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Best Practices for Getting More from Less

Have less to work with and expecting more is the challenge facing us all. How do some organizations make everything happen and others don’t? In this program are the best practices successful organizations put into practice. Successful growth isn’t just a numbers game, and it doesn’t happen by accident or by surprise. Success happens as a result of effective strategies, leadership, high standards, and measurements. The leaders of the organization must create and nurture an environment of expected growth.

This program is filled with immediately applicable information that sets the tone for organizations to grow. Included are interactive worksheets, group discussions, and hands on application of the information sure to elevate participants' leadership’s ability to grow the organization.

Just a few of the items covered in this program are:

How to establish a culture of high growth expectation
Identify and eliminate dragging anchors
Cutting edge methods for attracting, selecting and retaining the best talent
Turning renegade ideas into net income
Internal branding
Properly measuring the more

The work doesn’t end at the conclusion of this program. This is a kick start to a series of action items to be implemented in the audience member’s organization. By using these best practices, getting more from less will most definitely happen.

Thrive Don’t Just Survive in a Tough Economy

Standing still is not an option in today's marketplace, with more competition than ever for customers' business and for the best employees. To succeed, your organization needs practical ways to develop growth strategies to increase revenue, market share and recognition in your community as the preferred provider.

Each participant attendee will be guided and given time to begin the process of developing fresh ideas they can begin using the minute they return home from the conference. They will learn, without breaking the budget, how to:

Create "Brand-traction" for their business
Deliver "WOW" services that create viral marketing
Establish new measurements of success for internal and external use
Develop renegade ideas into record growth
How to be more agile
Thrive marketing and positioning

This is a hard-hitting program for companies that are serious about their future. This program is filled with immediately applicable information that sets the tone for organizations to grow. Included are interactive worksheets, group discussions, and hands on application of the information sure to elevate participants' leadership’s ability to grow the organization. Come prepared for the progress that will occur as a result!

Understanding the Next Gen

"I just don't know how you manage this younger generation! When I was their age..."

“I think someone was giving out Stupid Pills and my employees were getting all they could.”

“Trying to get these guys to care and work over is like asking Mother Theresa for piece of… It just ain’t gonna happen.””

Ever heard any of these comments? I’ve actually heard each of these comments from frustrated managers trying to get employees to “act right.”

Today’s reality is that the workplace is more diverse than ever, and the different generations of workers and customers have different goals and values.

Learn how to manage across the generations is as much about defining what “acting right” means as defining what results are expected and needed. Audience members in this sessions will learn how to better understand the different generations, work together with the different generations, and achieve successful growth as an organization who embraces the multi-generational workforce.

Just a few of the items covered in this program are:

Understand the outlook, work ethic, view of authority and perspective of the generations

4 Questions to ask before interviewing prospective employees

Understand and motivate work ethics

What the Next Gen wants

Move Your Company Forward Fast!

Can you afford to operate your business as you did 5 years ago? NO!
Can your marketing be as it was 5 years ago? NO!
Did your customer service improvements stop 5 years ago? NO!

So why are you using a strategic planning model for your future that was designed in the previous century? THAT’S INSANE! Changes have come fast, furious and frequently in the last five years — and there are even more changes to come!

Executives have to have a vision employees can believe in and support. Let’s get your company moving forward fast! Among the items covered:

Plan for technological and economic shifts
How best to analyze the competition
Create action plans that actually put legs on your ideas
Identify sacred cows and turn them to steaks
Measure success and find your champions

This program is filled with immediately applicable information that sets the tone for organizations to move forward fast! Included are interactive worksheets, group discussions, and hands on application of the information sure to elevate participants' abilities to move the organization forward fast.

Buyer Believability:

How to Successfully Sell to a Skeptical Society

Customers make buying decisions dramatically different from before, employees view their responsibilities of work with a completely new approach, and even executives flinch at decisions they made with ease not that long ago. Everyone asks themselves, “Who can I believe?”

The information overload and misrepresentation of facts in media have truly changed how people think and take action. There is no turning back to the good old days; it’s about understanding how to proceed into the future profitably when selling successfully to a skeptical society. We know:

· The buying process has shifted.

· Consumers no longer trust corporate ad messages or news updates.

· Buyers must believe to buy.

Included in this program are best practices and cutting edge ideas where companies are breaking through the fear and skepticism and creating commitment, trust and great loyalty with their customers. Verizon, Fed Ex and Nugget Markets, to name a few, are companies that are growing and thriving while their customer satisfaction numbers and sales are on the rise.

This program is delivered energetically, with a frequently humorous tone to engage, enlighten and capture the attention of attendees while providing solutions that can immediately be put into practice to:

· Understand how a Decade of Fear has reshaped how buyers think, react and accept change in the buying process.

· Incorporate what skepticism has done to buyer expectations, decision making and trust.

· Deliver what the Skeptical Society of buyers are looking for during purchase decisions and how to reach them.

· Implement how companies are creating buyer believability and building customer trust.

Buy-in Believability:

How to Engage a Skeptical Workforce

· Distrust is the default setting for the skeptical workforce.

· Workforce engagement has to be earned daily with a precision approach.

· Employees must believe to buy-in.

Included in this program are best practices and cutting edge ideas where companies are breaking through the fear and skepticism and creating commitment, trust and great loyalty from their employees. Google, Genentech and Zappos, to name a few, are companies that are growing and thriving while their employee satisfaction numbers are on the rise.

This program is delivered energetically, with a frequently humorous tone to engage, enlighten and capture the attention of your association members while providing solutions that can immediately be put into practice to:

· Understand how a Decade of Fear has reshaped how employees think, react and accept change.

· Manage what skepticism has done to employee expectations, decision making and commitment.

· Implement what the different generations of skeptical employees need for motivation and buy-in.

· Incorporate how companies are creating buy-in believability and building employee trust.