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New Succession Planning and Talent Management: Development Strategies for A, B, and C Players

This is the sixth webinar in our series on Succession Planning and Talent Management. You will learn what specific development actions you can take to sustain the performance of an A Player, what actions to take to help A Players sustain performance when moving to positions with greater responsibility within your organization, what actions result in the movement of B Players to A Players, and those critical actions needed to take place when working with C Players.

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New Email: On-Demand Webinar: Emotional Intelligence: Coaching Yourself to Become More Emotionally Intelligent

This webinar will walk through key techniques of developing your own EI. If we want to maximize our ability to help develop other people in leadership and interpersonal skills, you must master the skills yourself! Learn how to develop others through emotional intelligence!

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New Succession Planning: Beyond a 12-Step Program

This session features an innovative look at succession planning and the steps necessary for success. Give information on how to identify and develop people within your organization through the use of succession planning and management.

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Emotional Intelligence: Understanding the Leadership Goals of Your Polar Opposite

Learn how people communicate through emotional intelligence! This webinar will coach you on how to understand that there are actually goals in the way people communicate to you, and what happens when their goals aren’t achieved!

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Managing Marginal Performers: Fitting A Square Peg in a Round Hole

We can all identify with the image of a small child pounding away at a square block as he tries to force that block into a round hole on a game board atop his desk. This image, although initially humorous, strikes a chord with those of us who have been that square peg or who have managed an individual whose lack of job fit mimicked this image. Poor fit can be painful, particularly in those situations where the managed is ill-equipped to deal with the anomaly. What is the secret to managing the square peg/round hole phenomenon? Is there a way to identify the potential for mismatch early in the relationship? What’s more important – job fit, manager/employee fit, or company/culture fit? These questions and more will be answered in this session. Bring your challenges around “employee fit” to the table and let’s talk about them.

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Succession Planning and Talent Management: Integrating Assessment Data into Succession Planning

This is the fourth webinar in our series on Succession Planning and Talent Management. Succession Planning requires an accurate assessment of performance and potential for the leaders who are being considered in the succession management process. This webinar will introduce you to the tools needed to effectively integrate assessment data - along with actual performance data - into your succession planning process.

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Emotional Intelligence: Succession Planning Out of Life Experiences

Learn how great leaders are a lot of times born out of the ashes and rubble of bad leaders! Succession planning and leadership development is taking the forefront of focus in many organizations. This webinar will cover the discovery of the first ingredient in locating leaders within the structure of EI. The webinar explained how Emotional Intelligence ties to finding new leaders in succession planning, and how sometimes, you should look for those who have experienced bad leadership to take on a leadership role.

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Customer Service From the Inside Out

This webinar unveils the truth about customer service from the inside out. You’ll be surprised at what you can learn about customer service and client loyalty when you pull back the covers of your own organization.

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Succession Planning and Talent Management: Identify and Assess Performance

This is the third webinar in our series on Succession Planning and Talent Management. This webinar will focus on how you integrate a common performance standard across the organization that result in a level of consistency that brings greater objectivity to any process that includes assessing the performance of an individual.

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The Iron Man Core

Throughout his series on Emotional Intelligence he spoke about having an Iron Man Core. This webinar will walk through how to clearly define your personal mission as well as utilizing and rediscovering the mission of your organization.

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CIA Inhibitors that Stifle Change in Your Organization: Conflict, Indifference, and Agreement

This session describes three critical inhibitors to successful implementation of a significant change within an organization: conflict, indifference, and agreement. It describes the potential impact from these factors and suggests methods for counteracting their negative influence within an organization.

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Succession Planning and Talent Management: Identify and Assess Potential

This is the second webinar in our series on Succession Planning and Talent Management. We will cover the challenges of predicting potential, how to apply a formula for predicting potential, and how to assess potential by blending objective data.

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“John Bradford is one of the best presenters that I've heard on this topic. Great job!”
“Great information, John!!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!"
“John, great job. Thanks for sharing your experience and wisdom in this area with me. Thanks for the invitation!"

