ToPS Workshops

Performing on Purpose:  Applying Olympic Tools for World-Class 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.

The diver on the edge of the tower, the sprinter at the starting blocks, the pole vaulter eyeing the bar in front of him all have this in common when they perform their best:  they are focusing all of their energy sources — physical, emotional, mental and spiritual — on the task at hand.  In today’s competitive workplace where there is a constant pressure for top-flight performance, managers need the same tools to meet their goals. In this seminar, performance coach and Olympian Dr. Megan Neyer teaches managers to use Olympic tools to do their jobs.  She shows how to optimize performance, shares stories of her Olympic journey, and coaches participants in “performing on purpose.”  In all, she provides the secret guidelines of world class performers that enable winning leadership and performance.

Negotiating Paradox as a Leadership Skill

• Increase your mental flexibility so that you have a greater range of options in any situation.
• 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 Negotiating Paradox, 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.