positive eye consulting™ offers a number of dynamic organizational strategists who are available to speak to your company or organization on a variety of timely and relevant topics. Each topic listed below can be fully customized to address your company’s specific needs and timeline — from a 60-minute keynote to multi-day, fully interactive workshops; from intimate small-group sessions to large multi-media conference presentations. Following is a sampling of topics:
Organizational Transformation
Beyond Six Sigma: Offering a Humanistic and Technical Approach to Change
Passionate Performance doesn’t just happen, it takes looking at how things are done and evaluating means and methods that are focused on continuous process improvement. When we hear Six Sigma, we immediately think logic and results, lean and mean. We think of reshaping an organization to only think of results and not people. When we speak of TADAP, our transformational model of change, our final stage is passionate performance. This is a true integration of the human value of the organization as it integrates with the logic performance-based accountability of Six Sigma. Evaluating performance from not only a lens of planning – doing – studying – acting, but also the impact that these changes have on the human system and how the organization’s greatest asset—its people—can become empowered to lead the organization through process improvement and ultimately integrating this throughout the organization’s culture.
Is Your Organization Ready to Change? Identifying the Elephant in the Room Before Moving Forward
The first step toward changing your world starts with acknowledging your current state of reality – acknowledging ‘the elephant in the room.’From acknowledgement we move to acceptance – is it really an elephant? The final phase is redemption, and moving forward to create change. Dr. Meeks will discuss this integrated journey, as well as “compassionate confrontation” as a tool to create readiness for change.
Profound Knowledge - A Balanced Understanding of Organizational Systems
Understanding, improving, and leading modern organizations requires recognizing everything is linked within a system, understanding and managing variation is essential to achieving reliable results, psychology is intertwined with change, and the approach we use to develop knowledge and test and implement improvement is critical. This session introduces you to four aspects required to enhance organizational performance and lead today's best companies. It will change the way you look at organizations and act in the future.
Organizing a Family Business
A Multigenerational Approach To Building And Sustaining A Family Business Legacy
In this presentation Dr. Meeks explains how to transfer family businesses to following generations. Using 10 case studies, she shows that transfer of family businesses is a lifelong, continuous process in which the family must address and foster the soft elements of the transfer process: entrepreneurship, freedom, values, outside experience, upbringing, and education.
It's Not Me...It's my Generation - Understanding a Multi-Generational Workplace
The workforce of today is like no other. Three distinctly different generations work side-by-side striving to work together as they view the world and work through dramatically different generational lens. The result is often frustration, conflict, inefficiency, and expense. This session guides you through understanding the three most common generations in the workplace today. You'll gain appreciation for why they think the way they do and what they need from work to be effective and engaged. You may never see your colleagues the same again.
Strength Building
Developing Dynamic Work Teams
High-performing dynamic work teams don’t just develop—they are carefully designed both at a humanistic level and at a technical level. We believe each person is unique, blessed with strengths and weaknesses. When each person within a team knows their strengths and takes a stand for them, then strong work teams develop. There are many practical steps individuals within a work team can take to sharpen strengths and be at their personal and work team best. The more curious a person becomes about strengths, the more likely he or she will recognize strengths in others, and ultimately the stronger the group becomes. When you apply the principles of strengths, you will see measurable results in productivity, performance and service.
Enhance Performance Through Doing - Learning in Action to Improve
Improving performance and reliability within an organizational system is not easy and there is no silver bullet that hones in on the right answer without requiring you to roll up your sleeves and learn. To achieve the results you aspire to, an organization must have clear and measurable aims, a balance of data measures, and ideas for improvement. Armed with those three elements, organizations can embark on a journey of deep learning rooted in action and testing improvements that result in measurable and sustainable enhanced performance. This session advises you on how to set ambitious amis, develop and define the right measures, and turn ideas into tests that result in rapid learning for improvement.
Governance – Creating a Board of Advisors
In this presentation, Dr. Meeks examines the eight distinct governance models that, when appropriately used, increase the likelihood a company will reach PRIME on the business life cycle, when all systems are working both efficiently and effectively.
Achieving Peak Performance
Aligning People and Organizations to Create Amazing Performance: The TADAP Model of Change
“When all systems are aligned, the universe is capable of moving human spirit to profound transformation.” Dr. Meeks created TADAP, an evolutionary change model of how to Transform, Acknowledge, Define, Align, and Produce. Learn why TADAP is a better, more sustainable model than the five other prevailing theories of change.
