5MK - 5 Minutes Keynote - Vol 3
Discover powerful insights from 5MK - 5 Minutes Keynote - Vol 3, where experts share leadership lessons, industry trends, and the power of storytelling. Gain knowledge on gratitude, fashion, coaching, listening, and business connections in just five minutes per talk.
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Key Takeaways from 5MK - 5 Minutes Keynote - Vol 3
In 5MK - 5 Minutes Keynote - Vol 3, speakers delivered insightful, bite-sized presentations on leadership, personal growth, and industry trends. Here are the main takeaways from this session:
1. Preparing for a Keynote
The session began with a discussion on the importance of preparation, structure, and confidence when delivering a keynote. Effective communication starts with clear messaging and engaging storytelling.
2. Jim’s Gratitude Keynote
Jim emphasized how gratitude fosters strong leadership and better relationships. Expressing appreciation in professional and personal settings can create a positive impact.
3. Frank’s Insights on the Fashion Industry
Frank shared valuable trends and challenges in the fashion industry, including sustainability, evolving consumer behavior, and the role of innovation in staying competitive.
4. Sabina’s Hotel Room Dilemma & Coaching Story
Sabina’s experience highlighted the importance of adaptability in problem-solving. Her coaching story showcased how site managers can be engaged effectively through tailored communication and mentorship.
5. The Power of Listening
One of the standout lessons was the significance of active listening. Savina emphasized that leaders who truly listen foster stronger teams and deeper connections.
6. Encouraging Spontaneous Participation
The event featured spontaneous keynotes, encouraging attendees to step up and share their insights. This fostered an environment of confidence and continuous learning.
7. Maria’s Journey: Finding Her Voice
Maria’s story served as an inspiration for professionals looking to gain confidence in public speaking. Overcoming self-doubt and stepping into leadership roles starts with embracing one’s voice.
8. Rediscovering Superpowers
A key discussion revolved around individuals tapping into their hidden strengths and using them to drive success in both personal and professional life.
9. Connecting Small and Big Businesses
An unprepared keynote demonstrated the value of bridging small businesses with larger corporations, fostering collaboration and mutual growth.
10. Wrapping Up & Next Steps
The session concluded with final reflections and a preview of next week’s topic, ensuring the learning continues beyond the event.
5MK - 5 Minutes Keynote - Vol 3 reinforced that impactful insights can be shared in just five minutes. Whether through gratitude, leadership, or industry-specific expertise, each speaker provided valuable lessons for professionals looking to grow.
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Highlights:
00:00 Introduction and Greetings
01:10 Keynote Preparation and Discussion
04:44 Jim's Gratitude Keynote
11:44 Frank's Fashion Industry Insights
18:23 Setting the Scene: Savina's Hotel Room Dilemma
19:04 Savina's Coaching Story: Engaging Site Managers
20:57 The Power of Listening: Savina's Key Advice
22:45 Spontaneous Keynotes: Encouraging Participation
26:04 Maria's Journey: Discovering Her Voice
33:06 Rediscovering Superpowers: Insights and Stories
38:49 Unprepared Keynote: Connecting Small and Big Businesses
43:01 Wrapping Up: Final Thoughts and Next Week's Topic
Transcript:
[00:00:00] So we saw your video. It was amazing, man. The musical keynote. And now we have the honey in our lip. In our, uh, In our mouth. To get the sweetness about the keynote. And that guy behind you. It looks like, looks like the, the Star Wars. The Darth Vader. Yes! Now Darth Vader, I have to Darth Vader from the dark side of the force into Peralta clothing style.
You're gonna see it. I just wanted to show something to the guy from the venture capital. And here you have, you can see the stuff, the guy.
And you need to show something to them because it's not, you are not serious enough to go through the program. As usual, they want to [00:01:00] get a small percentage of the company. How much? Oh, I don't have the figures now, but it's a single number. It's a single. Yeah. Okay. Nice to see you again, Rising Stars. Thank you so much.
You're welcome. Glad to see you too, Sabine, Hosna, Jim, Goran, and our Felix, I don't see him. He was in the camera, quickly. You have missed the other call, Frank. Yes, because I was talking with a guy from the venture capital. So I That's okay. If he gives money to you, that's absolutely fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just wanted to be, but sometimes you, you need to choose, no?
Yeah, yeah. Priorities. Priorities. Today was, uh, interesting stuff, but we will see. So, five minute keynotes. [00:02:00] I have my timer here. Great! So, who wants to do a keynote today? Just show of hands. Yeah, I was figuring. Jim, Frank, Sabine, Sri? I don't know yet. I don't have anything prepared, but it doesn't really matter.
