Amanda Gore

THE POWER OF JOY
How Joy Changes Cultures and Performance

You were born with the capacity for joy! Science shows us that by the time you were 7, your pure ‘operating system’ of love and joy was infected with viruses, malware, apps, and other people’s programs! Joy at work boosts sales by 37%, increases productivity 31%, reduces errors 18% and boosts chances of promotion 40%. Joy matters!
Your brain can be rewired for joy. This session teaches you how. It includes how to stop stress killing you; how to be resilient; how to be your best version; how to re-focus on what matters, and take responsibility for your choices and behavior!

Everything in business is about feelings. Trust, empathy, confidence, cooperation, collaboration, leadership, responses to change - these are just some of the elements (feelings) that create a great culture and team.

This keynote is aimed at helping people feel good about themselves - which changes the way they interact with everyone else - colleagues, clients, and family.

Amanda presents profound concepts, in an entertaining way that:

- Changes people's perceptions of themselves and others

- Engages and energizes

- Gives them specific strategies to bust stress, lead more effectively, fear less, deal with change and collaborate effectively.

Amanda will cover the latest new sciences of stress, epigenetics, emotional intelligence, and neuroscience - which will not only show you how to reduce the impact of stress but also how to change your reactions to it permanently!

Did you know that what people believe about stress or stressful situations is the 15th biggest killer of humans in the USA? But it is potentially a source of great resilience, productivity, engagement and courage when handled correctly. It's time to get real about what is causing our stress.

THE JOYFUL TEAM
How a Growth Mindset, Engages, Motivates and Changes Cultures

Did you know that science shows us 95-99% of the time we are UN-conscious of our thinking and beliefs? Only 5% of the time are we present and aware of what is going on inside us! The stories we tell ourselves i.e. what we are thinking creates our life, performance, and relationships. This session teaches how to change our thinking/story - which changes the life you create - at work and home!
The major disruptor to collaborative teams, joy-filled workplaces, and high-performance sales and service is ‘stinking thinkin’ as Zig Ziglar used to say!

One energy sucker will bring the whole group down.

Beliefs, the stories we tell themselves about ourselves, our colleagues, customers, bosses, and the company determines our feelings and behavior. Our beliefs control our nonverbal communication which affects all relationships. Our beliefs determine the culture we create around us and the unconscious choices we are making every moment.

It's time to remember we control our thinking and we choose to make conscious choices or not.

This session can change perceptions, relationships, personal accountability, enthusiasm, engagement, energy, and culture. But wait - there’s more! It can also help people adopt a more positive approach to change. While they laugh.

THE JOY FORMULA
7 Ways to Build Resilience and Restore Work-Life Balance. It is Possible!

Did you know that new research shows us what we believe about stress decides if our bodies react negatively or not? Our perceptions rule our reality and in part, create our environment. How we think about life balance also determines the physiological and psychological impact. The Joy Formula is a simple and easy way to review important aspects of our lives and become aware of imbalances that then allows us to make a plan to improve that balance - or at least, make us feel we have a sense of control over our lives!
'Busy-ness’ is the new ‘disease’ impacting almost everyone. Rushing and having the perception (and reality) of ‘too much to do’ can destroy mental clarity and physical health. Constant social media comparisons and addictions don't help.

Understanding the 3 possible stress responses and channeling them in the right way changes everything! How we feel, how we respond to those events and how others, in turn, respond or react.

Amanda will discuss, The Life Pizza which is a simple and easy way to review important aspects of our lives and become aware of imbalances in what areas are most important to us and what areas we put most of our attention on - which then allows us to make a plan to improve that balance. It is also a way to introduce the concept of resilience and teach them several ‘resilience strategies’. This is an engaging experience that sends people out of the room laughing and determined to balance their ‘life pizza’!

THE JOY OF MINDSETS
3 Must-Have Skills for Change

You are not your mindset - but your mindset creates your life! Understanding mindsets and mindfulness changes your brain and improves performance, leadership, decision making, creativity; reduces anxiety, stress, depression, and reactivity; they increase energy, wellbeing and make you happier. This session will show you simple ways to stop being mindless, be more present, more effective - and more joyful!
Being mindful is ‘waking up’ - about becoming more conscious - and living more consciously - which is one of Amanda's core themes. Most of us are running on habits and patterns of thinking from our past! We don’t even know those patterns are subconsciously programming our present.

Think about driving a car. How mindful were you in your first few lessons? Now, how often do you arrive home and you don’t even know how you got there - yet you were driving the car! This is a common theme with anything we learn - we are mindful in the beginning and then we become mindless!

The difference between a growth mindset and a fixed one is the difference between a joyful life and a stressed, unhappy one; between a joyful team and a dysfunctional one; a great culture or a toxic one.

Here are 3 things you can do to be mindful, not mindless.

1. Observe your thinking!

2. Question rather than assume!

3. Reframe and find gratitude.

This is one of the practical skills discussed - Observe your ‘mind-state’ all day today - with the goal in mind of becoming aware every time you are mindless! Every time you are not present. Every time you are trapped in a pattern of thinking from the past that creates fear. Then STOP - OBSERVE - QUESTION to become mindful again. Be the one who is mindful of their mindset!

NEUROSCIENCE OF SALES
How to Develop a Buyers Mindset

People have not fundamentally changed for a thousand years but science has. The 'operating system' of a human is not binary based! It's more like quantum computing and runs on feelings. Learn new, neuroscience-based practical skills and strategies to re-engage your sales force in a way that leaves everyone feeling recharged and resilient.
Using Amanda's signature experience creating, humor loaded yet fact-filled style, people will walk away thinking differently about sales and how they interact with others.

Transforming sales results begins with transforming our thinking, perceptions, actions, and choices. Knowing precise ways to interact with others to prove that we are competent, trustworthy and safe (a feeling) is required for top performance.

Learn new, science-based ways to:

- Be resilient and keep yourself motivated and enthusiastic
- Develop a modern sales mindset and understand the buyer mindset
- Change the perception of customers
- Listen properly (hardly anyone does)
- Connect non verbally (instantly)
- Establish life long relationships (in a short time) that create advocates not just customers

HOW TO PRESENT
Influence and Connect with Impact

Public speaking is listed higher than death for many people! Amanda has been an internationally acclaimed speaker for 30 years by continuously studying and upgrading her group dynamic skills! She is one of 4 international speakers inducted into the speaker hall of fame in the USA.
When we speak - there are 2 levels to consider. One is the content that must be relevant, appropriate and interesting. The other - the magic - is the process. The process is how the messages are delivered and it is the 'difference that makes the difference’.
It’s the magic that makes the content memorable; it creates the experience and the environment that allows people to make the changes they want to. It inspires. It entertains. It is the difference between a brilliant impact and a mediocre, forgettable one.
Learn some of this magic and practical skills to increase your influence when you deliver an idea or present; to improve how you deal with challenges and overcome objections non verbally, and to increase your confidence so you actually can enjoy presenting to a group of people - no matter what size.