What person on this planet hasn’t heard of and been fascinated by the Yo-Yo? Yo-yos were my life for 13 years and where I got started in my career as I worked for a start up company presenting motivational programs in elementary schools. I was the “Yo-Yo Man” and traveled to all 50 states and 4 continents sharing stories of inspiration, motivation, and encouragement to tens of thousands of children and adults around the world. I was “the show” for 13 years – the way that kids could connect and realize they were important and had a lot to offer the world.
Fast forward to today and while the faces have changed and are now business leaders, owners, executives and management, my message is still the same – inspiration, motivation and encouragement around helping them alleviate one of the biggest headaches they all have, managing people. What makes this even more of an issue is when they have to deal with temporary workers to solve immediate and time sensitive needs. This is where I can help put the pieces of the puzzle together for them and allow them to see how they can significantly reduce this burden.
The Yo-Yo has so many analogies and connections to business and people. It helps me connect with them and discuss in fun and relevant ways how they can eliminate the headaches of their HR issues when bringing people into their organization. They are messages around motivation, encouragement, integrating people into their organization, getting the most out of people (temporary or permanent), team building, support, leadership, and many other issues they deal with daily. This is where I can help and through my stories and experiences, relate this in a way everyone, young and old, can appreciate.
I hope you read and enjoy. This is meant to be an “interaction” for everyone reading, not my oratory on life alone. I look forward to meeting you through my blog and learning about you as well.
Michael
