Colene Rogers
- Motivational, Business Keynote Speaker.
- Helping organizations be the one employees never want to leave. Through leadership development, conflict resolution, teamwork and DISC personality training.
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Overcome Fear and Uncertainty to Have the Life you Want
Keynote Speaker: Colene Rogers - Jacksonville SHRM Keynote
Colene Rogers Speaker Biography
Colene Rogers, aka The Talent Keeper (SHRM- SCP, PHR), is a 20+ Human Resources (HR) professional and the President and CEO of Retention Architects.
A boutique consulting firm, Retention Architects provides solutions for organizations to help them attract and retain their most appreciable asset: their people. Whether she is giving a keynote speech, conducting a workshop, developing a group of leaders, or coaching individuals, she is continually aiding and inspiring organizations to be their very best.
Every day Colene helps real companies and individuals address issues that stand between them and their highest aspirations. Her hands-on, in-the-trenches activity keeps her content fresh and current as she teaches proven principles of leadership and organizational success.
The Law of Interdependency: he path to the life you want flows through others
Achieving any meaningful goal requires collaboration and support from others, making communication your most important life skill. This interdependent reality poses a challenge: we often grapple with our own self-interest and that of others. Both sides often think there is only so much pie and if you get a big piece there is less for me. So, we end with either/or solutions, yours or mine, instead of considering a third way, one which is greater than the sum of its two parts, that serves both you and them.
In this presentation, Colene shares principles illustrated by stories that have allowed her to retain her competitive spirit while still looking out for the interests of others.
Objectives
In this session participants will:
Learn communication techniques that keep us from projecting our own stories onto others.
A powerful way to track your balance of giving and taking in every relationship you have.
Raise awareness of how possessing a mentality of scarcity or abundance either helps you or hurts you in finding mutually beneficial solutions to your differences.
See how, at the DNA level, our personalities influence how we interact within the interdependent reality.
Change the Conversation, Change the Culture: Increase Company Profits & Retention by Mastering Tough Talks
This eye-opening critical communication program is a must see as workplace communication becomes more of a challenge. As a certified conflict resolution expert, Colene gives practical tips to help attendees have conversations that address differences of opinion to resolve issues; she calls them Tough Talks.
High-stakes conversations take place, or are avoided, every day within your organization that have a profound effect on the bottom line. This presentation prioritizes and connects communication to business strategy by promoting dialogue that leads to superior decision making, builds trust and teamwork, and resolves issues more efficiently. The outcome will be a more creative and productive workforce with a low rate of turnover.
With the aid of video scenarios, this interactive program will provide attendees with immediate “take home” action items to strategically position leaders to initiate cultural change, from the C-Suite to the front desk, which lead to greater organizational profits and talent retention.
Program Objectives:
• 5 steps that strategically change the culture of communication within your company for elevated profits and talent retention.
• Align communication with the values, vision, and mission of your organization to support corporate objectives.
• Influence organizational accountability that leads to superior decision making.
Retention: Key Mindsets that Retain Top Talent
Colene Roger’s newest keynote presentation is based on her book, Retention: Key Mindsets That Retain Top Talent. With 20 years of HR experience, she understands that organizations are looking for solutions to find and keep their employees. In this session, Colene takes attendees on a journey through the life cycle that every employee goes through upon entering an organization and the factors that determine their ultimate decision to stay or leave.
Company leaders identify recruiting and retaining qualified employees as their biggest challenge. When you lose your most talented employees it diminishes productivity, disrupts leadership, and reduces morale. This all amounts to an assault on the primary purpose of any business, to make a profit. Companies are looking for solutions but one person can’t tackle this problem alone; it must be a company-wide initiative.
The solution lies in understanding that every employee has a mindset about the company they work for which reflects the level of commitment they have for the organization. In this presentation you will learn to identify the dominant mindset employees have for your company and how to positively influence and change it. You will learn solutions that are repeatable and sustainable, designed to improve your employee’s work experience so they continually say “I want to work here.”
Program Objectives:
• Learn the 4 mindsets that reveal the level of commitment you can expect from any employee.
• Learn how to discover the mindset of your employees and forecast future job vacancies
• Discover the true cost of turnover and how to calculate it per position.
• Learn the 5 components of Retention Architecture that any company needs to retain more of their employees.
• Learn the 5 desired outcomes produced by Retention Architecture that can transform you into the company employees never want to leave.
Communicate With Confidence: Elevate Your Career by Being Skilled at Tough Talks
Our lives are full of Tough Talks. Let’s face it, we will never be comfortable with these conversations. But they can’t be avoided, at least not without a cost. How we handle these conversations has a direct impact on our success as a leader at any stage in our career.
Whether it be addressing situations like a promotion with our supervisor, disrespect from a peer or poor performance with a direct report, we need tools to solve the issue at hand and a structure in which to use them.
Going in with the mindset to “win” or being too ready to “give in” doesn’t truly resolve the issue. Learn how to collaborate with your counterpart so solutions that seemed impossible to find begin to appear.
Learning to address instead of ignoring Tough Talks leads to a more productive, and profitable organization and will help you build your career as a problem solver.
Participants will learn:
• How to begin a Tough Talk that sets the right tone for the whole conversation.
• The importance and benefits of all parties expressing their thoughts and opinions
about the situation.
• Build confidence to advocate for yourself, your needs, and your career development.
• How to uncover your counterpart’s hidden fears that are preventing collaboration.
Managing Fear and Uncertainty to Have the Life You Want
The inner voice of self-doubt and insecurity is universal. No human being is spared its attempt to keep each one of us on the sidelines. It likes to speak at the most inopportune times, when there is a lot on the line in our careers and in our personal lives.
This voice can keep you from stepping on the ladder to career advancement, from pursuing the field of work you would really like, from conquering your fear of speaking in public that would increase your influence, from taking an unpopular position as the leader because you are concerned what others will think.
What matters in all of this is your response. You can follow the voice of possibility, or you can follow the voice of fear. Will you allow the voice to sideline you, and then come back later to taunt you with “what if?”
In this dramatic presentation, Colene shares the story of how her world was rocked by an unforeseen circumstance. And the trail of steps that opened to reconciliation and greater opportunity.
In this keynote, we will explore:
• Expose your fears to weaken their power; your greatest limitations are self-imposed.
• The mountaintop is where you celebrate, the valley is where you learn.
• In the dark you take one thoughtful step at a time.
