Speaking Services
Our One-hour briefings are ideal for trade groups, professional associations, conferences, client learning events, etc. Our most popular topics are featured below. Here are a few of the things recent participants had to say…
“You are an excellent presenter, and I took away several good points for consideration as we revamp our hiring practices. Thanks for a great learning experience!”
“Just a note to say thanks for a high quality, content filled presentation. You did a super job.”
“Thank you for an excellent presentation today at the Bluegrass SHRM meeting. You did a great job of taking very technical material and making it relevant and understandable.”
Recent Presentations
Assess to Select the Best
We’re all familiar with the hard and soft costs associated with poor employee selection decisions. However, perhaps more importantly, hiring the wrong person is PAINFUL; Painful for the person who has to manage them, for their teammates, for the individual who was hired and is now failing, and for HR who finds themselves back at square one. Poor selection decisions happen because the decision criteria at our disposal are limited, often subjective, and unreliable. In this session, we’ll learn how to infuse additional, objective data points into the selection process in order to increase the odds of making the best hire every time.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn the relative predictive validity of key employee selection methods
- Discover a process for identifying what candidate attributes matter most, and will have the biggest impact on key organizational outcomes
- Explore different types of assessment instruments, and the strengths and weaknesses of each
- Review several important business metrics to quantify the impact of your employee selection process
Data-Driven Coaching: How assessments can add (im)measurable value to your coaching engagements
Coaching is one of the most powerful tools in the leadership toolbox. However, if the coaching plan is based merely on the coachee’s self-perception or the “boss’s” one-sided view, the plan is likely to be inherently flawed and the investment in coaching ineffectual. There are several assessment and measurement tools that can add immense value to the coaching process and outcomes, if leveraged properly.
Learning Objectives:
In this session, we will:
- Explore best practices for leveraging 360-degree feedback tools at both the micro-
and macro- level:- Improve coachee “acceptance” by using an evidence-based methodology
- Validate which behaviors may need improvement or are “hidden super powers”
- Set objective goals and measure progress over time
- Gain insights into groups of leaders for strategic-level interventions
- Review how other types of assessment tools can amplify your ability to:
- Understand the “why” behind the behaviors observed by stakeholders
- Create development plans tailored to a person’s innate behavioral make-up
- Align coaching and development plans with the coachee’s values and motivations
- Strengthen the coach/coachee relationship