18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done

SHRM 2013 Annual Conference

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We squander a tremendous amount of our potential – and organizations waste a tremendous amount of their people’s potential – by focusing on the wrong things, or not following through on real priorities. It’s not that people don’t try hard enough; it’s that their efforts don’t reap the benefits they could. Organizations succeed when people use every part of who they are to take care of their top priorities in the most efficient way possible. Bregman sets out the new, simple rules for leading in a way that brings focus to an organization and makes the best use of everyone’s talents. In this session, Bregman will introduce you to a concept that may sound counter-intuitive: getting people to fit in or fix their weaknesses work against us. Instead, you will learn to help your staff embrace their weaknesses, assert their differences, leverage their strengths, and pursue their passions. Bregman offers ideas, practices, tips, mind hacks, and gentle nudges to help you bring focus to your people and your organization.

Date(s) & Time(s):

Monday, June 17, 2013 - 1:45pm to 3:45pm

Presenter:

Peter Bregman

CEO

Bregman Partners, Inc.

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Peter Bregman is the CEO of Bregman Partners, Inc., a company that strengthens leadership in people and in

organizations.

His most recent book is Four Seconds: All the Time You Need to Stop Counter-Productive Habits and Get the Results

You Want, a New York Post top pick for your career in 2015. His previous book was The Wall Street Journal best seller 18

Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done, winner of the Gold medal from the Axiom

Business Book awards, named the best business book of the year on NPR, and selected by Publisher’s Weekly and the

New York Post as a top 10 business book. He is also the author of Point B: A Short Guide to Leading a Big Change and

contributor to five other books. Featured on PBS, ABC and CNN, Bregman’s articles and commentary appear frequently in

Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Fast Company, Psychology Today, Forbes, The Financial Times,

CNN, NPR and FOX Business News.

Bregman began his career teaching leadership on wilderness and mountaineering expeditions and then moved into the

consulting field with the Hay Group and Accenture, before starting Bregman Partners in 1998. Bregman has advised

CEOs and senior leaders in many of the world’s premier organizations, including Allianz, American Express, Brunswick

Group, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, FEI, GE Capital, Merck, Clear Channel,

Nike, UNICEF and many others.

Bregman bases his work on the notion that everyone—no matter their job or level—has the opportunity to lead.

Unfortunately, most do not. There is a massive difference between what we know about leadership and what we do as

leaders. What makes leadership hard is not theoretical, it is practical. It is not about knowing what to say or do. It is about

whether you’re willing to experience the discomfort, risk and uncertainty of saying or doing it.

In other words, the critical challenge of leadership is, mostly, the challenge of emotional courage. Since 1989, Bregman

has trained and coached all levels of management and individuals to recognize their leadership, exhibit leadership

behaviors, model and stimulate change, and foster growth of their own emotional courage as well as that of their teams

and colleagues.

Bregman earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University and his Master of Business Administration degree

from Columbia University.

SESSIONS:

Location:

S406 Vista Ballroom

Amount of Credit:

2.00

Credit Type:

•HR Credit

Intended Audience:

Senior-Level

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