Book
“Energize – Ignite Passion and Performance with User Friendly Brain Tools“, by Bob Faw. See the video book-trailer
Videos
- Feedback biting you in the … backside? Try feedforward instead
- Motivate! Tap into that inner drive that we all have.
- Energize! Ignite Passion & Performance with User Friendly Brain Tools
- Influencing Your Inner Movie – the Thinker and the Caveman
- Get on the Road – For a Change
- Best DNA in Strategic Planning – The Front Door Story
- The Best Companies to Work For
- Creating Passion for Change
- Using Best DNA to Help Determine Your Personal Brand
Handouts
- GRIP & Tuckman – for Hult students
- Energize Handout
- Strategic Alignment of Leadership Development – Workbook
- Strategic Alignment of Leadership Development – Handout
- Make Training Stick
- Language of Influence
- Being Change Ready
- Passion for Change
- Positive Change Handout
- Creating Resilience in Stressful Times
- Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast
- Leadership University Description
Memes (Spreadable Tips)
- Who Wins When Employees Compete
- Leadership Starts From Within
- You will get a lot further when you start with “Yes”
- Root Cause Analysis feels like a Root Canal
- Teaching Others? Prime Yourself With What’s Good
- Feedback Biting You in the Backside?
- Inspire Emotion With Positive Reframes to Motivate Action
- Make Sure to Laugh Multiple Times Per Day
- Fear and Anger Distort Perception
- Fear Creates Unthinking Mobs Inspiration Creates Thinking Fans
- In Conflict? Aim for a Common Goal
- Be Grateful for Getting Older
- Creative Conflict Opposing Views and Ideas
- Potential for Conflict is Also Potential for Growth
- Nurture Important Relationships
- Trying to do it Alone
- Looking for Fulfillment
- Everything You’ve Experienced
- Want to be an Influencer
- Build on Strengths
Whitepapers
- Improvisational Leadership: Greater Buy-in and Morale on the Fly
- Principles of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) in Graphic Form
- Working from Strength
- Increase your Influence by using the DISC language
Articles
- Discover Your Best DNA to Energize Your Career, by Bob Faw
What Inspires Us
Bob’s Top Five
- Change that also Motivates and Builds Confidence
One of the most powerful tools in my professional and personal toolkit is Appreciative Inquiry. Asking about what works. It’s a much faster way to improve, and to gain buy in for improvement. And wildly enough, it feels great for everyone involved. I love it! Another amazing tool is Feedforward. I find this to be more powerful and effective than feedback 90% of the time. Fast for growth, good for morale. - Learning How to Make a BIG difference
There are many ways to try to solve problems. This one is faster, more exciting and far more effective for almost all challenges. Positive Deviance uses uncommon sense in to create stellar results. It’s “best practices” on steroids. - World Class Learning and Deep Understanding Meet the brightest minds in the world today. If you are someone who loves to understand the world we live in, and haven’t yet been to Ted.com, GO! It’s fantastic. They also hold conferences for these types of brilliant people to come present their break-through ideas.
- Practical Brain Science
I love understanding why I do what I do — and how to do it better!. Recent discoveries in the field of Brain Science explain effective and ineffective methods of influencing people. I particularly like Brain Rules by John Medina. Get the hardcover book because it comes with his humorous and enlightening DVD! A must have if you teach, inspire or help people. - Powerful Visual Presentation
Given that 75% of the sensory circuits in the brain are dedicated to processing visual information, we need to communicate using visual images more than with words. Death by PowerPoint is not necessary. Gar Reynolds book Presentation Zen can keep you from killing your audience with bullets. Dan Roam’s book The Back of the Napkin explain how simple images can help us uncover solutions more easily.