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Dr. Nancy MacKay has transformed the way CEOs and executives are leading their organizations to win the war for talent. CEOs and executives call on Nancy to help them improve individual and organizational performance. High potentials get the right strategies to accelerate their careers.

Programs for CEOs and Executive Audiences

Keynotes/ Seminars/Workshops

The Talent Advantage: Six Strategies to Win the War for Talent
Are you winning or losing the war for talent? Discover six strategies that you can employ immediately to help turn you and your organization into a victor in the talent wars. By attending this session, you will be able to: develop an extraordinary leadership style; view talent strategically; and become your company’s leading advocate for top talent acquisition and retention.

During this presentation you will learn how to:

  • create a leadership style that is consistent and transparent
  • create accountabilities for talent creation and retention
  • marry career development and succession planning
  • become the leading advocate for top talent acquisition
  • view talent strategically, embracing life balance
  • accept nothing less than extraordinary leadership and talent

Extraordinary Leadership: How to Win the War for Talent
This presentation provides three winning strategies and 12 practical tips and techniques on how to achieve extraordinary leadership.

During this presentation you will learn how to:

Strategy #1: Create Trust and Candour

  • Minimize ego-talk.
  • Eliminate alpha male and female risks.
  • Master your emotions.
  • Increase effective conversations.
  • Build relationships with your top 20 internal and external list.

Strategy #2: Build an Extraordinary Team

  • Coach and mentor people.
  • Get the right people on the bus.
  • Delegate and let go of the D.

Strategy #3: Deliver Extraordinary Results without Burnout

  • Think strategically.
  • Reach out to internal and external coaches and mentors.
  • Develop a career vision that freaks you out.
  • Take control of your life balance.

Emotional Intelligence: Delivering Extraordinary Results
Dr. Nancy MacKay presents simple, yet powerful, tips and techniques for managing relationships and leading by influence to enhance leadership effectiveness. This highly interactive session features the use of the internationally accepted Emotional Intelligence (EQ) tool to gain an understanding of how to enhance your relationship management skills.

During this presentation you will learn how to:

  • Gain consensus in order to build successful relationships
  • Build trust and speak the truth with the people around you
  • Improve relationships with difficult people
  • Enhance your emotional intelligence to build effective relationships with your CEO, your boss, your peers and your direct reports

The Power of Coaching: Accelerating Performance and Results
In this workshop, you will learn how to use coaching skills to maximize the potential of individuals and teams to achieve extraordinary results. Effective coaching is the ability to enable people to fully develop their own potential for performance. You will gain an understanding of how coaching works, why it works, and how to use coaching skills to enhance your overall leadership effectiveness.

During this presentation you will learn how to:

  • Understand and apply advanced coaching skills to build better relationships within and outside your organization
  • Expedite the transition from individual contributor to getting results through others
  • Enhance your ability to motivate and inspire others to produce extraordinary results
  • Foster a learning culture

Secrets of Outstanding Teams: How Successful Teams Achieve Exceptional Results
This is one of Dr. MacKay’s most popular workshops! Over the past 15 years, she has delivered team building sessions to hundreds of executive, leadership and staff teams in organizations across numerous industry sectors. Dr. MacKay presents simple, yet powerful, tips and techniques for creating high performance teams that achieve extraordinary results. This highly interactive session employs the internationally used Myers-Briggs team building tool to gain an understanding of how different personality types accelerate team performance.

During this presentation you will learn how to:

  • build team trust, candour, collaboration and effective communication
  • enhance individual and team decision-making effectiveness
  • foster and resolve healthy conflict
  • improve delegation and create an empowered team culture
  • hold people accountable for delivering individual and team results