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Disney Customer Service Speaker jeff noel
Does anyone care about last week’s closing keynote speech to 600 International Guests – and the standing ovation? No.

 

Map My Run screen shot
Does anyone care that i had an all-expenses-paid trip to Montreal and got to run through the city before flying home? No.

 

Facebook work, also known as our job or our career.

Is Facebook a hack (a “short-cut cheat” for avoiding the hard work, and risk, of creating our own platform – owning and managing a domain name – on our very own piece of digital real estate?

Do we really want to rely on our Facebook friends to become better informed about our world? (Because some of our friends have the time to act as curators, and they post what they think their “audience” will appreciate and enjoy)

Do we really want to push our world view on our friends without ever having their permission (because we never ask, “Would you like to hear what i think about ______?)?

Do we have any idea why we use Facebook, or have we just been swept up in the socially popular current and never creating our own personal vision of how and why we use Facebook (versus our own domain/website)?

And what about all our friends who we are not (for whatever reason) connected with? Does that mean we aren’t friends, or does it mean that we are not good friends?

 

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How did you used to do it?

Montreal Convention Center
First AV check

 

Montreal Convention Center
Second AV check

 

Disney Customer Service Speaker
600 people staring at you expecting you to be smart and funny.

 

Disney Customer Service Keynote Speaker
Keeping it simple is extraordinarily taxing because simple is easily dismissed as not valid.

 

First keynote speaking engagement outside of Florida since retiring from 30 incredible years at Disney. Which, by the way, has always been the plan – to be able to leave my driveway (to speak) and return to it the same day, without hopping on a plane.

Don’t know how i used to do it week after week.

Fly all day. AV check. Dinner. Review presentation (again). Sleep.

Wake. Breakfast. Review presentation. First one in the room for another AV check. Facilitate transformational content all day. Last one to leave the room. Dinner. Check email and do admin stuff. Bed.

Often, the above step is repeated several days in a row.

Wake. Maybe a run. Taxi to airport. Fly all day. Maybe home by dinner time. Maybe not.

Not home in time for dinner last night, Friday the 13th.

 

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Entrepreneurial vision

Disney Conference Keynote Speaker
Room transformed after lunch.

 

Disney Conference speaker
Time to ‘mic up’. My “handler” was exceptional. Former IBM exec.

 

Teddy bear prop Disney Speaker
Setting the “visual aid” in a convenient space before Guests arrive.

 

Disney Conference Keynote Speaker
Conference means “Speaker”.

 

Welcome slide at Customer service conference
Welcome. Almost “show time”.

 

Disney Conference Keynote Speaker
Waiting in the back with my “handler”…as my introduction concludes.`

 

Entrepreneurial vision.

 

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Boring versus not perfect

ATT International text
Wifi is the best option. But that means no checking for messages as soon as you land. Weird.

 

Reliable (aka boring, because of it’s predictability ) versus something that’s not perfect, not reliable? Which would you pick? A reliably consistent speaker who entertains the audience and looks good onstage in their cuff links or pearl necklace? Or would you pick the unpredictable artist who is likely to say things that some might take offense to, or at the very least, listen in disbelief, while others – sitting beside them – have the missing link that launches their transformation?

 

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Three thrilled clients and a list of other things

Disney Rest Room
Disney Epcot Restroom. My client didn’t know why mirrors aren’t placed above sinks.

 

Epcot Disney Rest Room
Moving the mirror (center wall next to exit) away from the sink helps Guest traffic flow better.

 

Three thrilled clients and a list of other things.

Looking back, yesterday was super productive (as are all days). Of course, the usual two hours of writing, reading, praying, and thinking before sunrise. Then a walking meeting with a potential client at 7:20am – around Epcot.

Then home for three client calls. One with a potential marketing partner, another with an existing client to review progress, and then a call with a potential 2016 client.

In between, daily admin stuff, and review of Thursday’s speech for the umpteenth time. Like an Olympic athlete visualizing their event.

 

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