Speaking Engagements
Kevin Armstrong will disrupt the way you think.
Kevin’s Speaking
How Leaders Can Be Leveraged
“It was the very first conference we have put on where every single person stood up at the same time in an ovation (for Kevin Armstrong).”
Rocco Chiovitti
V.P. Sales, Danka Corporation, (Houston, Texas)
True leaders rarely make exceptional managers. Yet every day, businesses are destroyed when business owners and their executive teams place their greatest leaders into management roles. Why does this happen?
For the past 20+ years of his career, Kevin Armstrong has studied the important differences between the roles of ‘leader’ and ‘manager’ in business. His speaking engagements expand on this concept in an interactive, thought-provoking manner which disrupts current thinking and leaves audiences with a new understanding of how leaders can be leveraged through exceptional management to achieve business and personal success.
Kevin’s thought-provoking presentations include, but are not limited to, insights on:
How to implement a culture of accountability where politics cannot survive.
How you are destroying your business by placing your leaders in management positions.
How to differentiate, value and align your leaders and managers – get everyone in the right seat, heading in the same direction.
How to get your business working for you rather than you working for your business.
Tangible tools for becoming a more effective manager – a “Manacoach.”
Business is a performance-based endeavor where exceptional management of top players leads to success. Through his engaging and highly effective presentations, Kevin Armstrong leaves business owners and executives with a clear understanding of how to achieve that success.
Stop destroying your business by making managers out of leaders. Kevin’s proven concepts and techniques are supported by years of experience and data, and he has the results to back it up. Explore our testimonials and see for yourself.
Kevin’s Speaking Topics
How to implement a culture of accountability where politics cannot survive.
Once you have more than one person in a room politics will exist. The question is to what extent. Kevin will have your team laughing but learning how to reduce politics, increase communication, deal with issues in an effective and productive manner, and increase accountability. It’s simple but not easy.
How you are destroying your business by placing your leaders in management positions.
All of Kevin’s sessions concentrate on the common words that we use that really don’t have an agreed upon common understanding. Unlike any other performance activity, in business we give the coaches (managers) the lion’s share of remuneration, recognition, and status, while the people who deliver, the leaders, are in large part ignored. In this fun filled session we take a closer look at why it’s not working and how to change it.
How to differentiate, value and align your leaders and managers – get everyone in the right seat, heading in the same direction.
Imagine an organization where everyone has the right attitude, is aligned with your core values, and each person knows exactly what they are accountable for, what the standards are, and how those standards will be measured. After this thought provoking interactive session you walk away rethinking how your business unit can move forward.
Tangible tools for becoming a more effective manager – a “Manacoach."
- Are you a good manager? Do you motivate your team members to give 110% of their knowledge, talent and potential each day? Do you have the courage to initiate the “tough” conversations? Do your team members know exactly what they are being held accountable for?
- There is a significant difference between exceptional management and great leadership. Perhaps you are a person entering into management. Or, perhaps you are a business owner who now realizes that you are a technician, or an entrepreneur that needs to become a better manager, or hire good managers in order to enjoy your business more, and / or make it more valuable.
- Through a speaking engagement with Kevin, your team will need to examine the meanings and the differences between these two words. You’ll walk away able to better define what makes an exceptional manager, and what that manager does.
How to get your business working for you rather than you working for your business.
Picture this in your mind: if over the next three years on a compound basis your sales double, your profits double, but also the amount of time you spend working in and on your business doubles, what do you look like? The answers to this question vary but none of them are good. They include words like divorced, physically out of shape, emotionally stressed, sick, disabled, tired, but the good news is you have money and you think your business is doing well. It’s important not only that your business grows, but that your freedom from your business also grows so that you can enjoy time with your loved ones while pursuing your personal goals. 90% of business owners and manacoaches don’t even know what those personal goals are. In this presentation you will leave a different person with an actual strategy on how to create this freedom.
Our Promise to You: After our session, if you don’t walk away with tangible tools to become a better manager or leader – you don’t pay.
Leader or Manager:
Where do you fit?
Which role are you better suited for: the exceptional manager or the great leader?