Performance

The Neuroscience Behind Success – Excelling in the Workplace
Getting on the fast track for career success is about understanding how your thinking, behaviours and actions directly impact your performance and results.
With advances in the understanding of neuroscience, key factors that enhance and inhibit your success and now known and the secrets will be revealed.

In this presentation, we will explore how the mind works, the different motivational models available to you, and insights into how your behavioural style directly links to indicate the right environments, roles and wealth options that will link to your future achievements.

Learn the secret behind how Todd Hutchison became a successful global business operator, international bestselling author and world champion in music. Come and get the insights that can have the biggest impact on how you can accelerate your own career and contribute significantly to your organisation.

Creating High Performing Teams
Getting your team into high performance starts with understanding behavioural strengths, and how our different styles work together in synergy.
Learn about how our thinking, behaviours and actions directly impact your performance and results. Get insights into.

With advances in the understanding of neuroscience, key factors that enhance and inhibit a team’s success and now known and the secrets will be revealed.

In this presentation, we will explore how individual thinking, communication and behavioural styles directly impacts the group dynamics, and what a team needs to excel.

Marketing Yourself and Accelerating Your Career
Fast tracking your career is directly related to the people in your network. People prefer to do business with people they know, like and trust. Understanding the importance of your people network helps gives you insights to how to accelerate your success.
From this presentation you will learn why some people are more natural than others in building their profile, and you will get insights how you can build a personal and online profile that attracts work opportunities, referrals and repeat business.

We are all needing to understand how our imagine and visibility can impact our careers and what it takes to build more credibility.

Engaging People - the Secrets Behind Our Communications
Effective communications is directly linked to your person and business success. People prefer to do business with people they know, like and trust, and this means people that have been able to engage them. Poor communications can be a critical factor that can limit career achievement.
Learn from a global expert in people performance about the key elements to communicating with power, and how it applies to face-to-face, on-line and virtual environments.

In this session you will be given the insights into how to engage people, build instant rapport and what constitutes the likeability for you. This presentation will introduce key elements, such as the use of body language, that will provide you instant practical skills that you can apply immediately to improve your life.

Powerful Connections – Building Instant Rapport
Did you know that body language attributes some 55{8191ccebfec583102dddb90c0c1b030125aaf8e519644cb1f2ff8d8915b47f79} of the likability others have for you? Do you know how to influence it and build rapport fast?
This is a fast-paced and practical insights into human communications, our differences and our preferences. Learn about key principles of communication that will give you guidance for life.

Understand how body language impacts us, what it means and how to deal with difficult people. Learn how to better influence and persuade people, and their needs.

Building Your Personal Brand & Online Profile
People are not keeping business cards anymore – they are using social media technologies like LinkedIn.
Learn how to build your profile and be credible, memorable and be able to stand out in the crowd.

This session is critical for people who want to attract opportunities and partnerships.

The Modern Leader - Insights to People Dynamics
Modern leaders need to understand the importance of people dynamics, and the interplay between people, process and systems.
This presentation explores key principles in communication, project management and leadership to create a picture of the modern leader, so that you can align to the needs of today’s leaders.

Learn the critical needs of people and the different behavioural styles to understand how to get the best out of teams, and how to be the leader people want to follow.

Project Management

Making Strategy Happen through Project Excellence
Organisational strategy gives team members the insight into where the business is going, and the clarity to what the focus is. It provides the executive management the ability to guide investments and resource allocation.
Independent of this clarity, the execution of strategy is the point where things go wrong. The high failure of projects cause businesses to lose money, frustrate their staff and risk the organisation.

Learn how project management is critical to strategic implementation, and the key functions that make it work. This presentation also explains the warning signs that indicate projects are off the rail or heading that way.

Make a difference by knowing how to deliver strategy most effectively and successfully.

Making Things Happen – Executing Strategy through Relationships
The best of plans come unstuck because of people dynamics and politics. This presentation explores the complexity of the human being in the context of implementing strategy.
Executing strategy effectively calls for the understanding of project management and the importance of stakeholder management. Key stakeholders can influence the project and politics can kill it.

Learn about how to engage stakeholders and gain the buy-in necessary to maintain commitment to the project. Understand the principles of effective communication and the key tools from the project management toolbox to help maintain positive relationships and know when things are going wrong.

Become project savvy in knowing the signs to look for to ensure your strategy is delivered.

The Future of Project Management
Project management is simply how organisations execute their strategy. Project management is now being used to cover the more broader project, program and portfolio management disciplines. This presentation explains the terminology and helps people understand what makes projects work.
Understanding the people, process and strategic alignment requirements for effective project management, this presentation focuses on the modern project manager, and the changes that are here to stay, and those to come.

Learn about the growing project management profession, and how to establish your project or leader career by better understanding the dynamics that lead to effective strategic execution.

Project Me - Using Project Principles for Achieving Career Success
Our work culture is focused on executing projects for our employer or clients.

Yet we rarely use the winning process to apply to our own life and achieve our personal goals.

