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Lead From Strength - STRONG LEADER: Build confidence in your followers
As people struggle to make sense of a new and uncertain world, the need for strong leaders is more important than ever. Learn to build clarity and confidence during these extraordinary times an define a new, intelligent, strong way forward.
For all leaders of teams, and teams of teams
What the most effective senior leaders do to build clarity and confidence during these dynamic and confusing times.
Marcus shares:
Before: Each attendee takes the StandOut strengths assessment (15 mins)
During: 45-minute virtual keynote
After: **Optional Add-ons
What is the StandOut® Strengths Assessment?
REVEAL YOUR TOP 2 STRENGTH ROLES
Lead From Strength - STRONG TEAMS: Create connection across your team
84% of employees do most of their work on teams, and 75% of them say they work on more than one team. High-performing, engaged teams are critical to companies successfully making it through challenging times. With more and more teams becoming virtual, mastering a strengths-based approach to teaming will be the ultimate game-changer. Reveal the unique, most powerful parts of each team member, and watch connections deepen and performance soar.
For all team leaders and team members
How to build resilient, high-performing teams using the StandOut strengths assessment.
Marcus shares:
Before: Each attendee takes the StandOut assessment (15 mins)
During: 45-minute virtual keynote
After: **Optional Add-ons
What is the StandOut® Strengths Assessment?
REVEAL YOUR TOP 2 STRENGTH ROLES
Lead From Strength - STRONG YOU: Discover Your Unique Power
When we lose our rituals, our sense of self can vanish. We begin to fear our weaknesses more than we cherish our strengths. And yet for the sake of all those who rely on us, we need to stay precisely focused on the areas we feel strong. We need to find ways to re-anchor who we are, to re0define,what we bring to the world around us. Learn how to find this confidence within you by rediscovering your greatest strength.
For all employees
How to build your personal resilience and connection with others using the StandOut strengths assessment.
Marcus shares:
Before: Each attendee takes the StandOut assessment (15 mins)
During: 45-minute virtual keynote
After: **Optional Add-ons
What is the StandOut® Strengths Assessment?
REVEAL YOUR TOP 2 STRENGTH ROLES
Lead from Strength: Virtual Experiences for Leaders, Teams + Individuals
During this unprecedented time, Marcus Buckingham is focusing his virtual presentations on how to use your strengths to build resilience in yourself, connection across your team, and confidence in your followers.
For the first time ever, and in partnership with Harvard Business Review, Marcus is giving away the StandOut 2.0 Strengths Assessment which will be included in each of the following virtual experiences:
1. Strong LEADER- for all leaders of teams, and teams of teams
In this 45-minute virtual keynote, Marcus shares what the most effective senior leaders do to build clarity during these dynamic and confusing times. He shares:
Optional Add-ons for this topic include:
2. Strong TEAMS - for all team leaders and team members
In this 45-minute virtual keynote, Marcus shares how to build resilient, high-performing teams using the StandOut strengths assessment.
Marcus shares:
Optional Add-ons for this topic include:
3. Strong YOU - for all employees
In this 45-minute virtual keynote, Marcus shares how to build your personal resilience and connection with others using the StandOut strengths assessment.
Marcus shares:
Optional Add-ons for this topic include:
Nine Lies About Work
What the research reveals about the real world of work
High-Performance Leadership
How to build a culture of performance
Find Your Edge, Win at Work
How to drive personal performance
Marcus Buckingham teaches leaders how to create resilient teams, and shows each of us how to stay our course when we get knocked off track
Best-selling author and leadership and management expert MARCUS BUCKINGHAM shows leaders how to create resilient organizations and teams, anchored by his extensive psychometric data-based research and field experience running teams. Hearing him speak synthesizes the lessons from his best-selling books and focuses teams on how to realize the outcomes they want no matter what external curveballs are thrown their way.
Buckingham instructs both the manager and the individual. After all, the collective team is made of individuals, and both serve each other better when each of us can focus on cultivating and leveraging our strengths. Buckingham gives tactical advice on how to identify our strengths so that we can recover more quickly when surprises throw us off our footing. To that end, Buckingham has developed the StandOut Strengths Assessment to help each of us discover a life in which we get to express the unique spirit inside us, in the most intelligent, most contributive, most meaningful way possible.
Marcus Buckingham is a master teacher to develop stronger, more resilient and innovative teams. Credible, data-based and specific, Buckingham electrifies – and honestly, transforms – organizations.
