All effective leaders, regardless of their title, must understand how their behaviors, thoughts, feelings, conversations, habits, etc. affect those around them. This is called “emotional intelligence” and it is an important part of being an effective leader.

Leading people can be frustrating and how we respond to criticism, challenge, rejection, and disrespect will create a personal emotion. This is a crossroads for each leader.  Understanding your personal emotional triggers and becoming self-aware can be the difference between success and failure.

In this interactive session, you will identify those leadership types that are challenging for you.  You will also learn how to effectively deal with these situations and individuals to create a healthy and productive relationship. 

Employees will always remember how you made them feel and feelings are an emotion.  Your professional respect and trust will be gained or lost. 

The effectiveness of any leader depends on the engagement level of their employees.  The engagement level of employees is dependent on the effective of the leader.

Employee engagement is a direct reflection of the relationship a leader has with their employees.  Mutual respect (boss and employee) is the key to engagement.

It is also a direct reflection of how you deal with conflict between employees and how you deal with non-performers.  Every employee has different needs and drives that translate into workplace behavior. 

Employee drives and needs create workplace behaviors, and they are predictable.  Each employee is different and accordingly, your workplace conversations must pivot to each individual.

Two things happen every day when you are a leader.  You communicate information to influence outcomes, hopefully positive ones. 

Unfortunately, how we communicate is not a “one size fits all”.  Your effectiveness is not always “what you do or say” but “how you say or do it”. 

Once you understand your leadership tendencies, you can have meaningful conversations to coach, correct, commend, congratulate and when necessary, have a difficult crossroads conversation (stay or leave).

In the unfortunate event you have to have a termination conversation, you will be prepared to do it gracefully, legally and humanely. 

Wouldn’t it be great if everyone just got along!  Unfortunately, that is not reality.  

Employees possess a variety of skills, personalities, personal values, backgrounds, behavioral drives and needs that turn into behavior. 

To effectively manage difficult employees, you must first understand the 4 unique categories of engagement to determine the best course of action. 

We will talk and practice each category to prepare you to deal effectively with non-performers and toxic employees.

Workplace problems never go away by avoidance. Learn to deal with issues head on and do it with grace and truth.

Disciplinary actions, and/or assertive conversations many times do not correct the issues.

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Every business owner or leader in America should have a basic understanding and compliance requirement of State and Federal labor laws. 

Many organizations have a handbook (policies and procedures) to communicate company expectations and work rules.  This is a healthy practice however, consistent administration is imperative and is the best defense against potential legal action. is the key. Nonconsistent administration can be used against you. 

You will learn key HR compliance requirements for Virginia / North Carolina and how legal complaints get started. 

We will also discuss the legal requirements for each business based on your employer headcount, workers compensation, unemployment claims, legal terminations and unemployment compensation.

Promoting a high performer into a leadership position without "people training" is a significant risk and in many ways, management malpractice.

This session is for high potential employees and/or newly promoted leaders.

The goal of this session is to recognize/understand the root cause of the top 7 employee frustrations and how fundamental leadership, communication and management skills will reduce these frustrations.