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Boosting Discretionary Effort and Peak Performance
Enhance emotional intelligence and decision-making for personal and professional success.
A Glimpse of the Dr. Conrad Experience
Dr. Conrad tackles vexing challenges and uncovers unique opportunities
for leaders to maximize their impact.
Bilingual HR
Nurture vs Nature
In Search of Humanity
Complex Double Standards
Community Visioning
Understanding Who We Are, and Equipping Us to Be Better
For organizational leaders looking to improve their employee experience to boost individual and organizational performance.
Topic #1
Too Much, Too Fast, Too Fake: Emotional Intelligence (EI) in a Hyper-Charged World.
topic overview:
We are being overwhelmed by the unprecedented quantity, speed, and inaccuracy of information inundating us on a persistent basis. This deluge is exploiting our vulnerabilities, resulting in burnout, incivility, and flawed decision-making. The consequences are disastrous for organizations, with effects ranging from workplace violence to quiet quitting. Organizational leaders must prioritize EI to stem the tide and provide the best opportunity for their employees and their organizations to thrive during the chaos that has become the status quo.
Participants will:
- Gain a keen understanding of the five components of emotional intelligence and why they are important.
- Review key logic traps that impede critical thinking and decision-making.
- Explore practical strategies for developing your employees’ EI skills.
Topic #2
Your People Are Not Well, and It Is Hurting Your Business.
topic overview:
Our current approach to health and wellness is not working. Despite the investment in wellness programs, employees are struggling in every dimension of wellbeing, which leads to costly workplace issues–declining productivity, soaring healthcare expenditures, increasing levels of chronic absenteeism and presenteeism, mounting worker’s compensation claims, and rising numbers of quiet quitters. From a risk-management standpoint, employee health and wellness should be taken as seriously as the threat of cyber attacks and data breaches. Advancement in this area can yield significant positive results for individuals, workplaces, and society.
Dr. Conrad will:
- Introduce a new model for understanding holistic wellbeing.
- Explore the causes and consequences of the health and wellness trends that pose a significant threat to people and organizations.
- Review practical strategies to reverse those alarming trends for yourself and your organization.
Topic #3
The Skinny on Discretionary Effort: How to measure it. How to power it.
topic overview:
Employee engagement has been a persistent challenge. In 2023 alone, 66% of employees were not engaged (quit quitting) or actively disengaged, according to Gallup. Together, these groups accounted for about $1.9 trillion in lost productivity. Efforts around improving these numbers consistently fall short in part because employers are failing to recognize that employees want and expect different things based on a number of factors, and it’s much broader than generational affiliation. Understanding these differences gives employers the insights to develop practices that can unleash their employees’ discretionary effort, the key differentiator that separates good performance and great performance.
participants will:
- Learn the 5P’s of Performance that impact productivity at work and at home.
- Explore the factors that shape individual employee expectations, including the Employee Continuum of Needs.
- Understand how declines in employee wellbeing pose a significant threat to employees and their organizations.
Topic #4
Organizational Plasticity:The new business imperative in the age of AI.
topic overview:
We are all familiar with the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus’ quote, “The only constant is change.” Yet, change remains one of the most disruptive challenges for individuals and organizations. Humans are equipped to adapt over time due to neuroplasticity, our ability to learn, develop, and form new memories by creating new nerve cells and building new networks. Likewise, businesses must develop Organizational Plasticity, the ability to be nimble and capable of making mid-course corrections as change dictates.
Both neuroplasticity in humans and Organizational Plasticity in companies require an acceptance that what is working today won’t work tomorrow, insight into where to go next, and discipline to translate that insight into action.
leaders will:
- Understand C-Suite Brain, a form of executive level groupthink that suppresses innovation, creativity, and trust.
- Learn the 5P’s of Performance and what stifles individual discretionary effort.
- Learn how to use Organizational Emotional Intelligence to create a culture of resiliency.
Topic #5
In Search of Humanity: Why We Fight, How to Stop, and the Role Business Must Play
topic overview:
Humans can be incredibly kind, but our evolutionary wiring can also lead to astonishing cruelty, especially towards others we perceive as different from us. The result has been catastrophic for certain groups of people in America. While progress has been slow and steady, we are in the midst of a significant divide regarding what’s next for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEI&B). American companies, many of them complicit in maintaining inequality as the status quo, hold the key to bridging America’s ominous ideological divides.
Participants will:
- Gain a clear understanding of how we got to this point, based on what we know about human behavior.
- Unpack contentious concepts, such as meritocracy, unconscious bias, so-called privilege, and what Dr. Conrad describes as the Law of the Majority.
- Discover businesses can, not only build winning teams internally, but also drive meaningful societal change.
Take Control of Your Life
For individuals looking for strategies and tactics to to take better care of themselves, so they can have a more positive impact on others.
Topic #1
Too Much, Too Fast, Too Fake: Emotional Intelligence in a Hyper-Charged World.
topic overview:
We are being overwhelmed by the unprecedented quantity, speed, and inaccuracy of information inundating us on a persistent basis. This deluge is exploiting our vulnerabilities, resulting in burnout, incivility, and flawed decision-making. The consequences are disastrous for individuals and their relationships. Individuals must prioritize EI to stem the tide and thrive during the chaos that has become the status quo.
In this evidence-based session, you will:
- Gain a keen understanding of the five components of emotional intelligence and why they are important.
- Review key logic traps that impeded critical thinking and decision-making.
- Explore practical strategies for developing EI skills and applying them at work and at home.
Topic #2
Most People are not Well, but You Don’t Have to be One of Them!
*Dr. Conrad offers a custom version of this presentation for Black audiences given the significant health disparities they experience.
topic overview:
Despite spending more than any other advanced country, the U.S. performs worse on various measures of health and health care, including the lowest life expectancy and highest rate of avoidable deaths. Spikes in obesity and multiple chronic health conditions are severely impacting the quality of life for many Americans. According to an annual Gallup poll, less than half of Americans say they are “very satisfied” with the way things are going in their personal lives. To stem the tide, individuals need to learn how the toxic brew of culture, cost, and convenience is sabotaging them, but educating people about a healthy lifestyle is only half the battle. The real opportunity lies in helping people translate education into action.
In this session, Dr. Conrad will:
- Explore the causes and consequences of America’s distressing health and wellness trends.
- Introduce a new model for understanding holistic wellbeing.
- Review practical strategies to improve your holistic well-being for yourself and the people who care about you.