Each of these motivational programs is designed for managers or subordinates in any sort of company or organization. Some of the topics are of specific interest to managers, and are organized with an emphasis on developing interactive discussions of instructional value. Several sessions were created at the specific request of past attendees and client customers.

Each group’s interest and concerns are different. Therefore, an organization may tailor a program to accomplish the specific goals of their group from the following topics:

1. Managing People
2. Improving Communications
3. Generational Differences in the Workplace
4. Accepting Change
5. Time Management
6. Stress Management
7. Building a Work Team
8. Understanding Other People
9. Using the Job to Motivate Employees

Please see the following agendas that explain the main points covered during each session.

This seminar generates discussion among supervisory and managerial personnel concerning the problems they face in “getting things done through people.”

The following topics are covered during the program:

1. Job wants of employees
2. Job wants of supervisors
3. Three ingredients needed to get any job done properly: ability, resources and training
4. Examples of the NEGATIVE signals that we may be sending to our subordinates
5. Types of managers, and how our people deal with each
6. You don’t “OWN” your people, you merely rent their behavior each day — begin managing those behaviors properly to get the results you desire
7. “People problems” and some suggestions for solving them
8. Some of the problems we have with our people may be caused by...US
1. How these problems affect the department’s operations
2. Ideas how to solve these problems

Participants enjoy this session because of its free exchange of ideas and its high degree of audience participation.

A program for everyone, from supervisor to subordinate, aimed at helping to improve overall communication skills. There is an exchange of ideas, interactive demonstrations, and group discussions generated in the following areas:

1. How to use communications to improve morale
2. How you ask questions forces people to NOT TELL THE TRUTH
3. Using open-ended questions to gain information
4. The importance of “active” listening
5. The effects of listening on behavior
6. How employee perception affects morale
7. Listening and its effect on productivity
8. Relationship between what is said and what is heard
9. How to improve our listening skills
10. Did I say what you heard?
11. The value of proper written communications
12. How to improve our written communications

This session is not only informative but also very enjoyable and fun. Participants are involved during the program through “live-action” demonstrations and examples of ways to improve overall communications.

There are up to four different generations that could be a part of your workforce and each brings with it its own sets of interests, thought processes and challenges. If you are a manager with more than one of these generations in your workforce, then this seminar is for you.

Learn what the four generations are and what they each look for in their work environment. What works well for one generation will not always work equally as well for another generation.

Our seminar is very interactive and covers the following topics:

1. The four generations found in the modern workplace:
1. Matures
2. Boomers
3. Generation X
4. Generation Y, Millenials, or Echo-Boomers,
2. Learn what motivates each generation,
3. Each generation has strengths and weaknesses that they bring to the work environment,
4. Each generation communicates differently with one another,
5. Review each generation’s attitudes and behaviors.

We have generational surveys that each attendee completes and we follow that up with discussions of how to get the most out of each group. This is a fun program that will help any supervisor or manager in any industry, along with increasing overall employee understanding of other employees and their environments.

Change is important because it affects everyone. This program covers the various aspects of change today and its effects on each of us. We will review many areas regarding the affects of change in our work life and in our personal lives.

Topics discussed include:

1. Why change is a necessary part of life - both in business and in our personal lives,
2. Handling the effects of change – within ourselves and with our work teams
3. Learning how to cope with change,
4. The death of our old ways, means the birth of opportunities,
5. How to create new opportunities for ourselves,
6. Falling in love with Risk!
7. Living outside “the box,”
8. Predicting the future by creating it!
9. Handling the stress of change,
10. How to make change FUN!
11. The secrets to survive in today’s rapidly changing world

Depending upon the size of the audience, we will have opportunities for questions from the group. We will have several chances to utilize members from the audience in live action “demos” to assist in driving home major points brought out during the session. This will be a fun program with lots of audience participation.

After all the books that have been written on the subject, it seems that managing our time is still a major problem in this fast-paced world of today. This seminar is intended to review the causes of our time management problems and suggest not only solutions for these problems but also ideas to prevent them from recurring. The program covers the following topics:

1. The real causes of our time management problems
2. “Self-management” - not time management
3. Benefits of better time management
4. How managing ourselves & our time leads to dramatic increases in productivity
5. Using a Time Log
6. Planning our day
7. Balancing personal as well as business goals
8. Setting priorities and adapting to new priorities
9. How to really use a “To Do” list

In addition to the above topics, we will discuss solutions to the biggest Time Wasters in our lives. These include:

1. Telephone interruptions
2. Drop-in visitors
3. Ineffective delegation
4. Personal disorganization
5. The inability to say “No!” and more

The session will conclude by developing a personal action plan for ourselves. This will help us to get organized quickly when we return to our work or home. The program is fun, but also extremely useful. Participants will leave with ideas to help organize their lives at work and at home. We will use an open format so that everyone is encouraged to ask questions as we move through the material.

This seminar is designed to force attendees to think about stress, and how it affects each of us. We discuss several ways to learn to live with stress, and not have it affect our personal performance. We discuss what causes stress in our daily lives, how to control and deal with it, and the consequences of not dealing with stress properly.

The discussion includes the following topics:

1. What is stress?
2. How stress affects our bodies
3. Symptoms of a stressed person
4. Take a “stress test”
5. Types of stress personalities and their varying behaviors
6. What causes stress on the job
7. How to deal with job burnout
8. How to cope with stress
9. How colors affect stress

“Live action” demonstrations along with group discussion among participants are a major part of this program. Attendees will leave with new ideas to help them in dealing with stress.

Each of us has a set of personality patterns that make up our behavior. These patterns express themselves in our actions and in the way we interact with others.

This session reviews how different personality patterns affect relationships with other people and we will cover the following topics:

1. How personalities affect personal behavior
2. How and why we behave as we do
3. Take a personality quiz
4. How your personality type is reflected in the way you think about management, other people, tasks and problem solving
5. How and when to modify our own behavior to become more effective in dealing with others around us
6. Knowing the other person’s personality will improve communications
7. Determining your own personality
8. The predictability of behavior based upon knowing four different personality styles

This program is fun and very useful in the workplace, at home and with normal social situations.Be prepared to have an enjoyable session filled with information, exercises and open discussion.

Many times a supervisor or manager may miss the biggest motivational asset he or she has when it comes to motivating their employees at work. That asset is the job itself. There is an old adage that refers to the fact that there is more to a job than just a paycheck.

If we can determine what motivates our employees to want to perform well at work, our jobs as supervisors will be a lot more rewarding to us and to our people. With this program we will cover many areas that are available to managers to improve their ability to create a motivated workforce.

We will cover the following topics in our session:

1. How to motivate our workers by using more than just money,
2. What employees look for in their jobs
3. Holding one-on-one meetings with subordinates,
4. Supervisor’s attitudes toward their workers and their boss,
5. Improving communications through “active listening,”
6. Delegation as a strong motivational tool – what, when, how, who, and why,
7. Empowering employees,
8. Training – the supervisor’s responsibility, and
9. Motivating by enriching the job.

Each of these topics is designed to generate ideas that can be brought back to the office and put to work right away. During our program we will have “live action” demonstrations to drive home critical ideas. The format is set up to encourage discussion by all attendees and have an exchange of ideas among participants. The program is not only extremely useful, but also fun.

John’s experience is grounded in the real world of business. In his presentations, he shares proven solutions and strategies he developed while working with major companies across the country. He has been responsible for training for a wide variety of end-user customers and sales organizations.

He began his career with Johnson Wax in 1979 as a Territory Manager. Three years later, he was promoted to Field Training Manager where he developed motivational and product seminars as well as sales force training programs.

John has conducted successful seminars organizations such as Ace Hardware, Kodak, Bristol Myers, US Airways, Notre Dame University, Dartmouth College, and Otis Spunkmeyer, the Cookie Company. His work has taken him to Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

In 1998, John left Johnson Wax to focus on consulting. He travels extensively as a conference speaker, lecturer and trainer. His first love is motivation, a topic he continues to address in national publications.