Virtual Keynotes

Shift happens. Are you and your team equipped to not simply deal with this uncertainty, but optimise it? Across three bitesize keynotes we interview FranklinCovey executive, change expert and author Curtis Bateman on his 25+ years' experience helping organisations turn uncertainty into individual and collective opportunity.

Drawing on field-tested principles and first-hand expertise to demystify disruption, Curtis will in turn disrupt your thinking around what it means to lead people, not process, and reach desired results quicker.

The problem is we as people are wired to react to change to survive. Skilled leaders are able to harness the discomfort their direct reports are feeling and prime them to surprise themselves, helping them prepare, persist, and gain a new perspective towards renewed motivation and innovation. But when even comparatively positive changes can trigger mixed human reactions, any options for charting a course forward can feel risky, divisive or limited at best. So how do you strike the right balance?  

There is not an organisation out there not aware of the need for improved diversity, equity and inclusion…but how exactly is that showing up in your culture, processes and relationships?

Across three bite-sized sessions, our Leadership Practice Lead Tim Threipland offers actionable strategies and ready-now advice for fostering belonging, overcoming bias and unleashing diverse potential:

1. How to Model Personal Commitment to Inclusion
2. How to Create Space for Diverse Thinking
3. How to Embed Inclusion in Your Systems

 

There is nothing more affirming or motivating for teams than the feeling that they are winning at something. This isn’t possible when defeating comparison, the loudest voice and judgement are enabled to reign. To be successful today we need to stop defaulting to strongly-held opinions and hero complexes at the expense of evidence, confidence, and individual growth.

Ultimately, we need to dispel the myth that excellence is reserved for our ‘star performers’. We need to help all people believe in their own unique brilliance.

Across three bite-sized sessions, our Strategy Execution Practice Lead Ray McGrath offers actionable strategies and ready-now advice ready-now advice for aligning what each person needs to excel, with the operational imperative to drive goals forward. These sessions are: 

• How to Outperform Imposter Syndrome
• How to Base Decisions in Evidence, Not Opinion
• How to Make Accountability About Brilliance

Typically, most people want to do a good job, and the right thing, most of the time. That hasn’t changed…but a lot else has. What has surprised you over the past few months? Has it been a reluctance to return to the office or the sigh of relief felt at the social interaction? Perhaps the renewed need for a clear vision or the strain of treating everyone in hybrid teams equally? Maybe it’s been the dawning that what was isn’t necessarily what works?

Across three bite-sized sessions, our Leadership Practice Director Tim Threipland offers actionable strategies and ready-now advice for getting work done together in a consistent, inclusive, fulfilling way when everyone is feeling so differently. Download now to explore:

1. How to Create a Sense of Belonging
2. How to Strengthen Communication to Stay Aligned
3. How to Balance Flexibility with Accountability

“Everyone is just so busy”. This familiar chorus, heard throughout organisations everywhere, is only getting louder as we face the excitement and apprehension of a revolutionised world of work. It's been a tough, long haul. Now, in the face of re-organisation and recovery, how do you find the right balance between pushing your people too much, and not enough?

People now more than ever want to feel the satisfaction of a specific, seen and valuable contribution- but they will also struggle to drag themselves away from the comfort of the day-to-day amidst all this change. Resistance to newness is normal at the best of times, so enabling your most important priorities to keep moving forward requires intentionality around defining high performance, and then empowering that communal human motivation needed to execute it.

Across three sessions we share actionable strategies and ready-now advice for leaders looking to do just that. Download now to watch:

1. How to know when, and in which direction, to push
2. How to do the what and let the team define the how
3.  How to make accountability fun- really!

Our personal and professional selves have become so intertwined, that the way many of us think about and carry out our roles has altered beyond simple practicalities. Are you still engaged as we wait for whatever comes next? Has distance made you dismissive of others? What have we gained that we don’t want to lose? Is your team’s potential being wasted? What can be done?

These are just some of the questions this series addresses towards creating a culture together that is fit for purpose amidst the new workplace habits, biases, expectations, preferences and aspirations of both ourselves and others. Download now to explore:

1. How to Appreciate Our Experience and Grow
2. How to Break From Unhelpful Biases and Develop a New Understanding
3. How to Unlock a Meaningful Contribution in Yourself and Others

Staying Proactive, Effective and Connected in 2021. At FranklinCovey we’re asking how do you, as a team member or leader, create that intentionality in mindset, collaboration and activity, to keep pushing ahead?

With workforces now equipped with expanded toolkits, first it is important to recognise that whilst the varied and challenging demands on our lives have increased, often so have the rewards. This series has been designed to provide actionable strategies for addressing the balance we must strike in a bolder future; balance between courage and consideration, understanding and accountability, winning and wellbeing, logging in and off.  Download three bite-sized sessions:

• How to stay present and at your best
• How to create trust through true listening
• How to get tough things done in tough times

Whether you’re dealing with new childcare routines, a redefined role, additional responsibility or personal uncertainty, it is likely one of the three states resonates: Stalling (you know where you want to go but you don’t know how to get there), Stuck (you’re too preoccupied with confusion and frustration to take stock and proactively move forward) or Sand  (you have put a lot of energy into keeping your head down and waiting for things to go back to normal).

These reactions are completely natural, but not sustainable. This series offers relevant, time-proven strategies to help you lean into your state of flux, restore your sense of purpose and carve a new path when you don’t have all the answers. Download now for access to four bite-sized sessions:

1. How to move from the old to the new
2. How to face challenges, not fix problems
3. How to focus on momentum, not perfection
4. How to lead through change