|
Montai Magic… The Professional's Secret Weapon!TM
This motivational speech, delivered over 700 times by Michael, is a fun, inspiring, group involving, dynamic and yet, highly customised 'event'. Michael draws upon his 39 years in the Martial Arts to share with your people 6 Disciplines for Success and 6 Barriers that stand in the way of Success.
Michael uses 4 preselected audience volunteers, entire audience involvement, humour (lots of it), martial arts, board breaks (he breaks 6 boards at the end of the talk), magic tricks, props, give-aways and more!
This is the perfect keynote, kick-off or wrap-up speech to a convention, annual meeting, AGM, sales conference, dealer meeting, retreat or other meeting you want to make a special event and really drive home a particular message.
Michael customises it to motivation, sales, coping with change, doing more with less, customer satisfaction, team building, coping with stress, wellness or whatever theme you may have for your meeting. After 30 years, this speech has developed a force of it's own to help you achieve your objectives in a fun, interactive and informative manner.
Here is how it unfolds:
Discipline #1 The Discipline of Perpetually Learning
In this discipline we examine what the professional needs to focus on, for example, ON GOING RE-EDUCATION. In this discipline, Michael has a female volunteer (pre-selected) to come on stage with him. He teaches her two karate punches and has a bit of fun with her. The audience really enjoys having 'one-of-their-won' on stage and having a spot of fun.
Then Michael makes the point that as a beginner, she could only perform simple techniques. We ALL need to perform at a higher level than before. If we kept performing at the same level previously attained, why would anyone hire us? What is a 5-year-old computer or software worth? NOTHING! We need to constantly learn, grow and improve. They go from laughing to real serious in an instant and then he takes them up on the roller coaster ride again with Discipline #2.
Discipline #2 The Discipline of Flexibility
Every person needs to be flexible today in thinking, approach, openness to change, flexible with changes in policy, economy and technology. Here the entire group stands and does a toe touch exercise.
Michael relates, as a metaphor, physical flexibility to mental flexibility. Also, having the entire group stretch at this point wakes people up and gets them thinking how flexible THEY have been with recent changes in policy or whatever you want him to emphasise. (The more information you feed Michael, the more closely he will tie it to your needs.)
Discipline #3 The Discipline of Distraction
Many negative types we encounter, in the office and with clients and prospects who reject what we propose, draining away enthusiasm and motivation. Here is a way, using martial arts principles, to distract these negative types, getting them off of negativity and on to positivity. Again, Michael uses a female volunteer, teaching her a karate scrream on stage. The group loves this.
Discipline #4 The Discipline of Being Natural
What we do at work has to come from the heart. When we become bored or uninspired our work, relationships and sales suffer. Either we change our attitudes or we need to change our jobs!
Many people use the old adage that it always looks greener in the other pasture. Michael share with them, that is because they use more manure! The greenest pasture is probably right where we are at. We need to plant ourselves in as better seeds, cultivate and bloom, blossom and grow where we are planted as professionals by being the BEST we can be.
Here, Michael's third volunteer, a 100 KG to 125 KG male is unsuccessfully picked up from behind, the wrong way. Now, using the RIGHT way, he's hoisted up on Michael's shoulder and run around the stage, usually brought back to his seat in the audience... down or UP stairs as needed. This demonstrates when you do it the natural way, the way from your heart, it's EASY. Audiences love this and the camera phones always come out!
Discipline #5 The Discipline of Intent
This is a very calm and serious point... bringing them to a low before building up to the climax. It is RAW motivation. Michael tell them to do whatever they are to do in life or at work, to do it like their very LIVES depend upon it. A couple of powerful personal stories make this most serious point come through loud and clear.
Discipline #6 The Discipline of Understanding
Understanding what you are in this business for, what a spouse is doing in a relationship, what our purpose in life is gives us perpetual motivation. Working for the wrong reasons can hold back our productivity and cause us to lose the things and people we hold most dear through a lack of focus. Here, my last volunteer, the largest male you can find, chokes me around the throat with two hands. You cannot muscle your way out. Understanding the true purpose is to get him to LET GO, you can find a number of ways of escaping easily. (Eyes, nose, groin, etc.) It's a bit of fun with a man possessing a sense of humour. Again, it's a metaphor to help us internalize the message.
Having completed the 6 disciplines, we now highlight 6 barriers to our success. Each “barrier” is condensed to a word, stenciled on a one inch by 6 inch by 12 inch pine board. These boards are stacked on two supporting bricks, one at a time as I discuss each barrier.
Barrier #1 The Lack of a Consistent Written Plan
Here he either talks generically about the importance of plans and planning OR brings in the plans you have set down for them, the plans they should be making NOW or whatever you wish him to add regarding 'planning.'
Barrier # 2 Improper Time Management
If you have specific time management issues, Michael will address them with solid answers or 'fixes' here. If not, he puts in a few appropriate fixes for the given group and situation.
Barrier #3 STRESS!
(In this barrier, every person is given a stress stone to take back with them as a permanent reminder of the session. The message, “Three purposes behind the stone: 1) Stone the speaker if you don't like what you hear. (They laugh) 2) Use it as a “worry stone”, rubbing on it under times of stress and pressure. 3) It is not an ordinary stone. It comes for the island of Japan. It is called Mihama Koishi. Mihama is the town it comes from and Koishi simply means “pebble.” The stone has not been polished by anyone but by washing up on the shores of Japan for centuries, the abuse, bombardment of the waves makes it a highly polished thing of beauty. Keep it with you as a gift from me to remind yourself, the next time you feel abused, bombarded or harassed by the people, places and things in YOUR environment, that's what makes YOU highly polished and someone of even greater beauty and value. Never EVER, lose sight of that value. You are far too important for that.”
Barrier #4 Fitness
Michael may be 54 but has the energy and vitality of a 21-year-old! He knows his fitness is due to exercise, proper diet and attitude. He will share with your group the importance of maintaining or obtaining the fitness level necessary to succeed in life and their careers.
Barrier #5 Change
Life's only constant, Michael will either help them cope with change or address a particular change your team is going through NOW.
Barrier #6 Fear
Having discussed these barriers, a quick energy gaining review and I take my hand and 27 years of martial arts experience and breaks ALL 6 BOARDS AT ONCE! As the wood flies all over the stage, he leaves them with, "Now go out and break through your own barriers in life and may the 'Montai', the disciplines, work a little bit of magic, in your own life!"
>>Return To Speech Topics
>>Go To Programs Main Menu
>> Go To Seminar & Workshop Topics
|
