Presentations and Workshops to Help Your Team Really Thrive
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Stop Being Nice: A Call For Leaders To Build Teams That Are Cohesive, Courageous, and Kind (Based on the best-selling book)
When it comes to teams, it’s all about performance and human performance cannot excel if teams are unhealthy. Far too many of our most important teams—from our families to our work units—are unhealthy and weak. What is to blame? Being nice!
Discover what it really means for ourselves and for our teams when we choose to settle for nice. Nice too often brings out the worst humanity has to offer—cowardice, passivity, and the shortsightedness of accepting bad behavior. This is no way to lead. This is no way to build cohesive and high-performing teams.
Author and acclaimed leadership coach, Jim Uhl will take you on a deep dive into what “nice” really means for us as individuals and for our teams. Stop Being Nice is a thought-provoking and insightful conversation that provides a pathway to organizational, team, and family health. Painstakingly researched and laced with historical and contemporary evidence, Uhl opens and closes the case against nice.
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6 Action Items to Punch Fear In The Nose & Overcome Adversity, Anxiety, and Regret
There are two constants in life – Adversity and Change. Each of these constants can wreak havoc on your emotional and physical well-being, but it doesn’t have to be that way. In fact, you are more than equipped to overcome the paralyzing fear that adversity and change can bring. In this keynote presentation you will learn six practical strategies that will cause you to thrive during times of adversity and change.
• Focus on the things you can really control
• Play the right role in your life’s story
• Reject negativity
• Build an essential support system
• Overcome the paralysis of fear
• Align yourself around something that really mattersMost Popular
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Let’s Play: The Surprising Link Between Leadership, Fun, & Team Performance
Play is not just for kids. In fact, it’s essential to our survival – both as a society and as a workplace team.
During this fun, engaging, and insightful presentation, you will learn about the hidden assumptions that are likely holding back you and your team. Discover and be forever changed by the surprising link between play and top workplace performance.
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The Arch: A Framework for Leadership and Life (Based on the best-selling book)
It’s not a matter of if…It’s simply a matter of when life’s next storm of adversity is going to hit your shore.
Storms are not known for their mercy. They can weaken you. They can disconnect you from what matters the most…. From those who need you the most.
As a leader, are you prepared for life’s next storm?
In this presentation:
• Discover how the design of the Roman arch applies to every aspect of your life.
• Learn simple and actionable strategies to maximize your leadership influence.
• Apply these concepts to how you lead, parent, coach, teach, & love your spouse.
• Overcome any crisis that comes your way.Start building yourself into the leader you were always meant to be… The leader that others need you to be.
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Leading & Living Strong – A Strengths-Based Leadership Workshop Customized For Future Leaders
Stop fixating on what’s wrong with people. Instead, focus on what’s right with them. The science and research is clear. Those who specifically know and aim their top talents toward leading and living well, are those who experience the greatest workplace performance, engagement, and fulfillment. They also make more money, make fewer mistakes, and live longer.
During this workshop you will:
• Uncover the undeniable science behind Strengths-Based Leadership
• Enhance your leadership performance
• Learn the four basic needs of every follower
• Use your top talents to be the leader everyone wants to work for
• Discover your top values and how they connect to your talents and emotions
• Articulate your value and worth to the team*All attendees are required to take the Clifton StrengthsFinder Assessment (Full 34 version)
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Critical Thinking & Decision Making Made Simple
Most workplace problems are the result of shoddy and incomplete thinking. In this class, you’ll learn a practical model of critical thinking that will strengthen how you THINK – LEAD – PERFORM. It’s a model that can be applied to all that you do – from the workplace to your personal life.
• Identify and defeat the enemy that keeps us all from virtuous thinking
• Discover an effective model of analysis
• Apply a fair-minded model of evaluationMost Popular
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Take the Fear Out of Public Speaking: Nail Your Next Presentation
In a fun & psychologically safe learning environment, you will be provided opportunities to practice what you learn in the classroom today, so you can nail your next presentation tomorrow. In this class you will learn…
• What it is people really fear about public speaking
• The golden key to public speaking
• Effective strategies on how to connect with your audience
• Effective strategies to put you and your audience at ease
• How to ask great questions while facilitating
• How to use PowerPoint so you engage instead of bore peopleMost Popular
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Maintaining EQ & Civility in an Age of Rudeness & Entitlement
Incivility kills more than just employee engagement. If you choose incivility, you simply won’t last! This course exposes the darker side of the human condition and the real human costs of incivility. This course is the antidote to boring and ineffective workplace harassment training. It does not just show you what you need to know, it shows you how you need to be. Most importantly, it provides a pathway of hope. We begin the only place where real change can occur; within you. Learn powerfully effective strategies that:
• Identify your emotional triggers
• Manage your emotional responses
• Help you deal with challenging people & keep from becoming uncivil
• Deliver mutual kindness, respect, empathy, and outstanding internal & external service… ALL THE TIME!Most Popular
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From Boss To Coach: Ditch Feedback & Give Employees What They Really Need
Today’s employees don’t need a boss. They need a coach – someone who knows how to focus on both their personal and professional development. Unfortunately, far too many leaders and aspiring leaders don’t understand this, which negatively impacts employee engagement and performance.
