
Where are you at: CRISIS or FRICTION?
Every organization, division and team will experience friction or crisis at some point.
Plans, policies and people tend to fall apart without adaptive leadership.
Your organization is risking losing their best team members during the next upheaval because they lack the patience (or loyalty) to handle “other kids throwing sand in the sandbox” on top of their own position's challenges.
Unfortunately, your organization is probably already feeling the effects of:
- Overspending on areas of team building and EAP programs to help make up for “the event” or shift in workplace dynamics.
- Growing mental health challenges: climbing sick-days, sick-leave, stress-leave, declining employee performance due to anxiety, depression.
- Increasing employee premiums: an increase in claim-submissions relating to mental health, stress-leave and “burn out”.
- Lost talent, difficult acquisition: fear of losing (more) key staff members, increasingly difficult time finding or keeping new staff.
- An “Unruly” Workforce: interoffice politics and challenging personality dynamics have taken the spotlight, and reliable productivity is at an all time low.
- Loss of authority: Recognition that your current workforce cannot be motivated or guided the same way they used to be, without a clear understanding of why or what to do about it.

Stop sinking. Start SHIFTing...
Does it feel like your ship is sinking?
Are some people spending more time poking holes than paddling out?
“If your HR-rep and managers are exhausted from dealing with the side-effects of crisis and friction in the workplace it’s probably because everyone’s best efforts just aren’t aligned. Find out which area your organization needs to be focusing on NOW to see the biggest SHIFTS and get your ship back on course!

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“My team and I have CLEAR FOCUS. It’s easy to motivate, guide and make key decisions” |
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“We have VERY DEDICATED staff members who keep showing up and trying their best, even after setbacks” |
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"We TRUST each other here, even if we don’t always agree or understand one another” |
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“We are consistently able to focus on IMPORTANT THINGS, not just URGENT things” |
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“Our Managers and Leaders are heard, listened to and respected (even if not always liked, or agreed with)” |
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“When things go wrong (friction, or crisis) our team feels they have a GOOD SUPPORT SYSTEM to figure things out” |
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“Our leaders and managers are VERY SUPPORTIVE and do more than “just enforce policies and checkmarks” |
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"Our team seems to MOVE WELL through sudden change and growth, even when they have concerns or fears” |
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“Our Leaders and Managers “WALK THE TALK” –they have good values, and set a great example for others to follow” |
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“Our Leaders play an active role in CRISIS MANAGEMENT, and don’t just brush it off or depend on EAP programs” |
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If your organization falls into this scoring category now is a GREAT time to pick up the phone call John in as a Consultant to help you figure out what needs to change. If you aren’t sure where to start, bring him in as a Speaker and let your staff learn from his 30 years experience guiding leaders and organizations through some of their most critical (and opportune) points. Let today be the day you helped turn things around… for good!

End the “treadmill cycle” of doing program after program by inviting John to be a speaker and letting your staff learn from his 30 years experience guiding leaders and organizations through some of their most critical (and opportune) points. Shift your entire organization with hands-on insight into the real reason why “nobody is listening, trusts each other or knows what to do if things keep getting worse”.

Looking for more support on how to manage your team when things get tense? Want to give your leaders a greater advantage so your workforce actually listens to them when changes start happening around them?
Invite John to be a speaker and learn from his 30 years experience guiding leaders and organizations through some of their most critical (and opportune) points.

Looking for more support boosting your leaders ability to “lead like a Shepherd?” Invite John to be a speaker and learn from his 30 years experience guiding leaders and organizations through some of their most critical (and opportune) points.

Looking for more ways to optimize your leaders abilities and workforces strengths? Invite John to be a speaker and learn from his 30 years experience guiding leaders and organizations through some of their most critical (and opportune) points… let him help you mark the beginning of your greatest chapter yet!