This session looks at how project management practices can be applied to one’s own life and desired educational, work, personal and social endeavours.

This leads to a happier life having one’s own goals.

Business

Innovative Thinking, Funding and Commercialisation
Thinking innovatively helps an organisation differentiate itself, and create new products and services that can make it become a industry leader.
This topic is for entrepreneurs and researchers in understanding how to commercially benefit from their creative ideas.

It covers building partners, finding funders and the process towards commercialisation.

Learn about neuroscience shows about how innovation works.

Humanistic Business - Profitable Business through Relationships
This talk is based on the ‘Humanistic Business’ book published by Todd Hutchison through Bloomsbury, and the key principles that make organisations profitable and sustainable.
Business has always been about people, and those organisations that understand this help create positive, long-term relationships with their clients, attract referral business, and receive repeat business.

Learn about designing an exceptional user experience that focuses not only on the client, but on the staff, suppliers and the organisation’s influence on society.

In troubled economic times, it calls for creating businesses that do good in the world, and that build raving fans of their clients.

Leading Change - Driving Sustainable Organisational Transformation
Understanding change is about appreciating the differences and needs of human beings, and leading a team towards a positive outcome.
Many people question change normally, so this presentation explains what those barriers are and how to overcome them. It delves into the different behavioural styles and explains fear sensitivities that cause people to have bad reactions.

This presentation explains the change process, but focuses on the people aspects and how to overcome resistance and achieve lasting transformational change in organisations.

Sales

Sales is a People Game – Enabling Client Advocates
Based on Todd’s iconic book ‘Sales is a People Game’, this presentation takes the key principles of sales as they relate to people.
Learn why people’s buying preferences are different, and how to identify their communication and behavioural styles to ease the sales process.

Get insights into the important of experience and how to make the sales process part of the referral and repeat business formula.

Sales revenue (or funding) is critical to all organisations, and leaders need to understand that all games have rules.

Board of Management

Making the Boardroom Hyper Effective
Board Directors bring very different knowledge, skills and experiences to a Board of Management that need to be harnessed and guided.
In this presentation, we look at the human complexities and people dynamics that make Boards’s effective. We examine how to get the most out of the people in a room, and have to channel conflict to positive conversations to enable a Board to effectively do its business.

This presentation provides insights into communications and behavioural science that helps explain why some Board excel and others don’t.

Governance Essentials for Boards of Management
Boards of management are responsible for an organisation’s governance.
Get insights into the role and responsibilities of being a board director, and the duties they perform.

This topic looks at both the ethical responsibilities and the legislative requirements.

Learn about how a board of management can meet its obligations and guide the whole organisation.

Getting on to a Board of Management and Attracting Board Positions
Want a career as a Board Director, desire to serve as a Board Director, or trying to expand your business experience and value through Boards? Being on a Board of Management can accelerate your business acumen, help build your networks and profile, and generate income.

Many executives are wanting to transition into Board positions, and others are wanting to make a difference through sitting on not-for-profit, company, Government Council or Education institutional boards.

Learn the key terminology, the responsibilities and most of all – how to position yourself, and become attractive to get on to Boards of Management.

Todd has resided on university, not-for-profit and company boards, and is a national and internationally-qualified company director. Learn from his wealth of experience about how to start or grow a career in Boards of Management.

Behavioural Influences on Board Performance and Strategy
Want a career as a Board Director, desire to serve as a Board Director, or trying to expand your business experience and value through Boards? Being on a Board of Management can accelerate your business acumen, help build your networks and profile, and generate income.

Many executives are wanting to transition into Board positions, and others are wanting to make a difference through sitting on not-for-profit, company, Government Council or Education institutional boards.

Learn the key terminology, the responsibilities and most of all – how to position yourself, and become attractive to get on to Boards of Management.

Todd has resided on university, not-for-profit and company boards, and is a national and internationally-qualified company director. Learn from his wealth of experience about how to start or grow a career in Boards of Management.

Legal Project Management

What is Legal Project Management
Understanding what legal project management is, why it has become a global trend and the key elements of its focus, including insights to the 4-phase LPM framework.
Explaining Alternate Fee Arrangements
Understanding the differing pricing options and the psychology between pricing models and choices, including the IILPM pricing framework that presents a simplified version of the categories of pricing.
Factors Influencing Team Performance
Understanding the key elements of team performance, the development life cycle and how behavioural sciences gives clues to performance. It combines insights from neuroscience and the behavioural sciences.
Legal Practice Process Improvement
Exploring the methods and techniques in process improvement as it is applied to both legal practice support (indirect cost items) and specific legal matters (direct cost items).
Building an Expert Personal Brand to Attract Work
Exploring the effective ways a lawyer can build their profile and attract more work to the firm. It looks at the many ways of getting exposure and building a personal brand.
Strategic Networking for Lawyers
Learn more about how to make networking events more successful and how to better present yourself to others to achieve referrals and the techniques to build instant rapport.
Engaging in Business Development
This session takes a look from a behavioural aspect to the different behavioural styles and how each has varying preferences for business development initiatives.

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