Liz Bohannon

Beginner’s Pluck: A Roadmap to Success in Highly Uncertain Times

When we are starting on any journey, there are things that we will do as beginners more naturally that will help us become more creative, innovative, and ultimately, more successful. Even uncertainty becomes something that we look at with curiosity instead of fear. This is a little something Liz Bohannon calls “Beginners Pluck.” By embracing your status as a beginner or diving deliberately out of mastery and back into the magical land of beginners, you will achieve goals you never imagined.

Through exploring some of the 14 principles from her Bestselling Book, Beginner’s Pluck: Build Your Life of Purpose & Impact Now, Liz will challenge your team to dream small so they can start doing instead of dreaming, show them how curiosity over criticism fuels innovation and set them on the ultimate path of success by weaving passion & purpose into every goal.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Become a Problem Finder – If you understand your customers’ lives at a granular level, you can look for other problems you might be able to solve for them, rather than searching for ways to make them comfortable with business as usual.
• Be A Doer, Not A Dreamer – Just like start-ups who go from dreaming to doing, iterating and testing, you need to apply a beginner’s mind.
• Reconnect Your Sales Team with Their Purpose – This is why purpose is so important. When unexpected curveballs are thrown your way that all but decimate your organization, the strongest unifier and innovation-inducer is purpose.

#1 Ignite Pre-Event Call: Deep dive into the goals and challenges facing your organization and team. Liz will share an overview of her content ideas for your event and how she will further align messaging for your needs.

#2 Dynamic Kick-Off Presentation: Liz will guide your team through powerful and action-packed principles from her Bestselling Book, Beginners Pluck, that will get them aligned with their inner beginner – that special voice that isn’t afraid, the voice that is curious, the voice that takes risks, the voice that is a collaborator and co-creator, driven to find solutions and to see the new possible in every day and every challenge. Liz’s remarks will be followed by an open conversation with your leadership and viewing audience. (Note: The moderator can be a member of your team, or a member of Liz’s team. Presentation: 30min; Conversation 20min) #3 A Series of 5 Video Drips Post Event: Liz will share five video clips that you can drip out to your team post-event to help them stay actionable and inspired on purpose and impact. Liz has built an incredible team of global social entrepreneurs by doing virtual calls with them every month and this series of video clips will draw from some of her most effective principles that she outlines in her bestselling book, Beginner’s Pluck.

Building a courageous community of thinkers and doers is key to the success of any program, and it also speaks to principle #14 of Beginners Pluck, which is to “Walk One Another Home.” These Plucky Community Sessions are an opportunity to truly engage your people in in the continuous process of tapping into their purpose and impact. Each quarter, one of your team members will have an opportunity to host and co-create content for a 30-minute moderated conversation with Liz. This opportunity will include a 15-minute one-on-one pre-event call with Liz to discuss the theme and refine the presentation. Building a strong community of leaders is the foundation of Liz’s thriving company. She knows that by empowering members to lead the conversation it will create a rising tide that lifts all ships. (Alternatively, Liz and one of her team members can present a moderated conversation, so all you need to do is a pick a date for your team to join a conversation that will inspire them to action.)