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Known as a creatively brilliant motivational counselor Mac delivers philosophically profound and entertainingly delivered presentations to give you profitable results. His stimulating "fuse lighting" presentations benefit any individual or employee. An experienced professional speaker with outstanding references Mac takes on the hottest topics - workplace improvement, team building, productivity, sales performance, heightened participation and more. 

"Take a closer look at how my diverse background helps me relate to your audience and then to me. I will rekindle passions, stimulate ideas and produce measurable and dynamic results in your organization. Specializing in well-researched seminars tailored to your specific needs, I craft a people skills-based core competency curriculum that is pleasurably recieved and brings distinctive clarity to your vision and goals."

There is no time like the present to re energize your team, increase their morale and heighten productivity! Contact me today to plan your skills-based morale building event in Seattle or anywhere else in the world. You can email me or call me at (206) 932-1232 and we'll design a team building, relationship enhancing program that will leave your organization more participative, more cohesive and more quality conscious. For upper leadership, please reference www.theopenorganization.com. 
 

SUCCESSION PLANNING – MAKE THAT – ACCESSION PLANNING IDENTIFYING, NURTURING, AND ALLOWING YOUR REPLACEMENT

                 Notice for the recent APPA Convention 2010 Boston. 
                -This course was rated the highest of the conference-

“You made an all-important yet potentially dry subject like Succession planning come alive for us.” Christopher Ahoy, assoc. Vice President, Author


Who are the future leaders in your organization? What character traits will best serve them when stress is at its peak and the proverbial poop hits a fan? This seminar details the skills and talents they must have in place before they can truly take over yours or your managers’ positions. If some of your employees or staffs don’t seem to have the intrinsic abilities to lead, how can they obtain and absorb those skills? Your new hires and your upper cadre will represent your lasting legacy, so how are you guiding these future leaders, and what active role can you take in their development?

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

1. Developing a process for replacing key people. It is a process that requires a coordinated, dedicated, on-going effort.
2. What do we seek in a leader as our replacement? What are the desired attributes and competencies?
3. How can trust be built to ensure a smooth transition? 4. Involving other stakeholders in the succession process. These are educators, Boards, other managers – even vendors.
5. Preparing your candidate for interaction with those key stakeholders. Some resentment may need to be salved. Some stakeholders may have idiosyncrasies he or she needs to be aware of. Who are the blockers? Helping your understudy and those he or she will replace overcome any fear of inadequacy or just plain fear.
6. Stepping Aside - How do we gracefully hand the ball off, act the adviser, and resist the effort to take the ball back? Then, 6.5. What's next for you? How are you preparing for what life is like not at the jobsite. Your spouse does not want you around 24-7.
You want to be a person who, because you had the right people with the right skills in the right place at the right time, whose leadership will not be missed but whose friendship and caring will be.
 

Leadership Track or Customer Services Track
 

“Trust and Communication – Horse Whispering on Steroids”
Using two video clips from "The Horse Whisperer" and another from "The African Queen”, this powerful session provides an interactive, introspective, and entertaining glimpse into how we communicate and provides methods for better ways to do so. The messages and lessons we derive from this class are applied to every aspect of our lives - home as well as work. This track has been deemed the most popular by APPA as well as the U.S. Postal Service, FDA, Boeing and the National Association for School Business Officials.

Learning outcomes:
We are given the opportunity to glimpse our “Moments of Truth”, those moments where our character and our ability to lead is placed on the altar of scrutiny.
We learn how to read, and speak, in another person’s language to better work with them.
We learn what teams with an abundance of trust look like? We learn what organizations with an absence of trust look like? We learn how to create and maintain an environment of camaraderie, communication, commitment, and accountability?

"Yours represents the how-to’s for building trust and camaraderie versus the why’s. This is nuts and bolts information. For me, personally, I thoroughly enjoyed and needed your seminar". Jack Hug, California State University System, and former APPA President

“Words can’t express how much I enjoyed your seminar, just stellar. It was perfect for us during this time of budget cuts to get people to want to do more with fewer resources”. Margaret Steiner, COO, California State University System

“This is the kind of breakout or keynote I hope to experience when I attend these conferences, and mostly don’t". Scott Collins, Co-Owner, Facility Services Partners

“Your comments on working with our Spanish speaking workers, as well as the tips you gave us for working well together were spot on, especially given the stress so many employees feel right now. Yours was a very entertaining yet deeply profound breakout track. This was worth having as an all-attendee session". Tom Harkenrider, COO, SOKA University of America
 

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