These are only a few of the possible themes Dan is capable of covering for your company. However, Dan’s presentations are not canned talks. Each one is individually developed for a specific client.

People: Dan’s basic theme has always been the people side of business; whether its trucking or banking or real estate.  He walks the people side of the street, and all his work reflects the fact that the human factor takes precedence over all the technical, financial or organizational requirements involved in the day to day world of business.

Perception:  I don’t deal with you in terms of what you’re really like. I deal with you in terms of how I perceive you to be. We invite the treatment we get, we teach others how to treat us, and if we don’t manage how others perceive us, they will.

Working Together:  Relationship Building skills.  All you have is their trust and respect, and they never give you that; they only loan it out, and you have it only as long as your earn it. In-depth work on how to earn the trust and respect of others: whether they be drivers, peers, customers.

Systems: Fix the system instead of the blame. Using the Deming 85/15 Rule, we work on understanding how our systems work, and how it’s really almost impossible to build trust and respect without the dependability and consistency of a well-maintained work flow system.

Teamwork: Built around the old adage: None of us are as smart as all of us. This segment deals with  a lot of interactive teambuilding skills, where the participants actually see for themselves that teams are smarter then individuals. How to harvest your peoples’ expertise.

Company Culture: The personality, style, perception of your company as a family unit, dedicated to the good of all therein. What company culture means, how to talk about it, and how to start moving toward a clear definition of who we are, what we are like and how we do things around here.

Organizational Dynamics: How the very things we work for, like success and growth, tend to create their own environment of decay. The  bigger you get, the further you get from the guy who got you there.  How to manage growth and success.

Understanding the Human Element: Since it’s the stuff we don’t see about ourselves that bites us in the butt,  we need to stop and take a careful look at what makes people (ourselves included) tick. Ambivalence, Projection, Resistance, Escalation, Expectations, all contribute to the mix that skilled managers need to understand and learn how to work with.

Understanding Ourselves: The ability to do the right thing because it’s the right thing to do, comes from a centeredness of being comfortable with ourselves. Learning how to get in touch with our own priorities, principles and purposes, can help each of us renegotiate our own value as a person.

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