Stephanie Angelo

Have you ever thought about why certain people have a way of making you feel important? Do you ever wonder why you automatically want to tune some people out? Or how you could get your own point across so that people would be open to listening to you? In this session we’ll unravel perceptions and knock down the barriers to communication. We’ll get your employees talking and managers listening. You’ll walk away with solid tools to give and receive feedback and skills to evolve into a high performing team.

Hands-on interactive session with the first-ever board game designed to illustrate what is and is not a great company culture to help attendees compare and contrast important benefits, features and attributes to discover how they can apply it to their own organizations.
Why play “Company Culture – a Game of Workplace Traction not Transaction”?
This game is about getting people within companies to talk to each other. It’s about what we, as Human Beings, value and what people find important at the workplace. It does cover some items from policies and procedures and U.S Federal laws, but what makes a company really great is its Culture. Culture can be described as the personality of the company. While pay and benefits are very, very important, people want to be valued, to feel like they are contributing, that their voices are heard, and their presence is appreciated. Create that and you’ve created a great Company Culture.

Leaders, Managers and Human Resource Professionals are often confused by what is, and is not, Strategic Thinking. They may fall easily into traps and make expensive mistakes to the detriment of their company. This session will help attendees grasp the Strategic Thinking differences that will help them have a positive impact on the organization’s bottom line and strategic goals and objectives.
Business Coach J. Glenn Ebersole said, “Strategic thinking is a process that defines the manner in which people think about, assess, view, and create the future for themselves and others. One can apply strategic thinking to arrive at decisions that can be related to your work or personal life.”
But the question is – Do you? Are you looking at the “bigger picture” of possibility when making decisions? Are you settling for the easiest choice? How can you maximize critical thinking skills for best results?
Through discussion and examples attendees understand what a strategic thinker is. They com