Real Leadership
Do you want people in your organization, at every level, to be leaders? And do you want each of those leaders to be a smashing success? If you do, you’ll need three ingredients: technology, execution and, most of all, courage.

Dick Grote will explain the technology of leadership in practical terms. He will demonstrate how the potential for leadership resides in every person on the team. He will prove that effective execution makes the difference between the true leaders and the also-rans. Finally, he will inject the necessary dose of courage into each potential leader to enable that person to maximize his or her true potential.

Achieving Uncommon Success: What Makes Winners Different?
Extraordinary results are rarely produced by ordinary efforts. In truth, the success of outstanding organizations usually results from the efforts of a mere handful of organizational superstars. These exceptional people succeed out of all proportion compared to their equally knowledgeable, dedicat-ed and hardworking counterparts.

What sets this breed apart? What skills, talents and competencies do these organizational champions have that others lack? In this high-velocity, pro-vocative session, Dick Grote will reveal exactly what it is that makes the truly exceptional performer different from the rest. More important, he will disclose the exact competencies that it takes to rise to the top of the heap.

Motivating Excellence: Helping Regular People Perform in Exceptional Ways
What really motivates people? To find out, just ask somebody to remember the job he or she had that produced the strongest feelings of motivation, fulfillment, and bone deep, genuine job satisfaction. Then ask this question: What caused those feelings? The answers, you'll discover, have nothing to do with our usual assumptions about princely pay and lofty status, great job security, luxurious working conditions or congenial coworkers. No, real motivation arises from other factors.

Dick Grote will challenge your audience to discover what the source of truly authentic motivation is by exploring their own experience. Then he will show them how they can use what they've just learned about themselves to build real motivation in others.

Roses, Daisies and Weeds: How to Develop Performance Excellence
Imagine a bell-shaped curve. If your organization is like most others, that bell-shaped curve paints a reasonably accurate picture of the distribution of your employees’ performance.

A small number at one end of the curve are genuine superstars who make outstanding contributions. The huge majority in the center of the curve are good solid performers. And then there’s another small minority at the opposite end: misfits and malcontents, goof-offs and goldbricks, mavericks and malingerers. In other words: ROSES, DAISIES, and WEEDS.

With tremendous depth of content and genuine good humor, Dick Grote will tell you exactly how to re-recruit your roses, motivate your daisies, and eliminate your weeds.

Discipline Without Punishment: Building Accountability and Personal Responsibility
America’s biggest snack food company wasn’t too concerned when one of its plants started firing lots of people. But suddenly customer complaints began mounting about the products made in that plant. All the gripes were the same — obscene messages were written on the chips!

That bizarre situation led to the creation of Discipline Without Punishment, Dick Grote’s unique, responsibility-based approach that solves people problems quickly, confidently, and permanently.

This engaging presentation is based on Dick Grote's 30 years of experience in helping hundreds of America's most respected organizations replace their traditional procedures for solving people problems with his unconventional Discipline Without Punishment approach.

Delivered by a platform master, Dick’s talk is filled with useful advice, pragmatic insights, and wonderful anecdotes of bizarre employee behavior — together with practical, make-sense, real-world solutions. Discussing a serious subject with warmth and wit, Dick Grote will reveal how to shake loose from traditional thinking, confront performance problems with confidence, build genuine commitment and get people to take personal responsibility for their own behavior.

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