These seminars cover cutting edge topics that inform participants and invite them to engage in discussion. Listed below are our Signature Starfish Seminars and a brief description of each. They are typically two to four hours in length.

Creating High Performance Work Environments that Sizzle

Which organizations will be the long-term survivors of the recession and continue to create success stories in the new normal? How do they consistently deliver sizzling, superior performance? More This interactive presentation provides information about performance drivers in the new normal and insight into factors that contribute to employee motivation, engagement and business performance. Participants will learn how to create high performance work environments that inspire, equip and motivate people to perform to the best of their abilities in the “sizzling” new normal economy.

Getting and Keeping the Right Talent in the New Normal

Actions that businesses are taking today to address the attraction and retention of talent will separate the talent winners from the talent losers. > More Fasten your seatbelts and prepare to explore the current talent attraction and retention issues that businesses face today in navigating through the new normal economy. Participants will be provided with practical suggestions for getting and keeping the right talent and in preparing retention strategies for positioning their businesses to be talent winners.

Excellence in Coaching and Managing for Performance

Clearly defining jobs expectations and managing performance outcomes are some of the most basic and important elements that contribute to employee engagement and business performance. More Employees also need to feel a sense of achievement and accomplishment in their work, which can be met through ongoing dialogue, feedback and coaching on performance. Significantly increase your skills in these areas and learn proven techniques to become excellent coaches and managers for employee performance.

Gaining the Talent Edge through Individual Development Plans

In the new normal, talent must be constantly growing, learning and sharing or the business will face extinction. More All employees must have access, opportunity and encouragement to develop their talents in a work environment that cultivates continual learning, growth and information sharing. Individual development plans provide the foundational tools to formalize this commitment toward learning, and participants will discover how to best design and effectively utilize individual development plans in the workplace to gain a competitive talent edge.

The New Normal Manager

The working relationship between employee and manager has been shown to be crucial to employee engagement and business performance, and this has never been more important than it is now. More A new breed of managers and supervisors must be developed who possess the competencies needed for success in the new normal, and who are equipped with the tools, training, and latitude necessary for carrying out their responsibilities. Find out what a “new normal manager” looks like and how to move your business to this new management model.

The Self Directed Performer

Smart businesses recognize that employees are more effective when they are empowered, equipped and encouraged to act more as autonomous, self-directed workers. More These employees are the owners and experts of their jobs and performance. This change in focus must be supported by the way performance is managed and further reinforced by compensation and reward opportunities. Find out how to create work environments that cultivate self directed performance and learn ways to manage autonomous performers.

The New Employment Deal

What is the new employment relationship that is emerging between a recession-battered workforce and its employers? How does it differ from the one before, and why does it matter? More Be prepared to revisit fundamental assumptions about the implicit and explicit “compact” that employers and employees have had with one another for decades and how that has been slowly evolving into a new employment deal. Learn about the significant implications for employers and how the emerging “deal” will impact the way decisions about employees must be made to maintain an effective, productive workforce.

Customized seminars on other topics can also be developed based on the needs of your business.

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