Keynote Presentations

 

Ask Dr. Mac:
Answers to Today’s Top Employee and Management Concerns

Ask Dr. Mac is an audience participation workshop using a question & answer format where author and management consultant, Greg Giesen, as Dr. Mac, responds to commonly asked management and employee relations issues challenging today’s organizations. Dr Mac is Greg’s fictional character from his latest management novel, Ask Dr. Mac.

Eight Simple Rules…
To Resolving Conflict and Improving Relationships

Eight Simple Rules to Resolving Conflict and Improving Relationships is a must see presentation for anyone who is looking for a unique and practical approach to this age-old topic. Presented by author and conflict mediator, Greg Giesen, this interactive program will help you dance with conflict in a light and meaningful way while providing you with the necessary eight rules to turn your conflicts into incredible opportunities.

Leading From Within:
Five Keys to Living Our Lives as Authentic Leaders

In order to be an effective leader in the workplace, we must first be an effective leader in our own lives . . . and that begins by truly knowing ourselves. In this powerful presentation, Greg Giesen reveals the key concepts from his award-winning workshop, Leading From Within: a three-day, two-night program designed to help participants achieve optimal performance as a leader in both their personal and professional lives.

Conflict at Work:
The Symptom or the System?

Employee conflicts within a given organization can oftentimes be a symptom of a much bigger problem. In this presentation, Greg discusses the four factors within an organization that can oftentimes contribute to work related conflicts and how to effectively address them.

Playing With Purpose:
How to Create a Life Worth Living

Playing with Purpose is a highly inspirational presentation on how to get past the internal barriers in our lives that prevent us from becoming the person we are capable of being. Using powerful stories and humorous antidotes, Greg provides the necessary tools and insights into how to lead a purposeful and enriching life.

True Colors Personality Profile:
Creating Understanding and Compassion for Others

Of the numerous personality models and instruments that are flooding our industry today, there is one that is by far the most user-friendly, inexpensive, and easy to share with others. Give up? It’s True Colors! Come learn about True Colors and find out why everyone is turning to colors.

Four Steps to Creating New Years Resolutions that Stick!

Greg has created a fail-safe process for turning New Years resolutions into powerful commitments that stick. Join Greg on a journey as you reflect upon this past year; transition into the upcoming year; turn your resolutions into commitments, and create accountability around your commitments to guarantee results.

Tuckman Tweaked:
Understanding the Stages of Team and Group Development

Leading teams today requires an ability to manage both the group task and the group dynamics; failure to do both can lead to team dysfunction. In Tuckman Tweaked, Greg explains his model of group development and shows you how to take your team to high performance.

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Building the perfect business beast:

This discuss is an highly interactive 1 ½ hour session utilizing the skill and creative minds in the room for the building of a business that is poised to excel. This session is the ultimate in teamwork as we collaborate to innovate or use proven concepts to construct a marketing leading beast of a business! It’s fun and encourages team members to think out of the box.

We’re not going to a let a good crisis go to waste:

We know the definition of insanity….”doing the same things over and over and expecting a differing result”. Our job is to learn from the mistakes of others and also plan for the future. We offer 10 strategic ideas to help you reposition your business to take advantage of new market opportunities, and 5 “take a way’s” that can be implement as soon as the participants get back to work to help them and your organization be more successful.

Seven keys to developing profitable Customers for Life:

Do you own or lease your customers? This program is about owning the customer relationship and understanding the profits in creating a partnership orientation with customers and vendors. We discuss how to create a sustainable profit engine though the science of Customer Lifecycle Management. This is for organizations that understand how to strategically acquire customers and position themselves as value added companies. It costs 6 to 7 times more to acquire a new customer than to keep a loyal customer; do you know which customers you will lose this month?

Success Mapping, Key strategies for organizations that want to achieve a higher level of financial performance:

Where would you or where would you like your company to be in 10 years. Given the economic events of the last few years we have seen a survival myopia coming from some organizations. Survival has been the watch word, but if one is focused on survive only…thrive is fleeting. We bring in the dynamite to blast away old concepts and locked in patterns. We discuss innovation, hiring, assessing teams and people….how to successfully acquire and retain customers for sustainable profits…where will you be in ten years?

Employees making a difference:

10 Key points for employees to become the employees a company could not afford to lose. Employee engagement doesn’t cost it pays a huge dividend. Gallup Management Journal (2009) sites these staggering statistics, 29% of employees are engaged, 54% are disengaged, (paycheck loyal) and most freighting 17% are highly disengaged, (disruptive, rumor mill, sabotage). Where engagement is low an organization will lose an average of $180,000 for an organization of 100 employees.

Do you know who will be poached from your company this month?