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Speaker profile
From the moment he steps on stage, Michael Timms captivates audiences with his authentic style and animated delivery. Michael tells compelling stories backed by solid research that teach individuals simple ways to dramatically improve their performance as a leader.
As author of the books How Leaders Can Inspire Accountability and Succession Planning That Works, Michael has a special interest in identifying the specific leadership behaviors that produce the greatest positive impact on people and results, and teaching leaders how to adopt those behaviors.
Michael is a leadership development consultant and principal of Avail Leadership. Prior to forming his own consultancy, Michael was a consultant with Deloitte and an HR leader in the construction and manufacturing industries.
When Michael is not helping leaders improve their game, he enjoys spending time with his family and going on challenging outdoor adventures in remote wilderness locations.
How Leaders can Inspire Accountability
Executives tend to believe that being accountable is a trait you either have or don’t have by the time you enter the workforce. In other words, “It’s the person.” Is it possible, however, that it could also be the environment? Could executives be unwittingly creating conditions that make it harder for employees to be accountable?
How Leaders Can Inspire Accountability reveals the latest research around what levers CEOs and other executives can pull to infuse accountability into the fabric of their organization’s culture to get the right behaviours, and the right results, more often.
Participants will learn:
- A simple, specific definition of what accountability is, and is not, that will help align their organization to move in the same direction.
- How accountable behaviours are the key to organizational execution.
- The most impactful things leaders can do to create accountability within their organization.
- How to measure accountability. You can’t move the needle on what you can’t define or measure.
Target Audience:
- All levels of managers and non-managers.
Possible Formats:
- This presentation may be delivered as a keynote, breakout or workshop, ranging from 1-hour to full day, depending on your needs.
The Talent Revolution: Lead it or Lose it
The global labour market is shifting beneath our feet. If you haven’t felt it yet, you will very soon. Most employees today aren’t engaged in their work; few companies know how to keep their millennials for very long; and the exiting baby-boomers are leaving a leadership void that isn’t being filled.
The Talent Revolution: Lead It Or Lose It explores the tectonic changes occurring in the labour market today, and illustrates how developing employees is the key to thriving in the new reality. Average companies view leadership & career development as simply one of many talent management activities. At exceptional companies, leadership & career development is the engine that drives their entire talent strategy.
Discover how exceptional companies create a pipeline of leadership talent and learn what it really takes to become a world-class talent magnet.
Participants will learn:
- What recent studies are saying about the future of the labour market and the impact it will have on companies in the next few years.
- The talent mindset that sets industry-leading companies apart from their competitors.
- The advantages of developing talent internally versus recruiting.
- How a world-class leadership and talent development program works and learn the necessary steps to implement one.
Target Audience:
- Primarily geared towards senior managers and HR leaders.
Possible Formats:
- This presentation may be delivered as a keynote, breakout or workshop, ranging from 1 – 2 hours, depending on your needs.
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