Who should view?
Managers and leaders who want to learn about improving workplace productivity and organizational performance.

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Emotional Intelligence: Make Them Want to Follow You (Part 4)

This is the last webinar in our 4 part series on EI. This webinar will focus on Others Management (Social Intelligence). Social Intelligence is the one component that utilizes the true skills to motivate and influence people. Learn the true element of leadership within the structure of Emotional Intelligence

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Leading from the Center – How Real Leaders Inspire Followership

During this time of economic and social upheaval, the strategic role of leadership has never been more critical! This webinar will explore what it means to lead from the center by discussing the pros and cons of leading from the top, bottom and center.

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Understanding the Performance and Potential Matrix for Succession Planning and Talent Management

The performance and potential matrix (9 box model) is one of the most widely used tools in succession planning and development. Learn first-hand why it’s a valuable tool for anyone who works in talent management and why it’s important to understand for anyone in management. For some reason, however, it seems to be covered in a veil of secrecy, leaving those who want to learn how to use it with little guidance.

What have others said about webinars conducted by John Bradford?

“John Bradford is one of the best presenters that I've heard on this topic. Great job!”
“Great information, John!!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!"
“John, great job. Thanks for sharing your experience and wisdom in this area with me. Thanks for the invitation!"

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Get Your New Hires Up to Speed…Fast!

Hired and fired! It’s the revolving door of hiring people and firing them 90 days later for poor performance. It’s as if there is an affliction turning rock stars into bumbling fools during their first three months with companies. You loved them in the interview, but somehow they flopped on your team. Many leaders and business executives point their fingers at employees for failing to deliver on expectations. However, those fingers should be pointed at the executives if a structured onboarding program is not in place. Don’t miss these webcast takeaways:

  • Why most executives think onboarding is unnecessary for the sales team, and the financial impact of not having a structured onboarding experience
  • How to get corporate buy-in when launching an onboarding initiative
  • Why the starting point is the end when creating an onboarding program
  • A specialized onboarding methodology that ensures your program hits the mark
  • The key to getting necessary feedback to continually enhancing onboarding,

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Emotional Intelligence: The Power Within (Part 3)

Learn how Self-Management is crucial in learning to become more than what you are! This is the third webinar in our 4 part series on Emotional Intelligence and will cover Self-Management. This webinar will go in-depth on the keys to knowing how to generate emotions, when you need to generate them, as well as, how to control the overflow of these emotions.

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Motivating Through “Match” Rather Than Money – Understanding What Really Motivates Top Performance

One of the most significant management challenges of this decade is the selection, retention, and motivation of top performing talent. Organizations have implemented costly benefits programs, signing bonuses, and countless attractions designed to win employee loyalty and stimulate employee engagement. Much of it is money down the drain. This webinar focuses on the real “meat and potatoes” of employee retention and engagement. It is designed to help managers size up their organization’s benefit’s program, determine if they’re producing the desired results, and if not, determine what needs to change to attract, retain top talent and inspire employee engagement.

Learning Objectives - At the close of this session, participants will be able to:
  • Compare and contrast hiring strategies that produce greater employee satisfaction and drive enhanced performance.
  • Evaluate their employee selection/retention programs against known best practices.
  • Determine recruiting, selection, onboarding, development, and reward strategies that will produce greater retention and employee engagement in their organizations.

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Emotional Intelligence: They "Get" Me (Part 2)

This webinar is the second in a series of four webinars walking systematically through Daniel Goleman’s model of Emotional Intelligence. The first webinar was on self-awareness, this webinar will be on others-awareness, and the next two will be on self-management and others management (social intelligence and influence). We have all been in meetings where someone blurts out something and they have no idea what it is doing to people around them. They aren’t even remotely aware how it’s being interpreted or to what degree it is hurting themselves and others. This webinar will help train and equip attendees to really understand those around them. This webinar go in-depth into why you are who you are and how we can be unaware of how people are interpreting us in the workplace.

