Employee Engagement Strategy

The last few years have been tough, business owners have had to change the ways they compensate and motivate their teams.  Gone are the days of ping-pong tables, big bonuses and free soda.  Now it’s no raises, more work, and a load of uncertainty.  Yet we still need our teams to come to work everyday and give 110%.  How do we engage our employee’s hearts and minds when we can no longer pour on lots of cash compensation?  Heck, we can’t even afford the cool office any more!  

In order to overcome these challenges we will talk about building trust, and adopting transparency while maintaining your authority as the leader.

We cover:

• What really motivates your team (and it’s not money)
• Ways to engage our team to deal with the uncertainty in the marketplace
• How do we create a “new deal” with our team, that we can afford and is attractive to them.
• How to increase transparency, create trust and get more for less
• Positioning your firm to win in the coming employee swap meet.

Brad Farris addresses these issues using lots of examples drawn from his 10 years of consulting with Small Business Owners.  He has seen clients who have done things well, and some that have made mistakes, and brings those examples in the program.

Brad’s speaking style is dynamic and interactive, no PowerPoint here!  The discussion format that he uses is very flexible and insures that concerns that members bring into the meeting can get appropriately addressed.

Audience members will leave with a new understanding of the levers of employee engagement.  We will map a specific plan for gaining more commitment and effort from your team.  But it’s not just all about them.  In order to make significant gains in engagement changes need to be made by the owner and we will outline the risks and opportunities that they represent.  Everyone should leave with a solid plan that they can take back to their workforce and begin implementation.

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To book a speaker on this, or any of our topics call 773-282-7677.

I heartily recommend Brad Farris as a speaker for your next meeting. He delivers the goods in a winsome way. Brad has great training content with real life examples from his business experience and just the right amount of humor. My staff are still quoting Brad and working on the principles he taught us months after the training session he led.”

-- Shannon Marion, Regional Director InterVarsity


Mr. Farris brings together a number of factors that make him a very effective trainer: his long experience in business in a range of contexts, his extensive knowledge of the literature of business and organizational culture, and his ability to engage the problems you face on terms that make sense for your situation. I highly recommend him!

-- Jon Boyd, Associate Director of Graduate Programs, InterVarsity