As a “highly original”, “inspirational” and “world class” speaker, Tim’s unique and highly acclaimed practical, participative presentation, MARRIAGE GUIDANCE FOR BUSINESS LOVERS ® whether delivered as a keynote or as a seminar, has consistently gained scores around 90% from business audiences in the UK and abroad during 2009 and into 2010.

Direction, Trust and Performance, in this sequence, are eternal truths for both business and personal relationships. It is only time and circumstance that changes.

The better the quality of relationships you have with your colleagues, staff, stakeholders and customers, the better will be the performance of your business.

In organisations when we can find out what makes us uniquely special we are in a strong position to discover what makes others special too. It is the synergy between our professional competences and our human characteristics that signifies our particular contribution to the organisation. Consider practical aspects of our personality, the way we use energy and time, our behaviour, intelligence, patterns of thinking and experience. We enhance performance by nurturing great relationships which are key to innovation and creativity, and ultimately to developing and sustaining competitive advantage.

Tim engages his audience with just two keys (but no Power Point). He then takes delegates on a journey from the limitations of explicit knowledge to the power of their own unique tacit knowledge, from complexity to simplicity.

It is always important to research audience needs well before the event. This trade association agreed to release the contact details of a selection of their members attending the event beforehanin order d, to ascertain the broad themes that business leaders wanted to address.

Since this keynote goes right to the heart of any organisation it iinfinitely adaptable to business s audiences. On this occasion, the crucial links between dynamic strategic planning, high trust relationships and superb performance were all part of the overview, but delegates were particularly interested in how to go about the issue of high trust relationships. The overview is always an essential part of MARRIAGE GUIDANCE FOR BUSINESS LOVERS ® because you cannot achieve high trust relationships without firstly clarifying direction. Furthermore, an organisation needs to know how to ‘do’ both direction and trust in order to develop and sustain excellent performance.

Knowing these topical areas of interest beforehand allowed us to build the emphasis of the keynote with a Q & A session at the end. We were then able to plan a dynamic, practical, highly interactive breakout workshop next day.

The Meeting Planners were especially keen to monitor and evaluate the long term impact of the keynote and the workshop. In this case part of the workshop was for the delegates to formulate an Action Plan that set out: