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About Jim Clemmer - Expert on Leadership and High Performance:

Jim Clemmer’s practical leadership approaches have been inspiring action and achieving results. His keynote presentations and workshops/retreats, seven best-selling books, articles, blog, and newsletters have helped hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Jim is a popular columnist and a regular guest on radio and television programs.

Jim’s first book The VIP Strategy: Leadership Skills for Exceptional Performance became a Canadian bestseller and was published in Europe and Japan. His second book, Firing on All Cylinders: The Service/Quality System for High-Powered Corporate Performance, was both a Canadian and an American bestseller with over 100,000 copies sold. Jim’s third book was Pathways to Performance: A Guide to Transforming Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization. His next book – focused on personal growth/leadership – was Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success. Based on the popularity of the approach and leadership framework in Growing the Distance, Jim wrote a companion book entitled The Leader’s Digest: Timeless Principles for Team and Organization Success. He followed this with an edutaining case study or work of leadership fiction entitled Moose on the Table: A Novel Approach to Communications @ Work. His latest book is Growing @ the Speed of Change: Your Inspir-actional How-To Guide For Leading Yourself and Others through Constant Change.

Jim writes and speaks from plenty of hands-on experience. Applying the improvement and effectiveness principles he teaches, Jim co-founded and led The Achieve Group to become Canada’s largest training and consulting company. Achieve was purchased by Times Mirror and merged with Zenger Miller, Learning International, and Kaset, to form AchieveGlobal. Prior to developing Achieve, Jim established a very successful performance record with an international water treatment company. Starting in sales, he quickly became sales manager, trainer, and the company’s youngest general manager.

What Jim Clemmer Talks About:

Jim's keynotes, workshop/retreats, and management team development services draw from a core of simple and practical frameworks that he has evolved over years of extensive research, writing, and application. These implementation frameworks form the central structure for his books. Based on discussions and research with each Client, Jim pulls together his presentation and accompanying workbook using the appropriate frameworks for the service he's delivering.

Topics Include:

The High Performance Balance
The Performance Triangle depicts the balance between the three critical success factors of any team or organization. Imagine a pendulum swinging in the center of the triangle. It's very difficult to keep the pendulum in a state of equilibrium. In some cases, organizations may need to swing the pendulum in one direction because that's where it's weakest. For example, entrepreneurial start-up companies often have strong vision, passion, and energy (leadership) and may also have good technological or technical skills. But their lack of systems and processes or poor management discipline leads to a lot of errors, poor service/quality, and frustration for customers and people in the organization.

Transformation Pathways
Research shows that 50 - 60% of organizational change and improvement efforts are failing. While they may change a few short-term performance indicators (such as reducing some costs, improving some processes, or shortening cycle times), many initiatives fail to change the very character and fabric of the team or organization. These efforts often make surface-level changes, but few penetrate to the deeper level of cultural transformation.

Timeless Leadership Principles
The CLEMMER Group's Leadership Wheel evolved over years of working with individuals and teams looking to strengthen their leadership. The model was changed and refined through application and an ongoing search for the timeless principles of leadership that apply across a wide range of organizations, cultures, industries, and individuals.