Healthcare Industry Motivational Speaker

Healthcare Industry Motivational Speaker
Don’t Hire Just Anyone, Hire Someone Special! As a motivational and keynote speaker on hiring great support and administrative staff for healthcare practices, it’s my rewarding task to guide practice managers to not hire “just anyone,” but to hire someone special. How Can I Be Sure? In leading breakout sessions for practice managers and medical professionals on hiring, the most common question I receive is, “Mike, how can I...
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Healthcare Industry Keynote and Breakout Speaker Mike Hourigan

Healthcare Industry Keynote Speaker
Hiring and Motivating Administrative and Support Personnel in Your Practice As an inspirational keynote speaker for the healthcare industry on hiring and motivating administrative and office support personnel for healthcare practices, I know all too well the challenges you face. Heather Farley, M.D. writing for Delaware Business Times (April 5, 2019) stated that “Healthcare facilities tend to be among the highest-stress work environments of any profession—right up there with...
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Healthcare Speaker Mike Hourigan

Healthcare Industry Speaker
Healthcare Industry Negotiation Speaker Mike Hourigan How to Interview People When You Hate to Interview As a healthcare industry keynote speaker and breakout speaker who talks on hiring, motivating and retaining non-professional staff members, I frequently get feedback from professionals and office managers on the challenge of interviewing for support staff positions. Most healthcare practices find interviewing prospective support candidates difficult. Culture or a Good Match? The conventional wisdom...
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Safety Motivational Speaker Mike Hourigan

Why is being a safety motivational speaker so important to me? Earlier in my career, long before I was an executive and dressed in suits, I worked in production on the factory floor. I saw first-hand what happened to workers who took safety for granted. I am passionate about being a national safety speaker on safety topics and challenging organizations to reduce workplace injuries. More Aware, but Not Enough...
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Safety Communications Skills Motivational Speaker

Safety Communications Speaker Mike Hourigan
Too Many Signs, Not Enough Communication We should all know that communication skills are vital to safety. In fact, improving safety communications is a frequent topic in my safety keynote addresses and safety breakout sessions given by a breakout speaker. When there is a breakdown in communicating safety, people die or get injured. While employees understand the importance of safety, they often don’t get the message. At the end...
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Safety Change Management Motivational Speaker Mike Hourigan

Change Management Speaker
Change Management Speaker is critical when it comes to safety. As I deliver keynote speeches and lead breakout sessions to organizations on navigating safety change, I know the challenges but ultimately the benefits that change can bring. As opposed to many issues that affect companies, as a former production worker myself, I know what happens if safety regulations are ignored. Disregarding safety directly affects lives. Change management might be...
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Mike Hourigan, Motivational Safety Speaker on Negotiation Skills

Safety Speaker Mike Hourigan
I often stress the importance of Negotiation Skills in my Safety Motivational keynote addresses. Why? Because emphasizing safety to transportation, manufacturing, food processing or refinery personnel is a continuous negotiation. Organizations understand the need for safety training, but to many employees it is just another boring meeting where they have to force themselves to stay awake. They walk into those meetings complacent, and they leave the same way. Why...
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Mike Hourigan, Dallas Change Keynote Speaker

Dallas Keynote Speaker Mike Hourigan
As a Dallas Change Keynote Speaker, one topic I am frequently asked to present is the challenge of the “blended office,” the so-called intergenerational office.  It’s a mixed blessing of challenges, but also tremendous upside.  The Challenge The intergenerational office is more than saying, “We’ve got young guys and old guys.” In fact, there are five groups in the modern office setting, with each group having varying values, work...
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Las Vegas Keynote Speaker on Millennials in the Workplace

Millennial Keynote Speaker Las Vegas Mike Hourigan
Whenever Las Vegas Keynote Speaker delivers a keynote speech in Las Vegas on Millennials in the workplace, he is often met with head-shaking. “Mike, you claim to like Millennials, what exactly do they want?” As a Las Vegas motivational speaker addressing the challenges and opportunities of blended workplaces, where Boomers, Gen-Xers, Gen Y and Gen Z have to get along, most of the older guys expect me to say,...
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Healthcare Industry Negotiation Speaker Mike Hourigan

