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Bob Whipple’s passion is growing leaders. He is at his best when working with a group of professionals to enhance their understanding and practice of great leadership. Bob works with corporate and government groups as well as academic graduate classes to share his wisdom and wit about how to thrive and grow in personal leadership.

Working with the clients, he molds a customized course based on customer requirements and questionnaire results. Particularly useful are the differing opinions at various levels in an organization. These differences are clues to areas that need to be addressed.

Bob’s approach to customizing training for an organization is both quick and painless. It starts with interviews of key people in the organization.  Depending on the situation, one or two instruments are used to understand the specific training needs for the client.  Bob then prepares a proposal in just a few days.  The topics to be covered are customized based on the highest needs of the organization. Once the client agrees with the course topics, Bob customizes the material to apply specifically to the industry and the particular organization. The training is engineered to be laser-focused on the specific application and pragmatic so it is accomplished for the lowest possible cost.

In some cases, follow on training is desired to keep the learning going after the training sequence.  Bob has video programs and over 600 articles he can draw on to provide ongoing training at a very low cost.

Bob’s systems approach leads to fast turn-around time on producing classes laser focused on the need with flexible timing to suit your situation.

He has over 100 content areas with a “core” of applicable materials available.

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Bob Whipple holds CPTD Certification. The Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) is broad based and measures a talent development professionals’ competency in 23 areas of personal, professional, and organizational expertise  with a focus on mastery as defined by the latest Association for Talent Development Capability Model™.


Bob Teaches a “Leadership for Managers” course three times a year at the Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce. The course runs for five consecutive Friday mornings from 8:30 to 12:30. It is aimed at all leader positions from supervisor to CEO.  It is also an excellent development course for aspiring leaders. The course is highly acclaimed with most participants rating it one of the best courses they have ever taken.  For more information on the course and to identify the next scheduled event, call Jayni Fischer at 585-256-4614.

This is a general survey leadership course for senior leaders, managers, supervisors, group leaders and high-potential professionals. The topics and training create a much higher caliber of leader.

Standard Layout of Leadership Course

Session 1 – Leadership, Motivation, and Culture

  1. Group brainstorm and discussion on the nature of success
  2. Key learning from Napoleon Hill and Earl Nightingale
  3. 10-Minute Self Evaluation
  4. High level perspective on leadership
  5. Contrasting Leadership and Management
  6. Lou Holtz DVD – Do Right
  7. Leadership Styles
  8. Theory from Maslow and Herzberg on motivation
  9. Self motivation exercise: Avoiding the leadership whack-a-mole syndrome

Session 2 – Leadership and Building Trust

  1. The myths about trust
  2. Sharing data on worldwide trends in trust
  3. Defining the nature of trust and how it governs all aspects of a business
  4. The impact trust has on organizational performance
  5. Measuring current trust level in the organization
  6. Discussion of types of trust and things that impact it
  7. Appreciative inquiry – what is already working well
  8. DVD Coach Krzyzewski on the power of good values
  9. The Leadergrow Trust model and technology on building trust
  10. Trust builders and trust busters
  11. Employee Value Proposition
  12. Data on the link between trust and financial performance
  13. The Trust Barometer, leading to the “I AM RIGHT” button
  14. Trust and accountability
  15. Healing a breach of trust
  16. Two role plays on trust compromised
  17. Companies are People too Program™
  18. The Nexus of Ethics and Trust
  19. Trust during a merger, acquisition, or other major transition

Session 3 – Communication and People Skills

  1. Emotional Intelligence – the key to good leadership
  2. Personality tests – DiSC, Myers Briggs or others, as desired – uses and misuses
  3. Organizational politics
  4. Conflict management and resolution
  5. Dealing with personality disorders (bullies, narcissists, passive, etc.)
  6. Difficult employees role play
  7. DVD  Lou Holtz – Do Right II
  8. VAC model – Improving the connectedness with people
  9. Improving online communication (e-mail) – eliminate numerous problems
  10. Reflective Listening
  11. Understanding Body Language
  12. Planting a Seed of Trust in the First 10 Seconds
  13. DVD: Bill Acheson on Body Language
  14. Rumor control
  15. Improving meeting effectiveness
  16. Stress reduction
  17. Teamwork exercise

Session 4 – Organizational and Corporate Skills

  1. Building a great Strategic Framework
  2. Values, Vision, Mission
  3. Exercise on great visions
  4. Increasing customer focus
  5. SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats)
  6. Managing Behaviors
  7. DVD on Strategic Process and Communication
  8. DVD Mark Gungor – Gender differences in communication
  9. Developing an excellent strategy
  10. Enrolling People
  11. Common Management Traps in using data (with role play)

Session 5 – Integrating Work and Your Life

  1. Managing Change
  2. Triple Crown Leadership Discussion
  3. 9 step model to successful change initiatives
  4. Theory from Good to Great – Window/ mirror analogy etc.
  5. DVD on Level 5 Leadership – John Chambers
  6. Negotiation skills
  7. Mentoring – the power and the precautions
  8. Training your Brain to think differently
  9. Improving utilization of time
  10. Plotting the future with accuracy
  11. Tips about money
  12. Obtaining a balance in life
  13. Giving back
  14. Final video: Rising above Obstacles

Bob Whipple has presented and taught Leadership and Business topics at undergraduate and graduate universities as well as over 120 corporations.

Among the universities are:

Harvard Business School – Keynote at SVMP Alumni Dinner 2004
Syracuse University – College of Engineering and Computer Science
Syracuse University College of Information Technology
Roberts Wesleyan College Pathway and Organizational Management Programs
Roberts Wesleyan College MS in Strategic Leadership Program
University of Phoenix Online – Numerous courses
Saint John Fisher College – School of Organizational Learning and Human Development
Saint John Fisher College – Business School MBA Program
Nazareth College
Monroe Community College
Broome Community College
Rochester Institute of Technology
University at Buffalo
Aquinas Institute – Programs for Faculty and Staff on Change and Customer Service
Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce
Western New York Training Council

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