Dr. Rob Simpson Meeting planners find Dr. Simpson a pleasure to work with due to his easy-going nature, and audiences enjoy his warmth, humor, and style. As a public speaker, his evalutations are outstanding, with consistently high ratings.

Keynotes...

Leadership
Teambuilding
Communication
Stress Management
Personal Effectiveness

Seminars

Potentially Transforming!

These seminars are powerful. Many attendees report significant positive changes in their lives as a result. These changes enhance performance and productivity. Dr. Simpson shows participants the foundational skills necessary to maximize workplace relationships and performance. These programs range from three to six hours.


Change and Stress Management
(4 hours)

This program informs and empowers every individual to understand and reduce stress while developing additional self-management skills. Highlights are as follows.

- The physiology of stress

- Assessing your personal stress symptoms

- How to control outcome

- What is self-fulfilling prophecy?

- How to handle difficult people

- How humans process emotion


Communication: Getting Anyone to Hear You
(3-5 hours)

If people are central to your business, then communication is your business! It is necessary everywhere: management, sales, supervision, customer service, growth and success. Because 80% of all communication fails to hit its intended mark, it is essential to master the foundations of communication skills. This practical program teaches how to effectively discover the need and position of another person. This is a foundational skill of successful communicating. And effective communicating is a foundation for a successful life!

Here is some of what Dr. Simpson will discuss.

- The elements of sending and receiving verbal communications

- Understanding how we miss 80% of our communication

- How to move away from dysfunctional verbal communication

- The power and importance of metacommunications

- Gender differences

- The art of reflection

- Active listening

- Anger management


The Leadership Development Program

This is formatted as either a half-day or daylong workshop that helps your group define leadership and differentiate it from management or supervision. Hopefully, each participant will consider the challenge of leadership and take his or her place among today's leaders.

Leadership is fundamental to every human undertaking or operation. It is always critical to the success of any effort. Leaders are individuals who are able to accomplish the extraordinary in the middle of the ordinary. They have vision, excite others to action, overcome obstacles and achieve remarkable success is spite of great challenges.

There are two goals in this workshop experience. First, to inform participants of theories, principles and practices of leadership. Second, to encourage them to discover their own leadership potential.

Objectives: Participants will study the following concepts:

Understanding the role of leader

The characteristics of a leader

How to set goals and build a vision

How to differentiate a leader from a manager or supervisor

Different theoretical models of leadership

How a leader builds constituents and creates teams

The format for the day is conversational and interactive. Participants are encouraged to get involved, share their opinions, and enjoy the experiences. This class is DMS certified in Florida.


The Advanced Supervisors Workshop

It is the goal of this course to enhance quality product and output by enabling supervisors to better manage their human resources. This lab will address two models of motivation and various techniques of feedback in a round table discussion format.

This class discusses two motivation models, a Need Model and a Process Model. The Need Model is represented by Maslow's theory and the Process Model is represented by Expectancy Theory. Students will learn these models of motivation and practice the art of giving feedback to those they supervise. The class also includes foundations in communication and active listening theory. This workshop is DMS certified in Florida.

The lab is intended to be highly interactive. Participants are free to discuss any questions they have regarding supervisory issues, special needs and difficult situations. The expertise of the participants is recognized and valued, sharing is welcome. Participants form a collective think tank available to problem solve real issues and difficulties presented by participants.


Objectives:

At the end of the training, the participants will be able to:

- Describe role of various motivators (needs and values) in the workplace; describe role of outcome expectancies and individual need on performance.

- Explain how to recognize the impact of motivators on performance at work.

- Plan ways to establish and use effective motivation methods to positively impact staff's work performance.

- Identify the impact of meta-communications and the channels of communication on effective communication about work performance.

- Demonstrate use of constructive, positive feedback behavior.

6. Plan effective communication strategies in response to specific group performance issues.


Team Building Programs

In medicine, competition among the members of an organism is usually considered a disease. In healthy organisms all of the members cooperate to achieve effective functioning of the whole unit.

The same principal applies to organizations. All too often members of a system will choose sides, form cliques or coalitions aimed at excluding or blocking other members of the system. The greater the competition among the members of the organization the less effective it will function.

Success Foundations will develop a program for your organization designed to stimulate cooperation among the members. Elements available for this program include:

Seminars
Workshops
Ropes Courses
Sailing Crew experiences

The experiential interventions are coupled with debriefing and training time.