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Making Training Work
Does training really work? If you were to take a survey before you conducted a training session and then a follow up survey 30 days afterward, would it demonstrate an improvement in the work processes, morale, or productivity? Because training is costly and...
Generations at Work
The meetings industry, like almost everything else, has changed in many ways over the last 25 years when I first started speaking professionally. During that time, I’ve stayed in countless hotels, spoken in venues as strange as a funeral home, and met legends of the...
Speaking and Training Topics for Nonprofit Audiences
Click Topic Title to View Full Description For the first time in history fundraisers and donors could span five generations. As a result, nonprofits are facing new challenges in our ability to raise money. Studies show that one third of us waste about five hours a...
Speaking Topics for Corporate and Association Audiences
Click Topic Title to View Full Description Employee engagement is a major issue today since it impacts company earnings in so many ways. From lost productivity and intellectual capital to the additional time and effort of hiring, employee turnover is expensive....
Giving Challenge
My Year of Giving Began Here Traveling home from a July 4th trip to Redwoods National Park and the California coast, we stopped at a McDonald’s restaurant in Grants Pass, Oregon. As we stood at the counter pondering one of the really critical decisions in life—what...