Speaking / Workshops

Discovering, Developing, And Living Your Passion

Richard has been driven by his passion for achieving personal and business excellence throughout his life. This passion has led him to compete and excel in a variety of sports, to create and build start-up companies, and, ultimately to write The Passion Plan: A Step-by-Step Guide to Discovering, Developing, and Living Your Passion. The powerful insights and practical seven-step plan laid out in the book are explored in this dynamic and thought-provoking presentation. Participants will learn how to discover their own passion and turn it into personal and professional fulfillment. Richard shares his own experiences as well as those of other men and women he has helped on their road to what he calls "Profit with a capital P"—where profit is measured in personal enrichment and satisfaction not just in dollars.

Building A Passion-Driven Organization

The ability to attract and retain talented employees has become a significant organizational challenge. Recently, a growing number of people, from executives to front-line employees, have been leaving organizations to pursue personal passions that they were not able to experience on the job. These passions have ranged from the desire to start-up and run a business to using certain skills and competencies on the job. As a result, many organizations have had to re-think their management and development strategies.

This timely and engaging program explores how to improve the performance and strengthen the loyalty of employees by building a passion-driven culture that aligns the organization's passion with the employee's passions.

Leading With Passion

As we enter the new century, profound changes are occurring in the global marketplace. Changes which require not only reinventing organizations, but our notion of leadership as well. With the emphasis shifting from managing others to enabling others, leaders must focus on helping themselves, as well as their associates, learn, develop, and perform as never before.

Based on his own experience and the countless experiences of those he has studied, advised, and consulted, Richard has learned that individuals and organizations who perform with passion achieve "Profit with a capital P." This profit is not limited to just financial success. It involves much more—advancing technology; enhancing customer relationships; and maintaining work/life balance.

In "Leading With Passion," Richard will show you how to employ passion to energize your career, improve individual and organizational performance, and strengthen workforce loyalty.

Turning Passion Into Performance

The saying "you snooze, you lose," has become the rule of the day. Those organizations that are too slow or too cautious to adapt do not survive. It is the organization that inspires employees and customers, that guides and manages shifts in business directions, that prevails. In this presentation, Richard Chang combines two powerful methodologies to help organizations motivate their people and align their efforts to achieve business goals.

Richard begins by guiding participants through the seven-step Passion Plan Model™, showing them how to discover their own passion and turn it into personal and professional fulfillment. He then adapts this model to reveal how passion can provide direction and improve performance at all levels within the organization. As he does, participants learn to identify the Key Profit Areas that integrate personal and organizational passions to truly define success.

Following this, Richard explains how Performance Scorecards are used to reinforce these "Key Profit Areas". Employing a proven six-phase approach, he explains how to build, link, and refine scorecards to make timely, action-oriented decisions and emphasize the organization's core passions and other top-level strategies.