Business Summit: Reality-Based Leadership
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
8 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Diamond Jo Casino
301 Bell Street, Dubuque, Iowa
Most leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victimhood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises. Rather than driving performance and creating efficiencies these programs fuel the emotional waste, entitlement, and drama that drags down organizations.
Are you ready to approach to leadership in a radically different way? Attend the Northeast Iowa Community College Business and Community Solutions Business Summit.
The Business Summit gives you access to experiences and perspectives of hundreds of business professionals facing the same challenges you face, while giving you the tools, strategies, and best practices to change the way leaders think and the strategies they use in their work.
Registration and Fees
On or before March 31: $149
After March 31: $195
Schedule
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 8:00 a.m. | Welcome, Networking and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. | Keynote Speaker - Cy Wakeman No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Drama, End Entitlement and Drive Big Results |
| 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:45 a.m. | Closing Keynote Speaker - Cy Wakeman Employee Engagement is Broken: Unlocking the True Driver of Employee Performance |
| 12:15 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
Sessions
No Ego: How leaders Can Cut the Cost of Drama, End Entitlement and Drive Big Results
A leader’s role shouldn’t be - cannot be - to motivate employees. That is a choice employees make. Instead, a leader helps others develop the great mental processes they need to eliminate self-imposed suffering and choose to be accountable for driving results. Changing the ways leaders think and the strategies they use in their work is a serious and critical economic issue.
Reality-Based Leadership, Inc. has conducted proprietary research with their client organizations, and the findings affirm what they have observed in their 20+ years of experience doing Reality-Based work: when employees indulge in distracting drama, learned helplessness, low accountability, lack of self-awareness, and ego-driven behavior, it comes at a significant cost to their organizations. This research indicates this can easily consume up to three months per year of each employee’s time — potentially billions of dollars annually in the U.S. alone. That’s what Cy calls the Drama quotient, and she will help you discover yours - and what to do about it.
Employee Engagement is Broken: Unlocking the True Driver of Employee Performance
For years, our organizations have been investing time, money and energy into engaging our employees based on the promise that engagement drives results. While engaging our employees is critical, it turns out that engagement isn’t enough. Engagement without accountability is chaos. In this dynamic, provocative and groundbreaking presentation, you will be introduced to the concept of Reality-Based Engagement, where accountability and engagement intersect to produce awesome results. This will include some practical guidance for how to cultivate the power of personal accountability within your organization.
Keynote Speaker
Cy Wakeman is a keynote speaker, business consultant, New York Times bestselling author, and global thought leader with over 25 years’ experience cultivating a revolutionary new approach to leadership that provides simple tools and techniques to eliminate drama from our organizations, deliver up employees who say yes to what’s next, and cultivate accountability, not engagement, to drive big business results. She visits more than 200 companies each year, empowering employees and executives alike to take control of and invest in their work. Wakeman’s newest book, No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Workplace Drama, End Entitlement, and Drive Big Results (St. Martin’s Press 2017), points out that ego-driven behaviors are the #1 source of drama in workplaces today, and it’s costing organizations billions annually.
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