David Dye: Leadership Speaker

    David Dye

    Quick Facts:

      • We help human-centered leaders find clarity in uncertainty, drive innovation, and achieve breakthrough results.
      • In the ten years since founding Let’s Grow Leaders, we have grown tens of thousands of leaders on every continent (except Antarctica) working with fast-growing businesses and some of the largest global brands.
      • We’ve been where you are, faced the challenges and the headaches, and know what it takes to achieve lasting results.
    Reading time: 3 min
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    • Travels from: Washington, DC
    • **Fee range: On Request

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    Keynote Topics:

    This program is perfect for:

    Fast growing teams or organizations
    Associations serving highly disrupted, fast-changing industries
    Organizations going through times of significant change (e.g. mergers, restructures)
    The audience will leave with:

    Confidence to navigate through the uncertainty with poise
    Communication techniques to keep their teams focused on what matters most
    Tools to think build critical thinking capacity and make better decisions
    Strategic questions to help uncover new strategic opportunities and insights

    This program is perfect for:

    Overwhelmed managers working to take their results and relationships to the next level
    Leaders working to build a high-performing, high-engagement culture
    Teams looking for practical tools and techniques they can use right away

    The audience will leave with:

    Ways to stay focused on the MIT (most important things) that contribute to consistent, breakthrough results
    Tools to correct poor performance without drama
    Techniques to build better relationships up, down and sideways
    A better understanding of how to give each team member what they need most to take their performance to the next level
    Tools for building a more competent, confident team

    Manager’s face aggressive goals and often drive their teams to burn out trying to deliver. Or, employees seek connection and support, so managers focus on relationships . . . and fail to make the numbers.

    Winning Well is a manager’s lifeline for getting the results they need while keeping employees (and themselves) energized and motivated.

    Filled with humor, straight talk, and hard-won truths, David Dye inspiring keynote delivers principles and practices to galvanize your team in positive and productive ways.

    Do you have a tough conversation you need to have, but are avoiding at all costs?

    This program is perfect for:

    Leaders working to build a high-performing culture
    Managers struggling to have the tough conversations vital to building healthy, high performing teams
    Managers working to build more productive relationships up, down and sideways
     
    The audience will leave with:

    Tools to solve 90% of your tough conversations before they happen
    Approaches for “ditching the diaper genie” to have the tough conversations that need to happen
    The I.N.S.P.I.R.E. method of delivering tough feedback
    An easy-to-use methodology for asking strategic questions that uncover vulnerabilities and opportunities for strategic growth

    What would happen if every member of your team came to work focused on finding solutions and creating better results?

    This program is perfect for:

    Senior and mid-level managers
    Managers struggling to get their teams to think more creatively and solve problems on their own

    Teams looking to take their performance to the next level

    The audience will leave with:

    Easy-to-use tools and techniques to empower solutions-thinking and customer-focused problem solving
     A clear understanding of what’s blocking everyday innovation in their teams
     Communication strategies to eliminate FOSU (Fear of Speaking Up) and encourage deeper dialogue up, down and sideways
     A plan they can apply right away
     

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