Here are my most Requested Keynotes and Programs

Rubber Chickens, Redwoods, and Razor Blades: The 7 Steps to Strategy and Marketing That Inspires, Lifts and Gets Results

* From the soon to be published book by Kordell

Has marketing changed with the internet?  Are there trends that large corporations are using to drive their sales.  Can you do pro-active things to grow your business. . . now. . . today?

In this interactive and educational presentation you will discover the keys to powerful marketing that will connect with your customers and motivate them to take action.  Laugh and learn as we look at how to get explosive business growth with 7 key elements that are a must for sales increase.

·         Learn how Strategy and Execution and Marketing must be tied together.

·         You will get insights on how to stand out in your market while developing your unique value.

·         Make your sales grow by learning which of your offerings will be the easiest to capture . . . and have the greatest success.

Entertaining, humorous and insightful you will learn how change your Now to WOW in this fast paced session.  Whether it is steamed milk at Starbucks, why mouse traps can make your business better, or why Silly Putty helps the world’s greatest violinist perform better – you will walk away with tips and tricks to grow your business and to get results!

Your Tomorrow Arrived Yesterday - Strategic Planning for Out of the Box Business Growth

Strategic Planning as a Facilitator - or - Keynote

 

Organizations ask for a certified Graphic Facilitator (that's me) using a highly visual Group Graphics method.  Fast paced, visual and entertaining, you will in hours, create Strategic Plans for Boards and Executives.  Are you creating the Vision and Leadership that inspires and engages the team?  Great for  those who want create a plan and execution for results.  Get buy-in from all of your stakeholders with consensus and synergy?

 

Status Quo to Status Grow – Chocolate, Elephants and Wrinkle Remover – How to Supercharge your Business Growth.

Marketing/Branding/Business Growth Keynote - or - Workshop

This interactive, laughter inducing presentation is experienced by audiences nationwide. One executive remarked after this event, “You are a rock star in my eyes!!!! Absolutely my favorite session.”  For sales and branding focus this is the presentation.  How to connect and motivate customers and new prospects to take action in powerful ways.      

Hold onto your seat!  In this fast-paced, humorous and mind-shaking session you will get insights on how to position your organization for growth, customize your message with your various prospects, look at ways branding can help or hinder your efforts and learn easy methods to drastically improve your results. 

 

* Get tips on ways to market your business with the least amount of effort for the greatest return.

* Discover how to present your organization in ways that will motivate the members and customers to take action. 

 

Come laugh and learn how Chocolate, Elephants and Wrinkle Remover can get results and growth for your organization.  Find out why Cheesecake and Grocery Bag stories can help you get more motivated customers who will "buy" now.  Highly interactive, entertaining and jam packed with insights and tools to help you move your group to the next level.

Say Less – Sell More: How to Find Explosive Sales Growth Using the Consultative Methods of Experts

Consultative Sales Workshop - or - Keynote

The old manipulative sales techniques are killing business.  Learn how to get fewer objections, sell value, get more referrals and connect with customers in powerful, long term relationships built of deep trust.  Say Less - Sell More.  Just what is Consultative Selling and how do you use this to become a trusted advisor and expert to the customer?  What are the four types of questions that top producing sales people ask? 

 

From the book - Spontaneous Combustion – Discovering the Customers Pain, Passion, and Priorities by Kordell Norton. 

Control of YOUR Destiny – How to Add Sizzle, Pizzazz and Revenue

Event Planning/Event Marketing/Tips and Tricks from Others - An interactive session

 

In this interactive session participants get to C.A.S.E. (Copy And Steal Everything) ideas from each other.  In addition they take their best ideas and run them through a Event & Experience Builder . . . a series of practices and insights from Hollywood, Disney, Punxsutawney's Ground Hog, and classic marketing practices for other creative sources.  At the end of the session participants will have marketing and events that have extra revenue streams written all over them.  They will make an impact immediately.