Doesn't matter.
Do you want to do one as well? You're on mute. You asked me, I would love to, but I was like, you know, I'm not stoned, I'm sick. So that's why I didn't prepare anything. Yeah. You live in Germany, not in the Netherlands. Uh, you think that's better? It's like, it's because of stoned or because of sick. No, because of stoned.
Yeah, I'm sorry to hear about both. I'm sorry to hear that you're sick and I'm sorry to hear that you're not stoned. I [00:03:00] know. I know. I'm sorry. You should, you should come to the Netherlands for a meeting. You know, the supply is not a problem. Like you can just like literally sit in front of my house, wait for an hour and like a young kid will come with a, with a business card that indicates like three kinds of Coke and three kinds of wheat and a 24 hour number.
That's brilliant. Not fast. Yeah. It's not a supply problem. It's a priority problem. So, who wants to start keynote, keynote? So we have Jim, Frank, Sabine, definitely. That said, yes.
Okay, Sabine, question mark. Don't want to push you. Uh, yeah, I can come up with something, but not the first one, because I haven't prepared anything, so. I can tell you already now, you don't want to go after [00:04:00] Jim. I've seen, I've seen the videos, I can, I can somehow Yeah, Tim, sorry. Yes, it's coming. When we were in Switzerland with Maria, Hosna, Sabine, and Frank, I showed your scissor reel to them.
Yeah. Oh, cool. That's why they all say it. Cool. Well, awesome. Awesome. Well, for the five minute keynotes, I, I just, uh, I try, uh, you know, it's something new and for me, I'm always nervous because it's just, uh, since it's new, it's essentially uncharted territory in a way, like new topics, new everything. So, it's always just, uh.
experimentation for me. So I never know if it's going to be good or awful or somewhere in between. So, Jim, do you want to start? I guess the others want to want, want to get the high bar again. Don't, uh, don't assume the high bar, but. [00:05:00] Sorry, I'm, I'll put the, no pressure, no pressure to perform now. Oh good, oh good.
Alright, uh, I'm ready when you are. I am born ready, that's what I learned in Switzerland. Alright, here we go.
It's 6pm, homemade pizza night. So the flour, water, salt and yeast into the food processor. The dough is perfect and it's time to take it out. And then, sharp pain, a deep, clean slice to my middle finger, blood is dripping onto the dough. You see, I'd forgotten about the blade on the bottom of our food processor.
And just like that, this realization kicks in. Oh God, this isn't just a cut, this is the finger, the one that presses the strings, the one that shapes the music, the one that makes my career possible. So I grab a towel, wrap the wound, and I [00:06:00] drive to the ER, thinking, what about the performance, the recording, the months of preparation?
Hours earlier, gratitude had been easy, grateful for the music, the opportunities, the ability to do what I love. But now? Man, gratitude felt impossible. You see, months earlier, I received an email. An invitation to the Rhode Island Guitar Festival. And my friends, this was not just any festival. It was a gathering of world class musicians.
A stage where innovation and artistry in classical guitar takes center. And I also received an invitation from the festival director to join a live ensemble recording. This was going to be a collection of musicians from all over the world, captured in a way that preserves the moment forever. A dream opportunity.
But at that moment, I'm sitting in the ER, staring at my bandaged finger. It felt like all that hope was slipping away. Now at [00:07:00] that moment, I had two choices. I could focus on what was lost. On the impossibility of playing like I'd planned. The frustration of an accident that never should have happened. Or I could focus on what remained.
Gratitude was not my first instinct, but It became the thing that made moving forward possible. Gratitude isn't just about feeling thankful when life is easy. It's about choosing to see the gift inside the challenge. So instead of focusing on what I couldn't do, I focused on what I still had. The rest of my working fingers.
Knowledge of the music and the ability to adapt. If I couldn't play the way I'd previously prepared, I'm gonna find another way. It's time to get to work. Re learning. Re arranging. Problem solving. The frustration melted away and replaced by confidence. And then, replaced by something even deeper. [00:08:00] Gratitude.
Gratitude for the challenge itself. Gratitude for every adaptation that was unlocking new possibilities. Every, sorry, limitation forced creativity. Gratitude was pushing me forward. And gratitude, once ignited, It's a fire. It fuels resilience in ways nothing else can. By the time that festival arrived, I wasn't just prepared, I was transformed.
