Meet Keynote Speaker Marilyn Sherman, who has spent years motivating and inspiring audiences to get out of their comfort zone and get a front-row seat in life. After starting her career in corporate America, she is now seen as the go-to motivational keynote speaker for corporate and association markets that want their people to improve their morale, teamwork, and communication skills and ultimately achieve more results. With her background as a training officer for a major finance company, Marilyn honed her skills to motivate audiences who are often hard to motivate. With her engaging, and fun personality, Marilyn connects with her audiences immediately and delivers content that they can immediately use when they get back to their office.
How do you handle change with faced with it in your organization? People handle change very differently and some are more successful than others. I have three strategies to help you navigate the uncharted waters when you, your team, your organization is going through change.
What does win-win mean to you? Whenever you give your time or talent or lend someone your ear, without any expectation of receiving anything in return, you can’t help feel good about yourself.
Going home for the holidays is stressful! One reason why people have so much anxiety is because of the fear of judgement. People feel judged about their choices: work choices, lifestyle choices, relationship choices, even food and drink choices!
Have you ever heard the phrase “You gotta have all of your ducks lined up in a row” before you venture out on achieving a big goal? I want to encourage you that you don’t need to have all of your ducks lined up, you just need your END duck!
Have you ever passed judgement on someone and found out later you were completely wrong?
It’s human nature to pass judgement on people without knowing them. What makes it worse is most people pass judgement to the negative.
If you are fortunate enough to still have your mom, do yourself a favor and ask what the secret to success is and sit back and listen. I did just that with my mom as she is recovering from a stay in the hospital.
What quotes do you live by? That was question posed to me by a student at High Point University after hearing my keynote to his freshman class. That got me thinking of great quotes that have impacted me throughout my life. Let’s face it, life is a journey filled with ups and downs, challenges, and triumphs.
One way to stay front-row positive in a balcony negative world is to seek out and find positive human nature stories. One of my favorites is of the sacrifice of Father Maximilian Kolbe, trading his life for another in a concentration camp.
With so much in the world today that you cannot control, the one thing you can control is your willingness to show someone kindness. It doesn’t take much either. For example a year ago this week I was honored to keynote a Nissan event in Vegas.
There is a debate about using Artificial Intelligence to write books, blogs, and even term papers and whether it’s okay. Especially in schools where some people are thinking that it’s cheating while others think enhancing writing using A.I. is a great idea. That is not a debate for today’s Front-Row Friday message. Today, I want to encourage you to work on this one skill in case anyone questions your writing: Oral communications.