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7 Deadly Sins of Leadership

Even after decades of research and discussion, leaders still commit the seven deadly sins. We need to hold ourselves accountable as leaders and not be surprised when things go awry when we fail to heed these warnings. Learn the major components of leadership and how we still, today, commit these 7 Deadly Sins.

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Lay the Groundwork for Effective Onboarding

We all know it: onboarding is important, and making an employee's first 90 days as productive as possible can proactively increase engagement, discretionary effort, and satisfaction. But, what about all of the hours spent submitting applications and materials, and the empty days during the interview process?

In today's interconnected world, onboarding begins with the click of a mouse or the scroll of a feed. Organizational websites, customer and employee experiences all send a potent message to both future hires and new hires about what an organization values, and how they treat their workforce. Smart organizations have learned firsthand how to be proactive, and lay the groundwork for an onboarding program that engages the best and brightest talent before they even walk through the door.

  • Learn what potential employees look for on organizational websites to give them a feel for the culture of a company
  • Determine how organizations can best manage the onboarding process, and who is responsible for the outcomes
  • Find out why onboarding is increasingly important for employees of all types and levels

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Pros and Cons of Value Based Leadership

You will learn what values-based leadership really is, sort out some of the misconceptions, and learn what the pros and cons of implementing a values-based leadership style are.

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The Secret Behind Transformational Leadership

Transformational Leadership is one of the indisputable “Hot Topics” in the area of Leadership. Although the concept has been around since the early 80’s, it has really begun to catch fire in recent years. What’s all the hype about transformational leadership and how does it differ from other prominent leadership styles? You’ll hear a clear description of the concept and how it is differentiated from other leadership styles. You’ll be able to evaluate the relevance of this leadership style for your organization, isolate leader characteristics that map to this style, and provide suggestions to your organization for developing this leadership style in your organization. You don’t want to miss this exciting discussion.

Topics will include:
  • Review Historical Leadership Patterns and Trends
  • Definition of Transformational Leadership
  • The Attributes of Leaders/Change Agents
  • An Understanding of the Characteristics /Behavioural Patterns that Typify This Leadership Style
  • Discuss Environments Best and Least Suited for Various Leadership Styles
  • Suggest Strategies for Building Transformational Leaders in Your Organization

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Leaders of Change: How to Spot Them

Do you have what it takes to successfully lead change in your organization? This session features a discussion on leadership in the context of organizational change and the attributes of leaders that successfully lead change within their organizations.

You will learn:
  • How to Define Agents of Change
  • The Importance of Change/Change Agents
  • The Attributes of Leaders/Change Agents
  • Environments that Foster Innovation
  • Finding/Developing Leaders of Change

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Leadership Development: Proven Steps to Increase Effectiveness in Any Organization

Today’s business environment requires leaders to do more than ever, with fewer resources. Learn what leadership and management skills are absolutely critical to achieving results, as well as, what leadership techniques you can implement that are practical, realistic and accessible to you and your organization!

What you will learn:
  • Leadership Development Best Practices
  • What worked in 2012? No shotguns only sharp shooters!
  • What’s to Expect in 2013: Volatility, Opportunity and Greater Results
  • What leadership and management skills are critical to achieving results today

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Get a Clue! - Building the EI Trait of Self-Awareness Within Your Team Without Hurting Them (Part 1)

One of the most difficult aspects of leadership is trying to help a team member with a weakness when you don’t think they “get it”. They either don’t know they have that particular weakness, or they don’t know how bad it is. This webinar will help break up the tension by helping your team strengthen their Emotional Intelligence through Self-Awareness.

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Toxic Leaders: Mission vs. Management

The terms toxic leader, toxic manager, toxic culture, and toxic organization are receiving increasing levels of attention at business conferences and in literature on leader effectiveness. This session takes a broad look at the concept of toxic leadership, the potential causes, the environments that foster toxicity, the impact of toxic leadership on organizational effectiveness, and the actions organizations can take to thrive in toxic environments and transform them into healthy, thriving, and sustainable organizations.