That performance was not about perfection. It wasn't about flawless technique, it was about gratitude. Gratitude for being on the stage at all. So, I'm on the stage, in the recording room, with musicians from all over the world, and the red light comes on. It's time to put the practice into motion. Time to put the gratitude in motion.[00:09:00]
The festival ended and then the album was released. Sessions Rhode Island and it charted number one on the billboard, classical crossover chart number one, and the album at beat. The soundtrack to Netflix's Bridgerton, which is a global streaming giant, a cultural phenomenon, and yet Sessions from Rhode Island found its way to the very top.
A recording I played on with a modified [00:10:00] technique born from necessity and at the heart of it all, gratitude. Gratitude in motion. This isn't just a story about music. It's not about an injury or an album. It's about the mindset that turns setbacks into stepping stones. Gratitude is not passive. It's not just an emotion.
It's an action, a choice, a force that moves us forward. It's gratitude in motion. Thank you! Saw the clock winding down. Sorry, man.
Amazing as always. See your fans. Yeah.
Thank you, Vader. My goodness. That's amazing. It's all about, uh, continuing to work towards getting, uh, booked to do these keynotes, you know, [00:11:00] going to happen. Oh yeah.
So. I told you so, it's going to be tough coming after 10.
So who wants to go next?
Frank. Yeah. Batman. She saw it. Of course. I see.
You're good. Yeah. Okay.
Okay, guys, let me tell you a history I got yesterday after visiting the fashion week, the last weekend, um, and after sitting with a lot of. important people inside the fashion industry in Berlin, [00:12:00] we got the conclusion that the fashion is old. Why? A lady was telling a history about the fashion is now in the 90s, where all the people is using pen and paper to do sketches.
Um, the, the vertical needs new blood, fresh air, young talent, AI, but at the same time with all this bunch of technology. They still need in craftsmanship. Nowadays, we have tech. Nowadays, we have knowledge. Nowadays, we have scalability. But nowadays, we don't have artisans. We don't have people with manual skills.
We don't have more Frank Peraltas. Hybrid multi talent people who can bring together all the skills behind one umbrella. And that is amazing for me right now because all the [00:13:00] people is explain Only one thing, and I'm really happy to have the approach to transmit different knowledge inside the fashion industry and the people can understand how a guy who was working for the best automakers in the world now is doing something with textiles, with leather, and trying to communicate a new language with another words, the conclusion was.
Frank, you are developing a new language inside the fashion industry that the people want to use with your words because they don't have the force to say what they want to say without words. They put your clothing and they go to this and they go to the street showing that they can speak without saying nothing.
I was really happy because one of these Important ladies inside the fashion industry did a warm intro about me [00:14:00] to a lady coming from NY. This lady is like the head of sustainability in Samsung over there. And she was saying, Frank is not a designer. Frank is not an inventor. Frank is not a person. He's all in one and you need to meet him.
Because he has an amazing proposal for Berlin right now. I was really honored to be at that table, because from the beginning I was alone, doing all what I can with the passion, with my internal fire to communicate what I can do. It's not only saying Frank Peralta is crazy. No, Frank Peralta is crazy because he got the skills.
To be crazy. And I need to say that thanks to the automotive industry, I was learning a lot of skills that I never saw into myself. The processes is key to sketching bed, [00:15:00] benchmarking, investigation, patents. Um, when I saw something, when I heard something like that, I need to stop and then to go deeply why I'm doing what I do, and there's only one word for me, passion.
If you don't have passion, you, you, you can find what you want to transmit. That is the same as Jim. He loves to play the G guitar to, to place the G guitar play and to communicate to the people another language. We have words, we use another kind of medium to reach the people and to give them a voice that they have, but they never heard.
They ha we have this ability to transmit. Something what the people have in the inside the head, but they don't have the force to do that into a proper way. We are doers. We are innovators. We are thinkers. And we are a bunch of multi [00:16:00] talent in only one person. For this reason, I just want to invite you to go deep inside you and asking yourself, as Jens says, which one is your superpower?
Because all of us have a superpower. Go deep into you, use external references to transmit what you want to say. Please, don't ask for permission. Go ahead. If you don't do crazy stuff, we never get innovation. I suppose, as I saw yesterday or today morning from Sabine, we are crazy and we are crazy to have to, we have the right to do amazing stuff, stars stuff, rising stars.
My name is Frank Peralta and please take my invitation to explore yourself. Thank you so much.
