Speaking
Research confirms that most keynote speeches and the majority of half-day to full-day leadership seminars are a waste of people's time, energy, and money — and make little lasting difference. That's also how Robert K. Cooper feels when he attends most of these events. Because of this, he designs every one of his own speeches and seminars as if he were a member of the audience. Perhaps that's why he has received the highest ratings ever given by executives and organizations for providing inherent value, inspiration, usefulness, applicability, delivery, and overall results.
In Robert's experience, an exceptional presenter or facilitator must:
- Know the audience and its mission and goals amidst the rising expectations, pressures, and opportunities faced by the men and women in attendance.
- Share the latest insights about the standout results being achieved by star performers worldwide — and how the attendees of the speech or seminar might develop their own new and distinctive ways to achieve such results.
- Inspire ingenuity and initiative by providing fresh perspectives and practical solutions for why 55% of employees are not enthusiastic about their work and why up to 85% of people believe they could double their productivity if they wanted to, but they don't want to.
- Upend conventional thinking by revealing the latest discoveries about what it takes to excel in work and life.
- Give specific examples of up-to-the-minute tools and the most practical strategies used by exceptional leaders and teams to consistently do what everyone else has long considered "impossible".
- Highlight new ways to streamline efforts while accomplishing more of what matters most to keep closing the gap between where you are and where you most want to be.
- Provide an individualized call to action for leaders, including compelling questions for brief, engaged audience discussions about specific ways that each attendee can increase personal leadership to grow the organization's most important results: human, strategic, or financial.
- Encourage achievable implementation and follow-through by each attendee and team.
- Inspire stronger individual leadership that produces better results at all levels of the organization.
An acclaimed educator on how exceptional leaders and teams liberate untapped human capacities and excel under pressure, Robert K. Cooper is also recognized for his pioneering work on the practical application of emotional intelligence and the neuroscience of trust, initiative, leadership and commitment.
Every aspect of his leadership work is backed by science and geared toward application. It includes uncommon star-performance examples (of high-integrity leaders and teams doing the "impossible" again and again), ultra-practical tools, individualized application, and a variety of measures. His goal is to help leaders and leadership teams develop their own distinctive best ways to save time, streamline vital processes, deepen and expand their radius of highest-trust relationships (whether face-to-face, voice-to-voice, or electronically), and hit higher-than-expected targets.
His unique focus areas include:
- Leading in a Changing World: New Strategies to Unlock Hidden Capacity and Excel Under Pressure
- Delivering the Future: New Strategies to Exceed Expectations -- in Less Time and with Less Stress
- The Other 90%: How to Unlock Your Vast Untapped Potential for Leadership and Life
- Why Good and Great Are the Enemies of Possible: New Scientific Insights and Practical Tools to Reach the Next Level of Success and Beyond
- Better than the Best: The Five Keys to Achieving What Everyone Else Thinks You Can’t
- Building the Emotionally Intelligent Organization: New Insights to Build the Trust and Engagement that Create Breakthrough Success
- Reaching the Next Level : Bringing Out More of the Best in Yourself and Others---While Everyone Else is Just Competing or Far Behind.
What are the ratings of Robert K. Cooper's work by independent authorities?
John C. Horton, founder and president of the Leadership Center in Atlanta, states, "I take great pains to ensure that members of The Leadership Forum are exposed to the very best and latest thinking on leadership and executive development. Over the years, our program — which is over 300 members strong and represents more than 90 organizations — has featured over twenty widely recognized leadership authorities, including Jim Collins, Ed Lawler, Richard Ross, Alvin Toffler, Jon Katzenbach, Fred Reichheld, Gary Hamel, Warren Bennis, Don Tapscott, Adrian Slywotzky, and Noel Tichy. As a recent faculty member at The Leadership Forum, Robert K. Cooper received the highest ratings in our program's history, including inherent value, usefulness, applicability, delivery, and overall results."
A recent survey of senior management from more than thirty organizations rated the effectiveness of his work at 4.9 out of 5.0.
