Hugh Culver - MBA, CSP
Inspiring Personal Excellence in the Workplace
Hugh Culver is an athlete, adventurer, businessman and visionary who understands the power of being passionate and inspired about your work. Hugh’s vision is to “change the way work serves people”, by creating adventures in learning. For the past thirteen years Hugh has been leading extraordinary training programs and corporate retreats that focus on team development, leadership skills, and personal mastery. Combining a rare blend of business savvy, humour, and real-world advice, Hugh speaks of the passion that fosters human development in the context of work.
Hugh Culver MBA, CSP is the author of Give Me a Break: the art of making time work for you, master trainer, athlete, and a professional facilitator and speaker.
Hugh pioneered tourism flights to the South Pole, was a
professional adventure guide for 18 years in British Columbia, Antarctica and the Yukon, whitewater kayaking competitor, mountain climber, endurance athlete and has even golfed at the North Pole!
Hugh's humour and insights will entertain and educate your audience to the powerful choices that are always available in their work and their lives. His programs focus on Leadership, Motivation and Inspiration, Conflict Management, Time Management, and Personal Leadership in the workplace. Hugh’s remarkable training programs and keynote presentations combine street-smart advice with an engaging and often hilarious delivery style that reaches over 25,000 people each year.
His clients include: Royal Bank of Canada, Suncor Energy, BC Lottery Corporation, Imperial Oil, Sun-Rype Products, Food Services America, many provincial ministries, municipal governments and associations as well as four universities and colleges.
Hugh D. Culver MBA is a Certified Professional Speaker (one of only 40 in Canada) a Certified Facilitation Professional (one of 80 in Canada).
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The Bottom Line: People Want Content
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1. Give Me a Break: The art of making time work for you
We are working in a time of distraction--endless emails, back-to-back meetings, interruptions, and growing work demands are taking their toll. People are constantly rushing, multi-tasking, bringing work home, and struggling to find time for themselves and their family.
Based on Hugh Culver's new book, Give Me a Break, this exciting keynote is an essential message for anyone who has a To-Do list that never seems to end and is tired of always being busy. With his unique, high-energy approach, and proven insights, Hugh will show your audience how they can move away from always running late, and move instead towards more productivity, better health, improved relationships, and--yes--even greater happiness.
Learning Points
- PLAN LIKE A PILOT--interruptions are inevitable, but poor planning shouldn't be. Like a pilot, we have to invest in planning time--to review, reflect, and refocus on our destination.
- CLEAN YOUR WINDOW--learn how changing your results actually starts by changing your story. Hugh will share the four steps to creating your new, better story that will help you excel in all areas of your life.
- GO WITH THE FLOW--discover the little-known secret to maximizing your sales and work results by working with your energy flow. This strategy also includes exorcising your email, putting meetings on a diet, and clearing the clutter.
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3. Facing the Tiger
Conflict in relationships is inevitable--broken promises, personality clashes, insensitive comments, and errors in non-verbal communication all can lead to a breakdown. This may actually be a good thing!
Facing the Tiger is a remarkable (even simple) program that empowers people to use a productive feedback model to use conflict to actually strengthen a relationship! Beginning with a better understanding of Pinches (the source of all conflict) you will learn a powerful way to formulate your feedback to gain a win/win solution.
The goal is healthy conversations and helping people to get back to work without the distraction of roaming office 'tigers'. Facing the Tiger will start you on a new, more confident path with the skills and awareness to success.
This is a pragmatic, proven program--In a Canada-wide study, 92% of all graduates successfully addressed a workplace conflict issue within the first 30 days after their course!
Immediate Benefits
- Gain the tools and confidence to build stronger relationships - every day.
- Free yourself to focus on your work - not on the Tiger.
- Deliver a strong message that "old stories" and conflict will not be tolerated.
- Get on the right path to having winning relationships at work!
What You Can Expect
Learn how unresolved 'Pinches' create dis-ease, stress and escalating costs.
- See how conflict is actually a good thing -- if you know what to do with it.
- Learn the four truths about Pinches you need to know.
- Find out why you need to come 'down off the ladder' and move to curiosity.
- Get a simple, practical four-step approach to creating healthy conversations.
- Gain strategies for shifting 'stuck' relationships and creating win/win.
- Discover the M.R.I. - your ultimate tool for shifting out of blame.
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5. The Leadership Toolbox: engaging others to lead
Great leaders are not born--they have mastered their craft with specific skills and a consistent attitude of collaboration that allows them to accomplish great things with people. Leaders that practice these skills are able to bring the best out of people and achieve massive results by allowing staff to be motivated.