Take Buckingham’s StandOut Strengths Assessment here>>
Marcus Buckingham is an electrifying leadership and strategic management speaker, anchored by his research and real world experience running teams
When best-selling author and researcher MARCUS BUCKINGHAM stopped by our office recently, he held us spellbound. He simultaneously gave a master class on leadership and management while inspiring each of us to tap into our very human, personal needs to love what we do (which is different from doing what we love), find belonging on our teams, and capitalize on our strengths. All in the name of creating more resilient, higher performing teams. His work is not anecdotal or impressionistic, it is squarely and credibly based in the data he generates as part of the ADP Research Institute, which looks at accumulated payroll data that moves the economy, and is backed by Harvard Business Review, for which Buckingham serves on the Editorial Advisory Board. He also has field experience running productive teams as he built and ran a software company (developing what else but software to build great teams!) which was eventually integrated into the internal systems at WebEx, Cisco, and Microsoft Teams, to name a few. Buckingham often consults and speaks to organizations looking to strengthen their leaders and individual contributors and is praised for his practical, tactical recommendations for increasing productivity, rather than motivation based on rah-rah platitudes.
The leadership and management lessons we all learned from Buckingham during his short time with us, will surely have a lasting impact. We are all inspired to manage our teams better, pay attention to the individual strengths of our team members, and find ways to cultivate those strengths rather than focusing on “areas of development.” And, we have to admit, each of us felt like he was talking to us one on one. He has that special ability to humanize the real world work we all do. He spoke of our need to identify the “red threads” of satisfaction in the quilt of our daily tasks, and our need to find belonging on our teams, which moves the diversity and inclusion message to a deeper, more essential conversation. In fact, Buckingham, grounded in his research, is working on a book and a movement called ‘Love + Work’, which takes a more individualistic look at the meaning of our work and ambition in the larger context of our lives. We are here for it!
We can’t recommend Marcus Buckingham highly enough as a speaker. The messages he left us with are still reverberating around our office. We’re all thinking in bigger ways about what we do and how we collaborate.
Virtual Programming: If you lead people in these new realities, Marcus Buckingham says every team should do these 5 things
In this dynamic virtual presentation MARCUS BUCKINGHAM helps leaders focus on what’s most important for their team right now. In his talk, If You Lead People Today, Do These 5 Things, Marcus walks teams through what they can do to make their virtual teams the most effective and productive teams possible, even--and especially--during these new realities. Using his two decades of experience as a Senior Researcher at the Gallup Organization and currently, the Head of ADP Research Institute of People and Performance, Marcus’ revolutionary framework for understanding teams combines visionary thinking backed by rigorous research. His work on leveraging the strength of teams and productivity has been memorialized in numerous bestselling books, such as: First, Break All the Rules; Now, Discover Your Strengths; The One Thing You Need to Know; Go Put Your Strengths To Work; The Truth About You; Find Your Strongest Life; StandOut 2.0; and Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World.
Sponsors rave: "Marcus Buckingham was GREAT! I got a lot of positive feedback from all our company's participants!" (Masterfoods) "Marcus is the most engaging and useful business speaker working today. His advice is grounded in research and at the same time appeals to common sense." (The Wharton School) "Our managers ranked Buckingham the #1 speaker of the meeting, topping the perennial favorites - our CEO and president. What impressed us all was how well Marcus had done his homework. This was no generic speech - it related to our business and our people, in a motivating, challenging and useful way" (Walgreens)
Marcus has been profiled in nearly every important publication such as The New York Times, Fortune, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal. He is frequently in demand for TV appearances, having appeared on The Today Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show amongst many others. Corporations as diverse as Coca-Cola, Microsoft and Disney employ his ideas and often invite Marcus to speak
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About Marcus Buckingham
Leader of the Strengths Revolution
Once you’ve broken all the rules and launched your career by writing an instant classic management book, what do you do for an encore? If you’re Marcus Buckingham, you dedicate yourself to understanding what makes world-class managers excel, bottling it, and sharing it with the world.
Marcus first conquered the bestseller lists in 1999 with First, Break All the Rules. While the title may imply an iconoclastic streak, his continuing plea for managers to break with tradition has nothing to do with rebellion; instead, he argues, rules must be broken and discarded because they stifle the originality and uniqueness — the strengths — that can enable all of us to achieve our highest performance. The goal is to provide team leaders with the insights and tools they need to turn talent into performance and drive the organization toward greater success and productivity.
The definitive treatment of strengths in the workplace can be found in his best-selling books: Building on the success of StandOut (2011), StandOut 2.0 has launched not just a strengths assessment but an entire productivity platform based on a new research methodology to reveal a person’s top two “strength Roles”— areas of comparative advantage. StandOut 2.0 goes beyond description to give people practical innovations that fit their strengths, and give team leaders quick insights on how to get the best from each of their team members. His latest book, Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World (Harvard Business Publishing, 2019) takes an in-depth look at the lies that pervade our workplaces and the core truths that will help us change it for the better.
The goal is to provide team leaders with the insights and tools they need to turn talent into performance.
As an internationally renowned thought leader and business expert, Marcus has been the subject of in-depth profiles in The New York Times, Fortune, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal and has appeared on numerous television programs, including “Larry King Live,” “The Today Show” and “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” He is routinely lauded by such corporations as Toyota, Facebook, lululemon, Coca-Cola, Box, Master Foods, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, and Disney as an invaluable resource in informing, challenging, mentoring and inspiring people to find their strengths and sustain long-lasting personal success.
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