Favorite Family Leadership Topics
Building and Nurturing a Strong Family
Choose from 3 keynotes that can help your family become the best it can be:
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From the Boardroom to the Family Room
Duane boldly states that you can (and should) borrow precepts from the workplace and apply them at home. Why take this particular tack with your family? Because you want your children to be sensitive, rational, happy and stable human beings and you want to live a life that reflects your philosophy. You are willing to brook the storm and build a family culture that fights both entitlement and “affluenza.”
The easily-borrowed core principle you’ll want to reinforce is that of accountability. Still unsure about how that translates to your children? Duane challenges: Managers hold employees accountable, with respect to behavior and productivity. In what work world you know do employees ever get arbitrary raises or unearned compensation? Learn more by making a decision to participate in this keynote.
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
Al Bernstein
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Constructing Legacy
Your leadership and influence can be the catalyst in this retrospective, should you choose this keynote. You’ll learn how your family members can work together to shape a shared family vision. Led by Duane, you’ll “turn the pages of your family’s history” and learn how to incorporate your memories into a lasting family legacy. You’ll start with your own family first, and then, looking backward to each preceding generation, gain an understanding of what has made you who you are. This can turn into a decades-long project, and it may take a different form for every family. Perhaps you’ll build a library of letters and photos that can be passed down to your children and their children. Or it could be that the work of your family is the thing that ties you together─crafts created, products manufactured, services provided, or charitable works performed. Whatever it is that made your family what it was is also what makes you what you are. And that is a legacy which should be celebrated.
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Teen Personality: Finding the Positives
Duane doesn’t wear blinders; he knows the teen years are tumultuous ones where oppositional behavior is the norm. To enjoy a positive relationship with your teens, you’ll need to adapt and grow. Open your mind and heart to the role the teen personality plays in interactions. In this keynote, Duane offers a presentation of Jung’s theory of the personality, but in a practical and experiential way. Parents can better deal with situations as they arise when they are aware of the many predictable temperaments teens display. Awareness means being prepared. And being prepared with an appropriate response/action can, in the long run, lead to a more stable home environment. The prize is an enhanced relationship with your teen.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father
was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have
the old man around. But when I got to be
twenty-one, I was astonished
at how much he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain