InteGreat Peak Performance LLC

According to Gallup (2013), only 13% of employees worldwide are engaged, and one quarter of employees report that they are actively disengaged at work costing more than $6 billion in lost productivity. Nine in ten managers struggle to be effective managers unless developed. Managers account for 70% of the variance in employee engagement. The costs of this situation are staggering in terms of lost productivity and the cost of replacing employees.

How to engage and mobilize is a top frustration….

At the same time, many leaders of both large and small organizations report that one of their top frustrations is about how they can do a better job engaging their employees. They are tired of spending so much time dealing with the fallout that comes from employees that are not as committed and motivated as they are.

The answer might be simpler than you think….

While there is no silver bullet to this predicament, there are simple yet powerful leadership practices that cost nothing to implement, and can produce immediate improvements in performance.

I have proven track record from my transformational coaching, teaching, consulting and public speaking as a Clifton-certified Strengths Coach and teaching methods that have impacted 100s of lives. Unlike other trainers, speakers, coaches, and advisors, I offer real world experience operating in a complex environment at the Pentagon for the last 16 years. I focus on simple but powerful mind shift strategies that result in behaviors that have maximum impact on your leaders’ ability to engage.

What you can expect from my Professional Development Consultation Return on Investment

Targeted leadership development in the areas of communication, conflict management, trust, coaching and mentoring one’s employees, and leading change that promotes succession planning for the next generation of leaders

Increased self-awareness leading to enhanced management skills resulting in higher employee morale, increased productivity, and reduced turnover

As trust and effective communication increases costs go down and speed and efficiency in the workplace increases

Managers have greater confidence, peace of mind, improved health, and better family relations

Workshop Facilitation
Professionally Delivered Workshops for Government, Non-profit, Faith-based, and Corporate Clients
Workshop topics can be delivered in half day, full day, or keynote format. Contact me for customization for emerging leader program, mid-level leadership, and executive development programs based on a proven competency development model.

Topics include:

Clifton StrengthsFinder Team Building Workshop:

Every individual has been given a unique set of talents at birth that are designed for that individual to fulfill one’s passion, purpose, and calling for living a rich and fulfilling life filled with meaning and purpose. I designed this workshop to expand and strengthen the team leader and participant’s recognition of the relationship between effective individual/team performance, and the greater organizational impact that follows from focusing on one’s own and employee strengths rather than wasted time and energy focusing on areas of weakness. The team will become aware of, and begin to articulate their own, and other’s areas of talent as well as increase employee engagement when employees are able to leverage the power of their passion in the development of their strengths. Upon completion of this workshop, the team will have renewed enthusiasm and energy to effectively tackle mission requirements to execute the leader’s vision.

Over 20 million people have taken the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment. This assessment is changing the way organization’s obtain results. Don’t let your organization be left behind.

My Gift of You StrengthsFinder Employee Workshop will teach your employees and team leads how to unleash their natural talents and abilities that drive organizational results.

Implement my strengths-based employee workshop today. I have designed engaging participant materials, discussions, and learning activities that teach participants the following key concepts:

Understand the history, science, and implications of strengths psychology

Understand one’s natural talents and use them to boost success

Learn how to find deep fulfillment in every day activities

Understand co-workers and peers better

After the workshop, employees will have a common language to communicate with each other based on personality strengths and motives; be able to align one’s strengths with tasks to accelerate productivity and performance; build and strengthen team bonds and communication and have more energy, passion, and enthusiasm at work.

READY TO GET STARTED?

Here’s how to implement a successful strengths-based workshop in three easy steps:

1. Decide – I’ll help you decide who gets the training and why.

2. Prepare – I will customize your workshop to exceed your expectations.

3. Deliver – I will deliver the training in a fun and engaging way that will

help make the learning stick.