Thank you. [00:17:00] Amazing. Well done. I have a good. Master of ceremonies. Jew. . . I'm just holding the clock here. I have nothing
Nice. What? What I love. Frank and I were chatting when was it? Sunday, Saturday. It was Saturday. Saturday. What, what I love about, like, nobody would ever imagine that he has, uh, developed a pattern for, um, shaman vision. What is this? In, in English, like wind windshield. This is a windshield, windshield cleaning device.
windshield cleaning device that he has like developed patterns for up the the car industry for what what was it lamborghini it was lamborghini urus Yeah, this is nuts. When you see him as Batman or whatever, yes, it's always, always fun. [00:18:00] Yeah. So that's the other, that's just the face that no one sees about me.
So the technical skills that I got from the past, because I am so expontaneous, but when I need to be serious, I be seriously as well.
Cool. Sabrina, you ready to do something? Yeah, I can. I can always do something, but I, I, I have a slight problem because I don't have anything like high where I could put my, let's see, just a moment. Savina is in a hotel room in Finland, by the way. Cause I don't want to like talk sitting down. So let's see if this works.
Not the very best light, but yeah, maybe it's, it's okay. Yeah, it's okay. Um, ready? I was born [00:19:00] ready or how was it said? Exactly. Okay. Um, I have a little story to tell you. Uh, I'm doing coaching for the site managers and, um, many times when I go to the sites, I have no idea what I'm going to talk about because I usually have a topic that I have to like talk about.
It's something like it has to do with quality control or time scheduling or cost management or something like that, which is not so interesting for the people, but Um, since I have done this for eight years now, I know that I, I know that substance, so I don't need to focus on that. But what do I focus on when I go to the sites?
Well, uh, one day, one, uh, colleague of mine who is going to Be learning this same stuff that I'm [00:20:00] doing. She asked me that, what do you do when you go to the sites? Like, how do you start and what do you do after that? And how do you like cope with the people and all that? And I was thinking for a moment and what do I do?
Well, I go there and then I ask, ask them like, so what's up today. And then something happens for the next three hours. So that is basically what I do. And then I realized, so, well, that's, uh, maybe a bit hard advice for one, uh, a new girl who is trying to learn how to coach site managers. that advice is not very usable.
Like, go there, say hello, and then do something for the three hours. So I had to think, like, more thoroughly about what I'm actually doing to be able to give her some advice that he could, she could use when she goes to do that, uh, by herself. Uh, and then [00:21:00] I came to the conclusion that what I actually do is I go there, And then I ask them, how are, uh, how are you today?
And I actually listen. When I ask, I actually listen. And when I actually listen, they actually start to tell how they really are. So basically, it doesn't really matter what I'm talking about, or what we're, uh, topics are, whatever, if they get listened first. You can talk about anything after that. So basically, that is my advice for that, um, for this, um, girl who's going to do this.
That when you go there, if you ask, listen. Because otherwise It's just, uh, telling people what to do and telling, uh, like, I'm [00:22:00] here and this is about me or whatever, and they're not going to be there present. So, I don't have anything to say for the next two minutes because I said everything that is needed.
So, if you ask, listen to the answer. Yeah, that's all. Finish stand up. Stand up keynoting.
Well done. Thank you. In the hotel room. Yes. Every place is a nice place to show the face. Exactly.
So. And I had no idea what I'm going to talk about. Like, it's just, you have to start somewhere. Exactly.
It's a, it's a good one because like you said, I've [00:23:00] grown up on construction sites, at least me, like nobody is ever giving a fuck and listen like nobody.
Good. Anyone else who wants to do a keynote?
We have still half an hour at least. We can do chitchat, or we can finish earlier.
Come on. Hosna, you can do it. Exactly. Goran can do it as well, if he feels comfortable. Just like that?
Nothing needs to be prepared. Sure, sure.[00:24:00]
We can as well turn it around if you need more time.
We can do, who said it? One of you said, oh, Maria. Berlin, you said, you said it to me today in, in the, in the show you watched, they gave, they gave a word and then the other person needs to do a keynote. That's we should do that one day. Yeah, we can, we can do that. So I was actually, actually, I would find it like very sweet because like I was that mean when I was doing like communication workshops, just like handing people like, uh, Exactly.
Sticking out and putting like you talk about the advantages of like working in a cookie fabric. Something like that. It's a very random, like funny topics.[00:25:00]
Um, so. Okay. You want to do in German or in English?
Okay. Jim and Sabine, we need to translate afterwards. Sorry for that.
