Plunging Productivity: Why Staff Underperforms, and How You Can Get them Engaged

Speaker Josh Dye

Working with and managing others is stressful, demanding and rewarding. Finding quality staff and keeping them engaged and productive is a challenge.

In this session you will learn:

  • How to hire the right people for your organization.
  • How to motivate people based on their unique personalities.
  • How to create a culture of flexibility and trust.
  • The micro manager quiz!
  • How to have difficult conversations that end with a path to growth & productivity.

If some people on your team under-performing, learn how to get them engaged in this training!

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By Josh Dye, difficult conversations, employee engagement, hiring strategies, Managers, staff motivation, Supervisors, workplace culture

The Art of Leadership: Essential Skills for Supervisors

Speaker Josh Dye

During this session we cover the following essential skills supervisors must develop:

  • What impacts employee performance?
  • Understanding work styles
  • Setting expectations
  • How to give effective feedback
  • How to have difficult conversations
  • How to deal with passive aggressive behavior
  • Building trust
  • Leading through times of change
  • How to choose the right leadership frame for each situation
  • Connecting with your people

The session is highly interactive. Each topic will feature brief lecture to set the context followed by interactive discussion and live polls. Attendees will learn research-based best practices and from the experiences of their co-workers.

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build trust, By Josh Dye, difficult conversations, effective feedback, employee performance, leadership skills, Managers, Supervisors

Transform: The 4 Laws of Behavior Change

Speaker Josh Dye

“If you are having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you. This problem is your system.”

~ James Clear, author of Atomic Habits

Behavior change is hard. In fact, 91% of people don’t achieve their goals.

But 9% do…

What makes them different? The systems they set up to make progress.

In this training you will learn how to put the 4 laws of behavior change into action:

  • Make it obvious.
  • Make it attractive.
  • Make it easy.
  • Make it satisfying.

You will also learn the difference between goals vs. systems when working to achieve your goals.

Use this training to achieve your goals, and to help your clients trying to make positive life changes.

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atomic habits, behavior change, By Josh Dye, goal achievement, habit formation, systems thinking

Brain Power: Practical Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Brain to Improve Thinking, Learning, and Performance

Speaker Josh Dye

Understanding how our brains work can transform our daily lives.

Fortunately, brain scientists know a good deal about the things that impact our brains.

In this training we will explore 12 brain rules highlighted by molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, and how we can use them to improve thinking, learning, and performance.

The 12 Rules we will explore are:

  • Exercise
  • Survival
  • Sleep
  • Stress
  • Wiring
  • Attention
  • Memory
  • Sensory Integration
  • Vision
  • Music
  • Gender
  • Exploration

Understanding the impact of the 12 rules on our brains can help us maximize they way we live and work!

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brain health, brain learning tips, brain rules, By Josh Dye, improve brain performance, John Medina

Cognitive Bias: Uncover Blindspots in Your Thinking and Decision Making

Speaker Josh Dye

A cognitive bias is an error or blind spot in our thinking and decision making.

It convinces us that we have an accurate understanding of a person or situation, when we actually don’t.

Cognitive biases lead to:

  • Unfair treatment of others.
  • Decisions with unintended consequences.
  • Decisions that backfire in the long term.
  • Decisions (and actions) that have a negative impact on people we serve.
  • Overconfidence in our knowledge and understanding.
  • Unwillingness to listen, learn, and improve in certain areas.

In this training you will learn: (Learning Objectives)

  • Common cognitive biases.
  • Strategies to combat biases.
  • How to make better decisions that are less influenced by biases.

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By Josh Dye, cognitive biases, critical thinking, decision making errors, overcome bias, thinking blindspots

Emotional Intelligence: Skills to Better Understand Yourself and Connect with others

Speaker Josh Dye

Emotional intelligence is at the core of fulfilling personal and professional relationships. What is it exactly?

Emotional intelligence is having the ability to do the following:

  • Have awareness of and understand your feelings.
  • Effectively express both your positive and difficult emotions.
  • Navigate relationships with empathy, kindness and influence for good.
  • Recognize the emotions in others to communicate more effectively.
  • Stay motivated to achieve when facing obstacles.

In this training you will learn how to build emotional intelligence that increases your level of influence, helps you effectively resolve conflict, improve as a communicator, and form better professional and personal relationships.

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By Josh Dye, Emotional Intelligence, relationship skills, self awareness, self management, social awareness

Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World

Speaker Emily Balcetis

We limit ourselves by looking too often at the big picture, and at other times too long at the fine detail.

However, there is great power in these misperceptions. We can learn to leverage perceptual illusions if we know when and how to use them to our advantage.

