If you were one of the 121 participants at Knocking Down Silos at UTM on September 15, thanks so much for coming...and this posting is for you!
I want to provide you with an interactive way to continue to provide value to people in attendence who you didn't meet.
Please click "comments" below and post a comment:
- tell us a little bit about who you are and what you got out of the KDS evening.
- tell us what you do for fun on weekends
- tell us your greatest challenge so we can help you (be specific eg use a top 10 list)
- offer to help the rest of us
Then check back on this blog to help others and to see who is offering to help you.
The Summary PDF for the evening is here.
Let's keep the buzz going until the next KDS!
Dave
11 comments:
Hey Rob, Chelsea and Michael. I went through my Good Guy Global rolodex and I've got companies in there that you were looking for. People from those companies have attended past KDS and I'm sure would be happy to take your call. Read through the "warm referral" sheet at http://www.geocities.com/dhowlett2004/mypage.html
Hello Everyone!
I'm glad you all enjoyed the entertaining evening Michael, Dave and I organized at UTM. I've had a lot of great feedback, and I've heard my classmates using the strategies Dave's taught us a few times; we're all working on changing our lifestyles. Thanks for coming and hopefully I'll see you at another KDS in the future.
For those of you I may not have been able to speak with at the KDS, I would be willing to help out in any way I can. I am currently looking for an internship come January with a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical device company. My top 5 companies that I would love to work for include:
Bayer Healthcare
AstraZeneca Canada Inc.
Merck Frosst Canada
Hoffman-La Roche Limited and
Pfizer Canada Inc.
If anyone can help, I'd love an introduction. Please email me at Chelsea.smyth@utoronto.ca.
Thanks again!
Great talk Dave! I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish. Now if you could only say that about a marathon.
Luke Hill |Field Clinical Specialist | Sorin Group Canada, Inc.
Hi All!
Great to meet everyone on Monday! Great talk Dave! I've seen you now three times in person and every time I take more away, thanks!
To echo Chesea's comments, I am more than willing to help anyone out in any way I can, just ask.
As for me, I am looking for an introduction to the following companies:
Wellspring Pharmaceutical
Bayer Inc.
Hoffman-La Roche
Innovus
Patheon
I also wanted to mention that as a Division Director, I am always open to chatting to others about career opportunities at Investors Group. If you are interested in learning more about the opportunity to build your own professional practice, are someone who is very self-motivated and driven and are looking for the potential to control your income then feel free to contact me to discuss.
All the best!
Rob Wojtasik - Division Director
Investors Group Financial Services Inc.
Ph: 800-561-0659 x 354
Email: rob.wojtasik@investorsgroup.com
Fabulous talk Dave - I learned a lot and have starting applying the principles to my life.
Laura
The Weather Network
geographygeek@gmail.com
Hi All,
Thank you all for coming to the KDS event last Monday. I heard lots of positive feedback about the event and I myself had a blast! It was one of the most inspiring talks I've ever been to. Thanks DAVE! :)
Learning from the endless lessons Dave gave last week! I would also like to offer help to anyone that needs it. I will try to do everything in my power! Like Chelsea, I am also looking for a full-time internship positing starting this coming January in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry.
My top 5 companies are:
1)AstraZeneca
2)Patheon
3)GlaxoSmithKline
4)RBC
5)BMO
If anyone has contacts in these companies, I would love an introduction! I can be reached at michaelmh.yang@utoronto.ca
Thank again! And keep sending out those thank you cards!
Michael Yang
647-886-0858
Hi Everyone!
I have an apartment for rent near UTM. It can be furnished or not. There are two bedrooms and a separate entrance. If you know anyone who may be interested, please contact me: geographygeek@gmail.com
Hi Everybody,
I've been trying to give my wife the highlights of that amazing talk we heard at UTM. Her comment is "Wow! It sounds like he was giving you a philosophy for living." I guess that sums it up pretty well.
If any of you need, or anyone you know needs to have more energy, get rid of some toxins from your body, and/or lose a bit of weight, I might be able to help.
Also, if any of you are looking to make some good part-time income (from home) please contact me.
Thanks again, Dave for a great evening.
