Sample Agendas

Together we can craft an agenda that provides value for your executives. Sessions are designed to be highly interactive through case study discussions and breakout groups. Typical topics include: why networks matter, managing networks in organizations and managing personal connectivity for high performance.

• Half-day Design
• Full-day Design

Half-day Design

Why Networks Now and Network Interpretation
10 Minutes

An upfront discussion establishes Rob’s background while also conveying the performance, innovation and quality of work life benefits a range of organizations have obtained from a network perspective. This opening also conveys some network basics that help people interactively engage with case examples and diagrams in the next section.

Managing Networks in Organizations
80 minutes

This section opens with a couple of short caselettes that Rob interprets with the audience to generate discussion and dialogue on the ideas. The principle focal point in the first portion of time is to convey application of the ideas via two caselettes, a short table based brainstorm and then a summary of some common applications in the industry/function of the audience.

The second part of this time block will then go to first brainstorming some common performance improvement programs and then showing how they can be made much more effective and efficient with a network perspective.

Break
15 Minutes

Managing Personal Connectivity
60 Minutes

This section reviews personal networks as a means of driving leadership effectiveness and overall performance through more effective talent management. It specifically focuses on three dimensions of networks (behavioral, relational and structural) that Rob’s work shows distinguishes high performers as well as six common traps that leaders and rising stars fall into if not managing their own connectivity at some level.

Energizing Networks
45 Minutes

This section first describes (through a case example and then broader results across 40 organizations) the substantial performance and innovation benefits that come when leaders are able to assess and then improve energy/enthusiasm in interactions throughout a network. Rob uses a couple of video clips and an activity to drive these ideas into specific behaviors. He then closes with a concluding point for people in the room to consider how they can improve behaviorally and relationally.