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FountainBlue is pleased to speak to organizations and associations across the Silicon Valley on networking, leadership and other related topics. Our most common topics are outlined below.
Your Personal Leadership Brand
Leadership is an individualized quality and trait, but there are prevailing qualities of leaders which command the respect of those who choose to follow. Understanding these cardinal rules of leadership, and then knowing yourself and your unique value proposition to any leadership opportunity helps define who you are and what distinguishes you from other leaders, first to yourself, and then to those around you.
In this interactive workshop, attendees will first identify cardinal rules of leadership and think critically about creating a leadership brand around that framework. Then we will work on proactively managing the feelings the people around you --your boss, your colleagues, your employees, your customers, and your family and friends--have about you as a person, as a leader, and consider how they feel about interacting with you, observing you, and even thinking about you. We will explore:
- The core skills of leadership - where you are strong and where you can improve
- What is best and true about you
- How you are meeting the needs of the key folks with whom you work and play
- How to best link your strengths to needs and goals
- How to communicate your intended leadership brand
In this interactive hour-long workshop, we will examine our thoughts about the leaders and role models in our lives, our personal passions and how they have served us (or not), and our previous successes and the learnings from them. We will also begin brainstorming how our own leadership abilities will best suit the organizations of today. Working Your NetworkingStatistics show that 80% or more positions, particularly at the executive level are secured through networking - connecting with someone you know, or someone they know, and so on, so that you get the opportunity to interview for a position which is not necessarily advertised, or a position especially made for someone with your talents. But why is it more difficult, and more important to network as you rise up the corporate ladder? What is the art and science of networking? What sets apart the experienced, professional networkers from the aggressive self-promoters we all try to avoid? How can you leverage your individual strengths to increase networking successes? In this interactive workshop, we will probe these questions and more, share our stories and challenges, accept the factors which make networking more important and more difficult as you rise within your organization, and brainstorm together how we can leverage networking for to benefit ourselves and others in our circle. We welcome you to take a general survey on the topic of 'preneurship available at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=682093730009.
For inquiries about having us give this talk to your group or organization, please contact us at info@FountainBlue.biz.
Below are testimonials from workshop attendees:
- Thank you for sharing with us your hands on knowledge of building relationships.
- I really enjoyed your presentation today and admire your conviction to identify what is either missing or not right around you while giving yourself permission to build something new for the betterment of us all. James Kohnke, Finance and Operations Professional
- Your presentation was outstanding and I gained much food-for-thought from your insights and data. You gifted me the opportunity to bring my skills up several notches. You also validated for me that I am on the right track to level 5 and 6 with the networking strategies I have developed into my toolkit. Patti Dully, HR Manager, Birds Eye Foods
Something from Nothing: A Message to the 'Preneur in You
This engaging talk highlights the need for adopting the entrepreneurial, innovative spirit made famous in Silicon Valley. This talk is designed both for entrepreneurs who are starting or joining or own high tech firm positioned to change the world, or spearhead new technological standards, and also for intraprenerus - corporate leaders at all levels in a larger corporations who invite the innovative, entrepreneurial spirit into their culture to help create and sustain the technological innovation edge in themselves and in their teams.
This talk will cover:
- What is 'preneurship and why do we need 'preneurship?
- The best of both worlds - the entrepreneurs and the intrapreneurs
- What makes a successful 'preneur?
- A Heart-Head-Hand Model of 'preneurship
We hope that this session will awaken the entrepreneurial spirit in you - the spirit that might have gone dormant through a challenging dot-bomb experience, or through an extended experience working in corporations which stifled innovation and initiative.
Below are testimonials from workshop attendees:
- Linda is an engaging and inspiring speaker.
- Great food for thought.
- This talk really helped me think critically about finding my passion, and finding a setting that supports my passion.
- Great job weaving together the entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial concepts.
- Interesting talk on a very relevant topic.
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