KEYNOTES, WORKSHOPS & COACHING
FORMATS
Keynotes & Seminars
Focused power sessions
20 minutes to 90 minutes
Workshops
Breakouts & team engagement.
60 minutes to 3 hours
Workshops +
Coaching
The workshops, plus individual or small group coaching sessions.
Both personal & hands-on applicable, making the biggest impact on individual improvement.
60 minutes
Topics
Life Equilibrium:
Discover, Design, and Dominate Your Life Balance
Development Area: Life Balance
Could you say confidently that you have balance in your life? Could you articulate what exactly life balance looks like for you? Or does it end up being a vague “feeling” such as “I feel like I work too much.”
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This transformative session turns vague gut feelings into a simple, achievable plan for your life balance. You'll use the Gladiator Life Balance Quadrants™ to harmonize your personal sphere with your professional sphere. Through engaging activities and thought-provoking discussions, you'll uncover the secrets to achieving life equilibrium.
Bring your calendar and come prepared to:
Complete your own Gladiator Life Balance Quadrants™ to find what life balance looks like for you specifically.
Practice planning your week in advance for life balance.
Discuss tips/tricks/hacks on planning your week.
Gain insights into what exactly feeds good life balance, to put you in the driver’s seat to steer your own life balance.
Embark on a path towards self-care, personal growth, and sustainable success. You'll emerge with a renewed sense of purpose and strategies to maintain a fulfilling, balanced life.
You will leave this session with a working plan for your own life balance.
“I really took away a lot from the Life Balance Quadrants, and just a little bit of time and a little bit of planning can really make a big impact on your whole life.”
Time Alchemy:
Unlock Your Time’s Worth & Hack your Way Back To Free Time
Development Area: Time Management
Ever feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day? Think about all the things you’d do if you had more time? Get sucked into social media and before you know it, half an hour has passed? Miss out on date night because there just wasn’t time for it?
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Stop wasting the time you have! Let’s revolutionize the way you perceive and utilize time. We’ll delve into the art of time management & discover the hidden strategies that highly successful (and busy) individuals employ to achieve extraordinary time management results. A series of engaging exercises and thought-provoking discussions provide you with practical tools and techniques to unlock the full potential of your time.
In this session, we will:
Calculate the $/hour value of your personal and work time.
Discuss tactics to overcome common time-wasters and time-sucks.
Review an extensive list of ways to automate and outsource tasks.
Examine applying your personal formula on when to “buy back your time”.
Time is the currency of your life…Spend it wisely.
NOTE: There’s been so much interest in the specific apps/hacks/ideas shared in this session that there’s now a follow-on “level up” session available with more than 100 additional tips, tricks, and hacks.
“Brian conducted a training at the MSRB on Life Hacks that was great! His presentation style is friendly and inclusive which lends itself to a healthy and productive environment for learning...The takeaways were plentiful in this class! I’m already looking into having Brian come back to conduct another training. I highly recommend the Life Hacks session!”
Inbox Inferno:
Potent Hacks For A Supernatural Inbox Game
Development Area: Email
Do you manage your email or does it manage you? Do you often feel overwhelmed by your inbox? What’s your system for how to prioritize and organize the daily onslaught? How do you differentiate between emails that are tasks and those that are FYIs?
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Take control of your overflowing inbox and reclaim your productivity. Discover the secrets to achieving inbox nirvana and regain valuable time and mental clarity. It’s tactics on how to process your inbox, use email rules, maximize hidden email settings, and defend against the siege of spam. Let’s make your inbox work for you. In this workshop we talk about both basic and advanced concepts which include:
The 4-D approach to processing your inbox.
OHIO - Only Handle It Once.
Email settings you can adjust which are game changers.
Rules and Filters: What they are and how they work.
Organization Tips: Folders, tags, labels, etc.
How to adapt when the number of emails grows — 100 emails a day? 200? 500? 1000?
Discover the path to a more organized, efficient, and stress-free email experience. Take charge of your inbox today.
“...Good approach to reframing your relationship with email to make it work for you, easy how-to guidance on settings and rules that are easily customizable, and engaging presentation style...”
The Recall Request:
Total Task, To-Do List, &
Memory Mastery
Development Area: To-Do List, Focus & Prioritization
How do you handle everything else besides email coming at you? Teams/Slack messages? Your boss texts you a request? Your family member requests a few things from the store? Ever forgotten something important and sat there racking your brain trying to remember what it was?
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In this immersive workshop, you'll learn proven techniques for crafting effective to-do lists and prioritize your tasks like a productivity champion. Learn to optimize your workflow, eliminate distractions, and conquer your to-do list with confidence. No more forgetting. Learn:
The best tools and apps to record your thoughts and to-do’s
How & where to capture what you need to remember, and what you need to do.
The Gladiator Calm-In-Chaos process, to prioritize when it feels like there’s just too much.
Where, when, and how to ask for help from the people counting on you.
The power of lists and checklists, and when/where to use them.
You'll emerge with the tools and techniques to stay focused, motivated, and on top of your game. Don't settle for mediocrity and chaos. Embrace the power of effective to-do list management and prioritize your way to unprecedented achievements. Finally remember everything & get it all done!
“The content vastly exceeded my expectations and Brian is a very engaging speaker so I would most definitely recommend his lectures to anyone seeking self-development”
“This Meeting Could Have Been An Email”
Meeting Tactics Worth Your Time
Development Area: Meeting Effectiveness
Tired of thinking, "This meeting is a waste of time!" or "This could have been an email"? Discover what sets up a meeting for success, what are powerful alternatives to meetings, and learn when to take a different approach.
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In this interactive session, you'll learn the answers to the question, “should this be a meeting?”
What You'll Gain:
Meeting Efficiency
Understand precisely when a meeting is essential and when it's not, saving you valuable time and boosting productivity.Meeting Effectiveness
Uncover the crucial elements that make a meeting truly effective, ensuring your team's time is invested wisely.Meeting Alternatives
Discover innovative options and creative solutions beyond “lets have a meeting”.Hybrid Meeting Checklist
Navigate the complexities of hybrid meetings with a practical checklist, ensuring both in-person & virtual attendees stay connected.
Leave this session with answers to your burning questions about meetings. Level up your own meeting skills, and take with you actionable recommendations for making your team's meetings more successful than ever before.
“Brian is not only a pro at organizing his own life, he’s a pro at teaching others how to be organized. His workshops are thoughtfully constructed, evenly paced, and immediately applicable. I didn’t feel overwhelmed, but I felt challenged to start up some new habits. Super thankful for Productivity Gladiator!”
THESE SESSIONS Are REVOLUTIONARY IF your team Has EVER:
Consistently had more than 10 emails in your inbox.
Had someone at work or at home follow-up with you because they did not hear back from you.
Said or thought, “Oops, I totally forgot about that.”
Procrastinated when they had a lot to do.
Struggled because they felt overwhelmed or didn’t know where to start.
Felt like there was something missing from their life and couldn’t quite “put their finger on it”.
Thought their quality of life was suffering because there just aren’t enough hours in the day.
What Participants Say About It…