Greg Bennick is a Recognized Expert in Leadership and Team Performance

High-Impact Team Building Keynote Speaker for Conferences, Retreats, and Executive Leadership Trainings

We all feel it. The world is pulling us in every possible direction other than the one we most need to be focused upon. I write about it in my book, Reclaim the Moment: 7 Strategies to Build a Better Now. I talk about keeping our eyes on the knife, in which you would certainly know to keep your focus on the knife as your main intention if a blade as spinning in front of your face.

It is often not that easy in today’s speed race through life. Individuals feel disconnected from a sense of purpose and as a result, teams feel increasingly fractured. Effective team building requires shared goals, rooted in values that are crystal clear and entirely intentional.

But building a strong team, and one that is focused and ready to create and expand, doesn’t just happen automatically. Stronger teams happen intentionally.

I was truly happy to be recognized recently amidst a listing of the most powerful speakers in the world about leadership and team performance. Thank you to the team at Speakrbrand for creating this list based on high-impact speakers who deliver content with real value for organizations nation and world-wide.

Its usually not when things are going right that I am contacted. When organizations realize that they have a problem with their teamwork that requires a solution, that is when they immediately launch into action to seek a keynote speaker or consultant for their conference, breakout, or training.

This is where I get called. I work with organizations and their managers, front line creatives, executive teams and staff across the globe to strengthen collaboration, to work on breaking down silos, and strive to foster a culture of intentional focus, inspired purpose, and deeper connection.

If your team has been feeling fractured, or disjointed, or entirely off base, whether you’re planning a leadership conference, a team-building corporate retreat, a professional development summit, or a high-stakes training session, I’d love to deliver high-energy, highly engaging keynote presentations and trainings designed to make people laugh while inspiring them to learn and to solve the challenge which teams face organizations today as they work towards working together more effectively.

Let’s dive in with some practical explorations of solutions for teamwork problems, ideas for team building, and ways to build leadership skills that often hold leaders and teams back and prevent them from being unbelievably awesome.

Your team needs to be devoted to collaboration.

When people are distant from one another because they aren’t connected to a shared value system or a decisive mission statement, the disorganization that results costs organizations both efficiency, momentum, and resources. If you’re driven by people, which I hope you are, you’re going to benefit throughout all aspects of your organization by increasing focus and reminders of why the team matters and what its shared goals are. We’ve been hearing about silos for over a decade with good reason: departments, divisions, states, regions and continents are all means by which perceived divisions lead to people working against one another rather than for or with one another. This is why I build executive training sessions and keynotes with intentional design. I always want to bring people together with shared vision for a new reality, and break down walls to help teams collaborate beyond illusion…and that’s what silos are. They are illusions first, and reminding people of that, about the fact that values transcend silos has wide ranging implications. I guide teams to remember to realign around powerful shared goals and to build solid trust that lasts.

If your organization hasn’t done the work that needs to be done around this you can meet and surpass competitors who have. I say that in my promotional video, which I hope you’ve watched (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ssicsUUMTQ&t=4s), that other people and other organizations have made the jump to connect and do this work.

This isn’t rocket-science, and often, the simple act of reaching out to a leading expert in team cohesion is all that it takes for organizations to develop cross-organizational collaboration more effectively. Letting it linger, putting it off, is often where things fall apart. It’s like anything else really. Thinking about going to the gym next month, and then going once before taking a few weeks off is not going to give the same results as starting today and being consistent.

I offer practical approaches for improving communication, increasing transparency, and aligning objectives. The result and goal is for teams to work together and for one another instead of in opposition to one another.

Remember too: effective teams thrive because of stronger leadership.

I write in my book about this at great length. Solid leadership isn’t about being authoritative. Its about listening, being present, inspiring others, and more than anything else having clarity around a goal or mission. This is the team-building tie in. When we have clarity around why we do what we do, people buy in emotionally and inspirationally. And when the team is bought in, the buy in has an direct and clear effect: people feel as though they are involved in meaningful work that matters.

The functional core of the human experience is around building meaning systems and feeling as though our contribution to the world matters. I’ve been studying this since the 1990’s and speaking about it worldwide. When we feel as though, and know, that we matter, and that the work we do matters, our buy in to leadership and to the teams of which we are a part experiences what I mentioned as high octant fuel for teamwork. Often, circumstances of decreases in morale, or missed opportunities, or even stalled innovation are the result of people feeling disconnected from a sense of purpose and having an awareness that they matter and that they are involved with work that matters. I address these issues head-on with powerful, relatable content that helps teams reconnect to purpose, understand individual roles, and re-energize how they work together.

Stronger teams accomplish more amidst a powerful organizational culture.A strong culture doesn’t develop accidentally. Its shaped by intentionality and clear leadership. My presentations focus on culture-building and help to create circumstances where people feel and know that they are seen, valued, and motivated towards achieving shared and clearly understood visions.

When culture is strong, retention, engagement, and performance all improve.

With that in mind, if you are organizing a corporate conference, a leadership retreat, an executive summit, a professional development event, or an onsite or virtual event, breakout session, consider team building experiences that drive home lasting results. I have decades of experience with teams and fast-developing organizations, addressing challenges in customized ways. I focus on development content and team-building strategies that drive solid results.

If your organization is striving to accomplish any of the goals I’ve laid out in this post, use the contact form, and we can get on a call. A fifteen-minute phone exploratory conversation will tell us both if I am a match to transform your audience and your team’s dynamic.

We can work to create a keynote and workshop experience for your next conference, retreat, commit, or convention that energizes and inspires people, builds alignment around a clear intention, and transforms how your team works with one another.

I look forward to working with you! Email my office at impact@gregbennick.com or call (206) 528 5500, and we will get underway.