Julie Ruben Rodney

Leadership and Behavioural Change Expert

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Julie Ruben Rodney is CEO and Founder of Maximum People Performance Inc., a people development organization that partners with its clients to maximize the performance of their people to ensure successful execution of their corporate strategy. Julie focuses on helping people maximize their performance both individually and with teams. Julie is an experienced and dynamic facilitator, consultant and keynote speaker in the areas of Interpersonal Communication, Teambuilding, Leadership Development and Creativity.

She leverages her expertise with a variety of assessments to help her clients improve their ability to work with others more effectively. Some of the assessments she uses includes the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), The McQuaig System®, Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument ® (HBDI®), Strategic Leadership Development® (SLD®), and DiSC Personal Profile System®. She often incorporates these assessments to deliver high-impact programs that are tailored to meet the business objectives of her clients.

Julie is certified to deliver Dr. Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats® program. She applies the powerful Six Thinking Hats® framework to meeting facilitation, team brainstorming and consensus building.

Prior to starting her own people development organization, she spent ten years with MICA Consulting Partners, where she successfully facilitated hundreds of interactive workshops, designed programs, built deep client relationships through business development, and project managed large scale initiatives.

She is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario. She further pursued Personnel and Industrial Relations at the University of Toronto. She obtained her Certificate in Human Resource Management (CHRM) through the Human Resources Professional Association (HRPAO), as well as, her Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) designation. She is a member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers.

Julie has a Masters in Adult Education (M.Ed.) specializing in Workplace Learning and Change from the University of Toronto. She is passionate about engaging people to maximize their performance using a fun and positive approach.

1. Rev Up Your Brain! -Leverage Your Thinking Style with HBDI

Duration: Half-Day, Full Day
Target Audiences: Executives, Managers, Leaders, Individual Contributors, Intact Teams, Team Members

Have your team learn the Whole Brain HBDI™ model and how to leverage their collective brain power more effectively. Julie Ruben Rodney’s program will change the way they think about themselves and their team.
Have your team learn the Whole Brain HBDI™ model and how to leverage their collective brain power more effectively. Julie Ruben Rodney’s program will change the way they think about themselves and their team.

Participants will receive an individual HBDI™ profile that illustrates and explains the methods of thinking, learning, communicating, work preferences and decision-making in individuals and teams. Understanding these preferences enables individuals and teams to optimize their ability to adapt their thinking, while communicating more effectively in different professional settings. It is a powerful catalyst for increased team effectiveness.

How You Will Benefit:

•Improves communication: Break down the barriers, create more effective listening and generate a common language
•Increases Productivity: Maximize the brain power of the team
•Encouraged Innovation: Ignite breakthrough thinking and creativity for high-involvement with team members
•Enhances Performance: Match individual strengths to specific tasks
•Assists Management: Understand how to motivate and lead employees with diverse thinking styles

What Will Your Team Learn:

•A Thinking Model based on the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument™ (HBDI™).
•How preferences affect behaviors in planning, work, and communication on Teams.
•How your behavior affects these styles.
•To fully understand and apply your HBDI™ assessment results when working with others.

Note: Participants will be asked to complete an on-line HBDI™ assessment prior to the session.

2. Teambuilding in Action –Accelerate to High Performance

Duration: Half-Day, Full Day
Target Audiences: Leaders, People Managers, Intact Teams, Team Members

In this facilitated team session the entire team will have an opportunity to learn and apply the key principles to becoming a High Performing Team. They will deepen their current understanding of how their personality style using DiSC® or MBTI ® can assist or get in their way of building effective team relationships. As well, it will provide an opportunity for participants to analyze the impact their personality type has on the way they interact with others on their team.
In this facilitated team session the entire team will have an opportunity to learn and apply the key principles to becoming a High Performing Team. They will deepen their current understanding of how their personality style using DiSC® or MBTI ® can assist or get in their way of building effective team relationships. As well, it will provide an opportunity for participants to analyze the impact their personality type has on the way they interact with others on their team.

How You Will Benefit:

•Know how others tick on your team based on personality style
•Know the stages of team development and identify their current team’s strengths and challenges
•Be able to help one another move through the storming phase quickly to eventually get to the high performing stage.

