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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.

Welcome to a workshop that is inspirational and will provide you with information and thought provoking ideas that you can use.

For decades, research and ongoing workplace surveys around the world, have explored what makes companies, leaders and teams great. Analysis of the results show data patterns and identified one question that showed the greatest correlation to the most positive business outcomes:

At work, do you have the chance to do what you do best every day?

This inspirational and informative “Leading from Strengths” event will allow you to understand why investing in Strengths returns the greatest ROI on performance and talent management. It may challenge your thinking and the myths you have likely believed for many years.

Addressing performance is the least favorite activity for most leaders. However, failure to handle these situations effectively will drastically impact the success of both the leader and the team as a whole. Unfortunately many leaders either choose to ignore the situation or utilize an approach that only exasperates the problem.

Leadership in the business world today requires a new set of skills. In order to accomplish the goals of the organization and his or her team, a leader depends upon complete commitment from every member of the team. Utilizing a coaching style will help leaders to instill ownership within their individual team members while unlocking their potential.

This session is an overview and introduction to Motivation-Based Interviewing. MBI is a 15 year-old interviewing method specifically designed for identifying and hiring high achievers. Traditional behavior-based interviewing focuses almost solely on an applicant's level of skill. This approach has a long history of producing hit-and-miss hiring results. Why? Because it takes more than just skill to succeed! MBI assesses all 3 of the components common to top performers that enable them to achieve above-average results, yet requires no extra interviewing time. The 3 components MBI assesses are - skill, attitude and passion! Please note, this session includes a powerful video that’s not available in an archived version.

Are you tired of recruiting and training sales reps with just a 5% to 20% success rate? At last there is a pre-employment screening process to help you consistently select top sales producers who are the best fit for your organization's unique needs. Just think…a process to improve your batting average by up to 70%; a process that will allow your organization to save time, resources and money as well as provide dramatically reduced turnover rates.

Attendees of this webinar will learn a combination of sourcing strategies and tactics combined with a break through in pre-employment screening methodology that is custom to your organization's culture and competitive environment.

In Part 1 of this 2 part presentation, Jeremy Tozer examined a clear strategic role for HR in enabling the creation of the conditions for organizational success. In particular Jeremy examined the role of HR / learning and development in:

• Developing and sustaining organizational leadership capacity as the primary source of strategic competitive advantage.
• Enabling effective development and execution of business strategy and the leadership of change and transformation —this includes ensuring both work alignment and people engagement.

In this second part, Jeremy will give a quick recap of Part 1 and then examine in detail a proven approach to developing this form of collective leadership capability, an approach which also concurrently develops individual leadership behavior and emotional intelligence —an approach which is guaranteed to more than pay for itself with a measurable financial return on investment.

This will be illustrated with detailed and ROI quantified case studies from Cisco, and consulting assignments from across the USA, Asia, Europe and Australasia with other clients such as ABN AMRO, Pfizer, Philips and MCI.

Participants in this webinar should review the archive of Part 1 at this link http://www.hr.com/en/webcasts_events/webcasts/archived_webcasts_and_podcasts/strategic-hr-enabling-leaders-to-drive-strategy-ex_habeg7ec.html

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.

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.

Positive or negative, everyone has a personal reputation. It’s how you’re known, how you’re perceived by others and it influences your relationships and your career. A positive reputation is an essential tool for succeeding in today’s competitive environment. People who have a positive reputation will get better jobs, get promoted more often and get bigger bonuses.

Through this hands-on, highly engaging and interactive session, delegates will learn how to take ownership and full advantage of their personal reputation to enhance their careers and contribute to their organizations.

Not only will participants gain insight into how their personal reputation can work for them, they’ll also discover how to use their unique skills and attributes to stand out and expand their success. Creating a strong reputation allows you to be more confident and self-motivated.

Building a strong reputation is not about constructing an image of what you think you should be. It’s about understanding your own strengths, weaknesses and your impact on others.

By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

• Determine how they are currently perceived by others
• Immediately implement strategies to develop the foundation for a positive reputation
• Develop systematic ways to ensure that they continue to enjoy and build on their positive reputation

According to recent studies most organizations are doing poorly on attracting and retaining talent, creating cultures of trust and engagement, and aligning employee goals with organizational goals. According to Blessing and White’s latest Employee Engagement Survey, only 31% of employees are engaged. One major cause of these poor results is a “feedback disability” in the cultures of our organizations. Most managers are unable or unwilling to frequently deliver quality feedback to employees Fearless Feedback is a leadership model and set of tools that enable organizations to meet these challenges head-on and excel in the face of challenging times. Fearless Feedback improves the work environment so employees take responsibility for their own development and willingly improve the quality of their interactions. Fearless Feedback results in higher quality communication between individuals and departments. Employees are able to take much greater personal responsibility for their development and their results without depending upon waiting for management to give feedback. Fearless Feedback ultimately results in superior quality improvement of an organization’s products and services.