Everyone Deserves a Great Manager

What made you a successful employee won’t necessarily make you a great manager, and the reality is that most people don’t receive formal leadership training until twelve years after their promotion into management.

Everyone Deserves a Great Manager delivers the guidance you expect to receive when you’re promoted: the support, understanding, strategies, and tactics to develop as a leader and turn your people into an engaged, high-performing team.

Based on nearly a decade of research, the 6 Critical Practices will give you a head start in building the competence and confidence you need to succeed as a first-time manager.

Scott Jeffrey Miller not only teaches you how to think like a leader, he also gives you practical tools and actionable steps to implement on the job. The skill-based keynote covers managerial essentials— like holding 1-on-1s, giving feedback, delegating, building team culture, and leading remote teams—and includes tools such as handy card deck the audience can follow along with during the presentation.

Management Mess to Leadership Success: 30 Challenges to Become the Leader YOU Would Follow

Your leadership skills are about to change.

Millions have read the all-time global bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey.

Both leaders and individuals have been inspired and transformed by its universal principles of effectiveness, including Scott Jeffrey Miller.

Scott Miller knows what it’s like to fail. He was demoted from his first leadership position after only three weeks—and that’s just one of several messy management experiences on his two-decade journey to leadership success. Everyone fails. But something sets Scott apart: transparency and willingness to openly share his story in a way that is forthright, relatable, and applicable. You can become a better leader.

In Scott’s Management Mess to Leadership Success keynote, you’ll find 30 leadership challenges (tailored to the audience) that can, when applied, change the way you manage yourself, lead others, and produce results.

The wisdom in Scott’s keynote was learned through hard knocks and was honed by Stephen R. Covey and the FranklinCovey team through years of research and corporate training experience.

Learn to:

• Lead difficult conversations, and celebrate success.
• Inspire trust, actively listen, and challenge paradigms.
• Put the right people in the right roles.
• Create a clear and actionable team vision.
• Get the right results―in the right way.

Marketing Mess to Brand Success: 30 Challenges to Transform Your Organization's Brand (and Your Own)

In Scott Miller’s massively popular keynote, he reveals 30 career obstacles that you may encounter in your brand marketing and how to transform them into company-wide gains.

Every success story begins with a journey. Featuring thirty challenges (that can be tailored to any audience) with lessons such as “A Name is Not a Lead” and “Friend Your Competition,” Marketing Mess to Brand Success shares a career worth of valuable lessons learned.

Fast-track your career and success with the mentality of bruising hard, but healing fast.

Whether you're starting a new company, figuring out a direct marketing strategy, or trying to land your first job as a marketing manager, this keynote is designed to prepare you for many of the inevitable challenges that you will encounter.

Avoid marketing messes and square up to successes.

Each challenge in this keynote features real-life lessons that teach you the importance of brand marketing in business development. By being focused and aligned with the right areas of an organization, you will ensure career relevance.

Learn how to:

• Navigate a nebulous digital marketing environment.
• Maximize time and investments with sales marketing strategies.
• Build and model consistent brand standards.
• Become an expert in brand marketing, and take your company to the next level.

Career on Course: 10 Strategies to Take Your Career from Accidental to Deliberate

Most careers unfold accidentally, haphazardly, and with too much serendipity. That means lost traction, lost years, and lost opportunities. But your career doesn't have to be that way!

Career on Course unpacks the 10 steps that will take your career from accidental to intentional. Drawing upon insights and best practices from three decades in professional and leadership development, Scott Jeffrey Miller shares his proven process for creating a plan that empowers you to take control of your career.

Based on his own successes and failures, and those that he's watched from both high-performing and frustrated professionals, Scott shows you how to know your professional values, develop your long-term plan, define and build your brand and even more!

The most successful professionals are those who have clarity, have a plan, live in accordance with their values, and know how to pivot in the face of disruption. Whether you're just starting your career or you've found yourself stuck somewhere in the middle, this keynote will help you get your career on course.

The Ultimate Guide to Great Mentorship: 13 Roles to Making a True Impact

The Ultimate Guide to Great Mentorship keynote features 13 distinct mentoring roles that ensure anyone– regardless of experience, education, or career success– can rise to the level of great mentorship.

The 13 roles include: Role 1: The Revealer Role 2: The Boundary Setter Role 3: The Absorber Role 4: The Questioner Role 5: The Challenger Role 6: The Validator Role 7: The Navigator Role 8: The Visionary Role 9: The Flagger The Certification Role 10: The Distiller Role 11: The Activator Role 12: The Connector Role 13: The Closer