Adapt Like Bamboo

Don't just survive, thrive with change

For organizations or individuals to reach their greatest potential, they will inevitably face change. It will take commitment – and a circle of strong relationships – to thrive in the midst of it, but you will emerge more powerful and ready for the next challenge.

In this energetic presentation, Greg Bell will show leaders and teams how to embrace change, ask strategic questions, and harness the human talent and potential within their organizations - without losing focus. Greg will help guide participants to be strong and flexible like bamboo. Attendees will leave excited and equipped with the skills to design and implement a successful strategy for change.

(Note: A specialized program is available for leaders/managers/supervisors on leading change.)

• How you will benefit:

• Understand change as a process

• Develop a strategy to support your team in the face of complex challenges

• Empower others to embrace change to drive new results

• Learn how adaptability and persistence can lead to newfound creativity and innovation

Don't Farm Alone

How to grow better relationships for better results

Whether you are connecting with clients or collaborating as a staff on strategic goals and objectives, building strong relationships is the foundation to your organization’s success. Working professionals will spend the majority of their lives on the job. If you want a workplace characterized by trust, collaboration, and shared risk, this is the program for you.

This riveting, research-based program, modeled on the GregBell Curve®, will demonstrate how cultivating healthy relationships within your organization will lead to heightened productivity and personal success. Insightful, humorous, and practical, this Water The Bamboo® presentation will leave employees energized and eager to connect and reconnect.

• How you will benefit:

• Foster a culture of trust and shared vision

• Break down the silos in your organization

• Learn the tools and skills for empowering relationships

• Establish strategic partnerships that can help you succeed

• Discover a framework for collaboration

Lead Like a Bamboo Farmer

Revitalize your team by cultivating strong roots

By adopting the principles of Water The Bamboo as your leadership style, you can create an environment that energizes and inspires your team to reach new heights in their working relationships and team results. As a leader, you may feel that all eyes are on you, but giant bamboo doesn’t grow in isolation. It grows in groves, where individual stalks draw strength from one another. If you deepen the roots of your bamboo grove (team), amazing things can happen. To lead a team effectively, you will need to lay the groundwork for success. In this insightful presentation, Greg Bell will give you tools and strategies that will guide you and your team to reaching your full potential. How you will benefit:

• Learn how to balance 'high expectations' while providing 'high support'

• Discover how to assess your team members and provide the support they need to succeed

• Identify and understand the formula for peak team performance

• Cultivate strong, resilient values within your team

• Inspire others to be bamboo farmers

Awaken the Bamboo Farmer Within You

Break through to your full potential

From front-line employees to upper management, this keynote will inspire you to reexamine your personal and professional dreams, while creating value for others in the workplace – and beyond. It is perfect for all employee events, associations, and conferences. In what has become his most popular presentation, Greg Bell will demonstrate how adopting the mindset of the bamboo farmer can transform your life and those around you in amazing ways. Giant bamboo grows with astonishing speed and strength. However, such growth only comes as a result of the bamboo farmer faithfully watering the bamboo over time until it can establish deep and resilient roots. We all can become bamboo farmers, nurturing the qualities of patience, courage, self-discipline, persistence, and belief. How you will benefit:

• Identify core values that will lead to profound growth

• Learn the secret formula for peak performance

• Develop a mindset that will lead to higher performance

• Adopt the characteristics of the bamboo farmer

• Create breakthrough results in your personal and professional life