Lead with kindness
I teach leaders to use kindness to make life easy on their teams and ultimately themselves
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To Be an Effective and Focused Leader with Minimal Stress, Frustration, and Conflict in Your Life, You Have to Make Things Easy on Yourself
But How do You do that When…
I can show you how to get to easy street. As an executive in the high-profile med-tech space for the past 14 years, I’m in the trenches and am focused on making the way easy. As a professional speaker I have talks that guide leaders on how to Make it Easy, Keep it Easy, and be Virtually Easy.
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Make it Easy
No one likes it when things are needlessly difficult. Be it at work, at home, or in relationships, “difficult” is exhausting. But, when there is too much difficulty, we get stressed, irritable, unhappy, frustrated, and the list goes on. As leaders, we especially feel the weight of this when problems arise from the areas we’re leading.
This presentation guides leaders to easy street by helping them to understand the importance of kindness. It inspires and motivates managers, administrators, executives, and leaders to make kindness towards their teams a priority by showing how it will make their own lives easier and magically remove unnecessary difficulties.
After this talk, you will be able to
- Identify the three areas of influence that produce the most difficulty for you
- Determine which of your difficulties are self-inflicted
- Employ four strategies to quickly Make it Easy on yourself
Keep it Easy
So you learned to Make it Easy, and you want to keep it going? Perhaps you have things humming along but are starting to see difficulties appear here and there. Unfortunately, making things easy is only half the battle. Keeping things easy can be ironically difficult.
This talk teaches how to maintain your life on easy street and build a defense against the demons of difficulty that are constantly trying to sabotage your life.
This presentation will show you
- What the primary component of keeping it easy is
- Why it’s so easy for things to become difficult
- How to foster the ongoing process of keeping it easy
Virtually Easy
What’s the easiest way to work? In your pajamas, of course! Having done it for over 14 years, I can confidently say that I was a virtual manager before being a virtual manager was cool. Being virtual doesn’t have to be complicated. Let me show you the easiest way to manage a virtual team.
This session will show how it’s not about specific tools or cloud vendors but about the approach you take with your team.
This lesson will teach you
- What you need to focus on when managing a virtual team
- Why you need to learn to “let it go”
- How to maintain a sense of camaraderie and teamwork when not being together in-person
About
I kicked off my career as a consultant in the Dallas, Texas, area, guiding businesses on using technology to boost productivity and profits. My clients ranged from staffing firms to sports conferences, with many in medical and dental offices. For the past 17+ years, I’ve been a CIO and COO for a leading orthopedic software company and now serve as a Global Operations Lead for a global professional services firm, overseeing operations and support teams across multiple continents while managing multimillion-dollar budgets. As a fractional COO and Culture and Operations Strategist, I specialize in building thriving cultures and streamlining operations. I’ve spoken thousands of times across four industries, equally at home on-stage or virtual. Beyond speaking, I’m a musician, singing and playing bass. I live in the Dallas area with my wife. We have 3 grown children and 2 grandchildren. When I’m not simplifying the complex, I dive into board games, books, movies, and the occasional bike ride.
Testimonials
“I asked Micah to speak at an executive’s dinner in Dallas. Micah’s presentation on being easy to work with was well received with positive feedback from the attendees. He definitely has a message that resonated.”
“Micah speaks regularly to our team and his focus on making things easy for our customers and each other has been foundational to our company culture. His talks, whether virtual or in-person, are engaging, relatable and actionable with just the right amount of humor.”
“Micah Jones is simultaneously serious and fun. His powerful insights inspire changes that strengthen a cooperative spirit in working relationships and helps people to rise and discover solutions that yield growth and a marked increase in productivity.”
“Micah has spoken to our team multiple times and we’ve always enjoyed him! He speaks with a great sense of humor, and his relevant illustrations, and ability to speak directly to the listener really drive home his point. Getting us to laugh and think really does help when trying to change.“
