Stever’s talks get rave reviews. But when possible, audiences keep him for hours of Q&A. At one conference (ICF 2003), Stever and 200 audience members stayed until the hotel staff collapsed the breakout room walls around them!
Is he available for keynotes? Sure. But you really want him for his standup conversation.
Stever will deliver an experience for your group that directly addresses what’s most important to them. Part Q&A, part presentation, part tools, all interactive conversation and exercises, you’ll find it funny, entertaining, thought-provoking, and provocatively challenging how you and your audience approach the topic.
Some of the most-requested topics:
The Executive Mindset. For executives or aspiring execs, learn the how approaching governance as an executive requires a different approach than just managing.
Working Smart, Not Hard. "We work smart." A common refrain in corporate America. Yet most of us don't work smart. We work hard, and just call it working smart.
Mastering Overwhelm. Buried under life? How can we get out?
Living a Ten. How few of us are living a life that engages us body and soul. Why not? What can we do?
Gaining Traction. How do you start something from scratch smoothly and easily?
The Executive Mindset
If you're at the top or simply aspiring to the heights, learn how to master this most excellent of jobs. As your rise in an organization, your role changes. How you think about yourself, how you make decisions, and how you act in the world must change. Come learn to accelerate your executive mindset:
- Balancing people, processes, and business.
- Understanding what business you're really in (my neighborhood bookstore makes their money selling books, but that's not the business they're in!).
- How to integrate business model and org structure.
- Moving smoothly from details to strategy.
- Managing multiple stakeholders: internal, external, organizational, and community.
Working Smart, Not Hard:
"We don't just work hard, we work smart." A great recruiting line for companies that haven't a clue. Welcome to the 21st century, where we never slow down. A whirlwind of activity, we're racing for more--more results, more productivity, more growth. Yet are our efforts really giving us the results? For most of us, the answer is NO. Join Stever Robbins to address what it really means to work smart, and how to get the same results with much less effort:
- Using focus strategically
- Use technology wisely--which sometimes means, not at all (can you say "email overload?")
- Leverage to amplify the effects of work
- Streamlining your activity to do the same faster
- Doing more by Saying No
Mastering Overwhelm: Well, the so-called "information economy" is here, and we're up to our eyeballs in information, responsibility, and choices. Managing products was easy; we just concentrated on making it faster and cheaper to make and move product. Now we need to manage information, but information runs by different rules. In this speech, you'll learn those rules and how to manage information instead of having it manage you. speech details
- Managing yourself—take a deep breath and stay calm during overload.
- Technology & email overload—technology is the problem, not the solution.
- Relentless capitalism—competition drives overload because of our assumptions about business.
- Priorities—is the secret really setting priorities? Or is it something else?
- Leverage—using leverage instead of action to produce results.
Living a Ten. What does it take to live a life that’s a 10 out of 10? What is the role of faith? Setting priorities? Joy? Goals? Spontaniety? Structure?
- Faith, optimism, and religion. Keys to a quality life, or excuses for not taking responsibility?
- Work Ethic vs. Play Ethic. We work so hard, play so little, and still aren’t rich. What gives?
- Spontaniety or Structure. Should we keep to do lists, or just follow our heart?
- Community, politics, and how we create our world. What does community mean in a world of high-mobility and remote telecomm? Has it eroded? Strengthened? Or just changed form?
Gaining Traction, Breakaway Momentum in a Crowded World. How do you start something from the ground up? speech details
- Momentum. We want to build it, but what is it? How do we build it? How do we know when we have it?
- Entrepreneurship, starting a business.
- Intrapreneurship, starting a project.
- Organizational change, starting a new direction.