 

Getting the Most Out of Your Investment – The 4 Steps To Connect with Conference Attendees

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“You Had Me At Hello” – How to Connect in 3 Seconds With ANYONE . . . the New World of Networking

(Why an Elevator Speech mentality is killing your sales)

Networking/Marketing/Social Networking - Keynote or Interactive Session

Great as a Vendor Only session before the official conference (a bonus for your vendors) or as a session on those who want to understand the changes in the internet and how to use those to grow your business.  Discussion on the do's and don'ts of Facebook, LinkedIn, Wordpress, and YouTube and how to use them to your advantage.  In addition this material teaches how to attend networking events to get new business, how to connect with other participants so that EVERY contact becomes a winner for you. 

 

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Course Outlines / Overviews of Day Seminars and Workshops

Leadership Sales Speaker, Facilitator, Author

 

One-page overview of Kordell Norton - click here

One-page overview of Sales Program - click here.

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One-page overview of Strategic Planning - click here.

 

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Kordell Norton - the Speaker

Inspiration, excitement, high energy and fun.  At the same time you want someone you can trust to not insult or offend your audience.  You can trust Kordell in a presentation that is both uplifting and educating.  With presentations to Associations, Rotary Clubs, Chambers of Commerce,  and Schools and Business, Kordell brings insights and information that will entertain and lift for groups of all sizes. 

The following are comments taken from evaluation cards at recent speaking events:

"The best I have heard at one of our conferences in years" - Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) 2005 Conference

"Where did the time go?  I really wished you had more time." - Fairlawn Chamber of Commerce

"I would love to see you in a full presentation.  Call me" - Solon Ohio Rotary Club - May 2005

 

Topics and Speeches (more detail):

Networking Skills 101 – “You Had Me at Hello”

alternative titles to this presentation are:

  • The Bad Economy Can Be Good For You - Networking Insights the Get Growth and Results in your Business

  • Networking 101 – How to Turn EVERY Networking Event Into a Successful Activity for YOUR Business

  • You Had Me At Hello – What to Say and What NOT to Say to turn Every Networking Event Into Business Growth

Learn the networking secrets that get others to what to know about your organization.  Create 100% results in turning every networking conversation into a win as you find out why traditional Elevator Speeches are so damaging to you and your business.  Discover how to answer, with confidence, “What do you do for a living?”  In this humor filled, highly interactive and entertaining event, you will:

·         Learn how to make you and your message stand out in any group.

·         Learn the secret method to make EVERY networking contact turn into a fantastic sales lead.

·         Get tools to motivate potential customers to take action!

Bring a stack of your business cards and a pen that won’t run out of ink and hold onto your hat.  Fast paced and educational, you will get ideas that you can start using before you leave this event, to build you business.  This will be one of those events that get others saying, “You HAD to be there!”

Inspire and Lead with Confidence – Strategic Planning for the Organization of the Future

A 100% interactive session where participants interact and share insights on directions, strategic focus, and activities.  Kordell Norton, as a certified Graphic Facilitator, captures in words and pictures the groups wisdom on large wall sized mind-maps real time.   Warning:  This session guarantees extreme engagement, participation, and visually is a blast.  If your group wants Vision, Mission and Strategic Planning that engages and inspires. . . this is the presentation.

Word of Mouth Excellence – Creating Events and Programs that Sizzle with Pizzazz

Get methods for creating powerful events that get over the top Word of Mouth publicity with the secrets of Disney, Proctor & Gamble, Apple Computer and others.  The format gathers best practices from participants and shows how to make them better.  Very hands on. Concepts from Kordell’s book – “Throwing Gas on the Fire – Creating drastic change in Sales and Marketing.  Get the formula to turn EVERY event and program into a success.

What are the secrets used by the corporate world to get “over the top” word of mouth advertising for your organization.   This interactive session will show you how to steal great ideas from other businesses and get DRASTIC improvements in each event.

 

  •       You will learn how to find organizational Power and how to recruit it to build events and programs that get great volunteerism.

  •       Learn the Tips, Tricks and Traps associated with Generational Customer Groups. 

