Speech & Workshop Topics

You Can't Not Communicate

You’re Already Doing It:
What to Do When You Can’t NOT Communicate

The reality is that everything you do and say communicates something. Not communicating isn’t an option. The most successful leaders know that communication is the competency most critical to moving businesses forward, is the best defense in managing change and difficult situations, and is the driving force in engaging others. Whether you are running a thriving organization, trying to create growth in your company, or leading under the pressure to do more with less, you are always communicating ­– so you might as well be great at it.

In this session, David Grossman will share practical insights on how top leaders differentiate themselves.

    You’ll learn:

  • Why leaders have shifted into the communicator role;
  • Why leadership communication means business;
  • The three fundamental truisms every leader must understand;
  • Three myths leaders believe;
  • The most common traps leaders face;
  • The Great Eight communication basics: What great leaders do.

You’ll walk away with valuable perspective, best practices, and proven, actionable tools that you can start using right away. This workshop is a unique opportunity to learn winning strategies you can use every day and engage in thought-provoking discussion so you can differentiate yourself, elevate your leadership impact, and accelerate business results.

Speech & Workshop Topics

  • Lessons from the Road:  Innovative Techniques Through
    the Lens of a Veteran Road Warrior     Learn the Top Ten Standout Strategies that are powering business results in the Fortune 100 today. What’s winning the battle for senior management’s share of mind, attention and resources? Which must-have strategies are on the road less traveled? What tried-and-true strategy is on life support in most organizations today? Find out from one of the industry’s most sought after and well-traveled experts in internal and leadership communications.
  • Building Your Reputation from the Inside Out:  Building brands starts on the inside. How can the media or customers believe in you if your own employees don’t, or if they can’t deliver on the brand promise? As the daily living embodiment of a brand, employees are your first and most important customers. What they say and do can make or break your media relations strategy.

    In this session, learn:
    • Why internal branding needs to be a part of your integrated communications strategy.
    • How to maximize your brand both on the inside and out.
    • The cues and clues to know if your organization needs internal branding.
    • How one organization went from good to great using The Grossman Group’s proven, strategic internal branding methodology.
  • Getting to Great:  How to Fast Track Your Leadership Impact Leaders are made, not born. Whether a team leader or not, everyone can sharpen the leadership and influencing skills needed for both professional and personal growth. If you want to advance your career, work more effectively with your teams, and better serve your clients, you need to develop the ability to truly lead and influence — not just manage and direct.

    In this session, learn:

    • Why every leader should have a mirror on his/her desk.
    • The Seven Deadly Sins leaders at any level can make.
    • The Three Must-Have Tools to accelerate your leadership impact and get even better results.
  • Leadership Communication:  Do You Have What You Need In Your Toolbox to Drive the Results You Want? Mastering leadership communication to engage employees and accelerate business results has never been so easy. In this highly interactive session, leaders at any level can ground themselves in the powerful connection that leadership communication has with minimizing disruption that comes with change, and leveraging the upsides that come with change, to accelerate business results.

    Learn:

    • Who your most important audience is in business — and how to meet their strategic communication needs, every time, to get the results you want.
    • The six things the best leaders do — that you can do, too.
    • Practical, easy-to-use tools to solve the most critical and common business issues leaders face today, and the issues that you face most in your organization.
  • The Power of Three:  Three Tools Every Leader Needs to Drive the Business Results You Want It’s a race against time and today’s leaders are on the hook for delivering results fast. This is a session for the time-pressed leader who needs an accelerated degree in mastering leadership communication to engage employees and get big results.

    Learn the three most important tools every leader needs:
    • A no-fail way for leaders to quickly and effectively plan their everyday and formal communications.
    • How to sell your vision in 15 seconds.
    • How to drive action and accountability coming out of every conversation and meeting.
  • Today’s leadercommunicator™:  What Every Leader Needs to Know and Do to Engage Employees and Accelerate Results To get the best business results, nothing is more important than how a leader communicates. Since being a leader — whether C-suite or front-line supervisor — is no small task, leaders of every level can learn how to elevate their skills and confidence as a leadercommunicator™. This workshop tackles some of the most common issues and concerns that leaders face when it comes to communicating, such as:
    • Not having time to plan communications.
    • How to communicate when change is constant and you don’t have all the answers.
    • Having so many things to say, but not knowing what’s most important or how to make it make sense to others.
    • Feeling like a broken record when communicating, but not getting the actions you want.
    • Having meetings, but not getting the alignment, action or accountability that you expect.
    • Needing to communicate, but not knowing what vehicles to use for impact.
    In this workshop, leaders at every level learn applicable insights and practical, easy-to-use tools that they can use immediately to become the leadercommunicator™ they want to be and to accelerate results. This workshop is ready to go or can be customized to meet the specific needs and challenges of your leaders.
  • Leaders Make the Weather:  How Communicators Can Influence the Prevailing Winds It’s said that leaders “make the weather” in an organization. As business communicators, you recognize the role that effective leadership communication plays in employee engagement and results. Convincing others though can often times leave you wind-burn and out of breath.

    Using the proven leadercommunicator™ model, this interactive session helps you:
    • Make a quantifiable business case for leadership communication — as a discipline and strategy for getting business done.
    • Innovative techniques and tools to elevate your impact as you coach leaders.
    • A model-based approach to leadership communication you can put to work right away.
  • About Face:  Proven Approaches from the “Anti-Social Media Guy” Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter — while technology might seem faster and easier, it’s not the end-all-be-all connector or motivator. The truth is employees crave a real connection and they want to be inspired and engaged through good ol’ fashioned conversation.

    In this interactive session, turn off the Blackberry and open your eyes to what’s possible when you’re “about face.”

    Learn:
    • The business case for face-to-face communication as an ideal strategy for getting business done.
    • Artful tips and hands-on tools you can use immediately to create dialogue and have tough conversations that leave employees’ communication needs fully satisfied.
    • Proven techniques for coaching leaders to listen to and motivate employees.