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Do you have your finger on the pulse of your message? Is it what you intend it to be? Are you connected to the nerve center of the audience...are you calling them to action? Doesn’t matter if it’s it written form or spoken word? Are you connecting to your intended audience, the way in which you want?
This webinar will explore how to make a solid connection with your intended audience, every time you address them. Whether they be front-line staff, management, clients, or prospective employers. It will examine the three key aspects of communication (both written and verbal), explore how to curtail your message for accuracy and detail without error and suggest how to solicit a professional check up as necessary.

The first step in success and performance is to have a solid, highly functioning team at every level of the organization. This means having the right people in the right jobs. Knowing individual’s strengths and areas for development, and being able to maximize these for overall team performance is key. This session is focused on getting the right people by asking the appropriate questions, enticing new hires with a desirable work environment, gaining trust by clearly outlining individual and team responsibilities in achieving the goals, and establishing employee accountability. In this session, HR managers will learn how to get the right people in the right place at the right time.

In an age when even games are “serious” and e-learning audiences increasingly face screens of text with Next buttons, the unexpected can become the unforgettable. Fun is good for learning because it stands out.

Studies show that fun actually promotes learning as elements of novelty evoke wonder and curiosity. It increases engagement and provides safe areas to learn from failure. It’s not fun for fun’s sake. It’s fun for learning’s sake.

In this presentation, see how a parrot and some gadgets increased compliance awareness, how a board game and leader board increased worldwide engagement and collaboration, and how a basketball app improve college preparedness.

By writing and speaking about catalytic ideas, an organizational thought leader brings your company impressive advantages, such as brand goodwill, an elevated position in the eyes of your customers, and a shortened sales cycle.

In this interactive webinar, learn how to find your company's thought leaders, help them articulate their very best ideas, and get those ideas out to the world in a way that will build your firm's brand equity and draw your market to you.

The webinar leader, Mark Levy, has worked with distinguished thought leaders, including Marshall Goldsmith, Simon Sinek, David Meerman Scott, Harvard Business School scholars, and several TED and TEDx speakers.

Can you imagine the excitement people would feel coming to work every day to a company where leaders understand that building a sustainable competitive advantage is based on how leaders treat and develop their people?

Servant leadership offers hope to organizations for creating an environment of mutual trust and respect; a workplace where people can discover and reach their potential. A leadership style where leaders focus on creating a winning partnership for the people and the business; creating growth for both the people and the bottom-line. Find out how servant leadership can help your organization build a sustainable competitive advantage.

The presenter brings 38 years of real world experience in the manufacturing industry, including 26 years of senior leadership: Product Manager, Sales & Marketing Manager, VP of Sales & Marketing, VP of Operations and 13 years as President of two manufacturing companies including one with 10 manufacturing facilities in the U.S., England and Mexico. He also started his own consulting firm in April of 2010.

THIS IS A DEMO - NO CERTIFICATION CREDIT WILL BE GIVEN.

Building a staff of well-recruited, well-trained employees is only the beginning of your company’s journey. Things change – constantly. And being able to deal with that change and emerge a better organization is the goal of any business.

To do so you need to know where your top performers are within your organization, what characteristics make them your leaders, and how to strategically position them alongside the rest of your people to get the most out of everybody.

It’s hard to identify strong employees without first being able to visualize your entire workforce. That’s why having an organizational structure is step one. When a defined hierarchy is in place, usually in the form of an organizational chart, employees know who does what and who reports to whom. It also makes the company better prepared to make staffing decisions that improve operational efficiency and spur growth.

A thoroughly refined organizational structure can also provide guidance when it comes to handing out promotions, crafting development plans, and managing other employee changes.

No matter how hard you look at your org chart, you won’t glean much from names, titles and reporting relationships alone. You need pertinent workforce metrics and lots of them. This information allows you to identify employees who are helping you achieve your goals, those who may need a gentle push in the right direction, and those who are keeping your company from achieving ideal success.

Now that you’ve pinpointed the cream of your company crop, you can make well-informed decisions regarding where they fit into the organizational structure. And when things inevitably get shaken up, you’ll be better prepared to handle it.

New advances in technology result in employees expecting more flexibility, information and empowerment. Is your organization ready to meet these demands? Will your Workforce Management solutions stand up to the challenges coming your way?

In this one-hour seminar, we'll analyze the issues that 'the wave of the future' causes. We'll help employers understand and evaluate the why. Why today's employees expect more flexibility. Why your organization should consider embracing technological advances as an advantageous method of progressing your company’s culture. Then, we'll analyze the how. How to manage your employees effectively while still entrusting them with ‘loose reigns.’ How to comply with the increasing, ever more burdensome, legal regulations imposed by the Department of Labor.

In a recent large scale global survey of CEOs and senior executives 76 percent cited leadership development as important yet only 7 percent thought their organization was doing it effectively! A big part of this gap is caused by traditional needs assessments and gap analysis. This weakness-based approach is ineffective and undermines participant motivation for change. A series of pre and post studies examined the impact of leaders choosing to fix weaknesses versus building on existing strengths. 12 to 18 months later the leaders who magnified their existing strengths showed two - three times more improvement in leadership effectiveness than leaders who worked on fixing their weaknesses.

Today’s companies are placing a much higher emphasis on the ability to be creative and innovative in order to move ahead in this economy. They are eagerly looking at ways people, tools and techniques can spark a rebound that gives them a competitive edge. Making innovation and creativity a key cultural value is a goal of any highly effective organization. HR can play a crucial leadership role in helping to get there.

In this lively session, participants will learn how to increase the creative intelligence of their organizations in order to stay ahead of the competition. Participants will come away with new insights, fresh perspectives, and actionable steps to make creativity and innovation meaningful cultural values within their own organizations.

Kevin Cashman, best-selling author, global executive development coach and Senior Partner of Korn/Ferry International, will share research models and case studies on a counter-intuitive leadership breakthrough: how pause powers performance. We live and lead in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world. But paradoxically, leaders today must not merely act more quickly but pause more deeply. He will detail a catalytic process to step back in order to lead forward in three critical areas: strengthening personal leadership, developing others and fostering cultures of innovation. You and your organization will learn to move from management speed and transaction to leadership significance and transformation.