Leadership for Maximum Engagement: Crucial Skills for Team and Organizational Performance

For decades, experts and researchers have studied and dissected what differentiates the best leaders and leadership teams from the worst. This research has led the VitalSmarts team of experts to focus on vision, audacious goals, execution, and accountability. Leadership expert and New York Times bestselling author Al Switzler argues that rather than separating the bad from the good, leadership teams will learn more by asking what differentiates the good from the best. The best teams achieve something the rest never attain: 100 percent engagement and absolute intellectual honesty.

The Holy Grail of team performance is completely leveraging the hearts and minds of every team member. Typically, the roadblock that derails teams from leveraging their full potential is found in breakdowns of Crucial Conversations. Failures to fully disclose intellectual differences and fully confront collapses in performance are the root cause of mistrust, politics, and disengagement in top teams.

This highly practical, entertaining, and engaging presentation will draw from 20 years of study with over 100 executive-level and senior management teams that highlights skills needed to attain 100 percent engagement. Switzler and his co-authors have spent more than 10,000 hours watching how virtuoso teams manage crises, make decisions, and spur each other to peak performance through masterful practice of crucial conversations. Participants will learn skills that will immediately help them improve their crucial conversations and influence their team to maximum engagement.

Length: 1 to 3 hours
Audience: Middle Managers to Executive Leaders