Focused Attention on What Matters Most
Today's professionals don't need more of the same messaging. They're looking for something bold, something challenging, something that will help them make a significant impact, both personally and professionally.

As quick as the world continues to change around us, it's nice to know that one thing always remains consistent: What we're all searching for, from organizational leadership to the individual employee, is to know with certainty that who we are and what we do matters. Though how we do it may vary, we all desire to live a life of significance.

This incredibly engaging, humorous, and relatable message provides the tangible takeaways that can immediately be applied upon the conclusion of the conference. Based on the best-selling book Dare to Matter, (#2 Bestseller in Business Motivation - January 2017) attendees will be educated, entertained, and elevated as they travel through the detailed framework designed to help today's workforce incorporate significance into their own lives, and therefore the lives of those they serve.

Understanding the framework for significance will dramatically elevate the effectiveness and production level of every professional because it reveals exactly what's most important on a human level.

At the conclusion of this presentation, the attendees will:

1. Recognize how the power of choice elevates our responsibility, accountability, and production
2. Explore the role of identity and the critical role it plays as it relates to behaviors and feelings
3. Understand the difference between powerful motivators and sustainable motivators and determine our own motivation
4. Learn a proven formula that help individuals, teams, and organizations get unstuck and keeps them moving forward

Developing and Leading Teams That Matter
Look, any team can be great once. But success in today's business environment isn't built on fluke excellence or isolated great performances. The best teams, the best organizations, are those that are able to sustain high levels of performance year after year.

To do that, it requires that today's leaders understand and implement three crucial keys: one, that cultivating organizational, team, and individual identity is often the biggest determinant in hiring, retention, and engagement success. Two, that low performance, decreasing morale, and poisonous cultures are usually created by and evident in areas often viewed as "inconsequential." Three, that continued excellence requires an unwavering attack on complacency at every level. Not only does this presentation address all three keys in more detail, it provides the tangible takeaways to begin making a significant difference immediately at work.

Great organizations are made up of great teams. Great teams consist of great individuals. Everything exceptional can always be connected to individual performance. Focus on the individual to elevate the team. Focus on the team to elevate the organization.

At the conclusion of this presentation, the attendees will:

1. Understand why creating and solidifying organization, team and individual identity is the first foundation in hiring, retention, productivity, and engagement
2. Recognize and identify the unspoken reasons for declining morale and culture, and learn how to create a more positive and productive environment
3. Learn how to drive a sustainable, engaged workforce and elevate productivity across the organization by pursuing activities and results that lie outside current comfort zones

The biggest fallacy regarding communication is that 100% of it exists within three categories: body language, tone, and words. This simply isn't true.

If that were the case, why do we still experience such an enormous amount of poor, ineffective miscommunication on a daily basis.? Perhaps it's because we fail to acknowledge, address, or assess what's not being said in a conversation.

Because much of our communication is expressed beneath the surface, it's important to recognize how we are influenced by what we see, hear, and say, and understand how we (and others) interpret that information. Our beliefs, experiences, judgments, and expectations heavily influence the way we communicate, yet those are aspects not frequently explored in our communication effectiveness.

If we're going to provide better service to our customers, to our staff, and to each other, we need a better understanding of what's happening beneath the surface. This is not your ordinary session on communication. It is challenging, educational, and entertaining as we explore the dynamics of human interaction.

At the conclusion of this presentation, the attendees will:

1. Uncover how their experiences, thoughts, beliefs and history influence what they say and do in a conversation
2. Recognize their inherent bias in listening, and how to adopt one specific listening lens that produces the best results
3. Learn specific words or phrases that trigger a listener in undesirable ways, often without the speaker every knowing it
4. Understand how best to connect with someone who appears disagreeable, agitated, or simply difficult
5. Learn how to use words that increase team creativity, morale, and performance