Clifton Strength-based Leadership Workshop:

I designed this workshop to expand and strengthen team lead, supervisory, managerial, and executive participant’s recognition of the relationship between effective individual/team performance, and the greater organizational impact that follows from focusing on one’s own and employee strengths rather than wasted time and energy focusing on areas of weakness. Executives, managers, team leads and all levels of leaders will become aware of, and begin to articulate their own, and others areas of talent as well as increase employee engagement when employees are able to leverage the power of their passion in the development of their strengths. Upon completion of this workshop, the leaders will have renewed enthusiasm and energy to effectively tackle and assign key tasks to execute the organization’s mission and vision.

My Strengths-based Leader Workshop will teach your team leads, managers, and executives how to build high-performing teams that drive organizational results.

Implement my strengths-based workshop today. I have designed engaging participant materials, discussions, and learning activities that teach participants the following key concepts:

Understand the history, science, and implications of strengths psychology

Understand the four reasons why people follow a leader

Understand how to become an extraordinary leader who lives and leaves a lasting legacy

Learn how to build a high performing team

After the workshop, leaders will have a common language to communicate with employees based on personality strengths and motives; be able to align employee strengths with tasks to accelerate productivity and performance; build and strengthen team bonds and communication and build a strengths-based culture.

READY TO GET STARTED?

Here’s how to implement a successful strengths-based initiative workshop in three easy steps:

1. Decide – I’ll help you decide who gets the training and why.

2. Prepare – I will customize your workshop to exceed your expectations.

3. Deliver – I will deliver the training in a fun and engaging way that will

help make the learning stick.

Extraordinary Living with Less Stress Workshop:

I designed this workshop to expand and strengthen participants’ self-awareness and resiliency skills, and integrate into one’s experience useful concepts and practical tools so that participants are more able to initiate strategies for having a balanced life to achieve extraordinary results in the areas that matter most to them. The workshop provides participants with ideas, actions, and resiliency tools to better assess and implement balanced living. The workshop identifies the long term impact of continual stress and burnout on one’s life and legacy. During the course, participants reflect on their own perception of stress and triggers and prepare an action plan to enhance one’s overall quality of life and contribution.

Creating a Culture of Candor and the Dividends of Generating High Trust as a Leader Workshop:

I designed this workshop to expand and strengthen participants’ self-awareness and understanding that at the core of all great leaders is the ability to inspire trust and that the root of dysfunction of most organizations is low trust and suspicion. This workshop will rapidly improve executive’s ability and influence as a leader to create a culture of candor and trust to achieve organizational goals and aspirations in both one’s personal and professional life as participants begin to apply the behaviors of high trust and reap substantial dividends.

Master Your World. Learn How to Communicate with Power and Influence Workshop:

I designed this workshop to expand and strengthen participants’ self-awareness in one’s communication style and understand that the number one problem of every organization, relationship, or failed business endeavor is communication. When you can speak and listen more clearly, you will see dramatic growth in all areas of your life. Effective communication is the key to success in all relationships, endeavors, and achievements. Without it, you’re just hoping and praying you can effectively convey your deepest desires and have them be accurately received. But with it…you can persuade, lead, and influence others with ease, and become much more effective in all areas of your life. Unfortunately, most of us are never taught how to communicate effectively. With this workshop under your belt and some practice, you can be seen as a thoughtful, powerful communicator who really listens, cares about others, effectively conveys your message, empowers others, and just “gets it.

Master Your World, Learn How to Communicate With Power Workshop will teach participants how to improve relationships through effective communication techniques.

Implement my communicate with power workshop today. I have designed engaging participant materials, discussions, and learning activities that teach participants the following key concepts:

Learn how one could easily be sending mixed messages without realizing it

Understand the secret to deepening relationships and how to avoid the mistake of pushing people away

Learn how to hear what is being said and make meaningful connections with others

Learn powerful techniques for clear and concise communication

After the workshop, participants will be able to apply respectful communication concepts and practices designed to encourage high performance, foster innovative thinking and information sharing; learn how to avoid communication misunderstandings; assess once’s communication style; and enhance one’s ability to speak with authority and instill trust in others.

READY TO GET STARTED?

