IN FOCUS CONSULTING A to Z

Transforming Potential into Peak Performance!

IN FOCUS Consulting PRESENTATION TOPICS

CONTENTS:

Leadership and Employment

Appreciating Differences (2 – 8 hours)

Confused by the constant barrage of “protected people”?  While it is crucial to recognize and abide by federal laws that protect minority groups, there are a few common sense concepts that will help guide your decisions and considerations.  Training yourself and your staff to appreciate differences will prevent accidental casualties.  

Balancing Personal and Professional Life (2 – 4 hours)

Ever feel stretched too far?  Can’t seem to do anything right?  Clarifying goals, dreams, and realities is the first step in creating a life that is filled with quality, not just quantity.  Taking care of essential responsibilities while reaching your life’s dream doesn’t happen accidentally.  Methods for communicating and maintaining priorities will be provided.  

Celebrating Success (1 – 4 hours)

Is your team too busy to celebrate success?  Gain strategies for integrating celebration into everyday work activities.  Celebrating success will provide much-needed recognition and motivate your team toward greater achievements.  Increased retention and added team cohesion will increase your profitability and boost morale.

Coaching Employees (2 – 4 hours)

Coaching your employees is not an arm chair activity.  Developing the talent within your team requires investigation, observation, motivation, perseverance, and alignment.  This step-by-step process will enable you to move each of your employees (stars and sluggards) to the next performance level.

Conquering Workplace Negativity (4 – 8 hours)

Is workplace negativity dragging you down?  Whether it is your own negativity or someone else’s, this epidemic squashes productivity, creativity and retention.  In this session, we will address the contagious nature of negativity, strategies for relieving the stress that causes negativity, reframing and confronting “bad attitudes,” and forging ahead with a vibrant work environment.  

Creating a Vibrant Work Culture (1 – 4 hours)

Does your workplace lack luster?  Transforming your work environment from a dreary dungeon to a flourishing garden will enhance your bottom line.  Not only will employees work harder and smarter, they will stay longer and perform stronger.  You will see the benefits of increased work relationships, decreased conflict, and enhanced productivity.  

Ethical Considerations of Leadership (2 – 8 hours)

Are you equipped to make the decisions required of you?  Every decision a leader makes is riddled with pros and cons.  The right decision for the wrong reason can be more damaging than the wrong decision for the right reason.  This session will provide a basis for your most important decisions.

Focus on Strategic Alignment (3 – 8 hours)

Is your organization running on optimal efficiency?  The individuals within an organization can only function at peak performance with proper alignment of the mission of the organization, department, and employees.  This foundation will focus your energies to achieve optimal performance.

Leadership Retreats (6 – 12 hours)

Is your leadership team scattered and unfocused?  IN FOCUS Leadership Retreats will energize your leaders, break-down communication barriers, and create team spirit and alignment.  Through strategic planning, team-building activities, and a fun, relaxed atmosphere, you'll be amazed at the creativity, collaboration, and commitment that will spring forth from your team!

Leading with Style (2 – 8 hours)

Does your leadership style prevent you from reaching someone on your team?  All leaders have a natural leadership style that enables them to effortlessly communicate with some team members.  In order to reach every team member, you must match your natural style to your employee.  This session will enable you to identify and alter your communication style to reach optimal performance.

Living Liability (2 – 8 hours)

Supervisors have one of the most difficult jobs around.  Without proper training and coaching, it's impossible to apply the ever-changing employment laws, retain superstar employees, and weed out problem performers.  Living Liability is an expandable program that promises to build skills, confidence, and accountability within supervisors.

Managing from the Middle (1.5 – 4 hours)

Do you find yourself caught in the middle of management issues?  Your effectiveness with your employees is in direct proportion to your effectiveness with your supervisor.  In this session, you will gain insight into communication styles, increasing your efficiency, minimizing conflict, and building trust. 

Managing Energy, Not Time (3-6 hours)

Tired of time management programs that leave you feeling overwhelmed and disorganized?  Create your own energy management routine based on your values and priorities.  Use your strengths to accomplish the things that are most important to you.