Appreciative Inquiry: Engaging Individuals to Achieve Peak Performance
Dr. Meeks introduces and engages the audience to explore Appreciative Inquiry, a process that focuses and build on the positives in an organization — what’s working — as opposed to trying to fix the negatives — what isn’t working. Learn how successful corporations, institutions, nonprofits and government entities have used Appreciative Inquiry to move a change process forward.
I'm Swamped or am I? Individual and Team Productivity
In America, being busy or swamped is considered culturally acceptable. Email, smart phones, meetings, and business travel appear to be swallowing up today's professionals and making organizations feel more like a treadmill than a creative and productive work environment. Frequently, the issue is not workload, but work process. This session helps you identify the activities and behaviors that enable unproductive and unenjoyable workplaces and learn reliable strategies for taking control and increasing performance.
In Case of Emergency - Action Steps from the Experience of Emergency Workers
See a fire engine race down the street with sirens blaring or watch the footage of a car wreck on the evening news next to the flashing lights of an ambulance and you might ask; How do they do that? Most of us can't imagine being able to act quickly and effectively in difficult environments and when lives are on the line. But the secret to their success has less to do with the strength of the worker than the process they use to achieve the results. In this session, David Williams, a former street paramedic, takes you on a behind the scenes look at the strategies and tools used by emergency workers to achieve demanding results in unpredictable environments. Learn how you can apply these concepts in any organization to act reliably in diverse situations.
It's Not Me...It's my Generation - Understanding a Multi-Generational Workplace
The workforce of today is like no other. Three distinctly different generations work side-by-side striving to work together as they view the world and work through dramatically different generational lens. The result is often frustration, conflict, inefficiency, and expense. This session guides you through understanding the three most common generations in the workplace today. You'll gain appreciation for why they think the way they do and what they need from work to be effective and engaged. You may never see your colleagues the same again.
Strategy Development and Implementation
Can you hold please? Really? Understanding how to develop customer centered service
Most organizations claim to be customer-focused, but our real-life experience tells us otherwise. Inconvenient business hours, phone systems with multiple prompts, extended wait times, and frequent mistakes are just a few examples. In reality, most organizations are not designed with the people they aim to serve at the center. In this session, learn how to view your organization from the customer's perspective and apply strategies for designing processes that aid in meeting their needs while creating devoted long-term fans.
“Don’t blink or you’ll miss something"
This session is geared toward high-energy leaders who feel that they may lose their unique strengths in the flurry of operational activity. As leaders, we juggle and possibly struggle between strategy and implementation. The strengths of our strategic capabilities and the unique ability we have to see how our organization can thrive in the future give us an adrenaline rush. Futuristic thinkers we are, but translating this into implementation plans can leave us drained. Journey with Dr. Meeks as she provides the knowledge and tools for high performance leaders to take strategy and successfully transfer this vision for implementation by the organization. This is a must-have conversation. Like the best Olympic relay teams, the passing of the baton is what makes or breaks a winning team.
Dust Off That Three-Ring Binder: Moving From Strategy to Implementation
Strategic planning is like trying on a new outfit at the store, realizing that it doesn’t fit just right and saying to yourself, “If I just make some changes in my physique, this outfit will fit perfectly.” So we buy the outfit, take it home, put it in the closet, work on the new health plan for one day, and there the outfit sits. A year later we are cleaning the closet and discover the outfit, tags and all! And it still doesn’t fit! Many strategic plans are like that outfit – they fail to transition from our current state of reality to our future new defined image. Dr. Meeks will discuss how to pass the relay baton from strategy to implementation.
Maintaining Balance and integration
Integration not Balance: Managing Two Sides of a Coin Simultaneously
If you want to be a juggler, then join the circus. If you want to be a leader, then step into your greatness and move from balance to integration. The focus of this conversation is not to weigh, judge and balance, but to embrace all moving parts in one large picture. Participants will learn to move from blame and guilt to acceptance and redemption. You will leave armed knowing how to take strategy and move this to successful implementation.
Our Deepest Fear: Learning from Dr. Meeks’ Personal Journey from Death to Rebirth
What does the mind, body, and spirit want to do when you wake up to find your beloved dead at 39, a multimillion-dollar business left in your hands with no plan, several hundred employees, and four small children? Dr. Meeks’ will share the story of her personal tragedy and transformation, and talk frankly about what it takes to move from fear into action.
Measuring Success
Organizational Performance Measurement
We've all heard the saying: If you can't measure it, you can't manage it. But organizations continue to struggle with identifying, tracking, and acting on the right information. In Board rooms and weekly staff meetings, random data is routinely presented in dense spreadsheets and colorful, but uninformative charts. This session, will show you how to develop a diverse set of data metrics. Learn how to define measures, track the data, and analyze the results in a way that enables learning and action, and show the impact of your efforts.
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