How to Get Your Employees to Work for More Than Just the Paycheck

You lose money every time your employees fail to cooperate on a project, lose sight of why they do what they do, or think to themselves, “I’m just here for the paycheck.”

No company can achieve long-term viable success unless every employee, from the workers to the executives, is focused on the common purpose or mission of that company.

What many workers (even management!) forget is that if the company doesn’t do well or fails completely, then they suffer too.

So get everyone in your organization invested in working together toward one common goal—your company’s success! In this enlightening and accredited management and team-building training, learn how building true collaboration across teams and departments will increase your customer service, your productivity, and your bottom line!

Fight that “Me first!” attitude by shifting employees’ focus. Instead of pursuing separate agendas, have them focus their ambitions on big picture goals that strengthen the whole company.

Instead of protecting their turf or thinking they can only win if someone else loses, get everyone sharing the workload, wins AND losses. Get them sharing responsibility instead of blame.

The steps are so simple—and yet so critical to meaningful, productive success. Sign up today for this accredited organizational training, so that you can gain the techniques and tools for communication and collaboration throughout your organization.

Learning Objectives:

• How can you clearly define and communicate your organization’s mission and goals? Do you need to rephrase them for specific departments?
• What are the biggest obstacles to inter-departmental cooperation—and what are your best tools for overcoming them?
• How can you communicate with employees and management, so that they understand that their best interests lie in the company’s best interests?
• Groups often pull together in a crisis. What can we learn about collaboration from crisis situations that we can use all the time?
• What you need to know when “translating” across departments.

Presented By:

Donald J. Minnick completed his undergraduate degree in psychology at Rice University. He earned his doctorate in clinical psychology, with an emphasis on group behavior, leadership and team facilitation, at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Minnick has worked for over 25 years with organizations ranging from Fortune 100 companies to small entrepreneurial start-ups. He has designed and managed the implementation of training programs for international branches of American corporations in Europe and the Far East. His clients include: NASA, Texas Microsystems, United Space Alliance, British Petroleum, Tenneco Oil, Praxair, Inc., Reichhold Chemicals, Shell Oil, Union Texas Petroleum, Lyondell Petrochemicals, Schlumberger, Air Liquide, Texas Instruments, Union Carbide Corporation, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Kraft Foods, Jacuzzi Brands, E.J. Gallo Winery, Morris Architects, The Hartford, and Lockheed-Martin Corporation.

Dr. Minnick is a recognized expert in the areas of interpersonal skills, team building, organization development and change, and organization behavior. In addition to his consulting work, Dr. Minnick has taught as an invited adjunct professor in organizational development and organizational behavior in the MBA programs at the McCoy School of Business Administration at Texas State University, the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University, and the University of Houston at Clear Lake. He has been interviewed about the organization survivor model on The Businessmakers Entrepreneurial Radio Show and ToginetRadio. He contributes a series of two-minute segments, called “Tips from the Organization Survivor,” which are broadcast weekly and podcast on this site.

Dr. Minnick has written several shorter books for use in his consulting practice; including How to Boil a Frog and Other Parables of Change—a book for consultants which includes well-known stories and parables about the change process, each linked to a specific change consultation model; The Interpersonal and Team Skills Manual—for use with a 360-degree employee performance assessment instrument; and Interpersonal Skills Laboratory: The Companion Workbook—to accompany the acclaimed week-long management development program Interpersonal Skills Laboratory™.

Who would benefit from this program:

• Managers
• Directors
• Executives
• Supervisors

Product Options:

• Audio Conference CD Only: $229.00 (includes S&H)
• Audio Conference CD with Communication Briefings: $299.00 (includes S&H)

Communication Briefings is a monthly newsletter that provides subscribers with down-to-earth communication ideas and techniques they can put into action to persuade clients, influence peers and motivate employees. The advice offered in each issue will help readers earn approval, command respect, spur productivity, gain recognition and win public support.

Length: 1 Hour 30 Minutes