Matthew Kelly

One of the major issues plaguing the corporate world today is work-life balance. Everyone wants it; nobody has it! But do people really want it? If you had to choose between balance and satisfaction, which would you choose? People want to live deeply satisfying personal lives and satisfying professional lives – and they want to know that both are possible at the same time.

The work-life balance conversation that has dominated the corporate landscape for two decades implies that work and life are separate. But work can and should be a richly rewarding part of a person's life. In this presentation, Matthew Kelly will change the way the audience thinks about the work-life balance question and give them the tools they need to get beyond the balance myth and start building a life that is deeply satisfying – personally and professionally.

The great majority of the people in the workplace today are actively disengaged at some level. To varying extents they don't feel connected to the work they do, the organizations they work in, or the people that they work with. No single factor is affecting morale, efficiency, productivity, sustainable growth, and profitability more than this disengagement.

The Dream Manager concept provides a revolutionary way of reversing this crippling trend and demonstrates how organizations, large and small, can actively engage their people once again, thus creating a competitive advantage of monumental proportions. In this presentation, Matthew Kelly explains the powerful connection between employees' personal dreams and a corporation's ability to achieve goals and sustain growth. Exploring the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy organizations, he demonstrates that a company cannot expect to attract and retain the employees necessary to guarantee sustainable growth and profitability unless that company can help those same employees move in the direction of their personal dreams and ambitions. Ultimately, he argues, the destiny of your organization and the destiny of the people who drive your organization are inseparably linked.

Business is still about people, and developing a world-class team is still the ultimate competitive advantage in business. But it is getting more and more difficult to develop a world-class team because, as baby boomers leave the workplace and the quality of education continues to diminish, talented people are getting harder and harder to find. But still, the future of your business depends on finding, attracting, nurturing, and retaining a world-class team.

In this presentation Matthew Kelly will encourage participants to become talent fanatics. What is a talent fanatic? A person obsessed with searching for the talent necessary to achieve the bigger future you have envisioned for your company. He will also teach the audience how to spot talent, develop talent, and when and why to discard talent.

What is the difference between a highly engaged and a massively disengaged employee? Can you tell the difference before you hire someone? How? Can you increase the engagement of longtime employees? How?

In this presentation Matthew Kelly answers all of these questions and demonstrates the real cost of disengagement by exploring both the hard and soft costs. Sure, if an employee is disengaged to some extent you are wasting part of the salary you pay that person – but what is the cost when a disengaged employee is interacting with your best clients or working on your most important projects?

Is your workforce 60% engaged? 70%? 80%? At 80% you would have one of the most highly engaged workforces in the world... but you would still be flushing 20% of payroll, 20% of benefit costs and other costs, 20% of your productivity, and 20% of your opportunities down the toilet every month. It's time to take employee engagement seriously.

Organizations assume their employees will think strategically about the projects they are working on – but in too many cases they don't! The reason is because most people don't think strategically about their lives. If we want them to approach their work strategically and take our strategic plans seriously, the first step is to teach them to think strategically about their lives.

In this presentation, Matthew Kelly takes his audience on a personal odyssey to begin to develop a strategic plan for their lives. With his unique and original concept of applying traditional strategic planning methods to our personal lives, he demonstrates, once again, that the most powerful way to teach team members about the importance of corporate planning is to teach them the principles of personal strategic planning.