LeadershipTraQ presentations are designed to empower leaders to live life on purpose. A recent study published in the Harvard Business Review suggests that 20% of leaders are disengaged, 30% are procrastinators, 40% are distracted, and only 10% are purposeful. Our presentations help move your leaders into the purposeful category. Excellent content, engaging group interaction, and an entertaining delivery ensure a successful event. Each topic can be customized to your organizational objectives.

Presentation Topics

Leading the Millennials
As a recent USA Today headline read, “Businesses are struggling to keep pace with a new generation of young people entering the workforce who have starkly different attitudes and desires than employees over the past few decades.” Our training delves headlong into the skills needed to bridge this attitude gap. Businesses, educational institutions, government agencies, and non-profits are all experiencing the challenge of managing across generations. Gain insight from a three-year research project that identifies key managerial leader competencies that demystify the generational disconnect experienced in today’s workplace. Do you know what separates the effective managers from the challenged managers? Do you know what you may already be doing right when it comes to cross-generational management? In addition to answering the aforementioned questions, you will gain insight into creating the kind of organization in which both managerial leaders and Millennials (twenty-somethings) can thrive.

The Ethics Challenge: Six Skills For Leading and Living Ethically
America is a nation of laws. Yet, ironically, we face a hurdle in the rules-based nature of our society. Police are our main symbol of enforcing laws and rules. As a result it is imperative that they have a strong ethical grounding. A sense of mission and a culture of trust are important, but not enough. Ethics must complement the rules. This starts on the inside as you realize that you don’t get a culture of ethics without personal transformation. Explore issues that show how the ethical leader within will complement the outward ethical standards that police departments so nobly embrace and painstakingly enforce. Both compliance and character qualities are to be seen as a team. Examine the six qualities that are essential for leading and living ethically.

Leading Through Challenging Times
Challenging times for organizations inevitably bring two types of conflict. One type guarantees high productivity while the other keeps the organization from realizing it's potential. Embracing conflict makes you poised to take advantage of an ever-changing marketplace and an increasingly diverse workforce. Anxiety in an organization rests on those that are most responsible and those that are most vulnerable. If a leader or leadership team is not skilled in dealing with the anxiety that change or conflict can present, then the most dependent people in the organization may end up setting the agenda.

Mastering Four Levels of Leadership
Are you ready to be an outstanding leader? If so, then you will need to be effective in four areas. Mastering self-leadership brings perspective. Engaging successfully in one-on-one leadership builds trust. As a great team leader you create synergy, and understanding organizational leadership will teach you to have proper alignment.

Leadership Centric vs. Leader Centric Organizations
Due to the complexities that an ever-changing business landscape presents, organizations cannot afford to be dependent upon just one leader. The role of the representative leader is important but an over-emphasis can result in groupthink, stagnation, and other kinds of dysfunction. Learn counter-intuitive concepts like following your followers and servant leadership. Leaders can get in their own way of building leadership centric organizations and need to be able to adapt both their thinking and behaviors to create environments in which any one of a number of people can lead. Before empowerment, diversity, and team there has to be an understanding that leadership is not a person but the collective effort of everyone at every level of your organization.

Team Building
There are tried and true keys to building a successful team. A self-leadership approach emphasizes that it is not the job of one person to build the team but the effort of all team members. Developing trust and creating mutual accountability are two of the five components we emphasize.

Who Are You and What Do You Want?
As a leader are you too busy doing what you have to do, to consider what you want to do?  Mick Ukleja presents the ideas and inspiration found in his book, Who Are You? What Do you Want?: Four Questions That Will Change Your Life.  He will guide you in the art of asking the right questions to get unstuck which is the key to self-discovery.  Four questions to change your life: Who are you and what do you want? - Where are you and why are you there? - What will you do and how will you do it? - Who are your allies and how can they help?  Mick shares his Four Dimensional Thinking developed through years of observations, consulting, and working with leaders.  Ken Blanchard, author of The One Minute Manager, who wrote the forward to Mick's book say's this, "The four questions provide you a means to gain perspective and clarity to deal successfully with every personal and professional challenge you may face."  By the end of the session you will begin to: have clarity about current purpose, rediscover what you are really passionate about, and be able to define values for the "Best of Your Life".

Empowering Leaders: Four Essential Skills for Leadership and Living
The greatest limitations leaders experience are usually self-imposed. One of the more difficult things to overcome is our own frame of mind or more simply put - our moods. This presentation makes it clear that it is the nature of the presence of the leader that most impacts his or her organization. The skills include; mastering my moods, maintaining my focus, managing my time, and maximizing my talents.