Speeches & Presentations
Webinar: Why Alignment is Essential to Accountability
Tuesday, July 14, 2020. 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: Beyond Covid-19: Other Pressing Threats to Your Business You Must Consider ASAP
Tuesday, June 30, 2020. 10:00am – 11:00am Pacific Time.
This webinar will help leaders step back and survey end-to-end current threats to their Six Critical Functions®. Although coronavirus has taken the spotlight in 2020, there are still very real other hazards to consider. In fact, the threat of natural disaster continues to escalate while our response to coronavirus has left the door open to both bad actors and new forms of complex failure.
Capital Region Family Business Center hosts virtual workshop with Robert Sher: Leadership in Times of Fear and Uncertainty
Wednesday, June 24, 2020. 2:00-3:15pm Pacific Time.
Leaders of midsized companies face an enormous challenge: keeping their teams (and themselves) energized and productive when the light at the end of the tunnel— even the location of the end of the tunnel— is uncertain.
In this workshop, we’ll talk about the challenges and discuss practical approaches to leading in these times. I’ll outline an acronym for our day: VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) and retrace how Bob Johansen, author of How Leaders Make the Future, presented this in 2009 (and reiterated it in 2019). Then we’ll look at three critical leadership competencies for a VUCA future.
AIA Orange County hosts virtual workshop with Robert Sher: Leadership in Times of Fear and Uncertainty
Tuesday, June 23, 2020. 12:30 – 1:30pm Pacific Time.
Leaders of midsized companies face an enormous challenge: keeping their teams (and themselves) energized and productive when the light at the end of the tunnel— even the location of the end of the tunnel— is uncertain.
In this workshop, we’ll talk about the challenges and discuss practical approaches to leading in these times. I’ll outline an acronym for our day: VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) and retrace how Bob Johansen, author of How Leaders Make the Future, presented this in 2009 (and reiterated it in 2019). Then we’ll look at three critical leadership competencies for a VUCA future.
Webinar for WPO Leaders: How the New Cascading One Page Plan Keeps Your Team Focused All Year Long
Tuesday, June 23, 2020. 9:00am – 10:00am Pacific Time.
It is amazing what teams can accomplish when the plan is crisp and clear and where only the most important priorities are called out and focused upon. Planning skills pay dividends for the remainder of an executive’s working life.
This webinar is a chance to hone your planning skills, and learn the time tested One Page planning methodology. For those familiar with One Page Plan, this session will remind you of the simple yet powerful methodology behind the One Page Plan and also show you new techniques that will help you and your team find and hold your focus all year long.
Webinar: How Midsized Companies Can Develop Agility and EQ in the Workplace
Tuesday, June 16, 2020. 10:00am – 11:00am Pacific Time.
The more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous our working environments become, the more critical a truly agile workforce is to success. Each day, we’re called to make progress faster, while pivoting on short notice. To stand firm in our ideas while remaining open to new perspectives. Staying agile demands that we develop and use our emotional intelligence (EQ)—a level of sophistication that we’ve never demanded before.
ABMA Webinar featuring Robert Sher: Leadership in Times of Fear and Uncertainty
Tuesday, June 2, 2020. 11:00am – 12:00pm Pacific Time.
Leaders of midsized companies face an enormous challenge: keeping their teams (and themselves) energized and productive when the light at the end of the tunnel— even the location of the end of the tunnel— is uncertain.
In this webinar, we’ll talk about the challenges and discuss practical approaches to leading in these times. I’ll outline an acronym for our day: VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) and retrace how Bob Johansen, author of How Leaders Make the Future, presented this in 2009 (and reiterated it in 2019). Then we’ll look at three critical leadership competencies for a VUCA future.
Webinar: Learn How Your Team Can Keep Conflict Productive
Thursday, May 7, 2020. 10:00am – 11:00am Pacific Time. A Mighty Webinar.
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, called Productive Conflict, does just that.
Recorded Webinar: Leadership in Times of Fear and Uncertainty
Thursday, April 9, 2020. 10:00am – 10:45am PT.
Leaders of midsized companies face an enormous challenge: keeping their teams (and themselves) energized and productive when the light at the end of the tunnel— even the location of the end of the tunnel— is uncertain.
Recorded Webinar: How To Pivot Midsized Company Priorities Fast During Coronavirus Crisis
Monday, March 30, 2020. 10:00am – 11:00am PDT. A Mighty Webinar.
Survival of midsized businesses through the coronavirus crisis requires an ultra-fast planning cycle with coordinated, team-based execution and frequent oversight. Then likely within a week, a full plan review and re-plan is required as circumstances change. For small businesses, scrambling can be effective, but for midsized firms scrambling causes failed execution with dire consequences and leadership team burnout before the crisis abates.
Robert Sher is founding principal of CEO to CEO, a consulting firm of former chief executives that improves the leadership infrastructure of midsized companies seeking to accelerate their performance. He was chief executive of Bentley Publishing Group from 1984 to 2006 and steered the firm to become a leading player in its industry (decorative art publishing).