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Tim Arnold      

Author of “The Power of Healthy Tension" & President of Leaders for Leaders

Tim Arnold has spent over two decades helping leaders manage complexity, increase resilience, and deliver results, with clients that include The United Nations, Royal Bank of Canada, Allstate Insurance, Compassion International, Toyota, and Siemens.

After running both a for-profit business and a homeless shelter, he leverages his real-world experience to help organizations pursue both profit and purpose. Arnold’s work focuses on helping leaders unleash the superpower of Both/And thinking in an Either/Or world.

Beyond leadership and team development, Arnold is an avid fisherman, world traveler, and really bad hockey player. His biggest accomplishments are being dad to Declan and Avryl, and husband to Becky.

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Next-Level Teamwork: Overcome Unnecessary Dysfunction & Align Your Team for Success

Are you tired of dreading Monday morning? Does working in a dysfunctional team drain your energy and leave you feeling defeated? If so, “Next-Level Teamwork” is your ultimate guide to breaking free from this cycle and unlocking your team’s full potential. Let’s face it, most teams don’t work. Dysfunction, drama, and division run rampant, making your workweek feel like a never-ending battle. But there’s hope! While other teams run away from tension, you’re going to learn to embrace it. You will learn to harness the power of healthy tension in these five key areas, equipping you to shift your team from unproductive to unstoppable.

  • Build trust by focusing on tasks AND relationships.
  • Increase engagement by leveraging structure AND flexibility.
  • Have courageous conversations through truthful AND tactful communication.
  • Align your team to win by promoting collaboration AND independence.
  • Unleash ownership by increasing empowerment AND accountability.

Lead with ‘And’: The Secret to Leadership Resilience & Results

As a leader, you’re committed to making a difference and making the world a better place. But when it comes to moving things forward, does it often seem like you’re fighting an uphill battle against broken systems, impossible demands, and unreasonable people?The secret is to move beyond divisive and limiting Either/Or thinking and embrace the transformational power of Both/And leadership. When you can successfully leverage six key leadership tensions, you will break through to a new level of resilience and results.

  • Become optimistic AND realistic.
  • Embrace change AND preserve stability.
  • Become profit-focused AND purpose-driven.
  • Have expectations AND extend grace.
  • Care for others AND care for yourself.
  • Become confident AND remain humble.

The Power of Healthy Tension

Leverage complexity, embrace change, and lead with confidence.

Often leaders and teams have a clear vision but fail to live it out. They get stuck because of conflicting values, division within the team, and resistance to change. The Power of Healthy Tension helps leaders get unstuck by providing a simple 4-step plan that allows them to unite their team, spark change, and live their values. This program has helped hundreds of organizations and thousands of leaders move from surviving to thriving.

Leading Change

How to achieve your desired results faster and more sustainably.

Research suggests that 70% of organizational change initiatives fail. This is because leaders and teams fail to understand and manage the following three tensions:

  • Embrace change AND preserve stability.
  • Be optimistic AND realistic.
  • Care for others AND yourself.

When teams and leaders understand and leverage these three tensions, they gain the ability to embrace change faster and experience the positive results of change in a sustainable way.

The EQ Edge (Workshop)

Tap into your FULL leadership potential by developing your Emotional Intelligence.

Whether you’re a manager, a team member, in sales, or delivering a service, emotional intelligence (EQ) is increasingly becoming one of the most important skills any individual can have. The research is clear, people with high emotional intelligence: have higher job satisfaction, are more effective employees, live with higher confidence, resilience and happiness while outperforming and earning more than their colleagues. The EQ Edge will help you understand what emotional intelligence is, assess your EQ effectiveness, and learn simple strategies that increase your EQ.

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