While celebrity leadership isn’t considered the road to success anymore, for Lean leaders, it never was.

Celebrities take the limelight. Lean leaders are humble by definition.

Celebrities hang out with the elite. Lean leaders are on the floor directly observing day-to-day processes.

Celebrities live in bubbles that protect them from critical feedback. Lean leaders keep nothing between themselves and the truth – including their own egos.

What is the Lean Leadership Challenge?

Lean leaders establish unity of organizational purpose and direction. They also create and maintain an internal environment where people become fully involved in achieving the organization’s objectives. The Lean leadership challenge is also a challenge of communication excellence.

Communicating Excellence

Lean communication is highly aspiratory. Lean leaders strive to perfect their own communication as they inspire their employees to strive to perfect their processes. Lean leaders are strongest when they:

• model the way
• inspire a shared vision
• challenge the process
• enable others to act
• create ways for people to shine

This keynote presentation defines the Lean Leadership Challenge in communication terms, and guides Lean Leaders to embrace Lean Leadership in it’s most comprehensive sense.

Key benefits:

• Get a practical understanding of what effective lean leadership is
• Recognize the obstacles to effective lean leadership
• Know the difference between lean leadership, traditional leadership and management
• Gain some simple tools to establish trust and eliminate fear
• Understand and address obstacles to employee engagement to get people to show up and care

If you are facing a Lean Leadership Challenge, contact me, Meryl, about this dynamic presentation. 

Phrases and tips to get the most out of your convention or event experience

Conference attendees face two communication challenges – how to productively interact with other participants and how to talk about the event experience and communicate changes based on their learning when they return to their offices. Meryl Runion helps event attendees face both challenges.

Let Meryl open your next conference or event with

• tips and techniques for effective icebreaking
• purposeful networking
• general conference communication wisdom

 Then, let her close your event with

• a communication summary
• recommendations of how to effectively talk about new ideas and practices when attendees return from the conference

Meryl will attend the conference events with an ear for highlights that people want to bring home. Her closing will provide examples from the event itself to help people formulate ways to discuss conference material when they return.

Key takeaways from this session pair are:

• How to initiate “small talk” in a way that leads quickly to productive communication
• Four things to listen for throughout the conference that will help you address confusion and resistance when you return
• Why knowing how to talk about what you gained from the conference is as important as what you gained
• Seven ways to show instead of simply tell people about the conference

Get a conference communication sandwich for your next event. Start your attendees right, with the communcation tools to get the most out of the event. Conclude your event right with the tools to talk about it afterwards. 

“I can’t imagine having an event without this!” – AT