Managing the Meeting Monster (2 – 4 hours)

Feel like you are in an endless sea of meetings?  Poorly organized and "meeting for the sake of meeting" drain time, productivity, creativity, and enthusiasm.  Gain strategies for organizing your meetings, managing challenging participants, and creating synergy within your team.

Performance Management (4 – 8 hours)

Do you find it difficult to know when to take action against an employee?  Guidelines on when, how, and what type of corrective action to take will be addressed in this session.  The performance management system, including recognition of performance issues, communication formulas, documentation, and follow-through, will be provided.  This session is a must for every supervisor.  

Recognition and Rewards (2 – 8 hours)

Great employees often quit because of lack of recognition.  Don’t fall into that trap!  The most effective forms of recognition are quick, easy, and require no budget.  Make the investment into your employees by learning how to provide fool-proof recognition that will reap huge dividends.

Recruitment and Selection (4 – 8 hours)

Ever wonder why the perfect job applicant is a disaster after hired?  Hiring is the single most important decision any leader will ever make.  Pressure from employees and backlogged workload often pushes leaders into making premature or uninformed hiring decisions.  These momentary errors often result in years of remediation and costly lawsuits.  Implementing an effective and efficient hiring system will prevent many headaches.  

Revolutionize Your Hiring Process (4-8 hours)

Are you confident you are hiring the BEST candidate?  Identifying knowledge, skills, and abilities is important, but what about attitude?  Redesign your hiring process to ensure a match between the attitude of your candidate and the atmosphere of your organization.  You'll agree, it's much easier to retrain a skill than an attitude.

Sexual Harassment (2 – 8 hours)

Has this epidemic hit your organization yet?  If not, it will!  Are you ready?  Prevention strategies and early recognition of symptoms of harassment are your best defense.  This slippery monster can be conquered through a systematic approach.  Don’t wait for a lawsuit to blindside you!

Supervising Slippery Employees (3 – 8 hours)

Are challenging employees holding you hostage?  Some employees are professional escape artists – escaping responsibility for their poor job performance.  Using the performance continuum, communication formula, and documentation strategies, you will regain control of your employee’s performance.  

Time Management for Busy People (2 – 4 hours)

Are you trying to juggle too many “top priorities”?  Distinguishing between top priorities, urgent responsibilities, and pet projects can be difficult.  This session will provide a framework for prioritizing and juggling multiple responsibilities and projects.  

Time Management for the Busy Professional (2-4 hours)

Do you need more time in your day? Time has become our most precious commodity! Identifying your natural time management style, assessing your trouble spots and practicing techniques to maximize your time will put you back in the driver’s seat of your day.

Communication

Accelerate Your Communication Skills (2 – 6 hours)

Could your career use a boost?  More than any other skill, employers are looking for effective communicators.  Contrary to popular belief, interpersonal skills are not innate.  In this session, you will assess communication goals, enhance listening skills, develop rapport, question creatively, and catapult your career.

Advanced Communication Skills for the Technical Professional (2 – 6 hours)

Ever get the blank stare?  Sometimes other people just don't get it!  Avoiding tech*NO*friendly language, reading others' communication reception, and increasing agreement is critical for technical professionals striving to communicate and advance in their career.

Assertive Communication (2 – 8 hours)

Are ineffective communication skills stunting your productivity?  Effective and assertive communication strategies are the single most important skill a leader or employee can possess.  From making requests of the boss to standing up for your beliefs, participants are challenged to move from passive communication patterns to assertive, confident communication strategies.  For aggressive communicators, toning it down and reframing the message will transform their effectiveness.

Bulldozing Barriers and Building Bridges (2 – 6 hours)

Is competition killing your company?  Our society is riddled with competition that promotes only one winner.  This perspective will kill efforts to collaborate within the workplace.  Creative and innovative methods for building trust, sharing information, and winning together will provide the foundation for a more productive and profitable organization.