Adam Kreek

What do personal values have to do with team engagement and performance? In 2022? Everything.
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Optimize career engagement and safeguard against the great resignation by aligning your team members’ personal values to your organizational values. Your result? More fulfilled teams who outperform competition consistently. Today’s competitive and changing landscape demands that companies employ new and innovative strategies to retain talent, secure and cultivate engagement, and drive performance. Financial and social incentives can play a role but are limited in scope, often unsustainable and do not always address the innate needs, wants and values of team members. The science is clear. Engagement soars, conflict declines, trust is bolstered and communication is more productive when leaders and teams operate with a shared understanding of values.In Adam’s Values-drive Achievement keynote and workshop, he leads teams and organizations through a framework guiding team members to articulate, affirm and act upon their values, and decisively align their personal values with their teams and organization.

Learning Outcomes:

• What are personal and organizational values?
• Why are values essential to personal and organizational success?
• How can we align personal and professional values and how does this result in unstoppable drive and team cohesion?
• Empower a cultural transformative strategy and the tools for team members to identify and align their personal values to the mission, vision and values of their organization. This process results in enhanced personal drive and achievement, team engagement, and a values-driven culture designed for synergy, talent retention and impact.
• Adam provides each participant with state-of-the-art behavior change technology to ensure and sustain long-term, values-driven action beyond his keynote, workshop or consultation.

When the whirlwind takes over, busyness gains priority and stress levels run high. In a fast-paced environment, we often let communication and team dynamics suffer, and the costs are significant.An incredible power is released when teams operate effectively. When functioning optimally, teams are resilient, manage risk, and maximize achievement in times of change.Empower your team to navigate current and future uncertainty with confidence. Participants will gain Adam’s best practices for managing change and the tools necessary for consistent self-improvement.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the change curve and stop resistance;
• Clarify and empower personal and organizational values in times of crisis;
• Understand your role and focus on what you can control;
• Learn the stages of team development, and move from chaos to optimization.

12 years, 2 million practice strokes, 7,200 practice sessions, 13,000 hours on the water. Olympic training statistics are remarkable. But when discussing Olympic results, one measure of success and failure is often overlooked:‍How many workers died in preventable safety incidents to create a successful Olympic experience? For Adam, it was 24.‍These workplace fatalities are catastrophic – and avoidable.‍
What is Gold Medal Safety? A Zero-Harm worksite. Zero-harm can seem as daunting as winning an Olympic Gold Medal, so we need to have the courage to dream this big. Aim for perfection, accept excellence. That’s how you win Olympic Gold. That’s how you win in a competitive corporate marketplace. And that’s how you build a strong safety culture. ‍Adam’s customized, thought-provoking and behaviour changing keynote help safety leaders and their organizations build and sustain Gold Medal Safety at every level of their organization.

Learning Outcomes:

• Individuals learn to take responsibility for the safety culture of the organization;
• Participants learn how to prioritize small, incremental action and behaviors to build a Gold Medal Safety culture.
• Teams gain understanding of practical and effective communication and conflict resolution models for safe work environments.

As a society, we’ve been oversold the quick fixes. Be the boss now. Lose weight in one week. Get rich tomorrow. We want to believe there’s a secret cheat code, a hack, or a hidden short-cut. When the quick and easy routes fail, we often blame others: it’s the CEO’s fault, our partner’s fault, the client’s fault, the sales team’s fault… The list goes on.

In this behavior-changing keynote, Adam shares his principle of The Responsibility Ethic, and teaches the practice of Self-Leadership. That is, we each can achieve any desired outcome (personal, professional and team) when we recognize our role in the current state of affairs. We must align our vision, plan and behaviour with our goals. Many of us have been told to follow our dreams, but not given the fine print: success will require hard work and consistent action. 

Adam challenges attendees to develop personal accountability for their vision, values, goals and actions. The result will be new levels of success through daily focus, choices and actions.

Learning Objectives:
• Skills, tools and strategies for effective self-leadership.
• Methods to successfully craft, plans and execute for maximum results.
• Increase control and empowerment, optimize decision-making and reduce stress.

A strong team culture is essential to sustain success. How can we foster authentic and lasting team culture? Reunite your team under a higher goal. Embolden the professionals on your teams to lead from within. Adam combines inspiring stories with an interactive presentation to share the concept of Shared Leadership with teams across sectors.

It’s time to hit the refresh button. Empower your team to navigate current and future uncertainty with confidence. Participants will gain my best practices for managing change, and the tools that are necessary for consistent self-improvement.

Learning Objectives:
• How to embrace change by understanding the change curve.
• How to overcome disagreements.
• Communication tips for better teamwork and team leadership

We operate in an increasingly competitive, globally diverse economy. When our organization’s values are unclear and unlived, performance and productivity are sacrificed. It takes more than a fear of being fired or financial incentives to motivate employees. Without common, identified and actively embraced values, an organization will struggle to succeed.

In his interactive keynote, Adam brings the power of values to life, evoking professional passion and more fulfilling success. Adam teaches audiences how to unearth their values, and act on them to be more engaged, productive, focused and ultimately effective.

Learning Objectives: 
• Identify and express your personal and organization’s values effectively.
• Optimize decision making and limit distractions. 
• Create sustainable team engagement and a powerful organizational culture.

How many workers died in preventable safety incidents to create a successful Olympic experience? Ten workers died preparing the Beijing Olympic facilities where Adam competed and won in 2008. Fourteen workers died to produce the Athens Olympics where he competed just four years earlier. But there is hope. The London Olympics delivered the best safety performance on record for a summer games. Not one worker died due to workplace neglect.

The insights, questions and stories shared in Adam’s keynote will help safety leaders and their organizations build and sustain Gold Medal Safety at every level of an organization.

Learning Objectives:
• Practical and effective communication and conflict resolution models for safe work environments.
• Successful responses to hazardous stress triggers.
• How to take personal responsibility for team safety.

Adam also offers customized presentations on peak performance and more. View a full list of his presentations here.