Lead Big - Keynote - Your Thoughts?

I am working on a super-duper keynote talk about leading big and building the organization. Here are the main points. Your thoughts? I realize you cannot get the gist of it with bullet points, but do these seem like the right ones to you?

• What it looks like when leaders are actively building the organization. Painting the picture for what “build” and “lead big” look like in action and during normal business operations (critical thinking, collaboration, taking initiative, etc). Describing it with vivid specificity.
• Building the context for your leadership excellence. The importance of personal vision tied to your organization's vision and mission and how to align the context of your work place and department with your intentions.
• "Build" occurs when we make good, sometimes tough, choices about time, resources, priorities, risk. Putting discipline and rigor into your managerial regimens.
• Leadership at all levels - Building a build culture. Modeling the way, teaching others. Inspiring a build way of thinking.
• Building your reputation as leader – Four foundations for leading big for impact. Perseverance, humility, connectivity, and trust.
• Leading big together - How to build new approaches, solutions in a team environment. Best practices for teams approaching a business opportunity or challenge. Blue-sky thinking, fresh eyes, outside-in focus, the right questions, enrollment, invite a challenge, crossing the T’s, courage, leadership changes with the topic/situation.

This keynote is part of a larger program that will immediately put the participants into action working on a project that calls upon them to use these elements of leading big and building the organization. Should be very energizing and inspiring - with great visuals and reinforcements (no bullet points) on the screen.

If you were going to hear a keynote - what is the topic you would most want to listen to?

I enjoy keynotes because they are so dramatic and draining in a good way. I usually collapse in my hotel room afterward. :-)

Comments

[Phil Gerbyshak]

Lisa - stories connect best with me. Stories of brave leaders who have overcome obstacles, who've dreamed big, and faced HUGE dragons, and slayed them, giving credit to their team and their dream. That's what I like to hear about.

I like your key points too! They look like a keynote I would enjoy. Will you be sharing the slides on slideshare or is this private?

[lisa haneberg]

Phil - you are so right about the stories and I will be making these points with stories. Sure, I will share at some point (or a general version of it). Thanks for weighing in!

[MikeSchwiebert@mac.com]

Lisa,
That looks FANTASTIC! Wow. I feel inspired to stay focused and get busy just reading the bullet points. I would really value this kind of a Keynote.
I have ideas and dreams and goals in my head, that connects my team to the challenges of the organization, but I seldom succeed in bringing them to reality. That is what attracts me about your points here. Not just think, or plan or prepare, but _how to_ get there.
Ultimately my vision is to help them be successful in terms of our larger vision. I am very interested in working on me so I can help my team move to success.
We have big challenges ahead of us, my team has big skills and big dreams, I need to lead big.
I think you are spot on here!

[lisa haneberg]

Mike - thanks for your feedback and energy - wow, I hope I have a bunch of folks like you at my presentation! I am thinking about videotaping it, and if I do, I will be sure to post it and share it.