Can I Help You Achieve What You Want to Accomplish at the Next CEO Space Business Growth Conference?
If you’re an entrepreneur who is birthing your business or in modest revenue, you know that your success depends on: 1) Selecting the right resources in the best sequence; 2) Creating effective agreements with them that get you the results you most need next; and 3) Bringing them into high productivity & high enjoyability collaboration with you and the rest of your team. I’m on CEO Space’s faculty to help you and your team take your next step toward becoming who your venture needs you to be for it to succeed.
If you’re the CEO of an established company that embraces Internal Corporate Responsibility, you know that an essential key to your profits and reputation is creating a purpose driven, high productivity, high enjoyability corporate culture. I’m on CEO Space’s faculty to help you discover how to become more effective at helping your company develop this kind of culture so it can fulfill its mission and maximize its profits.
If you’re an expert or professional who is making the shift into becoming an entrepreneur, you know there’s a world of difference between a professional’s marketing mindset & monetization strategies, and an entrepreneur’s. I’m an Entrepreneur Development Psychologist who is on CEO Space’s faculty to help you discover how to transform from a talented professional into a successful entrepreneur.
If you’re the Founder or Executive Director of a nonprofit or cause-based organization, you know that an essential key to your success is ensuring that your employee, volunteer and donor culture is purpose driven, high productivity and high fulfillment. I’m a Purpose Driven Culture Architect who is on CEO Space’s faculty to help you discover how to create an organizational culture that is highly attractive to donors, volunteers and/or members.
I’m Dr. David Gruder, the Business & Leader Peak Performance Psychologist who makes integrity, collaboration, social responsibility, & personal fulfillment, profitable, and I look forward to serving you in my classes, at my meal tables and in individual meetings with you…
Here is how you can tap into my areas of expertise while I’m brain-tithing (gifting my time without pitching you to hire me) during the December 2013 CEO Space Business Growth Conference. (If you’re an entrepreneur, corporate CEO, or nonprofit leader, but you aren’t yet a CEO Space member, take a look at what you’re missing!) If you’re a member, you can set a time for an on-site individual consultation with me during the Forum by clicking here. You’ll find another link to my scheduler at the end of the second bullet in the “Member Consultations” section below.
Member Classes (CEO Space Faculty teach classes without “pitching from the platform!”)
KEY PEOPLE SKILLS FOR ENTREPRENEURS
Monday December 9, 4:30 to 6:00pm
- Description: How you collaborate with your team, and how your team members collaborate with each another, will make or break your business. The good news is that people skills are learnable by anyone who is teachable — and you shouldn’t have anyone on your team who isn’t! Entrepreneurs and their teams have much more fun succeeding when they master a short list of essential people skills that maximize positive attitude, enjoyable collaboration, and purpose-driven productivity. If this is your — and your team’s — Forum to upgrade your people skills (and when isn’t it the right time to do this?!), make a point of attending this crucial new class from Dr. Gruder.
- Who Will Benefit: Entrepreneurs, CEOs, and their teams, in all phases of business development. In other words, you!
- Benefits You’ll Receive From Attending:
- Discover the three types of Dysfunctional Company Cultures PLUS the one Company Culture one you WANT to create
- Learn ways to quickly spot signs of culture deterioration BEFORE they create devastating damage
- Access key skills to light the fire that maximizes your peoples’s DESIRE to have a great time exceeding expectations
- Learn two essential culture breakdown repair processes you’ve probably never been exposed to… and also how to use them as a member, to help CEO Space reach its full potential as the world leader in business collaboration effectiveness
CONFERENCE RESULTS MAXIMIZER
Co-taught with Hugh Ballou
Tuesday December 10, 2:30-4:00pm
- Description: How aligned is your project’s purpose, size and scope with your values, life goals, and life balance commitments? How clear are you about all of who you need to become, and who you need to add to your team, in order for your venture to succeed — and when to add them? How good are you at constructing collaboration agreements that produce highest quality results on time? How realistic are your expectations about what you can get this week, and how effective a strategy do you have for accomplishing during this Business Growth Conference what your project most needs next? The answers to these questions & more will be illuminated in this crucial class by Dr. David Gruder & Hugh Ballou.
- Who Will Benefit: Entrepreneurs & CEOs in all phases of business development who want to avoid the energy drain, time sucks and wasted money that lead to entrepreneur failure, acquire the mindset, habits, and skills that successful entrepreneurs intuitively develop, and have a great time doing it. This class will be highly valuable whether this is your first CEO Space Business Growth Conference or your 100th. AND, if you’re attending for the first time, this class will give you a practical and powerful road map for navigating this incredibly rich and potentially overwhelming business acceleration opportunities.
