About Michael

How to be a 3-Dimensional Leader

Keynote or workshop explained: 

We will dive into three primary areas of effective leadership. A successful leader must get results! Leadership is getting results and being effective to accomplish organizational goals. The unique idea about leadership is what got you to be a leader will not make you successful as a leader. You must start handing off the technical roles to other people. Leaders accomplish tasks and goals through other people, so the second dimension of leadership is knowing your people. Developing your team members is an art-form since every person is unique. 

How do your people learn and grow? Where are they talented? What creates engagement for each person? How do you encourage collaboration within your team? These questions and more will be explored on talent development.

Finally, the most ignored leadership dimension is for the leader to take 100% responsibility for the work culture or climate that is created. A basic leadership principle is “The behaviors you have in the team is the behaviors you have rewarded.” Culture is present even if not defined. Your role is to define and document the shared and agreed-upon workplace culture with your team.

This conversation is about learning how to become a well-balanced 3-Dimensional Leader growing into all three disciplines — Tasks, People and Culture. 

Typical takeaways from the presentation are:

• Creating clear expectations
• Becoming highly effective in developing goals, projects and tasks for consistent accomplishment
• Learning people skills to connect, communicate and complete work with minimal or no supervision
• Leveraging the power of team culture to create a place people want to work and connect
• Developing an action plan to establish next steps

Mapping Your Vision for Success in Your Organization or Team

Keynote or workshop explained:

What is your definition of success? What does success look like in the context of your organization? Do you have a clearly defined mission? What is your vision? 

Attending this session, you will gain these answers and create a roadmap to success for your organization or team. Working with a team of training and talent development professionals, you will create training and development projects to move your team to the next level within your industry. 

Typical takeaways from the presentation are:

• Clearly defined mission, vision and goals
• Talent development programs to make your mission and vision come live
• Suggested course lists and outlines to produce success 
• Clearly defined objectives for the next 1-3 years
• List next steps into an action plan

Releasing the Human Potential Within Your Organization

Keynote or workshop explained:

It has been said, “The only true competitive advantage in business today is people.” How to work with them is another story! There are 7.5 billion of us on this rock floating through space. One thing we all have in common is that each of us is unique. How we see color -- unique! How we taste food -- unique! How we leave our fingerprints -- unique! Our DNA is unique to each person. Every person is a unique being made to do, see, and feel things differently. 

Your team is uniquely made up of these talented, powerful people. I have spent a lot of years working to create “generalist” in the workplace. In doing so, I have lost more potential than created. What if, we understood each person and saw them as the talent they are? What if, we listened to each person like they had the solutions to things we didn’t even know we were missing? What if, we drop our titles and the need to control others? What if, we assisted others to discover their talents and become the “specialist” of being themselves? What is possible, if…?

This conversation is about learning more about people, discovering the talent within them, and releasing, not restraining the talents of your team. Creating a map of talents and possibilities based on needs of the organization. What is your team culture? What are the unwritten rules? Where are your people being constrained with unneeded policy and rules?

Typical takeaways from the presentation are:

• Awaken the sleeping potential of talent
• Create clarity in team ethos
• Develop a healthy culture
• Power of positive conversation
• Leveraging the 7 elements of engagement

Discovering Y.O.U. @ (your organization)

Keynote or workshop explained:

Finding where you fit in and how to leverage your unique talents and skills can be a struggle. Your organization wants to assist you in discovering your alignment within the culture of this workplace.

Research shows that we achieve those goals we set our minds to accomplish. If we do not have a goal in mind it is difficult, if not impossible, to achieve it. People who have achieved success did not do this haphazardly. They knew what they wanted, set their sights, and developed a strategy that would get them there. When they came across an obstacle, they identified a strategy that would help them overcome this challenge and got back on course. Success is based on strategic planning; it does not happen by chance.

To achieve your highest satisfaction level look at yourself as a business or brand of YOU. 

The purpose of this session is to:

• Learn how to take greater control of your career development 
• Recognize the value to committing to and implementing specific behaviors 
• Enhance skills that support long-term success at your organization.

Typical takeaways from the presentation are:

• Value of Planning Your Career 
• Leverage Four Career Concepts
• Ownership of Results – Your Brand
• Characteristics Supporting Self-Development
• Organizational Culture: Core Competencies 
• Vision and direction
• Alignment
• Unique Contribution: Putting It All Together
• Write a Development Plan
• Career Development Action Plan - Partnering for Performance