Stop operating off outdated platforms that do nothing to build cohesive and high-performing teams. This course will seriously up your leadership game. In this class you will learn:
• The 6 non-negotiable responsibilities of every leader
• Why most feedback sucks and inhibits learning & performance
• What today’s employees most need from their leaders
• How to conduct an employee check-in conversation that does not feel awkward and disingenuous
• How to ask great coaching questions
• How to have challenging and uncomfortable conversationsMost Popular
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Most Meetings Suck: How to Lead One That Is Fun, Focused, & Meaningful
The meeting is one of the most important activities in any organization. It’s where some of the most important decisions are made. However, most meetings are boring, unfocused, and irrelevant. This adds to poor decision making, a lack of commitment, and inattention to quality results.
As a leader, one of your primary responsibilities is to lead meetings that are fun, focused, and meaningful. Team and organizational performance depends on it.
Let us show you how.
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Leadership Academy
Far too many managers are promoted simply because they are competent and skilled in their current position. This is not enough!
About 70% of the American workforce is disengaged (Gallup, 2023). Research further shows 70% of the variance of employee engagement is solely dependent upon the quality of the manager (Gallup, 2019). This means leadership matters… A lot!
Don’t leave leadership development to chance. Start building leadership momentum today!
This academy is for both aspiring leaders and those who simply want to up their leadership game.
Watch this video to see everything you get with this intensive leadership development academy that includes eight, 4-hour sessions that will transform how you both lead and live.
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Waves (Part I): Understanding & Leading Today’s Changing Workplace
Waves are a fascinating and powerful phenomenon. Waves possess an energetic force that can be used for exhilarating experiences, like surfing. On the other hand, waves can also destroy everything in its path, like a tsunami. How we experience a wave completely depends upon how accurately we read and prepare for it. A significant wave of change is barreling down on today’s workplace. In fact, it is already upon us. Some of the assumptions we have made and continue to make about leadership and employee engagement will not only be insufficient, these assumptions destroy the health and functionality of our teams and organizations. This engaging and interactive presentation is the first part of a two-part series that will help you identify just how limiting it can be when we make the wrong assumptions in today’s changing workplace.
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Waves (Part II): Creating & Sustaining A Purpose that Moves Others
This presentation is part two of a two-part series on today’s changing workplace. Waves don’t just happen in the ocean. Human beings are also capable generating powerful waves. However, waves do not just happen. There is a leadership recipe that goes into creating and sustaining a wave in today’s workplace.
During this engaging and interactive presentation, we breakdown the elements of creating a wave and focus on the essential elements that keep the wave of employee engagement and performance going strong.
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The Six Non-Negotiable Responsibilities of Every Leader
Far too many people are in leadership positions for all the wrong reasons. What’s worse, they are also neglecting their essential responsibilities as a leader. This is killing workplace performance.
During this workshop you will:
• Identify whether you possess the right motive to be a leader
• Choose which role you’ll play in your leadership story
• Discover the 6 non-negotiable responsibilities of every leader
• Learn how to lead with strength and with heart -
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15 Outdated Workplace Assumptions That Are Holding Back You & Your Teams
Many of the assumptions made about workplace leadership are flat out wrong. What’s worse, these assumptions destroy the health and performance of our teams. Identify just how limiting it can be when we make the wrong assumptions about today’s changing workplace. Better yet, discover the life-giving truth and alternative to these assumptions that will forever transform your team.
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The Art & Science Of Connecting With Others
Learn effective & human-centered strategies that transcend mere communication so you can deeply connect with and positively influence others. Learn how to…
• Make a killer first impression and quickly build rapport with others
• Decode micro-expressions that reveal the inner motives of others
• Learn how to ask great questions when meeting and interacting with people
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8 Simple Ways to Keep Your Teams Engaged
Statistically speaking, 50% of your organization is actively looking for another job. About 70% of the American workforce is disengaged (Gallup, 2023). And research further shows 70% of the variance of employee engagement is solely dependent upon the quality of the manager (Gallup, 2019). This means you need to have a battle plan for employee disengagement. This class gives you eight, simple, and highly human strategies that are sure to keep your employees right where they need to be – fully engaged!
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This Concludes Our Interview – Do You Have Any Questions For Us? How To Say Yes and What to Ask Them
Far too many job applicants answer the above question by saying, “No. I’m good.”
