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Leadership Mindsets That Elevate Performance
These highly impactful programs can be customized for any corporate or association conference, leadership retreat, off-site meeting, or virtual meeting.
I have long admired and appreciated Steven’s thinking and writing on leadership.
It is great to see him continuing to share his knowledge through his online leadership development program, YouTube channel on leadership, and his latest books.
Having Steven as my executive coach has far surpassed my expectations. He listens carefully each session to my specific situations and then guides me to a range of solutions or actions I should consider.
When I act upon his advice the results have been significant He has relevant experience that he shares easily. He provokes thought and validates my thinking and ideas while providing a great perspective outside my First Team.
When I reflect upon the questions he raises and the perspectives he shares, I develop new insights and am eager to implement.
Build Your Association Through Better Decision Making
Adults make thousands of decisions every day, up to 32,000 according to research. Far too many of these decisions are made under emotional duress, stress, anxiety, and pressure. When this happens, the rational control center of your brain is no longer in charge, having been replaced by the emotional control center.
It is not just WHAT you think, but HOW you think, that makes a difference in the outcomes you generate.
Steven Howard, named one of the Top 200 Global Voices on Leadership, shows you how better decision-making and better outcomes can be yours. Based on his award-winning book Better Decisions Better Thinking Better Outcomes: How to Go from MIND FULL to MINDFUL Leadership.
Key learning points:
- The biggest mistakes people make when facing hard decisions.
- How stress and anxiety impact your decision-making.
- The perils of multitasking.
- Tips for managing stress before making decisions.
- The steps everyone can take to protect the long-term health of their brains.
Audiences
Local, State, and National Executives of Associations and Non-Profit Organizations who want to build and grow their association memberships and programs. Fits perfectly as a kick-off keynote, luncheon talk, or anywhere on a conference program.
Format
45 to 75 minute keynote speech inclusive of audience Q+A.
Options
Can be modified into a workshop or breakout session (45 minutes to two hours).
Value-Add
Autographed copies of the award-winning Better Decisions Better Thinking Better Outcomes: How to go from MIND FULL to MINDFUL Leadership book can be made available to attendees, either as bulk purchase gifts for all attendees or individual purchases.
Managing People is a 1980s Construct Not Relevant Today
No one wakes up and says, “I cannot wait to be managed today.” And certainly, no one says, “I cannot wait to be micromanaged by my boss today.”
People do not want to be managed. They want to be led. To be motivated. Trusted. Given opportunities to grow their skill sets and decision-making capabilities.
They want (and need) to be mentored, coached, developed, empowered, unshackled from directives, and freed from being told how to accomplish their work. Leaders need to excel at the coaching and people development aspects of leadership.
Leaders who manage people are the major cause of the Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting trends. And it is hard to grow your business when one of your priorities and major expenses is recruiting and onboarding new people to replace staff who have left.
Key learning points:
- Stop managing people. You manage things, processes, policies, projects, and procedures. You LEAD people!
- Research shows up to 65% of people leave companies because of their leader or manager.
- You cannot grow your business when replacing lost employees is a priority.
- Leaders can staunch the impact of the Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting trends by creating workplaces of dignity, opportunities, equality, and harmony.
- Leaders need to put aside micromanaging and escalate micro-coaching.
Audiences
All those who lead people, from first-line leaders, supervisors, and managers to senior and experienced executives.
This is an excellent program for corporations, associations, government agencies (local, state, and federal), university staff, and non-profit organizations.
Format
A 45-to-75-minute keynote speech inclusive of audience Q+A. Fits perfectly as a kick-off keynote, luncheon talk, or anywhere on a conference program.
Options
Can be modified into a workshop or breakout session (45 minutes to two hours).
Value-Add
Autographed copies of the award-winning book Humony Leadership: Mindsets, Skills and Behaviors for Being a Successful People-Centric Leader can be made available to attendees, either as a bulk purchase for all attendees or post-presentation individual purchases.
The Humony Mindset Creates Legacy Leaders
The business environment was changing before Covid. But now, the change is escalating at warp speed. Welcome to the New Abnormal.
It is painfully obvious that the pre-pandemic models of operating and managing no longer as well with today’s workforce. Simply stated: work is not working for many people, as witnessed by the Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting trends.
