Speaker Profile
CHRIS DEVANY
Chris DeVany is the founder and president of Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide, a firm that focuses on management and organization development. Pinnacle’s clients include global organizations such as Visa International, Cadence Design Systems, Coca-Cola, Sprint, Microsoft, Aviva Insurance, Schlumberger, and over 500 other organizations in 22 countries. He also has consulted with government agencies from the United States, the Royal Government of Saudi Arabia, Canada, the Cayman Islands, and the United Kingdom. He has published numerous articles in the fields of surviving mergers and acquisitions, surviving change, project management, management, sales, team-building, leadership, ethics, customer service, diversity, and work-life balance, in publications ranging from ASTD/Performance In Practice to Customer Service Management. His book, “90 Days to a High-Performance Team”, published by McGraw Hill and often accompanied by in-person, facilitated instruction, has helped and continues to help thousands of executives, managers, and team leaders improve performance.
Chris Devany
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Stay Interviews: A Powerful Employee Engagement And Retention Tool
A stay interview is a powerful retention tool that can give organizations a jumping-off point to build upon the positive aspects of the job. It helps to identify the key factors that engage and excite employees. As well, it helps to pinpoint aspects that drive dissatisfaction and frustration for high-performing employees, so that those aspects can be minimized or eliminated.Areas CoveredUnderstanding the co..
Handling a Chaotic Work Environment: How to Prioritize Work and Make Good Decisions Under Pressure
This highly interactive Webinar offers you and your team an array of practical tools to help you get things done in today's chaotic and constantly changing work environment. You’ll learn practical techniques for making structured decisions—even under pressure—to earn buy-in from bosses, coworkers, and customers. In a workshop environment, you will participate in valuable exercises utilizing real-world case ..
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Implicit, or unconscious bias, exists in classrooms and on college campuses. What does it look like? How can faculty create an unbiased learning environment? How can faculty get in touch with their own unconscious biases to combat unintentional bias with students? Research suggests that unconscious bias regarding race and gender impacts relationships with professors. One study showed that certain academic f..
How to Build and Use 360 Degree Feedback
Would you like to understand the complete and critical steps of the 360 degree feedback process?. How about learning the keys to identifying an effective 360 degree feedback instrument?How about being able to access important information regarding the selection of raters?. Would you like your team to improve performance?If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then come laugh, listen and learn as Ch..
I-9 Audits: Strengthening Your Immigration Compliance Strategies in 2020
It is a violation of Federal immigration law for any employer to knowingly hire employees who are not authorized to work in the United States. The Federal Form I-9: Employment Eligibility Verification, is used by employers as a record of their basis for determining the eligibility of an employee to work in the U.S. The form is maintained by the employer and made available upon request for inspection by offi..
Implementing a Project Management Culture
As organizations strengthen and mature, the gap between the business objectives and technical solutions tends to widen, the knowledge and skill sets become more specific (and different).Project Management is a strong bridge between these teams. It may not be an objective to become a "Project Manager" yet every employee in your organization does project management - completing a defined task by a certain tim..
Interviewing Skills for Managers and Supervisors
The everything-you-need-to-know-before-you-say “you’re hired” seminar!Nothing’s scarier than the thought of making the wrong hiring decision. After all, it means throwing away a substantial investment of time and money on recruitment, training and benefits.This fundamental seminar is your ticket to make the right hiring decisions and contribute more to the company bottom line.Areas CoveredMaking the selecti..
Legal Claims Arising From COVID-19: How to Prepare Like a Lawyer
In HR, we always hear "document, document, document." That directive is more necessary now than ever. When the COVID-19 danger passes, we will be left with a barrage of lawsuits for disability discrimination, HIPAA violations, invasion of privacy claims and many, many other allegations. hat employers interpret as "for the good of the order" is going to fly directly in the face of employees who feel they wer..
Legally Terminating Employees: 10 Complex Issues You Must Know
Employers must terminate employees from time to time in order to run their businesses effectively. In today’s litigious world, terminating employees is an emotional and legal minefield for managers and supervisors. Even subtle differences in preparing for and conducting terminations can impact greatly the level of legal risk, and whether an employer faces a claim that may cost six figures (or more) in poten..
Managing Through Chaos: Tools, Tips and Techniques to Set Priorities and Make Effective Decisions Under Pressure
This highly interactive Webinar offers you and your team an array of practical tools to help you get things done in today's chaotic and constantly changing work environment. You’ll learn practical techniques for making structured decisions - even under pressure - to earn buy-in from bosses, coworkers, and customers. In a workshop environment, you will participate in valuable exercises utilizing real-world c..
Mastering Coaching and Mentoring for Outstanding Job Performance
Empower your employees to become more productive, effective, and committed team members!In today’s tough business environment, your organization can’t afford anything less than outstanding performance. Are you prepared to get the best from your team? Keep your team members’ productivity up to par—and show them how to do the best job they can? You’ll learn a step-by-step approach to effective coaching and su..
Time and Task Management – Working Smarter Every Day
Take control of your time...and get control of your entire workday!The speed of everything has changed. Are your time management skills up to the challenge?Do you put off more today than you can ever accomplish tomorrow...exhaust yourself by 4:00 p.m. with only a fraction of your work done...see yourself as a decision maker who never gets around to making decisions...dread the next business meeting—or worse..
“Virtual Team” – How to Manage People Effectively in Multiple Locations
As enterprises have been growing far and wide, often international in scope, we find ourselves as executives and managers with our talent spread farther and farther, often at dozens and hundreds of locations. How do we ‘get a better handle’ on all this?Learning Objectives By attending, you will understand how to even more effectively: Boost productivity at every locationSignificantly cut down o..