Yvonne Adele

"Yvonne is just bursting with ideas on how to get known online.
She has a great system for developing an online presence that is logical,
practical and actually fun to implement."
David Koutsoukis, President, National Speakers Association of Australia

A Microsoft graduate with a couple of decades of corporate experience, Yvonne created the Ms Megabyte brand/persona in the mid 90′s. This led to a national media profile and best-selling book. She eventually left TV behind to concentrate solely on speaking and consulting.

Under the banner of her business: Ideas Culture : Yvonne has been delivering brainstorming methods and practical social media strategy to in-house teams and conference audiences for over 15 years.

Taking a dose of her own medicine, Yvonne used her brainstorming techniques to invent the world first Ideas While You Sleep (www.ideaswhileyousleep.com) - an overnight globally crowd sourced brainstorming service, delivering customers around 100 ideas to solve any business challenge within a day.
How? She mobilised her workforce of over 500 virtual Ideas Agents in 8 countries using Twitter. Ideas While You Sleep has clients from 12 different countries..

Marrying her social media savvy with professional speaking, use Yvonne as your 'MC with a twist' - she will create and maintain the social media platform for your event whilst performing as the event MC, expertly linking your presenters together.

Yvonne is a brainstorm facilitator, social media commentator, speaker and panellist in addition to Vice President of the National Speakers Association of Australia and a CSP (Certified Speaking Professional).

"This stuff really works! We applied it to an area where we felt stuck and completely lost for a solution,
and within minutes of doing the exercises we had no less than five great ideas
from a totally different perspective."
Lead Project Implementation Consultant, National Australia Bank

Tailored workshops include:

• Mined your own business? Helping business owners to reconnect with creativity.
• Ideas culture - Helping business leaders to nurture innovation.
• The ‘u' in team - Teaching teams to stop brainstorming and start thinking.
• Sales superheroes - Creating super impressive sales and service results.
• Dream into action - Conference closers that deliver take-home results.

The Ideas Age will be dominated by organisations able to generate and apply fresh thinking. Yvonne's presentations inspire participants to become ideas activists and change agents, proving the next big idea for any firm is right there in the room.

PROGRAMS

SALES SUPERHEROES

Sales teams: Unlock your power to deliver super sales and service.

We all know plenty of characters in sales, but what does it take to become a sales superhero? Superheroes have two things in common: they have unique powers and they act swiftly and decisively. This potent combination makes them invincible. Yvonne will share with your sales team how to use their unique powers to generate out-of-this-world ideas, and act on them fast.

This presentation is perfect for sales managers and teams eager to:

• Present products and services in amazing new ways
• Unmask bold new opportunities
• Generate super-productive new leads
• Deliver sensational service to existing customers
• Foil persistent problems before they fester.

Using a ‘think-pair-share' scaffold, every workshop participant is responsible for idea generation, and the supportive environment enlivens collective team power. Workshops follow Yvonne's unique Innovation Pathway, resulting in a one-page roadmap for turning ideas into action. With power comes responsibility. You can let your salesforce and clients scream for more support and service. Or let Yvonne work with your people to generate the power and confidence to deliver heroic results.

THE ‘U' IN TEAM

Workplace teams: Stop brainstorming and start thinking.

Imagine.... The team is assembled - again, and reluctantly - in front of a whiteboard. The leader stands, marker poised, and explains today's challenge. ‘OK, I'll be the scribe ... who's got an idea?' Awkward silence and a few timid suggestions follow ...

How many hours and dollars are wasted every day around the world with teams sitting through gut-wrenching meetings like this? Brainstorming was first used in the ‘60s as a technique for generating ideas. Then and now, it fails when only a few have the confidence and support to share. Yet everyone in a team - and that means you - can have brilliant ideas. Yvonne's simple, systematic and powerful approach to creative thinking turns timid groups into creative gold mines.

Using a ‘think-pair-share' scaffold, every workshop participant is responsible for idea generation, and the supportive environment enlivens collective team power. Workshops follow Yvonne's unique Innovation Pathway, resulting in a one-page roadmap for turning ideas into action.
That There is no ‘i' in ‘team' is a tired idea, which is right where you come in. This workshop is perfect for generating more ideas at every level of your organisation, and activating in your teams the confidence to share and the skill to take action.

MINED YOUR OWN BUSINESS?

Business owners: Look within before letting a stranger borrow your shovel.

You know your business inside and out. You've had bright ideas before, but there's an organisational lag when switching from your last great idea to your latest, and inertia stifles creativity. You might be weighed down by current duties, or you might be putting all your creativity into finding one-percent improvements, when what you really need is one big, fresh breakthrough. This is often where business leaders call in expensive consultants, who have the perspective and time to find new value. Instead, this targeted business owners presentation is designed to reawaken your energy and creativity. Yvonne will remind you that you are the best source of fresh thinking for your business.

This powerful session will inspire you and your staff to:

• Reconnect with your creative power
• Focus on the challenges that make a difference now
• Generate fresh ideas for all aspects of your business
• Identify your most potent ideas based on key business criteria
• Align your best ideas for practical action
• Implement these new strategies.

Lend your business tools to a consultant if you wish. Or let Yvonne foster a fresh attitude and engagement in your workplace, empowering you to reconnect with the inspiration that has made you and your team business leaders already.

IDEAS CULTURE

Business leaders: Turn innovation into everyday success.

Nurturing an ideas culture in your workplace is good for business. It lets you inspire and retain your most creative people, and attract bright new thinkers. And successfully implementing great ideas is clearly fantastic for customers and partners. Less obvious is the possibility that an ideas culture threatens leadership (because leaders are supposed to have all the ideas) or dilutes productivity (because your team loses focus).

This combination leaves business leaders walking a tightrope of systems vs experimentation, and status quo vs the courage to create. Organisations that get the balance right will find, in a robust ideas culture, that the solution to every problem is likely hiding in your workplace right now. In this presentation, Yvonne teaches business leaders to uncover the (often hidden) pathways to innovation.

You will establish how to:

• Identify the challenges that matter
• Collaborate on creative solutions
• Evaluate your ideas using key criteria
• Select strategies for success
• Implement your solutions swiftly and decisively.

This presentation is perfect for organisations ready to establish and maintain effective systems for generating, recognising and acting on innovation.

DREAM INTO ACTION

Conference organisers: Make sure your delegates get their inspiration to go.

Imagine.... It's nearing the end of another great conference. Notepads are full of fresh ideas and delegates are glowing with renewed enthusiasm ...

What now? How do you capture this magic and turn dreams into action?

Creative thinking is nothing without the strategies and systems to put foundations under your bright ideas. If you've just thrown your entire organisational budget and bravado into one winning conference, why let it close - and no disrespect intended - with the same recap in the same tone from the same leader every time. Yvonne's outstanding facilitation skills and sparkling energy present a prime opportunity to harness the group momentum you've worked so hard to create. As the final session of your conference, Yvonne will ensure input from every delegate, and inspire your organisation to:

• Identify their most potent ideas
• Create practical one-page action plans
• Commit to targeted and efficient follow-up
• Keep the conversation going via 21st century tools like Twitter.

We're in the Ideas Age, where success goes to the organisation able to generate and apply fresh thinking. Yvonne's thought leadership, interactive exercises and masterful facilitation skills will inspire your delegates to become ideas activists and change agents, and take their best work back home to your business.