Given the diversity of teams and organizations today, managing and inspiring others is more complicated than ever. A single approach won’t work. Effective leaders need to be agile and nuanced in their ability to build trust, deliver feedback, and drive results. Today’s leaders simply need more tools. The 7 Languages of Leadership will give you these tools.

With the 7 Languages of Leadership, you will learn how to:

• Understand and use the 7 primary motivators that drive individuals’ performance
• Build alignment in a team of diverse personalities
• Understand your own leadership strengths and blindspots
• Cultivate deeper emotional intelligence
• Navigate the pitfalls of giving and receiving feedback, and learn to do it with grace
• Lead engaging and inclusive meetings
• Craft and articulate a vision for your own leadership

The 7 Languages of Leadership is right for:

• Leaders who manage diverse or globally distributed teams
• Executives who want to build or restore trust in a team or organization
• Managers who need to develop talent on their teams

Research shows that 46 percent of employees regularly leave meetings without clear next steps. Often the culprit is a new or recently changed team working through its growing pains, but even experienced teams encounter roadblocks. Teams that establish trust, share a common vision and work together to achieve goals are more productive and successful.

With High-Perfoming Teams, you will learn how to:

• Build trust in order to increase productivity
• Discover where individual and organizational values intersect
• Articulate a commitment to sustaining a vibrant, engaging culture
• Increase clarity and alignment

High-Performing Teams is right for:

• Newly formed teams
• Teams that have undergone change or disruption
• Established teams encountering roadblocks
• Organizations interested in strengthening culture

The success of big ideas depends on fresh perspectives and calculated risk-taking, two ingredients that can confound even the most established organizations. Stand & Deliver brings together expertise from the worlds of education, improvisational theater, design and business to help teams apply new ways of thinking to old problems.

With Innovation and Creativity, you will learn how to:

• Develop a “yes/and” mind-set and a more resourceful approach to innovation
• Rapidly develop and prototype new ideas
• Heighten attentiveness in order to discover unexpected answers
• Deepen trust within your team
• Build greater confidence in your own instincts and creativity in high-pressure situations

Innovation and Creativity is right for teams that:

• Are mired in a culture of negativity
• Need fresh perspectives to unsolved problems
• Depend on creative solutions to remain competitive
• Experience blocks in their approach to business challenges
• Need to inject new energy and purpose during difficult periods

High-performing teams and organizations are built on a unified narrative that answers the following questions: Why do you matter? What do you do? How do you uniquely do it? A consistent narrative, the language and story you’re sharing internally and externally, empowers your organization with a compelling and authentic voice that each person can translate and adapt, while maintaining consistency for your brand.

With Unified Narrative, you will:

• Delve into the questions of purpose, offering and distinction—the what, why and how of your group.
• Generate a clear and repeatable narrative that unites your group around a shared vision and purpose.
• Raise the team’s skill and confidence in their ability to strategically tell stories that reinforce value and advance ideas.
• Apply the newfound unifying narrative to manage relationships and growth with a focus on defining the value, mindsets and behaviors needed for success.
• Develop the skills to deliver a clear, concise, narrative that distinguishes the group and remains memorable
• Build trust and systems for sustaining a high performance culture

Unified Narrative is right for:

• Newly formed teams
• Organizations going through a merger or big change
• Teams that need to revitalize and re-engage with their purpose

In a culture where every leader’s action and reaction is analyzed in real time, the importance of properly articulating a message has never been greater. The upside to our interconnected world is that there are more ways than ever to get your message heard. Stand & Deliver’s media training team have themselves appeared in numerous high-profile news and media outlets, from CNN to NPR. We take the pressure out of high-stakes situations with strategies for staying composed and making your point stick.

Stand & Deliver speakers regularly appear at conferences and events, offering tools and inspiration. We are also available to speak before companies as part of interactive, high-touch sessions. Our dynamic, high-energy and relevant keynotes will jumpstart a conference, add color to an off-site or inject motivation at a challenging juncture for a team or organization.

Topics include:

• Inspirational Leadership
• High-Performance Communication
• Women’s Leadership Voices
• Messaging That Sticks
• The Secret Language of Power
• Storytelling in Action
• Demystifying Presence
• The Introvert’s Advantage
• Personal Mission and Vision