Programs

1 Hour Culture Leadership Keynote
Optional Open Discussion Afterwards

This 1 hour Target Leadership Keynote is the core message every company employee needs to hear, delivered by Jeff "Odie" Espenship or Wes "Dahmer" Sharp.
Additional pricing available for a two hour keynote delivered by two speakers.

WE CUSTOMIZE OUR PROGRAM TO FIT YOUR MESSAGE, YOUR INITIATIVES, YOUR NEEDS!

OSHA Compliance Newsletter referred to Target Leadership as "trainers who go over the top" to make "safety training sizzle."

Our keynotes are customized, multi-media "Edu-taining" presentations that will motivate and encourage your team to embrace the leadership, culture, safety initiatives that your company has in place for them! We use our stories and experience in order to relate our lessons learned directly to your team in the audience. We refer to each of them as "fighter pilots". They are hard working, highly skilled, well trained, get-it-done people who know how to operate with precision. Many of them may work in high risk and often dangerous work industries such as Chemical, Construction, Petroleum, Utility, Nuclear, Manufacturing, or aviation. The operators, mechanics, technicians, welders, engineers, chemist, nurses, and doctors of these industries are just like a fighter pilots!
However, it is the "The Little Things" that cause failures in the cockpit and on the job!

Odie stands with his father as they look at the wreckage that took the life of Odies' brother.

"The road to PERFECTION begins with inward REFLECTION."

The keynote begins by reflecting inward. Jeff "Odie" Espenship gives a riveting account on losing his brother and a good friend in a tragic aviation accident. The leadership lessons learned clearly shows how our work behaviors influence those around us.

We will focus on awareness and leadership at all levels Setting Expectations and Monitoring Performance. Leadership creates and maintains the culture of the workplace, and the workers work within the norms of that culture. Leadership must set expectations high and then monitor the performance of those expectations. Expectations will simply come as a byproduct of operational excellence, and operational excellence will come as a byproduct of superb, value based leadership.

Dahmer's message inspires us to think and strive to improve our behavior and actions, by appreciating who you are as a leader. The concept of speed-rush-baseline will hit home with all levels of leadership. Dahmer's personal story of surviving a mid-air collision with another F/A-18 fighter is very powerful when discussing "pressures to perform" in the work place.

Like aviation, when workers recognize a degradation in operational excellence (poor check list usage, failure to brief properly, cutting corners, improper use of procedure(s) / equipment, etc) then fail to "speak up" and communicate due to any number of reasons (complacency, not my job, someone else will fix it, etc.) at the very least we lose efficiency, at worst we lose a life.

Our keynote customizes to fit your needs. We use our stories to underscore the initiatives you want as we talk about the importance of leadership "Setting Expectations", "Monitoring Performance" and "Inward Reflection" for sustained improvement. We blend our message with yours so that every employee in the room will come away with a crystal clear message of why we must PURSUE PERFECTION - ACHIEVE EXCELLENCE when working in a high risk and often dangerous work environment - like a fighter pilot!

"By definition, leaders influence behaviors. Irregardless of your longevity with the company or the title behind your name at work, everyone of us has the ability to influence another person's future behavior at home and at work. Everyone must be mindful of this an incredible responsibility."

This keynote is powerful! IT WORKS! It changes behaviors! The proof is in the results!

"...Progress Energy Florida has reduced personal injuries by 48% and Vehicle Accidents by 42%....Your presentation set the stage for the culture shift that we are still going through. You can quote me on that!"

Corey Zeigler, Health & Safety Manager Energy Delivery, Progress Energy

Target Leadership will customize the keynote to include various issues and initiatives your company wishes. Optional open discussion after the keynote can touch on any number of subjects:

Everyone is a Leader - We all have influence through our attitudes and behaviors.
Good Intentions - Over Confidence - Percieved Pressure
Pressure to Perform - "Get It Done" mentality
Short Cuts- It shows others how to break the rules and still live
Complacency is "The Silent Killer"
Approachability - Courage to speak up, courage to listen.
Near Miss Reporting - Leading Indicators - What's really going on out there?
Communication – Job planning and briefing
Appreciate the influence you have over others

"Jeff "Odie' Espenship's presentation for all EE's and admin was just great!
We have never seen so many good questions after the presentation coming form the shop floor.
Odie really caught our attention! Impact at the shop floor was huge due to the great quantity of real life examples and Odie's immeasurable experience. It was a real pleasure to work with Target Leadership!"
Alexandre Oliveira
Plant Manager
General Electric, Campinas Brazil
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(side note: this presentation was given by Target Leadership to over 700 employyees at the GE Motors plant in Campinas Brazil. A translator was used throughout the program.)

"There is a POT at the end of the the rainbow!"

Order your Plexiglas Navel^TM keychains to be given out during the presentation.
There is a unique story behind the meaning of "Plexiglas Navel" which we relate to the audience.

"Following Target Leadership presentations, changing our focus to "leading Indicators" and cultivating the term "Knock It Off", we finished 2009 with an OSHA Recordable rate of .80 which lead the mini-mill steel producers in North America. We did not have a single incident through the first 5 1/2 months of 2009. We reduced our total incidents by nearly 40% and our OSHA recordable cases by 57%."

Butch Collins
General Manager
Gallatin Steel Company

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