Speaking
For when you want to plant a seed of motivation toward inspired action.
Are you looking for a solid, informational program with immediately actionable items for your management team, workgroup, networking group, or professional group that will enable your audience to:
- create manager-employee communication breakthroughs
- overhaul their management approach, and
- create lasting, positive changes in their workplace culture
Mary Schaefer has been speaking professionally to groups large and small, both in her business, and in her corporate career as an HR manager and training professional. Her insights and perspectives come from her extensive experience in working closely with managers and employees alike to work together more effectively and cooperatively.
You’ll find her programs deliver high quality content that shifts your group from feeling stuck, uninspired or overwhelmed, to immediately empowered and able to take action.
(Referring to Mary speaking on Leadership and Love. Brief audio clip here.)
Presentations and Topics
1st Expert Speech – Avoid the Traps
How to Avoid the Five Traps of Being a “Good” Manager So You Can Create a Creative and Empowered Work Culture
I’ve coached a lot of managers. To me, 9 out of 10 times the issues they bring to our coaching session stem from them getting caught up in their idea of what a good manager should be. For instance, a sincere person thinks a good manager should…
- motivate their employees, and yet, taken too far, sometimes you end up doing the employee’s job for them
- release their employees’ potential, but then you can make ourselves crazy when they aren’t responding
- always have time for their employees, however, you have a right to make choices in your favor when their concern can wait and yours can’t
Managers come to me struggling with what words to use and wanting to know the magic formula to create more initiative, motivation — how to get employees to truly pull their weight — the real deal is actually about their own thinking. And isn’t that the good news, because you can do something about that.
2nd Expert Speech – Engage!
Five Simple Steps to Engage Even Your Most Skeptical Employees So You Can Create a Strong Foundation for a Positive and Developmental Work Culture
As a forward-thinking manager, you’re committed to making a positive difference with your employees. But when it comes to putting the strategies you learn to the test, it can feel like an uphill battle, particularly with your more skeptical employees.
In this presentation you will learn 5 proven tactics to engage ALL your employees, even the ones who resist your best efforts to get them on board and help them truly develop, so you can finally create the positive work culture you know your company needs and deserves.
3rd Expert Speech – Only Say It Once
Three Ways to Massively Improve Your Manager/Employee Communications So You Can Trust Your Employees to Do What You Ask the First Time
Do you ever have what you think is a straight-forward conversation with an employee, but find out later they didn’t get it and they’re off on a tangent, completely lost, or spinning in circles? It can make you wonder how even well-intentioned people can end up so off-track. But the truth is, you can be misunderstood in anything you say if you don’t know how to properly structure your conversations with employees.
Through coaching hundreds of managers Mary has developed a fool-proof communication system for ensuring that your employees get it right the first time. Mary’s signature talk, “Only Say It Once: How to Massively Improve Your Manager/Employee Communications So You Can Trust Your Employees to Do What You Ask,” will get you started in:
- heading off misunderstandings and delays by asking one simple question in every employee meeting
- easily getting your employees back on track when you find they aren’t getting the message
- getting better results and better performance from your employees because you are both getting it right the first time
- inspiring self-reliance in your employees and strengthen your confidence in your own leadership ability
- saving massive amounts of time and energy otherwise wasted in repetitive conversations and frustration with your staff
To hear examples of Mary’s speaking style and material, you can find clips here.
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