Chuck Martin

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How Social Networking Can Work for Your Business
Does your company use Twitter and why? How is Facebook being used? What about LinkedIn? How does your organization best utilize the wave of social networking mania publicized almost daily in the press? For business, it's not about following celebrities online and roaming from chat room to chat room. Learn how businesspeople are innovating with these new internetworking tools. What about the future uses for Mobile and smartphones? How does all of this tie together? And how can it be used to increase productivity and not be a big time waster? Digital Interactive Pioneer Chuck Martin can help you make sense of it all. Martin is a best-selling author, noted researcher and highly sought-after speaker. He was the founding publisher of Interactive Age, and is a bestselling author of seven business books, including The Digital Estate, Net Future, and (co-author) Max-e-Marketing in the Net Future. He is a former vice president of IBM and is CEO of NFI Research, a global business research institute. He has researched various business aspects of social networking (“three times more senior executives than managers use Twitter for business reasons”). He will research your audience in advance and show in his presentation how wired your group is, comparing this to other businesses overall and lead to an understanding of how the social networking phenomenon can work for your organization.

SMARTS: Hardwired for Success and Leadership
Why do people gravitate toward certain tasks and shy away from others? Chuck Martin answers this question when he uncovers and explains the 12 Executive Skills (actual brain functions that every person has) that can make or break any department or organization. In an enlightening, entertaining and thought-provoking presentation, he provides a groundbreaking blueprint for leaders, managers and administrators to quickly identify and tap into their greatest strengths as well as the strengths of those around them. Martin also shows people how to identify their greatest weaknesses, describing how to get around those weaknesses, after explaining why they cannot be dramatically improved, no matter what. He then details what it takes to identify these traits in others and best practices for leading and managing once this information is understood. Beyond leadership and team building, Martin's lecture inspires every audience member to engage in a self-assessment to help them think differently about how they perform any task and ultimately help them work at peak efficiency.

Tough Management
Work today is more demanding than ever before. With bottom-line focus, organizations large and small are pressed to do more with less in budget-constrained environments. Everyone is affected, as the burden falls on them, the people they manage, their customers, the customers of their customers, and the employees and managers at all those places. This requires a hardened approach by managers, with an eye toward pragmatically achieving results. These tough times demand tough management, a way to approach work. It is a practical, reasonable, and organized way to get to decisions more easily, make the numbers on a consistent basis, have those throughout the ranks understand where you stand, and increase and improve the business.

Work-Life Balance to Improve Your Business
Based on his entertaining and informative book, Coffee at Luna's, Chuck Martin shows audiences how to recognize the three secrets to knowledge, self-improvement, and happiness in work and life. To get off the treadmill of work, leaders, managers and employees need to find it, change it, and pass it on. This involves ways to tune in to those around you, so that you understand what is truly going on. It involves commitment to improve the situation by taking concrete steps. And it ultimately requires you to communicate this knowledge to others around you so that they can also commit to improvement.

Identifying Corporate Business Strategies
Sharing the stage with President Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Dr. Phil, and Lance Armstrong, Chuck Martin advises audiences and companies on how to best cope with today's business challenges. CEO of international market research powerhouse, NFI Research, Martin overseas a global idea exchange and research engine with a network base of 2,000 senior executives from more than 1,000 companies in 50 countries, including: AT&T, GE, American Express, Deloitte & Touche, Microsoft, and IBM. Martin will show your audience a fresh, bottom-line strategy designed for what really works in today's business world.