Change is constant, unpredictable and accelerating. Extreme change can – much like a hurricane – leave you dizzy, dazed and disoriented, as though the earth is moving under your feet. Even if you survive the storm, you know more is coming.

Change expert Dr. Mark DeVolder throws a lifeline to you and your team with tools and strategies he’s developed to clear away the fog. You will learn how to rewire your brain to adapt to change, anticipate future trends and persevere in adversity. Mark’s practical principles enable you to act boldly, nimbly and quickly in face of exponential change.

Why doesn’t the fastest runner always win the race?  Or why doesn’t the smartest person always get the best job?  Because it’s not always the ones who “start out the smartest who end up smartest.”  (Dweck)   It takes more than natural speed, intelligence or ability to be a champion.  It takes resilience. But resilience is not just for the elite with an Olympic gold around their neck.  Resilience can be learned.

Mark shows leaders how to increase their grit, passion and purpose by developing the mindset of a champion.  Mark’s best practices will help you cultivate determination, increase resilience and conquer adversity.

We live in a VUCA world: volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. It’s not surprising that leaders who survive, thrive and deliver in business today have one trait in common; they are resilient. But resilience is not just for a few; it can be learned.

Mark shares how to rewire your brain and increase neuroplasticity to spring through adversity, overcome obstacles and reinvent yourself. He reveals success strategies that enable you to adapt boldly, nimbly and quickly in midst of constant change.

Mark shows leaders how to:

-identify behaviors to increase engagement

-re-ignite employee’s passion for teamwork, communication and innovation

-build a culture of trust, loyalty and appreciation

-accelerate performance and productivity

Recharge your team with Mark DeVolder’s industry-tested program. Get your employees and organization on fire.

Hazards and obstacles abound in the fast and frenzied pace of business today. In the rush to stay competitive, people are increasingly tempted to take short cuts and sacrifice safety.

The most common barrier, however, is actually change itself. Some employees feel paralyzed by change, and when they feel paralyzed, they disengage. Without the ability or capacity to change, accidents can happen.

During Mark’s high-performance presentation, you will learn how to:

-get change-right and change-ready

-defy change paralysis through Mark’s mobilized for safety approach

-significantly reduce risk of accidents and liability

-identify behaviours that enhance engagement

-implement strategies to increase productivity, motivation and safety

Empower your employees to achieve “target zero.”

Dr. DeVolder’s Master Classes are ideal for half day or full day retreats, breakout sessions within a conference or upper management/board meetings. Typically the group size is smaller in order to allow for interaction and application.

Training Approach

Mark’s style is a careful balance of content and learning-related activity. DeVolder uses content, group participation, individual reflection, jolt activities and stories to deliver high-content training. To ensure maximum value, members apply Mark’s strategies to real work situations during the session.

Training Topics

Change

• Tools to manage change: Understanding your personality, response to change and adaptability
  Activity: Interactive exercise/individual responses
• Change Saturation: The cumulative effect of too much change/too fast
  The effects of change saturation: individual level, group, organization
  Strategies for success
• Stages of Transition
  Three stage model: individuals and organizations
  Learning how to respond at each stage
  Organization changes
  Key Leadership Questions
  Resistance to Change
  Rationale for Change
• Becoming Change Ready
  Taking Responsibility: Personal leadership during change
  Change Ready Profile
  Change Ready Behaviours
  Constructive Non-Conformity
  Future-Proofing Yourself: Beliefs and practices
  Making Smarter Decisions, Faster

Engagement

• Pillars of Engagement: clarity, competence, influence, appreciation
• Level of engagement in the organization
• Identifying behaviours that build up and tear down engagement
• Strategies to improve engagement
• Engagement starts with you

Resilience

• The Continuum of Resilience
• Increasing Personal Resilience
• The Success Factor: Sustainability during change
• Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset
• Strategies to Increase Personal Resilience

We provide consulting services in three key areas: change, engagement, and resilience.

Change Management

We show leaders how to plan, prepare for and adapt to change. We provide skills and training to understand the process and stages of change. We teach you how do increase change readiness throughout the organization.

Employee Engagement

We work with leaders to increase the level of engagement throughout the organization. We begin with management to ensure they understand and are committed to engagement. Then, we provide tools to enable managers to engage employees in four key areas: clarity, competence, influence and appreciation.

Resilience

In order to sustain success, we coach leaders in adapting to change and anticipating change. Leaders learn to adopt a mindset of growth, positivity and unlimited potential.

Clients can choose to focus on change, engagement or resilience or all three areas. Then we guide you through a four-stage process: needs assessment, strategic planning, implementation, and review. Strategic Planning sessions are conducted with upper management. Together we evaluate what’s working, opportunities for growth and what’s next possibilities.