Vinny Boles

Leadership. . .That Tool That Lies Between Juggling & Magic

“Juggling” is a verb defined by the Merriam dictionary as: “To keep several objects in motion in the air at the same time by repeatedly throwing and catching them.”

Merriam defines “Magic” as a noun, specifically: “A power that allows people to do impossible things by saying special words or performing special actions.”

“Leadership” is that topic that, alphabetically, finds itself between these two, and often is confused with these two. As evidenced by these questions and replies often asked of and heard from leaders: “What are you doing? I’m just keeping balls in the air” or; “How did we make that happen? Magic.”

Bringing his 40 years of military, business expertise and presentations to groups around the globe ranging from 40 to 4,000; Major General Vincent “Vinny” Boles provides a lens to view your (and your teams) leadership practices, processes and actions along with a structure to ensure they are consciously and proactively providing the maximum value added to any organization’s most precious resource it’s human capital.

You’ll learn:

• The 5 things to ensure your team learns upfront and early. To include: What your job isn’t; Spot Checks vs Inspections; Management Leadership; When to (and when not to micromanage); Understanding the Challenge of Change.
• How to REALLY help those you lead. Specifically: When do you Smile?; Coaching and Counseling in 15 minutes; Handling “News” (good and bad) to ensure your “best gets better”; The 2 aspects critical in every job interview; Feedback, Giving it as a Gift, Receiving it as a Present.
• How to REALLY help yourself be a better Leader: Including: 4 Things you have to do Everyday (and what happens when you don’t); Don’t learn from Experience; The Model to Manage your meetings; Work Life Balance is an equation (B 24 I/U, how to solve it); The most important thing a leader can do.
• You and your team will leave with reality based, “battle tested” tools to ensure they stop wondering if they are “juggling” or “magically” having things happen to making the best things happen and in the process being the best they can be for themselves and your organization.

Leading in a Crisis

This presentation aligns leaders to the new normal in crisis response. Topics covered are the definition of a crisis, what you need to do before the crisis occurs, how the crisis impacts your systems (logistics, facilities, equipment, people), and what to do after the crisis. The target audience for this presentation are those leaders who are responsible for stepping up during a crisis training session and an actual event.

There Have Always Been “Times Like These”

Leaders and their teams often feel they are confronting challenges for the first time. In this presentation, Vinny reviews the last half of the 20th century and highlights the challenges that occurred that were not predicted, yet were overcome by organizations and leaders conducting themselves from a sense of shared values. The audience will hear that while much has changed, success in struggle comes because of what does not change – values. An organization with a solid and shared values base will endure.

Leading and Leveraging

Vinny discusses the links in your supply chain drawing on his 33 years as a logistician and operations manager of the military’s supply chain at many of its links from the port to the Pentagon, Vinny will walk your team through four critical issues that inhibit the optimization of your supply chain:

• Standards you use.
• Systems you put in place to attain the standards.
• Who is in your charge of your standards, your systems?
• The metrics you measure and how you use them.

Providing real-world examples of what worked, what didn’t work, and why, Major General Boles will lay out a real-world depiction of a supply chain in motion. You and your team will have news you can use to better optimize your supply chain, whether across town or around the globe.

“Vinny Boles’ presentation was impressive and inspiring. We so appreciate the time he spent with some of us to learn about our department and our organization. He certainly demonstrated that information within his presentation. He was a wonderful keynote speaker and received a standing ovation.”
– Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

“I’d like to offer my sincerest thanks for Major General Boles’ presentation to the leadership of IKEA Distribution Services, Inc. at our fiscal year kickoff event in September, 2012. The feedback we got was unanimously positive, and our biggest challenge now is finding another occasion for him to come and visit with us again. His mix of sophisticated supply chain knowledge with sensible, down-to-earth, and tested leadership approaches was spot-on with our group, and I would be happy to recommend him to any future clients.”
– IKEA Distribution Services, Inc.

“On behalf of the Human Exploration Development and Operations Office at Marshall Space Flight Center, I would like to extend my sincere appreciation to you for providing an engaging, entertaining and very enlightening leadership presentation during our recent offsite. Your take on leadership provided fresh insight and challenged us to examine our own leadership styles. You then provided tools and outlined steps to reach a new level of leadership. As a presenter, you excelled. You had everyone’s attention from opening to close. Thank you again for laying out a plan for our “best of the best” to get even better.”
– Bobby Watkins, Director, Human Development Exploration and Operations, NASA

“Vinny’s presentation was great! Everyone really enjoyed hearing from him and his experience with leadership. Later that evening, we had our awards banquet, and many of the speeches included excerpts and quotes from Vinny’s presentation. That’s a pretty good indicator that his message was well received. Personally, I was impressed with how well Vinny understood our audience and spoke directly to them as if he had been working with our company for years.”
– Platinum Insurance

“Vinny Boles was simply amazing. He is a phenomenal public speaker. Vinny took the time to ensure he delivered a message tailored to the audience, while staying true to his story on leadership. He was a staggering success and received a standing ovation from the crowd. I wanted to deliver a valuable message that my audience could use in their everyday lives. Vinny delivered! He was on target with the message, delivered it in a heartfelt and often amusing way that was accessible to every member of the audience. He captured the attention of the crowd from the moment he walked on the stage and he wove his magic to keep them interested, engaged and entertained as he delivered a message on leadership that will have a lasting impact for all that attended.”
– Avaya Government Solutions