Speaker Profile
PETE TOSH
Pete Tosh is Founder of The Focus Group, a management consulting and training firm that assists organizations in sustaining profitable growth through four core disciplines:
Implementing Strategic HR Initiatives: Executive Search, Conducting HR Department Audits, Enhancing Recruiting, Interviewing & Selection Processes, Installing Performance Management Programs, Conducting Training Needs Assessments, Installing HR Metrics, etc
Maximizing Leadership Effectiveness: Facilitating Team Building Initiatives, Designing and Facilitating 360 Performance Assessments, Executive Coaching, Measuring and Enhancing Employee Engagement and Performance, etc
Strategic Planning: Facilitating Strategic Planning Events, Establishing Succession Plans, Installing Business Performance Metrics, etc Enhancing Customer Loyalty: Conducting Customer Satisfaction Surveys, Facilitating Customer Advisory Councils, Developing Standards of Performance and Scripts for Key Customer TouchPoints, etc.
The Focus Group has provided these consulting and training services to manufacturing and service organizations across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. Pete has worked closely with the leadership teams of organizations such as Exxon, Brinks, EMC, State Farm, Marriott, N.C.I. YKK and Freddie Mac to:
Align corporate organizational structures with their strategic initiatives — while ensuring value creation for their customer bases
Ascertain customers’ primary needs and perceptions of organizations’ performance relative to that of their competitors
Develop and implement customer loyalty enhancement processes — based on specific customer feedback — that delivered sustainable advantages in the marketplace Implement performance management programs, executive coaching, compensation systems, and other HR processes to strategically direct and reward desired employee behavior
Prior to founding his own firm 25 years ago, Pete had 15 years of experience — at the plant, divisional and corporate levels — in Human Resource and Quality functions. Pete held leadership positions — including the V.P. of Human Resources and Quality — with Allied Signal, Imperial Chemical Industries, Reynolds Metals, Charter Medical, and Access Integrated Networks.
Pete also frequently develops and facilitates a variety of leadership development programs including Strategic Planning, Moving from an Operational Manager to a Strategic Leader, Strategic HR Management, The Fundamentals of Human Resource Management, Recruiting, Interviewing & Selection, Employment Law, and Utilizing HR Metrics. Employees from over 3,000 organizations have benefited from Pete’s experience and perspective. Pete is a co-author of Leading Your Organization to the Next Level: The Core Disciplines of Sustained Profitable Growth.
Pete holds a B.A. degree in Psychology from Emory and Henry College and Masters degrees in both Business Administration and Industrial Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Using Customer Satisfaction Measurement Techniques to Retain Your Customers
Customers will always buy based on their expectations & perceptions. And they will share those expectations & perceptions. A customer satisfaction survey effectively designed & conducted - with an action plan implemented around the feedback - will more than pay for itself.Designing & conducting an effective customer satisfaction survey involves the following key initiatives:#1 Identify..

Managing Toxic & Other Employees Who Have Attitude Issues
Toxic employees cause significant overt, covert, people-related & financial damage with their visible behavior just being the tip of the iceberg. For example, in one organization the day a former employee left the organization is considered one of their annual holidays.Clever toxic employees:Utilize their technical expertise to intimidate & manipulateKnow who to flatter & who they can abuseTurn ..

Creating a Strategic Plan that Addresses Your Organization’s Most Critical Issues
There is a proactive approach – the Action Research Strategic Planning Process - that allows teams to react to and address changes and challenges while generating the necessary buy-in and follow-through. The Action Research Strategic Planning Process is a planned series of process steps that:Obtains from the team their action/improvement-oriented proposals regarding the priority issuesFacilitates ..

Managing Toxic and Other Employees Who Have Attitude Issues
Toxic employees cause significant overt, covert, people-related & financial damage with their visible behavior just being the tip of the iceberg. For example, in one organization the day a former employee left the organization is considered one of their annual holidays.Clever toxic employees:Utilize their technical expertise to intimidate & manipulate  ..

Enhancing Employee Engagement to Drive Organizational Performance
Businesses today are striving to generate greater productivity, quality, customer satisfaction, and profitability with fewer employees. And Employee Engagement is a proven method for doing just that. Engaged employees:Expend discretionary effort doing more than they are askedAre motivated toward the organization’s successWork the hardest, stay the longest and perform to their capabilitiesEmployee Engagement..

Implementing the Techniques Utilized by HR Strategic Business Partners
The role of the HR business partner is more important than ever, now that there are more demands on HR to add value. And more leaders are realizing that by making better use of their employees, they can better achieve the profitability goals of the business. In addition, more of the transactional HR work is being outsourced, so HR is not only able to focus more on the strategic side of the business but is a..

Utilizing HR Metrics to Illustrate & Improve Human Resource's Contribution
HR professionals leading many of the best-managed HR departments across the U.S. rely heavily on HR Metrics to guide and improve their departments' performance. They recognize that metrics offer significant benefits to both their departments and organizations.Human Resource Departments have traditionally been concerned with the processing of transactions and administrative functions – often with little or..

Implementing an Effective Succession Planning Program
Fortune 500 companies and small family businesses alike share a business need - ensuring that they have the talent necessary to effectively lead their organizations in the future. One of the most significant contributions a leader can make is insuring his/her business’ continuity and sustainability - by having employees who are willing and capable of filling each key position with a plan for doing so when t..