Motivational Speaking

Our Most Popular Motivational Speaking Topics Deliverable in Durations of 30-90 Minutes to Fit Your Needs.

Our founder, Robin Elston is a popular motivational speaker. Robin's knowledge, wit, and use of entertaining real-life llustrations will captivate and enlighten your group whether it is a group of 10 or 10,000.

Surviving Personal Transition

Whenever a change happens, people affected experience a reaction to that change. This reaction, often felt with high emotion, causes a fog that decreases individual productivity. People still get some results working in the fog, but they won't achieve their potential and the whole process can have a high personal price tag in stress, frustration, and lost sleep. Consequently, the emotional fog must be cleared away. This session leads individuals through the identification of transitions in their life and helps them clear the fog and get on with their work with renewed energy and commitment.

©Elston Consulting, 2004

Growing a Respectful Workplace

There is a proven process for requesting and getting what you need. It is not that it's particularly difficult, but rather that people aren't in the habbit of making requests in a way that is effective. This session explores the alternative behaviors people do when they are not requesting what they need of others. The session also teaches a simple and effective, time-honored way to deliver a request that will get results.

©Elston Consulting, 2004

Unleashing Creativity

All organizations have their own way of doing things. Often those methods were developed over many years to serve a variety of purposes. Frequently the organization becomes more committed to following their method than they are to serving their customers. Unleashing creativity is the first and most important step in making outstanding improvements because great results come from revelations, not evolution. In this session partipants will learn ways to increase their creativity and and apply that creativity to overcome challenges at work.

©Elston Consulting, 2004

The Road to Success is Paved with Cheese

In life what you declare possible and plan into action becomes the future. Too often we defeat ourselves with our own self-talk. Also, too often, we don’t declare that the possibilities for success in our lives will be our reality. This training about dreams, plans and overcoming adversity will have you rolling in the aisles. It will also leave you ready to climb the highest mountain and overcome seemingly impossible odds to achieve your dreams.

©Elston Consulting, 2004

Building Relationships that Work

In this ever increasing service-oriented economy, it takes strong relationships to produce the strongest of results. The problem is that most people don't know how to build a relationship with people when they have little in common with them. This session shows the relationship between listening, disclosure, and trust: all necessary in building strong relationships. It also give participants real, practical coaching in building even the toughest relationships from the group up.

©Elston Consulting, 2004

Bridging the Generation Gap

People of all ages continually work together in business, in families, and in volunteer organizations. This age diversity can be fun and rewarding; it can also cause barriers between people. The fact that we were born at different times caused us to grow up with vastly different influences. What was going on in our world while we were at an impressionable age had a profound effect on our ethics, values, and style. One key in living and working together effectively is to understand the influences that cause our generational differences. This informational, inspiring, and often humorous presentation explores some of these differences. The session will explore each of the generations existing in the world today.

Traditionalists were born between the mid 1920's and mid 1940's.
Baby Boomers were born between the mid 40's and the early 60's.
Xers were born between the early 60's and the early 80's.
Yers (also referred to as "Nexters") were born after the early 80's.

The session also teaches ready to apply strategies for working together to improve productivity, relationships, and results!

Men and Women: Improving Relationship Success!

Much has been written about the differences in the natural thought processes between men and women. This two-hour session takes a look at those differences and how the gap can be bridged for optimal effectiveness in the workplace. Through individual introspection and modern-day examples, this entertaining and thought-provoking session answers the age old question, "Can't we just get along?" with a resounding "YES! And here's how."