Raj Gavurla
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Mood, Mindset, Motivation Expert
Raj Gavurla Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Productivity and Performance, Peak Performance, Mental Health
- Best Sellers
- Winning at Entrepreneurship (Audio Book), Winning at Entrepreneurship (Paperback), Lead The Life You Want (Live Keynote), Be A Hero! (T-shirts)
- Career Focus
- Professional Speaker/Author, Coach, and Consultant
- Affiliation
- National Speakers Association (NSA), NSA Georgia, Global Speakers Federation (GSF), Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation (ISA) Society
Raj Gavurla came to America when he was four and a half with his mom and sister on a flight from Hyderabad, India to New York City. The first words he heard in America were dad saying, “Raju I bought candy!” Dad had a Hershey’s bar. A Hershey’s bar is still his favorite; however, he likes it with almonds.
Always strong in family, friends, work, community, and faith he has had success and adversity and responded with self-empowerment and entrepreneurial vigor.
Whether it’s growing your business or winning a championship, Raj Gavurla improves your mood, mindset, and motivation. His expertise, experience, stories, (motivational, inspirational, humorous), and examples stimulate organizations to increase productivity and performance by consistently playing at the top of their game.
GO FOR IT - RAISE THE BAR TO ANOTHER NEW BEST LEVEL
Trade, business, and healthcare associations, corporations, schools, sports teams, and government use his services and products. He applies his practical leading edge research and process, Winning Mental Pyramid, towards your organization’s success. In addition to speaking, he coaches and advises entrepreneurs, small business owners, professionals, and is a volunteer mental health facilitator.
Raj is the author of Winning at Entrepreneurship, is interviewed by the media, and has written expert articles. His entrepreneurial spirit guided him in forming his company, LiiiVEN™.
Raj is involved in leadership, education, and healthcare initiatives. He has worked as a business consultant, engineer, model, and is an electrical engineering graduate of Clemson University.
RAJ BRINGS LIFE TO BUSINESS AND SHOWS IT'S A SMALL WORLD!
When working with clients and speaking with audiences, he always has a “we are going for the victory attitude!”
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Corporate Entrepreneurship
Corporations are a vital part of an economy. So are foundations, government, and faith based initiatives. In corporations employees are starving for a new direction to create a new economy and adapt. Corporations are largely responsible for more business transparency because of the push for information technology (IT) and access to relevant information. Look at what information can be gathered from a Google search and now we can go directly to the consumer via Twitter and most importantly made our voices heard to produce positive change.
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Defining The Qualities of A Professional
In today's business climate, we are experiencing more interest in professionalism. The past five years provided many successes; however, most have been overshadowed by the nonethical behavior of a few. Some people lost most of their retirement savings, and the US population is demanding a stronger economy and a peaceful world. We've seen quality job opportunities decreasing, and the need for profits has projects being partially or wholly completed overseas. Many employees are traveling to other offices in the US because of the lack of projects locally.
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Let The Words Be Known: Client Modular Approach (CMA)
Many times we have habits, techniques, skills, and processes that bring results, but we fail to capture them and put them in our respective repertoire to use when needed. We forget they are valuable, or just plain don't see it until it's brought to our attention. As we continue to move forward in business and life, new ones appear and we become more adept at using them in the right situation.
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Communication Is The Difference Between Winning and Losing
The ability to communicate with a focus plays a vital role. Regardless of our occupation, the individuals who excel in a specific field and are able to communicate this knowledge to benefit others and themselves always win. Be attentive to your presence, voice, body language, eye contact, and actions. Communication has many forms and, when you use it properly, you win. Democracy and capitalism form a communication system allowing us to work with one another. In the United States, political campaigns are abundant.
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Get "In The Zone"
To be “in the zone”, consistent high performance, our mindset must have a program readily available. Sure, each of us has specific expertise we use to create solutions for our businesses to grow. As a mindset, mood, and mental motivation expert, I want to know how you make your thought process better. Having worked with business leaders and athletes, one “way to think” so you can be “in the zone”, consistent high performance, on the job is to do the following:
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Entrepreneurial Mindset
Your mindset is what you think and the way you think. As a mindset, mood, motivation expert and author, no one is smarter than you and you are no smarter than anyone else. What makes us well versed in an area are our knowledge, expertise, relationships, and experiences.
