Learn How to Reduce Your Moose at Jim Clemmer’s Powerful New Workshop

Create a More Balanced Organization – Rebalance the technical, management and leadership components in your team, and stop letting the ‘urgent’crowd out the ‘important.’

Develop a High Performance Culture – Draw from world-class best practices, Jim’s extensive research, and The CLEMMER Group’s vast experience to align and integrate your improvement programs and practices.

Build Trust and Teamwork – Energize and strengthen your teams to identify and reduce the barriers to higher performance.

Boost Leadership Development – Multiply leadership initiative, increase emotional intelligence, and foster inspired efforts throughout your organization.

Improve Change Leadership – Mobilize people at all levels, and in all roles, to champion change and increase proactive and continuous improvement.

Strengthen Communication Strategies – Get e-mail back under control, boost openness, and get directly at key performance issues.

Bolster Upward Leadership – Find ways to influence management above your team, work with ineffective bosses, and lead change from lower organizational levels.

Set Clearer Priorities and Follow Through – Develop high leverage strategic objectives, increase implementation, and use ongoing feedback for course correction as you move your organization toward higher performance.

Enhance Motivation and Engagement – Energize and engage team members to propel themselves, and your organization, forward.

Workshop Topics

Failure to Communicate
The Fear Factor: Key cultural factors and behaviors that shut down open communications The E-mail Beast: How e-mail reduces communications, and actually makes issues worse
Information Overload: Drowning in details and data, but thirsty for understanding

Looking for Leadership
Bully Bosses: Keys to dealing with an autocratic and overbearing manager
Who’s In Charge: How lack of direction from above is paralyzing your team
Shirking Accountability: Why people don’t take responsibility for performance shortfalls
Feeble Attempts: Why half-hearted efforts and failing to follow-through can be worse than doing nothing at all

Toxic Teams and Poisonous Cultures
Playing the Blame Game: Top ten signs finger pointing is widening trust and accountability gaps
Living in Pity City: Getting off the bitter bus before it heads down Helpless Highway to negativity, cynicism, and disengagement
The Victimitis Virus: Three factors that define perception and mindset

Avoidance and Denial
Moose Tracks: Top ten signs that key issues aren’t being addressed
The Conflict Paradox: The deadly dangers of agreement, consensus, and going along to get along
Faulty Feedback: How silence, ignorance, and self-delusion lure us into believing things are better than they really are
No Neutral Ground: Either identify and address issues or ignore and increase them

Disengagement and Demoralization
Who Cares: Indifference and apathy are killing customer service, innovation, quality, and productivity
Morale Morass: How team spirit and employee satisfaction is reflected in absenteeism and retention problems
Turned Off or Turned Over: Key reasons your best people quit OR stop working but stay on your payroll

Balancing Management and Leadership
The Performance Triangle: Finding the right balance of technology, management, and leadership
The Tyranny of the Urgent: The six most common reasons you’re not spending as much time leading as you’d like to
Straight to the Heart: Bring your vision, core values, and mission statements alive

Developing a High-Performance Culture
Transformation Pathways: Assessing your team/organizational performance across the six major components of world-class effectiveness
Integration and Alignment: Moving Beyond “Bolt-On” programs to “Built-In” processes to transform “The Way We Do Things Around Here” (should these be capped?)
Managing Things and Leading People: Aligning vision and values for maximum Performance

Building Trust and Teamwork
Healthy Debates: The ground rules for fanning the flames of dynamic discussions and using conflict to enlighten and energize
Building a Foundation of Trust: Recognizing the signs of mistrust and taking important steps to eliminate them
Servant Leadership: Strategies for busting barriers that divide and demoralize

Leadership Development
Leadership Is Action, Not Position: Building leadership up, down, and across all levels of your organization
Performance Management: Practical tips for coaching, encouraging, and inspiring higher performance
Soft Skills, Hard Results: Harnessing the power of emotional intelligence

Leading Change
Change Management Is An Oxymoron: Beyond change management to leading change
Increasing Your Influence: Using the 12 point Influence Index to energize and mobilize people to change, improve, and transform
Living Above the Line: Key steps to move from change victim to change champion

Powerful Communication Strategies
Taming The E-mail Beast: Effective e-mail practices and protocols to help take back your inbox
Courageous Conversations: Keys to fostering openness and direct communication to help quickly identify and resolve issues
To Tell the Truth: Overcome the most common reasons people shade the truth or avoid naming key issues

Upward Leadership
Taking Control: Tips, tools, and techniques for dealing with weak leadership from above
Boss Choices: Three critical choices when dealing with a bully boss
Finding the Courage: How to strengthen yourself, your team and your organization to push back, take initiative, and influence change

Setting Priorities and Following-Through
Clear Choices: Proven processes for establishing strategic (high leverage) imperatives (“Must Do” Initiatives) that propel teams and organizations forward
Implementation Strategies: A strategic framework and template for moving from planning to action
Overcoming Feedback Fear: Using powerful feedback gathering and action approaches

Motivation and Engagement
Timeless Leadership Principles: Harnessing the power of stories, metaphors, and analogies to engage and inspire individuals and teams
It’s An Inside Job: The key factors to help plug your organizational energy drain, and inspire people to move toward a high performance culture