Chris Helder
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Re-Frame Revolution: How Useful Belief Changes How You Look at Work and the Customer Experience
In this dynamic keynote presentation, emphasis is placed on delivering high energy, laughter, and entertainment while providing actionable takeaways for immediate implementation within the team's workplace. Divided into two main segments, the first focuses on cultivating a mindset centered on Useful Belief, challenging individuals to reframe challenging aspects of their professional lives and empowering them to seize opportunities with a positive outlook. The second segment addresses strategies for recognizing and adapting to different personality styles, enabling the audience to enhance their effectiveness in interpersonal interactions. Ultimately, attendees gain insights into self-awareness, understanding colleagues, and the significance of maintaining a constructive belief system when dealing with diverse personalities.
Key takewaways include:
Realizing the power of re-framing through the Useful Belief technique
Understanding how we can re-frame our perception of different personality styles
Improve the customer experience through mindset and curiosity
Increase resilience in the team
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Books by Chris Helder
“Re-Ignition: Finding Power When You Feel Flat, Tired and Uninspired” (2023)
Let’s face it – we all feel flat, tired, and uninspired at times. Often, it can seem like our inner flame has burned out. For keynote speaker and bestselling author, Chris Helder, it was no different. When a global pandemic and the near death of his partner, Amanda, dragged Chris to his lowest point, he realised the Useful Belief philosophy that he lives his life by simply wasn’t enough. Chris’s unique five-step RE-IGNITION process will help you stop feeling flat, tired, and uninspired so you can dream big and restore power and passion to your life. It’s time to fire up and start living again!
“The Simple Shift: How Useful Thinking Changes the Way You See Everything” (2020)
We are all overwhelmed with endless information about just nearly everything. A lot of it is not useful and is simply noise. It is important with Useful Belief thinking that we identify what are the things to pay attention to and what are not.Positive thinking doesn’t really work by itself. Useful Belief thinking does. Positive is emotional, while Useful is practical.Truth doesn’t matter as much as we think it does. We were all taught a lot of things that were supposedly true. Now that you have an adult brain, they didn’t turn out to be true at all. We can control our perception and decide what is a Useful Belief to have.Your brain has a filter called the Reticular Activating System. It shows you what you see. You can control whether your filter is helping you seek opportunities or relagating your thinking to seeking out tough times.
“How to Influence People: Motivate, Inspire and Get the Results You Want (Be Your Best)” (2019)
Master the power of influence and persuasion. What if you could instantly boost your capability to influence, motivate and connect with people? How could it increase your productivity, team culture and bottom line? Better yet, what if you could influence yourself to achieve greater success? Imagine the impact that would have on your life and fortunes.How to Influence People takes these ideas out of the realm of what-if and turns them into reality. Whether you're a new manager looking for direction, an experienced leader looking to hone your skills or a sales professional looking for better ways to connect, How to Influence People is for you! Originally published in 2013 as The Ultimate Book of Influence, this book has been reviewed and redesigned to become part of the Wiley Be Your Best series - aimed at helping readers acheive professional and personal success.
“Cut the Noise: Better Results, Less Guilt” (2018)
Cut through the mental noise of modern life and move one step closer to true happiness The quest for perfection and the sheer volume of “noise” and guilt in modern life can be crushing on even the most put-together person. With Cut the Noise, author and popular keynote speaker Chris Helder will show you how to cut through the noise, release yourself from guilt and stop seeking perfection so that you can focus on what you really want and what really matters. Told through two fables, you'll learn how to cut out the things in your life that are not useful, deal with the obstacles that get in your way, prioritise what is really important and give yourself permission to make the most of every situation with less guilt. See the world in a new way and move closer to what you really want by embracing the book’s accessible principles Move beyond guilt by learning key concepts, including that most of what we worry about will never happen Clearly find out what is preventing your success so you can deal with it and focus on the things that truly matter Follow the book’s easy-to-read fable format and discover where to take your life from here For those who want to take back their lives from the constant noise and expectations of modern life, Cut the Noise is the important first step on the journey.
“Useful Belief: Because It's Better Than Positive Thinking” (2016)
Positive thinking has had its time ― the new way of overcoming life's challenges is USEFUL BELIEF Useful Belief turns the "be positive" industry upside down with a fresh and modern approach to achievement. Sometimes things in life are not positive. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. If you've had a nightmare of a year, the last thing you want to hear is "Be positive!" Instead, you need an actual strategy to dig yourself out, and a truly useful guidebook to show you where to go next. This is that guidebook. Through the engaging tale of a business traveller and the three significant encounters on his journey, this book takes you on a journey of your own ― to self awareness, and an improved approach to business, parenting and relationships. You'll learn how thinking "useful" is better than thinking "positive", and you'll uncover the utility of your past, present and future challenges. You'll undergo a major shift in the way you solve your problems, and you'll learn how to navigate your way out of ambiguity and toward success. If you have challenges at work right now, just deciding to "be positive" will not fix them. Useful belief and strategy will. This book shows you how to frame your challenges to make them surmountable, and how to formulate an action plan for getting where you need to be. Learn a simple self-awareness strategy that turns problems into plans Discover the truth about "truth" and the importance of "useful" Go beyond positivity to actually fix personal and professional problems Uncover the valuable lessons you've learned from the challenges you've overcome Everything that has ever happened to you has happened for a reason. It doesn't matter if it's true, because it's useful to believe it is true. Useful Belief leads you toward the self-awareness and strategic outlook you need to achieve personal fulfillment and professional success.
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