Dr. Jim Crupi Speaking Topics

• Eight Forces That Will Shape The Future

  If you think the speed of change is fast today – it hasn’t even started. If you think you have picked up your last article about companies laying off thousands of workers – we haven’t even started. The world is reshaping itself at warp speed, but underneath those changes are important and understandable plates that, once understood, provide a template with which to make decisions and gain insight into what seems to be overwhelming challenges. Jim will reveal the key underlying forces shaping the future and, in a practical way, discuss what they mean for managing organizations and people. Among the forces discussed are demographics, resource scarcity, technology, information proliferation, conflict, and economic integration. You will never look at the world the same way again. You will become more like the basketball player with 15 seconds left in the game who understands that 15 seconds is an eternity and sees the entire court instead of the fan who is yelling and screaming because their sense of time and insight is lost to emotion.

  • Five Questions Business Must Answer
  • Seven Forces Shaping the Future and How They Will Change Our Personal and Professional Lives
  • Creating Strategy in an Event Driven World
  • New Geopolitical Realities
  • Four Trends that Will Reshape Our Thinking
  • How Technology will Reshape our Approach to Business
  • The Information Age is Over, We are in the Communication Age

• Leadership: “If I Take Away Your Title, Will They Follow You”

  So you think you really know what it takes to be a leader in the information age. You believe that some things are just impossible to do unless you see it happen. You think you really understand how people look at you and how that frames your company’s culture. You think people hear your company vision and really understand and see what you are after. If you can answer yes to these questions, you don’t need to hear Jim. If, on the other hand, you want to really understand leadership in the modern age, his presentation is for you. You will accomplish something you believed was impossible and come to understand that your greatest strength is your greatest weakness. You will see that today, people are substituting belief for knowledge and hope for expectation, and that has profound implications for you as a leader.

  • From Manager to Leader
  • Six Attributes Needed By Leaders in the 21st Century
  • Getting Peak Performance from People
  • Strategic Leadership
  • Building High Performance Teams
  • Why Decision Speed is Everything

Building High Performance Teams

Are you focusing on your company's productivity levels? Quality? Leadership skills? Team effectiveness? Overall employee motivation? Organizational design? How about putting people in a room for four hours and having them come out with wings on their heels? Countless numbers of participants have captured that feeling; they've never experienced anything as powerful in effect as Neon Buzz.

In just one day of training, you can and will improve it all by tapping into the power and potential of your people. Neon Buzz is training dynamite – a business simulation directed at organizational success. Here, participants discover the power of moving to an efficiently designed, well-led organization that taps into the energy of individual ownership and teamwork.

This powerful training experience:

• Builds commitment to a team structure.
• Energizes existing teams.
• Demonstrates the power of empowered leadership.
• Supports your organization’s vision and mission.
• Gains commitment to the need for change.
• Opens lines of communication and cooperation among departments and units.
• A dramatic demonstration of the impact of change, work redesign, shared information and goal-setting.
• A fresh approach to analyzing the synergy of an organization, its leaders and its individuals.
• An intriguing, hands-on style of learning.

Managing Personal and Organizational Change

Why is it that organizations want to change but can’t seem to do it fast enough? Why is it that people want to change their lives and can’t seem to get there fast enough? Why is it that companies and people confuse incremental change with transformation [real deep change]? In our search for meaning and direction, we have a problem. Traditionally, our paradigms, myths, or scripts have told us what to do. They have helped organize our lives. Whenever we follow them, we feel safe. But today, our environment keeps changing. New ways of thinking and behaving are required because change is major in scope, discontinuous with the past, and generally irreversible. Change distorts existing patterns of action and involves taking risks. It means surrendering control. Organization and change are not complementary concepts. To organize is to systematize, to make behavior predictable. This initially makes people and organizations more efficient or effective. As time goes on, however, these routine patterns can cause decay and stagnation. Because environments are dynamic and our myths are based on the past, our strategies often fail, and we feel a sense of alienation. In a highly interactive session, Jim helps people recreate new paradigms, myths, scripts, and personal and organizational frameworks that enable us to “build the bridge while walking on it.”

• Keys to Innovation
• The “Who Moved My Cheese” Metaphor
• When You Change What You Believe, You Change What You Do
• Four Variables that Affect the ability to be Change Friendly
• Overcoming Slow Death

Ethics – Your Opinion or Universal Truths?

It is amazing how conflicted people seem to be over making the “right” decision. What is the “right” decision when it comes to making decisions that are ethical? And how do you know? Jim engages the audience and forces them to make a series of “yes” or “no” decisions. And then challenges them to understand why or why not it is ethical. He uses real-life decisions that employees and managers make every day. When the session is over, you will have come to know yourself in ways you never thought possible, and your embrace of ethics as a guiding principle in your decision-making will be all-inclusive.