What You Will Learn/Experience:

•The four stages of team development
•A facilitated Guiding Principles exercise & Team Purpose exercise
•How to live the Team/Company Values activity,
•How to build trust
•An open feedback session using the Stop-Start-Continue principle
•Team Action Planning

Note: Participants will be asked to complete an on-line MBTI ® or DiSC® assessment prior to the session.

3. Get Creative Using the Six Thinking Hats

Duration: Half-Day, Full Day, Multiple Days
Target Audiences: Executives, Managers, Leaders, Individual Contributors, Intact Teams

The Six Thinking Hats® framework helps people identify their challenges when working with others to generate ideas. It provides a respectful way to collaboratively communicate and develop innovative solutions to business needs. This session will engage your people using fun and experiential activities.
The Six Thinking Hats® framework helps people identify their challenges when working with others to generate ideas. It provides a respectful way to collaboratively communicate and develop innovative solutions to business needs. This session will engage your people using fun and experiential activities.

Julie Ruben Rodney will have a design meeting with the sponsor and/or leaders to identify business application issues. The Six Thinking Hats® session will focus on building the foundation for application of the Six Thinking Hats methodology and creative problem solving tools.

How You Will Benefit:

•Understand their unique approach to thinking and creativity
•Increase communication, trust, collaboration and sharing of ideas between their peers and their staff
•Make effective decisions through thoughtful exploration and active listening
•Leverage the great minds of the whole team when building a solution for a business issue

What Your Team Will Learn:

•How to look at a situation from multiple important perspectives
•How to help your team identify their challenges when working together
•Respectful ways to collaboratively develop innovative solutions to business needs
•Methods of becoming a better problem solver through brainstorming

4. Motivate Your People Through Situational Leadership

Motivate Your People Through Situational Leadership
Duration: Half-Day, Full Day, Two Days
Target Audiences: Leaders and People Managers

Have your leaders spend time focusing on the critical skills of building effective feedback and coaching skills and providing them with the foundation for managing people. Julie Ruben Rodney will teach your Managers the importance of effective performance management practices. Her program will provide an overview of the Situational Leadership II™ model which will help managers increase the frequency and quality of their conversations about performance with their people, ultimately seeing that competence is developed, commitment is gained, and talented individuals stay with the organization.
Have your leaders spend time focusing on the critical skills of building effective feedback and coaching skills and providing them with the foundation for managing people. Julie Ruben Rodney will teach your Managers the importance of effective performance management practices. Her program will provide an overview of the Situational Leadership II™ model which will help managers increase the frequency and quality of their conversations about performance with their people, ultimately seeing that competence is developed, commitment is gained, and talented individuals stay with the organization.

The role of the Leader is to provide whatever it takes—goals, direction, training, support, feedback, and recognition—to develop employees' skills, motivation, and confidence to excel. The result of effective feedback and coaching is an organization where people feel more empowered, engaged, and open to new challenges.

How You Will Benefit:

•Better able to coach employees to excel in their roles
•Reduce amount of time spent on managing employees
•Increase in personal quality and effectiveness as a manager

What Will You Learn:

•How to identify challenges in an employee’s performance and understand the issues that may be interfering with their performance
•To see the critical role a Manager plays through out the performance management process
•To monitor the progress of their employees and ensure ongoing feedback and coaching support

5. What Employees Really Want –A Great Manager!

Duration: Half-Day, Full Day
Target Audiences: Leaders and People Managers

The best boss I’ve ever had. That’s a phrase most of us have said or heard at some point, but what does it mean? What sets the great boss apart from the average boss? What do great managers actually do?
The best boss I’ve ever had. That’s a phrase most of us have said or heard at some point, but what does it mean? What sets the great boss apart from the average boss? What do great managers actually do?

The role of the manager is very internally focused: to turn one person's talent into performance; to ask, "Who is the person? What is his or her unique style of learning? What is his or her unique trigger to get the best out of the person?" The challenge is to find what's unique and capitalize on it.

How You Will Benefit:

•Understand the top things great managers do and how to apply them
•Provide avenues for building a positive working environment
•Recognize, reinforce and reward individual efforts
•Involve and engage your people while building trust

What You Will Learn:

•Come away with a number of new ideas, skills and solid principles to apply.
•Take ownership as a manager to develop staff.
•Foster open communication and motivate your staff.

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