Tales from My Leadership Jungle
What You’ll Gain From Attending “Tales from My Leadership Jungle.”
- An understanding of the term Workplace Intelligence vs Emotional Intelligence
- A usable definition of “leadership” and the leadership qualities of effective leaders and poor leaders
- Why Empathy is critical and the difference between empathy and sympathy
- A better understanding of your own leadership examples
- What “culture” is and the culture I used to create multiple successes
- Begin the process of determining the culture you want to create or to work in
- Examples of effective leadership phrases effective leaders base their actions on
- The keys to effective team meetings
- How to better understand management’s agenda
- Ideas on how to hold management accountable
- How to identify one problem that needs fixing on your current team, with input offered by Doug
- Several interesting stories from the Leadership Jungle that will illustrate the points above and MORE
About the Facilitator:
Doug Russell has over 35 years of Technical, Project Management and Leadership experience with major US. Corporations, such as Intel and Motorola, and has held major Project Leadership responsibilities with the United States Department of Defense, as well as many consulting assignments with start-ups and smaller companies. He has led manufacturing, engineering, development, defense, and semiconductor teams.
Doug holds an MBA from Duke University. He also holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering degree from Clemson University, is a member of the Electrical Engineering honor society Eta Kappa Nu, and an award winning creative writer in college. Doug is a 2012 graduate of ACC’s Nonprofit Certification Program.
“Successfully Leading Project and Technical Teams: Workplace Intelligence For All Team Members” is Doug’s third book, and documents through short vignettes a career where he never had a project fail to meet its organizational goals, compared to the industry successful norm of 30-50%. All readers ‐‐young, old, Tech and Non‐Tech‐‐should find something interesting in this cleverly written and fun book.
Today Doug is delighted to present a presentation titled “Tales from My Leadership Jungle.”