The Howe Team

Message/Seminar Offerings

Sample HOWe Team Offerings

“S.U.V.’s & Me—What We Have in Common”

Training Value:

Overcoming Blind Spots to Increase Individual Performance

Primary Deliverable:

HOWe to put structures and people in place to regularly overcome blind spots in people, systems, and structures. HOWe to look past our own self-defense mechanisms and personally assess our self-product, not just our label that has done well as a brand thus far. HOWe to overcome the limitations of our self-awareness and accomplish things that are truly far beyond what we're even currently hoping for."

Sound-bite:

“…and so it was when the Secret Service took away my gun. Well how ‘bout you? Do you respond to confrontation with an open, vulnerable, honest and trusting outlook? If so, you and your company have a chance. If not, you will defend yourself to death until it’s too late to make a difference.”

Endangered Characters

Training Value: Integrity: Comprehensive and Unbridled

Primary Deliverable: HOWe to get past slogans and clichés and actually lead with the kind of integrity that actually causes life-change and altered decisions and habits in employees and clients.

Sound-bite: ”When an animal is endangered, all the stops are pulled out to save the species, starting with ultimate care for each known survivor and careful provision of an environment favorable to reproduction. What are the character traits that could/should be re-produced in our company? Are any endangered? What’s our plan to make them a thriving species again?”

Lamborghini Leadership

Training Value: Transcendent Leadership.

Primary Deliverable: HOWe to be the kind of leader—and reproduce the kind of leadership—that overcomes obstacles, discovers solutions, enacts action plans and re-defines reality on such a regular basis that there’s no time for the kind of grumbling and negativity that often accompanies the workplace environment.

Sound-bite: “The workplace is filled with people waiting for circumstances to get better so their job performance and attitude can improve. They’ve got it backwards and everyone in here knows it. But will you remember that tomorrow? Here’s how you can:”

VDLP not O.D.E.M. (“Aiming For the Moon”)

Training Value: Vision Driven Leadership

Primary Deliverable: HOWe to overcome the myopia of immediate problems and crises to clearly and accurately visualize future goals and communicate a clear vision to direct reports and teams. Clarifying that future vision is important; living without such clarity is crippling.

Sound-bite: “Kennedy promised we’d beat them to the moon at a time when we had exactly 15 minutes experience in space and we were behind in every measurable category there was. So it is with visionary leaders who can acknowledge challenges and obstacles but not retreat from corporate growth goals and desired outcomes.”

Conflict As The Launch Pad?

Training Value: Healthy Conflict Resolution

Primary Deliverable: HOWe to recognize conflict situations as not merely resolvable or overlookable but as the foundation for launching new initiatives and relationships.

Sound-bite: “Wouldn’t you love to be responsible for that?! You, right now, have the capacity to establish and re-produce a culture of conflict resolution between employers, employees, customers, clients and contractors that is so wonderful and regular that it could be a product offering of the company if everything else wasn’t going as well as it will be. So the capacity isn’t the question. The question involves your desire. Your intent. And that requires some deeper work.”

Manure Happens

Training Value: Handling Adverse Workplace Conditions

Primary Deliverable: HOWe to regularly respond to challenges and obstacles with high-performance capabilities and strategies rather than residue, victim cycle, etc.

Sound-bite: ”What one market condition is in the way of your success? What one person or group of stakeholders in your company is holding you back from your potential? What competitor or marketplace condition is unfair to you? It’s likely that each of us has a layer—either simmering just below the surface or buried deep within—of resentment or regret or recurring anger that siphons our resources under the guise of justifiability. This is about how to capitalize on the growth potential of manure rather than just being bothered by the smell or smothered by the messy things that happen in prof essional/personal life.”

Conflict As The Launch Pad

Bringing Out Their Best

Training Value: Motivation in the Workplace

Primary Deliverable: HOWe to truly motivate a team, unit, division, company and culture towards consistent and dynamic performance results.

Sound-bite: “Motivational Speakers have it easy, coming in for a d ay or weekend. For you as a manager, every day is game day. A near-undefeated season is required for victory. And motivation involves far more than a message or a meeting. Are you truly bringing out the best in all of your employees and/or direct reports? If not, the answer might be as much in your ability to motivate them as it is in systems, structure, process or product.