What a waste!
In today’s competitive hiring environment, you need to be more than qualified – you need to stand out. Stop ending your job interviews by asking the same, overused, and boring questions that do nothing to identify whether or not this is even the right job for you. Instead, seize this opportunity to interview the panel about their unique organizational culture.
If you’re going to give an organization your time, talent, and heart; you want to make sure this place is the right fit for the both of you. In this class you will discover an abundance of great questions to ask at the end of your job interview so you land the career you’ve always been craving – the one you deserve.
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The Counterattack: How To Build A Purpose Statement And Values That Inspire And Drive Employee Performance
Gallup research suggests the workplace is doing a lousy job of providing the worker’s mind with what it needs most – purpose. Only 40% of U.S. employees strongly agree their company’s mission or purpose causes them to feel their job is important (Musser, 2019). Furthermore, only 27% of employees believe in their company’s values (Dvorak & Patel, 2018). With all that’s on the line, these numbers just aren’t going to cut it.
Let us show you a highly effective process that will cause you to create a clarity of purpose and core values. We call this process The Counterattack. In the end, you won’t be left with a bunch of meaningless blather. You’ll be provided something that is short, easily memorized, idealistic, and true – purpose and values that will inspire and drive top performance.
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Strengths-Based Check-Ins: Stop Checking Up On Your Team & Start Developing Them
Studies indicate 70% of managers are not sharing routine conversations with their employees. This is tragic as this causes employees to feel uncared for and unseen. The problem is most managers simply don’t know what to talk about. This course will help put an end to this dilemma, providing you with a treasure trove of deep and meaningful strengths-based check-in conversation questions that focuses on employee and team development.
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Forgiveness & Leadership: The Least Talked About, But Most Indispensable Skill Of Every Leader
The capacity for forgiveness is one of mankind’s greatest attributes. Forgiveness is a little talked about characteristic of leaders and teams, but the capacity for forgiveness is essential if you want to become a strong, healthy, and high performing team.
As a leader of a team, you will occasionally be wronged and you will wrong others. Therefore, you must forgive and you must also seek forgiveness. Let us show you:
• What forgiveness is and what forgiveness is not
• How grudges destroy you and your teams from the inside-out
• The difference between, trust, healthy boundaries, and reconciliation
• How to forgive others
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Check Your Heart – What’s Your Leadership Motive?
It’s been said, everyone’s a leader – but the fact is, not everyone should be.
This class if for current and aspiring leaders. Here, you will identify your current leadership motive to see if you are truly ready for the rigors of leadership. Learn and prepare yourself for the six, non-negotiable responsibilities of being a leader. Finally, learn how to deliver the four basic needs of every follower. Become the leader people need you to be.
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The Single Most Important Question To Ask Your Team
Don’t neglect your team by failing to ask them the single most important question every team ought to be asked. Failing to ask this question is what leads to an ongoing cycle of team unhealthiness and dysfunctional behavior. In this workshop, let us show you…
• What that question is
• How to lead your team through this process
• Why this question is so vitally important to your team’s success -
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Assume Positive Intent and Lead With Heart: The Pathway to Sharing Uncomfortable Conversations
In the game of leadership and teams, conflict and facing uncomfortable conversations are inevitable. Unfortunately, far too many leaders and teams avoid uncomfortable conversations, abdicating one of their most important responsibilities.
Some teams engage conflict, but do so by using unhealthy tactics based on winning, assuming negative intent, name calling, and personal attacks.
Let us show you a better way to engage conflict and share uncomfortable conversations, which will preserve team integrity. Contrary to what many think, conflict is not something to be avoided. Healthy conflict is a necessary ingredient for top performance and team cohesion.
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Wrong Questions = The Wrong Employee: Job Interview Questions To Help You Identify Top Talent
Stop asking predictable and lame job interview questions. You know, the ones where each candidate prepares generic, shallow, and canned responses that fail to reveal who they really are. Great job and promotional interview questions should accomplish three things:
1. Answer whether or not this person will fit your organization?
2. Identify the very core of who your job candidate is and how they choose to be;
3. Reveal what the candidate believes, their willingness to share what they believe, and whether their core beliefs match what the science knows to be true about the creation of a healthy and cohesive work environment.We will show you job interview questions and the rationale behind each one. These questions not only buck conventionalism, but most importantly, reveal whether or not you are hiring someone who is courageous, team-centered, purpose-driven, trustworthy, happy, civil, and emotionally intelligent.
“I loved the interaction, the uncomfortable situations, and Jim’s overall presence and over preparation.“
– Project Manager, K. Panzer
“I value people more now and find that I am much more understanding of people that are different than me.”
– Project Manager, J. Langman
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