Register for Fridays with Vistage webinars

Friday, August 17, 2018 at 10 a.m. PT | 1 p.m. ET

Put Your Website to the Test with Live Expert Analysis, with Thomas Young

In this engaging workshop, Vistage speaker Thomas Young will critique your websites live, helping you find ways to improve your presence and grow your sales. This is a rare opportunity to get very specific and tangible tactics you can use immediately. You’ll get great ideas from each website reviewed. In this unique format you will have the opportunity to comment and ask questions during the webinar. Register early and submit your website URL in the question panel for a chance to have your website reviewed live during the webinar.

Friday, August 24, 2018 at 10 a.m. PT | 1 p.m. ET

Engaged Teams: The Key to Unlocking Maximum Productivity, with Adam Weber

According to the Vistage Confidence Index, talent management is a top concern for members. Retaining your top talent is paramount for growing your organization and reaching those yearly targets. In this webinar you will:

Learn proven methods and best practices for retaining team members.
Understand what actually motivates your employees and how to foster that within your culture.
Learn the simple, actionable process you can immediately implement in your organization for optimum employee engagement.
Hear real workplace examples and success stories from Vistage companies implementing these strategies for unprecedented business results.

Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 10 a.m. PT | 1 p.m. ET

4.1 Billion Reasons to Use Chatbots for Employee Engagement, with George Cowgill and Ritwik Bose

There are 4.1 billion users on messaging apps, including your employees. It’s time to tap into that to improve employee engagement. Using AI driven Chatbots to facilitate employee engagement can be a powerful and effective tool. During this webinar, we will discuss several use cases for internal implementations of Chatbots and how they can have a major impact on employee engagement.

We will discuss:

How a chatbot can assist human resources with multiple use cases
How IT and other employee support functions can save money and improve service
How to leverage chatbots to automate and simplify business processes
Deployment considerations

Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at 10 a.m. PT | 1 p.m. ET

Succession Success: How to Get Your Children on the Path to VP and CEO, with Bill Black

Do you have a family business? Are your children on the path to leadership and ownership or are there “awkward Thanksgivings” ahead? In this webinar, succession and exit planning expert Bill Black will outline tips, ideas and strategies to help you make decisions about and communicate expectations to future leaders.

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

The three reasons most family businesses fail in the second generation (Reason No. 3 will surprise you!)
How to gauge whether your next generation is eager to lead
The top five planning priorities of hundreds of surveyed family business owners

Friday, September 7, 2018 at 10 a.m. PT | 1 p.m. ET

3 Strategies to Win the War for Talent, with Kathleen Quinn Votaw

If issues related to talent, growth, or hiring are causing you to lose sleep, you are not alone. About 87% of CEOs list talent as their top challenge. Although most (72%) plan to increase hiring and expect fierce competition, the National Center for the Middle Market reports that 44% cannot find candidates with the skills they need, and 4 in 10 say this limits their growth.

Through this webinar, you’ll understand the latest trends and get the advice to make talent a strategic focus. Specifically, Kathleen Quinn Votaw, CEO of TalenTrust, will explain how to:

Create Culture by Design vs Default
Treat Recruitment as a Sales Process
Get More Strategic in HR

Thursday, September 20, 2018 at 10 a.m. PT | 1 p.m. ET

Six Barriers to Finding and Keeping Great People in Manufacturing, with Kathleen Quinn Votaw

If the candidates you want most aren’t choosing your manufacturing firm, or if your turnover rates are anything but low, you could be unwittingly setting up barriers that turn people off. In this webinar, Kathleen outlines these six most common barriers we see in companies nationwide:

Compensation that’s misaligned with the market
Scope of role or job responsibilities is misaligned with market
Looking for “the purple squirrel” with unrealistic requirements
Not understanding the market: supply vs demand and passive vs competitive
Negative employment branding or reputation
An ineffective recruitment process

She will offer some proven solutions that apply specifically to the manufacturing sector. And she will challenge you to look deep into your culture and practices, and change anything that’s separating you from the talent you need to grow.

Thursday, October 4, 2018 at 10 a.m. PT | 1 p.m. ET

Asset Protection for Your Business, with Harry Barth

Protect your business from predators, creditors, liens & judgments. Attendees receive eye-opening and educational content delivered through a highly interactive presentation. Participants will discover tools and techniques that will add tremendous value to their personal and business lives, and discover strategies that can be implemented right now to ensure they are 100% updated and protected.