Speaking Programs
Dr. Robbins provides clients with fun, interactive, and high impact presentations on the topics listed below. Each can be conducted in either a one or two hour format. If you are interested in exploring any topic in more depth, most presentations link to a longer in-depth workshop (half, full, and multi-day) of similar content. To have one of these presentations at your next conference or meeting, contact Dr. Robbins by clicking here.
Making Teams Work
There are many barriers to effective team building. People sometimes don’t get along, the outcomes are not clearly defined, everybody and their brother want to attend the meetings, etc., etc. This presentation on high performing team building identifies the barriers to effective teamwork and provides solutions resulting in outstanding teamwork. Included in this presentation are the five engines that run successful teams: goals, roles, breaking barriers, creating infrastructure supports, and getting people to get along.
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Hurdling the Barriers to Change
Many organizations have attempted to create effective change management systems to cope with the shifting economy. Reorganizations, mergers - acquisitions - integrations, expansions, contractions, strategic initiatives create an urgent need to change the way you must operate. But managing this change is hard. Barriers to change pop up constantly. This presentation creating an effective change management process identifies the barriers to change, including why most people resist change, and looks at ways to make change happen in a less painful way.
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Creating Collaboration
There is a difference between teamwork and collaboration. Most effective organizations set up systems (reward, feedback, etc.) that encourage collaborative environments. This presentation explores ways that you, too, can create the kind of atmosphere where people feel free to share information, back each other up, and in general, act in a manner that encourages collaboration. When you learn to collaborate internally, you are better able to compete externally. Creating a collaborative environment is the starting point for creating an effective team building program.
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Anatomy of A Leader
Have you ever counted how many leadership traits the literature says you should posses? 50+. I don’t know about you, but I simply can’t handle that many. A recent study broke these fifty down into two main categories of leadership skills that capture the essence of all effective leaders: smart and nice. This presentation covers the few critical leadership skills smart leaders rely on and which ones the nicest bosses use. While just knowing what leadership skills the best transformational leaders rely on is not enough to make you a better leader, it certainly can’t hurt.
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The Accidental Leader
The economy has stalled. Smaller companies are either being gobbled up or cobbled down. Larger companies are undergoing the largest merger-fest in U.S. history in order to stay globally competitive. As a result, many people are finding themselves in new leadership positions…unsteady on their feet. It probably feels uncomfortable. People are looking to you for leadership. Asking you questions. Asking you for directions. Whether by choice or circumstance, you’ve been given the ball, you’re a leader, and people are looking to you for the next play. What do you do? This presentation on the core leadership traits and skills required of effective leadership identifies the 10 things you must do to get a handle on your new leadership role and how to move your organization forward towards successful outcomes.
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Getting Along
Personalities are as different as snowflakes. Not everyone gets along. Some people are just downright unpleasant to be around. We can all identify people we may classify as “jerks.” In fact, they may just have a toxic personality with a selected few others. This presentation on mastering interpersonal skill identifies the range of personalities that exist, how to identify yours and others, and how to build up the effective interpersonal skill known as versatility; the ability to get along with others.
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Leading Teams
Successful team leaders know how to set and prioritize goals/objectives, assign roles/responsibilities/accountabilities, identify and overcome barriers, get people to get along, communicate well, manage team building activities and membership, provide feedback, master interpersonal skill, etc. This presentation discusses ways to do all of these and more in order to help your team achieve success.
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Teams Change, and Pandora’s Box
This is a popular, crowd-pleasing presentation on effective team building, creating successful change strategies, and enhancing interpersonal skill in organizations. It is a quick overview of the differences between good teams and exceptional teams why organizational change is so hard and how to make it easier to do and sustain why people don’t always get along, and how to overcome toxicrelationships at home and on the job. It is a compressed combination of Making Teams Work, Hurdling the Barriers to Change, and Getting Along.
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