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Lead today’s workforce
from collision to chemistry.
Keynotes that help today’s workforce resolve generational differences and lead to stronger collaboration, better individual performance, and greater business results.
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Signature Keynotes
Keynotes that help association and corporate leaders motivate top workforce performance by understanding the value exchange of employment.
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Why Work?
Understand what people are really trying to get from work and how that drives top performance. -
From Collision to Chemistry
Understand what shaped each generation’s relationship with work and turn those differences into advantages.
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Leading Menopausal Professionals
Equip leaders to recognize and appropriately respond to menopause at work without mistaking its symptoms for poor performance.
The big takeaway tool:
Phil’s LIFE Motivation Model
A simple, quick framework for one conversation that reveals the life each person wants their work to give them, and equips leaders to drive exceptional results while lowering people costs in three clear steps:
1. ASK
Meet one-on-one with a team member and learn about the LIFE they want (Lifestyle, Income, Feelings, Employment)
2. ANALYZE
Identify what their job needs to give them to become a pathway to that life.
3. ACT
Give them what you can, and when their current role can’t get them there, help them find one that can.
During his “Why Work?” keynote, Phil demonstrates the LIFE Model with audience volunteers. Here’s the Income piece of the conversation:
SIGNATURE KEYNOTES
topic 01From Collision to Chemistry
Collaborating Across Generations In Today’s Workforce
Four generations are working side-by-side today, and they each entered the workforce under very different conditions, with different ideas about loyalty, excellence, flexibility, and safety. Instead of asking: “What’s wrong with this generation?”, Phil teaches people to ask what defines each generation’s relationship with employment and how do we not miss out on their unique contributions?
This shift from judgment and frustration to curiosity and respect enables teams of all types and sizes to work with the communication, collaboration and compromise that define the true heart of cross-generational success.
The transformative impacts include greater innovation, accelerated productivity, reduced operational and people costs, and deeper alignment with today’s workforce and customer base which are already predominantly Millennial and Gen Z.
THE PRACTICAL, READY-TO-USE TOOL in this experience is Phil’s Give to Get: Generations guide, which gives a clear and concise understanding of each generation’s relationship with employment and equips participants to solve the cross-generational challenges that are limiting the impact of their work.
BY THE END, participants will have:
Learned each generation’s relationship with employment, and the key factors that shaped them
Worked through examples of how each generation expresses their strengths and struggles at work
Used the Give to Get: Generations guide to solve challenges specific to their industry and the combinations of generations on their teams
Participants will walk away READY to:
Be more innovative and agile by sourcing the thinking and expertise of every generation
Produce better results faster by reducing cross-generational friction among their teams
Claim and keep the competitive advantage that comes from better collaboration and greater diversity of thought
From Collision to Chemistry -
Collaboration is Possible
From Collision to Chemistry -
Reactions to Employment
topic 02Why Work?
The Conversation Every Employee and Leader Needs To Have
For years, leaders have been taught to ask: “How do I get more from my people?” More engagement. More effort. Better performance. But if the organization wants all of those things, we should start with a different question: what are my people trying to get from work?
This shift puts employers’ performance efforts in line with what employees want MOST from their work: to get the life they desire for themselves and their loved ones.
The transformative impacts include better employee performance with reduced friction, more consistent profitability, and lowered people attrition and replacement costs.
THE PRACTICAL, READY-TO-USE TOOL in this experience is Phil’s LIFE Motivation Model, a lightweight guide through the conversation that quickly reveals how to unlock the motivation and performance of each individual.
BY THE END, participants will have:
Learned what makes the LIFE Motivation Model so effective
Used it on themselves and felt the impact of it firsthand
Seen Phil demonstrate the conversation it creates between employee and employer by live coaching volunteers from the audience on stage
Participants will walk away READY to:
Drive first-place results by leveraging the true source of professional motivation to generate top performance.
Rethink the economics of retention by comparing the cost of replacing a great employee with the cost of satisfying them.
Know when to stay, shift, or move on by recognizing when to strengthen the current relationship, explore a better-fit role, or acknowledge that leaving may be the right outcome for both sides.
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How to get First Place Results
Why Work? -
The True Key to Motivation
Phil’s book, Desire-Based Leadership, walks participants through using the LIFE Motivation Model and the rock solid business case that makes it so powerful. It’s a perfect take home companion to the Why Work? keynote experience.
topic 03Leading Menopausal Professionals
Guidance From a Guy Who Got It Wrong
Women provide enormous amounts of the expertise, leadership, and experience that drive exceptional business results while they are experiencing perimenopause and menopause. Yet most managers have never been taught how menopause may show up at work. That lack of understanding can cause leaders to mistake naturally occurring menopause symptoms for performance problems—and respond with punishment rather than support and accommodation.
Phil saw firsthand how easily this can happen when he made this leadership mistake himself. Despite his good intentions, he fell through the gap in awareness and training that most people leaders have on this topic and regrettably disrupted the work and life of a menopausal team member. In response, he created this keynote experience to help reduce the chances of fellow leaders making the same mistake.
This talk is NOT a man telling people what it’s like to experience menopause. It is a leader helping fellow leaders of all genders avoid the losses that come when we misunderstand how menopause can impact work.
This shift from ignorance and misunderstanding to awareness and empathy enables leaders of all genders and ages to continually draw out the top performance of their menopausal team members and expand opportunities for people who are at the height of their value,
The transformative impacts include stronger trust, deeper engagement and longer tenure from our most experienced people, and leadership teams equipped with the skills required to drive results and reduce employer liability in today’s workforce.
BY THE END, participants will have:
Gained vital information and tactical skills for leading menopausal professionals to exceptional outcomes
Worked through the assumptions and myths through that most often stop leaders from engaging effectively with their menopausal team members
Received clear business reasoning for why supporting menopausal professionals is good business, both financially and operationally
Participants will walk away READY to:
Lead with a balance of humanity and accountability by understanding what support may be appropriate while remaining clear about the needs of the role
Avoid preventable talent loss and cost by becoming more informed about an experience affecting highly accomplished professionals
Create safer environments so disclosure does not automatically feel like a threat to someone’s career
Leading Menopausal Professionals - What This Talk Solves
Leading Menopausal Professionals - What Happens In This Talk
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