Short Bio of Speaker

John Shackleton became one of Europe’s top inspirational speakers after achieving phenomenal success in many areas. Successful businessman, international sports coach, property developer, British and New Zealand masters swimming champion, executive coach to CEO’s and MD’s, quite a background! In 2003 he sold his UK companies, emigrated to New Zealand and started speaking across Australasia and the Far East. In only his second year in the country he was voted Inspirational Speaker of the year by the National Speakers Association of New Zealand.

John’s talks explain the importance of controlling Attitude, Confidence, Self-esteem, and Mental focus. “My passion is helping people to understand how improving these things greatly enhances their performance either as a producer themselves or a manager of others”. John’s style is energetic, amusing and hard hitting, using examples from business and sporting achievements (and failures!) and then adapting them to his audience’s environment.

John spent most of his teenage years training as a competitive swimmer but failed to reach international standard because of a lack of self-belief. “I now realise that I had all the skills and ability but I just didn’t believe that I was good enough.” Retiring from competition in his late teens, he became a coach and studied Sports Psychology. This eventually led him to coach the British Triathlon team to become European champions. It also persuaded him to get back in the water and he still competes today. In July 2000 he placed 5th in both the 100m and 400m Freestyle events at the World Masters Swimming Championships. He swims faster now at the age of 52 than when in full training at 18 years old!

In the 1980’s he started a British based training company developing an impressive client list, including organisations like ICI, 3M, Honda, Royal & Sun Alliance, Rank Xerox, Securicor, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, etc. and it eventually became the premier company of it’s kind in the UK turning over more than £1,000,000. His role as MD of this company coupled with his sports psychology background led John to become one of the UK’s top business coaches, working with CEO’s and senior executives from many blue chip companies.

His eighteen years experience in business and training, combined with his sports psychology background, have given John a unique style and an unrivalled ability to help individuals grow and develop and therefore achieve more. His talks use the latest human development technologies to help people excel and achieve new heights. “Most people really want to achieve greater things, but are held back by their own thinking, negative attitudes, limiting beliefs and fragile self esteem. I love helping people to harness the awesome power they have inside and use it to create outstanding results in their lives.”

Topics

TOPIC: Using sports psychology techniques to improve your business performance

TOPIC Title: Raise Your Game

Target Audience: Sales people, Business owners, Managers

Level of Sophistication: General/Basic/Intermediate/Advanced

Duration of Talk (Excluding Breaks) 45 – 90 minute Keynote

Synopsis of Presentation:

Raise your Game focuses on four main areas: Motivation, Attitude, Confidence and Direction and teaches people how to apply sports psychology techniques to their business life to help them achieve more. It explains the connection between our beliefs and our results using the Self Actualisation Cycle and teaches people the importance of controlling their self esteem if they wish to raise their performance.

Who Should Attend :

Any age, any gender, any position, any industry. Over the last couple of years I’ve delivered this to Sales people, Business owners, Managers, Insurance Assessors, Administrators, Accountants, Lawyers, Nurses, Farmers, Secretaries, School Children and Dieticians.

How you will benefit :

Attitude Control
Improving Self esteem
Sports Psychology Techniques
Confidence for public speaking, closing deals, dealing difficult people
Developing good Mental Focus
The art of Successful Goal setting.
Measuring Personal Performance

Classification :

Please specify here how you will classify this seminar
Business/Finance/Tax, Business/Marketing/Direct, Personal/Health , Personal/Career

TOPIC:

Using the sports coaching models to help staff achieve more.

TOPIC Title: Inspiring your team to Peak Performance

Target Audience: leaders, Directors, Supervisors, Mangers or Business owners from any Industry or profession.

Level of Sophistication: General/Basic/Intermediate/Advanced

Duration of Talk (Excluding Breaks) 90 – 180 minutes

Please specify if the topic must be delivered with another topic:
Best as a 90 minute workshop given after Raise Your Game Keynote

Synopsis of Presentation :

Great Leaders focus on how they can improve the results of their team using the sports coaching approach to creating individual improvement. Performance is dependent on Self Image and therefore it's the job of every manager to provide an environment which builds and develops confidence in their people. The ability to coach a person to achieve their peak involves inspiring them to change their mindset, helping them to develop empowering beliefs and keeping them focused on their goals.

Who Should Attend :
Leaders, Directors, Supervisors, Mangers, Business owners.

How you will benefit :

Facilitating learning without telling, training or teaching.
Coaching to boost self esteem
Raising self-belief to create a positive learning environment.
Clarifying and then developing other people's goals.
Inspiring staff to achieve their best.

Classification :
Please specify here how you will classify this seminar