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RYAN WALTER • 7 Essential Qualities to Inspire the “Hungry Spirit” • Coaching HUNGRY Teams: Wisdom from 12 NHL Coaches • Playing In the Zone: Maximizing Personal Performance • Leading Success: Everything Rises and Falls on Leadership

7 Essential Qualities to Inspire the “Hungry Spirit”

The difference between winning and losing is not just talent or coaching, but the team or organization’s collective HUNGRY SPIRIT. To combat a collective “Ambivalent Spirit,” leaders must be intentional in growing and enhancing the Hungry Spirit. The Hungry Spirit is the foundation for engagement and empowerment because at the end of the day your people have to “want to do it.”

The ability of your leaders to engage and empower your players determines the performance of your organization. But how do you ensure you’re getting the most from your group? Ryan shows audiences how to focus on 7 actionable qualities that enhance team atmosphere and engage your organization’s players.

1. The quality of Visioning
2.The quality of Believing
3.The quality of Framing
4. The quality of Deflecting
5. The quality of Honouring
6. The quality of Connecting
7. The quality of Resilience

Ryan Walter, through his personal experience and research, including interviews with top professional coaches, is perfectly equipped to communicate how to lead effectively. He utilizes 10 personal power stories to masterfully imprint these 7 essential qualities into the psyche of your people.

This is a dynamic presentation!

Coaching HUNGRY Teams: Wisdom from 12 NHL Coaches

Increasingly, the ability of Leadership to engage and empower yourplayers determines the performance of your organization. But how do you ensure you’re getting the most from your individual players and your team? Ryan shows managers and coach’s techniques that NHL coaches utilize to create their HIGH PERFORMANCE CULTURE.

We have constructed a fabulous coaching program as a result of interviewing 12 top National Hockey League coaches for Simply The Best :Insights and Strategies from Great Hockey Coaches. Their amazing strategies, along with Ryan’s championship experience on and off the ice, have become the core elements of Coaching HUNGRY Teams. Whether you are a minor sport coach, a parent, manager, or CEO, coaching is an essential process in all that you do, both coaching for performance, and also coaching your next generation coaches and leaders so that they are prepared and properly trained to step up.

Over a 1 hour Key Note through to a 2 Day interactive Session, Together we will discover some or most of these elements:

How to coach and use individual strengths to enhance the team’s HUNGRY spirit.
How to develop the most efficient communication style for coaching your team.
How to understand the links between coaching, leadership and amazing team synergy.
How to use the technology of the FAN-PLAYER continuum to help our teammates continue to move towards individual and team high performance.
How to coach team synergy by building a Team Code of Honor.
How to create your team’s Shared Vision.
How to recognize the 3 underpinnings of team momentum.
How to read your team using Tuckman’s model.
How to identify and create the process for High Performance Culture.
How to develop an interactive environment where your team simultaneously plays and learns.
How to enable and encourage your team’s carriers to powerfully deliver your message.
How to increase your team’s efficiency through expectational performance.

Playing in the Zone: Maximizing Personal Performance

We have all been there… how do we consistently stay there?

Ryan reaches back into his 15 season NHL career to extrapolate the principles he used as a professional athlete for consistently driving high performance, and transfers these into practical steps that work in your environment. Your people will gain insight into personal strengths and their impact on team performance, and how the team’s level of synergy sucks or supplies energy to individuals. Ryan will contour his presentation to “hit home” specifically to your needs, focusing on the following:

Expectational Performance: E-10
Mental Toughness: Thoughts = Actions
Fan/Player Personal Engagement
Team Development: Tuckman’s Model
High Performance Culture
Aligning Personal/Corporate Vision
Framing: Creating Priority
Readying for “CHANGE”
Give your people the inspirational gift of “playing in the ZONE!”

Leading Success: Everything Rises and Falls on Leadership

Drawing on his experience on and off the ice Ryan believes that in this new, high-pace, high-change environment that there is no room for followers. “Leaders Leading Leaders” is the new paradigm that corporate and organizational wins are created around. The org-chart remains the same but leadership development and growth at every level is an essential process to engage and empower our people. Ryan has completed a Masters Degree in Leadership/Buisness and fully utilizes his life experiences combined with this degree to create real-life learnings for your people!

The pace of change has increased exponentially over these past 5 to 10 years, and simply put Leadership-is-about-CHANGE. Growing our people in this area of leadership is no longer an option. Ryan Walter will lead your people through a powerful, synergistic process on how to grow your self as a Leader and how to enhance Leadership through out your organization.

Challenging some common myths about having one leadership style by implementing “Polytrophic Leadership”
How to combine team enhancement through an innovative leadership styles understanding
Exploring how we best communicate to the players on our team
The latest understandings on building player confidence
Managing performance through creating proper expectations
Leading cultural change