Do We Really Need Engaged Employees? Yes! Expansion to a global economy has created a real-time need to understand and adapt more quickly. Engaged employees are more likely to learn, understand and adapt to trends and techniques which may take place half a world away. Consider this:

Learn how to use benefit-rich headlines and attention grabbing-text to hold your visitors attention. Discover innovative and low-cost marketing tools that will get online prospects to buy from you more often.

• The key asset of any successful firm is the brainpower of its people.
• Operations require diverse and continually evolving skills.
• Workers are less and less interchangeable.
• Employee turnover must be reduced to a minimum to protect the knowledge of highly skilled employees.
• Successful leaders and firms must increase their capacity to acquire, generate, distribute and deploy knowledge strategically and operationally.
• Complexity of the new competitive world requires continuous information exchange.
• Employees must be given environments in which to thrive and excel.

By creating environments that enable employees to engage, CEO’s are better able to address mounting business challenges - locally and globally. A successful business must capture every employees mind and heart just to stay competitive.

Wally Hauck, the Team Building Consultant, explains how to create an environment of freedom, trust, and accountability and deliver more of what CEO’s are looking for from the workforce of the future.

• Key factors for creating a culture of high performance and engagement and how to implement them now
• How to identify barriers that prevent engagement and take action to remove them
• 3 Key strategies to create a lasting culture of trust and accountability -- without threats or bribes

Employee motivation is a perennial hot topic for leaders at all levels. Advice on motivation covers topics ranging from the design of pay systems to creating a great place to work to giving people time off. None of this advice is wrong, but none of it is completely right either. Motivation is highly personal and largely internal. What matters to one person may mean nothing to his or her colleagues.

What if you had a way to identify what motivates you at your core? What if you had a way to identify what motivates each person on your team? What if your conversations with each employee could be tailored to emphasize what matters most to him or her? In this program, Wendy Mack will introduce you to a framework and tools for assessing workplace passions. You can use your understanding of passions to:

• Identify your own core priorities and motivations
• Choose opportunities that bring you into a state of energized alignment
• Attract and retain the talent you need for your firm to succeed
• Energize and align employees around your firm’s vision and key strategic priorities

Sometimes we find ourselves in a career change, either by our choice or someone else’s. Sometimes we are plugging along in a career, but wondering “is this all there is?” Or we find ourselves in a situation where we aren’t satisfied and feel like we are just going through the motions.

If that’s the case, then you are ready for an opportunity to connect or reconnect to your true purpose. This is an experiential retreat that will allow you to find your life purpose, identify and work through the obstacles, and establish a strategy and plan to move towards that alignment.

The benefits that you will receive from this experience include:

• Deep connection to your gifts and what we call "genius" qualities
• Prioritization of life goals
• Getting a shift and/or healing from baggage blocking your path
• Renewed sense of pride and appreciation for your life's journey to date
• Personal Mission Statement
• Specific strategy and action plan to move into alignment with purpose
• Special sense of camaraderie with other’s that have witnessed your journey and you theirs