HR Pros: Making the Business Case for Leadership Development

These 10 symptoms are often misdiagnosed inside organizations, and that leads to bigger and longer lasting problems. Why not get straight to the heart of the matter and and fix what's really ailing? When "what we have here is a failure to communicate," it's important to recognize that and get things back on track just as quickly as possible. Join me so we can talk about how to do exactly that.

INTEGRITY: The state of being whole, entire, or undiminished. From the Latin "integratis" for integrated.

Are there times at work when you feel like you have to tuck your personal values away? Do you ever find yourself feeling "out of sorts" with the way you allocate your time or go about your work? Does this incongruence impact your happiness and sense of fulfillment?

If so, you're not alone. Sadly, people in all sorts of jobs report that during work they can't be themselves or that they have to do things that go against their personal values. It doesn't have to be that way!

This presentation is about aligning your values with your actions... consistently, intentionally, and assertively. It's about creating accountabilities for yourself so that your values serve as your North Star and guide your actions. And it's about not making excuses that ultimately diminish your integrity. You'll discover:

- How to name and claim your core values
- How to find out if work requirements are truly incongruent with your values
- What to do if you are consistently operating outside of your own value system
- How and why to let your values become a guide for your decisions and actions

Leaders at every level benefit from operating with integrity, and that includes the wholeness that comes from aligning your actions with your values.

Managers manage work while leaders lead people. That may sound good, but what does it really mean in the day-to-day work that management-level employees do? Join me to talk about the differences and what they mean to your organization. Whether you're a titled leader, an HR business partner or an emerging leader, this workshop will give you some food for thought about how you are approaching your work.

Decisions made in haste create a lot of waste.

You can reduce waste, mistakes, rework, resistance to change, and unproductive conflict by avoiding common traps that result in poor decisions. By improving your shared decision-making, you'll improve outcomes and morale for your team. Learn about the dangers of GroupThink, Confirmation Bias, Overconfidence, Sunk-Cost Analysis, Anchoring and Framing Fallacies, Fundamental Attribution Errors, and other common ways teams get derailed when it comes to effective decision-making.

You'll learn how to:

- Spot common decision traps before falling into them
- Share decision-making that engages all members of a team
- Use simple processes for effective decision-making
- Examine and affirm decisions before hastily proceeding down a wrong path

This presentation is for leaders at every level and team members who want to do things right the first time.

Fascinating finds from observations of and interviews with 7 types of problem employees... You've probably got at least 1 in your organization. This workshop is for managers and business partners who aren't quite sure what to do next with the renegades, chronic complainers, inconsistent performers and others that make your job more challenging. Join me for a different perspective, one that comes directly from these problem employees.

We all aim for consensus. We race to agree, even if we have lingering doubts. We don't want to rock the boat, so we "go along to get along." At what price?

False consensus is a very dangerous thing. It erodes commitment and engagement. It creates stalls and dodges when it's time for implementation. And it breaks down trust when people aren't "all in" on shared decisions made.

A much better alternative is productive conflict. That's conflict that will:

- Give voice to every team member
- Seek out diverse perspectives and mine for alternatives
- Push people to dig a little deeper and figure out what they really believe and want
- Examine all the angles and produce better solutions
- Build trust, commitment, and team unity as every team member is consulted and considered

If you work with a team, this presentation will help you become more effective together by using healthy conflict instead to replace unhealthy consensus.

No one really likes it. Everyone dreads it. And most of us dwell on it after it happens. But you can become more confident, comfortable and effective in any conflict situation. Join me for this webinar, designed specifically for supervisors and HR business partners who want to assert themselves without creating unproductive conflict.

ENTELECHY: Realizing the potential, drawing forth of full potential.

Inside most organizations, top performers are referred to as "high potential." Labeling folks, though, isn't enough. It's important to accurately identify and then nurture potential to bring the best out of everyone in an organization, including yourself.

But how?

In this presentation, you'll discover ways to:

- Confidently recognize and develop your own potential (without seeming arrogant!)
- Advocate for resources to get learning, coaching, or other support for developing your potential
- Help others self-discover and unleash their own full potential
- Enrich your organization with ennobled, engaged employees who will stick around longer

Tapping into your own and others' potential need not be expensive, time-consuming, or overly process-based. It starts with a simple desire to be your best and to avoid minimizing or overlooking what you have to offer.

Employee engagement matters. A lot! It's the key to improved retention, higher productivity and customer satisfaction, stronger revenue performance, AND increased profits. So how do you boost employee engagement and unleash all these benefits for your business?

