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Surviving or Thriving:
Leading Your Business Through the Economic Crisis


The business world has changed. We are in a global economy where only the best will survive. Whether you are a small company or a large corporation, success depends on your ability to eliminate status quo, increase sales, and exceed customer expectations. You will learn how to create a system of customer service keeping you profitable and ahead of the competition. This session provides you dozens of tips and strategies on improving performance, motivating your people to new levels, and innovative ways to market your business and capture new customers. These new ideas and concepts will take you and your company to the next level and help you achieve measurable, bottom-line improvement results in a short period of time.

Learn how to:

  • Transform ideas into new products and services

  • Generate a new vision for your organization that facilitates change, growth, and productivity

  • Increase sales from your current customer database

  • Capture free publicity from newspapers, magazines, and radio

  • Use the Internet to make money while you sleep

  • Use marketing techniques to increase sales

  • Create a work environment that attracts, keeps, and motivates your workforce

  • Deliver better, faster service and increase customer satisfaction

  • Create incentive systems to reward and recognize front-line service employees

Transformational Leadership:

How to Design a Strategy to Accelerate Performance and Increase Productivity

 

Winston Churchill said, "There is nothing wrong with change as long as it is in the right direction." 

 

The turbulent economy has placed businesses and business leaders under pressure to improve and restructure their organizations. A survey by the Conference Board showed executives’ major concern was about "speed, flexibility, and adaptability to change.”  Businesses need to implement a “transformational” style of leadership along with an effective strategy that will enhance productivity, cut costs, and position your business or organization for increased efficiency.  Additionally, you will learn specific techniques to help your workforce manage change, retain top talent, reduce bureaucracy, and learn innovative ways to drive the transformation from the bottom-up. 

  • Identify and eliminate “organizational pathologies”

  • Turn change into a positive driving force

  • Learn to avoid what causes change management strategies to fail

  • Learn the key steps for an effective organizational transformation process

  • Understand the style of leadership needed in today’s environment

  • Learn a strategy to keep people engaged and energized

  • Overcome resistance and barriers to change

LEADERSHIP

 

Gladiator Leadership:

Transforming Managers to Leaders

 

"Management is an 8-to-5 obligation, but leadership is a 24-hour-a-day responsibility." Greg Smith

 

Studies show the personal actions of the leader is the most important factor in driving profits and retaining employees as well as contributing to the financial success of the organization. This session will provide attendees with the five key strategies that drive performance and organizational success. You will learn how to reward, motivate, engage, make accountable, and coach people toward higher performance. By building confidence in your abilities you will be able to handle leadership challenges and lead your people to sustained high performance. You will gain a comprehensive range of very practical and highly effective leadership tools and approaches that can be implemented immediately.

  • Learn the five strategies good leaders take to drive performance

  •  Achieve measurable improvements in leadership performance

  • Learn how to energize and engage your staff toward outstanding performance

  • Generate ownership and responsibility for change

  • Acquire the skills and know-how to get the very best from every employee

  • Make a real difference in the effectiveness and productivity of your team

  • View the Leadership Video Clip

TALENT MANAGEMENT

 

Here Today, Here Tomorrow:

Proven Ways to Engage, Retain and Motivate Your Workforce  


The key to success for any organization is the ability to attract and retain skilled and talented people. Discover the groundwork that builds employee motivation, morale, and pride. Learn how to create a work environment that attracts, keeps, and motivates your workforce. Discover why some employees would rather work for a good employer than leave for more money. This session will show managers, owners, supervisors, and human resource professionals not only how to recruit and retain talented performers, but also how to transform their entire workforce into a high-retention culture—saving organizations countless thousands of dollars. This session is jam packed with tips, ideas, and easy-to-implement advice for creating a high-retention culture.

