Seminars in the Philippines

Starting April 2013, I will once again conduct seminars for the public. I will start with public speaking workshops and supervisory leadership workshops.

Workshops that REALLY work.
These seminars in the Philippines are meant to provide what the Filipino professional needs to be world class professionals. We begin with where they are and the programs are tested to help them get the most of seven-hour each day program.

Some seminars are done by one day, others by two-days, and other seminars are for one week.

Remarkable experiences.
We design remarkable experiences. That is what participants to these seminars will surely experience. My project is to create the standard of what learning can be in the Philippines.

I have seen how some international trainers conduct their seminars. Some are filled with information you seem to be drinking on a fireman’s hose.

Others use smoke screens and fantastic fireworks that will bring you delight and excitement but no learning.

We want to provide an experience that will bring them to the mountain top.

Mountain Top Experience
This is why I am choosing Cloud 9 as the first venue of my seminars in the Philippines. Cloud 9 is a hotel located in Antipolo City. It can accommodate 260 people and has 6 function rooms.

I am also eyeing venues in Baguio, Tagaytay, and Sagada.

Mountain tops bring an experience you cannot easily get from the highly urbanized areas in Metro Manila.

Join us
You can find your way to the mountain top. If you want to know more about our seminars, I encourage you to join me. Write an email to inspire@jefmenguin.com

The Power of Presence

Presence makes a person taller and bigger.

I am still on my 21 day challenge on discovering and making presence, engagement, and network. I am making more engagement and I have a larger network now. It is presence that I am constantly working on every day.

I saw presence yesterday while watching the  Balancing Act of the African Acrobats. Every member of the team has immense energy and confident. They know what they were doing and the audience felt their presence.

I still have six more days. I have a lot to share. And I will.

Jef Menguin

 

Keynote and Guest Speaking

My schedule for next three months will be full very soon for speaking engagements. As of now, I am scheduled to keynote three annual assemblies. I am a new hand in keynote speaking. I have to much to learn and the opportunity for experimentation and discovery is great.

I also observed that there is an increasing number of invitation for me to be a guest speaker. For the last two weeks, I got invitation from five universities. Instead of creating pocket speeches for this invitations, I came up with written reflections on how and why guest speakers must prepare. You will find all of these posts in Guest Speaking 101.

Since the month of March and April are a season for commencement exercises , I wrote five posts on how you can become an effective commencement speaker. I will be posting them next week. One day you will be invited to deliver your commencement speech too. You will likely to benefit from these tips which I gave to those who came to me for coaching sessions.

Jef Menguin

 

Related articles

• How to Choose a Keynote Speaker (wisewolftalking.com)
• Thought Leadership Strategy: 3 Steps to the Speaker’s Podium (contentmarketinginstitute.com)
• Keynote Speakers – Be Warned (debbie-carr.com)

 

Be a good person

It is my responsibility to be a good person.- Jessica Rosario

There are times when you want to get even and make others suffer for showing you disrespect. There will come a time that those people who ignore you today will find themselves begging for your help. There will come a time when those who mock you will make you their lord and master. There will come a time…

And when that time comes, always remember that it is your responsibility to be a good person.

You do not have to get even. You are already on top. Do not stoop down. Help them get up and pull them to where you are.

You do not have to make them beg for your help. Help because that’s how you are. Thank them for  pushing you to do your best and get yourself to the top. God somehow uses people in mysterious ways.

Whoever you will become in the future, always remember that it is your responsibility to be a good person.

Jef Menguin

Presence. Engagement. Network.

My new 21 day challenge starts today. The three words presence, engagement,and network are three different goals with overlapping actions. You can help me become successful.

Presence. Wherever I am, I will make my presence felt. I want to feel the positive energy that I bring to them every time I speak and every time I listen to them. They will feel that in the sound of my voice, in my words, in the way I dress myself, and by the manner that I address them. They will feel my presence when I walk towards them and when I walk away from them.

I was in a church last week. I observe people who lifted their hands in worship. I saw some people who look around. I saw in their eyes that they wear lost. People who worshiped God did not feel their presence. I thought,the next time I am with people, I will make them feel that they are not alone. I am there moment by moment.

When I write, I hope people will also feel my presence. As I write, I imagine you reading my words and feeling my emotions. I hope I am creating a positive experience for you now.

Engagement. For the past weeks, I labored to bring my website – Everyday Leadership with Jef Menguin- on top. I was down for almost a month and my initial reaction was to bounce back. Replace the 400 articles with new ones.And I was successful. But I noticed that for four weeks too,there was no engagement between me and my readers. I wrote. They read. Subscribe. And others unsubscribe.

For the next 21 days, I will engage with people who took time to subscribe, comment, and shared my posts. I will go beyond that.

I will also engage with my previous clients. I will touch-base with them. I want them to know that I remember them and the partnerships we had together last year and the years before that. Are you one of them? Please shoot me an email.

Network. I will expand my space. I will go out more often and meet more people. Last week, I liked most of what I wrote because they were experiences with people. I will make more efforts to make friends and find opportunities to be of help to them.

I am expecting to speak to more than a thousand people this month. Most of them are nameless faces. I will know their names. We shall create spaces together.

I hope you will visit again because I will be telling you my experiences while doing these experiments.

To your progress,

Jef Menguin

What to look for a motivational speaker?

I republished my article on 24/7 motivational speaker. My contention is that although motivational speakers are honest people and all willing to help, the best person who can motivate employees are the leaders. No motivational speaker can undo demotivation caused by poor management style.

I admire the motivational speakers in the Philippines. They are full of energy and are very passionate with what they believe in. However, most of them are mostly sizzles and do not bring the steak.

My recommendation: if ever you get a motivational speaker, get one with experience and expertise in your industry. When you meet them, ask for specific techniques and suggestions they will give.

Let their expertise, not the topics like positive thinking or abundance mentality, be the differentiator. The expertise makes the motivational unique. Motivational ideas are dime-a-dozen.

Daily Leadership Seminar Opportunities

Everyday for the next 90 days, I will be providing leaders in the Philippines to get the opportunity to bring my seminars to their organization. This is just an experiment. I know that not everyone who is given the chance to become effective leaders grab the opportunities given to them. I know also that not everyone believes that this man Jef Menguin can give them something.

Man does not always trust someone he does not know.

This project is my opportunity to show them what I can offer. You can find these daily seminar promotions here.