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Great teams don’t just happen; they’re built and led in particular ways that foster collaboration, unleash potential, and expand opportunity. So, leaders who don’t understand these tactics are ill-equipped to fire up their teams. Too often, they leave their people feeling burned, burnt up or burned out as they inadvertently limit the power, potential, and engagement they want most.

In this motivational experience, Dr. J unpacks the secret to firing up a great team and introduces four strategies that will enable you to kindle and keep the spark in yours. He uses humor, research, and engaging stories to describe the psychological principles that supercharge influence and strengthen teams, and he equips you to put them to work in your own experience right away.

If you’re a leader or team member, this talk will fire you up personally and equip you to fan the flames of others.

Learning Objectives & Takeaways

• Discover common leadership moves that quench a team’s fire

• Identify strategies that increase the confidence and capacity of teams

• Explore crucial differences between Doers and Leaders

• Adopt perspectives that increase a team’s power

• Learn to manage relationships for maximum influence

• Learn to leverage expectations and dodge the danger of self-fulfilling prophesies 

Commitment makes the difference between someone “phoning it in” or doing something truly extraordinary. It inspires unusual effort, distinguishes the best-of-the-best, and transforms passive people into top teams. But how do you cultivate it? How do you build buy-in and encourage people to own the mission personally?

In this powerful talk, Dr. J prepares you to do just that. He introduces a revolutionary new perspective on accountability and demystifies the art of building buy-in and commitment in teams. He describes Five Foundations of Accountability that enable individuals and teams to step up their level of ownership and performance. Participants leave with new insights into leadership and accountability and new practices that refine and revitalize their work. 

Learning Objectives & Takeaways

• Explore the nature and impact of personal accountability

• Learn The Five Foundations on which accountability and commitment are built

• Recognize common leadership practices that diminish accountability and dilute commitment

• Diagnose organizational and interpersonal dynamics that work against “ownership”

• Discover counterintuitive leadership practices and interpersonal choices that build “buy-in”.

Conventional wisdom about engagement, performance, and satisfaction regularly misses the mark because it is preoccupied with weakness and leaves you working hard on the wrong things. It tells you that your greatest opportunity for success and fulfillment lies in figuring out everything that’s weak or wrong about you and fixing it. So, you spend your best time and energy trying to improve the worst of you instead of leveraging the best of you. That leads you to settle for second-best without realizing it. Why strive to be sufficient when you can be exceptional? Why struggle to be satisfied when you can be fulfilled?

In this provocative and motivational talk, Dr. J reveals the limitations of conventional wisdom and explains how rejecting it’s remediating mindset opens new doors and unleashes new potential.  He turns your attention to discovering, developing, and deploying talent, and enables you to make your biggest impact on the world and find your deepest satisfaction.

You’ll leave this inspiring experience fired up and refocused, with a new enthusiasm for who you are and what you can accomplish. You’ll gain new objectives for your personal growth and professional experience and new strategies for bringing out the best in the people you love and lead.

Learning Objectives & Takeaways

• Discover how a remediating mindset puts a lid on potential and fulfillment

• Identify traps in conventional wisdom that misalign talent and minimize people

• Learn the secret to exceptional performance and engagement.

• Explore new strategies for personal and professional development

• Unlock new potential and your personal competitive advantage

As a seasoned professor and consultant, Dr. J is equipped to speak on a wide variety of other topics related to leadership, team development, engagement, and interpersonal relationships. He is pleased to create a custom presentation for your event. Please contact him directly to discuss your specific interests and objectives.

Learning Objectives & Takeaways

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