Robert Kriegel
Leading authority in the field of change and human performance, teaches groups how to develop and lead Change-Ready© people
One of the most in-demand business speakers, Dr. Robert Kriegel teaches bold, innovative, “out of the box” strategies for keeping ahead of the changes, challenges, and competition in today’s dynamic marketplace. Author of the international bestseller, If it ain’t broke…BREAK IT!, Dr. Kriegel has been called by U.S. News & World Report one of this country’s leading authorities in the field of change and human performance. He is the author of several bestselling books on innovation, including Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers and his latest title, How to Succeed in Business Without Working so Damn Hard. In his customized presentations, Dr. Kriegel will teach your audience how to develop and lead Change-Ready© people and organizations as well as how to round up sacred cows that cost money and inhibit both change and new opportunities. He will also outline actionable strategies for gaining the competitive edge–not by competing, but by rethinking rules, redefining roles, and reinventing the game.
Innovate or Else! Re-Thinking the Rules, Reinventing Your Game
Winners don’t respond quickly to change and new opportunities, they create them. If you use yesterday’s thinking in today’s game, you’re going to be in trouble tomorrow. Don’t compete, change the game! This program focuses on:
- How to create the future rather than “wait and watch” it happen (for someone else)
- 5 strategies for developing innovative new ideas and opportunities
- The 4 most common obstacles to innovation and how to overcome them
- How to turn innovation into action
Thriving in Turbulent Times
The old rules for success no longer apply in this current environment of increased competition, change and uncertainty. If you use yesterday’s thinking in today’s world you won’t be around tomorrow.
To survive today, companies need to be Change-Ready© – to drive change by constantly challenging old thinking and seeking bold innovative out of the box new ideas, opportunities and possibilities
In these presentations you will learn bold innovative strategies for keeping ahead in these turbulent times.
Specifically Dr. Kriegel will discuss how to develop Change-Ready© strategies that are proactive not reactive, leaders not followers, and out in front of the wave rather than struggling to keep up.
- Four strategies for creating innovative new ideas, opportunities and possibilities.
- How to overcome the three major obstacles to change and innovation
- How to motivate people to become drivers of change
- How to streamline operations by rounding up sacred cows that cost money and inhibit change and innovation
- Why the tried and true needs to be dead and buried
- The importance of constantly challenging the status “in the way it’s always been done”
Leading in Turbulent Times
- How to create a Change Ready© culture in which innovation flourishes, people are open and excited about change and performing at peak levels
- Three strategies for keeping people motivated and ‘up’ in tough times
- How to overcome the most common obstacles to change and innovate new ideas
- Three steps for developing can do thinking that turns new ideas into action and increases confidence, commitment and momentum
- How to coach people to excel under pressure
Developing a Change-Ready© Mindset
- Create change not respond to it, lead not follow, proactive not reactive
- How to out-think rather than out-work the competition
- Three characteristics of Change-Ready© thinking
- Three strategies for thinking “out of the box”
- Sacred Cow Hunts – streamlining productivity
- Red/Green time – the 90% solution
Leadership: Creating a Change-Ready© Organization
- Creating an organization that fosters innovation
- How to create the future not respond to it
- The Four “M” qualities of leadership – Modeling, Mentoring/Coaching, Motivating, eMpowering
- Playing to Win versus Playing not to lose
- Four strategies for creating bold innovative ideas
- Three strategies for motivating people and generating excitement about change
- Four strategies for streamlining operations and rounding up
- Sacred Cows that are costly, time consuming and prevent change and innovation
- Can-do thinking for turning innovation into action
- The passion scale—how to keep people “up” in down times
If It Ain’t Broke…Break It!
Surfer’s rules for riding the wave of change without wiping out. Break-It! thinking techniques for developing
bold innovative new ideas and opportunities:
- Flipping rules
- Looking outside
- Working backward
- Combining things that haven’t been
- Thinking like a beginner
Bold, innovative “out of the box” thinking strategies for:
- Keeping ahead of the wave
- Solving old problems in new ways
- Creating new opportunities and possibilities
- How to create the Future not respond to it
Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers
- How to Round up Sacred Cows; outdated policies, practices, systems
and strategies that cost money and prevent change and innovation - How to eliminate thinking that creates sacred cows and enables
them to “graze” on profits and productivity - Rules for a Sacred Cow hunt
- How to put sacred cows on a diet
- The ripple effect
- How to streamline processes and operations
- How to control email epidemics, paper piles and meeting mania
- Cutting out versus cutting down outdated policies and practices
SALES GROUPS: Don’t Satisfy the Customer, Surprise Them
- Why the old conventional rules for selling don’t work in these faster, more
competitive, rapid changing times - How to keep out of “commodity hell”
- Do the impossible for the customer
- How to win by out-thinking not outworking the competition
- How to keep yourself “up” all day
- How to get yourself in the “peak zone”
- How to prepare for a major presentation
- How to achieve goals by “trying easier”
- How to motivate your customer
RECOGNITION EVENTS: Using Success as a Springboard to Greater Heights
- How winners stay on top; The two main characteristics of perennial winners
- Why some people keep winning and others don’t
- The most overlooked strategy for keeping on top
- How to conquer the sabotage thinking that traps winners
- Why you should always mess with success
