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Leadership, Team Dynamics and Communication Expert, Co-Author of Egonomics
Confidence and Talent
Everyone wonders where their true strengths lie. Each year millions devote themselves to discovering those strengths for the first time, and building those strengths into true potential. What most people don't realize is the level of confidence it takes to get there.
And that limits them.
In spite of decades of clichés and motivational speeches about confidence, true confidence has a radically different set of rules than what tradition tells us. Regardless if you're in sales, marketing, consulting, public relations, finance or leadership, confidence is perhaps the greatest catalyst of human achievement, and deserves undivided attention.
Based on a fascinating, eight-year study of human strengths and confidence, Catalyst reveals the true confidence that sets top performers apart from everyone else. Discover the social science that redefines what it means to be confident, and get infinitely more from the strengths of every person in your company.
A workshop to help clients build the ultimate team and team players.
When you ask people the last time was that they were on a high-performing team, the average answer is 5.9 years ago. That's 5.9 years too long. Being a team player ranked higher than all factors, including merit and performance, leadership skills, intelligence, making money for the organization and working long hours.
When Steven Smith works with teams from companies like Disney, Hilton, State Farm, Cox, Halliburton and Microsoft, they are 48.9% more effective once they've been through his training and measured their performance.
Steven Smith's Key Accomplishments Include . . .
Steven Smith has spent the past twenty years exploring the dynamics of great leaders and teams —how they work, think, collaborate, and who they are.
He has written books on communication, confidence and leadership, including egonomics: What Makes Ego our Greatest Asset (or Most Expensive Liability), business Think, and Catalyst: How Confidence Reacts with Our Strengths to Shape What We Achieve and Who We Become. For Catalyst Smith conducted an eight-year study of the interplay between human strengths and confidence, surveying 8,000 people in over 1,200 organizations. His work has been published in 24 languages in over 50 countries, and featured in BusinessWeek, US News and World Report, Portfolio and on CBS MarketWatch.
Steven Smith's writing, speaking and business ideas have received acclaim from Tom Peters, Ram Charan, Marshall Goldsmith, Harvard Business School, and been embraced by such client organizations as Microsoft, Disney, Baptist Health Care, Hard Rock Cafe, Cox Communications, American Express, and State Farm.
With degrees in management, psychology and expertise in team dynamics and leadership, Microsoft Live Meeting featured Smith for two years as top leadership faculty.
Steven Smith's success comes from his effort to help teams and companies to: Cut down on wasted meeting time and work together effectively, reduce turnover, keep people's talents engaged and daily innovation alive, cultivate a climate safe enough to share water-cooler honesty, ask better business questions and rigorously test assumptions, creating stronger ideas and fewer wasted projects, get more strategic work done, spend less energy chasing pet projects, and accept less excuses about why things don't change, and break down barriers that block candor.
More About Speaker, Steven Smith . . .
Steven Smith has invested nearly two decades into trying to reinvent the way people work. He is the co-founder of a company dedicated to help young professionals build career capital and realize their potential.
Voted as one of the top 100 business thought-leaders in the country, Steven Smith's business concepts and books have been adopted by several universities across the country as an example of what the real business world is about.
Catalyst: How Confidence Reacts with Our Strengths to Shape What We Achieve and Who We Become [Kindle Edition With Audio/Video]
"My sincere thanks to Steven for presenting at the CHART conference in San Francisco. The comments received from attendees afterward were exceptional! I was so proud to have brought Steven to the group and blessed that you all were so generous to agree to be a part. Thank you again for delivering this powerful and impactful message."
"Excellent! Awesome! Great! Our client's loved Steven. I could not ask for more. Clients continue to talk about the different principles presented and began placing themselves and others in their organization on the bell curve. It is my belief that clients are going to continue talking about,learning and sharing what they took away from the session. Please pass on our sincere gratitude."
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