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The Elephant in the Room: 3 Issues No One Wants to Talk About, That are Impacting Leadership in Your Organization

What is the elephant in the room? It’s a situation that poses a significant threat to the organization. Everyone is aware of the situation, but is unwilling to openly identify or discuss. It’s the impact of today’s business environment on leadership inside your organization. It’s the one thing that turns highly effective leaders into efficient machines that can neutralize employee engagement. Why is the elephant allowed to hang around? There are many reasons elephants reside inside every organization. One of the most common is fear. Fear of hurting or damaging a relationship, fear that I might say something I’ll regret, and fear that I just might be perceived as negative or antagonistic. How do you remove the elephant from your organization? By learning how to corral the elephant and then by focusing on the leader’s role, their presence, and use of time.

What have others said about webinars conducted by John Bradford?

  • “John Bradford is one of the best presenters that I've heard on this topic. Great job!”
  • “Great information, John!!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!"
  • “John, great job. Thanks for sharing your experience and wisdom in this area with me. Thanks for the invitation!"
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Powerful Act of Coaching

Move beyond your employee’s annual management evaluation, implement coaching and see the benefits. Coaching is a reliable, consistent management style that creates open lines of feedback and better opportunities for organizations and employees to grow. Here is a helpful idea: Coach early and often. Early, to catch potential problems before they happen. Often, because continuous interest and feedback virtually guarantee better performance. Why make the change? Successful coaching leads to: higher employee motivation and productivity, enhanced relationships and communication between managers and employees, and better leadership abilities.

This is a webinar for EVERY LEADER IN YOUR ORGANIZIATION who are responsible for providing feedback to their employees. If you would like your leaders to demonstrate greater managerial courage and provide timely feedback to their employees then make it a must for every front line leader, supervisor, manager, director, vice president and executive to attend this webinar.

In the webinar you will learn:
  • Good performance rarely happens by accident.
  • How to implement performance coaching.
  • Performance appraisals vs. performance coaching – understanding what’s wrong with the performance review and how to fix it.
  • Common threads of coaching and development.
  • Essential management skills.
  • Five elements of successful coaching: Job Fit, Motivation, Chemistry with the Manager, Team Chemistry and Leadership.

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Demystifying Derailers: How to Help Leaders Manage Their Personal Derailer

This webinar will take an in-depth look at the definition of derailers, what triggers them, and the solution.

You will learn:
  • 11 most commonly accepted derailers
  • What triggers the derailing behaviours
  • How to help leaders understand their derailing behaviours
  • How to move away from self-awareness to self-management

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Emotional Intelligence: A Deeper Dive into EI and Personality

This webinar will first, explain at a deeper level the different theories and underpinnings of EI. Second, it will explain how the brain functions during the cognitive and emotional interplay. Finally, it will equip the leader of the team to know how to better manage his or her own employees.

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Leadership Strategy – The Why, the How, the Results!

Did you have a leadership strategy in 2012? I’ve been working with business leaders for over 35 years, and I have not had one single CEO tell me that they have a true “leadership strategy”. I speak with industry leaders and hear the call for continued improvement of leadership at all levels of the organization. This statement does not reflect the reality of the past five years.

In a recent Bersin & Associate Research Study, Leadership Strategy, The Link between Business Goals and Leadership Development Solutions, reported 71 percent of organizations state that their leaders fail to achieve business goals, and 91 percent describe their leadership development solutions need to be more business driven and targeted at the leader level.

This webinar will provide key insight from the July 2012 Bersin & Associates research, Leadership Strategy, The Link between Business Goals and Leadership Development Solutions. In addition each participant will receive a leadership development template that can be modified to fit the specific need of their organization. This leadership strategy template will outline a plan for finding leaders, aligning them with the business, training/developing them and rewarding them. The practical insight gained from this webinar is applicable to companies of all sizes. If you are part of a team, responsible for creating a leadership strategy plan for a large corporation or if you the single source, charged with creating a plan for developing a single leadership team, this webinar is for you.

In this webinar you will learn:

  • How to define a leadership strategy.
  • Review the components of leadership strategy.
  • How to implement a leadership strategy.
  • Identify how to create and implement a leadership strategy specific to the needs of your unique organization.

