Seminars, Workshops, & Speaking Events

“Joe does a great job of coming up with topics that are important. He also does a great job of presenting these topics.”

Our dynamic, fun, interactive, and thought provoking seminars are designed with Accelerative Learning techniques where key concepts are broken down into 20 minute modules that can be combined to meet your learning objectives and performance goals. Both learning styles and processing styles are addressed as we format and structure our training activities with real-life scenarios to increase subject knowledge retention and application in the workplace as well as instilling higher confidence among participants.

Register for one of our upcoming community based seminars sponsored by Chambers of Commerce, Major Universities, and Community Colleges.

Servant Leadership (available virtually)

Program Title  “Leadership Courage”

Encourage, inspire, motivate, guide, counsel, lead and create top performers by learning the influence and effectiveness of Servant Leadership. By implementing the principles of HEAT & HEART in receiving and giving feedback you can transform your work group into a cohesive, coordinated, collaborative team. Become aware of the 70 Second Rule to examine why team members struggle to trust each other. Learn to respond to other’s Emotional Needs to help them achieve their fullest potential by becoming a Servant Leader. Back to top

Personality Preferences & Traits (available virtually)

Program Title:  “Why They Don’t and How to Guarantee They Will”

Inject insights, energy, and productivity into your everyday interactions with people. We will keep you on the edge of your seats examining yourself and others with colorful anecdotes and stories which will increase your ability to understand, predict and manage the activity of others. This is our most popular program about understanding people. In this humorous, energetic group interaction seminar, you will be able to spot the natural areas of tension between yourself and others, determine your strengths and weaknesses (as well as theirs) and see yourself through the eyes of others. Back to top

Conflict Management (available virtually)

Program Title:  “Moving Beyond Confrontation”

Learn to understand why we have conflict, where conflict comes from, and how to deal with conflict when it erupts. Assessment tools will be used to examine your Conflict Style and to develop a comprehensive Conflict Management Plan. We will examine common attitudes and beliefs about conflict and then move into new thinking about the potential growth offered from conflict. Back to top

Coaching & Mentoring

Program Title:  “Discovering The Diamond – Coaching & Mentoring for Co-Worker Engagement”

Encourage, inspire, motivate, guide, counsel, lead and create top performers. Motivate your workers to become a cohesive coordinated team. Even problem employees can be transformed into super productive motivated winners when you learn to be more than a manager. Learn how to spot and support exceptional employees and help them realize their full potential. Learn the skills of coaching & mentoring and build a team of champions. Back to top

Situational Leadership & Decision Making (available virtually)

Program Title:  “Lead Or Get Out of the Way”

This Situational Leadership workshop examines how to create and manage a happy and productive staff, who work together smoothly to complete special projects and perform routine tasks. We will examine Perceptions of Leadership Styles, Leadership Functions, and Characteristics of Effective Leaders. Have you ever wondered what is your Leader Behavior Style ? Have you examined, where your Leadership Behavior Style is most effective? You will get answers to these questions and more as your learn to inspire, motivate, counsel, and lead fellow workers. Back to top

Customer Service

Program Title:  “Would You Do Business With You”

This workshop is for every person in your organization – even those you may not think of as Customer Relations’ personnel. We all have the ability to make a positive or negative impact on customers. You will spend five times as much time to acquire a new customer as you will to service an existing one. Learn to look at Customer Relations from the “inside out.” Examine why customers stop doing business and how to identify why they do. Back to top

Emotional Intelligence (available virtually)

Program Title:  “Being Smart”

Research has demonstrated that the most successful people in business, and in life itself, are not necessarily the most intellectually gifted. The ability to perceive, assess, and influence our emotions and those of others, Emotional Intelligence (EQ), has a greater influence on success than Intelligence Quotient (IQ). People who are not emotionally smart waste time on personality conflicts and complaining. They lose control when faced with tense and stressful situations. “Emotionally Unsmart” individuals undermine their own and their team’s performance. In this highly interactive program you will learn to use your emotions in positive and constructive ways to improve your relationships with others, improve your problem solving and decision making, and improve your effectiveness in dealing with change and handling stress and conflict. Back to top

Creative Thinking & Problem Solving

Program Title:  “The Power of Thinking Creatively”

