Keynote Topics

Are You Living and Working in the Right World?

Do you find yourself wondering how you can get from where you are to where you want to be, when everything seems to be moving so fast? Are you feeling overwhelmed by an increasingly complex world where the rules of the game keep changing? You're not alone. A recent survey of over 1500 chief executive officers found that the rapid escalation of complexity is the biggest challenge confronting organizations, and more than half of CEOs doubt their ability to manage it. Whether we realize it or not, the recent digital revolution has suddenly thrust us into a completely new world with a completely new set of rules. Rod Collins shares insights on how today's best business leaders are mastering these new rules to not only keep pace with accelerating change, but also to create unprecedented extraordinary performance.

In addition to sharing the principles and practices of the innovative leaders that are redefining how to successfully manage businesses in an increasingly complex world, Rod Collins draws upon his own experience as a former chief executive in using the new rules of our networked world to end two decades of low growth and low performance and lead a complex business alliance to unprecedented operational and financial results.

The Best Businesses Don't Have Bosses

"How do you lead when you have no practical authority over many geographically dispersed employees in fast-moving markets?" and "How do you effectively manage businesses when your success is dependent upon others over whom you have no control?" These are the questions challenging every business leader in our unprecedented times. Rod Collins' high impact presentation answers these questions by sharing the secrets and the practices of a new breed of innovative leaders who are revolutionizing the ways businesses do business by building powerful collaborative networks to achieve unprecedented results.

You will learn the five disciplines that are the foundation for the extraordinary performance of today's most successful organizations. You'll discover how your business can achieve unprecedented results by transforming leaders from bosses to orchestrators and by fully engaging the talents of everyone in your organization to create an unbeatable execution advantage. And you will understand why the technology revolution has suddenly made collaborative peer-to-peer networks far smarter and faster than top-down hierarchies.

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Breakout Sessions

How to Use The Balanced Scorecard to Drive Collaboration and
Close the Performance Gap

There's no doubt about it - you get what you measure. Are the people in your organization highly collaborative and achieving outstanding results? If not, perhaps you're not measuring the right things. Find out how you can use a fresh approach with a proven tool - the Balanced Scorecard - to leverage the power of collaboration to make the leap to extraordinary performance. In this session, you will learn how to harness the collective intelligence within your organization to build your most powerful set of scorecard measures. You will discover how to identify the four critical performance drivers that are the keys to accomplishing outstanding results. And you will understand how to use a key set of core measures to create a common focus that naturally drives collaboration and aligns everyone with the vision and the strategy of your organization.

Nobody Is Smarter Or Faster Than Everybody:
Leveraging Your Organization's Collective Intelligence

Recently the scientific world was astonished when, in only three weeks, a disparate group of online student gamers used their collective intelligence to solve a molecular puzzle that had baffled the professorial experts for over a decade. When organizations have the processes to collate their collective wisdom, they quickly learn that nobody is smarter or faster than everybody. In this highly interactive session, you and your fellow participants will aggregate your own collective knowledge to quickly solve a difficult problem. You will learn how you can use the methods demonstrated in the session to quickly access the collective intelligence in your own organization. And you will discover how you can turn this rich asset into a competitive advantage by creating a smarter, faster organization that easily moves at the pace of accelerating change.

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Seminars

The 5 Disciplines of Collaborative Leaders

This signature program equips business leaders with the tools they need to succeed in an age of accelerating change and networked intelligence. Today's digital revolution is completely redefining the fundamental principles and practices of management. A 19th century management model is no longer sustainable in a 21st century world. In this highly interactive program, you will discover how today's best business leaders are using an innovative management system to master the unprecedented combination of accelerating change and escalating complexity that now defines our new economy. You will learn how you can apply the five disciplines used by the world's most exceptional leaders to redesign your organization into a highly effective collaborative network that leverages the power of its collective intelligence to drive exceptional performance. You will leave this program will practical techniques that you can immediately apply to create a smarter and faster organization that easily keeps pace with the pace of change.

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