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Build Trustworthy Business Relationships
Think of the strong business relationships you have. How did they form and grow? There may have been tense moments or disagreement. However, because relationships are important you were able to handle the situation. Seven steps to establishing trustworthy relationships:
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Accomplishing Your Goals
Although unforeseen opportunities may appear as you succeed, a goal is not accomplished unless given forethought and targeted as follows: 1. You decided to do it (answered the question why?) Unless the why has logic and emotion intertwined it will fall flat. The logic resembles gears in a car and emotion is the energy. If dragging, emotion gives you a jump start to allow logic to do the work needed. 2. It empowers your mindset (produces productivity) A goal causes action. Action produces results and the accumulation of results accomplishes a goal. 3. It makes you feel goodr
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Maximize Return on Investment (ROI)
What are the metrics used by you to calculate return on investment (ROI)? Of course, the bottom line, profitability (money), is important. It gives us more options to invest our time wisely to work with others to be more productive and profitable. However, when making a deal you need to listen for your inner voice to know how to maximize return on investment. There are seven metrics you can use to determine whether an investment on your behalf is trustworthy. Return On Involvementr
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Business and Family Safety and Health Rating
For good reason, practically every endeavor in life is rated. I've seen ratings on who or what's #1 in business, industry, NFL, NBA, MLB, person of the century, athlete of the century, technology, restaurant, university, neighborhood, travel destination, best looking, best movie, best book, etc. It doesn't stop. In fact, there are multiple ratings for the same #1 spot because of varying value systems. Of course, each of us has our independent rating to see if it's in agreement with the masses, the experts, or promotional efforts.
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What To Do In An Economic Recession?
I empathize with you because the economy is in the dumps. All of us feel the effects, however, by empowering your mindset and motivation you will see it doesn’t matter what the economy does. It matters what you do. I know if you take spirit-enhancing action to produce spirit-enhancing results the economy will come roaring back and go to all-time heights. That’s the power of the human spirit. Let’s take a look at three common scenarios in an economic recession: 1. Not closing enough business 2. Don’t have a job 3.
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Pillars Of Teamwork
Some companies and athletic teams use the words teamwork or team to describe how their organization works. That's extremely important. Some don't mention teamwork or team. These organizations are the ones that experience stagnation. My research indicates while many companies and athletic organizations taut teamwork, many do not grow teamwork methodology, processes, and skills to benefit from teamwork. Teamwork is a tangible.
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Raj Gavurla - Entrepreneurial Speaker, Author of Winning at Entrepreneurship, Business Coach
Raj works to help organizations and professionals perform entrepreneurial in business, work, sports, and life by improving your mood, mindset, and motivation.
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Consistently Play At The Top of Your Game
Contacting Raj Gavurla
Raj Gavurla
mobile: 864.569.2315
e-mail: raj@rajgavurla.com
Mailing Address:
110 Stonecrest Rd.
Greer, SC 29650
How to get started
1. Browse my web site, www.motivateresults.com, www.rajgavurla.com
2. E-mail me at raj@rajgavurla.com to chat or call me at 864.569.2315
3. Meet for coffee (I'm in Greenville, SC); might be on business in your area
Other highlights
YOU CAN GET IN THE ZONE
Motivate and inspire your team’s passion by empowering their mood, mindset, and motivation to take action to produce better results, moods, and wins.
“Raj Gavurla is a dynamic speaker who helped my organization to better employee communication skills. He researched the ins and outs of my business and company climate before even taking the stage. He is professional and knowledgeable about his subject. I would highly recommend him to any company looking to have a more positive mindset.”
- Mary Y Bryan, Executive Director, Laurel Crest Retirement Center
WINNING AT ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Whether you are an entrepreneur or a corporate executive, Raj applies entrepreneurial thinking for your organization to win, grow, evolve, and profit. Experience an entertaining and interactive coaching process through three critical lessons we must learn to consistently play at the top of our game.
To reinforce the learning, Raj recommends each participant receive a copy of his book, Winning at Entrepreneurship. Learn nine common-sense strategies and a formula to ignite, win, control, grow, profit, and evolve your entrepreneurial mood, mindset, and motivation.
“Raj Gavurla has written a book about “winning at entrepreneurship”. Read this book with a good marking pen because it contains a ton of valuable advice for all business owners.”
- Pat Williams, Senior Vice President, Orlando Magic
“Thank you so much for speaking to our group of local small business owners in July. It was a great presentation and you created a lot of excitement and motivation within our group. Thank you for sharing your experiences and how you overcame personal setbacks.”
- Susan Vickery, Towne Lake Business Association
WORKSHOP: WINNING AT ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Learn entrepreneurial thinking tools and practically apply leading edge research, Winning Mental Pyramid, to grow your business. Stories, examples, and Q&A throughout.
Entrepreneurial Tools:
• Business Cycle, Entrepreneurial Shift, Point of Diminishing Return, Decision Making Formula, Entrepreneurial Success Formula • Leadership Mood Chairs • Adaptability Links to Generate Valuable Ideas My Interactive Coaching Process • Winning Mental Pyramid • Go from a Fixed Mindset to a Grow Mindset
Bring a unique learning experience to members and employees. Have Raj creatively customize a workshop or seminar to help them perform at another New Best Level. This interactive workshop stimulates your entrepreneurial thinking using entrepreneurial thinking tools. Learn and apply so you can use over and over to consistently play at the top of your game:
“Thank you!!!!! ….. for your time, your effort and most importantly the value you brought to us on Thursday. The content was very good. We’re a hard group to please in that we are always looking for hardhitting information and advice that will directly impact the success of our businesses. In your presentation, you showed us how to apply entrepreneurial thinking in the company. Of particular value to me, I came to understand the importance of my mood in motivating and influencing people.”
