Colin J Browne | Organizational Culture and Leadership Speaker

Marketers tend to obsess about cutting through the clutter, being heard through the noise and standing out in a daily hurricane of conflicting messaging all aimed at a constantly less interested audience. And in a relentlessly globalising
world, those challenges are here to stay. But there is an audience that will listen to you with rapt attention and convey
your message out into their own spheres of influence with giddy enthusiasm, if you care to embrace them.

Employees are solid gold for any marketing department or any organisation that believes in the benefits of marketing. Arm them with the tools, the messaging and the narrative and you give them reasons to believe. Do it with an insatiable appetite for transparency and you give them the tools to convince. This communication-focused talk runs through the lifecycle of a single, repeatable year, in the life of the ideal ‘employee as marketer.

An actionable 12 month journey of an employee with highlighted key communication opportunities.
• How to choose your most viable moments for sharing and enhancing your narrative.
• Real world examples of organisations whose employees are like raving fans, and how to turn your organisation into one too.

60 - 90 minutes, tailored to your needs
• For marketers, communications leaders, and anyone who believes in transparent communication

The subjects of sales team structure, motivation and incentivisation are long trodden paths that seem to constantly return us to square one, asking the same questions again and again:
• How do I create healthy competition?
• How do I get sustainably great performance out of my team members?
• How do I organise them to play to their strengths yet serve the organisation first?
• What kind of leader attributes are most likely to help us achieve that?
This talk gets to the heart of one of the most turbulent, challenging culture sets there is, and presents some surprising ideas for maximising co-operation, loyalty, performance and results within sales teams of any type.

Three big (and not so obvious) reasons your sales teams need so much management.
• Four alternative models for great sales team structure and reward.
• The evolving role of the leader; a new model for driving performance, loyalty and engagement in a culture-first environment.

60 - 90 minutes, tailored to your needs
• For leaders and managers with a special interest or responsibility for sales performance, sales results or sales team motivation and strategy

You don’t typically think of HR as a ‘fun’ factory, or an engine for generating happiness, and yet no area of specialisation in any organisation is better suited to do so. Why? Because YOU write the rules. At Happy Sandpit we firmly believe
in rules, policies, processes and the like. We believe they’re necessary and we believe they can be helpful and empowering as guides.
But you know what we don’t believe in? Stupid ones. And most organisations have too many of those.
This popular talk is about spanning the gap between the organisation and the employee using a fresh new set of bridges, by looking at the current challenges and daring to innovate solutions, based on real-world ideas.
It’s a jarring talk, but one bursting with positive energy. It’s also a talk of practical ideas, delivered in a framework that you can adopt and emulate in order to drive greater employee experience-first thinking through your organisation, originating from the HR department.

The five biggest reasons you’re struggling to get engagement right now

• New tools, activities and philosophies and ways to reshape current ones, to put HR at the centre of people strategy, development and leadership
• Real world examples of how Southern African HR and interlinked departments are leading the charge in employee happiness today.

60 - 90 minutes, tailored to your needs
• For employees and all members of the organisation from the very ‘top’ to the
very ‘bottom’ - ideal for company-wide get aways