Information to Help You Sell Alan Patching's Speaking Topics

Various points for both corporate and non-corporate audiences.  

For corporates, presentation modules include inspiring and motivating others, dealing with change, understanding vision, values and images of achievement, understanding the differences between collaboration and compromise, building a strong corporate culture, dealing with corporate politics, the importance of communication, leading by example, the importance of leading others to become leaders of their own lives.   Alan also covers the Situational Leadership Model of Kenneth Blanchard in detail where clients want to go into details on leadership styles.

For audiences made up of individuals who require a more personal look at the question of leadership, Alan covers self leadership, setting personal vision to align with personal values, the paramount importance of integrity,   the power and the psychology of commitment, motivation and how to get it etc.   Alan also profiles the characteristics required for personal success in the 21 st century.  

38 years in business, with 21 running own business, and in particular, experience as National Projects Director for a major Japanese organization ($2.8billion worth of projects) and CEO of the Sydney Olympic Stadium.

Training and (non action) experience as an officer of the Australian Army

Research in the area for books and audio programs Alan has produced on the topic

Work conducting leadership courses in the Middle East for the George Washington University's Masters Certificate Course in Project Management and the Regis University's Masters Certificate Course in Project Management.   (work includes principles of leadership and use and application of several behavioural and communication style analysis models.

Alan was chosen as keynote speaker by the Jordanian Royal Court to present the keynote speech at the inaugural Jordanian leadership awards.

The strategies and tactics of the negotiation process, but more importantly the human behaviour factors involved with negotiation  

Negotiated the largest deal in Australia's property history ($1.4 billion) to that time, and several other deals worth in excess of $100m including the country's largest commercial lease to that point in time.

Negotiated several billions dollars worth of property development and construction contract deals.

Conducted negotiations across industries from construction to IT and from aviation to international lingerie retailing.

Completed detailed research for the CD ROM program, Powerful Commercial Negotiation which he prepared for publication by Adacel Multi Media of Melbourne Australia

Discerning the difference between operational effectiveness issues and Strategic competitive advantage issues

Defining strategy and strategic competitive advantage

The negative impact of misunderstanding the subtle but important differences between these terms

The modern leadership approach to realising strategic objectives.

Extensive senior management and leadership positions in a number of organisations covering a range of industries.

Academic knowledge on the issues from several university courses Alan which Alan delivers.

Anecdotal evidence from numerous corporate client reports from around the world.

Using the Basic Entrepreneurial Model as a guide to business success

Developing a culture focused on innovation

How Vision and Values impact on everything from innovation and culture to customer service and productivity.

Leading for Change

A presentation which follows the basic principles outlined in the book The Futureproof Corporation (which Alan co-authored with Dr Denis Waitley of the USA)

Definition of relevance and sustainability as they relate to the corporate environment.

Looking at innovation as the key to achieving relevance.

Looking at project management as a general corporate tool for releasing innovation within any organisation.

The steps to establishing an innovation fostering corporate environment

The steps to continued sustainability for any corporation.

38 years in business, with 21 running own business, and in particular, experience as National Projects Director for a major Japanese organization ($2.8billion worth of projects) and CEO of the Olympic Stadium.

Research in the area for books and audio programs Alan has produced on the topic.

Extensive senior management and leadership positions in a number of organisations covering a range of industries.

Academic knowledge on the issues from several university courses Alan which Alan delivers.

Anecdotal evidence from corporate client reports from around the world.

A look at spirituality in business and personal life and how to overcome the fact that, often, corporate environment flies in the face of the principles of personal spirituality

Alan has been fascinated with (and has studied) spirituality at the personal level and its effect on corporate and national culture for some time.   This presentation is the topic of a book to be published in 2005

A look at the various models for problem solving and decision making.

A look at why we need to adopt divergent thinking to get more options for solving problems before we apply convergent thinking to select the best solution…and why many of us often do not follow this proven procedure.

This presentation goes beyond the usual management process models and looks at the processes that occur in our brains as we seek to solve problems.   It looks at ways in which we might achieve better results by using our brain function differently, and more effectively.

Almost every major project Alan has been appointed to in the past two decades of his career, including the Olympic Stadium project, required more problem solving and decision making than supervisory management.   Decision making and problem solving are part and parcel of modern leadership at all levels, but is very much a learning topic in its own right.

Alan has extensive experience lecturing on this topic for universities and corporations in various countries.

A look at simple procedures for the identification, quantification and management of risk in business and life, as this is a skill becoming more in demand as corporate compliance becomes a hot topic.

Alan's outstanding success in the management of some of the largest construction projects in Australia is directly attributed to effective risk management more than any other technical skill.   It is one of his pet technical subjects.

Alan lectures on Risk Management for courses accredited and certified by the George Washington University and the Regis University of the USA, and for various corporations.

Listening skills

Transactional analysis

Reading body language

Neuro Linguistic programming

Personality/behaviour type evaluation

Using questions to get the right answers

This has been Alan's personal study topic for a decades, and his business record stands as strong testimony to the value of this information when correctly applied in the business environment.  

Alan has also lectured on these topics for universities and for corporations in various countries.

In addition he has written and produced audio albums on this topic, and has produced a book of personal and communication skills for project managers (Alan holds these skills are the same for all works of life, only the context changes)

The principles of preparing and delivering a great public presentation.

Speaking circuit experience

Formal training in certain aspects of presentation.

Setting targets that will be achieved.

Inspiring people to better performance

Monitoring without meddling

Dealing with non performers.

Alan has years of experience selling, and managing the sale of, everything from buildings to aeroplanes to top of the line lingerie