In this presentation, we'll review 10 proven strategies for boosting engagement. You'll leave this 45-minute webinar with specific action items you can implement immediately. People practices that pay off and an opportunity for HR to shine!

Learning cultures aren't just about great training. They're about hiring people who have a growth mindset, coaching for continual development, allowing the freedom to experiment even when there's a risk of failure, and modeling (from every level!) the humility to learn along the way.

How does your work culture stack up? Are people ready, willing, and eager to learn something new every day? Do they embrace change and see opportunity in every disappointment? Or do they defend the status quo, dodge responsibility for mistakes, and lather-rinse-repeat in an effort to avoid change?

In this presentation, you'll learn:

- How to whet others' appetite for creating a learning culture
- What it takes to evolve from a status quo culture to a learning culture
- The benefits of a learning culture, including improved employee engagement and retention
- Why innovation, competitive differentiation, and sustainable growth depend on a learning culture

If you're in HR, OD, senior management, or a business that's stuck, tune in for some new ideas that will help you create a culture where learning is the norm.

So many to choose from! But which one is best? Which assessment tool will meet the needs of YOUR team?

In this webinar, you'll learn about:
- the various types of assessments most often used for building team effectiveness and strengthening collaboration.
-- How do identify the type of assessment your team needs
-- Best practices for using a team assessment instrument
-- What to do after the assessment for maximum impact

I'll also share my favorites and explain why I like them and what I've seen them do. After all, you want results (not just a fun workshop), right?

Bonus giveaways will include discounts on an assessment you may not have heard about yet. It's a powerful one that everyone who's part of a team should consider!

When you have a title or position of authority, you can boss people around + micromanage + issue orders. It's a command-and-control approach to getting things done. But that style only gets you so far... people don't like to be managed with an iron fist.

A better alternative, one that doesn't require authority, is a heart-and-soul approach. When you develop skills for influencing others, you can:

- Ask instead of tell... and get positive responses from people who WANT to be engaged.
- Tap into others' intrinsic motivation, a powerful force that unleashes lots of effort and results.
- Trust that others will continue as planned, even when you're not looking over their shoulders.
- Ennoble others so they'll share their input and ideas for reaching your goals together.
- Collaborate without the constraints of positional power.

No matter what your rank on the org chart is, influence can help you be more effective in working with others.

It's true: team work makes the dream work. Also true: keeping all members of a team engaged, motivated, and pulling together isn't easy. That's why every team could use a tune up. And it's why you'll want to tune in for this presentation to learn how you can:

-- Build and sustain solid, committed teams
-- Ensure that both group goals AND individual goals are valued by all team members
-- Foster healthy dialogue that improves team decision-making
-- Capitalize on the strengths of every team member
-- Make your team more productive and more efficient

This presentation is for everyone who works with anyone in a team setting.

Ever feel like you're solving the same problem over and over again? Or that solving one problem produces new, unanticipated ones? Or that, despite your best efforts, the problem(s) never really get resolved?

It doesn't have to be that way! Join this presentation to improve all your problem-solving and outcomes by:

- Understanding simple root-cause analysis
- Identifying the real and the right problem(s) before coming up with solutions
- Being proactive to troubleshoot and manage problems before they get out of hand
- Developing critical thinking skills to diagnose and address problems quickly
- Enlisting others in continual improvement

This presentation is for leaders at every level who want to use their time productively and avoid getting bogged down by unresolved issues.

What is it, really, that sets the best supervisors apart from the rest? And what would it take to BE that supervisor, the one that everyone wants to work for and never wants to leave?

You can be that manager. It's easier than you think to engage, motivate, inspire, and win the hearts and minds of team members. In this presentation, you'll discover how to:

-- Manage work AND lead people so you are more effective
-- Do the little things that add up to strong employee engagement
-- Reallocate your time to the tasks that have the right impact
-- Leverage your strengths for connecting with people
-- Access resources and training for ongoing skills development

It all boils down to simple behavioral choices that anyone can make. The first choice is attending this presentation so you can get started right away!

There's a secret weapon you can bring to every conversation... a powerful tool that will make you more interesting, more engaging, and more effective... an irresistible magnet that will draw others to you and set you apart in a positive way.

It's all about asking quality questions. That's why this presentation will show you how to:

- Replace random fishing-expedition questions with purposeful questions
- Craft open-ended questions that elicit more complete responses
- Phrase questions that are more efficient and more effective in gathering the information you need
- Connect with people by demonstrating empathy and interest

Based on two decades of research, this presentation will introduce you to the 8 purposes of asking questions and how you can be more influential and effective by using a broader variety of questions.