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An inspirational, entertaining speaker who has a passion for his subject. Few speakers have the ability to deliver powerful life changing messages as they make their audiences laugh. Shay McConnon is one of them.
Psychologist Shay’s background in psychology and education has enabled him to develop some unique and creative ways for enabling people to make behavioural shifts. He is regarded as a leading authority on people issues.
Educationalist Shay spent 15 years in Special Education, teaching young people who had emotional and behavioural difficulties. He wrote a series of books, enabling students to develop social skills and enhance self-esteem. These were published by Macmillan and formed the basis of many Personal and Social Education Programmes around the world.
Managing Director, He is the founder of People First, an international Training and Consultancy group that specialises in creating winning relationships in the workplace. Shay and his associates work with leading companies in the UK, continental Europe and the USA.
Author He is the author of 17 books on personal development and has recently been commissioned to write a series of self-help books for the High Street based on his highly acclaimed Winning Relationships Programme.
Magician Shay has entertained professionally as a magician with appearances at the Savoy and the Ritz in London. His flair for entertaining, combined with his academic background, creates a unique presentation style, which sets Shay apart from others.
Professional Speaker- Founding member of the Professional Speaker’s Association (UK) - A fellow of the PSA - Speaking regularly at conferences globally. - Exciting – entertaining– inspiring - Only book Shay if you want something transformational and a bit different. Clients: Barclays Bank PLC, British Aerospace, PepsiCo Foods, Siemens, WWF International, Sony
Collaborative Leadership Despite billions being spent on leadership globally; we keep on having the same old costly people problems. There is a need for a new approach, one that is more transformational and less informational. This is the How To.
•Create special people who will give you special results
•Engage staff and get them tasking ownership
•Create the collaborative culture.
Winning Relationships First class businesses have first class relationships. Shay brings fresh insights into work and domestic relationships with lots of humour.
•Create collaborative relationships
•Understand, predict and influence behaviour
•Get the best from everyone.
An Even Better Place to Work – Employee Engagement Shay gives you not only the Why and the What of engagement but the How To. He will show you how to create highly engaged people and make your place of work an even better place to work.
•Create staff who feel valued, motivated and energised.
•Embed the What am I going to do? not What is management going to do for me? mind-set.
One day workshops delivered internally
High Performing Teams People come to work to have their needs met, and if they are not, expect low morale, absenteeism, attrition and unhappy people. Using some fun, easy to use activities, discover the needs of your colleagues and explore ways they can be met even more.
•Higher levels of collaboration
•Improved performance and productivity
•Greater sense of belonging
Collaborative Leadership Despite billions being spent on leadership globally; we keep on having the same old costly people problems. There is a need for a new approach, one that is more transformational and less informational. This is the How To.
•Create special people who give you special results.
•Engage staff and get them taking ownership.
•Create the collaborative culture.
Conflict to Collaboration - 4 Steps Conflict eats into time, morale and profits. It is the largest reducible cost for many organisations. Conflict is likely but not inevitable and is seldom constructive. Tolerating conflict just does not makegood business sense.
•Understand why we are different from and often difficult for each other.
•Learn the 4 steps that diffuse explosive situations.
•Create lasting win-win.
An Even Better Place to Work –Employee Engagement Shay gives you not only the Why and the What of engagement but the How To. He will show you how to create highly engaged people and make your place of work an even better place to work.
•Create staff who feel valued, motivated and energised.
•Embed the What am I going to do? not What is management going to do for me?mind-set.
Feedback not bite back! Feedback is the most powerful, the most ill-used and underused management tool. Feedback is key to building and sustaining people’s motivation and performance levels. Using real life examples, Shay shows you how to give feedback so people will be open to what you have to say.
•Make it easy and safe for people to give feedback
•Transform you versus me to us against the problem
•Create the feedback culture.