Is on my tooth is. But in two weeks I also have a pitch, where I'm already preparing. Um, and so, so, now I'm just starting. So, um, I have [00:26:00] to, I just need a little moment, sorry. A few months ago I was in Barcelona and I visited a bar.
Missing that. [00:27:00] Missing this joy. And I was so charged with this beautiful energy and I sang a lot. And I
have someone. Learn someone who is able to sing. Since then I work with her on a coaching program. Later.
Pulse. The reason I decided to discover my voice comes from the wish of my childhood. At some point, when I was sitting alone, I noticed that I had packed a lot of dreams into a big box. And I never looked at them. And now, as an adult, I see that in [00:28:00] this box, there are a lot of dreams.
There are many talents that I have never discovered or that I have given myself time to discover. And yes, now I sing. I prepare myself. I discover my voice. And I do that with my business. My business is a personal growth for me. I discover myself again and again. It is a challenge every day.
Und ich entdecke immer dieses kleines Mädchen in mir. Jedes Mal, dass ich ein Projekt hatte, habe, schaue sie mich an [00:29:00] mit Ängsten, mit Fragen. Und da stehe ich und nehme das kleine Mädchen an der Hand. Das ist meine Arbeit. Ich nehme Menschen an der Hand, damit sie sich selbst lernen, sich zu entdecken, sich selber zu sehen.
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So basically, that we all learn to [00:30:00] accept ourselves in our nature, and get to know our nature, in our nature there are many positive characteristics, and that we, through self love and care, I hope that we can bring these properties to light and that we can experience each other in our light. Every day.
You did very well.
Nice one. Super good. Okay, I'll translate.
So she, she talked about that she was in Barcelona in a bar where there was a group, and they were singing a cappella. [00:31:00] So, um, what she found out that she missed the joy in her life, and somehow discovered that the singing is, is helping her or was helping her. So. She, she got to meet a person that is professional singer and, and is now coaching her singing.
So as a child, she has put a lot of things, a lot of dreams into a box and didn't let them out. And now as a, as an adult, she finally unpacks that box and discovering the dreams. And today, for example, she's utilizing her voice. And that's also what she is doing, uh, with her business. She, she discovers herself and, um, she takes like herself as the little girl by, by the hand and give her a strength and discovering and utilizing her super [00:32:00] powers, my translation, this, uh, so in, in her business, uh, she helps people to accept themselves, um, help them to love themselves and.
Um, bring it to the surface,
ish. It's not 100 percent translation, but it gives you a perspective. Dankeschön. Oh, you have, you have directly translated. Tolle Arbeit, Maria. Amazing. I was about to say, amazing job, Maria. You did. Danke sehr. Good. Azna, do you want to do one coaching for superheroes, Maria?
Yeah, say again, do you want one? [00:33:00] Yeah, just, uh, I just like, it was like a, like a ramp for my thoughts. So like, I love to talk about one of my favorite books. And it's very linked like to, um, to the term superpowers, Maria, that you just mentioned. Um, and then I was lately like thinking a lot about it because I got reminded to my favorite book due to like, uh, Instagram video contribution of an African elder that was like talking, Hey guys, uh, we had AI already like hundreds and thousands of years ago.
So, and this guy is mentioning a father sitting around his clay hut and saying like, Oh, my son has to come home. And the son somehow felt that and appeared three days later. Or like a woman returned to the yard and the two elderly women sit there and tell, Oh, this one is pregnant without a test and without anything.
And I shared that with you because [00:34:00] we often talk so much about superpowers, where we probably like unlearn to use just like the genuine or the innate powers that are already in us. And in my opinion, we don't really have to bring them to the surface, but we have to clean the surface of all the shit that we like declared normal and important in our lives.
So, and that was also like an insight, I just like share a collection of insights I had the last weekend. Um, that in the way we perceive the world, we have to make a fine discernment between normal and natural. Because our normal today is not our natural. And in that book, um, which is called The Wayfinders, Why Ancient Wisdom Matters, Um, there's a like very vast collection of amazing stories, how people like use that superpowers and I will share like two or three of them with you.
So one really touching one is this kind of people that live, I think like somewhere to the, to the coast of Australia and some like archipelago [00:35:00] and their relationship to the world is geocentric and not egocentric. So when they fall off the boat, they say, Oh, I fell off the boat. Southeast because the shark was like hitting the boat from northwest or when we sit together They would say hey, can you give me the beer north of you?
