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Presentations for managers, supervisors & performance coaches

Neil Dempster will wow your audience!Few (if any) businesses can survive without a strong focus on employee performance. While we can't dispute the merits of this organizational imperative, the reality is many current management practices run contrary to the basic laws of human behavior and create a culture of complacency and average performance—instead of a culture of commitment!

 

Question: "What is your true performance standard?"

Answer: "The lowest level you are willing to accept!"

 

The fact is, we typically don't find organizations have a PERFORMANCE problem, we find they have an EXPECTATION problem!™ (Sorry, but someone has to have the courage to deliver the bad news!)

 

Workforce Performance: 'Just Enough' . . . Just Ain't Good Enough!™

 

Let's face it—our budgets reflect it; the customers we serve (both internally and externally) expect it; and the continual improvement process demands it—do more with less! If you are tired of theory-only sessions, this energetic, humorous and content-rich presentation is guaranteed to provide your group with practical knowledge on creating a culture of peak performance and achieving greater results. Neil Dempster will have them laughing one minute and re-thinking their entire management approach the next! The content is based on a success formula he uses to generate phenomenal results in very diverse organizations worldwide.

 

 

Ladies and gentlemen—fasten your seatbelts! You are about to review author, master motivator, self-proclaimed Business Alchemist, and professional keynote speaker Neil Dempster speak about MANAGEMENT.

 

Audience: 240 Managers and Performance Coaches

 

 

Now that you have viewed Neil's video, you can see why audiences love his energy, his humor, and his provocative, "Don't do what's safe—do what's right" presenting style. Select the appropriate link if you would like more information on his other keynote presentations or his training programs.

 

 

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This keynote presentation focuses mainly on the management practices that will create a culture of peak performance. The target audience for this presentation is:

 

  • Front-line managers and supervisors
  • Middle management
  • Performance coaches
  • Formal mentors
  • Human resource professionals
  • Training and development personnel
  • High potential employees (who are being groomed for management)
  • Anyone who influences employee performance

 

This speech is available in the following formats:

 

  • Keynote/General Session: 45-90 minutes
  • Workshop/Seminar: 2-4 hours
  • Small-group training: Half- and Full-day programs

Although this keynote presentation is built upon a solid foundation of research and proven material, Neil takes great pride in customizing each presentation to ensure that it's timely, relevant and exactly what the audience needs to hear. Please select the topics that are most critical to your target audience, and Neil will blend them seamlessly into his speech.

 

  • Creating a culture of self-management
  • Coaching versus coaxing
  • Employee engagement
  • Business excellence
  • Managing for performance
  • Motivating employees
  • Gaining authentic commitment
  • Performance improvement
  • Effective feedback and reinforcement models

 

In addition, as part of his customization, Neil likes to interview 4-5 people who are knowledge experts within your organization and/or industry. He conducts these interviews approximately one month prior to the speaking engagement to ensure that his speech is timely and relevant for the target audience.

Neil has delivered this speech to many organizations who have requested an alternate title to better align with a conference theme and/or to address a unique situation occurring in their organization or industry.

 

If you're looking for an alternate title, please scan the list of titles that have been previously used for this presentation. If none of them excite you, please let us know. We would be happy to craft a presentation title that works for your event.

Alternate Titles:

  • Whiners to Winners—Closing Gaps in Performance ™
  • Getting People to Do What You are Paying Them to Do! ™
  • The Language of Results ™
  • Getting the Best from the Rest ™
  • When the Cat's Away—Lessons in Distance Management ™

 

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