This creative problem solving program teaches participants how to use a powerful Creative Thinking System calling Display Thinking (Storyboarding). Many organizations use this process to discover new practical ideas in the Change Management Initiatives, Strategic Planning, Organizational Systems. One of the “wow” factors of Display Thinking is that it improves internal communication, build trust, and improves team dynamics because it is highly effective at resolving differences of opinion. Use the process to learn how to identify what your organization’s culture is today, what you want it to be, and how to get there. We will inject insights, enthusiasm, and stimulus into your continual improvement and problem solving efforts. Back to top

Listening & Feedback & Human Differences/Diversity (available virtually)

Program Title  “Listening Is More Than Hearing”

Recognize and value employees for their varied skills, experiences and opinions! Each participant will learn how individuals can pull together, drawing forth from each other’s best for the good of the organization. Learn why gender, age, ethnicity, region of origin, lifestyle, personality, leadership style, management philosophy, religion, work ethic and other Human Differences, influence us to act and think differently. This diversity program is packed with group interaction and role-play. In this humorous, non-threatening and thought provoking seminar, you will increase your skills in interpreting other’s behavior and how to respond appropriately. Learn to use the “4 C’s” model to show how the talents, energies and commitments of a diverse work force can mobilize an organization to improve its effectiveness and create better products and services in a more comfortable productive environment. Back to top

Generational and Gender Differences

Program Title:  “Learning & Leveraging – Leading a Multi-Generational Work Force”

The workshop is designed to encourage involvement and active participation to challenge you and have you examine your own generational and gender differences. Learn to better understand and appreciate the differences people bring into workplace as a result of the gender or generationalage group they represent. Do you know anybody in your organization from a different generation that you are having problems leading or getting him/her to achieve their maximum performance? Learn how to use the various strengths and experiences that people of various generations bring to the table to maximize your multi-dimensional team’s effectiveness. Back to top

Time Management/Priority Setting

Discover how using goals to prioritize your daily activities can act as a catalyst for your daily productivity. By combining effective techniques of time management and problem solving you too can increase your personal effectiveness. Learn how planning overcomes procrastination. We will provide participants with tools to understand creative problem solving and improve their decision making. You will also learn how to lead meetings so they are more focused and stop wasting your time and the time of others. Back to top

Dinner, Keynote, Motivational, & Inspirational Talks

You Are the Difference (Servant Leadership)

Within every person has been placed a desire to be different, distinctive – to be an original! Regardless of where you are in life, or how much you have or have not accomplished, virtually everyone is a motivator. Whether we’re persuading a co-worker to change bad habits, or giving suggestions to a friend regarding personal challenges, or giving pep talks to our own children; we have the ability to influence people we come in contact with for the good or the bad. This powerful message about Servant Leadership is a blend of personal warmth, enthusiasm, and unique combination of inspirational stories about our affect on others. Your eyes will be opened to how we have the ability to positively influence those around us, every minute of every day, and help people be their very best. Bring out the best in those you encounter as you bring out the Servant Leader within you by becoming more aware of the ways we damage other’s self-esteem and confidence. Even one person can cause the “pebble in the pond” far reaching effect of a “balcony person.” You will be inspired to see that you can “polish the pearl” not only inside of you, but in everyone you meet! Back to top

The People Puzzle (Personality Styles & Preferences)

We simply took our most popular training program (Why They Don’t…) and turned into a keynote/dinner program. It’s almost non-stop laughter as you hear story after story about the Human Differences in our lives especially the Personality Styles and Preferences of others as well as ourselves. Discover whether you are a Bouncing Bumblebee, Orderly Owl, Riveting Rhino, or Tolerant Turtle? Examine the “critters” in your life that bring out the best in you even though there are times where they can be your biggest frustration. Back to top

I’m Unstoppable (Perseverance & Motivation)

Learn to let go of whatever is holding you back. Launch an “all-out” attack on mediocrity in your life. Discover that it is not what happens to you in life that matters, rather how we react and respond to what happens to us. Like most good things, happiness and success comes as a result of a lifelong pursuit of patience, persistence, and perseverance. This uplifting program is an emotional roller-coaster ride with laughter, real-life experiences, and maybe even some tears. Accept the challenge to become the person God engineered and designed you to be. Back to top