So and the interesting thing is this guy gets trained so intensely that when they turn like seven or eight You can put them in a in a cellar And they can tell you the direction even without seeing the daylight. So they feel it, they internalize that sense. I find it very interesting. Um, another one is like, the Wayfinders, like the title giving story is like these guys that were navigating around in Polynesia without any kind of like sextant or compass or anything like that.
Um, but these guys, they were like taking all the information. From how the salt tasted, how the animals appeared like in the shore, how like the shore itself like sparkled and bubbled [00:36:00] and they could tell like, hey, um, we have to go this and that. And they had a navigator on the boat and this guy was just allowed to sleep for two hours so they had not too much of a, uh, yeah, losing the way.
And yeah, like they had really like strong senses and it was like proven later because he was asked like, Hey, can you like replicate like the, the map of that area? And then he said like, give me a hundred coconuts. And so they put in like a hundred coconuts and he arranged like the whole Polynesian archipelago with a almost a hundred percent precision of the arrangement of the islands.
And it was very interesting. And the one most fascinating, um, and I think it outlines a lot like the The value of like really like reconquering and rediscovering your superpowers is a story of some kind of Inuit people You know like what we were also like calling Eskimo They were put in reserves and the family was very concerned when the grandfather is confronting with the people that put them in reserves He will cause a lot of trouble so they put him like barely naked in an [00:37:00] igloo and this guy was just like My family is so mean so what he was doing he just like Shat in the corner and used his poop to carve a knife and then he slaughtered the dog and turned like one dog, like the ribs and the bones of a dog in a sleigh, um, took the fur and used the other dogs to just like run away.
And this is just my call for like, hey, you can turn like even your shit into some good situation when you're like reconquered your superpowers, right? I'll leave you with that. Just wash your hands.
That's amazing. Right. Even our excrement can be a resource. 100%. It's perspective stuff, no? [00:38:00] Yeah. That's what I often say, like, oh, if it's shit, you have to turn it into fertilizer.
Totally agree. So, Felix and Hosna, you still have a chance if you want to. I don't have prepared anything today. I'm just listening and, uh Preparing to next time. What is about, what is like when you talk about unpreparedness? How to be unprepared. Like in a day when you have nothing to lose because it's super full with any meetings, you still can have like a short keynote for a minute or two.
Now I could, I could basically tell you what I'm, what I, what I'm doing right now because um, maybe it's also interesting for one of the other guys. So for those who don't know me, [00:39:00] like we building like sales architecture for companies and um, people. Um, they have some customer, um, touch points in their businesses.
And, uh, the most important thing is like to connect the people with each other. So in this case, we, we connect, connecting the manufacturer. They're producing something with, uh, the people. They need something, even if they don't know they need it because they're having like space that it's not used or they're having opportunities.
They are just left out because. They never thought about, or they just, um, they just have this place and not using it. And they're losing money every day, even without knowing. So in this case, what I'm preparing today is basically we connecting one of the biggest companies in the world with the smallest company in the world.
It means like a manufacturer with like three people is [00:40:00] connecting to the biggest finance institute in the world. So we having like, um, Um, action or like we're having an, uh, cooperation with American express. So they're having some special offers for their customer and we bring them the manufacturer. In this case, we having, uh, a small manufacturer from Germany, Karlsruhe.
Exactly. They're building like a complete light system or a light lamp, uh, with like a special fabrics that's breaks the light in like shiny objects. And, uh, this objects, or this, this points, or this, this stars, rising stars here, like today, they, they appear actually, and, um, they can change like every color.
So we can actually touch the mood of people only with changing the colors. And uh, for this special. Um, addition, we created [00:41:00] five, five, five, five colors for every continent of the world. So we have Africa, America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. And um, if you are an American express card holder. You can see it on the 5th of February at 7 p.
m. European time, Germany or Amsterdam Berlin time. And, um, there is like this lamp with the five special moods on it. So, and these moods are especially created for this action. And you probably will never get this boots again, exactly if you buy it when this action that starts on Wednesday. So, and the cool thing on this is that we can actually like connect.
Manufacture like five times a year now with the customer of Amex, because we're having like now the approval for having a five, like five newsletters or five [00:42:00] presenting points or touch points a year with them. And yeah, that's the first touch point we're having. Thanks for listening to my unprepared keynote about like how corporate little things with big things.
It works. Well done. Worked. Hell yeah. Always. Like, my screen is like, like five things are open, like my, my website, the email, the activity, the pictures and everything. And the little, a little teams, uh, what is it, Zoom and, uh, across.
