If you’re looking for someone to moderate or host your next event why not hire someone who has done it for a living? Michael has hosted over 4000 hours of TV. He’s interviewed former presidents, music icons, pop-culture favorites and sports legends. The key? Ask the right question do something crazy. Listen.
“Perfection is unattainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – Packers coach Vince Lombardi
I speak on the topic of excellence. How to achieve excellence and equally important how to sustain excellence. I coach people how to be disciplined enough to Rehearse Excellent Outcomes. The journey to excellence for me started out at sea. I began my career as a standup comic on cruise ships. Off the ship I set a course for show business. Getting seven television shows on the air is like hitting the lotto. It happened. Times seven. I’ve hosted a television for every network, wrote three books on business, picked up my real estate license and flipped waterfront homes in Southern California.
I’ve interviewed thousands of successful individuals about their journey. Their wins, their losses, their challenges, their triumphs. Here’s what I’ve learned: they succeeded because their excellence was rehearsed. They were prepared for the outcome. Win or lose.
Excellence is not luck. Excellence is not an accident nor is it random. Excellence Oriented People advance faster and earn on average 38% more than serviceable competent people. Nobody fires the best. And if your company folds there is always a competitor who will hire the best. Excellence Oriented People are happier because they are accountable. They don’t rely on others for their happiness. They don’t believe the world owes them a title. Excellence Oriented People get more respect from the boss and their peers for all the same reasons. Excellence Oriented People are disciplined, methodical and always improving.
This is an auto dealer specific keynote. Its multi-media message will entertain and give attendees fresh ideas for sales teams, parts and service managers, vendors, as well as insurance and finance people.
With Coloring Your Way to Success, you’re going to find 52 motivating business centric quotes hidden in original artwork. Included are 52 discussion sheets that go along with those quotes. The answers your employees give are going to reveal something about the people you’ve got working for you. Their ethics, their morality, their strengths and weaknesses, their willingness to change and adapt, real insight into their decision making abilities, and its all going to be accomplished through the fun of coloring. Finally a Monday morning team-building exercise that everybody’s going to show up for and enjoy.
Shafer and Burger have researched hundreds of companies to unearth traits and strategies that makes a person valuable to a company. The advice in this book are MUST DO’s. Readers will take away bulletproof tactics that will put them in high demand. You’ll learn how the best people premeditate their decisions so they can get buy-in from their constituents. You’ll be coached on developing marketplace peripheral vision so that you will able to spot competitors in your blind spots. Shafer and Burger will also motivate you to create trust by making course corrections with humility and urgency.
Multinational Fortune 500 groups of 5000 to small office teams of 20, Michael Burger is in high demand to speak for organizations like:
“Michael Burger is a real treat for our leaders. His practical content coupled with appropriate humor resonates. I’ve used him twice as a keynote and survey results say he was a home run. Also, a genuine pleasure to work with…”
Christine Baron
Senior Vice President Verizon
“One of the shows biggest asset is its host. Michael Burger is the perfect host, at once suave and glib. He is funny, personable and moves the show along at a brisk pace. Michael Burger, a stand-up comedian with extensive experience as a game show host on television knows how to work contestants and when to lay off and let the contestants be the stars.
David J. Spatz
USA Today: Atlantic City with David J. Spatz
“Thank you again on behalf of the entire YPO Golden West Chapter. You were truly an amazing host and made the event what it was with your sense of humor and energy. Really thank you.”
Dan Gabbay
Young President’s Organization
“Michael’s delivery of the message was done in an equally provocative and hilarious manner. He had our staff in the palm of his hand from start to finish. Michael took the time to learn about our organization and discuss with us the issues that needed to be addressed.”
Robert Coleman
Farm Credit Association
“Michael graciously met with our staff several times prior to our event. He tailored his presentation to our attendees and provide them with real-life examples to immediately take back to their own businesses. Michael brought the perfect recipe of humor and knowledge that held the audience captive for the entire presentation.”
Christine Haerich
Vice President of Member Services, PACE
