Path Forward’s principals, Jim Hessler and Steve Motenko, have both earned reputations as dynamic, inspiring, and memorable speakers. Contact us if you’re interested in one of our presentations.
Interactive presentations are their specialty: engaging audiences in their own learning, as well as building a “team” feel even among folks who don’t know each other well.
A few examples of the topics they cover with both wisdom and wit:
Finding Time
Time management is much more than a well-organized calendar. Our ability to use time effectively is a result of how we see ourselves in the organization, the priorities we set, and our ability to separate the “urgent” from the “important.”
Effective Communication: the SHOC Treatment
More than any other obstacle, poor communication inhibits the success, productivity, and morale of teams and organizations. This workshop offers tools and a checklist for furthering honest, open, communication focused on positive outcomes.
Balancing Work and Life
The temptation to relentlessly attack the to-do list can be all-consuming. But it can so easily erode our relationships and our quality of life. How do we claim work-life balance when the pressure to work — to the exclusion of life — can feel like a tsunami? This presentation offers the tools to get the scales back into balance.
Motivation 101: No More Pulling Teeth
Motivation is the fuel that powers all personal effectiveness. Carrots and sticks can get the job done in the short-term, but long-term success starts with the internal drive to succeed. Participants will learn and co-create tools to apply in a wide variety of motivational contexts.
The Boot and the Sandal
The best leaders balance thought and action — if you can’t take the time to envision, to plan and to evaluate, you can’t lead. Yet we are often trapped in an “action bias” that prevents us from thinking like leaders. How to get over this bias into the mindset of the great leader.
Coping with Change in Turbulent Times
The only constant in life is change. And nothing presents a greater challenge to individual and organizational effectiveness. But we don’t need to be victims; we can learn practical strategies to help us flow with change –- to create better organizations and more motivated and productive employees.
The Open Door
Does “My door is always open” really send the right message? What’s the real value of the open door, how should it be tempered, and how can the sentiment behind it be enacted more effectively?
Coaching: Paving the Road to Success
If you’d like your troops to achieve sustainable, profound, accelerated growth — to reach their goals more effectively — then coaching rather than training is the answer. Effective coaching evokes excellence by building a bridge from our best intentions to powerful behavior – simply, a bridge to success.
Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion
How does an organization create shared vision? When different people want different things, how can we get them to take the journey together?
Feeding the Good Wolf: Achievement via Attitude
Our default approach to change is to find what’s wrong and fix it. But we can shift our productivity by building on our strengths. This presentation offers practical tools for enhancing effectiveness by focusing more on what’s possible than on what’s wrong.
Learning to Delegate
Delegation is essential to leadership, yet most leaders struggle with it. This presentation looks at the reasons — psychological and systemic — behind the struggle, as well as the paths forward to greater efficiency and teamwork.
Earning A Seat at the Table
How does one go about gaining influence in an organization? What keeps us playing small? How can we get our voice heard when we have insights, ideas and needs?
Communication as Intention
Many of us have been trained in communication techniques. But the most powerful component of communication is our intentions. Surprisingly, our intentions to communicate can be more important than our technique.
Renewal and self-care
The leader who isn’t diligently engaged in holistic self-care is not optimally effective. Leaders must strive to be the best they can be – physically, mentally, and spiritually – before they can lead individuals and teams to excellence.
