Professional Development Session Details

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Professional Development Session Details

”Being All You Can Be”

You can’t motivate someone else, but you can motivate yourself and create an environment where employees can remain or become motivated. In today´s business climate, it is more important than ever for team members to hold themselves accountable; organizations depend on individuals and teams to implement actions that align with the values, competencies, and strategies of the organization.

This presentation has as desired outcomes for each participant:

An understanding of the interconnectivity of motivation, accountability and empowerment

An awareness of how value differences between the generations in the workplace impact these connections

The development of an awareness of how success is defined

This presentation has three primary components:

I.

The power of accountability and empowerment to motivate and inspire the creation of a responsible, productive workplace.

II.

The impact of value differences between the generations in today’s workplace.

III.

Implementing all these skills to commit for individual success.

Program Topics

 Define accountability

How to ask questions that initiate accountability

 Create accountability in others through the use of a five-step model

 Establish expectations as a foundation for accountability

 Define empowerment

 Apply the seven key principles of empowerment

Create an empowered team through the use of delegation

Overcome empowerment obstacles

 Use the formula for successful empowerment

 Understand the model for motivation

 Create an environment of trust

 Understand the value systems of the different generations

 Engage the generations to form a cohesive workforce

Review personal success lessons

This presentation is interactive and includes exercises and role plays as well as ample opportunity to ask questions.

Speaker Biography

Liz Stewart

Dr. Liz Stewart founded Stewart and Associates, Inc. in 1985 to provide consulting services to help organizations function more effectively. Her specialties are strategic planning, human resource management, management and leadership development and executive coaching. She does extensive work in both the private and public sectors.

Her education credentials include undergraduate degrees in French, Spanish and Education, a

Master’s degree in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Economics as well as a law degree.

During fifteen years with XEROX Corporation, she served as a sales representative, sales manager and Regional Vice President of Organizational Development and Strategic Planning Services. She has been responsible for achieving production and revenue goals as well as training, supervising and motivating others.

She has expertise in change management and leadership skills and is the author of B ACK TO THE

B ASICS © IN S TRATEGIC P LANNING and a current book entitled Leading the Disciplined Organization which focuses on the impacts of generational diversity. She is currently working on her next book about the survival lessons learned during her three battles with cancer.

Ms. Stewart is extremely active in her community serving on the following boards and commissions.

As a member of the United Way of Aiken County board, she is the past campaign chair. She serves on the boards of the Public Education Partners (PEP), Savannah River Cancer Foundation, Margaret

J. Weston Community Health Centers, Savannah River Site Heritage Foundation as well as the

SCANA Advisory Board.

She is a recent Past Chair for the Board of Directors of the Aiken Chamber of Commerce, past Chair of the Board of Directors of Hitchcock Health Care and a past Chair of the Board of Directors for

SafeHomes of Augusta. Ms. Stewart is a Past President of the Aiken Rotary Club and a multiple Paul

Harris Fellow. She has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the United Way of the CSRA.

She was the Vice Chair of Celebrate Aiken, a committee to support a year-long celebration of

Aiken’s 175 th birthday.

She was awarded the distinction of being the 2007 Chamber of Commerce Woman of the Year. Ms.

Stewart serves as a member of the City of Aiken Planning Commission.

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