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Dr. Peter Jensen | Igniting the Third Factor
How do you get someone else committed to reaching their full potential? It’s a question that challenges new managers and seasoned executives alike, echoes through coaches’ heads as they watch a gifted athlete underachieve, and keeps parents up at night. It’s a question that you need to be able to answer to move your work team to high performance and enable your children to achieve self-reliance and success.
It’s also a question Peter Jensen has spent a lifetime investigating. In Igniting the Third Factor, Peter synthesizes his life’s work into the five core practices exceptional leaders use to ignite the Third Factor – whether it’s in the locker room before a gold medal Olympic hockey game or at a routine performance review.
Peter works through an easy-to-understand model, providing a clear view of what separates ‘igniters’ from ‘extinguishers’ and exploring a wealth of strategies you can put to use immediately in your world.
Stuart Knight | Four Conversations of a Leader
Stuart Knight will assist you and your team to understand the four conversations one must be able to create in order to be a true leader. This hilarious and thought provoking presentation will not only change the way your audience communicates with the people that matter the most, but will inspire them to change the conversation of their mind so they can reach new levels of success. Since the test of time, our ability to create strong relationships with others has been the key factor to reaching our potential. During the Four Conversations of a Leader presentation Stuart Knight empowers the audience with the fundamental tools needed to foster those relationships and to reach that true potential within all of us!
Gregg Ward & Associates | Staff Stories: Scenes from a Diverse Community
From the North American experts in using live, professional theater as a diversity and inclusion training tool comes a powerful new program: "Staff Stories: scenes from a diverse community" an engaging, often humorous and always insightful look at how diversity and inclusion plays itself out within the staff of major universities. Created specifically for our University of Waterloo staff conference, this program features professional actors performing custom-written scenes about life as a member of staff of a fictional - yet highly realistic - Canadian university called Center University. After the performance of the scenes, Writer/Producer/Director Gregg Ward facilitates a dialogue with the audience on all of the diversity and inclusion issues that cropped up. Then, the actors return to the stage "in character" for the celebrated Interactive Session in which they respond directly to audience comments and questions. This energetic, upbeat and informative program promises to be a highlight of the conference.
Sean Aiken | Talkin' About My Generation
Sean Aiken provides a Gen-Y perspective on the things in a job and work environment that are important to younger workers: How to attract, retain, train, motivate and fully engage them in the workplace. The generational divide is often seen as a sharp contrast between older generations, that often do a lot of the hiring and supervising, and the younger workers who feel misunderstood and frustrated with the working experience. After experiencing 52 different bosses and being exposed to 52 different work environments, Aiken shares what he learned and helps bridge this apparent divide.