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21st Century Leaders – New Requirements for Today’s Top Tier

Watch the on-demand webinar and learn about the trends for leaders of the 21st Century, their challenges, and competencies needed to be successful leaders of our time.
The topic includes a comparative examination of the theories espoused by acknowledged management scientist, Peter Drucker, author of Management Challenges for the 21st Century and concepts posited by Profiles International, Inc. founders, Bud Haney and Jim Sirbasku, authors of Leadership Charisma: Step by Step to Being a More Successful Charismatic Leader.
Join us for a lively discussion of theories and practical applications for enhancing leader readiness for this century. You may be surprised and challenged by this approach to examining leader effectiveness. Come join in the sharing. Bring your favourite theory or theorist and let’s talk about L-E-A-D-E-R-S-H-I-P.

Topics will include:

  • Old versus New Leadership Assumptions (Signs of the Times)
  • Leaders of Change versus Sustainability (Organized Abandonment)
  • Fidelity in Feedback (Are we asking the right questions?)
  • Are You a 21st Century Leader? If. . .then. . .what? (Moving toward greater effectiveness)

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Feel More Confident as a Manager, Mentor & Coach

"We measure ourselves by our intentions; others measure us by our behaviours/actions." This webinar will take a look at how leaders are perceived by others and how to develop them into becoming a more effective leader. Learn where to start and the steps to take on the road to leadership development!
You will learn how to:

  • Help leaders examine…
    • WHAT they do
    • HOW they do it
    • HOW it is perceived by others
  • Measure and develop effective leaders

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You Just Spent $50K on Your Company's Competency Model, NOW WHAT?

A company’s challenge is not in the development of a competency model! The real challenge is in maximizing the return-on-the-investment of the cost of developing the competency model through the efficient and practical integration of the competency model in the natural processes used by the companies in the selection, onboarding, performance management, training, development and succession planning.
In this webinar you will learn:

  • How to determine which competencies are selectable, developable and trainable.
  • How to seamlessly integrate the competency model into the natural processes used to maximize employee productivity and company performance.
  • How to socialize the competency model resulting in greater buy-in by those directly impacted by the model.
  • The do’s and don’ts of competency integration.

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Leadership Culture: What do You Have, What do You Want, and How to Get it

This session includes an examination of the attributes that comprise leadership culture, the methodology for evaluating existing culture, and the process for transforming that culture to meet business direction.
You will learn how to:

  • Define Corporate Culture
  • Identify Attributes of High Performance Culture
  • Use Instruments to Isolate and Transform Corporate Culture

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A Realistic and Practical Approach to Competency Development

You will learn the building blocks of performance, how to build a competency model, and the key factors that lead to successful integration of competency-based management systems.
The webinar will focus on:

  • How to build competency models that are directly linked to business results.
  • The building blocks of competencies.
  • The different types of competency models.
  • How to apply the 80/20 rule when building competency models.
  • A methodology for building competency models.
  • Review the key factors that lead to successful integration of competency-based management systems.
  • How to assess employee competencies without making employees feel threatened.

You will gain valuable insight on how to accurately link competencies to results and do’s and don’ts of competency integration.

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Leadership Charisma: Engaging Leadership

Focused properly, leadership charisma fosters an environment where every one of your people has a positive and energetic attitude, is emotionally and intellectually committed to your vision, and is inspired to contribute his or her very best. Watch this 60 minute webinar and learn how any leader can become more personally charismatic - and how any leader can harness that charisma to achieve superior bottom-line results for their businesses.

What You Will learn:

  • The impact of Leadership on Employee Engagement
  • Six Critical Behaviours of Engaging & Productive Leaders
  • Key Drivers of Individual Performance

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Taking The Guesswork out of Associate Selection and Performance

Have you ever made a really good hiring decision...where the candidate shined above everyone else and ended up contributing greatly to the organization? Have you ever made a really bad hiring decision...one that you regretted almost immediately and wished you had never made?

