Ralph Jacobson

Most critical issues facing organizations and leaders deal with the paradox of choice: Long Term vs. Short Term, Global vs. Local, New Customers vs. Established Customers, Individual Achievement vs. Team Achievement, Flat Structure vs. Oversight Structure, Risk vs. Safe, etc. Organizations that have learned to manage their paradoxes well have a much higher level of sustainability and potential for growth and change. Jacobson has developed a cutting edge program that helps build the knowledge and skills for this more modern approach to leadership, and in the process, increasing productivity and innovation in profound ways. He focuses on the effective systems and processes that make it easier to practice good leadership, including his unique concept of creating leadership maps.

Although knowledge doubles every two years and organizations face unrelenting and unprecedented competitive threats, most companies struggle to implement new programs, products/services, and strategic relationships. Indeed, eight out of ten new initiatives fail to achieve their objectives.

Based on Ralph Jacobson’s book, this presentation shows leaders at all levels how to more effectively execute and achieve their strategic intent. He demonstrates that leadership and change can be viewed as a teachable, improvable, measurable, and institutional process that makes the achievement of strategic goals as simple and effective as possible.

By the end of the session participants understand how to:
-Anticipate and overcome the universal challenges faced by every leader
-Overcome the internal challenge of internal silos
-Make sure leaders do the right thing at the right time
-Develop project plans and initiatives that are likely to succeed

Participants have used Ralph’s Leader’s Map™ to:
-Create new products/services
-Reshape organization functions and departments
-Build stronger partnerships between organizations
-Create higher levels of employee engagement
-Develop the talent of high potential leaders to successfully undertake more complex work

By the conclusion of this presentation, participants apply the learning to a real life situation, create and share a story about a change they wish to undertake. They leave the session with greater clarity of what they wish to accomplish and how they intend to make it happen. This session is powerful, practical, and provides an immediate return to the attendees and their sponsoring organizations.

If you are stressed because you have an overflowing plate of work, this presentation will be of interest. This is not a time management method—that assumes you want to do more of what you currently do. Rather we believe you already know how to manage your time, but want to have greater influence and impact.

This presentation provides a simple approach to determine whether you are focused on those things that will make a difference to you and others. Are you doing those things which show up or those that really matter? Are you doing your job in a way brings out the best in yourself and in others? What role do you really want to play in your life—and how can you make that happen?

This presentation focuses on:
-Why people do the wrong stuff
-How organizations unconsciously discourage people from doing what most of them really want their employees to do
-How to take a simple, yet powerful inventory of your time
-How to balance work activities to gain more value
-How to move from where you are to where you want to be

This presentation leaves people with a new way to look at life and decide what role they really want to play.