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Overcoming the leadership challenge and create an organization of exceptional leadership
Best audience: Corporate events, Leadership conferences, Associations, Leadership events, CEOs, executives, managers.
Most organizations are operating at a mediocre level when it comes to leadership. Employees who are excellent at their technical job are often promoted to a leadership position, creating a cycle of ineffective leaders. The traditional approach to leadership has proven ineffective.
According to Gallup, just 33 percent of the American workforce is fully engaged in their jobs and 16 percent are actively disengaged. It’s never been more challenging to be a leader than it is today. Employees are expecting more from their organizations. They want a sense of purpose and meaning in their work, a supportive environment, consistent feedback, and leaders who develop them to their potential.
In order to operate at an exceptional level, you need exceptional leaders. Effective, exceptional leaders can transform your credit union into a profitable and successful organization with productive, highly-engaged employees who provide remarkable service to your members.
In this powerful session, Laurie Maddalena will share:
How Ordinary Can Become Extraordinary
Best audience: Corporate events, Leadership conferences, Associations, Sales, Marketing, Leadership events, All staff meetings, high school and college events, CEOs, executives, managers, front line employees.
This interactive session teaches the principles of personal and professional success. Through her own inspiring story, Laurie motivates leaders to go from ordinary to extraordinary.
Laurie will facilitate a short workshop based on Jack Canfield’s book The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, that will empower you with strategies to live and lead at your highest potential.
She will share two of the top strategies of high achievers and teach you how to incorporate these strategies into your life.
Laurie is a certified Success Principles trainer and has worked with thousands of leaders to elevate their leadership and success.
Experience the power of this interactive session and leave inspired to achieve more success in your life and work.
Laurie will share proven strategies to go from ordinary to extraordinary:
Re Energize and Elevate Your Leadership
Best audience: Corporate events, Leadership conferences, Associations, Leadership events, CEOs, executives, managers.
It’s never been more challenging to be a leader than it is in today’s organizations.
While technology has brought innovation and advancement, many leaders today are feeling overwhelmed with data, decisions, and distractions that make it challenging to lead at their highest level.
As leaders, most of us tend to slip into negative habits that don’t serve us. These habits keep us from operating at an exceptional level.
Much like a health detox leaves you feeling more refreshed, focused, and more energized, by identifying our unhealthy leadership habits, we can detox old or negative habits so we can work at our peak and feel more focused, energized, and successful.
In this impactful session, Laurie will share the most common behaviors and actions that hold leaders back from success.
Through some powerful exercises, you will learn how to detox the habits and behaviors from your leadership that don’t serve you, so you can be an exceptional leader who gets the best from your team.
Participants will learn:
Experience the power of this interactive session and leave inspired to achieve more success in your life and work.
Participants will leave with a personalized leadership strategy and actionable plan that will lead to exceptional results.
Leading Your Team to Success
Best audience: Corporate events, Leadership conferences, Associations, Sales, Marketing, Leadership events, All staff trainings, CEOs, executives, managers, all staff.
In many organizations, accountability has a negative connotation. Accountability is really about taking responsibility for your actions. It is a very powerful tool that can create more success in your life and work.
When managing a team, leaders need to be able to instill ownership and accountability in employees, and coach down through multiple levels.
The small things we do every day can either create trust and strengthen relationships, or chip away at trust and damage relationships. The trust you build can strengthen your integrity and credibility or damage your integrity and credibility.
The #1 Thing You Can Do Today to Increase Your Productivity
Best audience: Corporate events, Leadership conferences, Associations, Leadership events, CEOs, executives, managers.
This session is designed to teach managers and executives the tools for being more productive and effective as a leader so they can perform at their highest level. Most leaders struggle to focus on the important areas of leadership because they are overwhelmed by employee issues, operational fires, and constant meetings.
In this interactive session, leaders will learn how to get the best from their employees so they have time for the more important areas of planning, visioning, and focusing on strategy.
Laurie Maddalena is CEO of Envision Excellence, a leadership consulting firm that provides leadership development programs for managers and executives, keynote speeches, teambuilding, and leadership assessments. She is a dynamic and engaging keynote speaker who has delivered impactful presentations to leaders nationally. Laurie is a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) and is a Certified […]
Laurie Maddalena is CEO of Envision Excellence, a leadership consulting firm that provides leadership development programs for managers and executives, keynote speeches, teambuilding, and leadership assessments.
She is a dynamic and engaging keynote speaker who has delivered impactful presentations to leaders nationally.
Laurie is a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) and is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), a designation earned by less than 15% of speakers worldwide.
She writes a monthly online column for next generation leaders for CUES, has published articles in Credit Union Management, and is a contributing writer on leadership for The Huffington Post and CU Insight.
Laurie Maddalena is a highly sought after speaker who delivers impactful presentations and keynotes that engages audiences and delivers strategies that get results.
Each of Laurie’s presentations is engaging and content-focused. Audiences leave feeling inspired to take action and make changes to enhance their leadership.
Laurie receives rave reviews for her presentations and keynotes, and averages over 4.75 out of 5.0 on evaluations.
Laurie designs every keynote to engage and inspire your audience and facilitate exceptional results.
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