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Brian Ward

"Lead People …. Manage Things"

Brian has worked with leaders in for-profit, non-profit, associations and governmental organizations to help simplify and bring sanity to their planning processes, develop leadership skills and build high performing teams.

Who can you feature to inform, challenge and motivate your participants to really step out and succeed as leaders? Who can offer your participants actionable ideas that will get them, right now, to break away from the crowd and move ahead with renewed confidence and determination on their journey towards becoming great leaders?

Brian Ward can provide the answers you need. He has worked successfully with leaders in various sectors including government, manufacturing, healthcare, non-profits and associations. He helps leaders and their teams develop and implement strategy…and to understand their leadership role in making strategy everyone's everyday job.


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  Keynote and Speaking Topics

 

 

 

Speaking Topics:
• Lead People...Manage Things: Master The Five Key Facets of High Performance Leadership
• The Strategy-Focused Enterprise: Using The Balanced Scorecard to Achieve Your Vision
• Is Your Team Stuck in 'P'?
• Creating Customer Loyalty: The Customer Loyalty Grid™
• Improving Your Quality of Work Life

Lead People...Manage Things: Master The Five Key Facets of High Performance Leadership
Today's leaders face immense pressures. Across all sectors, leaders at every level are being asked to THINK BIG and act appropriately...and in the wake of recent corporate scandals, it's not getting any easier.

A new era in corporate governance is driving the demand for a new breed of leader...ones who are accountable for developing organizations that:

• Demonstrate sky-high ethical standards
• Achieve breakthroughs in financial performance
• Deliver excellence in customer service
• Provide innovative products & services
• Produce higher and higher levels of quality and productivity
• Attract and retain great employees
• Identify and develop the leaders of the future

Drawing on his research and experience, Brian will demonstrate the five key leadership facets that distinguish great leaders from the rest of the pack. His message and interactive approach will inspire you to take action in these five key areas, and become a member of the new breed of leaders. This is especially useful if you have a technical background and want to understand the difference between leading and managing.

Brian will introduce you to The FACET Leadership Model™, an easy to use leadership development framework that will inform and inspire you to take action towards becoming a great leader. Built from the ground up, and based on many years of 'in-the-trenches' experience, this model will direct your attention to five key facets of successful leadership behavior …

Focus, Authenticity, Courage, Empathy and Timing

…the benefits of which will become immediately apparent as you engage in using this model.

'Lead People…Manage Things', the FACET Leadership™ Workshop, is facilitated as a half-day Quick-Start workshop, or a full day Comprehensive workshop. Both workshops are highly interactive and participant focused. Elements of the program can be customized as keynotes.

The Strategy-Focused Enterprise: Using The Balanced Scorecard to Achieve Your Vision
Develop a clear and compelling strategic FOCUS, then make achievement of it everyone's everyday job...

In this information packed and engaging session, Brian will show you how to build a strategy-focused enterprise.

What is a Strategy-Focused Enterprise?
First, a FOCUS is a simple, straightforward strategic goal statement that is compelling, central to your organization's success, demonstrates a new much higher standard of performance and is a call to action.

Phew! No wonder so many organizations get trapped in the 'visioning' process!
Yet some organizations manage to keep it simple...really simple. For example, Jack Welch, former Chair and CEO of GE used one when he declared 'We will be the #1 or #2 in each of our business sectors"

It's that simple...why make it any more complicated?
Well, many senior managers like to think that they can include the 'how we will do this' piece in their vision statements, and just for good measure throw in a number of adjectives that, well, attempt to 'qualify' what they are saying, which is always a...

BIG mistake!

Do you want to…
• Learn how to avoid this and other mistakes as you attempt to develop and implement your strategy?
• Understand the nuances of the new strategy tools, such as The Balanced Scorecard (it may not be what you think it is)
• Develop a deeper understanding of the need for and value to be gained from involving your entire organization in the strategy development process early in the game?
• Avoid 'analysis paralysis' and stonewalling as you engage in an iterative strategy development process?
• Discover a rapid way to deploy and test your emerging strategy, while minimizing the risks associated with disclosure and false starts?
• Discover how accountability really works in high performance organizations? (by the way, it has nothing to do with 'accountability agreements' or performance management systems)
• Achieve line of sight within your organization like never before?
• Energize your leadership teams by showing what's really possible to achieve?
• Move away from management BY results to a management FOR results paradigm?

If so, then don't miss this presentation.


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Clients Have Said:

"He has captured how to be recognized as a leader …." Cheryl Nerud, USA

"I perceived the essence of your message as … great ideas pursued with great passion will most certainly be achieved." Sidney T. Bennet, Canada

"What a refreshing new voice in Management Research! Many talk the concept of leading people, but few actually give the many different facets and their explanations of how to lead people". Danielle M. Wilson, USA

"Clear and concise - I felt inspired." Sigrid Johanne Stover, Norway

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Sample Client List:

• Alberta Corporate Service Centre
• Habitat for Humanity
• Alberta Home Care & Support Assoc.
• Alberta Economic Development
• Economic Development Edmonton
• Alberta Conservation Association

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