Get people to see the best in you.



Connect, engender trust,
converse, and set yourself up
for positive outcomes.

THE FUTURE BELONGS
TO THE STORYTELLERS





Capture the imagination.
Accelerate trust, feedback
and collaboration.
 
Whether you like it or not people decide how they feel about you in the first two seconds of seeing you, or hearing you, if it's on the phone.
If they like you they will unconsciously tend to see the best in you and look for opportunities to say "yes." If they don't like you the opposite is true.


How to Connect in Business in 90 Seconds or Less
is an inspirational speech about the ABCs of human connecting - Attitude, Body-Language, Conversation and Communication - that shows how to make a genuine, natural,  connection with everyone.
 Ask most people to name the most powerful sales tool available to them and not many would say storytelling. But that's changing. Companies wake-up to the potential of the oldest known way of spreading the word. Selling, be it concepts, products or ideas, is really nothing more than sharing information in pictures, sounds, and feelings. The simpler and more emotional those pictures sounds and feelings the greater the tug at the heart strings of your audience.
  
Whether you are an employee, a manager, or the boss, a great deal of your success depends on how well you connect with other people.

Perhaps your team works on the front line with customers and immediate rapport will drive sales or increase the level of customer service you offer. Or maybe your team’s success depends on cooperation and effective collaboration with other business units who directly impact the customer. Or maybe the employees on your team need to learn how to better connect with one another to increase their effectiveness and reach their high-performing potential, which will ultimately affect your customers.

FORMATS
:
Keynote/General Session 60 - 80 minutes
Workshop 2½ to 5 hours

First Nicholas leverages participants on the importance of connecting, communicating and collaborating. Then shows them 26 small things that make a big difference including how to:

- make a favourable and memorable first impression
- build trust and boost confidence
- approach strangers
- appear smarter
- get people talking and keep them talking
- say what they mean and say it like they mean it
- choose the right attitude to set the mood
- send the right unconscious signals
- use language that gets cooperation rather than confrontation
- identify the different ways clients and colleagues communicate

An image is worth a thousand words.

The most important element of collaboration is the way we talk to ourselves and others.

What sets a productive corporate culture apart is not only its ability to engender trust and respect but the way it uses language openly to share information, gain commitment and get people working together.


FORMAT
:
Workshop 1 - 2½ hours
 
Those who attend walk away knowing how to:

- think in pictures
- use metaphor and quick stories
- get cooperation
- bring their products and services alive
- leverage their intellectual capital
- make emotional connections and communicate on a personal level
- describe their business so people buy-in
- stay uppermost in people’s minds
- pitch ideas to employees, customers, colleagues, shareholders
- bring about change in behaviours, habits and attitudes
- lead and motivate
- simplify complex concepts (very popular with rational thinkers)
- spice up presentations of facts and figures

"Boothman is Dale Carnegie for a rushed era." John Tierney - The New York Times

"Boothman is truly inspirational." - Matthew Bishop - The Economist Magazine

"His book is my bible." Lara Spencer - Good Morning America

"Nick dazzles his audience with their own potential."- Nissan Canada

Training the new Supercops includes daily discussions on the works of Aristotle, George Orwell and Nicholas Boothman." - The New Yorker Magazine

"Nick Boothman delivered the goods! He entertained, educated and captured the imagination of our clients. We asked our National Client Council to provide their comments and rate his presentation. The results are in and he was the 'bees knees.'" - Manulife Financial

"Bring Boothman's ideas into your organization, your place of work and they will have a dramatic effect on everything: how you run meetings, how you solve problems, how you connect with clients, how you connect with each other, fun, morale and general health and well-being. Everyone should become an advocate for bringing his ideas into their company." - Deloitte Consulting