When I first started The Sweeney Agency I received some powerful advice from Tim Sanders, formerly of Yahoo! This is what he said: “Don’t think about sales or closing deals, just position yourself so that whenever you can help someone you help them, without any expectations.
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This Idea Will Dramatically Change How You Make Great Decisions
Over the past 15 years in the Speaking business I have reviewed thousands of speakers on a variety of topics looking for the very best. A great speaker has to have both great content and the ability to deliver it by engaging and inspiring the audience. Watching 1800 Executives…
This Idea Changed How I Look at Leadership
Over the past 15 years in the Speaking business I have probably reviewed over 12,000 speakers on a variety of topics – always looking for the very best. A great speaker has to have both great content and the ability to deliver it by engaging and inspiring their audiences.
10 Speakers Who Will Help Your Audience Become More Customer-Centric
Click Here to Receive Your Customized Set of Speaker Ideas Customer relationships have shifted as digital communication grows, often reducing the personal connection clients expect. To stay competitive, companies need customer‑centric cultures where every employee knows how to engage clients…
8 Speakers Who Will Take Your Top Performers to the Next Level
How do you the make the best even better? What do you strive for once you have won Gold? How do you motivate the motivated ? These are the kinds of questions that Top Performers are always asking. The Speakers below are experts in the field of peak performance…
5 Speakers that CEOs are Talking About
CEOs need to see the big picture, they need to be able to spot storms in the distance and future successes when they are just ideas on a table. To do that properly they need to know about the forces shaping their markets, the technologies changing their business and…
5 Speakers Audiences Will be Talking About in January 2016
January is prime-time for sales rallies, kick-offs, and launches. Meet the 5 Speakers whose incredible energy and enthusiasm for their subjects bring a renewed sense of purpose to every January event. If your goals, ambitions, and dreams are big for 2016 these are the Speakers who will help make…
5 Speakers Who Should be Featured on 60 Minutes
A few weeks ago we were thrilled when our Speaker Dr. Robert Ballard was featured on an episode of 60 Minutes, the longest continuously running prime-time show in American television history. Dr. Ballard was fascinating, intriguing, and proved on-screen that he is an amazing storyteller…
The Top 10 Speakers for Sales Audiences – August 2015
Sales are the backbone to any and every organization because the sales department generates the revenue. Regardless of how well your manufacturing department functions, or how innovatively you use emerging technologies, if you do not have a strong sales force those progressive manufacturing techniques and innovative culture are of…
Cam Marston: The Hiring, Shaping, and Retention of Young Talent
With so many generations currently in the workforce, more and more organizations are struggling to build a cohesive team; cultivating a harmonious and productive working environment seems to be a daily challenge for many businesses. In this post our generational expert and Speaker Cam Marston…