Disney Business Seminars are expensive

Disney Institute class in Washington State is $339 for non-Chamber Members.

Disney offers discounts for volume. Most smart companies do.

The $339 non-member fee is determined by the individual Chambers of Commerce. PS. $339 per person is a bargain for 6-hours of content in an 8-hour day (subtract 1-hour for lunch and 1-hour for two 30-minute breaks to get this).

Different Disney Business Session, even more expensive than the first…same content, different host Chamber.

This one is $110 more ($450) if you do early-bird registration, and $210 more ($550) if you wait.

Disney Business Speakers are expensive, as you would expect…you get what you pay for.

Essentially the day is four 90-minute keynotes (totaling 6 hours of content) of Leadership Excellence, Employee Engagement, Customer Service, Brand Loyalty – and then Disney Creativity insights sprinkled here and there throughout the day.

See, it’s 830am – 430pm. Eight hours total, minus one hour for lunch and a 30-minute morning break and a 30-minute afternoon break. Six content hours.

Disney Business Speakers – this fee is $697, but remember, these are Canadian rates.

Read ’em and weep. That’s a lot of money for six hours of content.

How does this look in California?

Different offering here. Still one day, but entirely Customer Service content. A six-hour content bargain at $400 for non-members.

You get what you pay for.

Continuous improvement is seen in only two ways – which is it for you?

An expense?
An investment?

World-class Business Seminars are expensive.

Disney Business Seminars are expensive too.

And worth every penny.

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Walt Disney taught me

The highest compliment you could receive from Walt Disney was a thumbs up. (and on rare occasions, two thumbs up)

Walt Disney taught me that we should take our jobs very seriously but not to take ourselves too seriously.

He also said that it’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

Life is too short and work is too important to not have fun while you do them both.

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Disney Keynote Speaker Google description from LinkedIn

Crossing a busy intersection as we biked home from dinner, we watched the Magic Kingdom fireworks from the sidewalk.

LinkedIn recommendation from Disney Institute colleague Paul Grossman:

I have had the distinct pleasure of working with Jeff and am compelled to write briefly about him. I was fortunate enough to frequently “share a stage” with Jeff when I was at the Disney Institute. Jeff possesses a ferocious mix: comprehensive knowledge of his content, passion to share it, ability to do it successfully, and raw talent. Each speech, class, event or workshop he conducts, his goal is nothing short of a standing ovation, which I have seen him receive with amazing regularity. When it comes to conveying a compelling, important message that can have real impact on an organization, Jeff in particular and my other former colleagues at the Disney Institute are, quite simply, among the best in the world.

So, to shorten this for Google, how about:

Jeff possesses a ferocious mix: comprehensive knowledge of his content, passion to share it, ability to do it successfully, and raw talent.

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Making a great first impression in your organization

Jody’s episode is worth a listen from start to finish. However, if you’re pressed for time, listening to just my 6-minute piece about Disney University and Disney’s Train-the-Trainer class is a decent compromise.

PS. Listening to his first 6.5-minute piece makes my piece even more relevant.

PSS. Jody and i used Skype to record. We’ll be using RINGR in the future.

And finally, next time, i’ll skip the intro story (meeting Brian at DU) and get straight to the content.

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The Disney Decade 1990 – 2000

My home town.

Michael Eisner and the late Frank Wells actually initially described their ambitious plans for the “Disney Decade” as a dream.

In the introduction to the Walt Disney Company’s 1990 employee annual report (which — appropriately enough — was entitled “Building a Dream Together”), Eisner and Wells said that they’d …

“… been doing a lot of dreaming lately. And we’ve given the dream a name. It’s called the ‘Disney Decade.’

The Disney Decade is about a dream, and it’s about us. The plans are incredibly exciting and will touch every aspect of this Company … New hotels, new attractions and a new theme park at Walt Disney World. The biggest expansion of Disneyland in its history.

Some might think that we’re overly ambitious. We don’t think so … We’re confident about achieving the mission we’ve set for the next ten years. After all, people the world over expect Disney to dream, and dream big.

If the Disney dream, in its sheer size and scope, takes your breath away, we want you to know it does the same for us. But we’re certain that there are still plenty more dreams to go around. Just wait until … ten years from now … when we’ll be talking about Mickey’s Millennium!”

Hat tip to Jim Hill Media’s 2005 article for a detailed look back.

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