Bringing Your A-Game with Walter Johnson

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Bringing Your A-Game with Walter Johnson

Walter Johnson knows about compliance excellence.  As the Director of Compliance & Ethics for Kforce Government Solutions (KGS) and board member of the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, Walter’s had a lot of practice.  Last week at the Compliance and Ethics Institute in Las Vegas, Walter shared the Seven A’s that must be brought to work with you every day in order to be wildly effective.  I was so inspired by his formula, I wrote them down.  To bring your A-Game:

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PODCAST: Being Wildly Effective at the American Banker's Assocation Conference

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What an outstanding conference season it's been!  Jo Ann Barefoot (isn't that a great name?) interviewed me for her podcast just after I'd performed the keynote at the American Bankers' Association Compliance Conference.  Over 1000 compliance professionals came to the conference.  In this podcast, you'll find out:

  • How to use the Four Primary Motivators to emotionally reach your audience, and how the Four Primary Motivators were developed
  • How banking and corporate compliance overlap to create an important synergy
  • Why Jo Ann and I both believe that compliance officers are superheroes

To access the podcast, CLICK HERE, then scroll down to the bottom of the page.  Click on the player, and move the curser to 24:30 to hear the start of our 21-minute discussion.  Happy listening! 

5 Ways to Rock Your Panel Discussion (and some advice directly from Oprah Winfrey)

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5 Ways to Rock Your Panel Discussion (and some advice directly from Oprah Winfrey)

It all starts so well… the exciting anticipation of a confluence of ideas… the CCO of mega-manufacturing company X speaking on a panel with the head of privacy at technology company Y and the internal audit lead of company Z…  Then the hour-long discussion starts.  Within minutes you find yourself staring at your watch.  Time stretches out before you… no matter how interesting the brands being represented are, the content is already dragging.  Why is it that so many panel discussions are so boring, and how do you make sure if you’re on a panel or leading a panel that the content is interesting? 

 

Starting Sunday, like many of you, I’ll be at the SCCE’s Compliance and Ethics Institute in Las Vegas.  (If you’re there, come say hi at Booth 113 – Spark Compliance Consulting!).  If you’re on a panel there or anywhere, here are five ways to rock it so you’re memorable, interesting, and likely to be asked to do it again:

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Five Ways to Ruin a Presentation

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Five Ways to Ruin a Presentation

It’s autumn conference season, and I’m already feeling well in gear, having been to London, Paris, Nashville and Los Angeles in the past two weeks.  In that time, I’ve already seen dozens of training sessions, conference presentations and panel discussions.  I’ve seen the good, the bad, and the downright ugly.  To help you to be better at presentations, for the next two weeks, let’s focus on how not to do presentations, as well as how to knock them out of the park. The five deadly sins of presentations are…

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