Yeah. Osno, do you want to? You don't have to, but you can. You won't.
Okay. You don't want to. That's fine. [00:43:00] And that's it. That's it. For today. Thank you very much, everyone. I even don't know what the topic is of next week. I'll figure that out. I think there's something in the calendar. Um, let me quickly check and I can going about Frank. That's the other community. Yeah, I always need to distinguish.
Sorry.
Guys, I have to go. Thank you very much. Building signature keynote next week. Oh, perfect. We specialized in that already. Exactly. We did that in person. Super. Yeah, this was fun. That's it. Thank you everyone. Have a good evening. See y'all. Bye. Bye.
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Personal development masterclass. One of the topics that's dear to my heart, because of what I have seen over the last 15 years is that personal development is quite seldom in organizations. It's not really taken, uh, in a proper way, at least in my eyes. So that's why I'm really keen on sharing this today.
So we have two. main perspectives. One or two topics for today. One is personal development talk versus performance evaluation. And then we do a deep dive into how I'm doing personal development talks. And then we do questions in the end. Personal development. So we have one part, which is the personal development talk, and then we have the performance evaluation.
And a lot of organizations, focus on performance evaluation. And the difference between those two is that the performance evaluation, the main part they are focusing on, or the main source of that is the company. So the company is on the top. And from there, it goes into, the individuals and the different tasks that need to be done to accomplish what's happening in the company, what is required to do to be done in the company.
And the individual that is doing the task is the last point. And then inside of the performance evaluation, you're looking backward. So you look, how did this person perform in the past? The development talk is the opposite. So the most important part of the. Development talk is the future. Where does the person want to be in the future?
And it has nothing to do with the outcome of the company or where the company wants to be. The goal of this is, and why, why do this personal development talk? I believe that if we are developing people in organizations beyond what the organization needs, they will contribute more to the company. They will contribute better.
So the goal of what I'm doing with development talks is finding out what the people desire and going deeper into that. And we will have a look at that in the next couple of slides. And then look, what are the different tasks of the organizations that fit the person and what the person wants to be. And then you marry these two things.
And then it works as well from a performance evaluation perspective. So that's my perspective on development talk and performance evaluation. Let's go into personal development talk a couple of, I think it's almost two years ago or something. I've developed this in as, as a worksheet. So if anyone is interested in getting this worksheet as a PDF.
Happy to share that. So, the starting point of a development talk is really a setup of the atmosphere and the place. So you are going to do a development talk with another person. So you are the manager and the, the other person is like reporting to you and then you're meeting up. So what you need to make sure of is that you have, an appropriate place.
The best case is always doing this outside of the office environment in a. In a place where people feel well, the atmosphere is super important. The time of the day is important, not doing it on Friday afternoon, for example, when people want to go on the weekend, of course, you need to be aware of your relationship with the other person, depending on how deep your relationship is.
You of course have then a perspective on how deep you can go. And how much that is. And then what is important as well is that you put the note-taking responsibility to the person that is inside the room or is working with you. So me as a leader, I always give the note taking responsibility for the other person because then you see what they understand and what they get out of that.
And then I always do as well. A version in front of us so that people understand this. So printing out this worksheet as an example, if you do that in a physical space, then you print it out and then you go into the development talk. And the starting point of the development talk goes really wide.
Looking into what's the personal vision like. I always ask these as open questions without showing them the worksheet in the beginning. Who do you want to be? And that's very, very, very wide. Like, who do you want to be? What does it mean? Some people who have never had a conversation like this, struggle with this.
So they start with, yeah, I want to be a manager. I want to be something specific. So they go very, very, very specific and they don't really look into the future. So the first round of this, I just, Help them to find out who they want to be and they write down, they write down a manager. I want to be a good father.
I want to be whatever they come up with. And then I go to the next question and I show them the next question, not before. So why do you want to be that person? So then they're reflecting on the answers they have given and then they go back and refine who they want to go to be. And that's an interesting process because what.
You as the manager that is holding this development talk are doing, you're literally shutting up and just asking open questions to tell me more. How, how does that feel? What does that look like? What would that look like in the future? So you only ask open ended question when that gets the person talking and reflecting.
So if you're saying this, what does it mean? So, and then they're explaining, explaining, and they go in a loop between who am I going to be? And why do I want to be that person? So until they have clarity, and the first loop is always. The starting point where they don't know what's going to come, then who am I going to be?
