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Organizing, Motivating and Inspiring Your Group -- All With a Trademark Wit

Whether it is how to survive a corporate crisis or the management lessons he learned from watching the squirrels take over the birdfeeders in his back yard, Dick Yarbrough has something to say and it will be insightful, purposeful and humorous.  He speaks from the voice of experience based on his 40 years in corporate life and his observations as a syndicated newspaper columnist.

Yarbrough has spoken all over the country to groups ranging from seminars for top corporate executives to management conferences to rip-roaring black-tie affairs.  He shuns the "cookie cutter" approach in his speeches.  Yarbrough tailors every speech to fit the specific needs of his audience.  He takes his assignments seriously but not himself: "I give good talks," he says, "because I have sat through so many bad ones that I know what not to do."

Whether you want to entertain or educate or both, you need to talk to Dick Yarbrough about speaking at your conference or meeting.  The following speeches are Yarbrough's most popular:

 

 

  Never a Dull Crisis

You can do everything right as an organization, but you will forever be remembered by how you handled -- or mishandled -- crisis situations.  Crises have a way of coming at the most inopportune times.  Over his career, Yarbrough faced crises ranging from issues of corporate integrity to the Centennial Park bombing and lived to tell about it.  In "Never a Dull Crisis," Yarbrough tells you how to prepare yourself and those inside the organization to stay calm, stay the course and deal with those pesky reporters who just love to watch you squirm.

 

 

  Success is Spelled with a "C"

This motivational speech is geared toward business audiences and borrows from the style and philosophy of the Beatitudes.  The "C Attitudes" are: "Change: Blessed are those who accept it for they shall never grow stale.  Character: Blessed are those who exhibit it for they shall positively influence so many others.  Creativity: Blessed are those who develop theirs for they shall find a new world every day.  Cynicism: Blessed are those who avoid it because there is too much of it already and it blinds the good in all of us.  Communications: Blessed are those who learn how to use it because they might actually learn something, particularly the listening part."

 

 

  Dealing with Change: Sometimes You Eat the Bear;
 Sometimes the Bear Eats You!

We live in a time of rapid change and yet, one thing never changes: the public’s power to influence the way we operate our organizations. Many businesses, however, plan “inside out” and ignore the “outside in” factors. This speech offers lessons from Yarbrough’s experiences in two of the largest organizational changes in history. The first was the divestiture of the Bell System – the largest and most complex business reorganization in history. The second was the creation and operation of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta – the largest peacetime event and the largest Olympic Games ever held.  Yarbrough addresses what went right, what went wrong, and how those experiences can teach us all about managing change in complex times.

 

 
 

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