In most organizations, quality of employees is the single biggest factor that determines overall company success, especially in organizations focused on customer service. Selecting employees with the correct behavioural characteristics, for customer-facing positions, can be difficult! Hiring a candidate based solely on the traditional tools of resumes and interviews can be a risky decision for any organization.

What You Will learn:

  • The methodology for selection and development
  • How to leverage your resources throughout the selection, coaching, and development process!
  • How to leverage your resources for the greatest impact


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Succession Planning: 3 Things You May Not Have Considered

This webinar features an innovative look at succession planning and the steps necessary for success. Learn how to identify and develop people within your organization through the use of succession planning and management.

What You Will learn:

  • Succession planning as a fully integrated component within the talent management process.
  • How to utilize two sets of assessment data at various stages within the planning process.
  • Selection and development of bench strength within a dynamically changing environment.
  • Examine internal factors that can enhance or inhibit successful implementation within your company.

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Emotional Intelligence

Dr. Greg Stewart is Vice President for Profiles International's Enterprise Solutions Sales Division. He is an experienced human capital expert with over 15 years in management and human resources. Dr. Stewart holds a BA in Organizational Leadership and a PhD in Counselling. He has deep insight into problem-solving and employee motivation and is a phenomenal speaker and blogger of management and leadership.

What You Will learn:

  • The effect that Emotional Intelligence has on leadership and job success.
  • How emotions in the workplace directly correlate with job satisfaction and how emotional intelligence impacts the role of leadership.

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Leadership Stress: An In-depth Look at How Stress Can Impact Leaders and Organizations

What You Will learn:

  • Describe stress levels in terms of its positive and negative impact on leader performance and effectiveness.
  • Evaluate stress levels among leaders within their organizations in terms of predictive stress indicators.
  • Set in place actions to anticipate and proactively eliminate the effect of destructive stress levels among leaders within their organizations.

What You Will Get:

  • Key strategies that have had proven success worldwide.

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A Realistic and Practical Approach to Implementing Competencies

This complimentary 60-minute webinar provides insight on identifying and implementing competencies. Hosted by John Bradford and Philip Schuler, the webinar promises to be informative, yet impactful.

What You Will learn:

  • How to identify competencies needed for success for all employees.
  • How to implement competency models.

What You Will Get:

  • Key strategies that have had proven success worldwide.
  • Specific information on the Profiles ProfileXT® Job Study

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Aligning Sales and Leadership for Success in Your Organization

This complimentary 30-minute webinar provide s insight on advancing the development of your sales team and specifically targeting where your sales team’s focus should be today! Hosted by Al Rainaldi, Executive Vice President and CSO of Profiles International, the webinar promises to be short, yet impactful.

What You Will learn:

  • How to identify the areas where each sales person has the greatest potential for immediate improvement.
  • How individual sales people perceive their own abilities and performance.
  • How to clearly identify where the area of focus should be for your sales team.

What You Will Get:

  • Key strategies that have had proven success worldwide.
  • Specific information on the Profiles Sales CheckPoint ™

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Best Practices for Improving Workplace Productivity and Organizational Performance

Best-in-Class companies retain 30% more first year employees and achieve 23% higher year-over-year improvement in hiring manager satisfaction.

This complimentary webinar provides valuable information on how to transform your new-hire orientations into strategic initiatives, and how to leverage technology to boost engagement, productivity, and retention! What you will learn:

  • How to minimize the time to full-productivity
  • How to create a positive and productive onboarding experience
  • How top companies are giving their new employees a head start
  • How employees can work effectively with their manager and team
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Develop and Motivate a Winning Sales Team

Can you identify your bottom, middle, and top sales professionals? Do all of your sales professionals hit quota?
In this webinar, Al Rainaldi discusses the Profiles Sales Performance Solution and how assessment solutions can help to develop a top performing sales team.
Here's what you'll learn in the webinar:

  • How to identify your top, middle and bottom performers
  • How moving sales professionals from the bottom to the middle or the middle to the top can have dramatic effects on increasing revenue.
  • How three critical components provide sales leadership with a unified platform for selecting salespersons and further developing their performance

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“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

Charles Darwin