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What’s the difference between a “Business Speaker” and a “Health Care Speaker?”  The answer is subtle:  quite a bit and not much.

Let me explain.

The biggest difference is knowing that the audiences have different goals in mind.

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Health Care Speaker

My corporate clients are primarily interested in financial results, whereas my health care organizations are interested in financial results….AND SO MUCH MORE.

They are interested in improving their patient satisfaction scores, their safety scores, their cleanliness scores… ALL of their scores. They are often interested in growing.  They are often interested in change management.  But in the end, for these clients, It’s about the Patient.

If the patient has a safe, helpful, positive and generally epic experience, then the rest follows.  (Scores, satisfaction, revenue.)

My goal with these clients varies, but generally it goes like this:  My job is to help their people with buy in, with passion, and with purpose.

Buy In:  We need to make everybody on the team — regardless of their job title — buy into the fact that THEY are a vital part of the overall health care team.  It’s not “us” and “them.”  It’s “us.”  Period.

Passion:  We need to make people feel as excited and passionate about their jobs as they were the day they started their jobs.  If people have passion for their work we don’t have to tell them to be awesome at work;  the passion assures that they make themselves awesome.

Purpose:  Your people have a crucial mission and job.  They are taking sick people and making them better, and taking health people and keeping them healthy.  It’s huge.  It’s amazing.  It’s awesome.  But it’s easy to forget how important you are and how important your job is when you do it every single day.  So my job is to make sure your people are reminded that they serve a higher good…which is super cool.  And guess what?  Knowing and embracing your purpose helps you with passion and buy in too!  Boom.  Easy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Brad Montgomery is one of the nation’s top health care speaker. As such he’s spoken to health care organizations from health care software companies, health care staffing companies, hospitals, hospice and nursing home companies, and medical device companies and associations.

If you’re looking for a motivational speaker who UNDERSTANDS how to reach your audience of healthcare professionals, you’ve come to the right place.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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Not a great picture, but this is a recent picture of me on the indoor field.

There is a term called Flow which positive psychologists have more or less defined as that state of mind where you are completely engaged and thinking about nothing else. You know, that feeling you have when you are totally immersed in an activity that a parade could march by and you wouldn’t notice it. Flow is important because it’s one of the components to happiness & well-being.

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My team in Mexico

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It’s amazing this team puts up with me.

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An outdoor league while living in Mexico. I’m the gringo on the sidelines.

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Flow is important; and so too is our own searches for finding activities that put us in a state of flow.

I experience flow when I am playing soccer. When I am playing soccer I am thinking about a lot of things: about how out of breath I am, about how that other guy is faster than me, about how the ball is coming right at me and I need to get my foot over to it in time, and how I need to look to my left because my teammate is open but he’ll only be open for a second.

What I am not thinking about is my email, my family, my health, my problems, my business, my income, or anything at all. It’s all soccer. I am in flow. And for me it’s heaven.

So what’s this got to do with you?  I found an activity that brings me to a state of flow; and now that I’m aware that soccer makes me happy I can work to play more soccer.  Easy, right?

Your Homework: think about what activity or activities bring you to a state of complete engagement. Think hard. See if you can find more than one. Now…do those activities more.  Also easy…or at least simple.

It will make you happier. Guaranteed.

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Not this Flo Either

And any of you who have seen me as a motivational speaker know that happier people are more productive and more successful than our unhappy counterparts.

If you’re looking for a business speaker who is not only very funny but can bring specific tactics about how to be funnier in life and at work to your organization please give us a call. I might even bring a woman named Flo. Get in the Flow, Flo!

 

Brad Montgomery
Motivational speaker, soccer player, lover of Flo (Flow?)

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Funny Team Building Speaker

Crazy like a fox, maybe.  Here’s how it works:  First this team building speaker breaks up the larger group into smaller segments. Corporate divisions or departments get scattered so everyone’s with somebody new.  Let’s break up those cliques!  Er…silos!   Brad takes your employees out of their comfort zones, gets them feeling a little off-balance right from the get go.  Then they go to it, building the biggest, coolest, craziest thing they can imagine; one that represents their company, their team, their personality.Who’s an expert at turning balloons into art (besides Brad, that is)?  Turns out no one is.  So everyone fromthe execs to the managers to the worker bees is on the same footing.  Equality breeds creativity and innovation and teamwork.

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Invest in a Funny Team Building Speaker

Dysfunctional Teams Cost You. They are:

  • Less Innovative
  • Less Creative
  • More toxic / have poor morale & engagement
  • Less Productive

Brad’s Program will bring your folks together.  Fostering communication, innovation, creativity, productivity, building relationships, developing team-work.  And Brad’s most popular team-building program is Operation Hot-Air.

This unique, multidimensional experiential, hands-on, teamwork speaker event is designed not only to bring your team closer together in pursuit of a common goal (namely a crazy task with animal balloons) but to extend the feeling of camaraderie and unity that arises during the activity out into their wider, working world.  What? you say.  How can making a balloon sculpture help my people?  You’re crazy!

But we don’t stop there.  The next step is crucial.  Brad leads a facilitated discussion with the group to analyze, to share, to deconstruct (not the balloons!)  the process!.  Your people talk.  And by talking, they learn.  What worked?  What didn’t work?  Why did this event create a team?  How do we duplicate it back in the office (without the balloons, unless you want to…heck, why not?)  Your people end up learning take-away action steps that they can apply to their own teams, their own departments, their own work processes.   It’s innovative and it’s fun, and it WORKS!


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Brad’s used this activity with computer engineers (Microsoft), with rocket scientists (Lockheed Martin), with doctors and nurses (Paoli Hospital, Trinity Mother Francis Hospital, Oncology Nurses Assoc.), and they all had a blast.  (Get it?  Rocket scientists had a blast? Hahahaha).   But more than that, they laughed together, they grew closer, they communicated.  They became more productive.  They made their organizations stronger and more profitable.Team buildin

“I never would have believed my doctors would go for the animal balloon thing…. but it was a HUGE success.”  — Kathleen M, Pennsylvania Hospital

Brad has developed a killer motivational team building activity that is fun, effectively builds camaraderie, feeds creativity, and will have your people laughing WHILE they grow closer .  And they’ll learn.

Looking for a team building exercise and speaker for your event? Think this would be a great add-on to using Brad as a motivational speaker? Contact me here.

Brad has been honing this program for years.  These team building videos are out of date, but Brad is proud of them.  They show that Brad is a proven pro.  That he’s been creating and customizing for years.  What does this mean for you?  It means when you hire Brad you KNOW you’re getting a guaranteed home run.