Rick Munson | SpeakerHub

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Rick is a senior business executive whose expert strategic business planning and leadership/team development skills have led organizations through turnaround situations, out of labor difficulties and strikes, and revitalized old manufacturing plants.

During his 35+ years of experience, Rick has used his results-oriented style to develop strategic action plans for increasing profitability through increased sales and lower costs. He has used various problem solving and quality methodologies to optimize processes and simplify delivering goods and services at a higher level of superiority and performance. His strong, communicative, hands-on leadership style has been critical to the development of high performance management teams and highly motivated work forces.

Distinguished by his passion for business, Rick started Paramount Business Development over 17 years ago to offer his varied experience and broad knowledge to help business leaders in many industries improve their business results, develop better teams, coach executives to greater personal performance, and guide companies through succession. During this time, for nearly 6 years, he was a Master Licensed Business Coach with the world’s largest business coaching organization. While with that organization he was awarded Global Top 100 Coach many times, and achieved the level of Platinum Master Mentor Business Coach. Furthermore, he earned a North American Region award for Consistency of Client Results.

Guided by his very direct and client goal attainment approach, which most of the time is about the bottom line, Rick has led companies to breakthrough results. Over the course of time, Rick and Paramount has coached many construction industry companies to amazing successes.

Rick has an MBA from the University of Louisiana, and a BSME from Purdue University. He is a Certified Executive Coach, a Certified Genos Emotional Intelligence Practitioner, a Certified Practitioner of Profiles International Assessments, and an author of several business/leadership books available on Amazon.

Current position (1)

President/Owner

Paramount Business Development, Inc.

Degrees (2)

BSME, Mechanical Engineering

Purdue University

1978 to 1982

MBA, Business Administration

University of Louisiana

1983 to 1987

Presentations

Presentations (12)

Outrageously Successful Strategic Alliances

When a strategic alliance is nurtured with creativity and care, it’s not only productive for companies and organizations; it’s also a powerful way to fast-track your career. A strategic alliance can help you meet and work with new people who could help you grow your business when you need it most. The most important aspect is working with the right partners. This presentation will discuss what makes an outrageously successful strategic alliance and how you can reach out to create these mutually beneficial partnerships.

Clear Communication

Workplace communication is crucial to companies because it enables them to be productive and operate effectively. When a company can communicate correctly, employees can experience an increase in morale, productivity, and commitment. Additionally, communication has a variety of forms. Verbal communication is the most obvious, but it is not necessarily the most influential. Multiple studies have shown that non-verbal cues such as hand gestures and facial expressions have just as much, if not more, influence as words. How well do you communicate with your team? More importantly, how often do you communicate with your team?

Improved Engagement Through Emotional Intelligence

While emotional skills may come naturally to some people, there are things that everyone can do to help improve their ability to understand and reason with emotions. This is particularly helpful in the workplace where relationships and business decisions often rely on interpersonal understanding, teamwork, and communication. Emotional Intelligence has been proven to increase the productivity and retention of teams, especially the younger generations. And teams with high engagement are 51% more likely to have lower employee turnover.

8 Tips to Being a Great Leader

Many people believe that being the owner, boss or holding some sort of management position is what defines leadership. This couldn’t be further from the truth! True leadership is hard, and it is not something that can be achieved overnight, it is a slow and steady process that happens over years and years of practice and it all starts with little habits. Achieving peak performance as a leader starts with your attitudes and perceptions.

Steady Leadership for Turbulent Times

Change is inevitable, whether it comes from changes within your business, changes to market conditions, or external factors that can’t be predicted or controlled. For businesses to survive, grow and even thrive during these instances, strong and effective leadership is critical for success. No matter what type of business you run, or the type of change you find yourself leading, this presentation will give you essential tips to guarantee victory.

Build Your Dream Team!

Building a dream team of employees requires helping everyone work together and stay engaged. This can be difficult when team members go about their work in different ways. Even though they may be on the same workplace team, their job skills, titles, and requirements are vastly different. As a business leader, it’s your job to make sure their work styles complement, not conflict. It is critical to know what makes each individual tick so you can motivate them and give them a sense of purpose when it comes to contributing to the overall goal of the company.

Hiring & Retaining Millennials

More than one-third of the U.S. workforce is made up of Millennials, and in just for years in the year 2025, they are expected to make up nearly half of all employees, dramatically reshaping the American workforce. That makes it vital for business owners to understand how and why this generation works, what motivates them and what they are looking to gain from their careers. These younger workers bring important new skills, ideas, and energy to the workplace, yet they may be harder to hire and motivate - and may demand more of you and your organization. To keep them and utilize their many talents, you need to adopt new ways of leading them.

Leadership for Younger Generations

Millennials are an instrumental asset to your company and will make up 75% of the workforce within the next 10 years. As a leader, the key to your organization’s future success is understanding how Millennials view the world and using that knowledge to motivate them in a way that works. This presentation will identify ways to motivate, engage and inspire this younger generation, as well as divulge what makes them tick and how their needs differ from those of other generations in the workplace.

Leadership for a Multigenerational Workforce

Whether you’re the business owner of a large corporation or a small, family-owned business, it's important to recognize that everyone has something unique to bring to the table in terms of skills and experience. The last decade has amplified the generational divide, presenting a new set of challenges for today's employers- in addition to new opportunities. The trick to managing a multi generational workforce is understanding differences that can cause conflict and leveraging these points of difference to improve engagement and accountability throughout the organization.

Succession Planning for the Rest of Us

When should a business begin succession planning? The day you start your company! Whether you envision leaving your business to family members, selling it to fund your retirement, or to finance a new venture, you need to have a coherent succession plan in place. Unfortunately, most business owners find themselves approaching retirement age without a clue as to how to make that necessary transition. This presentation will guide you through a simple, easy to follow method to get started. Your business success was no accident, and your succession shouldn’t be either.

Business Planning to Build Your Business

Running your business without a plan is like betting on a racehorse who is running freely on the track without a jockey. You watch helplessly as the horse runs in all different directions without a clue what’s going to happen next, just praying they make it to the finish line. Creating a strategic plan for your business makes you the jockey of this racehorse. This presentation is not a thorough and intensive strategic planning workshop. Rather, it is a great way to start and get comfortable with strategic planning for your business. I will present a no-nonsense framework that has been distilled down from Fortune 1000 companies and expensive consultants to a model that has been proven successful for hundreds of privately-owned companies.

Building a High Performance Culture

“Take care of your people and they will take care of your customers.” Unfortunately, this statement is easier said than done. It takes a very strong leader to develop and communicate on a daily basis to employees the “big picture” of where the company is headed and why that is beneficial from the employee’s perspective. Team members will never create your desired culture if they don’t even know what you expect of them. Do you know what type of company culture you have? Do you want to learn the secrets of creating a healthy, competitive culture?