- Benefits You’ll Receive From Attending:
- Fuller clarity about what being your venture’s leader really requires from you
- Define your skills & gaps, and decide which of those gaps you’ll fill & which ones others on your team will fill
- Strategies for making sure your project best supports you in achieving your ultimate life goals without sacrificing your life balance commitments or values
- Powerful processes to optimize your week’s expectations and maximize your benefits from having attended
AGREEMENTS THAT STICK (Not Suck!)
Co-taught with Hugh Ballou
Wednesday December 11, 12:00pm-1:30pm
- Description: How good are you at knowing when to engage specific resources, how to vet prospects, who to select, the scope of work to engage them for, creating effective agreements, overseeing their implementation and holding your people accountable for what they’ve committed to produce? In this class you’ll pinpoint your Agreement Intelligence gaps and discover how to fill them in ways that build collaboration instead of conflict!
- Who Will Benefit: Entrepreneurs & CEOs in all phases of business development who want to engage the right people for the right scope of work at the right time… through an engagement agreement that covers the right things, an implementation process that adjusts to the unexpected without you being taken advantage of, and an accountability process that maximizes success. Creating “Agreements That Stick” is a crucial business (and nonprofit) success skill… whether you’re the leader of the business or the expert being engaged!
- Benefits You’ll Receive From Attending:
- Discover criteria for deciding the best time to engage each resource your venture requires, how to vet prospects, and who to select
- Access the key ingredients to build into your agreements if you want them to have the best chance of producing the results you see
- Learn strategies to keep agreements unfolding well… even when unanticipated complications arise
- Take away methods to effectively hold people accountable for what they’ve committed to produce… ones that build collaboration and productivity instead of resentment!
KEY PEOPLE SKILLS FOR ENTREPRENEURS
Sunday December 15, 4:30 to 6:00pm
- Description: How you collaborate with your team, and how your team members collaborate with each another, will make or break your business. The good news is that people skills are learnable by anyone who is teachable — and you shouldn’t have anyone on your team who isn’t! Entrepreneurs and their teams have much more fun succeeding when they master a short list of essential people skills that maximize positive attitude, enjoyable collaboration, and purpose-driven productivity. If this is your — and your team’s — Forum to upgrade your people skills (and when isn’t it the right time to do this?!), make a point of attending this crucial new class from Dr. Gruder.
- Who Will Benefit: Entrepreneurs, CEOs, and their teams, in all phases of business development. In other words, you!
- Benefits You’ll Receive From Attending:
- Discover the four types of Company Cultures, and which one you want to create
- Learn ways to guard against competition dynamics secretly creeping into the collaboration culture you’re wanting to create
- Access the secrets to creating a purpose-driven high productivity collaboration culture that exceeds your expectations
- Learn two essential culture breakdown repair processes you’ve probably never been exposed to… and also discover how to use them to help CEO Space reach its full potential as the world leader in business collaboration effectiveness
Meal Table Hosting & Individual Brain-Tithing Consultations (CEO Space Faculty serve you during Business Growth Conferences without holding back & without selling our services!)
- Meal Tables (Group Consultation/Networking): I will be hosting 12 meal tables with small groups of members, during which, in addition to networking with one another. The sooner you sit with me the more you’re likely to get from your week! I will be hosting tables during all meals EXCEPT for breakfast on Wednesday & Friday. (If you’re a first-time attendee, please note that Friday’s Graduation Dinner is open seating at non-hosted tables.)
- Individual Consultations: If you’re seeking any of the following, schedule an individual brain-tithing consultation with me during the week.
1) Venture Suitability: Is what you have in mind worth you building? Make sure your vision isn’t merely viable but that it best supports your purpose, ultimate goals, & life balance commitments;
2) Leader Effectiveness: Avoid the mistakes you DON’T know that unsuccessful entrepreneurs make & become who your venture needs you to be for it to succeed; Master selecting the right resources at the right time for the right scope of work so you build it well;
4) People Skills: Install the High Performance Collaboration processes & skills that build highly productive, happy, fulfilled, loyal and accountable individuals & teams. - To reserve your 25 minute consultation, please click on the following link to schedule you time (this link takes you to my vCita scheduler): www.DrGruder.com/meeting. Because our time will go by quickly, please arrive prepared to begin by telling me what you most want to accomplish, so we can maximize the value you get from our consultation.
Because of all the behind-the-scenes training and consulting I do my availability for individual consultations is limited. So book your time with me as soon as possible. 😉