dr. Ben Tiggelaar

Who is Ben Tiggelaar...? Management Team magazine: "Ben Tiggelaar is one of Holland's most gifted keynote speakers, who comes into contact with people easily and immediately."

Drs Ben Tiggelaar, 1969, is a passionate trainer, writer and researcher who helps people to live their dreams. Professionally and privately. He is driven by his personal passion, a great feeling for entertainment and a solid background in behavioural science. Ben has written three very different books. His latest book,'Dromen, Durven, Doen' ('Dream, Dare, Do') about effective self management, has sold over 100,000 copies in the Netherlands and will be translated into English. The book he wrote previously, 'Doen!' ('Can do! How to to achieve personal change and growth'), is already available in English and Japanese.

Ben organises spectacular seminars, serving big groups (100 to more than 1,700 participants). During the seminars there will be singing, listening, laughing and hard work to turn dreams into reality. He has regular columns in De Zaak and Intermediair magazine. He hosts his own series of cd's, Management Classics, presenting the most important management gurus and their ideas. He is a regular guest on radio and television shows as a behavioural expert.

Ben has studied Communication Science. Currently he is writing his thesis on 'conscious and unconscious behavioural change in companies'.

Topics and themes:

1. Leadership and change.
   New practical insights to get your company on the move. Most organisations are full of plans, but when it comes to action there usually is a lot to be done.
   Why is it so hard to implement what we have written down? What can make us actually DO what we have been wanting to do for a long time?
   Ben uses a practical combination of the most effective insights from recent behavioural research and coginitive neuroscience.
   • Why does change fail so often?
   • The 5/95 breakthrough,the difference between planned and automatic human behaviour.
   • Is our brain fit for change?
   • How to replace old habits by new ones?
   • The secret weapons for effective behaviour management.
   • Five essential steps for leaders who want to put things into motion.
    
2. Dromen, Durven, Doen! (Dream, Dare, Do!)
   Managing yourself effectively.
   Who wants to manage others, should learn to manage himself first. What is the course of your life? How can you be yourself, in the way your are at your best moments?
   Ben has conducted continuous research on the way people can use their own skills and energy during work and leisure time. Ben's solution: purposeful selfmanagement: dreaming, daring and... particularly doing!
   • The importance of selfmanagement
   • Why most changes don't last
   • What determines 95 % of your behaviour, without you knowing it
   • How to motivate yourself for change
   • How to stick to personal changes in difficult situations
   • How to develop new effective habits successfully
   • How to train decisiveness and resilience to deal with set-backs
    
3. The heart of leadership
   Motivating other people to obtain maximum results
   Only a small part of our behaviour is determined by conscious and rational reasoning. Although our motivation is mainly based on unconscious and emotional grounds, many managers, salespeople and professional 'mindsetters' still use rational techniques. This will never lead to intended results when unconscious automatic thinking patterns of peers and clients are ignored.
   • Leadership: stimulating purposeful behaviour
   • Stimulate conscious and unconscious behaviour
   • What you have to know to influence conscious, planned behaviour
   • Six laws of nature to manage unconscious behaviour
   • Resisting other people's negativity
   • The difference between a nice, good and meaningful job
    
4. From good to great entrepreneurship
   The foundation for extraordinary success
   What are the basic rules for running a successful company? What do gurus say and what does practical experience tell us?
   With ingredients from the successful seminar 'MBA in one day' and 'Develop your company' and Ben's bestselling cd-series 'Management Classics'.
   • Leadership: effective and efficient in the right direction.
   • Building an organisation, how complex should it be?
   • Strategy: what you wouldn't do.
   • Execution: stimulating entrepreneurship at all levels.
   • Practical management theory: what works and what not
    
5. Let's Talk Business
   Ben Tiggelaar as an inspiring chairman and discussion leader
   Complex discussions with sometimes more than 500 particpants
   A steamy debate between MP's and journalists
   Interviews with foreign celebrities, ministers or CEOs...
   Ben Tiggelaar transforms your conference into a live business talk show. His goal: exchanging ideas and opinions between the work floor, (potential) customers and managers, leading to inspiring new ideas and insights.