MANAGER SUMMIT SESSION DESCRIPTIONS

Establish Accountability and Eliminate Excuses

• Is your team working on the wrong goals and/or activities?
• Are you too tolerant of excuses?

In this session, you will learn the common mistakes to avoid and why team members often don't do what you ask them to do.  You will also discuss the principals of accountability, what to stop doing and what to start doing to create the culture you want.

Networking for Managers

• Do you think networking is time-consuming and unproductive?
• Do you know the key reasons why managers need to network?

There are three key reasons managers need to network: employee selection; market awareness and information; and personal influence.  In this session, you will learn to maximize attendance at any event, lower defenses and build rapport quickly.  The session will also cover specific engaging and qualifying questions to develop potential referrals and expand your level of influence.

Effective Presentation Skills For Managers

• Do you deliver effective presentations to executives, fellow managers and employees?
• Do you know what makes a great presentation?

All managers are required to give presentations to others.  Whether you are addressing your executive team or leading a team meeting, how you say something is often more important than what you say.  This session will provide practical insights on how to effectively communicate your message to others.

Why Managers Need to Understand Their Budget

• Do you know what your specific responsibilities are in relation to your budget spreadsheet?
• How can you prepare a budget for the next fiscal year and learn some useful tools?

In this session, you will explore strategies on how to view your budget (hint: it's more about than just the dollars) and how to motivate your team to help reach your targets.  Learn to use your budget as a tool to effectively manage your department, team or project and communicate and celebrate your success.

Discipline to Termination: How Do You Stay Safe?

• If you fired all of your employees today, would you hire them all back tomorrow?
• Are you hesitant to correct your employees' behavior because you are afraid of getting sued?

In this session, you will learn a proven discipline process to change your employees' behavior.  This process also provides you the documentation you need to terminate your employee, if their behavior does not change.  Getting employees to meet expectations is one of the hardest aspects of management and this session will give you the tools to be more confident in the disciplinary process.

I Can't Attend Any More Meetings!

• Do you feel meetings eat away at your schedule more and more  these days?
• Do you find yourself checking your smart phones and answering e-mails during meetings just to keep up?

We've all been there.  In this session, you will learn how to hold effective and productive meetings that enable you and your team to communicate information and solve problems.  We will discuss the purpose, format and timing of meetings using concepts introduced in Patrick Lencioni's "Death by Meeting" and Verne Harnish's "Mastering the Rockefeller Habits."

Managing With Emotional Intelligence

• What is emotional intelligence and how does it relate being an effective manager?
• Why is emotional intelligence important in the workplace?

Like it or not, emotions are an important part of the workplace.  Recent research estimates that more than 93 percent of the characteristics we associate with strong managers and leaders are more of a function of EQ rather than IQ.  This session will explore how developing competency in emotional intelligence will be an invaluable tool in every manager's toolkit.

Legal Issues in Managing Employees

• Do you feel overwhelmed with the number of legal issues involved with your role as a manager?
• Did you know that employment law claims make up approximately 15 percent of all lawsuits filed?

While you don't have to be an attorney to be an effective manager, sometimes you do have to think like one.  This session will review key legal issues that every supervisor needs in order to stay one foot ahead of the game... and both feet out of the courtroom.

Capturing the Advantages of Generational Differences

• Explore the way an effective manager can cultivate and utilize the value, skills, and assets of each generational cohort and how these values contribute to your team's effectiveness.