Displaying items by tag: company culture

Leveraging Employee-Focused Leadership With Personality Testing

More than just a psychological evaluation, personality tests like the Myers-Briggs are being recognized in the business world as valuable tools that allow managers to more effectively understand and lead their staff. Not only that, teaching your staff to be keenly read people and be aware of different personality traits can help them serve clients better both on the phone and in person. Our team will provide an overview of the different personality tests available to business and show you how you can benefit from their adoption.

Presented by: Stephanie Carnes, Client Solutions Provider of The LMC Group and Sami Elotmani, VP of Operations and Global Partnerships of Destination MCO
Moderated by: Kristen Carroll, Founder/CEO of the LMC Group

Creative Revenue Streams Right Under Your Nose

Increase revenue by doing more with what you already have, using your current infrastructure thoughtfully. We’ll touch on areas within your business that could be used in slow times to increase revenue. Examples include loss of use, short-term rentals, reallocation of fleet, paying local affiliates for their drivers, leasing drivers, using vehicles to transport things other than people (high-priority delivery items) and retail work for internal departments such as detailing or in-house mechanics.

Presented by: Alan Candeub of Park Avenue Limousine and Daniel Perez of DPV Transportation

Values-Led Leadership: Driving Your Operation Straight to the Bank

How do you know if you are in a values-led organization, and why should you care? Learn all about the rewards of leading with integrity and the signs to look for—and why you can’t afford to lead any other way. This session will offer immediate takeaway that you can use to make sure your leadership style, business, and values are all in alignment for the best long-term results.

Presented by: Kristen Carroll of The LMC Group and Kim J. Dolniak of BEST Transportation

Fine-Tuning Your Onboarding & Training Practices for Greater Success

In many ways, your company is only as good as its employees, but finding—and keeping—the best of the best is a challenge faced by many operators. This session will help you improve your employee success rate and retention by improving your processes and procedures every step of the way. Our seasoned presenters will guide you through the hiring process and share valuable HR tips, such as the use of low-cost recruitment tools and the proper techniques for onboarding new staff. You’ll also benefit from an overview of useful interviewing techniques as well as insight into training new employees for long-term success.

Presented by: Christina Davis of The LMC Group and Clayton Dennard of Going Coastal

Seizing Opportunities With Millennials,
Hospitality & Tourism

Jeffrey Montague
Temple University's School of Sport, Tourism, and Hospitality Management

Millennials are quickly accounting for a significant portion of the workforce, and understanding them will become increasingly important over the next decade, both in terms of employment and marketing your company to the societal shift their lifestyles present. You’ll also learn about the impact their increased professional presence will have across the globe, how to harness their social media savviness, branding the hospitality industry accordingly, and the Millennial thought process itself. This session will leave you with a strategic outreach plan and a better understanding of how this generation is changing not only the workplace but also overall expectations.

Safeguarding Your Company From Sexual Harassment

Ann Plunkett
Workplace Partners

Brooke Keil
Emerson Hospital

Current events and the enduring power of the #MeToo movement have brought the difficult topic of sexual harassment to the forefront, and our HR and legal experts—Brooke Keil of Emerson Hospital and Ann Plunkett of Workplace Partners, respectively—will make sure you leave this session understanding why it’s such an important topic. With trade shows, home offices, driving teams, and meetings being among the developments blurring the lines between what does and doesn’t constitute the workplace, these are rough seas to navigate your business through. This session will also help you and your staff protect yourselves from making any accidentally offensive remarks or moves, brush up on behavior befitting professional environments, identify the difference between harassment and abuse, and prepare for day-to-day interactions that respect social boundaries both in the work space and outside the office. Even those who feel they’ve been spared major problems so far would benefit from this primer on how to deal with claims of abuse and harassment, how to keep avoiding them, and respectful procedures for dealing with victims.

Contingency Planning: Stress-Testing Your Business for Likely Shock Scenarios (Part 2: Human Capital Related)

Kristen Carroll (Moderator)
The LMC Group

Kristen Bouweiri
Reston Limousine

Christina Davis
The LMC Group

Part two, moderated by Kristen Carroll of The LMC Group and co-chair of our Education Committee, is dedicated to “human capital,” or your staff. The session—featuring highly respected industry veteran Kristina Bouweiri of Reston Limousine and Christina Davis of The LMC Group, author of our monthly HR Coach column—will explore areas such as preparing for the sudden loss or death of a key employee, or dealing with the departure of multiple employees in a short period of time, either of which could seriously damage a company of any size depending on the circumstances. Other topics include legal issues such as safety-related lawsuits stemming from car accidents to on-the-job injuries; understanding and effectively dealing with discrimination, racism, and religious protections; and everyone’s favorite: labor-related challenges and lawsuits on everything from overtime wage claims to EEOC rules. This seminar will tackle those thorny and often frustrating topics with proven strategies, balanced solutions, and a bit of humor.

Finding and Keeping High-Caliber Chauffeurs and Office Staff

Hands down, the biggest challenge facing operators is hiring reliable and talented staff. In this seminar, you’ll learn the best places to find chauffeurs and back office staff along with tips on onboarding new talent and keeping your best employees from jumping ship. We’ll also provide you with financial and professional thresholds that will help you determine when it’s time to add additional staff as your business grows.

Presented by: John Critchett of Palm Beach Tours and Tony Simon of Reston Limousie

Business Development: Thriving Through Growth

Most CEOs drive company sales, but every member of the team is a potential sales touchpoint for clients. Using these two successful models, speakers will share how to create a structure where everyone sells and how even traditional non-sales positions can be critical for the overall sales effort. It will also include how to create KPIs that focus on conversion rates, track sales and accountability, mentor your existing staff, and build an effective sales team.

Presented by: Dave Reinhart of TBR Global and Wayne Knaub of RSM Maintenance

Leading Your Team, Living Your Corporate Culture

Every workplace has its own groove and set of principles that govern it. Our speakers will present ideas for defining, building, and embodying your corporate culture and making the critically important distinction between leadership and management. The role that effective communication—starting at the top—plays in consistent management and reinforcement will also be explored.

Presented by: Kristen Carroll of The LMC Group, Tracy Raimer of Chicago's Transportation Group, and Joey Allen of Kings Worldwide Transportation