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About Art

Art founded and directed a management consulting company called Achieve. His company was eventually acquired by the Times Mirror Corporation and became part of Achieve Global, one of the world’s largest training organizations. The mantra of Achieve was, when theory is not enough. Clients were advised, “if you want information hire a consultant—but if you're looking for results work with Achieve.” Audiences are quick to notice that Art continues to tenaciously differentiate doing from knowing what needs to be done.

Recognized internationally as an inspiring authority on the creation of high performance cultures and the profitability of adhering to cultural-values, Art has helped many of America's best known corporations reinvent themselves. His #1 best-seller The “I” of the Hurricane: Creating Corporate Energy became an international classic that is still in print and available in many languages. Art also coauthored a management effectiveness book entitled The VIP Strategy, and most recently, a personal development guide called Dreamcrafting: The art of dreaming big, the science of making it happen. order books

Art’s current focus is available in the one day workshop entitled, Setting P.A.C.E. How to take your company to the next level. more

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Most frequently requested programs

Keynote: Setting P.A.C.E. How to take yourself and others to the next level

"Art left 250 conferees wanting more; that is impact. Our people gained a new insight into personal leadership and reached a new level of motivation. There are only a few presenters that can deliver this reaction; Art is in this select group."
VP, General Signal

On top of his pragmatic expectations for executive, manager, and supervisory performance, Art identifies leadership roles for people traditionally thought of as followers. He articulates the benefits of values-directed leadership, process compliance, and managing for continuous improvement. Art drives his message home by including poignant examples from home. By stressing the need for passion, alignment, courage, and end-game thinking—within a high performance culture that includes; planning, autocratic demands for process compliance, continuous improvement, and consequence—audiences perceive Art as their personal coach with the organization’s end-game in mind. He always interviews senior management before an event and maintains serious implementation expectations. Art has a track record of convincing even recalcitrant audiences that working harder at the same stuff, in the same old way, is no longer sufficient.

Keynote: Out with "The Chain of Command," in with “The Partner Chain.”

"Art has the unique ability to cut through the noise of business and inspire executives, managers, and workers to confront things that really matter. He has a profound understanding of the impact that market changes have on the way people need to work in organizations."
Senior Partner, Achieve Global Pty.

Winning executives are thinking beyond traditional customer service rhetoric—expanding their focus to include the entire "partner chain". They know that in order to delight customers they must meet the ongoing needs of each contributing link: funding partners (banks and investors), external partners (suppliers, distributors, and other contractors), and internal partners (employees, supervisors, managers, and executives). If any part of the chain's needs go unmet, the flow of human and financial capital will be disrupted. Without financial and human investment, there's no hope of keeping up in today’s highly competitive marketplace. The digital revolution and global trading is making Leadership everybody's business.

Workshop: Setting P.A.C.E. how to take your company to the next level

"Art spent a day helping us clarify our core values. We also discovered that leadership was not a management position but an essential activity for everybody. Once that sank in, our management, sales, service and administrative teams were never the same. In three short months sales and service processes came alive. With newfound energy, we became the nations #1 dealer as measured by Ford`s Customer Service Index. Nothing I have attended before or since delivered so much, of such value, so fast." Ford Dealer

Management teams learn to:

· Speak a common language while building a high performance culture

· Manage by focusing on 5 strategic processes

· Implement a doable continuous improvement system

· Delight customers by strengthening each link in the partner chain

· Skillfully recognize positive performance

· Help others change non-productive behavior

· Inspire themselves and others to take the lead

· Respond appropriately to challenge

· Use cultural-values as a profit tool

· Focus a shared vision of the preferred future

Workshop benefits:

· Builds a strong management team

· Develops Leadership at all levels of the organization

· Differentiates management from leadership:

o The management of positions

Process, accountability, continuous improvement and empowerment that set targets, align performance, and get results

o The leadership of People

Passion, alignment, courage , and end-game thinking that focuses vision, values, and fosters the will to win and a desire to belong

· Introduces the performance potential of values-directed leadership

· Clarifies and action-orients the organization's cultural -values

· Introduces a common language for continuous improvement

· Teaches signaling skills and how to respond appropriately to challenge

A Setting P.A.C.E. one day workshop is available through a network of certified facilitators. It will soon be available in video format with leader's guide and participant materials. More

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Art McNeil makes an impact and he makes a difference.

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