Here’s how to implement a successful communication initiative workshop in three easy steps:

1. Decide – I’ll help you decide who gets the training and why.

2. Prepare – I will customize your workshop to exceed your expectations.

3. Deliver – I will deliver the training in a fun and engaging way that will

help make the learning stick.

How to Become a Transformational Leader Who Lives and Leaves a Lasting Legacy Workshop:

I designed this workshop to inspire those you lead with helping you to create a powerful vision that fuels positive energy, ignites passion and increases employee engagement and productivity. Transformational leaders oppose the status quo, are inspirational and believe passionately in developing one’s subordinates through mentoring, coaching, and effective problem solving. Participants will learn and apply these concepts through case studies, presentations, discussions, and other hands-on activities.

The Leader’s Guide to Navigating Change. How to Survive and Thrive in the Midst of Chaos:

Leading change can be like making your way through a dense jungle with no path or guide as your navigator. I designed this workshop to equip and prepare leaders to not only successfully navigate change but to thrive in the midst of chaos. Participants will understand the Kotter 8-step method to accelerate and lead change, learn world-class mental toughness techniques, and learn how to create a personal sanctuary.

A Leader’s Guide to Navigating Change Workshop will teach your team leads, managers, and executives how to survive and thrive in the midst of change.

Implement my navigating organizational change training workshop today. I have designed engaging participant materials, discussions, and learning activities that teach participants the following key concepts:

Understand why change is necessary and learn a proven framework for leading change

Understand the people aspect of leading change

Develop a world class mindset for dealing with adversity

Learn how to create your own sanctuary to reflect and recalibrate your moral compass

After the workshop leaders will have a common language to understand not only how to survive but thrive in the midst of change. Leaders will learn techniques to be more resilient; understand how to communicate with and understand employee perspectives who are going through the same organizational change; build and strengthen team bonds and communication; and be more equipped to support future organizational change initiatives.

READY TO GET STARTED?

Here’s how to implement a successful change initiative workshop in three easy steps:

1. Decide – I’ll help you decide who gets the training and why.

2. Prepare – I will customize your workshop to exceed your expectations.

3. Deliver – I will deliver the training in a fun and engaging way that will

help make the learning stick.

The Employee’s Guide to Navigating Organizational Change. How to Survive and Thrive in the Midst of the Transition:

Organizational change can be stressful not only for the leaders but more so for one’s employees because when we think of “change” it’s almost always with a negative connotation. But why? Why should change – any kind of change in our lives – be so surprising to us? There are few certainties in life and change is one of them. So instead of seeing change as an unexpected nuisance, what if we could learn to handle it with grace, patience, and optimism?

When your organization’s employees have a solid grasp on handling change and the transition process, they will be able to more easily manage both present and future organizational changes. Adapting better to change is also beneficial from a personal growth standpoint, because as employees are able to handle change in one’s work life better, they will also notice some amazing side effects that can benefit their health, their relationships and, even their income potential.

An Employee Guide to Navigating Organizational Change Workshop will teach employees how to survive and thrive during the transition

Implement my navigating organizational change training workshop today. I have designed engaging participant materials, discussions, and learning activities that teach participants the following key concepts:

Understand why change is necessary and how to handle change when it comes

Understand one’s natural reaction and resistance to the change process

Discover strategies for making change more natural and acceptable

Understand the difference between change and transition

After the workshop, participants will have a common language to understand not only how to survive but thrive in the midst of transition. Participants will learn how to create a personal sanctuary to reflect and calibrate one’s moral compass; understand how to communicate with and understand other team member’s perspectives who are going through the same organizational change; build and strengthen team bonds and communication; and be more inclined to support organizational change initiatives.

READY TO GET STARTED?

Here’s how to implement a successful change initiative workshop in three easy steps:

1. Decide – I’ll help you decide who gets the training and why.

2. Prepare – I will customize your workshop to exceed your expectations.

3. Deliver – I will deliver the training in a fun and engaging way that will

help make the learning stick.

