Speeches & Presentations

Webinar: How a Solid People Strategy Drives Your Business Forward

Thursday, June 10, 2020. 10:00am – 11:00am Pacific Time.

A People Strategy is a comprehensive roadmap for managing and growing one of your largest assets— your people. The People Strategy supports your business plan and details how your people will be most effective in your company.

In this webinar, we introduce the concept of developing and adhering to a People Strategy. Learn the components of a good People Strategy, the effects a People Strategy can have on retaining employees and how a good people strategy can guide a company in times of crisis and unrest.

Rob Sher presents at MGI North America’s Virtual Conference

Friday, June 4, 2021. 1:00pm – 2:00pm Pacific Time.

How to Support Your Clients’ Utilization of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Measuring performance and activities within a business is an incredibly powerful tool to improve results, but most small and midsized companies don’t even get started. They need help selecting the right KPIs, doing the calculations, setting targets for each KPI at the beginning of the year, interpreting their results, then taking action to improve. Some KPIs find their data on the financials which are already in the hands of the accountant. Just a few more steps for their CPA to create a dashboard and facilitate a discussion. For some companies, this in itself is a powerful step forward.

Webinar: Diagnosing Midsized Companies

Wednesday, July 14, 2021. 10:00am – 11:00am Pacific Time.

Midsized businesses are complicated machines! As a leader, knowing where to focus your business-building resources is key. There is never enough money or time to improve every aspect of the business, but some areas are far more impactful than others.

Learn how expert diagnosticians analyze midsized companies to find those areas where improvements have the greatest impact. Every midsized company is different—some might need better leaders, others might need better communication, while others might need a strategic overhaul. We will reveal a powerful diagnostic instrument to compare your results against known best practices.

Webinar: How Midsized Companies Can Create a Mighty Leadership Team

Thursday, May 13, 2021. 10:00am – 11:00am Pacific Time.

At the core of the most successful midsized companies is a stellar leadership team. With such a “mighty team” in place, a midsized firm can deliver profitable growth, year after year, in good times and bad. However, when even one member of the team is dysfunctional, a midsized company can’t hope to have a mighty team. They don’t have the luxury of a large leadership team to support weak links in the executive chain. This webinar is drawn from four of the chapters of Robert Sher’s book, Mighty Midsized Companies: How Leaders Overcome 7 Silent Growth Killers.

Webinar: Family Business – Understanding Ownership Planning, Business Planning and Management Planning

Thursday, April 29, 2021. 10:00am – 11:00am Pacific Time.

It is amazing what families can accomplish in business when their operating and business plan is crisp and clear and where only the most important priorities are called out and focused upon.

Webinar: Learn How Your Team Can Keep Conflict Productive

Tuesday, April 13, 2021. 10:00am – 11:00am Pacific Time.

Most leaders are afraid of conflict in the workplace, but that’s a mistake. Good conflict, often called debate, is the way the best ideas emerge. There is an art to having strong, even passionate debate without ever making it personal or destructive of workplace relationships. But teams that struggle with this—either nasty conflict or conflict avoidance need help and guidance, and this webinar does just that.

Webinar: Why Alignment is Essential to Accountability

Tuesday, March 9, 2021 | 10:00am – 11:00am Pacific Time

If you want your leadership team to fight hard to deliver on the company’s plan, you’ll need them to believe in that plan so much that they feel like it’s their own. That’s true alignment. But as companies grow through midsized, getting each person on the leadership team to feel that way takes work. And it’s absolutely worth it. The work of leaders progresses in three phases: visioning, aligning and then executing. At midsized, skipping from the visioning stage of leadership right into the execution phase will not work. In fact, it will slow your company down.

Webinar for Society for Design Administration: Optimizing Performance with Leadership Infrastructure

Thursday, February 18, 2021 | 3:00pm Eastern Time

Many companies capture their strategies in a strategic plan and develop a budget for where the money should go. They might even have some form of a business plan. But sometimes during the year things don’t get done; money is unspent or misspent; the urgent overtakes the important. Having a strategy and a budget isn’t enough—there is a gap.

Webinar: How Mighty Leaders Deliver Through Vision, Alignment and Execution

Tuesday, February 9, 2021 | 10:00am – 11:00am Pacific Time

Using the framework of Vision, Alignment, and Execution, this webinar encourages leaders to understand their own leadership behaviors and how these behaviors impact their effectiveness. It focuses on tangible steps directed at leading a group or organization toward desired outcomes.

Exclusive Webinar for YPO Global One: Mastering KPIs for Midsized Companies

Tuesday, December 15

Measuring performance and activities within a business is an incredibly powerful tool to improve results. Often called key performance indicators (KPIs), choosing and constructing the right KPIs are very challenging. Some companies don’t have great data. Others create too many KPIs, creating confusion. Others only measure financial results, missing out on more powerful metrics.