Tracy Spears

This participative session will illuminate why diverse teams perform better, uncover personal and institutional biases, and deliver a go-forward plan for building a truly diverse and inclusive organization.

•  Why Diversity Matters
• The Business Case for D&I
•  Unconscious Bias
•  Generational Bias
•  Micro-aggressions in the workplace
•  Individual and Organizational Responsibilities

Unconscious bias is the single biggest challenge to diversity and inclusion. In this focused workshop session, we will uncover the origin of implicit bias and how we can begin to lessen their organizational impact. We’ll test the biases of your group in an engaging and humorous way and get agreement on the importance of understanding their effects. Here are the 6 workplace biases we will cover that impact daily workplace interactions:

• Affinity Bias
• Halo Effect
• Perception Bias
• Confirmation Bias
• GroupThink
• Recency Bias

This high energy, interactive session provides an understanding of how to connect and work together with different personalities. Participants will leave the session with a new vocabulary and appreciation of how individuals work effectively as a team.

•  Why Temperament Fluency Matters
•  Connecting with Different Personalities
•  Honoring Introverts and Extroverts
•  The Four Basic Temperaments
•  Motivators and De-motivators for Each
•  Stressors for Each Temperament

This in-depth interactive session will explain the importance of a person’s personal brand and how it influences their perceived performance and relationships. Participants will learn how to understand and optimize their personal brands to increase their influence and effectiveness personally and professionally.

• Understanding & identifying your personal brand and reputation
•  Managing and improving your personal brand
•  The six keys to optimizing your personal and professional brand

This interactive session is for leaders of teams, groups and committees who want to take their leadership to the next level of performance. We’ll go in-depth on the 6 competencies and develop action plans and commitments from participants. Note: Workshop can be adapted for healthcare leaders.

•  Self-Awareness
• Engagement
•  Retention
•  Communication
•  Your Personal Brand
•  Sustainability

This impactful new program will help your team identify and embrace the keys to organizational culture. Developing a high-performance culture isn’t easy, but it can be your biggest differentiator for employees and customers. We’ll go step-by-step through the process of understanding, ownership, commitment and action.

• Where culture comes from
•  What a high-performance culture looks like
•  How everyone contributes to a high-performance culture

This engaging session will help leaders immediately increase their effectiveness and productivity. We’ll go in-depth on how to focus your effort, time and task management. We’ll learn the importance of being able to say no for leaders. Participants will leave the session with actionable ideas on getting much more from their time and effort.

• Leveraging Apps & Automation
•  Time Blocking
•  The Pomodoro Technique
• Your “To Don’t” List
• How to Delegate Effectively