Leadership Topics

“Doug Cartland has made a statistically measurable difference in reducing our turnover rates, developing positive relationships between employees and  management, and increasing our overall efficiency and productivity. What a worthwhile investment in these difficult times!”

Joe Paulsen, General Manager Truck Bodies and Equipment International

“The entire program was first rate. Thumbs up! It was eye-opening to the real world of management.”

Mark Whitt, Ops Manager Smokercraft

Skills and behaviors we teach include these:

How Seasoned Leaders Keep their Edge

  • Learn 21 ways to take the pressure off and perform at your best.
  • Discover 5 “Edge Corrosives” and how to defeat them.
  • Keep your decision making sharp these 4 ways.
  • Continue to inspire those who work for you. Here’s how.
  • Discover the 1 key that will allow you to focus on the big picture.

How Seasoned Leaders Keep their Edge

  • Learn 21 ways to take the pressure off and perform at your best.
  • Discover 5 “Edge Corrosives” and how to defeat them.
  • Keep your decision making sharp these 4 ways.
  • Continue to inspire those who work for you. Here’s how.
  • Discover the 1 key that will allow you to focus on the big picture.

How to Motivate Your Employees

  • The top 10 (and least costly) motivators in business.
  • How to find out what motivates your team.
  • 2 ways employees can motivate each other.
  • How to create a motivated work culture.
  • How every leader can be a great motivator.

Teach Your People to Successfully Communicate with You

  • 6 ways to teach your people to stop whining.
  • Master the language of management.
  • Help your people disagree with you productively.
  • 6 keys to supporting your team.
  • How (and when) to go over your supervisor’s head.

Keys to Employee Development

  • 4 ways to make sure you have people in the right place.
  • 10 keys to creating goals that drive your people to succeed.
  • How to delegate effectively.
  • 4 ways to teach new skills.
  • 5 ways to change damaging behaviors.

How to Run Productive Meetings

  • Creating a team culture that fosters innovation.
  • 2 keys that draw ideas out of your team.
  • 2 techniques to deal with meeting distractions.
  • Increase the energy and focus of meetings with non-verbal language.
  • 10 techniques that can make your next meeting a triumph.

How to Become a Superior Communicator

  • 3 keys that make communication work.
  • 8 ways to improve your listening skills.
  • Master non-verbal communication.
  • How to effectively convey and receive directions.
  • How to handle interruptions with ease.

How to Inspire Loyalty and Effort in Your Team

  • 4 ways to get your people to believe in you.
  • 8 secrets to having a positive impact on your employees.
  • How to become the example that inspires.
  • How to make your words carry weight.
  • 11 techniques that will build your credibility with your team.

Setting Priorities and Making Decisions

  • How to know what’s the most important thing to do right now.
  • 6 keys to prioritization.
  • A priority-planning model that works.
  • 9 keys to making clear-eyed, confident decisions.
  • Discover your decision-making power.

How to Lead Your People Successfully Through Change

  • 4 ways to create a culture that responds to change positively
  • 5 reasons we resist change and how to overcome each one
  • 6 leadership tactics that will insure the best possible response from your people when you present changes to them
  • 12 strategies that will allow you to steer your team through change
  • 3 ways to get buy-in

Gain Influence by Honing Your Presentation Skills

  • Get buy-in from your team with first-rate presentation skills.
  • Discover the importance of your nonverbal language and how it can dampen or electrify a presentation.
  • 14 presentation skills that will take your presentation skills right to the top.s
  • 4 powerful techniques that will help engage your audience.
  • Never fear making a presentation again!

Master Time and Stress and Make them Work for You

  • 6 investments that have a guaranteed payoff in time.
  • Discover why multi-tasking is a myth.
  • 7 Strategies for organization.
  • 3 techniques that will keep interruptions from sabotaging your day.
  • Learn to manage stress in the midst of the storm.

How to Build Dynamic Team Cohesiveness

  • Learn the language of consensus.
  • 11 techniques for building rapport and cooperation on the team.
  • Discover how to eliminate the poisonous political culture that can threaten a team’s health.
  • 9 principles to candid, honest discussions that turn problem situations into positive ones.
  • 5 tips for finding common ground.