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BIO - PRESENTATIONS - TESTIMONIALS
Since 1988, following seventeen years of corporate
experience in both the high tech manufacturing and transportation industries,
Ian has been working with managers who want to increase their effectiveness as a
leader and build a stronger team.
In his keynotes, leadership development programs,
and executive coaching, Ian's advice to management is both thought provoking and
practical. He speaks with passion. His message is clear:
"Superior results occur when individual employees accept personal accountability
for their own goals, priorities, performance, attitudes and how they choose to
work with others.
Ian holds a Bachelor of Commerce from
McGill University and a Masters
degree in the field of Human Resources Management from
Cornell and has been a lecturer in the Faculty of Business of
Ryerson University. In addition, from
the Gestalt Institute of Toronto he
earned a (3-year) Diploma in Gestalt
Theory and Methodology that has greatly deepened his ability to achieve
results for his clients as both a facilitator and executive coach.
His client list includes some of the largest
corporations in the private sector, major trade and professional associations,
small business, government, and not-for-profit organizations.
He is author of Sharpen Your Leadership Game - 8
Solid, Practical Strategies for Managing People.
Ian is actively involved with the community
leadership organization Leadership Fairfax, having served both on the Board and
as Chair of the Program Committee. He also volunteers his time with his local
chapter of the National Speakers Association, mentoring newer speakers.
The Key
to Developing Extraordinary Leaders
For years managers, HR professionals and countless authors have been
talking a good game about growing “effective” leaders. Some organizations have
offered leadership skills training programs of every conceivable kind. But
seldom does such training impact the quality of leadership!
Recent research has revealed the kind of leaders who are able to master
complex challenges and get greater outcomes. Find out how to upgrade your
managers’ current internal “operating system” to “leadership 2.0.”
What you will learn:
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Critical capacities your leaders need in order to succeed in today’s complex
environment
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The
internal shift they must make to generate extraordinary results
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How
leadership development is linked to adult development
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Outcome-creating vs. problem-reacting approaches to leadership
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How
your organization’s internal processes and practices can support the development
“journey” of your leaders
Particularly suited for executives and senior managers, as well as HR professionals who advise
senior management around leadership development.
You Can Be Their “Best Boss Ever”:
What to Do and How to Show Up
Ian challenges you to transform yourself into a superb leader and lays
out what this will require from you and how you can go about it. With him you
will look at:
1.
How
you operate in your external environment.
2.
The
requisite habits of thought, beliefs, assumptions, and intentions of your inner
world, in other words, how you choose to “show up” each day as a leader.
What you will learn: • Three “external” ways that the best leaders fully engage their staff
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Three “internal” mindsets that drive extraordinary leaders to create
extraordinary results
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Where you should focus your own growth as a leader
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The
benefits that await you when you become one of their “best bosses ever”
Convert Employee Motivation into Performance
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How
motivating people is a lot like sales. What managers can learn from the sales
profession
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People exchange their good performance only for outcomes they value
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Why
many of your staff don’t know what they want
•
How
to help your employees identify their own motivators, what they truly want from
their job
•
What
to do with that long service employee who is within hailing distance of
retirement and locked in “coasting” mode until that day arrives
Particularly suited for executives and managers who realize that the traditional
carrot-and-stick” strategies just aren’t working any more as motivators in the
21st century.
The
Skillful Leader
In today’s complex, volatile world, every
organization seeks a sustainable edge. Companies struggle to create a marked
advantage over their market rivals. Non-profit and public organizations seek to
exceed their stakeholders’ ever-increasing expectations.
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Increase your leadership effectiveness, generating greater results.
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Manage yourself and your time in order to accomplish business priorities.
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Identify and leverage your own unique leadership strengths and style.
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Inspire people to action through the power of shared vision.
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Align the actions of your staff with the organization’s strategy.
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Build a culture of employee engagement, personal accountability, ongoing
innovation, and high productivity.
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Know
when and how to delegate in a way that ensures quality results while developing
the employee.
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Develop your direct reports to their potential.
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Conduct honest performance management conversations that motivate, rather than
demoralize, your employees.
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Engage effectively with a wider variety of personality types.
Particularly suited
for
managers, mid-level and up, who want to master the nuts and bolts of fostering
an engaged and productive workforce.
The
Authentic Leader
If you want to
maximize your organization’s capacity to deliver you need great leaders
at the top. In fact, a recent study on leadership by Jack Zenger and Joseph
Folkman found that the top 10% of leaders created double the net
income generated by leaders in the next 80%.
The
Authentic Leader equips your executives to increase their impact on your organization’s
capacity.
Your leadership team will come to collectively
foster and sustain a leadership culture that promotes strong employee
engagement, continual innovation, and superior results.
Our four-step methodology:
Our process carefully integrates peer feedback, one-on-one coaching and a
powerful experiential workshop to help your leadership team members adopt the
mindset that research has shown is found in extraordinary leaders.
1.
Individual
Assessment
2.
Individual Feedback
3.
Whole-Team Learning
4.
Follow-On Support
Particularly suited
for
executives and senior managers who, collectively, establish the leadership
culture of the whole organization.
