Book: Leaders in Gear

My leadership and presentation skills book, Leaders in Gear, is a powerful study guide to improving your personal leadership, team leadership and presentation abilities. Learn more about this valuable resource and order your copy today - http://leadersingear.blogspot.com/.

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A few testimonials:

"Without a doubt I would recommend Leaders in Gear. As a college student, I value that the book gives practical, real life examples of leadership in addition to ideas that could really revolutionize an organization. After reading this book, I hope to not only strengthen the organizations that I’m involved in, but also further develop my own leadership skills."Kyla Clawson, Animal Sciences and Industry and Agricultural Economics Youth Livestock Programs Intern

 

"A must read with powerful tips on every page to shift your leadership gears into overdrive and genuinely impact who you are, who you will become, and non-stop, real-life “how to’s.” I'd recommend this book to managers, speakers, consultants, and organizational leaders; everyone who cares about becoming more effective--now. Rhett literally hands the reader an entire career of experiences devoted to building character, skill, and personal impact. With Leaders In Gear, you’ll find yourself in the driver’s seat." Steve Roesler, President and CEO Roesler Consulting Group

 

"This is a great read for anyone who is in a position to serve others. ‘Leaders in Gear’ not only helps improve speaking and presentation skills, but challenges the reader to become an authentic leader. Rhett does a great job of explaining and giving insight on how to be a leader with a heart to serve and a mind to work." Travis Martin, Indiana FFA Former State President

 

"We feel it is important for our instructors as well as our state and local officers to be able to emulate how to be a leader. This book gives them insight on how to lead and how to present." Linnie Berkenbile, Oklahoma BPA, State Program Administrator

 

“Leaders in Gear is a great resource for student leaders! It is formatted in a no-nonsense practical way that can serve as a resource for student as the hone their leadership skills.” Emily J. Griffin Overocker, University of Central Oklahoma, Director, Student Leadership Development

 

Music: How to Find Our Playlists on iTunes

We use music in 99.9% of our keynotes, workshops, conferences and trainings.  The reason is simple:

1. Music is a great setter of emotional context. If we want the audience to be enthusiastic, reflective, social, etc., we have a song to help set the mood.

2. Music is an international language and is a complex medium.  Therefore, we have over twenty different leadership activities based on music.  Name that Tune, Mood Music, What is Your Theme Song are just a few examples. 

We have published a few of our CPP playlists (Clean, Powerful, Positive) to iTunes.  If you have iTunes already installed, you can click here to go directly to the lists.  If that doesn't work, follow these steps:

(Click here to download iTunes. Its free.)

Step 1:

Go to your iTunes software and click on "iTunes Store".

 Step 2:

In the top right-hand corner, type yournextspeaker into the search bar.

 Step 3:

You will see a box of results titled Playlists.  Click on the More link.

 Step 4:

Here you are. We currently have twelve playlists published.  You can click on each to see their full description.  You have to purchase each song individually, but they are the ones we use.

* iTunes does list some songs as Explicit even when they are totally clean.  Not sure why.  We do not use any songs where the inappropriate words are bleeped out.  We only use CPP (Clean, Powerful, Positive) songs.

Let me know if you have any questions/comments.  Thanks!

rhett@yournextspeaker.com

Activities: The Source for YM

I have created hundreds of leadership games/activities over my 20 year career.  Many times I have sought out other resources for inspiration or actual activity ideas.  The best source I have found is the following link.  They have a highly-indexed and easily searchable database of thousands of activities, games and more.  Check it out!

http://www.thesource4ym.com/games/default.aspx

Links: The Huge PLI Delicious Database

Delicious.com is social bookmarking. People with similar interests can browse through web sites others have "tagged". I have been tagging under the topics of leadership and presentations for five years and the database is up to over 1,500 highly-indexed websites, white papers, videos and blog posts. I read 150 blogs everyday (via Google Reader) and tag any content I find that fit four criteria:

1. It is content dealing with leadership or presentations.
2. It is fresh, new content.
3. It is written by a source I respect.
4. It is concrete content that had immediate application for personal use, professional use or is a teaching/training/speaking tool.

Basically our Delicious database is a masters study in leadership and/or presentation effectiveness - my two passions professionally. Check it out!

http://delicious.com/pliblog

PS - You can also access this database from our free iPhone App. Search pliblog in the app store.

App: Our Free Leadership & Presentation Skills Mobile App

A few years ago we developed a free iPhone app that feeds students, teachers, trainers and professionals our three primary content streams:  the PLI leadership blog, my speaking skills blog and our Delicious database. 

Get our iPhone app free here.

Activity: Balloon Toss

Over on our PLI leadership blog, I blogged on four leadership activities you can use during your next event.  Following is the link to number three in the series.  Check it out!

http://plileadership.blogspot.com/2012/02/general-activities-for-your-leadership_23.html

Fundraising: $193,224 in a Week

When I am not delivering keynotes and workshops across the country, I am creating and delivering leadership curriculum to schools and businesses via our PLI leadership curriculum.  One of the parts of this is online resources.  An example is The Warehouse - a portion of our PLI website that has additional resources for our PLI teachers/trainers.

In the Innovativeness section of the Warehouse you will find a PDF detailing how one Oklahoma student council group raised $193,224 in 2009 for charity.

• The Warehouse
• The PDF detailing the fundraising efforts
• Our PLI curriculum
• The PLI leadership blog
• The PLI leadership iPhone app (free!)

Copyright 2012 Rhett Laubach

Copyright 2012 PLI, Inc.

Free to share and use with credit.

PDF: Leaders in Gear Credo Poster

In 2010 I released my first solo leadership book project titled Leaders in Gear. At the end of the first chapter is a short poem titled the Leaders in Gear Credo.  This can be used as either wall art, a discussion starter or as a foundation for a presentation.

Download the PDF here.

Copyright 2012 Rhett Laubach
Free to share and use with credit.

PDF: The Leadership Quotes Card Set 2011

This is a PDF with 27 images containing quotes I have either tweeted or said during a program.  This resource has many applications, but I have used it two specific ways:

1. As wall art for my workshops, conferences and/or camps.
2. As a discussion starter for small groups.

Download the PDF here.
View/download the images here.


Copyright 2012 Rhett Laubach
Free to share and use with credit.

Video: The Leap Show

I use this five minute slide show/video during many of my keynotes as a closing send off of inspiration.  Enjoy.


View video here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SKIKx768Eo
Download slide show here:  http://tinyurl.com/theleapshow

Copyright 2012 Rhett Laubach
Free to share and use with credit.