Coaching and Mentoring for Effective Leadership

Through interactive discussions and real-life examples, participants learn the basics of how to coach and mentor their direct reports. This program examines how to create meaningful reviews that will increase performance and retention. Gone are the days of the perfunctory annual review. Now employees must receive guidance, feedback, coaching, and mentoring year round for leaders to pull out their best performance.

Easy, Killer: Coaching Alpha Males

Technical industries are full of alpha males, driven individuals who are results-oriented performers, but can’t get along with people. Brent’s insightful presentation teaches managers how they can improve the “people skills” of their toughest employees. His techniques show a keen awareness of various personality types and introduce the most effective means of turning selfish and skilled task masters into self-aware company leaders.

Training Is for Dogs: Stop Wasting Money on Training – Create Real Behavior Change and Increase Performance

American companies spend an average of $129 billion each year on training in an attempt to create behavioral change in their employees. This type of training is technical in nature, yet measures of business success are in customer satisfaction. So, what’s wrong with this picture? Most soon find out that a pure lecture-based approach to training, especially for “people” skills, is ineffective. This program takes an Emotionally Intelligent approach to training, using interactive and dynamic exercises to create lasting behavioral change.

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Emotionally Invested: Using Emotional Intelligence to Set Your Business Apart

In the newest addition to his speaking portfolio, Brent first lays the foundation of Emotional Intelligence and then applies its powerful use toward improving your business and differentiating it in the marketplace. Interactive discussions focus on improving your ability to communicate, compete and lead—giving your business a unique edge so that you are no longer competing on price alone.

Full Steam Ahead: Emotional Intelligence – Laying the Foundation for Your Future

This program starts at the beginning and provides an intense focus on the concept of Emotional Intelligence. Here, Brent examines this concept’s importance, how it is measured, how it can be improved, and the powerful results it has on your company’s bottom line. Enlightening and entertaining, this program shows participants how to use relationship building skills to leverage the full power of their employees, both intellectually and emotionally.

Primal Safety: A Gut-Level Approach Using Emotional Intelligence to Enhance Your Safety Program

This program caters to the “highly independent” alpha males in the construction industry. Brent demonstrates how a simple focus on emotional competencies can turn your safety program around. By tapping into the emotional part of safety, your employees will naturally work safer, instead of rebelling against rules and policies. The business will reap the financial benefit of them doing so, allowing the company to build a well-respected reputation around this increasingly important metric. The issue isn’t about your people knowing the safety guidelines; it’s about being motivated to actually follow them. This program provides that motivation.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Poor Industry Image

Year after year, construction jobs are ranked near the bottom in terms of desirability. But why? This program will not only give you the answer to this question it will help you change the answer and improve your company’s industry image. Using Brent’s Emotional Intelligence-based approach, your company can reap massive rewards by differentiating your value proposition, recruiting the best employees, and learning how executives and managers play an important role in improving the industry image as a whole.

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Create Real Behavior Change and Increase Performance

American companies spend an average of $129 billion each year on training in an attempt to create behavioral change in their employees. This type of training is technical in nature, yet measures of business success are in customer satisfaction. So, what’s wrong with this picture? Most soon find out that a pure lecture-based approach to training, especially for “people” skills, is ineffective. This program takes an Emotionally Intelligent approach to training, using interactive and dynamic exercises to create lasting behavioral change.

Customer Service: How to Win-Over Owners and Secure Future Work

Brent’s customer service program translates the often nebulous concept of service into real behavior. His groundbreaking teaching techniques allow him to translate Emotional Intelligence theory into a language that construction professionals understand, internalize, and embrace. Your company will reap the financial benefits of more repeat business and ultimately be able to achieve greater margins on the increased quality of work.

From the Head to the Heart:  Create a positive emotional experience in your day to day business and make your competition irrelevant.

Can your business sustain itself by competing on price alone?  Have you cut your overhead and profit down to next to nothing and still find it hard to compete?  Find out how to differentiate your company through creating a positive emotional experience instead of a reliable transaction.  Find out how to tap into the intangible, emotional side of business to make your company stand out.  Find out how to increase business opportunities without cutting cost.  Look at case studies where companies have implemented emotional intelligence principles as a strategic initiative to improve business.  You will leave with not only the principles, but practical ideas to implement the very next day!

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We Are the World: Understanding and Addressing Multi-Cultural Issues

As companies expand internationally, they encounter many different cultures in both clients and employees. Based on his experience with international clients, Brent teaches the many different aspects of diversity that affect the way we interact and do business. This program allows employees to explore each other’s diversity in a positive framework and take diversity into account in terms of leadership styles, teamwork, and decisions making.

