Clay details the key thoughts behind making an impact on other people's lives as a leader while also providing motivation for continuing to do so through out your life.

1. Making An Impact
On Others
Welcome to

2. • Played for Barry Switzer at OU… back in the day!
• High School Teacher For 15 Years
• 1998 Teacher of the Year
• 1999, 2000, 2001 Missouri State Coach of the Year
• Executive Director for 10 years at Shepherd’s Fold Ranch
• Thrive15 Mentor and #1 Rated Motivational Speaker in
Oklahoma
• Entertainer, Educator and Trainer of Choice for Americas
leading companies including, McDonalds, Chick-fil-a, Farmers
Insurance, Holiday Inn Hotels, Oral Roberts University,
Oklahoma State University, Gateway Mortgage,
Skill and Knowledge without Character and Mindset…

3. WE HELP PEOPLE LIVE
BETTER LIVES BY
EXPANDING THEIR
CAPACITY TO
PROCESS
COMPLEXITY
WE HELP TEAMS
INCREASE PRODUCTION
THROUGH EMBRACING
UNITY
WE HELP BUSINESSES
SUCCEED THROUGH
INCREASED FOCUS AND
ORGANIZATION
LEADERSHIP Initiative
The

5. Who Cares?
What Would That
Mean To You?

6. 1. I am very excited
about my future.
1. I know I’m doing
what I have been
created to do.
1. I need help
discovering my
purpose.
Rate yourself on a
scale from 1 to 10,
with 10 being the
highest in the
following 3 areas:
What Do You Want To
Learn More About As A
Leader?

7. TODAY’S “4” GOALS
1. Encourage and Inspire!
2. Expand Your Perspective.
3. Equip You With Practical Tools.
4. Provide You With Ongoing Support
I’m A Leader Talking To Leaders And I
Don’t Have Much Time!
“Our Leadership Is Failing!
From Business to Government
to Education to Media to
Church to Family… Leaders
MUST Show Up and Step up.”
Clay Staires, a guy that knows
about failure as a leader

8. My Commitment To
YOU!Teach everyone here at least
ONE
“Thunder Move”
that will CHANGE YOUR LIFE!
“I’ve been in leadership for 20
years. I thought I had it down.
Wow! This has changed
everything! I want to inspire
and not just motivate!”
Sean Sansone, Farmers
Insurance
“Of the 40% of Americans
that actually set goals
each year, only about 8%
actually achieve them.”
Forbes.com 1/1/2013

9. Your Commitment
To
YOURSELF…
“Knowledge without
Application is
Meaningless.” Thomas
Edison
A.Take notes
B.Look for 3 Action
Steps
C.Guard Against
The Four Words
of Doom!
THUMB
WAR!

11. TEXT ME!
918-798-0852

12. School is different than when you were
here.There are Great People Here!
There will be students that you can’t fix.
It’s going to be different from what you’re
thinking.
There will be some names you can’t
pronounce!
There will be students that you can’t fix.
Only 10% have a “Learning Mindset”.

13. Teaching Is The
Most Noble
Profession!
“Your challenge is to Lead
them without getting mad
at them.”
John Maxwell, Leadership Yoda “Nothing Grows Until
YOU do.”
Lee Cockerell,
Disney Resorts
We Lay
Foundations

14. Work = Force x Distance
“There’s no substitute
for
Hard Work.”
Thomas Edison
“Most people don’t
know how to work.
They don’t know how
to move forward.”
Will, School Administrator
Work:
Action that Produces
Movement

15. How Will You Get Your
Students To WORK!
• We, as humans, are
wired to be INSPIRED!
“Only 10% of people have
a LEARNING MINDSET.
The other 90% will only
learn if they are forced.”
THE LEARNING MINDSET
“Leadership is getting
other people to do
what you want them to
do because they want
to do it.”
Dwight Eisenhower, 34th
POTUS
Carol Dweck
Stanford University

16. INSPIRATION
vs
MOTIVATION
Lance Secretan,
Author
“Motivation
becomes about
changing their
behavior most often
for MY benefit.”
Lance Secretan
MOTIVATION – to provide
a motive; to induce, incite,
impel
INSPIRE – from the word
“spirare” meaning “spirit”. To
affect, guide, arouse by divine
influence; to fill with enlivening
or exalting emotion; to animate;
a divine influence on human
beings to give life; the breath of

17. So How Do I INSPIRE!
Inspiration Comes From Within A
Person.
This is where our WORK comes in.
“Somewhere, something
incredible is waiting to be
known.”
Carl Sagan, Real Smart Guy

18. Expand The WHY!!
Follow The Leader
Know Their Names
“Somewhere, something
incredible is waiting to be
known.”
Carl Sagan, Real Smart Guy
Greet Them At The Door
Give Choice Instead of Control
Encourage Them To Be Students Not
Teachers

19. Which Teacher Will You
Be This Year?
“Kids don’t remember what
you try to teach them they
remember what you are.”
Jim Henson,
Creator of Sesame Street

22. $15 Book - $5 Goes To Support The Mentoring Project
Re-writing the fatherless story through mentoring

23. WORK = Force x Distance
• What will you Do?
• Be The 10%!
One
Action
One
Question
One Leave
Behind

24. STEP 1
LEAVE SPEAKER
EVALUATION FORM AT
YOUR SEAT
STEP 2
TAKE YOUR NOTES WITH
YOU = TOP SHEET – “Fold it
and tuck it in your pocket”
STEP 3
SCHEDULE A TIME TO
IMPLEMENT YOUR ACTION
STEP
“ACTION IS THE REAL MEASURE OF INTELLIGENCE.”
– NAPOLEON HILL (Famed success writer and fan of taking action)

25. “Your life gets
better when
you do!”
So Go…
Live A Better Life
&
Make A Bigger
Paycheck!

26. THANKS FOR BEING
AWESOME!
Clay Staires
Coach, Speaker,
Author
918-798-0852
www.claystaires.com