Do your managers need a better way to get people on-side?

Discover the power of collaborative leadership from executive & author John Kuypers...

A better way

Who’s The Driver Anyway? by John Kuypers offers a totally new leadership method that makes it much easier for leaders to overcome staff resistance to change…new strategies, new team members, new processes & systems.

If your key managers are giving orders or getting run over by staff, you’ve got a problem.  Morale drops, politics rises, productivity falls and key people want to leave.

Who’s The Driver Anyway? gives leaders AND team members a simple, powerful tool with which to collaboratively get on the same page.  Using the metaphor of a driver and a passenger, teams learn that all work gets done by drivers…but that doesn’t mean drivers get to make final decisions!

Who’s The Driver Anyway? clarifies who is the driver of the work, and who gets to decide how the driver gets things done. It works amazingly well by getting people to collaboratively decide, who gets to decide, and then accept the final decision even if a team member disagrees with it!

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to get people on-side.

Who’s The Driver Anyway? identifies the root cause of all resistance: disagreement over who gets to decide. It does so without judging anyone as right or wrong, by acting like an objective mirror. Thus, it is non-threatening. This lowers resistance and creates real, lasting change. Enjoy this amusing 30 seconds on how a team on the same page gets better results…

Who’s The Driver Anyway? is a learned in three steps – Rift, Shift, and Lift. Thanks to its common language, leaders learn to communicate openly and upfront on the key question: who has the authority to decide and to what degree? It could be the boss. It could be a peer. It could be the subordinate. Who’s the Driver Anyway? offers a clear way to get everyone on the same page – for any and all issues. Action follows and frustration dissipates fast.

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Executive praise!

“John Kuypers has written a book which deals with a vexing issue managers struggle with and which gets in the way of not only their performance but of the entire organization. Most fail to see that the root cause of their struggles is often a lack of understanding of the organizational culture. John’s book helps managers think through the vital question: Who should make the decision? What is my role? Where should my authority begin and end? What is the culture here? Are we team based, consensus driven, or are we a group of entrepreneurs, loosely collaborating? The driver/passenger analogy John uses clarifies the various relationships which are possible and gives the reader much room for personal reflection. Who’s The Driver Anyway? gives managers some great tools to enhance both their own and their organization’s performance!”~Malcolm Hopkins, VP Corporate Services, St. Thomas-Elgin General Hospital, Ontario, Canada
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“I was impressed with the Who’s The Driver Anyway?tm program. My team runs complex, client-driven marketing programs and they all need to be on the same page to get things done right and done on time. The workshop gave us new language with which to communicate clearly and reliably about who’s doing what. The driver-passenger language was easy to grasp and everyone rated the experience highly. Most importantly, people are using The 7 Performance Drivers tool in day-to-day discussions. I also like how it gave me a means to create the kind of team culture I wanted to have in our business to be productive and effective. I highly recommend it!”

~Cam Thomson, Senior VP, Carlson Marketing Canada

“Who’s The Driver Anyway? has helped me to resolve situations that I know need to be resolved with my staff. The 7 Performance Drivers tool gives me a visual way in which to have an honest, objective discussion, particularly when they come to me with problems, not solutions. This great tool ensures that they walk away owning their share of the responsibility for getting the work done.”

~Kelly Hoey, Executive Director, Halton Industry Education Council (HIEC)

“Who’s The Driver Anyway? is really quite a tool bag – maybe more of a chest of tools – really it’s a full workshop! I didn’t expect that it would be so comprehensive. It makes a strong case for why “command and control” won’t work anymore and why business needs to shift to a culture of collaboration. That message instantly resonates in today’s business world but up until this book, there haven’t been any tools to make it happen – or understand why it’s a lot harder than it sounds. The driver/passenger model of collaboration is a breakthrough! It is very intuitive and the overlying concept of Near/Far explains behaviours that we have all seen. All the tools are so easy to remember – Rift/Shift/Lift, the Expectations Pyramid, Time Frame, HURD, WIN, and the dreaded “opposite effect”. It sounds like alphabet soup but they are all very simple and easy to use tools that work in harmony to diagnose problems and make the positive change to a culture of high-performance collaboration. Great stuff!”

~Jim Jonkman, VP Operations, Etymonic Design Inc

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Are you ready to break old command and control habits that don’t work and actually harm your business? Then you’re ready to make the shift to a collaborative team culture today.  Introduce it to your team with a keynote, a workshop series or executive coaching.

Here’s how to order Who’s The Driver Anyway? online today from Chapters-Indigo booksellers:

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Call today to learn more at 1-905-381-0341 or e-mail us to set up a phone appointment. If you lead a team facing rapid change, Who’s The Driver Anyway? will get everyone on the same page quickly, so results get done on-time, on-spec.

Who’s The Driver Anyway is also part of the Role Driver roles and responsibilities system. Visit Role Driver to learn how defining individual job accountabilities in high definition will help your team raise team productivity, quality and collaboration.

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