The Carrot Principle: Engaging Employees Through Recognition

A New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller, The Carrot Principle has become the preeminent source on employee engagement and recognition.

Based on his runaway bestseller, The Carrot Principle workshop or keynote reveals the ground breaking results of one of the most in-depth management studies ever undertaken, showing definitively that the central characteristic of the most successful managers is that they provide their employees with frequent and effective recognition. This breakthrough study of 200,000 people over ten years found dramatically greater business results when managers offered constructive praise and meaningful rewards in ways that powerfully motivated employees to excel.

Drawing on case studies from leading companies including Disney, KPMG and The Pepsi Bottling Group, the bestselling author shows how the transformative power of purpose-based recognition produces astonishing increases in operating results. Elton shows how great managers lead with carrots, not sticks and in doing so achieve higher:

• Productivity

• Engagement

• Retention

• Customer Satisfaction

This exceptional presentation introduces the simple steps to becoming a Carrot Principle manager and to building a recognition culture in your organization; it offers a wealth of specific examples, drawn from real-life cases, of ways to do recognition right. Following these simple steps will make you a high-performance leader and take your team to a new level of achievement.

The Invisible Employee: Unleashing Hidden Potential

There is a crisis in business today—the potential of your employees and new hires is being trapped, squashed or just overlooked. Only one keynote speaker is unraveling the truth—ripping through Fortune 500 companies with a bag full of keys to unlock the power of your people.

Based on the New York Times best selling book, The Invisible Employee, Chester Elton can unlock the hidden potential of your workforce. Elton enlightens, inspires and energizes audiences. He shares why many employees today feel over-looked, ignored and completely unappreciated. And, he exposes why employees respond to those feelings with negative reactions—doing just enough to get by, grumbling about work and passing toxic attitudes on to other team members. After all, why bother shining when no one notices your achievements?

The Invisible Employee keynote leverages hard-won wisdom, with Elton’s renowned blazing energy, humor and real life examples. Across the globe and into the most recognized companies, Chester Elton is helping managers combat one of the most common negative forces in business—smart employees hiding from their potential and never doing more than is asked.

Elton shows managers how to:

• Engage or re-ignite an employee’s passion for work

• Stimulate a new-hire’s onboarding experience

• Recognize employees to accelerate performance

• Minimize attrition and increase retention

• Build a culture based on trust and appreciation

• Setting clear goals and seeing the right behaviors

The Invisible Employee Keynote is inspiring managers worldwide to create organizations jam-packed with productive employees who feel noticed, valued and appreciated.

The Levity Effect: Creating a Great Workplace

If you think work is no laughing matter, the joke’s on you. The Levity Effect uses serious science to reveal the remarkable power of fun and humor in building a productive, engaged and loyal workforce… and more successful communication.

Consider this: Light-hearted leaders earn more on average than their more dour peers; fun workplaces breed more loyal employees and happier customers; and business people who are considered humorous are vastly more likely to get their messages across—in sales presentations, customer meetings or employee gatherings.

The benefits of the levity effect are built on extensive research and case studies from some of the world’s most successful organizations. Bestselling author Adrian Gostick provides powerful examples of leaders from Boeing, Nike, KPMG, Yamaha, Enterprise, Zappos and dozens of others, all of which prove that lightening up leads to real business results. The Levity Effect also presents extensive research into the subject—including compelling data from the Great Place to Work Institute’s 1 million-member database—that cuts against the grain of traditional business thinking to reveal that great companies consistently earn significantly higher marks for fun.

With compelling research and light-hearted insight, The Levity Effect turns business on its head to prove that a fun and engaging workplace leads to focused employees, satisfied customers and more effective communication.

The Integrity Advantage: Building Trust and Enhancing Performance

In a thought-provoking address, bestselling author Adrian Gostick shows why effective leadership is first and foremost a personal relationship, with trust and credibility as the cornerstones. The author takes attendees through real examples of real managers in action and reveals the key behaviors and characteristics that can strengthen your leaders' capacity for developing and sustaining trust in their business lives.

Gostick will teach participants how to resolve conflicts and tensions on the basis of principles, not positions. He also shows how taking the high road will create a competitive advantage for leaders and their businesses:

• To help leaders gauge and enhance their own personal level of integrity

• To recognize and hire people of character

• To build a culture of integrity throughout your organization

Here’s the bottom line: If employees don’t believe their leaders are honest, they won’t follow them. If clients and potential clients don’t believe in the trustworthiness of the organization, they’ll buy elsewhere. Years of empirical data prove this simple point: Ethical organizations outperform unethical ones. It’s that simple.

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