Jim Reid – Build a high-performing culture (CANADA)

Topics include

• Performance & Productivity
• Business & Workplace
• Innovation & Change Management
• Leadership

About Jim Reid

An accomplished executive and trusted advisor to six CEOs, Jim Reid has navigated significant change and immense pressure to build winning teams that outperform competitors.

He has coached, advised and developed thousands of aspiring leaders who have gone on to deliver extraordinary results and to make the world an even better place.

Originally trained as a military pilot, Jim built his expertise working alongside some of the best thinkers on leadership including Jim Collins, Jeffrey Pfeffer, John Kotter and Dave Ulrich.

Recognized in 2022 with the OC Tanner Award for Lifetime Achievement in Human Resources, and in 2021 as one of the 50 Best Executives in Canada by ROB Magazine, he brings credibility, insight and integrity to shape a framework for leadership based on five timeless principles that if understood and lived, are almost guaranteed to get you to a better place in your life.

Jim’s new book, Leading to Greatness: 5 Principles to Transform Your Leadership and Build Great Teams, contains five core leadership principles for top-level executives who—after applying the principles—will be primed to take their organizations and teams successfully into the future.

Jim Reid has dedicated his life’s work to coaching and developing leaders, and to being a leader himself, at high levels of organizations.What most impresses me is his unquenchable drive to learn and to apply his accumulated wisdom to help leaders become both more humane and more effective.
He is a true artist of the leadership development craft.

Jim Collins

Jim Reid believes in Building Culture One Team at a Time: As leaders, we get tested. Our teams get tested, we are all looking for ways to do things better.

To win in the market. To outperform. The team is the ultimate performance unit of any organization, and the magic of getting any organization, department or group of people to outperform is rooted in teamwork.

A high performance team is characterized by the deep level of commitment team members have for one another.

It requires the right people operating in the right environment with trust, psychological safety, a mission focus that is adaptable and disciplined.

The building blocks for culture are teams. And culture gets strengthened one team at a time.

Today, Jim splits his time between Toronto and Muskoka Canada with his wife Pattie, their children and growing group of grandchildren.

Leading to Greatness: 5 Principles to Transform Your Leadership and Build Great Teams

The most successful leaders think and act differently:

• They are values and purpose driven.
• They play to their strengths and passion every day – and never deviate
• They make their signature qualities as a leader making the ‘right’ people decisions
• They are engaged, and build engaged teams
• They are disciplined

This keynote provides leaders with a playbook and development plan to take their leadership to the next level and their team to higher levels of performance. Higher performance in life is a choice, and Jim Reid will lay out a path to transform your impact at work and in life.

Key Takeaways

• Understand what the best research and observation of the most talented leaders say about how to take your leadership to the next level
• Identify 1-3 actions that can have immediate impact on your personal leadership at work and in life
• Receive a coaching guide that provides practical tips and frameworks to help you build a personal playbook to improve your impact
• Understand the 5 key elements of a high performing team, and map out a plan to strengthen your team to drive higher impact

Building Culture One Team at a Time

As leaders, we get tested.

Our teams get tested, we are all looking for ways to do things better.

To win in the market.

To outperform.

The team is the ultimate performance unit of any organization, and the magic of getting any organization, department or group of people to outperform is rooted in teamwork.

A high performance team is characterized by the deep level of commitment team members have for one another. It requires the right people operating in the right environment with trust, psychological safety, a mission focus that is adaptable and disciplined. The building blocks for culture are teams. And culture gets strengthened one team at a time.

Key Takeaways

• Building high-performance teams requires people to develop a level of commitment to their fellow team members that rivals the ones they have with their strongest relationships in life—their partners, best friends and families.
• Putting together a high-performing team depends on two things: finding the right people and creating the right environment, where people feel valued and respected, for the team to flourish. When leaders are clear about what they believe and where they are going and why, it’s much easier to find the right people.
• To build a high trust, high-performing team, the very best leaders have a framework they use to develop the team.
• Dave Ulrich’s research suggests that the two primary roles of the leader are to create customer value and shape a winning culture.
• At the organizational level, strong cultures are built one team at a time.
• The value chain for building a high-performance organization begins with culture.

Leading Through a Crisis

A crisis tests a leader’s grit, strength, determination and purpose. It tests the leader’s ability to support their team, who are often under duress.

Coming out the other side of this kind of challenge requires skillful communication and compassion in order to connect with people at a human level.

How leaders respond to crises goes a long way to determining their future and the culture of their organization.

Although the best leaders don’t welcome a crisis any more than the next person, when they do come (because crises are inevitable) the +5 Leader responds with humility and grit, and clear purpose and action.

Key Takeaways

• In facing a crisis, in the words of Admiral Stockdale, “You must never ever confuse, on the one
hand, the need for absolute, unwavering faith that you can prevail in the end—with the need for
the discipline to confront the brutal facts, whatever they are.
• When you are experiencing a personal crisis, ask for help and support.
• The same goes for the workplace. Never ever feel you cannot ask for help.
• How leaders respond to crises goes a long way to determining their future and the culture of
their organization.
• Although +5 leaders don’t welcome crises any more than the next person,
when they do come (because crises are inevitable) they respond with humility and grit, and clear
purpose and action.
• To follow a leader in a crisis, people need to trust that their leaders have their best interests at
heart, and that there is a path forward they believe will get them to a better place.
• As the leader, you need a crisis playbook to be prepared for what can suddenly erupt in front of you.
• No one playbook can cover every eventuality.
• You will be called up to be adaptable, innovative and creative.
• You can build this mindset through education. Building this mindset in your team is perhaps the most precious activity you can undertake.