Alan Patching's speaking topics

Building A Futureproof Corporation

In a world where increasing competition and change are more than ever the significant constants, organisations are more and more seeking to attain the attributes that will ensure long term growth and success; attributes that will equip them to deal with whatever the ever changing market place serves up; attributes that will make them Futureproof Corporations. Futureproof leaders understand:

The importance of the innovation based Basic Entrepreneurial Model
how individual attitudes amass to create corporate culture
how collective employee values generate the driving force of the corporation
how to access the innovation that is so essential to continuing success
the psychology behind achievement of corporate vision
the difference between corporate purpose and corporate vision

Lessons For Life From The Sydney Olympic Stadium Experience

Alan Patching's lessons learned as owner's Chief Executive Officer and Project Director of the development of the world's largest ever Olympic Stadium.

Look up to those beneath you - the valuable lesson learned from some of the most unnoticed people involved with the project.
The innovative thinking that saved 'months and millions' can offer similarly spectacular performance improvement to any organisation.
Recognition and celebration of success kept busy people energised. It will work with the same outstanding effect in the general corporate workplace.
The Personal 'Offendedness' Factor was the emotions control technique Alan Patching developed to track his moods and the level that his own ego was contributing to problems rather than solutions.

21st Century Leadership and Success Essentials

A passionate and powerful presentation - a wake-up call designed to inspire people to choose to act as entrepreneurs or franchisees within the organisation which employs them. Audiences are encouraged to:

embrace the warp-speed change impacting the global business environment
accept that personal leadership is the key to managing this change into the future
understand that the 21st Century Leader is an adaptable and inspirational visionary who understands the importance of being a role model, who divests control in favor of empowerment, who subordinates ego in favor of helping others to develop and grow, and whose core value is personal integrity.

Alan Patching draws on extensive experience on major business and development projects to foster teamwork and the leadership necessary to move to a higher level of performance.

Powerful Commercial Negotiation

Negotiation is no longer an optional business tool, but rather a mandatory skill for life and business success in the 21st century. When it comes to negotiation skills, what you don't use, you will soon lose! This energising keynote:

moves audiences from a basic comprehension of negotiating tactics and strategies to an understanding of the higher level achievable by a focus on the human behaviour aspects of negotiation
inspires and explains how to weave advanced negotiation skills into everyday life communication.

Alan Patching negotiated some of the largest ever property transactions ever in Australia.

The $ole - Soul? Thing That Matters �

While profit might be the goal of a business, people will always be the soul of the business. This presentation reveals how:

Alignment of business values with those of the people who make up the business is the key to any business tapping into its true source of creativity and corporate spirituality - it's human capital.
How an organisation can benefit from creating a workplace environment wherein people feel connected and are free to become the best they can be, and to express their highest level of creativity
Why fostering an open, trusting, and ego-less working environment can lead to higher productivity, reduced staff turnover, and an increased attitude of ownership
Applying the intrinsic motivation factor of higher corporate purpose instead of extrinsic motivators such as corporate vision to ignite passion and increase profit
Analysing how some of the key foci of corporations clash vigorously with really important issues at the level of the individuals who make up those corporations

The leaders of tomorrow understand that the spiritual life of their human capital, their raison d'etre, should not be put on hold during working hours, but rather actively fostered so that people can always be seeking to attain their highest image of themselves.

Alan Patching also delivers keynote presentations and workshops on the following management and leadership related topics, and, because these presentations usually need to be highly tailored to meet the needs of individual clients, details of the content of these presentations are available on request:

The Psychology of Persuasion - How to get everything you want
Project Management
Achieving and Maintaining Corporate relevance and Sustainability
Presentation skills
Advanced Business Communication Skills
Risk Management in the Project Environment
Contract Administration
Achieving Strategic Objectives using Project Management