For Owners

As a business owner your days are tough. It’s a big job keeping up with the demands of your business, let alone the work required to manage the day-to-day operations.

Everyday, you’re busy with the little things, putting out fires, managing every crisis that arises. At the end of the day, it feels like you haven’t moved the needle.

Wouldn’t it be great to have the resources so you can work on your business, not just in your business?

Through Lights! Camera! Action! an operation framework that looks at business through the lens of live theatre, you can uncover best practices used to create jaw-dropping experiences for your customers… and your staff, too. This intuitive and unique perspective provides the method that allows operators, supervisors, and managers to script, direct, and stage the award winning experience your customers and staff deserve.

Learn how you can build authentic employee engagement and customer experience excellence, while breaking down communication barriers, creating enhanced levels of collaboration and contribution. Marc will give you the tools so you can dare to be the exception.

Ready to take your team and customer experience to the next level?

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How Marc Can Help

PROGRAMS

Don’t Blow it With Artificial Intelligence

A Roadmap for Business Leaders

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to reshape the landscape of business operations, customer relations, and employee management, many organizations find themselves at a crossroads. One of the most significant and costly challenges faced by leaders and managers is staying ahead in a technology-driven marketplace while developing the necessary skill sets to leverage those technologies.

In this session, Customer and Employee Experience Strategist Marc Haine demystifies the complexities of AI technology, illustrating its practical applications and opportunities for business operators and managers. Participants will gain actionable insights into how AI can revolutionize business operations, enhance employee engagement, and redefine customer experiences.

Through real-world examples, interactive discussions, and expert analysis, Marc will guide attendees through the journey of integrating AI into their business strategies.

This presentation addresses the technical aspects of AI and navigates the ethical considerations and challenges of implementing these technologies. Attendees will leave with a nuanced understanding of leveraging AI as a tool for innovation and excellence in their business practices.

Presentation takeaways:

In this session, participants will:
– Gain a clear understanding of generative AI, its operation, and its practical applications in various business sectors. This knowledge will enable them to identify opportunities to incorporate AI into their business models for enhanced efficiency and innovation.
– Learn how AI can be utilized to create personalized training programs, improve performance monitoring, and foster a more engaged workforce
– Gain insights into how AI can be used to personalize customer interactions, predict customer needs and preferences, and ultimately create more meaningful and memorable customer experiences.

If you are looking to harness the transformative power of AI in your business, streamline operations, and create exceptional customer and employee experiences, then this presentation is for you!

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Strings Attached

Crafting Enduring Connections in Business by Going From Onboarding to Forever-Boarding

Starting from the first time a person comes across your business, they will migrate through various levels of engagement during their time with you – whether they are a client or an employee. Are you doing what’s required to fulfill their needs and keep them engaged?

“Onboarding” is a technique that businesses use. The challenge with current “onboarding” processes is that we invest so much when people start with us, then we close the spigot of support, and abandon our new person to fend for themselves. As a result, people begin to feel unsupported, devalued, and eventually disengaged. This leads to lower productivity, lower sales, and severed ties.

In Strings Attached, you and your team will uncover how a person’s journey with you, your company, and your brand is tied together through various points of connection. Using these points of connection effectively will lead to higher engagement, retention, and loyalty.

How tight are your strings to ensure the best connection?

If you adopt a continual cycle of evaluation and adjustment, you will move them from prospect to newbie to dedicated ambassador. I vote that we drop the term “onboarding” and adopt a better, more reflective word like “forever-boarding.”

Presentation takeaways:
Unlock the 5 key milestones every person must reach to create lasting connection to your brand
Untangle the driving needs and questions they have at each step of their journey
Uncover why people fall into the “Pit of the Tainted,” and how you (and they) can be doomed
Learn what not to do and what knot to do, creating the best, long-lasting connections
Leverage “forever-boarding” as your secret tool to make people your top ambassadors… making YOU the brand of choice

If you’re looking to create a path towards higher engagement, increased levels of loyalty, and a brand people will feel connected to, this presentation is for you.

