The Six Steps to Building a High-Performing Team:

Why do certain groups add up to be greater than the sum of their parts while others add up actually to be less? The critical insight is that interactions between individuals matter significantly more than the talent of the individual people in the team.

Have your managers learn the Six Levels of High Performing Teams to transform your teams. Your managers control the culture of your entire organization and are the most significant factor in driving your company's success. However, managers are often promoted as reward to their past success of a job well-done instead of the people leader skills necessary in leading a high performing team.

The result: managers are stuck as an over-sized, over-worked individual contributor. Most managers do not spend the necessary time to build an effective team, and while they may know some of the pieces, they lack the understanding of how it all fits together. Elevate from manager to leader through small everyday acts of coaching, encouragement, and empowerment.

In this keynote Fahd orients managers towards a pulse-check of their team dynamics and takes a digestible framework for creating a high-performing team. Often, leadership isn’t about grandiose heroic actions. Leadership opportunities lay in small everyday acts of service through coaching, encouragement, and empowerment. Symptoms of leadership can be found in the implicit subtext and culture that it creates.

Audience will learn: A Systemized Six-Step framework for creating high-performance teams, real practices that everyone can use to create Psychological Safety, the levers of empowerment that drive teams forward, the role of communication in high-performing teams, tactics for reframing mindset towards conflict in honor of innovation. a fresh perspective on creating a fluid culture of leadership, why developing a sense of purpose increases meaning and outcome, real practices to work towards an all-encompassing vision.

Description: We’ve created this myth to expect singular, grandiose, charismatic leaders to pave the way forward. Be the north star. In practice it is seldom the case, and leaders can come from anywhere. It's tempting to sway yourself into assuming all of the responsibility as a leader. As if its burden entirely weighs on one person only. But effective leadership is a teamwork activity, And great organizations cannot be built on one person's shoulders.

A group that is taught and given permission to lead dynamically from their strengths grounded in a mission and values can achieve and adapt to the constant of change. This is the agility a culture of leadership offers, the rest is a domino effect. You just need to be the first domino. The days where seniority is rewarded are over. Employees who treat their job like routine threaten their own potential to take ownership, lead, and get promoted. The real magic happens when employees are empowered to take risks. And it all begins with a leadership mindset.

Having spent the last decade leading and studying teams, Fahd has learned what it takes to find the leader within us.

Audience will learn: How to own their brilliance, share their ideas and lead. As well as identify overcome common pitfalls of leadership and teamwork using the six-levels of team development. This actionable talk gives managers the tools to transform any team into a high-performing machine. Audience will learn how to: Implement daily leadership practices, position themselves for management positions, inspire a culture self-leadership that rewards star performers, motivate team members and improved culture with great retention and productivity, become more self-confident and disruptive team leaders, empower employees to take ownership of projects.

Named Rising Star Speaker and Most Entertaining Speaker by the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers.

Fahd's keynotes and workshops are an exercise in engaging the entire audience through storytelling, humor and inspirational stories of leadership. 

Fahd uses up-to-date research, current leadership and workplace trends to inform all of his keynotes and that relevance combined with his open and honest approach to speaking and his journey to Canada and ultimately to leadership allows his audiences to form a deep connection and relate with him.

You will not find a presenter with higher energy than Fahd. He is always moving, engaging different parts of the audience and constantly adding to, and building up the energy of a room so everyone feels like they're involved.