Speech Topics
Center for Strategic Leadership consultants speak at a wide variety of conventions, retreats, company meetings and associations. New topics are added regularly and can be customized in content and length to meet the needs of your event.
- Adaptability: Critical Skill for 21st Century Leadership
- Are You Sending Your Top People off the Tracks?
- Avoid Organizational Pitfalls: How to Think Strategically
- Catching the Upturn: Ensuring Your Organization Is Prepared to Return to Prosperity
- Change Is the Only Constant: Leading in an Unpredictable Future
- Critical Leadership: Leading in Uncertain Times
- Delegating for Development
- Developing Talent for Your Succession Pipeline
- The Emotional Intelligence Workshop
- Employee Engagement: Ensuring Your Work Force Operates at Peak Performance
- Executive Decision Making: Techniques for Sharpening a Critical Leadership Skill
- Instituting Innovation in Your Organization
- It's 2020: Where Does Your Company Stand?
- Key Principles in Building an Enduring Organization
- Leadership Succession Planning
- Leveraging the Network Effect in Your Organization
- Making Difficult People Decisions in Tough Times: Preparing for the Future Today
- Organizational Culture: Building an Organization From the Ground Up
- Understanding How to Lead and Develop the Next Generation
- Unspoken Rules That Make or Break Organizations
- Why Large Contractors Fail
Adaptability: Critical Skill for 21st Century Leadership
- Understand what makes adaptability a critical leadership skill
- Discover tools for adapting to rather than coping with the changing world
- Learn the art of strategic improvisation
- Explore the role of learning in organizational adaptability
- Identify techniques to select and train an adaptable work force
Are You Sending Your Top People off the Tracks?
- Discover what leaders do to send their top performers off the deep end
- Uncover the role of organizational culture in leader derailment
- Identify the warning signs of a pending derailment
- Learn to avoid derailment in yourself and other leaders
- Discover techniques for getting back on track
Avoid Organizational Pitfalls: How to Think Strategically
- Plan for the unexpected, to ensure the long-term success of your organization
- Identify the steps to create a culture of innovation and empowerment, characterized by creative thinking, open communication and adaptability to change
- Explore ways to leverage the power of networks to avoid common pitfalls
- Understand the critical need for finding interconnectedness between external forces and the internal operations of your organization
Catching the Upturn: Ensuring Your Organization Is Prepared to Return to Prosperity
- Identify the steps necessary to take now to ensure your organization is in position to capitalize when the economic begins its recovery
- Understand the challenges organizations face when they try to shift attitudes and strategies from difficult times to more advantageous ones
- Identify the four keys to leading an organization through difficult times and back to prosperous ones
- Explore the role leadership plays in navigating people through the current economic situation
Change Is the Only Constant: Leading in an Unpredictable Future
- Explore how leaders can become more comfortable with an environment of constant change
- Identify the steps to create a learning, change-ready organization
- Understand how leaders manage and spur change effectively
- Examine how your organization can better prepare for inevitable changes in the future
Critical Leadership: Leading in Uncertain Times
- Understand why leadership becomes more important during difficult and uncertain times
- Identify the specific areas leaders need to focus on to see their organizations through difficult situations
- Identify specific obstacles and stumbling blocks leaders often encounter when times are bad
- Plan ahead to ensure the long-term success of your organization
Delegating for Development
- Explore the powerful leadership tool of delegation and how to use it effectively
- Identify how delegation can motivate and empower employees in your organization
- Examine the greatest delegation mistakes and how to avoid them
- Plan for having a developmental discussion with your own employees
Developing Talent for Your Succession Pipeline
- Gain insight into the role of developing talent as a competitive advantage
- Measure the gap between talent in your organization now and talent needed for the future
- Learn to recognize and leverage everyday opportunities to build leaders
- Evaluate where you and your future leaders are in their development
The Emotional Intelligence Workshop
- Examine why emotional intelligence has a greater impact on success than pure intelligence
- Evaluate your own emotional intelligence and identify challenges to overcome
- Leverage EQ as a source of information, connection, energy and influence
- Explore methods for increasing emotional intelligence in employees throughout the organization
