Darren Hill

You’ve probably heard a lot of people tell you how busy they are lately. It’s become this default response when you ask anyone how they’re doing: ‘busy’, ‘so busy’, ‘busy, busy, busy’.

Being busy has become a badge of honour – albeit a heavy, awkward and uncomfortable one that doesn’t seem to go with anything in your wardrobe. ‘Hey, busy looks really great on you’, said no one ever.

As it turns out, it doesn’t have to be like this. You mightn’t be able to control the pace of change in the world, but you can bring calm to the chaos because it’s your relationship with busyness that determines how busy you really are.

So how can you develop a healthy relationship between pressure and progress? How can you own busyness so that it’s productive, not overworked and restricting your breathing room to rest and recover?

Our Boss of Busy program provides a practical model to assist in self-diagnosing when you are being a boss of busy and when you aren’t. Through proven techniques, you will learn to control the tension of pressure and find a way to stay motivated and make progress.

Darren wrote the book on this topic; literally. As a co-author of best selling Dealing with the Tough Stuff - how to achieve results from key conversations which has been translate into 3 languages, Darren can show you practical skills on how to create a feedback culture for excellence.

This can be crafted as a keynote, short workshop or multi-day workshop.

2020. One heck of a year, right?

Around the world we quickly found what the meaning of an agile approach to work looked like in real terms. Thrown overnight into extensive remote work solutions, many teams found a way through the mess and produced impressive results.

But 2021 is a new year, and your team has the opportunity to take a new approach by fully embracing this new world of work and become an outstanding hybrid team.

This program will help you turn that intent into reality.

Designed to be an entertaining, informative and timely workshop for your entire team, this will serve as both the kickstart and offsite for your team in 2021.

Delivered from the world-leading PTV virtual studios, the program will cover;

How to encourage and measure performance in a hybrid team

The unique approach to culture when you’re hybrid

How autonomy is best utlised amongst the team

Developing people that can cope with the pace of change and the stress that comes with it are keys to success in today’s demanding workplace where anxiety and burnout are not uncommon.

In this evolving environment where the intensity and pressure of work is unlikely to lessen, adaptive, recovery-focussed behaviour is paramount to build individual resilience and create a network of empowered staff.

Our Science of Recovery program is based on research and human behaviour, using science-driven technology to put strategies for proactive recovery into action. Focusing on four domains: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual, the program explores the importance of recovery in a modern workplace – and its role in achieving peak performance.

Across the program you’ll learn a range of stress-reduction techniques and practical ways to take your peak performance to new levels, effectively building your capacity for resilience.

Do you sometimes think our business world is moving so fast you’ll get motion sickness?

If there is one constant in our lives it is change. In fact, Robert Gallagher once said ‘change is inevitable except from a vending machine’. The curious thing is that some species, businesses, and people achieve enormous success in the same change environment where others flounder, and ultimately become extinct.

The Edge Effect helps us take a new look at change, the uncertainty that comes with it, and ultimately how we can succeed.

-Identify your focus areas in a rapid change environment

-Explore the successful traits of highly evolved businesses

-Discover how naturally occurring patterns in nature give us the three key skills for thriving in uncertain times

Good leadership = good business. By focusing the efforts of your leaders on three key attributes all teams possess, you can shift the collective behaviours of your people to achieve greatness.

-Manage Pressure - knowing when to dial up pressure or let it off is a core tenet of great leaders

-Make Progress - great leaders get clear on their goals, establish rules allowing their teams to flourish, and work hard on feedback

-Establish Connection - a team that has each other's backs through the tough times. It's created by trust and touch and driven by a narrative that transcends the team.

'Treat it like you own it!' It's the holy grail in most workplaces, isn't it? Deep ownership where employees at all levels treat their work like they owned the business. So how do we achieve deep levels of ownership in our people?

Well, science has plenty of answers, and unsurprisingly money isn't one of them. In this keynote we lift the lid on motivation drivers and factors that influence ownership. A must-attend session for leaders wanting to take their culture to another level.

The Gen X'ers of your workforce remember the good 'ole days of 5 year change cycles. "If we just get through this, then it'll settle down!" Your Boomers and Veterans might even get misty eyes about the 10 year cycles they've seen early in their careers.

That's all a thing of the past. Change is constant and unrelenting...and getting faster. We need to build teams with a resilience to handle this constant buffeting.

A tailored keynote, we look at where you are in a change cycle, how much change fatigue exists and map ideas to strengthen your culture.

Despite the shift towards teams that aren’t co-located in the same office, many of our approaches on how to effectively manage people and performance are built on old face-to-face work practices.

As leaders manage the new world of disparate teams, working from wildly different platforms and workspaces, the requirement to understand how to lead a remote team has never been more important than now.

This program will equip team leaders with skills to lead both their people and performance in a virtual/remote/work from home setting more effectively. Designed specifically with your leaders in mind, we’ll explore;

• communication strategies to engage your team
• practical tools to help set and manage performance
• methods to build strong cultures even in remote settings