Glenn Parker is an internationally recognized workshop facilitator, organizational consultant, and conference speaker in the area of teamwork, collaboration, and team meetings.
He is the author of sixteen books, including the bestsellers Cross Functional Teams: Working with Allies, Enemies and other Strangers, and Team Players and Teamwork: New Strategies for Developing Successful Collaboration. Glenn’s widely-used instrument, the Parker Team Player Survey, has sold more than one million copies, and his seminal work on team-player styles was featured in a bestselling CRM video.
As a consultant for more than forty years, Glenn Parker has helped create high-performing teams at hundreds of organizations including Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Merck & Company, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Phillips-Van Heusen, Telcordia Technologies, BOC Gases, and the U.S. Coast Guard.
Glenn holds a Master’s degree from the University of Illinois, and studied for the doctorate at Cornell University. Through his philanthropic endeavors, he has raised over $1.5 million for cancer research.
Some of the topics covered in this episode:
1. The research completed to write the book/the creative process
• In-depth interviews with some 50 people with diverse backgrounds – jobs, industries, gender, ethnicity, born outside us
2. The 4 types of positive influence leaders
• Supportive
• Teacher
• Motivating
• Role model
3. How can you tell what kind of leader you are?
4. Most of us have come across negative people in our lives --- how do people cope with negativity they encounter?
5 coping strategies for dealing with negativity:
1) Take it on as a challenge
2) Take responsibility for the situation
3) Persevere in the face of adversity
4) Adopt a calm and reasoned approach
5) Use the negativity as a learning experience
5. How positive influence leaders lead in a time of crisis
1. Be open and authentic
2. Be clear and specific
3. Listen, ask questions, listen some more and respond
4. Walk the talk
5. Conduct an after-action review
• What did we do?
• What went well
• What didn’t
• What would we do differently next time?
• What did we learn?
• What did we do that we will want to incorporate in the going forward workplace?
• We don’t just want to do back to a new normal but to a better normal!
6. Here’s the “so what” question? Let’s assume I am the CEO of a company or a non-profit corporation, how do I use all this to increase the effectiveness of my organization?
Glenn’s Special Offer detailed near the end of the episode will require this:
glenn@thepositiveinfluenceleader.com
To purchase their book, learn more about, or to connect with Glenn and his son Michael, visit:
https://thepositiveinfluenceleader.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennparker/
https://twitter.com/teamguy1
