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!

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.

Simpatico: How to Make Connections and Build Rapport with a Variety of Personalities and People

Speaker Josh Dye

Productive and healthy workplaces  require good relationships and professionals skilled at connecting with one another. For managers and employees alike, it is essential that they enhance their skills in communication and building rapport with one another and the public they serve.

In this training you will learn: (Learning Objectives)

  • How to quickly build a comfortable rapport with co-workers & key stakeholders.
  • How to ask questions that spur good conversation.
  • How to listen so others feel heard.
  • How to effectively have difficult conversations and address challenging issues.
  • Vulnerability: How the power of your story brings you closer to others.
  • How to follow up after a good conversation or moment of connection.

Learn how to communicate and connect in this dynamic presentation!

I Respectfully Disagree: How to Have Difficult Conversations in a Divided World

Justin Jones-Fosu

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Start building bridges instead of barriers! 

In this training speaker Justin Jones-Fosu will share a 5-part framework that will help you have honest and enlightening conversations despite deep and fundamental disagreements.

You will learn the 5 pillars of respectfully disagreeing: (Learning Objectives)

  • Challenge your perspective
  • Be the student
  • Cultivate your curiosity
  • Seek the gray
  • Agree to respect

After attending this webinar you will understand how to disagree with someone’s ideology while passionately pursuing their humanity.

About the Speaker: Justin Jones-Fosu

Justin Jones-Fosu is the founder and CEO of Work. Meaningful. where he speaks 50-60 times per year to companies, organizations, and associations around the globe on meaningful work and inclusion. He also happens to be a highly sought-after business speaker, social entrepreneur, and meaningful work researcher. He is the founder and CEO of Work.

He is a husband, full-time daddy of 4 high-energy kids, and he also recently summited one of the 7 Summits (the tallest mountain on each continent). He is passionate about helping organizations and individuals take ownership of their mindset, purpose, and performance to achieve amazing results.

Compassionate Curiosity: Finding Confidence in Conflict

Speaker Kwame Christian

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Do you struggle in difficult conversations? Have you ever let fear and anxiety prevent you from saying what needed to be said? Have you ever felt as though you don’t know what to say?

In this webinar you will learn the powerful Compassionate Curiosity framework. It is designed to guide you through difficult conversations, at work and at home. You’ll know what to say, how to say it, and when to say it in order to maximize persuasion while minimizing the risk of destructive dialogue.

You will learn (learning objectives):

  • How to defuse potentially explosive conflicts before the conversation breaks down.
  • How to use conflict as a tool to increase understanding and strengthen relationships.
  • How to use the fundamental tenets of cognitive behavioral therapy to help you to overcome fear and anxiety.
  • How to consistently put yourself in the best position for success.

The best things in life often lie on the other side of difficult conversations. However, fear and anxiety often overwhelm us and prevent us from standing up for ourselves when it matters most.

Learn how to overcome this fear and deal with conflict in this webinar!

About the Speaker: Kwame Christian, Esq., M.A.

Bestselling author and speaker Kwame Christian is the Director of the American Negotiation Institute and a subject matter expert in the field of negotiation and conflict resolution. Kwame has conducted workshops throughout North America and abroad, and is a highly sought after national keynote speaker .

Host of the world’s most popular negotiation podcast, Negotiate Anything , Kwame is dedicated to empowering others through the art and science of negotiation and persuasion. The show features leading experts in the field to deliver the best-in-class content. Now downloaded more than 1,000,000 times, Negotiate Anything has a dedicated and growing following with listeners in more than 180 countries around the world.

Kwame’s TEDx Dayton talk, Finding Confidence in Conflict , was the most popular TEDx Talk on the topic of conflict in 2017, and has been viewed over 120,000 times. His book, Nobody Will Play With Me: Finding Confidence in Conflict, is an Amazon Best-Seller and has helped countless individuals overcome the fear, anxiety and emotion often associated with difficult conversations through a branded framework called Compassionate Curiosity.

As an attorney and mediator with a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology, a Master of Public Policy, and a Juris Doctorate (Law Degree), Kwame brings a unique multidisciplinary approach to making difficult conversations easier.

He also serves as an adjunct professor for Otterbein University’s MBA program , as well as The Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law in the top-ranked dispute resolution program in the country.