Eric Chester: Workplace Culture

    Eric Chester
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    • Travels from: Golden, CO
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    Keynote Topics

    Strategies and Methodologies to Change the Way You Recruit, Hire, and Lead Employees

    Based on Eric’s New Book for Most Every Industry

    How do great companies attract top talent, encourage innovation, and instill a desire for excellence? That’s the question Eric Chester set out to answer.

    By interviewing more than one hundred acclaimed C-level leaders across all industries, Eric discovered commonalities in how successful leaders create cultures of engagement. In this entertaining and content-rich multimedia presentation, he shares those discoveries with you.

     
    You’ll discover the secrets and strategies that legendary companies use to:

    Consistently attract top talent to their organizations with minimal recruiting
    Engage employees so that they’re motivated to work harder, perform better, and provide outstanding service
    Significantly reduce costly turnover and develop hourly young talent into long-term leaders
    Create award-winning workplace cultures that generate priceless PR and brand awareness

    The purpose of schools is to prepare students for success in the real world. Developing a healthy work ethic not only prepares young people to be better students, but also prepares them to be better employees, better leaders, and better citizens.

     

    Developing work ethic in students isn’t optional. It’s a responsibility that should be shared by every individual employed by a school district—whether in the classroom, the cafeteria, the administration office, or the school bus.

     

    Eric Chester is the leading authority on developing work ethic in teens and young adults. His presentation will illustrate why the work ethic in America has declined, and he’ll provide solid, actionable ideas and tools for instilling the pride of a job well done.

     
    In this presentation, participants will:

    Discover the 7 Indisputable Core Values that every employer demands from every worker, and every successful school develops within their students
    Find out how to promote a classroom culture rooted in reliability, professionalism, initiative, integrity, and respect
    Explore how to instill an attitude of gratitude among your student population and make them motivated learners

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    • Engaging the Disengaged

    Eric Chester is an acclaimed in-the-trenches workforce researcher and thought leader. For more than 20 years, he has been studying, analyzing, and reporting on engaging workplace cultures.

    As the author of five groundbreaking books for business owners, leaders, and managers, his ideas and strategies for finding and retaining frontline workers have been cited by major media and are used by companies and organizations all over the world.

    Eric has delivered more than 3000 paid keynote speeches on three continents. He holds the prestigious CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) credential awarded by the National Speakers Association. He is a 2004 inductee into the International Professional Speakers Hall of Fame.

    He is frequently mentioned or quoted in the national and international media such as Good Morning America, ABC 20/20, Fox News, NPR, and CNBC and in publications like Forbes, USA Today, and the Huffington Post.

    Business leaders in every industry are looking for ways to ignite passion in their workforce—to create a culture where people perform better and stay longer. They’re seeking ways to connect with young employees who have radically different work ethic values. Turn to Hall of Fame Keynote Speaker Eric Chester.

    And for nearly 30 years, the leaders of the world’s top corporations, franchises and associations have turned to Eric Chester for the answers and strategies they need.

    As a Hall of Fame speaker and author of five best-selling books on employee development, Eric’s expertise is unparalleled. He’s shared his insights with more than two million people from Australia to the Netherlands, in every state in America and every province in Canada.

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