- Tom Cramer, Founder & Co-Chairman, The Brain Trust
WORKSHOP: PRESENT PROFESSIONALLY
Presentations create opportunities currently unknown to us. Learn the three pillars of presenting professionally for your business development and growth. Bring your presentation material and be coached at the workshop, Q&A throughout by a professional speaker and author. This session is for beginner and advanced presenters.
FACILITATIONS/RETREAT FACILITATIONS
Facilitating your process to achieve your goals. Exercises and tools specific to your needs will be applied.
ENTREPRENEURIAL/PERSONAL COACHING
Empowering your dreams, goals, and callings for entrepreneurs, business owners, and executives
As your coach, Raj works with you to produce results and positive change in your business and life using his interactive coaching process. Confidential and private coaching and advisor sessions empower your mood, mindset, and motivation to be productive and profitable. Having been through the highs and lows of business, Raj can relate. He is the author of Winning At Entrepreneurship. Having a coach and advisor makes it easier to develop and grow your business.
Client Examples:
1. Motivation, Decision Making, Communicating Your Value, Goal Setting and Achievement, Performance, Conflict Resolution and Relationships, Accountability
2. Vision and Mission, Your Health, Change A Bad Habit
3. Presentation Skills Coaching
SPORTS TEAMS/ATHLETES
Motivate and Inspire Your Team, Locker Room Motivation and Victory Celebration,
Individual Player Coaching
Do you have a sports team mood, mindset, and motivation coach you can call when there is a CHAMPIONSHIP to win? Your players and fans deserve to celebrate championships! As a team mood, mindset, and motivation coach, Raj creates a winning advantage for you to coach your team to victory. His work is based on his practical leading edge research and process, Winning Mental Pyramid.
Raj works with sports teams that want to improve their mood, mindset, and motivation to win championships.
Raj doesn’t know much about the X’s and O’s. His interest is in your team’s mood, mindset, and motivation to win the CHAMPIONSHIP.
“We would like to thank you for coming to the girls basketball camp to speak with girls about consistently playing at the top of their game. When you spoke about having the right mindset, mood, and motivation to stay at the top of the game, I noticed the girls were very attentive and focused on the message you were conveying. Having the right attitude to reflect a positive spirit is very powerful! The girls absorbed the information and brought a different attitude to camp the remainder of the time.”
- RHONDA MAPP, FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS, WNBA CHAMPION
“Raj Gavurla has written a book about “winning at entrepreneurship”. Read this book with a good marking pen because it contains a ton of valuable advice for all business owners.”
- PAT WILLIAMS, FORMER SR. VICE PRESIDENT, ORLANDO MAGIC
“I’ve been watching. I know you have a championship in you.” – Raj Gavurla
WIN BABY, WIN!
Are you a player, coach, athletic director, or owner? Whether its football, basketball, soccer, or tennis winning games brings championships, fan jubilation, a life of storied memories, and BIG money! Book Raj for a CHAMPIONSHIP game to get “in the zone” (work with your players winning mindset) and give your team fun incentive with 3-10 minutes of intense pre-game mental motivation to compete and Win Baby, Win! Then have Raj deliver a 1-1.5 hour post-game victory celebration with surprises! Your team is worth it!
CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM MINDSET
Having a champions’ mindset is realizing your teams’ mental approach on and off the field determines what happens on the field. In this interactive seminar players learn to win and grow to maintain a championship team mindset. You are winners!
Learn and Apply to Consistently Play At The Top of Your Game:
• Get “In The Zone”
• Winning Mental Pyramid (Mindset Tool)
• Winning-Class Teamwork Chairs (Interactive Mood Tool)
• Visualization – Repeatable, Adaptability Link
• Dealing With Doubt
INDIVIDUAL PLAYER COACHING
As a player it’s up to you to impress your coach and help your team win. Private unconventional coaching sessions to address player development and growth by instilling confidence using mood, mindset, and motivation tools to have the right mental skills to overcome challenges.
Examples:
1. Eliminating mistakes (loss of focus, slumps, unmotivated)
2. Performance improvement to be a better player
Schedule an individual player appointment Monday thru Sunday. Contact me at 864.334.8156. Hope to see you soon.
“We all have in us something special to share with the world. Raj has given us a step-by-step blueprint to turn those dreams into reality. Get going and make it happen!”
- BOB RATHBUN, VOICE OF THE ATLANTA HAWKS, NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION