Jos Plas MSc.

Jos is executive board member at Pro Balance Group. He guides organizations by implementing sustainable ‘winning’ strategies. He publishes, speaks and stages workshops and about this and applies this in daily practice to enhances top performances.

He has many years of management and business development experience. He acts as a keynote speaker, facilitator and executive consultant for many corporations in industry, business and financial services, FMCG and utility companies. He designs and coaches simulations games for managers to be able to experiment in a virtual practice with failure and future top performances.

He wrote ‘De Regie van Succes': Smart Change in Organizations, via Scriptum publishing. He explains and dismantles the secrets of successful organizational change. Success not just in its material existence, status and money, but above all in the immaterial meaning by cultural change. He paints all kind of new concepts, following from phenomenon’s, movements, thinking directions and trends intertwined to his three main outlines: Leadership, reinforcement (renewed power in mental modelling) and entrepreneurship. He hands scripts for successful change to the swinging organization. Het uses poetic and prosaic quotations for variation and recognition. Het builds on to existing theories and concepts, to which he adds spiritual assumptions. This book is a ‘must’ for managers who are responsible for arranging change processes in their organizations.

What you might expect?
His style is naughty, creative, sometimes provocative, punctuated with humor, frivolous anecdotes, business cases, examples and ‘incidents’. His wide range of interactive presentations always fir with situations where results meet with human abilities. You mat think of inspiration sessions, combining forces, united teambuilding, sustainable management and business development. In brief: all situations where people like to be challenged to develop themselves and their organization to perform more professional.

Speaking engagements and high impact workshops.
He always takes you on an interactive and dynamic journey to discover the patterns behind failure and success, and to make you comfortable in finding your own style. He doesn’t make use of meaningless definitions, but explains everything lively and animated and for immediate use in every day practice for problems that are real her and now.

Topics:
• Strategy that everyone understands by the Dutch Windmill Model™
• Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Failure or Future?
• Crisis, Force and Sustainability
• The Swinging Organization: Focus and Flexibility
• The simplicity of ‘winning’: becoming and staying the frontrunner
• Innovation that shifts renewal in top gear
• Business Learning to handle daily real-time problems with Profit
• Following’ trends reactively, going along responsively or setting trends proactively

The following topics designs tailor made:
1. The Devaluation of ‘Winning’
About managing strategic change. Winning and losing both are the outcome of a psychological struggle or physical battle. The winner grants respect. The loser receives derision: he has failed. “He grabs beside the gold” is a popular expression which looks like failure. “He scored silver” is an expression that sounds like making a top performance. Two different formulations for the same result. Winning and losing are very close to each other. They are two sides of the same medal. Winning has lost its glance, and losing is not that bad at all! The inflation of losing seems to go hand in hand with the devaluation of winning. This workshop offers the strategist the opportunity to get grip on all the crucial elements of strategic ‘winning’ and to lift strategy from a slogan to a choice.

2. Transformation as a surpass for change
Corporations have to transform if they want to survive in the competition battle. Simple change is not enough. “Stagnation means decline” is the reason for fear. Management tends to take refuge in using the change ax to cut not just costs, but the hart out of an organization. Making people responsible for part of the business by creating ‘proactive’ P&L accountable business units. These units have an outstanding failure rate because they tumble-down extremely fast from proactive into reactive illusions. P&L accountable units are nothing less then a cover-up for organizations with a reactive corporate culture. This workshop shows how to create effective alternatives and transformation that sticks.

3. 'Doers with a vision’ about passion driver entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship generates successful action. Success in a way that the organization utilizes her employee’s professionalism, knowledge, experience, their understandings and ideas. Daily practice shows that in general generating ideas is not that bad. The problem however is that the idea owners breaking down on an extremely conservative corporate culture where new ideas are not recognized and honored. Entrepreneurs are willing to do the outmost to make their dream come true. If we do not dare to dream our dream, then there is not enough compassion. If so, stop dreaming. This event shows the true meaning of making a dream com true. It demonstrates ways to avoid blockades, break through conservative boundaries, get recognition and support to start.
It explains that you have to project your idea and inject your DREAM in the decision makers mind by making your idea Decisive, Radically different, Emotional, Adaptive and Motivational. This kind of DREAM creates passionated followers who will propagate your dream.

4. Leadership with significance
“Are you boss, or are you playing boss” represents the time-honored dilemma of differences and similarities between management and leadership. This event analyses, closely investigates, visually explains, demonstrates, and dismantles all models, theories, meanings, opinions and (pre) judgments. This event is equal to an “MBA is less then a day”.

5. Impeding Opinions in building international business
Cultural patterns keep us caught in our opinions and beliefs. We cherish these for our confidence. This Socratic interactive event will take us on the road to discover the back of our impeding opinions in doing international business. Via realistic business situations participants are presented with choices that strongly appeal to their own business norms and values. By increasing the complexity of the business cases the choices that need to be made will demonstrate the contradictions in opinions and beliefs and will lead the way to remove impending opinions to become successful In international business. He will play a brief quiz to look for possible impending opinions.

Management simulations and Prisoners Dilemma Games.
All about experiencing and dealing with power, authority and influence. Assessing and managing interests and dependencies from people, groups and other players. These simulations and games show how to make de most effective interventions on the right levels.