Speaking Topics

Employee retention is important to the long-term health and success of your company. Failing to retain a great employee is costly to the bottom line including hiring and training time and lost knowledge.

You have done all the right things; you made a plan and executed it flawlessly. Your sales team went out and hit a grand slam and brought in the sales increases you were looking for. How do we ensure that sales growth translates to bottom line profit growth? All the cogs in the wheels need to be strong and fit together well to ensure these sales don’t fall flat. Learn to avoid costly mistakes, maintain a flawless reputation for customer service, and how to ensure that sales translate to profit.

To develop a competent, motivated, and productive workforce, managers have to be good coaches. In sports, coaches develop and motivate players. They work to bring out the best in each player and to unify all their players into a winning team. Coaching in the workplace has basically the same purpose and involves similar techniques.

Those skilled in Emotional Intelligence outperform others, are better motivators and build better teams. The ability to understand the effect your emotions have on others, and manage yourself accordingly, is a competitive advantage for you and your entire company. Emotional Intelligence is the single biggest factor in driving employee engagement, commitment and results.

You have built a terrific company and are growing it, but sales just don’t seem to make it to the bottom line like you expected. Sometimes we are happy with the bottom line but don’t realize that we’ve left money on the table because small profit drains add up. Learn the 5 most common profit drains, how to spot them, and what you can do about them.

You can’t build a great company without great people. No one plans to hire the wrong person – so how do they get hired? In many ways, interviewing and hiring employees is a bit like dating. You like what you see initially so you decide to spend more time with a candidate. You hope your time together will help you decide if you belong together or not. But just like dating, sometimes hiring a new employee can go horribly wrong.