Dude, When am I Going to be Vice President: Cross-Generational Management

Generation X and Y are different than their predecessors. They have a strong voice, are technically advanced, and aren’t always motivated by traditional incentives. This program teaches leaders how to work with the rising generations, how to leverage their strengths, and how to motivate them.

Human Resource Issues in the Construction Industry: From Recruiting to Succession Planning

Brent will educate participants on what it takes from an HR standpoint to attract employees with different values and work styles than those of the past. The organizational culture of human resources needs to be able to adapt to the ever-changing workforce. This program helps companies develop a strategic plan to ensure the recruitment and hiring of quality employees.

Tightening Up the Ship: Using Relationships to Increase Quality and Productivity

When you run a tight ship everyone works together, following the captain’s orders. While this is the ideal way to run a company, it is not often the reality of what takes place. This program focuses on the relationships between managers and employees and how to improve these relationships and improve quality and productivity. Brent teaches the techniques behind tightening up your own ship by tightening up the relationships and communication that exist within your company.

Talk It Out: Communication and Knowledge Sharing

Knowledge is any company’s most valuable resource. Brent will teach participants how to tap into this reservoir of knowledge and utilize it fully within an organization. Find out how to create learning organizations where employees will share best practices, cross-train, and rely on each other for answers to tough problems.

Before You Go Green: The Foundation of Green Building

According to the United States Green Building Council, the demand for “green” buildings is rising dramatically in the United States and around the world. This increase is fueled by the advantages that green buildings have over conventional construction. Brent will open your people’s eyes to what green building means to them and why it is in their best interests to develop knowledge and skills in this area. Find out what to do prior to embarking on your green building journey.

Nail the Interview, Get the Job

They’ve called you in for an interview. So what’s next? How do you dress? How do you act? What do you say? What are the secrets to making a lasting impression? This hands-on workshop provides participants with everything they need to know to wow the interviewers. This program is applicable to individuals looking for a job as well as company teams looking to secure more projects.

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Wellness for Life: Using the Mind-Body Connection to Reach Peak Performance

This signature program bridges the disconnect between the mind and body. Brent demonstrates the power and importance of these two parts working together to unlock your greatest potential. This program is brought to life through actual health and Emotional Intelligence evaluations participants may take prior to the course in order to document their personal correlations. Real-life case studies and hands-on activities make this program immediately applicable to improving both your business and your life.

Stop Pulling Your Hair Out: Stress, Burnout and Life Balance Issues

Participants will discover the powerful impact stress and burnout have on precision and decision-making. Brent teaches how to identify and combat stress triggers before they manifest in the form of low productivity, absenteeism, and illness. In addition, participants will learn to use basic recovery techniques to create a healthy work environment and increase energy and productivity

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Creating an Environment for True Learning

According to the latest neuroscience, the worst environment for learning is people sitting in chairs listening to a lecture, or worse, death by Power Point. This workshop teaches you how to create a learning environment based on the latest neuroscience so that participants will learn, retain and apply the information. Bring your Power Point presentations with you and let us transform the way you teach!

Throw Away the Box: Inspire Genius and Innovation in Your Organization:

Technical construction folks and creative thinking don’t often go hand-in-hand—but they should. Creative thinking is essential to fostering innovation and leadership in every business. This is how companies will be able to face tomorrow’s industry challenges. Through the use of hands-on exercises and improvisational storytelling, Brent helps teach technical-minded professionals how to improve the creative thought process in themselves and their companies. This program is designed for any company that desires to inspire innovation and stay ahead of the curve in a competitive marketplace.

Like Clockwork: Introduction to Systems Thinking

A clock is a collection of hundreds of intricate parts all finely tuned to work together to achieve a consistent result. A company and organizational team should operate in much the same way. This program takes participants through the basics of systems thinking, teaching them how to approach problems from a systems point of view instead of a short term “band-aid” approach.

Before You Go Green: The Foundation of Green Building

According to the United States Green Building Council, the demand for “green” buildings is rising dramatically in the United States and around the world. This increase is fueled by the advantages that green buildings have over conventional construction. Brent will open your people’s eyes to what green building means to them and why it is in their best interests to develop knowledge and skills in this area. Find out what to do prior to embarking on your green building journey.

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Relationships: The First Handshake and Beyond

This interactive, hands-on workshop takes participants through each step of creating and maintaining positive business relationships. They will learn every aspect of effective communication from ways to introduce themselves, to that crucial first handshake. Brent shares valuable techniques such as how to remember names and the art of following-up. This program is a must for anyone, no matter their industry, who wants to learn how to effectively network and forge relationships that will help create and drive future business.

Killer Communication Skills

Through this presentation participants gain the essential basics of powerful and effective communication. They will learn the pitfalls of communication and how to communicate clearly. Participants will reap the benefits of effective communication by learning how to motivate and persuade others without resorting to the traditional command and control approach.

