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Motivational Leadership Speaker

motivational leadership speaker, employee engagement expert

Greg’s Keynotes and Workshops

Most of these programs can be delivered over the web in a virtual format

Employee Engagement Strategies that Boost Performance

When individuals lose their motivation, organizations lose their ability to attract, retain and engage their workforce. This predicament has a major impact on profitability, productivity and the reputation of the company. Successful organizations realize employee engagement is critical in sustaining their leadership and growth in the marketplace.  In Greg’s workshop, you will learn how to keep yourself engaged as well as specific techniques managers can use to help re-ignite employee’s passion for their job. Discover how to design peer recognition programs and no-cost incentive programs.  Learn how to organize and run Idea Campaigns, “Shining Stars,” Idea Olympics, and Vampire Extermination Expeditions‑‑programs making work efficient, fun and productive.  Learn from the expert on how these programs can improve retention, reduce turnover and have a major impact on job satisfaction and employee engagement.

The High Performance Organization:

Leading and Growing Your Business to Achieve Exceptional Results

Whether you are a small company or a large corporation, success depends on your ability to eliminate status quo, improve financial results and exceed customer expectations.  The goal of this workshop is to get every person performing at a higher level – achieving peak performance.  The High Performance Organization manages change effectively and embraces shifts in markets, competition and customer preferences. The organization is enabled to make meaningful change to improve programs, services, products and processes and to create value for the organization’s stakeholders. 

Proven Ways to Attract, Retain and Motivate Your Workforce   

 

The key to success for any organization is the ability to attract and retain skilled and talented people. Good organizations make talent management a core element of their organizational development strategy.  Those that fail to make talent management a priority, risk losing talented people to the competition. Millennials are now the largest generation in the workforce. Their force and impact will grow as the Baby Boomers retire. Their expectations and wants are radically different than any other generation. This session shows you how to design a modern-day strategy that provides a road map for not only attracting and keeping talented employees, but for motivating and engaging them to achieve a higher level of performance. This session is jam packed with tips, practical ideas, and easy-to-implement advice for creating a great place to work.

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Leading Your Organization to Achieve Exceptional Results

Every organization today must achieve higher levels of performance. Success depends on your ability to manage change, improve financial results, build customer loyalty and motivate your workforce from the bottom to the top. This session will help you design a road map and a long-term strategy that gets your business heading in the right direction and each person performing at a higher level – achieving peak performance.  Learn dozens of ideas and strategies on improving performance, motivating your people to new levels and innovative ways to grow your business.

Here-TodayHere Today, Here Tomorrow: Transforming Your Workforce from High-Turnover to High-Retention

The key to success for any organization is the ability to attract and retain skilled and talented people. Good organizations make employee retention a core element of their talent management and organizational development strategy. Those that fail to make it a priority risk losing their top talented people to the competition. This session shows you how to design an effective talent management strategy that provides a comprehensive road map for not only attracting and keeping talented employees, but for motivating and engaging them to achieve a higher level of performance and productivity. This session is jam packed with tips, practical ideas, and easy-to-implement advice for creating a motivating, high-retention culture.\

Five Key Steps:

Transformational Leadership for a Changing World

The actions taken by the leader is the driving force in building effective teams, improving performance and engaging and retaining a talented and skilled workforce. This session will provide attendees with key strategies that drive performance and inspire and motivate people to go above and beyond. You will learn how to reward, motivate, engage, make accountable and coach people toward higher performance. By building confidence in your abilities you will be able to handle leadership challenges and guide your people to sustained high performance. You will gain a comprehensive range of very practical and highly effective leadership tools and approaches that can be implemented immediately.

Fast, Focused and Friendly: The Key Essentials of Great Customer Service

Learn to create a powerful culture of exceptional customer service that permeates and drives the actions of the entire organization. This program will help you create a five-step service quality process that develops the right attitudes, behaviors and emotionally connects with your customers. Discover how to hire, manage and reward your employees so they act quickly, take responsibility and deliver a high level of service. Learn how to train your employees to become your ambassadors that will keep your customers pleased and coming back. This session provides dozens of tips and strategies that can be implemented immediately.

Emotional Intelligence & DISC Training Programs

Individual behavior styles and our emotional intelligence (soft skills) have a direct impact on our interpersonal relationships in the workplace.  Individuals differ from each other in fundamental ways including their values, behaviors, talents, temperaments, wants and beliefs.  Our workshop will help individuals understand each other better and appreciate the unique strengths and differences each person brings to the office.  As a result, you will become a better leader, communicator, team member and gain key strategies to create highly effective working relationships. The workshop incorporates a personalized behavior assessment to give a more complete understanding of yourself and others.

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Testimonials

“Greg did an outstanding job as a business speaker at one of our most important clients. In fact, Greg had one of the highest speaker ratings at the conference. Based on these results, I would highly recommend Greg as a keynote speaker.”

Richard Schelp
Owner, Executive Speakers Bureau

“I attended one of Greg's leadership training seminars and it was engaging, insightful, educational and even FUN. Greg is a talented management consultant that knows how to get results!”

Cheryl Earls
Director, Quality Resource Management
Kaiser Permanente

“Greg is a creative genius. He is laser-focused on providing his clients with solutions in talent management, leadership development and customer service. He gets the job done and will produce the results you need.”

Melodi Szymczak
Director
Vital Learning

“Four hours of my time in your seminar has resulted in a 51% improvement of our revenues during the first quarter of the year. We should reach $450-500 million easily. Our teams work smart as well as hard and each member is having a lot more fun working together. You are the ‘Deal of the Century.’”

- Dave Dibble, Director of Marketing, Sunshine Companies

“Greg’s insights into determining issues, problems and opportunities inside any company are among the best I have seen. He can literally walk into a company or organization, and just by observing people work and communicate and asking a number of key questions, he can … understand why the company is not advancing the progress on its own and what it needs to do to move forward. If you want problems identified and solutions provided and implemented, Greg is one of the best I have seen. You will go ‘right’ by working with Greg.”

Rolando Marchis, President, Odyssey Transformational Strategies

"Your motivational message was not only insightful and thought provoking, it was also delightfully entertaining...You were super!"

Rebecca J. Froboese
Executive Director
The Alamo Federal Executive Board

"Your presentation was perfect for our audience and rated as one of the highest during the entire conference. Your style and the content of your program generated many enthusiastic comments. Your valuable experience and background provided us some valuable information."

Barbara Hampton
President SNET Real Estate

"Your insights were very informative and it was very helpful having a motivational leadership speaker who brought such a broad level of experience from many different backgrounds. Not only were you entertaining to listen to, but everyone appreciated the fact that they were able to take back many new ideas they can implement immediately."

Laura Leeds
VP Continuing Care and Workforce
New York State Healthcare Association

"Greg provides a comprehensive road map for not only attracting and keeping talented employees, but for motivating them to achieve a higher level of performance."

David Shadovitz
Editor-in-Chief
Human Resource Executive Magazine

"You are blessed with the unique talent to deliver a great message and your presentation received excellent comments."

Nancy Hendershot
Alabama Restaurant Association

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