In this webinar Social Psychologist Emily Balcetis will share four powerful yet largely untapped visual tactics that you can use to improve outcomes in several situations.

In this webinar you will learn (Learning Objectives):

  • Narrow Your Focus – How narrowing your focus helps you exercise effectively, save money, and find more time in your day.
  • Widen the bracket – Seeing the forest instead of the trees reduces temptations and helps you recognize when a change of course is in order.
  • Materialize your plan and your progress – Creating checklists and objective assessments inspires better planning and adjusts your gauge of what’s really left to be done.
  • Control your frame of reference – Knowing where to direct attention improves your ability to read others’ emotions, negotiate better outcomes, foster stronger relationships, and overcome fear.
  • Successful people literally see the world differently.
  • In this training you will learn how anyone can leverage this “perception gap” to their advantage!

About the Speaker: Emily Balcetis

Emily Balcetis is a renowned psychologist and associate professor at New York University. She specializes in social psychology, with her research focusing on perception, motivation, and goal-setting. Balcetis has conducted extensive studies on how people perceive challenges, pursue goals, and stay motivated, often integrating visual and cognitive processes into her research.

She is known for her work on “motivational vision,” which explores how people’s visual perceptions can shape their motivation and behavior. Her findings have been applied in diverse fields, including health, education, and personal development.

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Emily Balcetis, motivated perception, perception and motivation, perceptual illusions, visual attention

Critical Thinking: Solve Problems, Succeed in Life

Speaker Dr Brian Barnes

Whatever you are doing right now is determined by the way you are thinking.

Whatever emotions you feel are influenced by your thinking.

Whatever you want – all your desires – are determined by your thinking.

If your thinking is unrealistic, it will lead you to many disappointments.

If your thinking is overly pessimistic, it will deny you due recognition of the many things in which you should properly rejoice.

In this webinar you will learn the tools the best thinkers use in their work and personal lives.

You will learn how to implement these qualities of the best thinkers:

  • How to reflect on your thinking.
  • How to be more purposeful.
  • Intellectual tools to raise the quality of your thinking.
  • How to distinguish thoughts from feelings and desires.

This webinar will help you reason well through the problems and issues you face at work and in your personal life.

About the Speaker: Dr. Brian Barnes

Dr. Brian Barnes holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Humanities and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Louisville.

Barnes is a veteran of the US Army, along with other non-academic careers, and currently teaches face-to-face and online classes at several universities in traditional philosophy topics, along with courses in sustainability, critical thinking, and Japanese sword practice.

He has co-authored articles examining critical thinking strategies and tactics for the National Teaching and Learning Forum and is the author of the textbook, The Central Question: Critical Engagement with Business Ethics (2013).

Barnes co-hosts the weekly radio show, Critical Thinking for Everyone!, on 106.5 Forward Radio in Louisville, and he also created the critical thinking comic book series, Adventures in Critical Thinking. Dr. Barnes is a Scholar of the Foundation for Critical Thinking, and was a direct student of Dr. Richard Paul.

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critical thinking, decision making, logical reasoning, problem solving, reflective thinking

Decision Making: What Magic Tricks Reveal About Free Will

Speaker Dr-Alice-Pailhes

Psychological scientist and author Dr. Alice Pailhès has pioneered the scientific research on magicians’ mind control tricks, called forcing techniques.

But these mind control tricks don’t just exist in the world of magic – they’re part of your everyday decision-making process.

In this webinar you will learn: (Learning Objectives)

  • How forcing techniques work.
  • How to identify blindspots.
  • Invisible forces that shape our decision making.

This is guaranteed to be a fun and enlightening session that will take your thinking and decision making to a new level!

About the Speaker: Dr. Alice Pailhès

Dr Pailhès has pioneered the scientific research on magicians’ mind control tricks, called forcing techniques. Her studies focus on investigating magic tricks to study psychological principles such as illusory sense of agency and freedom over choice, decision-making processes, memory malleability, or placebo effects.

Her research has been published in high-impact journals (e.g., PNAS, JEP: General or TiCS) and has gained visibility through diverse media and public talks (e.g., TED, The Financial Times, BBC and BBC the One Show, the Wellcome Collection…).

She’s the author of The Psychology of Magic, a co-written with Dr. Gustav Kuhn, gathering scientific insights about magic to make it useful and accessible to the magic community.

She is also a committee member of SoMA – the Science of Magic Association – an interdisciplinary organization that promotes rigorous research directed toward understanding the nature, function and underlying mechanisms of magic.

Dr Pailhès is a regular keynote speaker on the topic of the psychology of magic, decision-making, illusory freedom over choice and the quirks of our mind.

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decision making biases, forcing techniques, free will illusions, mind control tricks, psychological influence