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LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION!

Transform Your Business with Theatrical Flair

Imagine if your product or service resonates so deeply with your people that it becomes an integral part of their life. Imagine if you become THE brand of choice and an innovator in your industry. Imagine if every time your customers walk through the door, you create a show-stopping, jaw-dropping experience that is designed with them in mind.

What difference would that make?

Lights! Camera! Action! uses the lens of live theatre to give your business a new perspective. Marc’s unique framework pulls back the curtain and puts your business centre stage. In this humorous and interactive session, Marc uncovers a razzling, dazzling focus for your business so that you, your team, and your customers are jazzed with anticipation. This is an opportunity to script and ramp up your business so you can set, stage, and perform like never before.

Presentation takeaways:

Unleash Theatrical Transformation: Discover the transformative power of theatrical principles and gain insights into how they can revolutionize your business operations.

Master Audience Engagement: Learn the art of audience engagement and how to create memorable experiences that resonate deeply with customers and employees.

Spotlight Your Performers: Explore strategies for identifying and nurturing star performers within your organization, ensuring that every role on your business stage shines.

Uncover Exceptional Service Secrets: Unlock the secrets of delivering exceptional service and effective communication, equipping you to elevate customer experiences immediately.

If you’re looking to create the show-stopping, jaw-dropping experience your customers and employees deserve, this presentation is for you!

LEARN MORE ABOUT “LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION!”

Dare to Be the Exception

How to get noticed and become the category-of-one

Are you struggling to be seen, heard, and valued? Do you find that you’re stuck in the sea-of-sameness? What needs to change so that you shine and your uniqueness attracts those that matter the most?

In this program, Marc uncovers the three components to becoming a category-of-one – that is, you become the leader of choice, the business of choice, and the employer of choice.

Learn Marc’s proven formula that will put you and your business into the Golden Spotlight – that spot where your employees want to work for you, where your customers are raving fans, and you are known as the best in your industry.

Program takeaways:
Uncover three key components every business needs to get out of the sea-of-sameness and into the Golden Spotlight
Give your team the tools they need to razzle dazzle your customers
Learn how to not just sell what your customer want; rather, deliver a solution they need
Unveil the secrets to becoming the person and business of choice

If you’re ready to bridge the gap, be in the spotlight, and become the category-of-one, now and into the future, this presentation is for you.

Ready to take your team’s relationship skills to the next level?

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Speaking

For your upcoming leadership or team conference, Marc Haine will engage your team, providing real-world and playful lessons to boost your people, productivity, and profits.

In this 60 or 90 minute keynote, your participants will learn how to recognize the various levels of employee engagement (and disengagement) to use for developing meaningful programs and incentives to bolster engagement and caring at every level.

Understanding the drivers of employee engagement and disengagement will give you the upper hand in defining your organization’s corporate culture that delivers superior results.

Ready to boost your people, productivity, and profits?

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Consulting

Owners and operators like you are usually so entrenched in the business, you can’t see the forest for the trees. Daily crises have you switching priorities almost minute-to-minute. An unbiased outside perspective can help bring clarity to your vision, your thinking, and your future actions.

Marc’s speciality is helping to delve beneath the surface, peeling back the onion to expose capacity and passion within teams, and engineering show-stopping experiences your customers deserve.

Ready to take your customer experience to the next level?

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Workshops / Training / Facilitating

As a Professional Speaker / Trainer / Facilitator and an accredited Challenge Dialogue System™ Practitioner, Marc helps facilitate enabling and empowering transformative change. Using the time-based and challenge-focused system, he can help stakeholders create strategic plans that will support diverse groups in accomplishing complex tasks.

Marc’s fun and playful approach, encourages participants to uncover information, collaborate, and innovate while driving evolutionary thinking. By applying experiential and proven models to create information retention and application, participants can put theories and new practices into motion the very next day.