  • Implement the key drivers that create a great place to work

  • Understand the leadership skills needed for high retention

  • Implement an effective retention strategy saving you countless thousands of dollars in turnover costs

  • Design an effective orientation or "Onboarding" process

  • Build powerful bonds between the workforce and their managers

  • Use employee involvement programs to engage your workforce

  • Create incentives and recognition programs that engage and keep your best performers

  • Design an Employee Value Proposition (EVP) for your workforce

  • Use peer recognition programs to reward and build teamwork

  • Benefit from specific examples from healthcare organizations

  • View Greg's books on this topic

Managing Change in Turbulent Times
How to Keep Your Employees Engaged, Motivated and Heading in the Right Direction

The current economic crisis has affected people in different ways – new directions, new strategies and ongoing uncertainty continue to plague the workforce. Your success depends on getting people to let go of the past and focus on the future. Businesses must harness the creative abilities of the workforce and accelerate performance from the bottom to the top. Based on proven concepts, you will learn to achieve measurable, bottom-line performance improvement results in a short period of time. As a result you will be able to quickly enhance organizational performance and create a foundation of sustained improvement, change, and innovation.

  • Identify and select breakthrough performance projects that improve performance

  • Learn to design employee involvement strategies that generate bottom-line results

  • How to use reward and recognition to keep people motivated

  • Overcome resistance and barriers to change

  • Dramatically raise the innovative potential of your workforce

  • Obtain a high level of involvement from your workforce

  • Create enthusiasm and improve job satisfaction

Transforming Workers to Winners:
What Good Organizations Do to Achieve Extraordinary Results


The backbone of any organization is the people on the front line. No matter what industry you are in, success depends on engaging their creative abilities and accelerating the performance of the entire workforce, from the bottom to the top. Based on proven concepts, you will learn how to achieve measurable, bottom-line performance improvement results in a short period of time. You will learn how to design employee involvement and engagement programs that harness the creative abilities, accelerate performance and generate bottom-line results. The end product will allow businesses to quickly enhance their performance and create a foundation of sustained improvement, drive change, and improved employee retention and engagement.

  • Identify and select breakthrough performance projects that improve performance

  • Overcome resistance and barriers to change

  • Dramatically raise the innovative potential of your workforce

  • Learn a step-by-step strategy that generates concrete and measurable bottom-line results

  • Obtain a high level of involvement from your workforce

  • Create enthusiasm and improve job satisfaction

  • Learn how to tap, capture, and transform ideas into valuable products and services

  • Learn proven ways to engage, retain and motivate your workforce  

CUSTOMER SERVICE

 

Loyal For Life:

The Essentials of Great Customer Service


Learn to create a system of exceptional customer service keeping you profitable and ahead of the competition. Loyal for Life will help you, your staff, and your business develop the right attitude and emotionally connect with your customers. This session provides dozens of tips and strategies that can be implemented immediately. Discover how to hire, manage and reward your employees so they act quickly, take responsibility, and deliver a high level of service to your customers.

  • Design a pattern of exceptional service and keep customers loyal for life

  • Build an emotional bond with your customers

  • Create processes where employees always do the right thing at the right time

  • Develop a world-class customer service image

  • Increase your credibility with customers—and your value to your organization

  • Create incentive systems to reward and recognize front-line service employees

  • Establish customer service commandments

  • Benefit from lessons learned from service industry leaders

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TEAMBUILDING & COMMUNICATION

 

Dynamic Teambuilding:
How to Enhance Communication and Build Effective Teams

 
Team members differ from each other in fundamental ways including their values, behaviors, talents, temperaments, wants, and beliefs. Powerful communication skills and an understanding of the differences in the way people communicate are essential to effective relationships in the workplace. People will learn how to understand each other and resolve their differences. The seminar incorporates a behavior assessment to give a more complete understanding of yourself and others. You will become a more successful leader and make interactions with others more efficient and effective. This program will unlock some of the mysteries in dealing with people on and off the job. 

  • Learn and understand how your communication style effects others

  • Understand yourself and others better

  • Improve communication and leadership effectiveness

  • Improve hiring, development, and motivation of team members

  • Build productive communications with others

  • Reduce tension and conflict

  • Learn effective ways of dealing with difficult people

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