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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.
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HOW TO CLAIM YOUR LEADERSHIP POWER
Discover powerful leadership habits to help you unleash your team’s hidden potential. Explore the secrets that drive accountability, fuel motivation, reduce stress, and cultivate a culture where everyone strives for excellence. Be prepared to redefine your leadership and inspire greatness.
Learning Outcomes
- Foster greater accountability by empowering your team members to take more ownership of their work.
- Learn how to immediately increase trust within your teams to boost collaboration and minimize friction and stress.
- Discover how to acquire the moral authority to hold others accountable.
- Equip your team with the tools to cultivate a culture of continuous improvement where innovation and progress are the norm.
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
- The greatest misconception about accountability and why it is the foundation of individual and organizational excellence.
- The most impactful things leaders can do to create accountability within their teams (hint: more kindness, less hammer).
- How to increase psychological safety in the workplace to produce stronger trust, better teamwork, and improved collaboration.
- How to take a systems approach to solve interpersonal and organizational problems.
Possible Formats
This presentation can be delivered as a keynote, breakout, or workshop, ranging from 1–3 hours, depending on your needs.
Target Audience
All levels of management and HR leaders.
LEAD THE TALENT REVOLUTION, DON’T FIGHT IT
The global pandemic, the shift to remote work, and changing demographics have dramatically changed employees’ expectations about work. Employers can either try to cling to old expectations of employees, or they can raise their standard of leadership to create a work environment that employees love.
Lead The Talent Revolution, Don’t Fight It explores the root causes of employee burnout, disengagement, and turnover and gives managers practical strategies and tools to make their workplace a safe haven for people who want to thrive at work and in life.
Participants Will Learn
- The essential talent mindset that executives and managers must adopt to attract and retain top talent in today’s labor market.
- Three strategies that have the highest impact on employees’ decision to stay and contribute.
- What good leadership looks like today and why it’s the exact opposite of what was expected in the past.
- Specific tactics to combat burnout, reduce turnover, and give employees a reason to give their best effort.
Target Audience
All levels of management and HR leaders.
Possible Formats
This presentation can be delivered as a keynote, breakout, or workshop, ranging from 1–3 hours, depending on your needs.
HOW TO ACHIEVE GREATNESS & INSPIRE IT IN OTHERS
HOW TO ACHIEVE GREATNESS & INSPIRE IT IN OTHERSHow To Gain More Power and Influence in Your Life and at Work
What would it be like if people at work stopped pointing fingers when things went wrong and instead owned their mistakes and focused on being part of the solution? Imagine if politicians worked with rather than against their opponents to solve our biggest problems. And how would you like it if your kids actually did what you asked them to do?
We can’t control other people, but we can influence them by changing ourselves. Inspiring Accountability teaches three simple habits that anyone can learn to increase their credibility, build trust, solve their biggest problems, and inspire others to follow their example.
Participants Will Learn
- The greatest misconception about accountability and why it is the foundation of individual and organizational excellence.
- The most impactful things you can do to inspire others to be more accountable.
- How to increase psychological safety in the workplace to produce stronger trust, better teamwork, and improved collaboration.
- How to take a systems approach to solve interpersonal and organizational problems.
Target Audience
All audiences.
Possible Formats
This presentation can be delivered as a keynote, breakout, or workshop, ranging from one hour to a full day, depending on your needs.
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