Mike Hourigan

From the machine operator to the corner office to the lobby receptionist, safety is everyone’s responsibility.  Nurturing a culture of safety can be difficult when demands on time and people increase, but it can be done if you are communicating the right way. Most safety audits reveal communication issues or lack of communication was the issue to blame for the incident. Safety should never be about the blame game, but is all about the communications game, and if played well, everyone wins.

Get your team thinking “Safety First” before another day goes by!

Everyone will gain insight on:

• How workplace safety affects their family
• How their personal safety practices can protect their co-workers
• The impact of individual safety actions, or inaction, on the company’s security (or bottom line or profitability or future)
• What it really mean to practice – “I got your back whether you like it or not”
• Getting new hires (and those set-in-their-ways) on the Safety Team!

Many view negotiation as a mysterious process; others see it as manipulation or dirty tricks. Good negotiation is a healthy process where everyone leaves the table feeling good about the outcome, themselves, and most importantly – each other.

From buying a car to making a multi-million dollar corporate purchasing decision, the skills are the same and everything counts! Every negotiation can be the beginning of the next negotiation and every negotiation has a beginning, middle and end. The key to successful negotiation is making sure the negotiations are following your GPS system to get you to your desired destination.

Mike Hourigan will show you how to remain confident by staying in control of any negotiation situation. Don’t enter into another high stakes negotiation – including buying a car or house – without learning these powerful skills.

Here are some of the keys to successful Change Management you will take away from this program:

75% of your day is spent communicating, 9% is spent writing, 16% reading, 30% speaking, and a whopping 45% listening! Active listening is the communication skill that will deliver the biggest payoff, yet it’s the skill most often neglected. Listening is the skill everyone expects you to have mastered but were never taught.

Unfortunately, just like breathing, most of us think listening comes naturally. When you attend your first golf or yoga lesson, you may find you have been doing it wrong or not as effectively as you could. Listening is no different.

This listening skills program will show you how to accomplish more by speaking less.

Here are some of the things you will take away from this listening skills training program:

• How to get people to choose to listen to you
• Understand the three types of listening styles
• How to stop sabotaging conversations
• How to ask the right kind of questions to show you are listening
• How to listen with your eyes as well as your ears
• How to use listening to appear smarter

Millennials are on the cusp of becoming first-time managers or advancing into middle management.  In this capacity, they will be managing, working for and with three other generations in the course of their careers.

Each generation brings their own set of values and a unique work ethic to the workplace. It is the confluence of these different ideas, values, and knowledge that will form the foundation for an exhilarating, sometimes exasperating, but nevertheless engaging work experience.  The ability to translate expectations and values into a common language is what will make organizations thrive and outshine their competitors.

Join Mike as he shares his ideas in this extremely exhilarating, hilariously exasperating and guaranteed engaging look at Millennials, Management and Me.

Mike will teach you:

• How to move forward as an organization, association, or government entity
• How to make Millennials part of the management team
• How to give Gen Y’s what they need for direction
• How to teach them the vital communication skills they are lacking
• How to train Millennials how to be better managers
• How to transform employees into world class leaders