BigTalk: Interview with Jonathan Wygant

He’s not just our Founder, he speaks, too!  The following are episodes where various podcast hosts interview our founder Jonathan Wygant about the business of speaking.

 

Special Encore Presentation of Leadership Development: For Businesses to Succeed, Learning Should Never Stop

On today’s episode of The Second Stage hosts Jeffrey Kadlic and Brendan Anderson discuss the importance of continuous learning, both personal and professional, with their guest, founder and CEO of BigSpeak Inc, Jonathan Wygant. And as the leader of your business, it is vital to not only invest in the development of your team, but in yourself as well. Creating a culture that promotes and supports growth and development can be the key to the success of an organization. No matter the size of your business, creative methods can be found to develop the abilities of your team, from professional training to seminars to merely reading, discussing and acting on a book embraced by the team. Tune in to this episode to learn more on how to unlock the potential of your people and ultimately business when you create and embrace a culture of continuous learning.

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Experiential Learning: How to Lock in New Behavior with Jonathan Wygant

In today’s high-tech global economy, companies have to constantly adapt just to remain competitive. This often requires employees, as well as leaders, to learn new skills and even new behaviors. Tune in and learn what leaders need to consider when planning a change initiative, especially when success depends on employees learning new behaviors. Gain insights into how change affects people, how to assess someone’s ability to adapt, and what motivates new behavior. Understand the importance of using authentic and effective communication strategies. Learn the importance of commitment and accountability and how our habits play into our ability or inability to learn new behaviors. www.bigspeak.com

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Dealing With Change with Jonathan Wygant CEO and founder of BigSpeak

Engaging people to buy into and deliver change can be one of the most challenging tasks you face, yet it is a role that is crucial to the success of your business. Jonathan Wygant is the CEO and founder of BigSpeak, Inc. one of the largest business-oriented speakers bureaus in North America focused on serving the Fortune 1000 and multinational companies worldwide. Drawing upon 30+ years of hands-on business experience Jonathan has not only engaged and delivered significant change but has also acquired an almost unparalleled per-sonal network of thought leaders to derive examples and lessons from. Listen in to discover how best to deal with people such that they actively and positively help you to deliver the change you need.

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Leadership Development: For Businesses to Succeed, Learning Should Never Stop

On today’s episode of The Second Stage hosts Jeffrey Kadlic and Brendan Anderson discuss the importance of continuous learning, both personal and professional, with their guest, founder and CEO of BigSpeak Inc, Jonathan Wygant. And as the leader of your business, it is vital to not only invest in the development of your team, but in yourself as well. Creating a culture that promotes and supports growth and development can be the key to the success of an organization. No matter the size of your business, creative methods can be found to develop the abilities of your team, from professional training to seminars to merely reading, discussing and acting on a book embraced by the team. Tune in to this episode to learn more on how to unlock the potential of your people and ultimately business when you create and embrace a culture of continuous learning.

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How to Become a Successful Speaker

Lots of people who email or call me, want to know how to become a professional speaker. It is glamorous, well paid, you get to go to fabulous places and meet extraordinary people. What could be wrong with that? Well, there are 50,000 speakers to compete with, it takes 2 days to research and put together a 1-hour presentation, the travel is tiring, but it is still exhilarating and enormously rewarding. So how do you become a speaker and what does it take to become and remain successful? In this show I give you the true lowdown. We also discuss why a risk reversal is so important and also whether now is a good time to start a business. I have two great guests, Speakers Bureau legend Jonathan Wygant and the former Chairman of Warner Music, Rob Dickins, CBE who I caught up with in London.

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New Media – Ignore it at Your Peril

This week’s broadcast from Hong Kong concerns the use of New Media for a host of business applications including Public Relations, Customer Support, Market Research, Brand Marketing, Promotions, Customer Education, Sales, Product Development and CRM. For many reasons including the fact that; it allows dialogue, is real time, can be assessed in the recipient’s own time, is inexpensive, and is immediately measurable, new media is superior to traditional media. We also have an interview with Feras Alhlou, Analytics expert from e-Nor in Silicon Valley. We discuss how a Consumer Purchasing Benefit can increase your sales exponentially and give you a number of excellent examples. Our second guest is Jonathan Wygant, President of Big Speak Speakers Bureau. We discuss how you can become a speaker, and also how to hire a speaker. We’ll also have our regular segment of major business screw- ups and I’ll answer some listener’s emails.

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