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Dave Jensen Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Leadership educator, coach and consultant
- Best Sellers
- THE EXECUTIVE'S PARADOX - How to Stretch When You're Pulled by Opposing Demand
- Career Focus
- author, speaker, coach and consultant
- Affiliation
- International Leadership Alliance, National Speakers Association, American Society of Training and Development
Dave employs his extensive background in marketing, research, and leadership to help you conquer your challenges and meet your strategic goals. His past professional experiences include: becoming an award-winning salesperson for Siemens; publishing and directing academic research at the University of Califo ia/San Diego; and serving as Chief Administrative Officer of an Institute at UCLA.
For more than a decade, Dave has combined his practical experience and academic expertise to educate audiences and coach leaders. On stage, Dave stretches your thinking by sharing compelling anecdotes and humorous stories from a life in the trenches. Bring Dave in to hear how you can achieve your goals based on lessons Dave learned on his journey from sweeping factory floors in Connecticut to educating executives throughout the world.
Dave’s innovative research and dynamic programs have led to interviews with The Washington Post and his niece’s neighborhood newsletter. He is a monthly columnist for Advance Magazine, the author of the ground-breaking book Selling with Science & Soul, publisher of the interactive marketing CD-ROM, Strategy, and author of The Executive’s Paradox: How to Stretch When You’re Pulled by Opposing Demands, available at Amazon and on his site: http://davejensenonleadership.com/the-executives-paradox/ Dave is also member of the board of directors of the National Speakers Association (Los Angeles Chapter) and listed in Who’s Who in America.
Call Dave in his Los Angeles office (310 397-6686) to discuss how he can help you use the latest evidence-based leadership tools to achieve bottom-line success.
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Seven Simple Stress-Busters for Leaders
A business school professor once told me that, "the job of a leader is to remove stress from his or her employees." I disagreed by saying, "I think one of the jobs of a leader is to help his or her employees manage stress for optimal performance." How well do you help your team manage stress throughout the day?
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How Leaders Use Feedback to Understand Others
“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know oneself.” Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Improved Almanac (1750)
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The 4 Practical Values That Best Predict Leadership Success
Ethics is defined as the "standards governing how human beings ought to act in various situations." Would you describe yourself as an ethical leader? If so, what values drive your ethics? How do you apply those values in your everyday decision-making?
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Leading by Perceiving Emotions
Bill is gone? I thought to myself. I shouldn't be surprised. He was great at putting a project scope together. He had the most elegant project charts in the company. He was even a good guy… once you got to know him. I later learned that Bill was fired from Siemens because he was not a "people person," meaning he had low emotional intelligence. How is yours?
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Leading by Understanding Emotions
Traffic lights are also called signals because they provide information that directs our future action. They “signal” us to stop, go, or in the case of yellow… hit the gas and race through the intersection. (Maybe I don’t have that last signal quite right.) Emotions are signals too. They contain information that communicates direction. Just as in traffic lights, we can only understand emotional signals if we detect the signal, judge its intensity (akin to how far you are from the light), and evaluate our options accurately. How well do you understand emotional signals?
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Leading by Managing Emotions
Emotions are a feedback mechanism. The dictionary defines feedback as ‘information returned to the source.” Thus, emotions contain information for us. They are meant to help us manage our attention. If you do not manage your emotions and pay attention to the emotions of those around you, you will miss an enormous amount of information necessary for effective leadership.
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The Top Four Motivational Tools
My first job after graduate school was coordinating research at the University of Califo ia at San Diego (UCSD). I had the privilege of working with an extraordinary team led by luminary leader, Dr. Victor Froelicher. In the four years that the nucleus of our small, productive, and highly motivated team was together, we published 33 major research papers. Several members of our team went on to become productive leaders in their respective fields. What accounted for such productivity, effectiveness, and motivation? The latest research in neuroscience, biology, and psychology tell us that Dr.
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How Mid-level Leaders Must Manage and Coach
In a study of over 1,000 mid-level leaders, Professor David Antonioni concluded that the best juggle three roles -- managing, leading, and coaching. (1) Middle leaders are those one level above supervisors and at least two levels below the CEO. Do you ever feel as if you’re stuck in the middle, keeping all those balls in the air? Professor Antonioni assures us that can be done.
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THE Number One Leadership Best Practice
In a survey of 359 corporate officers and 6,900 managers from 77 firms, the McKinsey organization reported that only 7% of respondents agreed that their companies had enough talented managers. (1) Even more alarming was the mere 3% who agreed with this statement: "We develop people effectively." The question then becomes, how might you take personal responsibility to become one of the talented managers or leaders? The answer, learning agility. I think it is the number one leadership best practice.
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5 Tips to Overcome the Leader's Bias
Can you guess the name of the leader described below? - A new chief executive, one of the youngest in his nation's history, is being sworn into office on a cold and cloudy day in January. - He was raised a Catholic. - He rose to his new position in part because of his vibrant charisma. - He is revered by the people and will play a crucial role in a military crisis that will face his nation. - His name will become legendary.
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12 Simple Tips to Increase Leadership Trust
"I'll get back to you on that." I uttered these famous last words to a graduate student at UCLA way back when I was selling for Siemens Medical Systems. I never did get back to him. I became busy and forgot about his request. Not a big deal, right? it wasn’t as HE was the person buying the equipment from us or influential in the buying process. Yeah right.
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Leaders Motivate Teams with Norms
He marched down the hall towards me. He wore a black suit, white shirt, and a gray tie that matched his silver hair. Oh no, I thought to myself, it's Mr. McNulty, the executive director of this entire YMCA. Ten yards from me, he stopped and bent down to pick up a candy wrapper that had escaped from a careless child in our youth department. He then strode to the trash bin next to the desk where I was checking children into their afte oon classes. "You're Dave Jensen, aren’t you?" He barked. "Yes sir," I stammered.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Dave Jensen
Leadership is "the process of unleashing the energy of others toward worthy goals."
Every EMERGEncy is an opportunity for leadership to EMERGE.
Your team's actions are the echoes of your communication.
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