 

Come and learn about new marketing tools like Flip Video, Web 2.0 and Social Networking, Testimonial Marketing, the killer Evaluation Form, and understanding behavioral styles.  Like getting a drink from a fire hose, this session will explode with ideas, tools and methods that will make your events magic . . . and the advertising of those events just fun to experience. 

Creating Marketing Plans for Focus, Visibility, Action and Connection

 Session participants create a focus marketing plan that gets results for them.  They will learn how communicate and connect with the customer with language that causes action.  They will learn which products will give the greatest return on effort, with the least amount of investment in the fastest time. Using a planning “template” handout each will come away with a plan for their efforts. 

Leadership - the 4 Steps to Increasing Performance While Making Less Noise

Learn the secrets of creating powerful teams and how to move your organization to performance overdrive.  Come and learn how Moose Mess Pie, the secrets of Napoleon, and Whack a Mole Management effect your leadership.  You will get:

·         THE two basic roles of EVERY leader.

·         How to recognize and use organizational power to make things happen.

·         How to get insights from others to compensate for the blind spots you might have as a leader.

 

For more information on this GREAT Sales, Marketing and Customer Satisfaction Workshop.

Sales Training Audit

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Strategic Planning 

You want to build or update your Strategic Plan but are hesitant because of the time commitment?  Our revolutionary process using Group Graphics can take your team through Strategic Planning in days.  In addition, the process pulls your team together on focus AND gets them to high level performance. . . quickly.  All of this saves you time and money. 

Statistics show that our process . . .

  • Shortens meetings by 24%
  • 64% of the groups using this make a decision immediately
  • Consensus occurs in 79% (versus 58% with out our help)
  • Problem and issues are resolved to the positive 64% (versus 45% with our help)

Strategic Planning Audit

Leadership Training

Titles - following are some titles for leadership from some recent programs.

  • The Invisible Leader - Insights on being Transparent and the Parable of the Empty Suit

  • Leadership - the 4 Steps to Increasing Performance While Making Less Noise

  • Napoleon, Lincoln & Girl Scout Cookies - Copying and Stealing Great Leadership Skills

Your team looks to you and the other management resources to lead, guide and have the answers to key questions.  Your organization knows they need powerful leadership, but HOW do you get it?  Our workshops have you and your team define leadership for your organization, what it looks like and how to apply it. 

Leadership Audit - use this form to help us customize our material to get you the greatest return on investment in the shortest time. 

Customer Service - Customer Value

The culmination of 10+ years of building customer service organizations, our "Customer Service/Customer Value workshop uses a combination of multimedia, training "maps" and specific customer feedback to build your organization.   Dedicated to building customer "Wow" this workshop has been used by Compaq Computer, the Social Security Administration, United State Enrichment Corporation, Microsoft and others.  Can we help you turn your Lemons into Lemonade? 

Customer Service Audit

Team Building

It is more important with each passing day to get closer to your team, to have them performing at a high level and have them focused on the right goal.  Our Team Building experience uses The Drexler-Sibbet Team Building Model (copyrighted), in connection with assessments that allow an "scientific" focus on the strengths and weaknesses of your team.  Your group will receive then customized and focused exercises, experiential games experiences, group and/or individual profiling that fuel discussions as we help you move your team to high performance.

Team Building Audit

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About Kordell Norton - Out of the Box Strategy, Sales & Marketing

Your organization has a strong interest in the "top line" for growth. As a consultant, speaker, author, Kordell Norton works with corporate, association, education and government organizations who want to focus on branding, sales, marketing, strategic planning/leadership, team building, and customer service.

Kordell was an executive with several multi-billion dollar corporations with executive suite positions in sales, HR, marketing and call centers. As a certified Graphic Facilitator, he uses highly visual processes, along with humor, and entertaining methods for powerful, high energy presentations.

Author of Throwing Gas on the Fire - creating drastic change in Sales and Marketing

He can be reached at (330) 405-1950 or at kordell@kordellnorton.com or at his website -  www.KordellNorton.com