of participants to 24 or less. We want the inspiration and perspiration to contribute to your personal fulfillment of your desire to succeed.

Innovation Skills (IS) 

Work Balance (WB)

Persuasive PowerPoint/Keynote Presentations

Innovative Customer Service (WOW them instead of WHY them)

Innovative Customer Service  (CS)

Lunch included

Email us for additional corporate or entrepreneur discounts.

jfeldman@thebrightideaguy.com or danbrunnert@gmail.com

THESE WORKSHOPS WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO...

DISCOVER NEW OPPORTUNTIES USING EXISTING RESOURCES.

After the workshop we follow up with you with webinars and coaching calls. 

This is a full year of getting beyond the work-life balance myth to Personal and Professional Satisfaction.

We help you evaluate problems, create a vision where others aren't looking, to capture what others are not seeing.

INCLUDED IN YOUR WORKSHOP ENROLLMENT

Full day on each subject, taught by Certified Experts

Continential Breakfast each day

Catered Lunch each day

Unlimited beverages, water, coffee, tea

Unlimited snacks throughout the day

Workbooks, pens, office supplies, etc.

AFTER THE WORKSHOP

Four (4) Post Workshop webinars included*

Copy (1) each of Dan's and Jim's book

(1) Personal Assessment Evaluation*

(12) Monthly, Post workshop, personal coaching calls*

Over 10,000 PowerPoint Templates, animations, and other WOW tools*

(If you attend only one workshop books, tools, evaluation forms will be provided for that workshop only)

Organizations thrive on their ability to adapt and change but often don't know how. It's about creating an innovative culture that understands and accepts the fact that business as ususal is resistent to change. Our Success Acceleration Workshops can take you to the next level. They can help you go from good to great. 

Whether it's customer service or creating new products, presenting to a client or a business associate, we all need to ask What If? What's Next? What's Possible? Why Not? We need to balance all of those business issues with personal goals. We should not live to work but work to live.

These workshops will help you to manage all of the 'shifts' in your business and personal live.

We will show you how to 'INVESTIGATE' by going inside the box. Then using the KnowBrainer tools we will demonstrate how to ask more questions to determine the correct problem so you can 'INNOVATE' rather than replicate your solutions. Upon completion you will learn how to 'INITIATE the results to deliver better results.

It will help you create and sustain a competitive differentiation and tap into your inner genius.

Upon completion you will never look at problems and challenges in the same way.

For the next year we will provide you a roadmap to help you at the crossroads of random thinking and unknown predictability.

We are offering four different, intensive, unique, learning experiences designed to accelerate the innovation, customer service, presenation skills, and work balance for individuals and organizations.

After each workshop presentation participants will review complimentary invitations to four (4) follow-up webinars. In addition, each participant will receive personal coaching call, once a quarter, for the following twelve (12) months. Four for each workshop.

WHO ARE THE EXPERTS?

Dan and Jim have worked with both large and small companies, start-ups and established organizations, non-profits, that include Apple, Toyota, Hewlett Packard, Wynn Las Vegas, Aria Resort and Casino, March of Dimes, American Dental Association, InfoComm International, Xerox, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Tupperware, Creative Memories, The Pampered Chef, etc.

Internationally recognized presenters James Feldman, CITE, CPIM, CPT, MIP  (www.linkedin.com/in/jamesfeldman/) and Dan Brunnert (www.linkedin.com/pub/dan-brunnert/0/584/51b) will help create and sustain your competitive differentiation. Both Jim and Dan are Certified Innovation Trainers and have presented workshops all over the country. Together they will show you how to transcend the status quo, encourage innovation, provide groundbreaking content, help you reflect, refine, and rekindle the provacative power of asking the right questions to ultimately reach the right solutions. 

The workshops keeps the limit to small group si we cab offer hands on interaction, and accelerated learning skills. You will leave with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to exceed your goals at every level.

Sign up for all four and your per hour workshop costs less than a nice bottle of wine. And of course we will have adult beverages at the conclusion of each day's workshop in celebration of your accomplishments. 

WORK BALANCE (WB)

Dan will show you ways to keep work and life in balance without sacrificing either.  Jim will explain ways to live a life of success and significance using innovative problem solving skills for both professional and personal challenges. Together Dan and Jim will take you on a wonderful journey of discovery that will elevate your business and personal experiences. They will show attendees how to break out of the shackles that hold them back to achievie more in less time, enjoy your success, and share more time with your friends and family.

Innovation Skills (IS)

INVESTIGATE: Know Your Brain. Understand work/balance.

#1 excercise will give each participant a picture of their thinking style preferences and point the way toward working together more effectively and productively. The process will give everyone a chance to get to know each other, experience the differences in thinking style, and an understanding and acceptance that there are no right or wrong thinking style preferences.

This interactive proccess offers you the choice of how to determine who you are, how you function, and how you interact with your associates, friends, and family. At the conclusion teams will be formed to work together for the Idea Exchange and other activities.