Employee Engagement: Ensuring Your Work Force Operates at Peak Performance
- How to stop de-motivating your people, specifically around "shoves" and "tugs"
- How to provide genuine encouragement to your employees
- The role of engagement in the workplace and how to leverage this to increase performance
- An understanding of the debilitating effect that micro-inequities have on your employees
Executive Decision Making: Techniques for Sharpening a Critical Leadership Skill
- Understand the strengths and weaknesses of your personal decision-making style
- Identify decision-making traps that doom careers
- Explore untapped resources for making fully informed decisions
- Predict and prepare for downstream impacts of today's decisions
- Make strategic decisions at the speed of business in the 21st century
Instituting Innovation in Your Organization
- Explore the general reluctance to discuss innovation in the construction industry and how to overcome those opinions
- Identify the crucial steps to creating a culture that fosters and encourages innovation from your work force
- Understand the critical role innovation plays in ensuring the long-term success of your organization
- Examine how organizations use innovation to beat their competition and how your organization can leverage the creativity of your people to get a leg up on your competitors
It's 2020: Where Does Your Company Stand?
- Uncover global trends of growth and spending in the construction industry
- Discover the trends driving change in the construction industry
- Understand the importance of strategic planning for 2020
- Define what your company can't afford to change between now and 2020
Key Principles in Building an Enduring Organization
- Examine the core elements of leadership effectiveness and organizational endurance
- Explore the elements of creating an enduring organization
- Identify the critical role values and purpose play in building an enduring organization
- Discover why building a lasting organization must begin today and what you can do to get started
Leadership Succession Planning
- Examine the greatest challenges to successful ownership transition
- Identify the tools necessary to navigate through the technical and emotional issues inherent in ownership transition
- Identify means of creating a leadership pipeline to support your succession plans
Leveraging the Network Effect in Your Organization
- Evaluate your own network of relationships
- Learn how to expand your network in the "right" way
- Discover how your most valuable employees may be hurting the business
- Explore the impact of networks on business performance
- Identify techniques for eliminating destructive internal barriers
Making Difficult People Decisions in Tough Times: Preparing for the Future Today
- Understand how to approach people decisions in the proper way to minimize negative impact on your organization
- Explore how to make the people decisions today that will allow your organization to survive the current economic situation and prepare for the eventual upturn
- Identify the disastrous missteps that leaders often make when confronted with decisions about which employees will stay and which will be let go
- Examine how organizations can use their current economic reality to trim down and position themselves to be more successful in the future
Organizational Culture: Building an Organization From the Ground Up
- Explore the role culture plays in the success or failure of an organization
- Identify means to gauge your own organization's culture and determine areas of improvement
- Examine the ways an organization can make a cultural shift and some of the challenges of undertaking such an endeavor
- Understand the critical steps to creating a healthy, sustainable culture that will set your organization apart from the competition
Understanding How to Lead and Develop the Next Generation
- Examine the best methods for retaining and motivating employees in the construction industry
- Identify what you need to do today to win tomorrow's War for Talent
- Explore how to attract star talent in an environment of rapid change
- Understand the unique role generational differences play in attraction and retention
Unspoken Rules That Make or Break Organizations
- Explore the role of organizational culture in business success and failure
- Identify characteristics of winning cultures
- Distinguish areas of culture that should evolve from those that should not
- Learn your role in building, embedding and sustaining culture
- Discover techniques for effectively changing your organization's culture
Why Large Contractors Fail
- Examine the reasons for failure to prevent a similar fate
- Discuss the failure chain reaction model and how it applies today
- Identify the missteps many contractors make that lead to failure
- Plan for navigating the waters of failure to ensure lasting success
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