Are you ready for uncompromising long-term transformation?

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1-on-1 / Group Coaching

You have a plan, a direction, and a purpose. Now it’s all about creating measurable metrics and accountability to drive it forward.

Uncompromising transformation is hard. It means being uncomfortable. It means thinking differently, acting differently, and doing differently. But it is challenging to stay uncomfortable. Many people instigating purposeful change regress to previous beliefs and behaviours when the going gets tough.

Marc’s approach to group and one-on-one coaching is, “what gets measured, matters.” This creates a balanced scorecard, driven by objectives and learning/developmental opportunities to keep you and your team on course and purposeful.

Ready to take your or your team’s goals to the next level?

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Shared Experiences

Lyndi Hamon

Marc gave a really great presentation. He was engaging, relatable and has a great sense of humour, I was laughing throughout the presentation.

He seems to understand the clientele well, what to expect, and how to find points of improvement and relatability.


Overall I would give his presentation high ratings, I think this kind of client-focused training is important for any business to learn.
Lyndi Hamon, Electrologist, Event Attendee
Dr. Danie Botha
"Marc’s Leverage Design Thinking for Your Next Live Event workshop was a real game changer. Going into the 3-hour session as a “skeptic,” I left a “believer.” The fast-paced, hands-on approach and Marc’s enthusiasm, insight, and knowledge helped our group change how we now prepare for our next live event."
Danie Botha, Physician, Author, Speaker
I recently attended a brainstorming session that Marc conducted for the CAFP. Not only did Marc structure it in such a way that within an hour we had a list of valuable takeaways that I had thought would take at least three hours to uncover, but his level of engagement and energy, and use of humour meant that we ended up with excellent outcomes AND had a lot of fun along the way.
Kim McQuaite, Kim Communications
Marc’s breakout session was very informative, enjoyable, and presented in a humorous way. I recommend it highly.
Eva Bencsik, Mr. Printer
I thought his presentation was very informative and provided a lot of insight into problem-solving in regards to some of the issues our industry deals with, specifically with clients.

He was a great speaker and enjoyed it very much, I feel as though Marc has had a lot of experience in the business industry and is genuine in wanting to help others with their businesses.

He had a few funny moments we all enjoyed too! I felt there was value in his presentation/training because I was able to relate and use it towards both of the businesses I have, Electrolysis and my Skincare line.
Susanne Bodevin, Director
I just came out of Marc’s session on how to become an empathetic leader. I chose his session because as a manager, I get so caught up with my day-to-day responsibilities, that I have not been present with my team. Marc’s session today gave me strategies and systems to help me be more present, and more sensitive to the needs of my people.
Tracey Durant, South-Side Sobey’s
A few years ago I attended one of Marc’s workshops with a number of my front line employees. We found the session helpful not only with dealing with difficult customers but our people felt they also applied the techniques to their everyday lives and with fellow staff members in resolving conflicts. Marc made the group feel comfortable enough to share stories and experiences as well as tactics that had worked for them in the past. I have attended many similar events where people were never as forthcoming as we experienced here. The material was pertinent and topical and Marc was able to make it relevant to everyone in the room. I have always prided myself on being a good conflict arbitrator and still today find that I am able to utilize many of the ideas and techniques we learned in Marc’s session.
Jeff Millar, IGA Garden Markets
Marc's Dealing with Difficult People strategies and content were so valuable I was able to successfully put them into practice the very next day while dealing with an irate citizen. He was happy, I was happy - made for a great day!
Tracy Preece, Bylaw Officer (former), Town of Devon
Marc Haine is emerging as one of the best motivational and inspirational speakers in Alberta. He is a masterful presenter and engages his audience with a positive and uplifting message. His trademark is "Dare to be the exception", and for groups and organizations that need to think - and act - "outside the box" should not hesitate to have Marc as their keynote speaker
Judge Brian Stevenson, Past International President, Lions Clubs International

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