Training Is Better Than Trying

Training Value: Consistency

Primary Deliverable: HOWe to increase performance and make it normative.

Sound-bite: “You may be achieving higher mountain climbs than anyone else in your marketplace or company pay grade, but your valleys are probably keeping you from being the one (or the group or team) to climb Mt. Everest, which you were probably born to do!”

The Lost Art of Submission

Training Value: Corporate Alignment, Synergy.

Primary Deliverable: How to “lead up” and actively follow leadership rather than settling for compliance, reticence, begrudging support, or downright war.

Sound-bite: “Wars of been won, a nation was formed, companies have organized and families raise kids on the basis of—at the end of the day—recognizing who’s in charge and who isn’t, at least for now. Don’t be surprised if your attitude towards your boss or the corporation or the stakeholders is reproduced by those under you…towards YOU!”

Enough Is The Enemy

Training Value: Excellence as a Standard.

Primary Deliverable: HOWe to lead and participate in a culture of excellence and be a force that attracts others to join you in the same.

Sound-bite: ”Just about every decent company I’ve ever heard of—and every leader I’ve ever met—talks about having a ‘Standard of Excellence.’ Having a standard is fine, but measuring yourself by it on a daily basis in full purview of those around you will reproduce the standard and bring real accountability. Are you willing to lead that way, or have you grown comfortable with whatever buffer zones you’ve created for yourself thinking they’re safer, or better?

It's an F-Word and a 4-Letter Word And You Need More Of It!

Training Value: Personal Health & Well-Being

Primary Deliverable: HOWe to bring our best to work and take the most home with us to those we love.

Sound-bite: “Doing our best at work starts way before we get here. It started when we chose what kind of physical, mental, psychological, social, spiritual and financial shape we’d be in today by the choices we made last night, yesterday, and in this recent season of life.”

It’s Time To Re-Calibrate

Training Value: New Goals, Structures, Strategies, Processes

Primary Deliverable: HOWe to identify what’s holding a team/group/company back from receiving and implementing truly new direction and/or strategy.

Sound-bite: ”If we’re growing and learning at all—as individuals and as a company—it’s likely that we’re living with some decisions or habits or patterns that we’ve brought from a previous or less-mature time in our lives and careers. It’s healthy to evaluate as we go and re-calibrate our current practices, beliefs, styles and systems according to our improved and maturing levels of learning. It’s healthy to ask that of those who report to us. In fact, it’s more than healthy, it’s essential.”

Ground Force One

Training Value: Personal Responsibility

Primary Deliverable: Identify the reactive cycles and crusted calluses that sub-consciously keep us from taking personal responsibility for our performance.

Sound-bite: “…that’s the difference between heroes of stage and screen and the mediocre middle of companies and communities. Who’s willing to take responsibility? Who’s still the victim? It’s perhaps the most important choice you and I will make today…and tomorrow. So here’s HOWe to get out of the blame-placing game and into the arena we were born for.”

Beyond The Holidays

Training Value: Faith-based integrity for faith-based organizations.

Primary Deliverable: HOWe to dream beyond what is rational in order to conceive what is impossible and then achieve the miracles that make up many of our performance parameters.

Sound-bite: “Why do so many of us can engage in holiday traditions year after year but do our work as if we’ve checked the miracle and myth at the door when we punched in this morning?”

Improving Your Serve

Training Value: Customer Service.

Primary Deliverable: Train corporate leaders in natural and realistic ways to lead by serving and serve by leading with a style that permeates entire companies, divisions and units, resulting in best-in-class customer service at all levels.

Sound-bite: “Cummon, really! Which of us remembers that mentor or supervisor that just wrote such great memos or so regularly reminded us what a lousy job we were always doing? Do you? I don’t! But you know who I remember? I remember the ones who were able to show me the worst about myself and help me achieve the goals anyway…and they were usually willing to share the credit as well. They went to bat for me. I’d have done anything for them. Still would.”