Conducting Performance Appraisals: A New Paradigm

Why Should You Attend:

Your success as a leader in your company isn’t an easy feat. If you have goals to be sustainable in your leadership role you need to understand how to grow as well as cultivate your teams at any level. Being able to successfully coach your team requires tools and scripts that will motivate and empower you and your teams. This webinar adds the tools to your toolbox that are designed to enhance your current strategies of coaching sustainable peak performance.

Learning Objectives:

• Introduce participants to the various stages of development of high performance teams
• Obtain effective tools used to monitor and measure team progress
• Acquire basic skills to facilitate or develop effective planning strategies
• Obtain practical tools to negotiate through team gridlock
• Gain insight into effectively managing diverse team personalities
• Develop an awareness of how to build and implement proactive plans

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Defining the manager’s / supervisor’s role as a “coach.”
• Negotiating through resistance to change and other gridlocks
• Communicating the team/ organization mission
• Building trust
• Effective planning
• Managing team personalities
• Motivating and selling your agenda
• Role play

Who Will Benefit:

• HR professionals
• Managers at all levels
• Project Leaders
• Independent Consultants/Practitioners
• Human Resource Managers
• Human Resource Executives
• Vice Presidents of Administration
• CEOs
• COOs
• CFOs
• Chief People Officers
• Organizational Development Managers
• Senior Operations Managers
• Directors of Learning and Development
• Risk Management Specialists
• Business Owners
• Business Leaders

Instructor Profile:

Gail Birks, is the President of CMA Enterprise Incorporated, a Management Consulting firm (1990) and The Breakthru Institute, a Edu-tainment Company. Since 1994, she has served as a Director on the Board of Gibraltar Private Bank, FSB. She is a graduate of Tennessee State University where she obtained the first BBA degree in Economics and Finance and Florida International University where she obtained an Executive MBA (EMBA) in Business and Strategic Management. She has also completed post-graduate work in HR Administration and Industrial Psychology. A certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, she is also a State of Florida Supreme Court certified Circuit/ Civil Mediator.

Serving the South Florida Community for the past 30 years, Ms. Birks is active with National Association of Corporate Directors-Florida Chapter, Board Member, Women’s Executive Leadership, Advisory Board Member (past), Women Corporate Director, and The Casimiro Global Foundation, Board member and Secretary. She is a mentor to “at promise” youth.

Recent professional achievements and accolades include but are not limited to: 2012 – Top 100 Most Influential Black Professionals – ICABA; 2011 – Top 50 Most Powerful Black Professionals in South Florida for 2011; Legacy Magazine; 2008 – Top Hat Award, Business and Entrepreneurship, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc; 2007 – Circle of Excellence – Women’s Council of Commerce, Gr. Ft. Lauderdale Chamber. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. And is the proud mother of Courtney Michelle.

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