M O S T  R E Q U E S T E D  P R O G R A M S :

ChangeSmarts –
Engaging Your People's Heads, Hearts, and Hopes

Truly effective change is an elusive goal for most organizations. It doesn't have to be. Dr. Duncan offers a simple-though-powerful seven-step approach to completing your implementation on time, within budget and with all human and technical needs met.

Dr. Duncan believes the second most expensive thing that can happen to an organization is for smart, capable people to quit and leave.

He believes the single most expensive thing that can happen is for smart, capable people to quit and stay.

In this powerful program, Dr. Duncan shows you how ChangeSmarts can enable you to engage your people’s heads, hearts, and hopes.

With ChangeSmarts, you'll discover …

·         how to create a more compelling "business case for action” AND a more compelling “psychological case for action”

·         how to dissipate resistance by giving resistance a voice (and sometimes even turn naysayers into your strongest advocates)

·         how to identify the best change approach for your situation – with special emphasis on the relative advantages of compliance and commitment – and considering the “neutral zone” challenges associated with passing from the current state into a new beginning

·         how to build a strong coalition with the C.A.S.T. of characters (Champions, Agents, Sponsors, and Targets) affected by and affecting your change effort

·         how to establish higher levels of trust, teamwork and collaboration

·         how to create the right communication and reinforcement strategies

·         how to calibrate your change efforts at every stage of the journey.

Collaborating for Results –
Dialogue Skills That Make Smart People Smarter

Your people add value to the organization by virtue of their skill in interacting with others. When that skill is deficient, bad things happen: missed deadlines, busted budgets, turf battles, and all the other stuff you'd expect to see in a Dilbert cartoon.

In this highly engaging program, Dr. Duncan reveals the specific dialogue skills that enable top performers to get consistently superior results.

You'll learn:

·         how to identify and avoid the behaviors that get communication "off track"

·         how to diffuse negative or "hot" emotion during a conversation

·         how to talk openly about the "undiscussables" that stifle performance

·         how to create a shared problem solving environment by practicing the dialogue skills of Initiating, Discovering, Connecting, and Building

·         how to use a simple framework for exploring another person's perception or story while challenging your own

·         how to suspend judgment while you discover, advocate a view while demonstrating respect, and inquire with a genuine interest to learn.

If you have ten smart people around a table and three of them are unskilled in dialogue, you not only forfeit the benefit of their smarts, you dilute the contribution of the other seven. Let Dr. Duncan show your people how to collaborate for results.

Wake Up That Sleeping GIANT!

Within most of us there's gigantic potential waiting to be focused on a life of productivity, high performance and achievement. Learn the five keys to waking up the GIANT within you. In this program, Dr. Duncan underscores the power of SMART goals, the importance of taking courageous action based on personal vision, the necessity of saying no to forces that pull you off track, and the indispensable vitality that comes from mental conditioning. Not a mere "motivational" pep talk. This message is chock full of specific how-to advice from a man who has invested a career in observing and working with some of the most effective leaders of our time.

Building a High Performance Culture –
With Real Staying Power

Dr. Duncan has helped scores of organizations breathe new life into their cultures. With lots of stories from his vast reservoir of experience, he'll show you how the "unwritten rules" being followed in your organization may actually contradict your professed values. Learn the keys to strategic alignment - ensuring that the behaviors at work in your environment reinforce your mission, vision, values, and strategic business objectives.

Be a Gardener, Not a Mechanic

A first tendency of many business people is to fix things. After all, they’re paid to solve problems, so the metaphor of the mechanic seems natural. Unfortunately, some leaders then try to fix people. Not many folks want to be fixed. They may be open to persuasion or influence, but they don’t want to be “fixed.” In this session, Dr. Duncan shows how great leaders adopt the role of gardener rather than the role of mechanic. With his characteristic pattern of real life illustrations, he explains how the gardener/leader creates an environment that encourages growth, an environment full of light and nourishment, an environment with sufficient space for stretching and expanding. Great leadership – and great gardening – are all about creating positive change. This program is ripe with ideas on getting a great harvest in your leadership garden. Note: This program is popular as a keynote address emphasizing leadership in the work place . . . and it can be tailored for a session with executives and spouses to emphasize effective relationships in marriage.

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Additional Client Comments...

"Rodger Dean Duncan is a gifted speaker and coach, an inspiration to the hundreds of people in our organization he has helped."
- President & CEO, Helzberg Diamonds

"We trust Rodger's counsel. He never tells us just what we want to hear. He tells us what we need to hear. That's priceless."
- President & CEO, Grocery Manufacturers of America

"Rodger's sound advice probably saved us millions of dollars that would have been wasted trying to 'prop up' our old culture."
- Chief Operating Officer, Bonneville Power

"Leadership issues can be uncertain territory for many people, but Rodger makes it all more clear and more manageable."
- President, Consolidated Edison of New York

"Rodger's no-nonsense approach made a clearly measurable and important contribution to our $207 million improvement in profits [in 12 months]. It's now a Harvard case study."
- President & CEO, Farmland Industries

"Rodger Duncan really knows his stuff. What he taught us about creating a performance culture provided an exceptional return on investment. Our people like him very much."
- Vice President, American Century Investments

 ... and more client feedback.

To book Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan as a speaker at your next event, call The Duncan Company at 816-415-1605.