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A List of Referrable Keynote Speakers and Topics to Consider for Your Next Conference

Great Results Team Building

And, while I speak about Leadership and Workplace Culture, I realize that other topics are timely and meaningful based on an organization’s specific situation. And it is an article I will continue to update – Because at every event I get the opportunity to meet and see new speakers that might be a great fit for past clients of mine.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). The problem is leadership on autopilot. In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan. Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted.

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The Mayo Clinic Model for Running a Value-Improvement Program

Harvard Business Review

One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function. Each Mayo Clinic value-improvement project must: gain senior leadership support, including an approved charter. Gain senior leadership support. select a project team with the right skill sets. test process-improvement suggestions.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

How have the firm’s growth, profits, and stock performance compared to a relevant benchmark (NASDAQ for a tech company, for example, or DAX Index for a German firm) during the transformation period? As any manager knows, a generic-sounding list of values won’t move the culture needle unless leadership brings it to life.

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Develop Deep Knowledge in Your Organization — and Keep It

Harvard Business Review

Take architectural and engineering firm EYP as an example. The educational concepts developed in that program have since evolved into a larger learning program called EYP University, which provides an average of 20 courses a year for architects, engineers, and a combination of the two.