Keynotes & Workshops

• Are you struggling to reach your goals?
• Do you lack the creativity and innovation you need to grow?
• Is passivity, conflict, or a lack of accountability holding you back?

Since the 1980s, leadership has been marketed as the key to success. So when an organization runs into challenges like the ones above, it will often invest in leadership development. But too much focus on leadership can have serious consequences.

The cost of a one-sided focus on leadership

Too much focus on leadership can create a sense of hierarchy that holds people back — even when the real structure is nowhere near as rigid.

In that kind of environment, managers often feel isolated from everyone else. Many also feel responsible for how their employees behave — even in situations they cannot influence.

Meanwhile, employees tend to take on a more passive role. Many — if not most — focus only on completing their assigned tasks, rather than on how they might help drive the organization forward. Others hand responsibility up to their manager, or in some cases start competing with colleagues for some kind of informal leadership role. Either way, collaboration weakens, and it’s the organization that suffers.

An organization that thinks and behaves this way becomes extremely vulnerable. For one thing, it misses out on its people’s engagement, experience, and ideas. And no one is perfect — not even the managers. When everything depends on them, a single bad decision can throw the whole organization off course.

This matters more than ever, as the world is changing at an incredible rate. The organizations that know how to tap into natural leadership and followership are the ones best equipped to handle whatever change comes their way.

Prepare for the future

Prepare your organization for the future — book a keynote, talk, or workshop. Together, we’ll explore natural leadership and followership, uncover the strength it gives a team, and learn how to put it to work.

Every session is tailored to your needs, but topics include:

• How natural leadership and followership strengthens collaboration and builds strong teams and organizations.
• How to recognize the risks of a one-sided focus on leadership, and how to avoid undermining engagement and collaboration within a team or organization.
• Concrete insights into the difference between natural and constructed leadership and followership: why it’s worth knowing, and how to put it into practice.

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