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In this video Kevin Kelly, a motivational speaker from Ireland asks Gavan Hennigan about his journey.

Gavan Hennigan: “Well, I was working for 10 years as a commercial diver all around the world. I was working for the last few years in the North Seafor a big company. I was kind of in a secure place within a job which is very hard and had a pension and a savings plan, a lot of investments and stuff like that. But the price of oil dropped there and we were made redundant and I suppose that led to my decision. There was always a niggling thing about me that things were a little bit too safe for me.” Click on the video to know what he did next.

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Kevin Kelly’s Motivational Speaker’s core belief is that everybody can be your teacher. At this conference he shares a story that illustrates the power of this core belief.

“So, in the 2000s a lady rang me requesting a meeting with her brother who wanted to write a book. I àgreed unreservedly. After the session he asked how he could repay me for my time in kind. After multiple refusals on my side he explained to me that he designed websites and would be happy to work on mine pro bono. At that time I had worked with a few website designers with little or no success so I was cynical to put it mildly. It turns out he wasn’t just ‘another website designer’s, he actually worked for Warner Music in the past to create a community of supporters online for Madonna. He had worked on the first three banks online, and one of the first magazines online. He took over my website and within three months if you Googled ‘personal development speaker’ in Google.com, I was number 1 – a position I held for about 5 years. This kickstarted my International business.

Sales not as a result of a clever marketing strategy – more the result of being open to new teachers from different sources. This student turned up and I taught him how to write a book. Was he a student? No, he was a student and a teacher. “

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At Kevin Kelly’s ‘Sell your Story’ conference Paul Sloane poses the question – ‘is selling an art or a science?’

“The answer is, that it’s both. To be successful at sales you have to be analytical and look at the numbers. You have to follow a system and have a routine. You have to have a process which you follow. At the same time what I love about sales and marketing is the scope to be creative, different, imaginative, is enormous. You can be even more successful if you have some lateral thinking. For two reasons first of all every aspect of selling whether it’s prospecting, or marketing, or qualifying or objection handling, or closing there’s a different and better way to do it, and if you can use lateral thinking, you can find that. But secondly, I think you would be a much more effective salesperson if you can become an ideas carrier., someone who brings fresh ideas and solutions for your customers. Your purpose in life in selling is to solve the customer’s problems. “

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To his delight, I answered in the affirmative triggering a cackle of barely audible sniggers in a car full of teenagers!

“I was doing ok until he said not to worry about him. At that stage, the tears started to roll down my cheeks,” I informed the amused audience.

In 2016, through a series of bizarre circumstances, I keynoted in Mountain View, California for a Chinese client. Liverpool FC was doing their pre-season training in Stanford University that week.
After some serious negotiations with the brilliant Liverpool admin team, we were allowed to watch Liverpool train and subsequently got pictures with most of the team, and of course the man himself, Jurgen.

After the training session, the team posed for photos as they made their way onto the bus. Jurgen was the last one on the bus – my guess was he spoke to every fan that was there – a crowd of around 100/150 people.

Fast forward to last Friday – Jurgen has truly “delivered what he said” and rebuilt a squad that will compete for the next decade.

But none of that mattered to me. My concern was for his health. It felt like someone very close to you had received “bad news” and it hurt. I hope and pray I am wrong.

But why put this up on your business blog Kevin?

Because Jurgen Klopp is probably one of the few Leaders in the world that I look to as a total role model. The definitive “ Exceptional Communicator.”  In a world where companies find it a challenge to retain and engage employees, JK doesn’t appear to have such issues.

Authentic – Engaging – Empowering – Trustworthy – Converted “Doubters into Believers” – Makes every player and member of the backroom staff from the kitchen porter to the bus man, feel like they matter and have a role to play – Visionary – Humble – The Normal one

The list is endless.

Will you cry if your Leader leaves?

Here’s to a healthy and happy Jurgen Klopp 2.0. And massive gratitude for the amazing nine years.

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Paul Sloane is speaking at keynote speaker Kevin Kelly’s Sell Your Story conference. “There was a man in prison, high-security prison, and everything was very tightly controlled. His wife wrote him. She said should I plant the potatoes in the garden now dear? He wrote back to her. He said, “Whatever you do don’t touch the garden that’s where I’ve hidden the guns.” She wrote him a little later and she said, “A van full of policemen came into the house, they dug up the whole garden but they didn’t find anything.” He wrote back “Now is the time to plant the potatoes.” Now that’s lateral thinking in action and lateral thinking in business is about finding a new way to solve a customer’s problem to do something useful to find a different approach.

A young man went to a conference in Paris in 2009 and he couldn’t get a taxi, that was the problem and what most of us would think, well the answer is we’ll catch the Metro, we’ll catch the bus, we’ll walk or wait for a taxi. He thought no is there a better way, could I harness the capacity of all the drivers in Paris he’d be prepared to give me a lift if I paid them something. A man named Travis Kalanick founded Uber, the fastest-growing startup in the world by taking lateral thinking approach a different approach.”

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