Frank Bastedo
1-866-384-1283
www.frankbastedo.isagenix.com
I have a different perspective. Dave Howlett does a good presentation. But what is this presentation really? Looking at the replies I see a lot of comments like the following:
We're all working on changing our lifestyles...
We are applying your principles to our life...
And lots about being a Good Guy.
My perspective is this: is Dave Howlett really just another motivational speaker? Motivational speakers come in many types: religious preachers, loosing weight, getting over an addiction, make lots of money, find your true love, etc. The common theme is an entertaining speaker combined with a simple message to change your life.
Isn't this what Dave Howlett is: a motivational speaker? And what is his message? That's where I'm confused. I think he's telling us to be Good Guys. If that's the case, isn't Dave Howlett really an atheistic version of what religious preachers did hundreds of years ago?
I can see the appeal of Dave Howlett and his Good Guy message. We all yearn for someone to make us believe in them and to believe in ourselves. We yearn for someone to show us hope and to show us the way. It used to be religion, but their preachers abused the simple message of the Golden Rule. So we have grown skeptical and even hateful of religion. Here comes the same message wrapped in a modern day delivery.
Interesting!
Thanks very much for your comment and feedback - I often wonder what people get out of my talks and where they will frame KDS (Knocking down Silos) in their work and personal lives. I have no pre-conceived notion whether my message is spiritual or a modern-day equivalent. I do find it interesting that when I read the comments in thank-you cards, the attributes of leading a "good guy" life seem to appeal equally to those who subscribe to organized religion as well as those who do not.
One gentleman recently mentioned that KDS reflects many of the Jewish atonement philosophies yet I have had Muslim students interpret it in their own way. Two gentlemen from Nigeria recently commented that it was the first North American talk they had heard that didn't dwell solely on a financial bottom line; that it was reflective of their African culture.
I like to think that, as part of mankind's evolution, we constructed tribal labels (for protection, pride and motivation) but these labels became self-imposed limitations. Maybe all that Knocking down Silos does is liberate us from thousands of years of tribalism.
Wouldn't it be interesting to think that we all have "the good guy code" hard-wired within us?
I'll let you in on a secret. If I ran a seminar called "Learn how to get into third gear and be a "good guy" or "amazing woman" - I might get a handful of folks attending. So I advertise KDS as "how to get the perfect job" "how to sell products with reputation and word of moouth" and "how to get along with people in your company."
It's not until the end of the talk that folks realize...it's the same thing.
Dave - you've obviously started people thinking on a number of levels.
I think your Good Guy theme really resonates because it appeals to something that many of us are thinking. Do we really have to be different in our "work lives" and our "real lives".
If that really is true, it's a crying shame. Because we spend almost a third (or more) of our waking life at work. Do we have to spend that time pretending we are someone else, with different rules and even a different morality? That sucks.
We got taught (at least my generation) that we need to keep work and real life separate. It's okay to be a "good guy" in the community or with your friends, but back at work you'd better "play to win". Ever hear "nice guys finish last?" The ultimate in this is those who walk around with "The Art of War" as their buisness manual.
No surprise that people are wondering what you are talking about when you say we have to break down the barriers (defences?) and learn to give BEFORE we get.
We run a software business that caters to busieness owners and sales people who want to sell more and service their customers better. When people ask what makes us different, I say -- it's the service we provide. We LIKE our customers and want them to be successful. We want them to sell more and service customers better.
I don't know how many really believe us -- until they get to know us. But all we've done is taken your "Good Guy Code" and tried to make it how we do business.
That's the trick, isn't it? That's what I love about the workshops you do. It sounds so simple, all of this breaking down silos, until you challenge us to reach out to the person beside us in real time.
Yes, the "Good Guy Code" is something we've all heard before. But if takes somebody like you to help us DO IT in our day to day business lives and to reap the rewards in terms of our professional success and our personal success.
And if more businesses did this -- if we replaced the "Art of War" with the "Good Guy Code", I think we'd all find that we suddenly got a gift. An extra third (or more) of our waking life could be lived with the same gusto as our "real lives"! And I think they's find with your "first dance" rule, that you don't have to be a pushover. I don't know, it may be true that "nice guys" finish last, but "good guys" not only finish at their personal best, but they enjoy the race a whole lot more!
Jim Love
www.performanceadvantage.ca
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