	Perform On Purpose: Applying Olympic Tools for Optimal Performance™
	Learn the tools of Olympic athletes to dramatically increase productivity and help you achieve Olympian results. Garner the sources of energy that enable world-class performance. Apply the concepts of full engagement and mindfulness to common work situations to produce the process and results that you want. Performing at an optimal level is a constant pressure in today’s competitive workplaces. “Corporate athletes” require precision and stamina in their performance just as elite athletes do. The mental skills of elite athletes transfer easily to the challenge of high performance in the workplace. The well-established tenets of sports psychology and physiology, combined with insights from world-class competitors, can guide leaders, managers and employees to optimally perform in business environments. Managing our four main energy sources -- physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual – is critical to performance optimization. If we have low clarity or a weak recovery system in any of the four energies then we will be less efficient in meeting our demands and ultimately less effective as leaders and managers. This will, in turn, impact our employees, since leaders are the energy stewards of the organization. Important reasons to learn more about this include personal sustainability, engagement, turnover, and productivity. The cost of health care to companies continues to rise – $150 billion dollars a year is spent on stress related illnesses/claims. 75-90% of outpatient visits to physicians are stress related. This can lead to employee disengagement/absenteeism, loss of productivity and turnover, and is very costly to organizations. The mental skills of elite athletes can be used in the workplace to aid in demand clarification, focusing, and recovery in order to be more productive and less stressed. In this seminar, performance consultant and Olympian Dr. Megan Neyer teaches these tenets, share stories of the Olympic journey, and coaches participants in “performing on purpose.”

	Navigating the Paradox of Leadership
	Increase your mental flexibility so that you have a greater range of options in any situation. See “panoramic” solutions vs. “telephoto” ones. Navigate the conflicts and contradictions that you encounter in your job. Learn to identify whether an issue is a problem to solve or a situation to manage. Every day, leaders have to live on the continuum that falls between visionary and do-it-now. They have to sort out whether something is a problem to be solved or a situation to be managed. They have to see things from the company’s point of view and the other person’s — the employee, the customer, or the vendor. In Navigating the Paradox of Leadership, performance coach and Olympian Dr. Megan Neyer provides tools for expanding your problem solving “peripheral vision,” seeing more solutions or management options, finding the appropriate balance between optimism and skepticism that allows for action and provides a balance for good decisions. She also provides usable guides for determining when to quit analyzing and begin acting. The results are well-considered, timely decisions that work.
	Leveraging Talent for "Choose-to" Performance
	Learn how to maintain or increase the level of employee motivation without relying on raises and promotions. Increase productivity even in the face of decreasing budgets. Deal with employees in ways that are important to them. Every employee has a choice. He or she can do the “have to” part of their job where they are doing just enough to keep it. Or they can move to the “choose to” level, increasing productivity, company profits, and customer satisfaction. Research has shown that the difference is not necessarily money, either in terms of salary or incentives. In this seminar, performance coach and Olympian Dr. Megan Neyer presents a range of motivational tactics that cost the company little or nothing but return huge benefits in increased employee performance.
	Getting the Right People On the Bus
	Learn techniques for making the right hiring decision between several seemingly qualified candidates. Make certain that your hiring decisions pass the legal test. Take the single most effective step in solving retention and performance problems: having the right person in the right job. “The ability to make good decisions regarding people represents one of the last reliable sources of competitive advantage, since very few organizations are very good at it.” Dr. Peter Drucker Hiring right the first time saves time, money, and increases retention and performance. In this seminar, performance coach and Olympian Dr. Megan Neyer provides a step-by-step process for making employee selection and placement decisions, beginning with determining the knowledge, skills, and personal characteristics that are required for successful performance in the position. Then candidates are measured against these requirements, using validated employee selection processes and tools. The process enables managers to get the right people on the bus — taking a big step toward improving performance throughout the company. And because the process produces a legally defensible selection system, it dramatically lowers the company’s risk of legal challenges.
	Creating Successful Project Management Teams
	Learn the essential factors that contribute to successful collaborative project relationships. Develop communication and team building skills that enable leading through influence rather than authority. Understand the role of personality styles on group efforts. Learn how understanding emotional intelligence can help create successful collaborative relationships. Whatever you call them — collaborative project relationships, teams, or pods — they are all groups of people with different personalities, perspectives, and goals. In this seminar, performance coach and Olympian Dr. Megan Neyer walks participants through the process of building successful collaborative relationships, identifying and dealing with personality styles, and identifying the relevance of emotional intelligence. In small groups and exercises, participants put the concepts presented into practice, enabling them to build better team performance in their own workplace.