What do you do when popular, attractive-sounding terms like empowerment, reengineering, leadership, and vision, smack up against the hard wall of reality?
 
According to Steve Farber, former Vice President and "Official Mouthpiece" of the Tom Peters Company, "For an innovative idea to be transformed into productive behavior, your constituents need to understand what's in it for them.  Most often, people-and I put managers in that category-don't change for the organization: they change for themselves."
 
Responding to today's fad-oriented business climate, Farber focuses his techniques around helping professionals understand how to close the gap between ideas and behaviors.
 
An expert in business leadership, Steve coaches and inspires change at all levels of the corporate structure, and he does so with style that is part strategist, part social commentator, part comedian, and all energy.
 
His presentations involve groups from top-level executives to employees, helping companies worldwide develop market-driven strategies and effective leadership practices.
 
Speaking from real-world experiences, Steve provides from-the ­trenches strategies, that result in powerful changes that can spread throughout your company like wildfire.
 
Steve is the author of the audio series, Extreme Leadership: In Pursuit of the OS!M.  He is a contributor to the anthology, Leading Authorities On Business: Winning Strategies From the Greatest Minds in Business Today and is currently writing a book entitled, The Radical Leap: Extreme Leadership @ Work and Beyond.
 

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The Radical Leap: Extreme Leadership @ Work and Beyond: As executives, managers and employees, we are constantly told to be more innovative, more creative, to add more value, and to do it all with less. To quote Dick Nettel, a Senior Vice President at Bank of America, "The old way just ain't gonna get it done. Period." In this chaotic and extreme age, business leaders must demonstrate an unprecedented level of passion, determination, foresight, dedication and fearlessness. People won't follow empty rhetoric, but they will respond to significant and dramatic action: Extreme Leadership. In The Radical Leap, Steve shows you how to use the LEAP framework-Love, Energy, Audacity and Proof-to become an extreme leader and radically improve your organization and your life.
 
The Vision Paradox: Creating a Compelling Future: Just when a business vision is the hardest to create, that's when people need it most. How do you build and communicate a picture of tomorrow when you're trying to make it through the chaos and changes of today? Drawing on several current cases, Steve focuses you on a vision of your piece of your organization. You'll learn practical strategies to build commitment and inspire action in yourself and in others.
 
The Five Practices of Exemplary Leaders (And How to Use Them): "Leadership" has, unfortunately, taken its place among the lexicon of empty business buzzwords. We all say that leadership is important, even critical, to our success. But the title of "Leader" on a person's business card does not a leader make. Steve gives an in-depth account of the scientifically validated practices of effective leaders as researched by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner of The Leadership Challenge fame. Since 1994, Steve has helped executives, managers, and individual contributors apply the Kouzes and Posner model to their very specific business needs. He will share his field experience with you and will help you to be a leader of substance, not a leader in name alone.
 
Leading Radical Service: Four Strategies for Creating WOW!: Customer Satisfaction is no longer enough. But delivering WOW to your customers demands an unprecedented level of imagination, empathy and creativity from every employee in your company. Steve offers four strategies that you as a leader can use to create customer-obsessed business people at every level of your organization: Scare Yourself, Brand Yourself, Be An Anthropologist, Be an Applied Futurist. Drawing on provocative business cases, research and personal experience, Steve will help you to go beyond the conventional customer service wisdom.
 
Sustaining Credibility in Incredible Times: Becoming a Leader that Others Will Willingly Follow: In today's increasingly cynical business environment, we need to take a conscious approach to building and sustaining our own credibility. You can be the most honest person in the world, brimming over with integrity and - because of forces beyond your control - still have a challenge with your personal credibility. In this speech, Steve covers the characteristics that people look for in an admired leader and offers specific credibility-building actions.

 

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