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    • Change Management
    • ALL KEYNOTE VIDEOS
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    • Preview Video Courses
    • Member Login
    • Member Homepage
  • Meeting Planners
  • Blog
  • About Jeff
    • About Jeff / Bio
    • Industries
      • Agricultural
      • Associations and Conferences
      • Automotive and Manufacturing
      • Business Growth
      • Consumer Goods and Retail Services
      • Education
      • Financial
      • Government and Social Services
      • Healthcare
      • Human Resources
      • Insurance and Legal
      • Media and Entertainment
      • Real Estate
      • Technology
      • Travel and Hospitality
      • Utilities
    • Topics
      • Customer Service
      • Generational Differences
      • Innovation
      • Leadership
      • Motivation
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    • Books
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Expertise and insights on the most pressing challenges of modern business in hilarious fashion.

Jeff Havens Travel Nightmare

A Traveling Nightmare – When My Job Shows Its Ugly Teeth

Hello, all! I’m writing this to you from my “second office,” which is my fancy code word for “tiny baby…

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Matt Havens keynote speaker corporate culture

Creating a Great Culture Even With Temporary or Entry-Level Workers

Hi everyone!  Matt Havens here again.  Last month I stepped in for Jeff to talk about performance reviews.  Since nobody…

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How to Fail a Job Interview Part 2

How to Fail a Job Interview Part 2

We brought back Part 1 last month and here is the follow-up. We interviewed real Human Resource executives across the…

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Jeff Havens Airline Article

What Airlines Taught me About the Power of Repetition

I’d like to apologize to the airline industry. I’m sorry, airline industry, because I’m about to make fun of you.…

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Jeff Havens Article on Steve Jobs

Putting Steve Jobs in Perspective

The Price of Focusing Too Much on ‘Greatness’ So yet another Steve Jobs movie came out a few months ago. …

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Traveling Outside Your Comfort Zone

So last month I went to Jamaica for the first time, where I was keynoting a conference for a bunch…

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Matt Havens Generational Speaker

It’s Performance Review Time!

Hi everyone! Matt Havens here stepping in for Jeff this month. Jeff and I had the opportunity to catch up…

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Jeff Havens Innovation Article

The Two Types of Innovation

Greetings, all! I’m writing this from the back of a giraffe. I’m upside down, too, since that makes the blood…

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Jeff Havens Leadership

Three Reasons Your Current Leadership Training Completely and Totally Sucks

(And Three Ways To Fix It) I’d like to begin by saying that this article isn’t an attack on you…

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Jeff Havens Innovation

Why People Prefer Innovation to Invention

So innovation is a big buzzword these days. (Do people still say ‘buzzword’? Is buzzword still a buzzword?) Approximately half…

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Jeff Havens Corporate Culture

How Your Weirdness Can Build a Vibrant Corporate Culture

So I’ve been living in Texas now for three months, which I think is long enough to really appreciate some…

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Jeff Havens Presentation Techniques

Common Strategies for Ruining an Otherwise Excellent Presentation

Hi. I deliver presentations for a living, primarily because nobody wants to work with me for a full eight hours…

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Jeff Havens Leadership Speaker

3 Simple Ways To Turn An Embarrassing Situation To Your Advantage

So in a nutshell, here’s how every funny person is born:

Jeff Havens TED Talk

5 Things I Learned From Doing a TED Talk

As some of you know, I gave my first TED talk a couple weeks ago. (I wrote it that way…

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Jeff Havens TED Talk

Why Aren’t More of Us Engaged At Work – My TEDx Talk

I was honored to get the opportunity to speak at TEDxNormal a couple of months ago and Mr. TED recently…

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Jeff Havens Perspective Article

Choose Your Year-End Perspective

Hello, and welcome to the end of another year! You’ve probably unofficially stopped working already, since the period between Thanksgiving…

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Jeff Havens Keynote Speaker Predictions

12 Wildly Unlikely Predictions for 2016

OK, so you’re about to start reading a bunch of articles that are going to try to put 2015 into…

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Jeff Havens Personal Development Article

3 Simple Ways To Not Feel Like An Impostor

As some of you may know, my wife is an organic chemist. In case you didn’t have to suffer through…

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Texting in Meetings

What Should Happen When You Text In Meetings

Meeting etiquette training time! Turn off your cell phones during meetings or this might happen!

Jeff Havens Motivation

17 Motivational Thoughts You Need Today! A Motivational Explosion

You know, it’s occurred to me that way too many people are dissatisfied with themselves. It seems like every time…

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Jeff Havens Emotional Intelligence

The Most Important Number You’ve Never Heard Of

There are a lot of numbers in my life. There are telephone numbers, of course, a few of which I…

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