#2 quadrant will address the number one issue plaguing employee satisfaction: work/life balance. 

This portion of the workshop is designed to help participants get beyond the work-life balance myth and identify practical ways to increase personal and professional satisfaction.

The results will be...

• increased productivity and innovation 
• decreased stress and downtime 
• increased employee engagement 
• improved employee and customer satisfaction 
• improved loyalty 
• healthier and happier employees

This powerful quadrant of the workshop dispels several myths about the work-life issue and presents practical tools and systems to help people achieve lives that are both personally and professionally satisfying.

We will help you get beyond the work-life balance myth and identify practical ways to increase personal and professional satisfaction. Over 90% of our surveyed employers believe that people work best when they can strike a balance between work and the rest of their lives and working in most organizations requires a balance of personalities and skill sets, our team will help you to understand what need to know to understand

• Why some groups work well together and others don't.
• Why some groups are more productive and fun to work with and others are non productive and boring.
• Why the same person can do extremely well in one job and poorly in another.

INNOVATE: Real World Innovation Strategies

#3 is designed for leaders who are responsible for driving top-line growth and promoting innovation, including marketing, technology and sales, as well as upper management. The workshop format gives you hands-on experience in redesigning both the “what” and the “how” of innovation in your organization as you apply what you learn about:

• How to create a culture of innovation.
• The vital link between innovation and strategy.
• The four types of innovation and why you must have all four.
• How to identify the key obstacles to innovation.
• How to overcome challenges and deliver results.
• How to set goals, budgets, metrics and risk.
• How to equip your team with more productive Innovation Tools and Resources.
• How to use and maximize the benefits of the KnowBrainer.

INITIATE: Innovative Solutions

#4 will address YOUR questions and offer an Idea Exchange that will develop better, faster, and smarter solutions to YOUR organizations problems. Each person will leave with the collective solutions provided by two intensive days of 'brain storming' and 'creative problem solving.'  The pre-workshop questions will be identify a primary goal, challenge, problem, or opportunity and the participants will brainstorm ideas and connections relating to your goal. It's all about change and making Shift Happen. 

Innovative Customer Service (CS)

A full half day of creating a customer service toolbox to address various ways to 

• DAZZLE
• ANTICIPATE
• TREAT
• INNOVATE
• NURTURE
• GUARANTEE

Jim will discuss how to WOW instead of WHY your customers. Customized education for each attendee will address specific issues, products, services, concerns, and solutions. You will learn the power of why and the most important questions to ask your customers: DYPII and DYPIH. Store returns and other customer service requests are a fact of life. No matter what you sell, people will want to return things or have issues with their performance.  If you want to WOW them instead of WHY them, if you want to create a customer return policy that has one goal, to get the customer to return, then join us for a full day of straight forward and simple, processes that will deliver an exceptional customer experience that will have a positive affect on your bottom line.   This is for any one that deals with customers.

Jim has presented the D-A-T-I-N-G concepts to Hyatt Hotels, Toyota, Apple, Microsoft, AT&T, Marriott, Ritz Carlton, Ford, Nissan, Xerox, Rotary One, Cardinal Healthcare, Wynn Las Vegas, San Juan Convention Bureau, Kempinski Hotels, Los Cabos Tourism Bureau, Carnival Cruise, etc. 

PERSUASIVE PRESENTATIONS using PowerFul Points (PP)

Say goodbye to boring presentations. Whether you are speaking to an audience of thousands or just a few, it's critical to engage your listeners. Jim Feldman has been presenting and educating presenters for over three decades.

He has presented to MdDonalds, Toyota, Microsoft, Apple, Helene Curtis, Xerox, US Department of Defense, Hewlett Packard, Wynn Las Vegas, Cremation Association of North America, Hyatt, Carnival Cruise, etc. Jim knows what it takes to deliver messages that get results. He is persuasive, transformational, and conversational. Jim has atteneded thousands of presentations and learned what not to do as well as what to do to engage an audience. If you make presentations to any size group you can't afford to miss this workshop. Because it is limited to a maximum of 24 people, Jim can provide offer individual consulting. You will be given the opportunity to present to the group and have immediate feedback as well as understanding how to move an audience to tears, keep them awake, and enjoy standing ovations.

• Learn how to build in analogy and present in digital.
• Create Twitter headlines for each slide. 
• Learn how to tell your story in short segments.
• Discover how to add movie and television scences
• Grab your listeners attention in the first few minutes
• Organize your ideas in a clear, concise, and compelling approach
• Eliminate 'death' by PowerPoint
• Leverage the most important points in your persuasive presentation
• Ask the critical questions that will win the audience's approval

In addtion, each attendee will receive thousands of templates included with the workshop.

