Keynotes, Seminars and Workshops

Cooking for Life—Creating a Recipe for Success

This unique program helps individuals grow, change, and develop a process for creating a better life for themselves and others. Ken cleverly relates the use of proper cooking techniques and ingredients to the creation of a menu, ingredients, and recipes for a memorable life experience through positive change.

Attendees learn to focus, develop a better personal environment, improve their health, and generate a positive attitude for savoring life’s diverse flavors in their personal menu. Ken inspires participants to examine their values, create a vision, process, and method for testing ingredients as they build their cookbook for living.

Why Winners Win!!!

The obstacles most organizations face are the walls of disbelief and negativity built by their employees. This stimulating seminar helps attendees overcome fears that limit success and build action plans for yielding positive outcomes. Participants explore their own attitudes, beliefs, and values to create a clear motivational focus and direction for working effectively to achieve corporate goals. Ken provides daily self-management techniques that continue to emphasize, enhance, and strengthen this seminar's lessons:

• Relaxation
• Personal self-image techniques
• How to build a clear focus
• Energizing exercises
• Communication skills

	During this exciting keynote Ken shares lessons learned from working with hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals. His concepts will turn your business and life into an exciting, profitable and fun environment! The recipe is quite simple, yet why do so many organizations or individuals fail to build a model or menu for their life that propels them to
success? It takes leadership, personal management and that extra ingredient - passion. Learn how to mold these ingredients into creative business planning, business tools, personal development and everyday experiences that create the energy that is required to take advantage of the opportunity of a lifetime during the lifetime of your opportunity.
Topics that are covered: What are the six ingredients of building belief? How do discipline, accountability and control really work in creating high performance? Understand how to align the soul of the individual to goals of the organization. Creating a menu for life, work and personal balance What it means to commit to professionalism This program is designed for: Executives Managers Employees What others are saying: "Ken presents his information so we can digest, process and apply it. If you can apply what he presents, you're going to be ahead of your competitors." "As companies continue to focus on their core competencies, we often neglect the core attributes that will enable even more success. Ken's presentation helps put it back in focus. He addresses core leadership principles that most of us can recognize, but need brought back to the front in this manner. We approach most workshops or seminars with a 'we don't have time for it' attitude; Ken does an excellent job of emphasizing the points and their importance while remaining connected to the audience and not sounding patronizing " "A professional has a commitment to a calling…the education, training, and expertise that an amateur does not have. This commitment to become a true professional is a key to differentiating ourselves in the marketplace. " Ken Thoreson, Acumen President

This motivational sales kick-off event reviews techniques for all sales professionals and introduces/reinforces a process that:

• Builds personal salesperson commitment for success
• Increases time-management effectiveness and builds qualified sales pipelines
• Ensures proper territory/account coverage
• Increases the entire skill development of the sales team
• Creates and measures sales success indicators
• Creates a self-managed sales organization
• Increases the entire organization’s motivational levels

Build Predictable Revenue with Strategic Sales Management

This one or two-day workshop provides sales leaders with the knowledge and tools for building a high-performance sales organization. The session is jam-packed with proven ideas, management tools and sales management concepts that cover:

• Role of leadership and management
• Building an effective recruiting process
• Creating sales compensation plans
• Building a self-managed sales team using tactical sales business plans
• Developing analytical tools and success indicators for creating predictive revenue
• Building a value proposition to win