FREE stuff
This free stuff resource page was created to help you go forward with your success. We believe that good ideas should be spread wildly. Please bookmark this page and forward this link to others. We are adding more FREE stuff all the time. Share the wealth!
We have organized our free stuff by category, for your browsing pleasure.
TEAM MOTIVATION – tools and resources
- Watch this motivating video “Motivation” by Mark Shepard
- Quotes on Motivation
- Does your next meeting or conference need a jolt of motivation? Hire Kathy McAfee as your Motivational Speaker.
Watch other motivational video clips from Kathy McAfee
- Motivational video clip – Focus on what you want (4:12)
- Motivational video clip – Reinvent Yourself Daily (4:17)
- Motivational video clip – Take Action – Make Decisions (1:37)
- Motivational video clip – Be Daring (3:47)
- Motivational video clip – Giving Back (3:39)
- For help in motivating the troops, consider a Motivating Lunch ‘n Learn Seminar. It’s like brain food for your team.
PRESENTATION SKILLS – tools and resources
- For free resources, tips and tools to improve your presentation skills and confidence, please visit our Motivated Presenter web site
- Video Interview with Kathy McAfee on the Key to Becoming a Powerful Presenter (2:04)
- Download the Clean Sheet Thinking template and plan your next presentation in less than 30 minutes. This tool will help you prepare in a way that is faster and more focused than ever before.
- Download this free article: Dont Bore Your Audience_Learn to Avoid the Most Common Presentation Pitfalls
- For more help in the area of Presentation skill and training, please click here.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT- tools and resources
- For free tips, tools and resources to help you become a more motivated leader, check out our Motivated Leader web site
- Why you should consider working with an executive coach. Watch this video interview with Kathy McAfee on the value of executive coaching
NETWORKING – tools and resources
- For free resources, tips and tools to improve your networking skills and results, please visit our Motivated Networker web site
- The core elements of a professional handshake and why it is critical to making a positive first and last impression in networking, business and job interviews. Learn to avoid giving one of the 8 world’s worst handshakes.
- How to construct your 30 second elevator pitch or networking introduction (also ideas for developing your value proposition statement as your 10-second version)
- Find out how you can become more memorable and relevant in your networking follow-up by sending personalized greeting cards through the snail mail. Call Kathy McAfee at (860) 408-0033 to discuss how sending cards can help you stand out in the marketplace and stay more visible and valuable to your clients, prospects, hiring managers, networking contacts, family and friends. If they are important to you, you should be sending them cards and showing your appreciation. Watch the video below…
- Send a card for free by opening up your own free gift account at www.MotivatingCards.com
- Give your networking introduction a boost with Perfect Your Pitch: The Most Important 30-Seconds of Your Business Day
- For help with your networking strategy, let us help you Perfect Your Pitch
CAREER MANAGEMENT – tools and resources
- Body Language and Interview Tips from Kathy McAfee
- Inspiration and ideas for Staying Motivated in Your Job Search
- Resumes and the job search: the truth revealed by Bree Gurin
- Building your Personal Leadership Brand by ExecuNet’s Career Smart Advisor
- The Over-50 Career Marketing Plan from ExecuNet’s Career Advisor newsletter
- Avoid Executive Typecasting Trap – ExecuNet’s CareerSmart Advisor newsletter
- The New Executive Resume – ExecuNet newsletter article by Marji McClure. See page 4 for Your Communication Strategy, editorial contribution by Kathy McAfee
- Have some fun with your resume and take a risk to stand out from the crowd by creating your own Resume Word Search
MEETING MANAGEMENT – tools and resources
- (beta-test) Clean Sheet Thinking: a pre-planning tool for meetings. Join our beta-test of this new tool.
- Meeting Notice_template to help increase the preparedness of your meeting attendees.
- Meeting Summary Template. Make your meeting summaries more timely, focused and brief.
- For help with increasing the productivity of your meetings, please ask about our Overcoming Meeting Mania program by calling (860) 408-0033.
- Ice Breakers. Make your next meeting more effective and connective with an energizing ice-breaker. More than 10 ice-breakers to choose from. New ones added very month! (download pdf of Ice-Breakers) If you would like to donate an ice-breaker as free stuff on this site, please call us at (860) 408 -0033.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT- ideas and resources
- Get involved with the Soroptimist International organization and add your talent, time and energy to help improve the lives of women and girls in your local community and around the world. Soroptimst stands for “best for women.”
- If you care about social justice and the lives of women and girls, then join forces with the YWCA whose mission is to eliminate racism and empower women. Watch the video below which re-enacts Kathy McAfee’s “Green Shoes Story” presentation at the YWCA In the Company of Women luncheon on March 26, 2009 in Hartford, Connecticut.
MARKETING- tools and resources
- 7 Fast Track Commitments to Growing your Brand and Business
- Learn how to stand out from the crowd and your competition by leveraging grassroots innovation. Read about the six imperatives of grassroots innovation in this article Is Your Business Weird Enough?
- Open your eyes with The Truth About Innovation How can you drive innovation in your business quickly, easily and more affordably?
- How can you create competitive advantage through grassroots marketing and other unconventional channels?
- Have some fun with this Marketing Word Search
Practically Free Stuff (just a small fee)
Check out our digital downloads for motivating training programs to help advance your presentation skills and networking success.
This FREE Stuff and Practically-Free stuff is brought to you by Kathy McAfee, America’s Marketing Motivator