Sustainable success requires a mindset and verbiage change from seeing employees as staff, assets, or resources. Leaders need to understand them as human beings (with lives and responsibilities outside work).
There is a better approach for leading today: Humony Leadership.
Humony is a created word comprising human, humanity, and harmony to emphasize the leading of people and the need to create workplaces of wellbeing and harmony.
Leadership is an art. It is the art of achieving progress through the involvement and actions of others. Humony Leaders are strong in both leading people and leading for results, while good leaders typically lead only one or the other.
Key learning points:
- Leaders must unlearn management, relearn to be human, and learn to be people-centric to drive long-term, sustainable results and their leadership legacy.
- It is no longer about “getting the most out of your people.” It is about putting the most INTO them.
- Leaders: you manage things, processes, projects, policies, and procedures. You LEAD people!
- Humony Leadership tackles the five critical issues facing leaders today.
Audiences
All those who lead people, from first-line leaders to the C-suite. An excellent program for corporations, associations, government agencies (local, state, and federal), university staff, and non-profit organizations.
Format
A 45-to-75-minute keynote speech inclusive of audience Q+A. Fits perfectly as a kick-off keynote, luncheon talk, or anywhere on a conference program.
Options
Can be modified into a workshop or breakout session (45 minutes to two hours). Half-day and full-day in-house workshops are also available.
Value-Add
Autographed copies of the award-winning book Humony Leadership: Mindsets, Skills and Behaviors for Being a Successful People-Centric Leader can be made available to attendees, either as bulk purchase gifts for all attendees or individual purchases.
Leaders: Start All Relationships on Basis of Trust
One lesson from the pandemic: people want greater human connection. Leaders need to excel at the human connection aspect of leadership. That human connection starts with trust.
Trust is foundational to leadership. If a leader is not trusted by the people they lead, nothing else they do matters. Unfortunately, there is a huge lack of trust in the workplace today.
One solution to this dilemma: do not tell your team members, “Here is how you earn my trust.” Start with trust and advise them what it takes to lose your trust.
Key messages:
- Research across the globe confirms a lack of trust in the workplace today.
- The lack of trust by managers and leaders in employees directly reduces employee engagement, productivity, innovation, creativity, inclusion, and results.
- There are five major factors influencing the lack of trust in bosses globally. All are fixable once leaders understand these.
- If a leader is not trusted by the people they lead, nothing else they do matters.
Audiences
All those who lead people, from first-line leaders to the C-suite. An excellent program for corporations, associations, non-profit organizations, university staff, and government agencies (local, state, and federal).
Format
45 to 75 minute keynote speech inclusive of audience Q+A. Fits perfectly as a kick-off keynote, luncheon talk, or anywhere on a conference program.
Options
Can be modified into a workshop or breakout session (45 minutes to two hours).
Value-Add
Autographed copies of the award-winning book Humony Leadership: Mindsets, Skills and Behaviors for Being a Successful People-Centric Leader can be made available to attendees, either as bulk purchase gifts for all attendees or post-presentation individual purchases.
Let’s talk about YOUR needs.
What are the greatest leadership challenges your organization faces today?
Most likely, your challenges include one or more of the following:
- Higher than desirable employee turnover (and the associated costs of replacing lost staff)
- Too much workplace drama
- Low trust by employees in management
- Managers and leaders who do not trust employees
- Disengaged employees (and even disengaged leaders)
- Lack of leadership bench strength
- Low levels of productivity, creativity, innovation, or problem solving
What other challenges do you have? Let’s talk. Chances are I can help you. Or know someone else who will.
I bring to you over 40 years of senior international experience and expertise in leadership, business growth, marketing, sales, and professional development.
My corporate career covered a wide variety of fields and experiences, including Regional Marketing Director for Texas Instruments, South Asia Ad Sales Director for TIME Magazine, Global Account Director for BBDO Advertising handling an international airline account, and VP Marketing for Citibank’s Consumer Banking Group.
These experiences and knowledge are incorporated into my four signature programs below. These highly impactful programs can be customized for any corporate or association conference, leadership retreat, off-site meeting, or virtual meeting.
Let’s spend 20-30 minutes together – to discuss your specific needs and how to help your organization overcome today’s leadership challenges.
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