Mike Hourigan, Healthcare Industry Negotiation Speaker
Every Aspect of Healthcare is a Negotiation Skill Healthcare Negotiation Skills Speaker Mike Hourigan is a nationally recognized Negotiation Skills Keynote Speaker on healthcare negotiation skills, who often talks to groups of healthcare professionals who don’t normally associate negotiation skills with their profession. Negotiation skills in healthcare are not only important to the practice of medicine but lives may depend on it. When I speak on the topic of negotiation...
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Change Management Keynote Speaker Mike Hourigan

What Would Robert Kennedy Think of Twitter? It was Robert Kennedy Jr. who said “Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.” Though RFK would have been 94 on this date, he would have easily understood the need to champion change in today’s society and modern workplace.  I would venture that had his life not been cut so short, RFK would have...
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Change Management Speaker Mike Hourigan

Change Management Speaker Mike Hourigan
Found: The Darkest Bulb in the Chandelier! As a keynote speaker, I am honored speak to professional associations nationwide on the many challenges of managing change. One important aspect I talk about in regard to change is that the organizations that are most successful in navigating around challenges are those that give their people the permission to think. Giving employees the go-ahead to think about how to work out...
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Workplace Safety Motivational Speaker Mike Hourigan

Safety Speaker
Is Workplace Safety an Ethical Duty? Most people might agree with the commonly used definition of workplace safety as “keeping yourself and others free from harm or danger.” It is an “adequate” statement, but as a former factory worker myself in addition to a workplace safety keynote speaker, I know that for those who work in factories, construction, transportation and other potentially dangerous jobs, safety is often seen in...
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Safety Keynote Speaker Mike Hourigan

Safety Keynote Speaker Mike Hourigan
Safety Speaker “I’ve got your back, even if you don’t like it!” Data recorded by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2017 showed the number of claims for serious back injuries to be 148,780. In addition, there were 311,330 claims for muscle tears and strains injuries. In studies of workplace-related injuries, overexertion from improper lifting and moving of objects accounts for more than 25% of all workplace injuries. In...
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Negotiation Skills Keynote Speaker Mike Hourigan

Negotiation Skills Keynote Speaker Mike Hourigan
Are You Prepared to Start Negotiations on an Airport Bus? As a negotiation skills speaker one question I often get is “At what point in a meeting does the real negotiation stuff take place?” My answer is, “Yes.” By the one-word answer, what I mean is negotiation skills can start even before the actual meeting, on the plane prior to the meeting, or in a taxi or Uber to the hotel....
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New Orleans Motivational Keynote Speaker

Mike Hourigan Keynote Speaker
Mike Hourigan: Your Next Keynote Speaker for New Orleans, LA   Why Meeting Planners Choose New Orleans ​New Orleans is one of the Top 50 Meeting Destinations in the United States, and for good reason. With more than 22,000 sleeping rooms, a vibrant cultural, music and food scene, this easily walkable, exciting, diverse city also boasts some of the nation’s best convention centers. For example, The Ernest N. Morial...
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Mike Hourigan Change Management Speaker

Change Management Speaker Mike Hourigan
Where’s My Assigned Parking Space? There’s a supposedly true story about the corporate officer who called all of her organization’s department heads together for a serious meeting. Pounding the table to emphasize key points, she said “We must immediately make sweeping changes to our culture. Everyone must be valued. No one, and I mean no one, is better than anyone else!” The next day, she just about lost it...
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Negotiation Skills Speaker Mike Hourigan

Negotiation Skills Speaker Mike Hourigan
“How Many Bananas per Bunch?” One of my great joys as a negotiation skills speaker is to meet with meeting attendees both before and after my keynote addresses and seminars. Sometimes the meetings are casual and informal, sometimes as part of a question and answer session. I really like these interactions because I had real-life experience myself starting with manufacturing and sales and working my way into upper management....
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Safety Speaker – how he can benefit your Organization

Safety Speaker
Safety Speaker How a Safety Speaker can benefit your Organization. Ensuring the safety of the employees, as well as the premises, is one of the primary components of running a successful organization. It is not merely about wearing the right safety gear and operating machinery as per the safety guidelines. In fact, it is much more than simply adhering to the safety best practices. Creating a safe work environment...
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Houston Keynote Speaker

Houston Keynote Speaker Mike Hourigan
Why should you choose Houston, TX to host your next sales meeting or keynote speaker event? As America's fourth-largest city, Houston manages to be a bustling metropolis that has a small-town feel to it even though it's home to an incredibly high concentration of Fortune 500 companies and over 90 languages are spoken in Houston. Houston is also an event planner's dream with four different convention centers to choose from...
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