The Leadership Toolbox is an ideal seminar for any leader with direct reports who values results and wants to know how to engage people and get the work done. This content-rich, interactive program is packed full of relevant, street-ready skills and practices that can be applied immediately.
Based on the concepts of Intrinsic Motivation, Leadership Leverage, and the Coaching Leader, The Leadership Toolbox uses a holistic approach to motivate followers to be leaders.
Immediate Benefits
- Discover the secrets of successful leaders and how to apply them every day.
- Learn how to deal with difficult people at work and poor staff performance.
- Learn why staff engagement is about much more that feeling good.
- Become a master of skilled communications in even the toughest conversations.
What You Will Learn
- Learn how leverage is the ultimate goal of leadership and how to create it.
- Sharpen your communication skills with the brain/mouth formula.
- Discover 10 ways to increase your staff Trust Score.
- Understand the deception of our judgements and how to come 'down off the ladder'.
- Learn how to use the three motivators in great delegation to get results.
- Increase your skills and comfort with the three follow up strategies: praise, feedback and coaching.
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4. ReClaiming the Clock
It's easy to get busy-email, interruptions, meetings, and clutter can keep us busy, distracted from what's really important, and discouraged. Without an intervention, "busy" becomes the excuse for ongoing missed deadlines, procrastination, needless rushing, and mistakes.
ReClaiming the Clock is an exciting new approach to getting beyond survival and excelling at getting the right stuff done. This proven model will show you how to free-up time for planning, improving systems, reconnecting with staff, and creative thinking. And for many graduates they also create exciting improvements in their use of personal time for family, relaxation, exercise, and fun!
ReClaiming the Clock is a proven formula for moving from chaos to clarity and from overload to on target with what matters the most to you.
Immediate Benefits
- Get more of what is important done.
- Spend less time on low value distractions.
- Have more time for creative work.
- Enjoy less stress and more success.
What You Will Learn
- Discover the secret of keeping your 'Boulders' rolling.
- See how to avoid the Deadly Interruptis Disease.
- Learn why you need to move from "To Do" lists to Plan like a Pilot.
- Get eight ways to Jump Start your Day -- in charge and in control.
- Plan tomorrow today and save time every day.
- How to adopt the 2 Minute Rule and quickly reduce distractions.
- Get 12 strategies for putting meetings on a diet.
- Put procrastination to rest by adopting the day-before-vacation mindset.
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2. It's All About the Small Stuff
We can easily blame the world for our unhappiness: our workload, our boss, our clients, or even our lack of sleep! Yet our blame distracts us from the real source of our success--what we think about and what we do.
It's All About the Small Stuff--Hugh's most popular keynote--is packed with practical advice, often-hilarious stories, and completely relevant lessons on how small stuff, done well, and done consistently will always lead to huge success.
Hugh will teach you how to shift from thinking like a victim to acting like the master of your results. You will learn the secret of reframing and switching your thinking (and results) in just one minute, and why you need to master the art of asking.
This dynamic keynote experience is the perfect kick-start to your agenda, or thought-proving wrap-up experience. Either way, your delegates will be talking about it for months.
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You hit the spot for what we needed to hear and be working on as we continue to grow as a team. Thanks for all your energy and attention for our event!
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I can't tell you how many comments I have gotten from the team. That you left us all on a high and renewed sense of energy and vigor as we face our challenges, or should I say 'opportunities' ahead.
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Hugh took the time to personalize his presentations so that they make sense to his audience. Thank you!
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Hugh was able to inspire and regenerate everyone in the room that day, and had each individual feeling as if he was speaking to them directly.
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Hugh had out team empowered to participate and with great humour!
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Very entertaining, inspiring and motivational!
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Your enthusiasm and humour was a hit and we hope to have you as a returning speaker again!
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Hugh us the most requested speaker that we have used in the last four years!
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I have now had four presenters come to Red Deer County and Hugh as the best to date!
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Practical tips for real issues, very relevant, very funny. Energizing, empowering and readily applicable.
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April 2010Give Me A Break
Hugh Culver presents a unique approach to unpacking what it means to be always busy, constantly distracted, and unable to get things done. Nothing is sacred — meetings, email, interruptions, clutter—even your beliefs about time are all tackled with a straightforward, get-it-done attitude designed to set you on the path to time-freedom today. Culver helps you re-examine your relationship with time and then provides you with clear, step-by-step instructions to rebuild your day the way you want it. His five internal systems and eight daily habits will be your guide as you regain control of your most precious commodity—time. Based on extensive interviews and consulting work with major corporations, government agencies, and not-for-profits, these systems and habits are proven—they work well for others, and they will work for you.
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