Presentation Skills: How do People Perceive You?

This enlightening workshop shows participants how their posture, voice, movement, and energy affect an audience. They will learn how to use these factors to create more effective, memorable presentations and also increase their effectiveness with one-on-one encounters. This presentation also examines the power of storytelling, the use of metaphors, the basics of rhetoric (creating powerful argumentation), and the use of status. This workshop goes far beyond learning to create inspiring speeches. It will give participants the tools to create a powerful presence.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Poor Industry Image

Year after year, construction jobs are ranked near the bottom in terms of desirability. But why? This program will not only give you the answer to this question it will help you change the answer and improve your company’s industry image. Using Brent’s Emotional Intelligence-based approach, your company can reap massive rewards by differentiating your value proposition, recruiting the best employees, and learning how executives and managers play an important role in improving the industry image as a whole.

Customer Service: How to Win-Over Owners and Secure Future Work

Brent’s customer service program translates the often nebulous concept of service into real behavior. His groundbreaking teaching techniques allow him to translate Emotional Intelligence theory into a language that construction professionals understand, internalize, and embrace. Your company will reap the financial benefits of more repeat business and ultimately be able to achieve greater margins on the increased quality of work.

Tightening Up the Ship: Using Relationships to Increase Quality and Productivity

When you run a tight ship everyone works together, following the captain’s orders. While this is the ideal way to run a company, it is not often the reality of what takes place. This program focuses on the relationships between managers and employees and how to improve these relationships and improve quality and productivity. Brent teaches the techniques behind tightening up your own ship by tightening up the relationships and communication that exist within your company.

Talk It Out: Communication and Knowledge Sharing

Knowledge is any company’s most valuable resource. Brent will teach participants how to tap into this reservoir of knowledge and utilize it fully within an organization. Find out how to create learning organizations where employees will share best practices, cross-train, and rely on each other for answers to tough problems.

Nail the Interview, Get the Job

They’ve called you in for an interview. So what’s next? How do you dress? How do you act? What do you say? What are the secrets to making a lasting impression? This hands-on workshop provides participants with everything they need to know to wow the interviewers. This program is applicable to individuals looking for a job as well as company teams looking to secure more projects.

Collaboration and Connections:  Lasting Relationships That Create Bottom Line Results

This interactive, hands-on workshop takes participants through each of the twelve steps of creating and maintaining positive business relationships. They will learn every aspect of effective communication from ways to introduce themselves, to that crucial first handshake. Brent shares valuable techniques such as how to remember names and the art of following-up. This program is a must for anyone, no matter their industry, who wants to learn how to effectively network and forge relationships that will help create and drive future business. 

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Primal Safety: A Gut-Level Approach Using Emotional Intelligence to Enhance Your Safety Program

This program caters to the “highly independent” alpha males in the construction industry. Brent demonstrates how a simple focus on emotional competencies can turn your safety program around. By tapping into the emotional part of safety, your employees will naturally work safer, instead of rebelling against rules and policies. The business will reap the financial benefit of them doing so, allowing the company to build a well-respected reputation around this increasingly important metric. The issue isn’t about your people knowing the safety guidelines; it’s about being motivated to actually follow them. This program provides that motivation.

Teamwork and Trust

One survey states that there are only two occupations with a lower level of trust than contractors: television evangelists and used car dealers. Brent’s Teamwork and Trust presentation focuses on the root cause of mistrust in the construction industry and how to break these patterns to improve and protect your company’s reputation. Participants will learn what differentiates a group from a team and a team from a high-performing team. They will also learn team dynamics and how to overcome team issues that lead to failure.

Tightening Up the Ship: Using Relationships to Increase Quality and Productivity

When you run a tight ship everyone works together, following the captain’s orders. While this is the ideal way to run a company, it is not often the reality of what takes place. This program focuses on the relationships between managers and employees and how to improve these relationships and improve quality and productivity. Brent teaches the techniques behind tightening up your own ship by tightening up the relationships and communication that exist within your company.

Talk It Out: Communication and Knowledge Sharing

Knowledge is any company’s most valuable resource. Brent will teach participants how to tap into this reservoir of knowledge and utilize it fully within an organization. Find out how to create learning organizations where employees will share best practices, cross-train, and rely on each other for answers to tough problems.

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Stop Pulling Your Hair Out: Stress, Burnout and Life Balance Issues

Participants will discover the powerful impact stress and burnout have on precision and decision-making. Brent teaches how to identify and combat stress triggers before they manifest in the form of low productivity, absenteeism, and illness. In addition, participants will learn to use basic recovery techniques to create a healthy work environment and increase energy and productivity.

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