They come up with high-level topics and then they go, Why do I want to be that person? Then they go back to Who am I going to be? And then they go deeper. And I always then give them a perspective. Okay, think about five years, 10 years from now, who do you want to be? And then they go more particular in all of these things.
And then we go, we don't close this, we keep it, we put it aside. And then we go to the next sheet, which is a personal development map. So I want them again to reflect on certain questions. And it doesn't matter in the order, I just take them clockwise right now. But it's really going and answering the specific questions.
What do I want to learn? So you're asking this, the person that is in front of you. So what do you want to learn to be that person? So linking it back to that person of the future. And then you're asking, what do you want to improve? And then they come up with things. So it's, it's like writing down the, all the different topics and then what do I want to leave behind?
And then they come back with topics that they want to leave behind. Another question is what excites you? Yeah. And then going deeper into this, who is important to them? And then what is important to them? And when you have done this circle, you go around it and they were deeper in this topic.
What quite often happens then if you ask them, so how, if we go back to the other one, is that still the same thing you want to be? Because they have now clarified what they want to be. and answer the question, they go back to this one and then clarify, no, no, no, I want to be this, I want to be this. What I always ask them, in this part is to paint a picture.
So when, when we have finished with this one, I go back to this one. And say, from a personal vision perspective, imagine a picture and describe the picture that you see on the wall. And then they describe to me who they want to be and who they are going to strive to be inside of a picture and explain everything that is around them.
I've had, for example, a person that told me where they are going to live, what, how it feels, um, in this picture, where the kids in this picture, where the wife or husband and, and going really into details and then linking this to. A job perspective as well, because in the end, we are at least this part is in a job environment.
So they are linking that to the job environment of who they're going to be working with as well. So these two are super powerful. And then you go into the next step, which is a goal perspective. So it starts with the staircase. So in the top right corner, we have what is the goal. And the starting point is really, um, defining that goal.
So if you want to be this person in five years, what is the goal for the next year for you to be very specific? And of course, you can do smart goal setting and all of that, but it's in the end, What does feel right for that person? What is the development goal they want to reach in one year from now?
And then they formulate that goal. And then you go to the bottom of this page where you look into where do you stand today on a scale from one to 10. So they're rating themselves on how close are they to that goal. If they're close, then they're at 10 or 9. If they're far away, then they're at 1. And what always happens is they're somewhere in between, obviously.
So when they have rated that, then you look into what are the things that get you closer to that goal, meaning moving your scale from 5 to 10. And that's what they are writing down above the stairs. So, above the stairs are the things that are getting them closer to their goal. And then they're defining this in bullet points and formulating that out.
And [you do that obviously all in a conversation. You ask the person who is doing the development talk, you are asking them questions to get them moving. You're asking them clarifying questions about the topics that are put, into the sheet. And then the next part is, what are the things that getting you further away from that goal?
So downstairs, if you think at it from a staircase perspective, and then they're writing these things down and then they have a clear picture of a goal staircase where they, they know they want, where they want to be linking that to the vision that's five years from now and the goal picture, and then they rate themselves.
And have then clear understanding of that are the things I need to do to get to my goal and that are the things I should not be doing. And then the last step of the development talk is getting specific. So now we zoom into one year and actionable goals that help them or tasks that get them towards the one-year perspective.
So what are the things they're going to do? When are they going to do this? What do they need to make happen to be able to do this? What are the things they need help with and how I'm, how they going to measure them? So it's a very, very simple setup where they write down literally the different steps that help them to get there.
And they're putting measurable goals towards the goal. And this is roughly. I would say one and a half hours, even if we go through this right now in a theoretical setting in, let's say 15 minutes in a real conversation, in a coaching style, where you ask the manager or coach the other person to find out what they are desiring and where they want to be.
It takes roughly one and a half hours if you do that well, sometimes it's faster depending on the relationship as well. The fascinating thing with this is it has zero to do with the company you work in and one hundred percent to do with who they want to be. And as well as zero to do with you as their manager, if you're their manager, like your perspective, your opinion on anything of that.
Um, just to give you a couple of examples, I've had people that told me that they want to be. building their own company in the next five years and they worked in the company and I was their manager they told me because they trusted me that they wanted to build their own company and we built a plan for how they were going to build their own company and I've had situations where people told me that they want to get married in the next five years and then we built a plan to get them towards marriage getting married and looked into how that does that work with the career perspective same with kids and all the other things so this is a development tool you That I use with everyone that is working with me over time because I believe that as further we as managers and organizations help people to develop as better it is.