Mike Evans

Thrive Through Artificial Intelligence Impact, Disruption & Change, and Today’s Sea of Sameness

Seven powerful forces have joined together and are gunning for your job, to displace your department and to reinvent and disrupt your industry. Leveraging talent, ideas, speed, distinction and leadership are the keys to thrive in the new world of work.
We are in a brawl with few rules, where the fast, flexible, and agile will eat and spit out the slow, over-thinking, and complacent. Individuals and organizations that fail to adapt will find themselves vulnerable, and at the mercy of other people, events, or the competition. In this New World of Work, leveraging ideas, speed, talent, distinction and leadership at all levels will separate top performing individuals and organizations from the laggards.

Individuals, teams, and organizations that fail to develop a distinct ‘brand’ and separate themselves from the pack and develop the requisite skills and competencies that will prevail in this New World of Work will find themselves vulnerable, uncomfortable, and at the mercy of other people, events, or the competition. The white waters of change are unnerving for many. But the fact is they will only become more turbulent. For organizations and employees who are unprepared, the future will be devastating.

Adapting to and embracing change – igniting engagement, passion, ownership and creativity that is often lacking during times of disruption, is the preeminent competency individuals and teams must cultivate. Learn what it will take to thrive and excel in the New World of Work - Future Work.

KEY LEARNINGS AND TAKEAWAYS:

• Learn and internalize the skills and competencies will be essential to stay relevant in Future Work/The New World of Work, and the skills and competencies that are on the decline. Demonstrate the essential tools in the ‘New Work/Future Work Survival Kit’ that include pragmatic, memorable ideas, skills and principles that will equip you and your team with the ability to thrive and excel in the new world of work.
• Embrace an understating of what it will take to become ‘distinctive’ in a world where AI and the progression toward the ‘singularity’ are predicted to allow those that choose to, the ability to ‘know all there is to know about everything.’ Practice the keys to build, enhance and grow your desired 'brand' – Organizational and Individual – to become distinctive in today’s commoditized ‘sea of sameness’
• Recognize what it will take for individuals, departments and organizations to thrive, excel, and ward off the unforgiving forces of the ‘7-sided pincer movement.’
• Develop tenacity, resolve and agility to secure your spot in the New World of Work.
• Learn how to create a ‘Want-To’ versus a ‘Have-To’ culture. A culture where change is embraced and resiliency and accountability are commonplace.
• Assemble a workforce that is connected, committed, aligned and that delivers your 'brand promise.' Become distinctive in today’s sea of sameness

In the past, change was episodic, transient, and gradual; now, change is constant as business, technology, and society itself continue to evolve at an ever more rapid pace. Accelerating Change – igniting engagement, passion, ownership and creativity that is often lacking during times of change, can be accomplished using proven memorable and pragmatic principles. Learn why some organizations achieve and exceed desired results.

KEY LEARNINGS AND TAKEAWAYS:

• Embrace the key change principles that are common among successful change efforts. heighten and refine your untapped leadership potential.
• Understand the critical difference between leading and managing change and the appropriate ratio required to accelerate change.
• Discover what it takes to move employees from compliance to commitment – jettison resistance.
• Learn how to create a ‘Want-To’ versus a ‘Have-To’ culture. A culture where change is embraced.

Accountability is the Catalyst to: Accelerated Change, Robust Employee Engagement, Intensified Ownership, Relentless Perseverance, Impeccable Alignment, and propels individuals, teams and organizations to intoxicating heights of achievement and success. Learn what it takes to awaken the whatever it takes attitude, belief, resolve, perseverance, confidence, determination, drive and creativity to achieve what matters most to individuals, teams and organizations.

Accountability crumbles silos, boosts teamwork and collaboration, strengthens camaraderie, creativity, resiliency, agility, trust, and communication. This keynote extends beyond theory, offering practical strategies to unleash discretionary performance, foster collaboration, and intensify ownership and engagement.

This transformative approach to accountability and peak performance has garnered acclaim worldwide. The key learnings and takeaways provide a roadmap for individuals and teams to achieve unparalleled success and make their mark in today's dynamic landscape.

Discover how to transform accountability into a positive, engaging and forward looking experience. By taking ownership of your performance, decisions, and results, you unleash the magic that drives unprecedented success. Embrace actionable insights and strategies to awaken accountability and drive unparalleled success in today's competitive landscape.

KEY LEARNINGS AND TAKEAWAYS:

• Discover the 4 keys to accountability, along with the observable best practices.
• Cultivate the agility, flexibility and resiliency to adapt and thrive during constant change.
• Unleash voluntary contributions of discretionary performance that is often left untapped in individuals, teams and organizations.
• Foster collaboration, camaraderie and teamwork – Establish unshakable trust and credibility.
• Intensify ownership, engagement and alignment – Crumble silos and abolish territorialism.
• Instill a can-do, steely resolve, solutions focused mindset in the face of difficult challenges, obstacles and barriers. Break through self-imposed barriers and mediocrity.
• Eradicate the blame-game and vanquish excuse-making that stifle peak performance.
• Shed feelings of disarray, discomfort, apathy, entitlement, indifference and despair.
• Discover how to develop and enhance your ‘desired brand’ to secure your position now and in the future.
• Develop a team or organization that is connected, aligned and manifests your organizations brand.

Culture, simply put, is the convergence of the way your employees think and act. That culture is producing your organization’s every result (financial, operational, customer, employee, etc.). If your future desired results are loftier, more difficult, of just different than those you are achieving today, will your current culture be able to deliver? Most often, the results teams and organizations must achieve in the future will require employees to think and act differently. Creating those ‘shifts’ in how employees think and act is what will propel your team or organization toward those desired results.

KEY LEARNINGS AND TAKEAWAYS:

•Learn how to create shifts in the way employees think and act so that your desired culture will flourish and heighten organizational performance.

•Foster increased levels of trust, collaboration and teamwork •Ignite a heightened sense of urgency, accountability, and ownership at all levels of your organization

•Intensify ownership, engagement and alignment – Crumble silos and abolish territorialism.

•Understand how to identify the root cause of undesired cultural beliefs and actions that impede progress, and how to infuse desired beliefs and actions to accelerate achievement of desired results.