When Times Are Bad, Business Can Be Good

Invigorate your team towards action and ownership of tough times by learning to identify new challenges, opportunities and methodologies. Learn to evaluate existing customers, products and services and find ways to maximize new revenue sources, job security and increase profitability.

How Not to Succeed at Failure!

Learn 6 underlying truths to avoid succeeding at failure in business. Discover the underpinnings of such topics as leadership, management, change, communications, strategy, and others.

What Is Considered “Best” Practice Is Already Outdated!

Move beyond Best Practices to improve operations, performance, productivity and profitability in today's recession economy.

Managing and Motivating Employees in Tough Times

Life/Work Balance - Learn techniques to reduce stress and take control to give yourself the time to focus and accomplish the important tasks at work and home and strike a healthy balance. Tough times make this very difficult and yet it can be the best opportunity to develop new and better habits to maximize job and home satisfaction and make your employer and family responsibilities better managed.

Using Generational Differences to Empower Change

Learn insights and methods to improve people, processes, productivity and profitability. Learn to close gaps, promote dialogue and create alliances to develop a knowledge transfer process to prepare for the departure of experienced employees. Discover mentoring strategies for younger employees coming from academia into the workplace and reverse mentoring for experienced employees.

How to Survive a Business Disaster or Emergency; a 7 Step "Get Prepared" Action Plan.

Discover how to stay in business, remain in control, recover quickly and minimize interruptions to cash flow and customer service. Learn how to maintain people, processes, productivity and profitability immediately after disasters, incident of workplace violence or other emergencies.

When Disaster Strikes Home!

This keynote presentation for general audiences focuses on personal disaster planning: finding and communicating with family members, developing evacuation plans, and dealing with pets, seniors, children and disabled family members and keeping people available to remain on the job during recovery operations.

5 Things Your Pandemic Preparedness Plan Should Do for Your Company: Help Your Business Survive and Protect Your Shareholder Value from a Disaster

Learn the benefits of having a pandemic preparedness plan for your company, your employees and your shareholders and learn how to avoid mistakes and omissions in the plan.

Avoid Pandemic Plan: Keep Your Entire Family and Business Safe and Prepared for the Flu Outbreak

Learn the right messaging to share with family, friends, employees and colleagues.

Pandemics: Panic, Precaution, Prevention, Protection: It’s So Confusing!

What does all this media hype really mean? Get some common sense facts about the current wave of "flu" outbreak.

Norris offers his presentations in a keynote, workshop or training format. Topics can be customized.