Motivational Speaker: Ronald Naar

Ronald Naar produces texts on mountain-climbing, skiing and other 'adventurous' trips and expeditions. He wrote and did the photography for no less than nine books. In addition he also made photoreports for numerous illustrated magazines, as KLM's in-flight magazine Holland Herald. Via Benelux Press photostock agency his photographs are sold all over the world.

In addition to mountaineering Ronald Naar has also specialized in other 'adventurous' disciplines. Thus he took part in rafting expeditions in Central and South America and travelled along the west coast of Greenland with dog-sleds. In New Guinea he trekked through the tropical rain forest and on Greenland he crossed the ice cap, skiing and parasailing.

He also organizes expeditions, both to remote territories such as the 'forbidden' Assam Himalayas in northeast India, and to peaks that are difficult to climb such as K2 in the far north of Pakistan. At the moment Ronald Naar is preparing the TNT Post Groep Trans-Antarctica Expedition, which is to take place in the winter of 1998-1999.  Some nine years now, in addition to his work as a photojournalist, Naar's presentations on 'expedition management' have been one of the main activities of his company Adventure Communication. He is regularly invited as a speaker by companies at home and abroad to tell them about his projects at 'unique and solitary levels'. Subjects include the importance of open communication, the changes innovation can give, team building and leadership.

Presentations by Ronald Naar:   Only teamwork... gets you to the TOP So far Ronald Naar has climbed hundreds of mountains, from a 'mini-mountain' in Austria to the highest and most difficult peaks in the world. He did this mostly in small teams, but sometimes also as a member of large, international expeditions. In the past fifteen years he was usually the initiator, manager and organizer of such enterprises; he then fulfilled - to put it in mountaineering terms - the role of the expedition leader.

Managment is very important below
as well as above the clouds...

"Mountains form a rock-hard, but fair arena to put your capacities to the test," Ronald Naar states. In fact High mountains and polar regions are a sort of laboratories for management. In a brief period and under extreme circumstances all aspects of effective leadership come to the fore, magnified to such an extent that you gain insight."

Preparing well means half the job is done...

In the course of his climbing career Ronald Naar has learnt to use the preparation stage to set the tone for the 'work atmosphere', to define clearly the lines of authority and hierarchy; this enables him to solve conflicts, if any, beforehand as much as possible.

Ronald Naar's Fifteen Rules

on How to Launch a Successful Expedition...

1. Be critical of yourself

2. Don't select clones of yourself

3. Always think a couple of steps ahead

4. Formulate your objective

5. Ensure you are concentrating fully

6. Never think you are too good for one extra check

7. Mountaineering is not a competitive sport

8. Recognise and quantify the danger

9. Dare to cover new ground

10. Don't take the easy option - dare to change even a winning team

11. Show your respect for your fellow climbers by giving them a goal

12. Team spirit is a means, not an end

13. Powers of observation are more important than your equipment

14. Standards and guidelines

15. Put your heart into climbing

A good preperation for a Top Presentation...

For any expedition to succeed good preparation is essential. This also goes for Ronald Naar's slide presentation. Therefore we expressly ask your attention for the following points. The result will definitely be a better quality presentation with enhanced effect.

Presentations by Ronald Naar are suitable for:

• Commercial meetings

• Recruitment and selection (assessment centres)

• Meetings of management

• Shareholders' meetings

• Relation-marketing, possibly combined with active mountaineering (events organized for business relations)

• Quarterly or annual staff meetings

• Support for programmes to train management or to solve internal problems

• Coaching changes in corporate culture.

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