Why EQ Outperforms IQ Every Time. Using Emotional Intelligence to Reach Your Peak.

Every leader knows that the key to success in influencing others to follow is by nurturing key relationships. What leaders may not be aware of is how one’s lack of emotional control and patterns of behavior may actually be diminishing the leader’s effectiveness and repelling one’s followers.

On the contrary, resonant leaders understand the power of emotional intelligence (EQ) and work hard to develop the EQ competencies to improve not only organizational success but enhance relationships and create a work environment where people want to contribute and bring their best.

It is easy for all of us to name the toxic leaders and their lasting negative impact on our morale. What would it be like to be the leader whose legacy was to bring out the best in others?

Why EQ Outperforms IQ Workshop will teach participants how to improve relationships and triple results through the power of emotional intelligence.

Implement my emotional intelligence workshop today. I have designed engaging participant materials, discussions, and learning activities that teach participants the following key concepts:

Learn the power of emotional intelligence in the workplace

Understand the tactics that can be used to create more personal and professional success

Learn how to how to improve social skills to more effectively live and work with others

Be better equipped to reduce conflict and drive organizational success

After the workshop, participants will be able to apply strategies to strengthen one’s EQ to effectively navigate through emotions; become more aware of thoughts, feelings, and actions in every situation or setting; learn how to manage social skills to more effectively to live and work with others; and minimize misunderstandings.

READY TO GET STARTED?

Here’s how to implement a successful change initiative workshop in three easy steps:

1. Decide – I’ll help you decide who gets the training and why.

2. Prepare – I will customize your workshop to exceed your expectations.

3. Deliver – I will deliver the training in a fun and engaging way that will

help make the learning stick.

Why EQ Outperforms IQ Every Time. Using Emotional Intelligence to Reach Your Peak.

Conflict. Not a pretty word, is it? Who among us wouldn’t avoid conflict if given a preference? Numerous surveys confirm that people in all occupations report the most uncomfortable, stress-producing parts of their jobs are the interpersonal conflicts that they experience on a daily basis between themselves and coworkers or supervisors. None of us relish the thought of having to confront a friend, family member, or coworker about an issue or disagreement. We all know the likelihood of the situation getting worse, not better, with our efforts. But the fact is we interact with many people each day of our lives, and merely avoiding conflict doesn’t make it go away. It could make it worse.

How we handle conflict has a huge impact on our professional and personal relationships. Unresolved anger, stress, and frustration over a situation can damage relationships beyond repair and impact employee performance.

We know that conflict comes in all shapes and sizes, and chances are the opportunities for conflict will never go away. But if we don’t grow our awareness of what contributes to conflict, how perceptions play a role in conflict, or how seeing conflict from another’s perspective can improve the outcome of conflict, we will continue to hurt ourselves and others, and impact business performance.

The Art of Communication, Proven Steps for Mastering Conflict Workshop will teach participants how to resolve conflict and triple business results through the power of conflict resolution tactics.

Implement my proven steps for conflict resolution workshop today. I have designed engaging participant materials, discussions, and learning activities that teach participants the following key concepts:

Learn how to recognize the roots of conflict

Understand the link between our past experiences and how we react to conflict

Learn the critical skill of evaluating conflict from another person’s point of view

Learn how to move past assumptions, distortions, and embellishments during conflict so you can get to the core of the problem and solve it quicker and easier

After the workshop, participants will increase their insight into what drives conflict and what can be done to move past it when it occurs. They will realize how shifting their way of seeing conflict can open up new possibilities and outcomes to its resolution. Conflict can lead to positive change, and with a little exploration of what drives it, we can learn to resolve it more quickly, confidently, and professionally.

READY TO GET STARTED?

Here’s how to implement a successful conflict resolution workshop in three easy steps:

1. Decide – I’ll help you decide who gets the training and why.

2. Prepare – I will customize your workshop to exceed your expectations.

3. Deliver – I will deliver the training in a fun and engaging way that will help make the learning stick.