What Matters Most: Time Management for Improved Productivity and Peace of Mind
Productivity, balance and inner peace are within your grasp. Picture a life that’s more organized, more peaceful, and more productive. Imagine balancing your roles more successfully—be they spouse, manager, parent, team leader, coach, volunteer, or friend. Envision a workplace that’s productive rather than reactive, where focus and direction leave little room for crisis, stress, and frustration.

Just a pipe dream? Not any longer. Improve your life at work and at home with what matters most. Franklin Covey introduces What Matters Most, the new time management for the entire business of living, not just the demands of eight to five. What Matters Most helps you focus your time, energy, and resources on the things that are most important to you.

Expert presenters will help you design a custom presentation that will best fit your group. Invest in What Matters Most and discover principles that lead to increased productivity, improved relationships, and peace of mind.

Organizations who invest in What Matters Most are better able to:

• Increase productivity at all levels of the organization
• Share a common vision and mission that create unity among team members
• Minimize crises by encouraging proper planning
• Increase employee satisfaction and reduce turnover rates
• Focus on high-leverage activities that increase return on investment

 

The 4 Roles of Leadership Seminars

Leading in a White Water World
Business as usual isn’t usual. Today, mergers and acquisitions, downsizing and constant restructuring grab headlines on business pages. The Internet and new media are changing customer expectations. Costs and global markets fluctuate from hour to hour. Stephen R. Covey terms this new business climate "permanent white water." And if you can’t keep up, you’re going to go under.

Yesterday’s methods just don’t work in the white water world. Managers traditionally manage in the system and focus on doing things right. Leaders, however-particularly real leaders - work on the system and focus on doing the right things. The managerial role is still essential and it performs a vital function, but leadership must come first to make managing more effective.

The 4 Roles of Leadership help you identify and develop the four critical abilities of real leaders and learn how to implement those roles practically and with long-term results - without taking your eye off your day-to-day management needs.

Pathfinding: Creating the Blueprint
Great leadership begins with clarity of thought and purpose. Stephen R. Covey says that things are created twice - that the "mental creation precedes the physical creation." You wouldn’t build a home with out a blueprint. Similarly, it’s folly to rush into action without understanding your purpose.

The Pathfinding role helps you create a blueprint of action and ensure that your plans have integrity-before you act. Pathfinding is the ability to blaze the path that links what you’re passionate about delivering to what your customers are passionate about getting. To do this you need to define your mission and values, and create a vision and strategy that link the two passions.

Aligning: Creating a Technically Elegant System of Work
If Pathfinding identifies a path, aligning paves it. Organizations are aligned to get the results they get. Think about that. If you are not getting the results you want, it is due to a misalignment somewhere, and no pushing, pulling, demanding, or insisting will change a misalignment.

Therefore, as a leader, you must work to change your systems, processes, and structure to align them with the desired results you identified through the pathfinding.

Empowering: Releasing the Talent, Energy, and Contribution of People
"Empowerment"- it’s an overused term but underutilized in practice. Empowering isn’t abandoning people, letting them "figure it out" on their own. Nor is it allowing individuals minute freedoms while controlling other aspects.

True empowerment yields high trust, productive communication between individuals and teams, and innovative results where each member of the team feels welcome to bring his or her genius to the table.

Modeling: Building Trust with Others- the Heart of Effective Leadership
The Modeling Role does not teach you what a leader does, but who a leader is. You learn the essential balance between character and competence - an individual of high abilities will never be a true leader if his or her character is questionable. Trust is always a product of trustworthiness.

Leadership for Navigating Change, Delivering Results, and Creating the Future
The 4 Roles of Leadership isn’t magic. It isn’t flavor-of-the-month training, either. It is a real, proven path to effective leadership that takes commitment and discipline. The processes you learn can be repeatedly applied in your organization - each time you plan a strategy or implement a new initiative. When practiced consistently, The 4 Roles of Leadership yields measurable organizational and personal success and helps transform good managers into true leaders.

Articles by J.D. Frailey:

• How to Create a Life Without Debt and With Purpose Through Living the Seven Habits
  
• Getting To Synergy‘: The Power of Valuing Differences
  

* Please note that while this speaker's specific fee falls within the range posted at the top of this page (for Continental U.S. based events), fees are subject to change without notice. Also note that most celebrity keynotes begin in the $25,000 and up range (most list "Contact for Fee Schedule"). For current fee information or international event fees, please contact your Speakers Platform representative.