Are you holding a Strategy Development Day soon?
Are your people fired up and ready to engage in the planning process?
Would you like them to approach the task with more enthusiasm?
Then this Keynote Presentation is for you! It will set the tone for the day, inspire your people and get them thinking about the key issues and concepts involved in developing Strategy.
Why is Business Strategy so important right now?
COVID-19 has drastically disrupted businesses and has caused many to ‘pivot’ as a knee-jerk reaction to changed circumstances. All the uncertainty has discouraged people from making long-range plans. People have focused on operational issues, while Strategy has fallen by the wayside.
Now that the world is recovering, businesses need to stop being buffeted by events. They need to consider whether they are heading in the right direction.
Is your business’ current direction right for the longer-term?
Is it time to return to your pre-COVID path ?
Should you set a new Strategy altogether?
What goals should you be working towards?
What happens without a clear Competitive Strategy?
Without a clear sense of direction, a business will drift. It will stagnate and you will lose competitive advantage. To maintain your market position, your business needs to be better tomorrow than you are today.
A Strategy will not succeed unless your people are aligned with it. The ‘Great Resignation’ is being caused by people re-evaluating their work situation, and seeking employment that is more meaningful to them. Staff who do not feel a commonality of purpose will disengage from their work and seek that purpose at another organisation, or outside of work.
Do they see what you see?
You might think the vision for your company is clear - but do your staff really understand where your business is heading? If we asked them, what would they say?
Are you actively leading your people towards a compelling vision? How are you communicating that vision now that many people are working remotely?
Do you actually have a vision?
What’s in the Keynote Presentation?
This inspiring presentation by Shelley Dunstone tells the story of an audacious goal she set for herself, and how she achieved it in three years, propelled by a compelling vision.
Themes include:
The value of a business vision
The courage to forge your own path
The power of commitment
The component parts of the challenge
Identifying your strategic assets
Persevering in the face of obstacles
Creative thinking to get around roadblocks
Celebrating your achievements
The need to take action - now!
Being a story from outside the business world, it is not tied to any particular industry, economic environment or business competencies. This makes the analogies easy to apply to any business.
Testimonials
Thank you for speaking at the BPW Adelaide January 2020 meeting on your goal-setting journey. It was inspirational and thought provoking, and very relevant for a group of business and professional women at the start of a new decade. It clearly resonated with our wide range of members from young Hannah to retired Judy, and I was impressed with how many members were able to elaborate on how your story connected with our diverse realities. You have a wonderful gift of communication, Shelley, clearly honed from a life of extensive experience and deep reflection. Thank you again for sharing your experience and inspiring us to stretch our own possibilities.
Jean Murray, Business and Professional Women
Shelley is a powerful speaker. Her words will move you. From the first minute she had my attention, the challenges in her life and how she used them to her strength are inspiring. Shelley combines real-life experiences with storytelling to deliver the message. Her years of experience on stage shined during her speech. I highly encourage anyone who is looking for a speaker to deliver a strong business message to choose Shelley.
Ivan Vantagiato
Creative Director
Digital Marketing Tribe
Thank you for addressing members of the Club and guests at our business breakfast on Tuesday 11th August 2020. Your story of how you set a new goal that was way out of your comfort zone and succeeded against the odds was fascinating. How often do we talk ourselves out of the difficult decisions with the rationale that we might fail, and so miss an opportunity to develop our inner self.Success in both our business and our personal lives comes through developing an ability to pivot quickly and stay open to new ways of doing things and opportunities to develop oneself. Your forty minute address was inspirational and well received by all who attended, as evidenced by the number of questions you received afterwards.Thank you once again and for the printed takeways thoughtfully left for members "10 principles for achieving audacious goals".
Keith Gustavvson, Managing Director, Business House Australia
Shelley delivered and entertaining and inspiring presentation to a small business owners Networking Breakfast. Her story of change, resilience, achieving her goals and dreams brought many questions from the audience and all who attendee remarked afterwards how much they enjoyed what Shelley shared. Shelley is highly recommended as a professional speaker and performer.
Sarah Reimann, Speaker, Business Strategist & Financial Expert
Shelley recently spoke for us at our event for The Adelaide Entrepreneur Club. One of our key messages for anyone in the entrepreneurial arena, is the importance of mindset and positive mental attitude.
Shelley has a wonderful story of her journey after setting herself a goal for something she wanted to achieve that was completely unlike anything she had ever done before. After some initial uncertainty about whether she could do what she had in mind, a dramatic life event caused Shelley to stop thinking and start doing!
From start to finish, Shelley's talk was engaging and interactive, sharing her many learnings including goal defining, research and planning, setting up meetings and events, and overcoming setbacks and challenges.
We believe Shelley's story would be of great value to anyone in the business and startup world, as well as anyone who enjoys hearing great stories of people who believed in themselves and made things happen!
Stephen Fry, Adelaide Entrepreneur Club.
If you would like to have Shelley present for your Strategy Development Day, please call her on 0417 846 108 or email shelley@shelleydunstone.com