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Kraig's Talk Topics

1. The Manager's Toolbox
   This presentation brings the Top 45 most effective business tools for enhancing growth and profit to every business manager! These same management tools have now been validated in thousands of businesses and were earmarked by over 8,000 company executives during 1998-2002 for ongoing application in growing profits, people, and performance. Please see the CEO Tool Kit below for more information.
2. The CEO's Tool Kit
   Most CEOs and manager have an extensive "tool kit" of knowledge and experience, gleaned over time with some pain but hopefully greater gain. The speaker explores his experiences as CEO in 8 widely diverse companies, ranging from service to manufacturing, small to large, coast to coast, and private to public. A nationally recognized speaker for 20 years, Kraig Kramers provides stories of success — and anecdotal but learning tales of failures — in both growth and turnaround situations. He’ll equip you with over three dozen tools to make more money right now! This talk works well with any managerial audience.
3. The Boardroom Tool Kit
   This is the definitive talk on creating, joining, and improving any Board of Directors or Advisors. Kraig Kramers is a veteran of more than 30 boards: public/private, big/small, high-tech and low, profit and non, directors/advisors, and especially successful and unsuccessful! In this talk Kraig shares the secrets of making your board super successful while providing tools to avoid the pitfalls. The handout for The Boardroom Tool Kit will, by itself, convince you to re-vitalize or extend your Board involvement!
4. Buy Low, Take Lot$ Out, & Sell High!
   Merger deals are endemic today. Deal-making has become a trillion dollar industry in America annually -- in contrast to public offerings at only $100-billion yearly. As the CEO of 8 companies and a veteran of 70 acquisition deals, Kraig Kramers leads you through a hands-on, how-to discussion on buying and selling businesses. Learn how to make better deals and position companies for maximum value realization. This is the quintessential talk on the successful buying, building and selling of businesses.
5. The Profitmaker’s Toolchest
   What if you had a complete set of instant powertools for growing your profit dollars? This dynamic presentation provides over 150 plug-and-play tools for rapid profit acceleration in your company. The speaker shows you how and when to use these powerful tools while dealing with the real world challenges of cash-flow, capitalization, people, and process. This fully-stocked sequel to the highly acclaimed "CEO Tool Kit" contains "top ten tool kits" for excelling with customers, financing, setting strategy, achieving goals, and celebrating your business successes.
6. Making Key Indicators Work!
   Kraig’s newest talk shows how to turbo-charge your business with the latest key indicators that you custom-tailor to your business! He shows how to implement, understand and act upon them.
7. Just Acquire It!
   Acquisitions are everywhere in America today! This talk is a dynamic "how to" on finding and doing acquisitions as well as on surviving and thriving afterwards. It is given by a seasoned operating CEO who has been directly involved in 70 changes of company ownership. You’ll leave this meeting knowing how to streamline the acquisition process so you can focus on the more important strategic issues.
8. Align Values to Pump Up Profit$
   Businesses that have clearly aligned values and beliefs – the ones that are shared by all employees – produce bigger, more consistent profits and grow to become lasting market leaders. Kraig Kramers, an experienced executive in 24 widely diverse businesses and CEO of eight of them, provides a clear path for setting your own business values and then getting your people to accelerate your customers’ loyalty and your profit dollars. Kraig shares his own personal "Business Kardinals" from years of "been there, done that" in the real world of taking your own company to record new highs.
9. Exit Your Business in Style!
   Exiting or selling your business might not be at the very top of your "to do" list, yet by pre-planning you can improve the value you receive by 50% - 100%. You can prepare to do an acquisition in less than 3 months, but an effective exit or sale typically takes three years. By getting ready for your exit, you will enjoy a much more profitable event for yourself, emotionally and monetarily. The presenter has been CEO of 8 companies and shares his own exit experiences as well as those of 38 other owners he has helped to exit successfully.

Kraig’s Repertoire of Other Top 10 Speech Topics:

• Manager’s Top 10 Profitmaking Tools
• Manager’s Top 10 Communication Tools
• Manager’s Top 10 Tools to Recognize for Results
• Manager’s Top 10 Business Tracking Tools
• Manager’s Top 10 Tools for Financing Businesses
• Manager’s Top 10 Productivity Producers
• Manager’s Top 10 Celebration Tools
• My Own Top 10 Favorite Business Tools
• Best Boards: Create-Join-Improve Any Board!

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