Bring your laptop or tablet and learn how to use PowerPoints to create POWERFUL POINTS that persuade the customer to understand your point of view. Obtain links and tools to help you break through 'boring powerpoints' by using licensed movie scences, thousands of templates and animations, royalty free music, and more. If part of your job is make presentations this workshop will help you crack your creativity fenes and unleash new powerful points for any subject. If you are selling in the real world this workshop could add money to your bottom line and retain customers at the same time. If you think your presentations are 99.9% good enough then think about this...

• 12 newborns will be give the wrong parents daily
• 114,500 mismatched shoes will be shipped each year
• 2,000,000 documents will be lost by the IRS this year
• Over a million credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect cardholder information on the magnetic strips
• 5.5 Million cases of soft drinks will be produced flat
• 126 Million pieces of mail will be mishandled by the US Post Office (whoops that's is already happening)
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Before you leave Jim and Dan will demonstrate that...

You shouldn't wish it was easier, he will encourage you make it better.

You won't wish for less problems, but have more skills.

You will stop wishing for few challenges and leave with more wisdom.

CAN YOU AFFORD TO BE AVERAGE?

Jim and Dan are expert presenters. They have the wisdom to share that could change your life in both personal and business.

Jim and Dan will help you make it better, increase your skill set, and show you how to charge for your wisdom.

It's time to stop informing and increase your innovation and persuasion skills. You learn how to balance life and work while delivering an exceptional customer experience.  And we guarantee it. If for any reason you don't feel that we changed your way of being innovative, balance your work/life, create better presentaions and enhance your relationship with your customers we will refund your fee. (see terms and conditions) 

WHAT THESE WORKSHOPS HAVE TO OFFER

A single solution that is actionable may be worth more than the small fee. To think outside the box, we will step back into it-analyzing your strengths and weakness. The 'box' symbolizes conventional wisdom and predicable boundaries. We start by gathering information. Then find a new use for existing resources. During our time together and in our follow up calls we will pursue opportunities with new solutions and view existing products or service in a new way. We will show you how to change your thinkibng and balance your work with life. We will help you become a better version of your self.

FEE

With attendance limited to just 24 people, the workshop offers an invigorating environment of interactive dialogs, case studies and projects brought by participants to develop, adapt and test business strategies. Continental breakfast, snacks throughout the day, unlimited soft drinks, water, coffee and tea, catered lunch and evening refreshments are included. Workbooks. the use of KnowBrainer tools, Shift Happens!, and Off Balance book copies will be provided. Each workshop will be custom tailored for the attendees' unique needs. Included in the workshop package is the following...

• All workbook materials-$1500 value
• Up to four books: Shift Happens, Off Balance, Customer Service, and PowerPoint Skills
• Four (4) webinars-$500 value
• Four personal coaching calls for each workshop
• Four (4) full workshop days
• Continential breakfast each day
• Catered lunch each day
• Snacks all day
• Adult Refreshment at the end of each day

One day $1,500      Two days $2,500  

If you work for a major corporation send us an email for your corporate discount.

If you are self employed send us an email to see if you qualify for entrepreneur discount.

                               If you are an ITEX customer simply call 312 527 9112 to order your workshop.

jfeldman@thebrightideaguy.com  

or

danbrunnert@gmail.com

Put two or more dates in the shopping cart and your discounts will appear. 

This is in addition to corporate or entrepreneur discount codes that may be offered.

TIME OVERVIEW FOR EACH DAY

WE START AND END ON TIME

8:AM-8:45AM Breakfast and networking

8:45-9:00AM Workshop Presenters Introduction

9:00-10:30 Sessions

10:30-10:45 Break Snacks and drinks provided

12 Noon-1PM Lunch/Break

1:00PM-3:00PM Sessions

3:00-3:15PM Break Snacks and drinks provided

4:45-5PM Closing Remarks

5PM-6PM  Adult Refreshments

Location: Merrill Corporation 311 South Wacker Drive Suite 1800 Chicago, IL 60606 Bring photo ID. Security will have your name.

Total cost of the program is $1,500 per person, $2,500 for two days.  If you need to break it into payments, please contact us at jfeldman@shifthappens.com

ITEX members call 312 527-9112 to order your workshop.

Includes continental breakfast, full lunch, snacks all day, evening networking and refreshments, Little Book of Big Ideas, KnowBrainer Innovation Tool, Shift Happens and Off Balance books, and other workshop materials.

DRESS

Business casual. No jeans. No flip flops. No shorts.

ATTITUDE

Come to the meeting to unlease your innovation potentional. Show up to rebalance your life. Bring business cards. Bring your laptop or tablet. Bring an open mind. 

GUARANTEE

If for any reason you don't feel that the workshop met and exceeded your expectations, return all the materials at the end of the day with a note requesting the reason for the refund and we will refund 90% of the total amount paid. (Lunch, snacks, books, KnowBrainer, office supplies are not refundable). Refund must be requested within 5 calendars of workshop date.