Coaching Poor & Marginal Performers
Dealing with a poor performer is, reportedly, the single toughest task
that managers must perform. Not comfortable engaging in these demanding
conversations, many managers tend to avoid the poor performance issue altogether
or, alternatively, come at it like a steamroller–threatening, shaming, or
manipulating the staffer to shape up.
In this one-day, technique-packed workshop, learn how to conduct those
challenging performance-correcting discussions and reviews with your employees
in a constructive, non-acrimonious, problem-solving manner. It is, in fact,
possible to turn around many employees who up-to-now have been taking up
altogether too much of your time and energy.
What you will learn:
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Communicating your performance expectations unambiguously
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How
to get the employee in touch with what motivates him/her at work
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Leading the performance discussion in a non-directive way
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Keeping the conversation on an “adult-to-adult” level
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How
to position responsibility with the under performing individual
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Recognizing good performance
•
Four
effective assertive verbal approaches
Particularly suited
for
anyone, be he/she manager or supervisor, who has direct responsibility for
addressing the performance of staff.
Boosting Your Team’s Performance
Learn how to help your team quickly develop a common purpose, focus its
effort, and work together effectively. Guide a new team through its natural
stages of growth, from initial formation to dynamic performance. Create an
atmosphere of openness, trust, and teamwork where conflict is transformed into
productive energy.
Each participant gains hands-on experience as a member of a temporary
team, applying his or her learning in real time as the session unfolds.
What you will learn:
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Aligning your team around common goals
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The
difference between a true “team” and a working group of people
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The
roles of team leader and team member
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How
to develop and use team “norms” to enable the team to self-manage its processes.
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Communication within the team-how to do “maintenance” when required
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Leading cross-functional teams
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How
to keep your team focused on performance results
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Moving your team to become self-managing*
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How
to make a virtual team work*
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Running an efficient team meeting*
(*Offered in the two-day version only)
Includes the powerful team process tool, the
Teamwork Palette® and how to use it to enhance team performance.
This tool helps your team deal quickly and effectively with human group dynamics
issues that can slow you down and in some cases even prevent you from achieving
the team’s goals. [Note–the Palette is available as an added option to the
one-day program.]
Managing Up
This workshop
challenges your individual contributors: If they want to get ahead or even just
have a good experience in their current job, they must start treating their boss
and others in management as “customers.”
We show your employees how this calls for a shift in their mindset. We
discuss the courage it takes to make and keep commitments and to speak their
mind. Participants are invited to take personal accountability for their work
performance, job satisfaction and career development, as well as for doing their
part to build and sustain a solid working relationship with their immediate
manager.
Managing Up is
Ian’s response to requests he has frequently received from participants in his
management development workshops. This program is the flip side–for your
employees–of what he teaches managers about building accountability in their
staff.
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Understanding your manager’s style, pressures, goals, priorities and preferred
way of interacting
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Personal success requires an “accountability” (vs. blaming) mindset
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How
to demonstrate leadership from your level
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Determining what you really want from your work (i.e. your current motivators)
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How
to express your ideas and needs clearly and assertively
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Soliciting feedback to increase your effectiveness, credibility and career
potential
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How
to manage your own job performance and work objectives
•
How
to be a partner in the Performance Management Process
Particularly suited for non-supervisory staff and individual contributors.
Thank you for delivering
a power-packed presentation entitled “The Power of Influence and the Impact on
Performance” for our High Potential team. The feedback I’ve received from the
participants has been outstanding.
I also know we will experience long term
positive results for our business based on this program. Again thank you for
presenting the highest quality program that delivered results for our High
Potential employees. I look forward to working with you again next year.
To this day many of our leaders apply the
coaching and leadership principles introduced in the workshop.
To amplify, Ian helped to de-mystify the art of leading people and provided
useful, applicable skills for real managers in real situations. He masterfully
blended theory and practice and always delivered his message with a high degree
of enthusiasm and professionalism.
Ian’s splendid participant handouts and stimulating in-class exercises
compliment his excellent verbal skills.
This program was targeted at the very top leaders and managers, 1800 in all,
across all ministries of the Ontario Government. Add to this the fact that this
is the very first mandatory program for the Senior Management Group.
Our requirements were high. First we needed a program of the highest caliber.
Equally if not more important we clearly required extremely high standards of
both platform presence and training ability to make the program meaningful.
On all accounts you have exceeded our expectations. You have consistently scored
4′s and 5′s out of 5, with glowing comments received from what can be a very
critical audience.
I am writing to express
our appreciation for the outstanding work you have done to customize the content
of the Leadership and Supervisory Skills course to the unique needs of municipal
Public Works personnel.
Feedback from attendees
has been consistently excellent in the two years we have offered the program.
Participants remark on your energetic delivery and creativity used to make key
content points more memorable.
It is with great pleasure
that I write to thank you for the excellent work that you have provided to our
association over the past 18 years.
Your professionalism and
manner in which you conducted the various sessions with our members has been
noted by many as leading to the success of each of those events. In addition,
the outcome of the strategic planning sessions has led to the unprecedented
success of our association. The number of programs we provide to our members has
never been greater and our membership currently includes 95 percent of the
industry across Canada” For more information about this speaker and/or
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