Speaker Profile
CHRIS DEVANY
Chris DeVany is the founder and president of Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide, a firm that focuses on management and organization development. Pinnacle’s clients include global organizations such as Visa International, Cadence Design Systems, Coca-Cola, Sprint, Microsoft, Aviva Insurance, Schlumberger, and over 500 other organizations in 22 countries. He also has consulted with government agencies from the United States, the Royal Government of Saudi Arabia, Canada, the Cayman Islands, and the United Kingdom.
He has published numerous articles in the fields of surviving mergers and acquisitions, surviving change, project management, management, sales, team-building, leadership, ethics, customer service, diversity, and work-life balance, in publications ranging from ASTD/Performance In Practice to Customer Service Management. His book, “90 Days to a High-Performance Team”, published by McGraw Hill and often accompanied by in-person, facilitated instruction, has helped and continues to help thousands of executives, managers, and team leaders improve performance.

Chris Devany
Recorded Webinar
90 Minutes
Strategic Planning and Execution: The 1-2-3 Year Plan for Enterprise Success
As we all evolve given world circumstances, and as enterprises have been growing far and wide, often international in scope, we find ourselves as executives and managers with our talent spread farther and farther, often at dozens and hundreds of locations. How do we ‘get a better handle’ on all this?Is your organization poised to implement strategies that create value, generate growth and result in profits?..

Chris Devany
Recorded Webinar
90 Minutes
Successfully Negotiating the Labor Agreement
This webinar is intended to outline the concepts of successful negotiation highlighted by learning the preparation, the Tactics, the methods of getting agreement, effective clausing and how to cost out your agreement. We will address the needs of the employer and the union building the relationship upon which this agreement will stand for years to come.Areas CoveredSelecting the right negotiations team, und..

Chris Devany
Recorded Webinar
90 Minutes
The Effective Manager's Communication Skills Toolbox: Making Active Listening, Constructive Feedback, Resolving Conflicts and Coaching Work for You
In order to function at maximum effectiveness, a manager must master critical communication skills, including active listening, the ability to receive and provide constructive feedback, to resolve conflicts and to coach and mentor.Without these skills and a commitment to continuously improve them, our ability to leverage our value to our manager and our organization diminishes.Areas Covered1. Effective list..

Chris Devany
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
The Effective Manager's Communication Skills Toolbox: Making Active Listening, Constructive Feedback, Resolving Conflicts and Coaching Work for You, Your Team and Results
In order to function at maximum effectiveness, a manager must master critical communication skills, including active listening, the ability to receive and provide constructive feedback, to resolve conflicts and to coach and mentor.Without these skills and a commitment to continuously improve them, our ability to leverage our value to our manager and our organization diminishes. Areas Covered &n..

Chris Devany
Recorded Webinar
90 Minutes
Virtual and Hybrid Teams: Managing Your People Even More Effectively, No Matter Where They’re Located
Before the Coronavirus (COVID-19) appeared, has your workforce been largely office-based? Is this the first time you and your team have been working 100% virtually? If so, then this Webinar is for you! As enterprises have been growing far and wide, often international in scope, we find ourselves as executives and managers with our talent spread farther and farther, often at dozens and hundreds of locations...

Chris Devany
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Women’s Hostility to Women at Work: Myth or Reality
Are women really each other’s worse enemy or is it just a myth and a stereotype? What does the research show about women’s hostility to other women, sometimes called bullying, in the workplace? Bullying is a learned behavior that gets fine-tuned during our school years. Girls and women tend to bully using more subtle nuanced types of tactics that are relationship-based. Men’s ways of bullying tend to be mor..

Added Value Negotiating: Building Balanced Deals
As a training topic, negotiation skills often create anxiety for the participants. If they have experienced a typical “I Win-You Lose” negotiation seminar, then those feelings are usually based on not wanting to have to do battle with a fellow participant just to learn or improve negotiation skills.The five-step Added Value Negotiating (AVN) method presented in this webinar is about the mutual search for va..

Appraising Credibility, Reaching Conclusions & Writing the Investigative Report: Steps to Minimize Harassment Liability
Writing the investigative report actually begins from the very beginning of your investigation and continues throughout the process. This webinar will discuss the intricacies of writing the critical final report of your investigation that may be discoverable (all documents that must be provided to opposing counsel in case of a lawsuit) if an employee files a formal charge with the EEOC or your state’s human..

Employees From Hell: How To Turn Them Around Or Turn Them Out
It has been said that people are your greatest resource – and it’s true. Great organizations are made up of great people. It is also true, however, that:One non-performer can lower the standards of performance for everyoneOne bad actor can affect the morale of those around himOne disruptive character can make life miserable for those who work with her and especially for youWho takes up more of your time..

Hint : Succinct, Action-Oriented Titles Work Well, as do those that Focus on the Problem you’re Going to Solve
Implicit, or unconscious bias, exists in classrooms and on college campuses. What does it look like? How can faculty create an unbiased learning environment? How can faculty get in touch with their own unconscious biases to combat unintentional bias with students? Research suggests that unconscious bias regarding race and gender impacts relationships with professors. One study showed that certain academic f..

How to Build and Use 360 Degree Feedback
Would you like to understand the complete and critical steps of the 360 degree feedback process?. How about learning the keys to identifying an effective 360 degree feedback instrument?How about being able to access important information regarding the selection of raters?. Would you like your team to improve performance?If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then come laugh, listen and learn as Ch..

Implementing a Project Management Culture
As organizations strengthen and mature, the gap between the business objectives and technical solutions tends to widen, the knowledge and skill sets become more specific (and different).Project Management is a strong bridge between these teams. It may not be an objective to become a "Project Manager" yet every employee in your organization does project management - completing a defined task by a certain tim..

Interviewing Skills for Managers and Supervisors
The everything-you-need-to-know-before-you-say “you’re hired” seminar!Nothing’s scarier than the thought of making the wrong hiring decision. After all, it means throwing away a substantial investment of time and money on recruitment, training and benefits.This fundamental seminar is your ticket to make the right hiring decisions and contribute more to the company bottom line.Areas CoveredMaking the selecti..

Legal Claims Arising From COVID-19: How to Prepare Like a Lawyer
In HR, we always hear "document, document, document." That directive is more necessary now than ever. When the COVID-19 danger passes, we will be left with a barrage of lawsuits for disability discrimination, HIPAA violations, invasion of privacy claims and many, many other allegations. hat employers interpret as "for the good of the order" is going to fly directly in the face of employees who feel they wer..

Legally Terminating Employees: 10 Complex Issues You Must Know
Employers must terminate employees from time to time in order to run their businesses effectively. In today’s litigious world, terminating employees is an emotional and legal minefield for managers and supervisors. Even subtle differences in preparing for and conducting terminations can impact greatly the level of legal risk, and whether an employer faces a claim that may cost six figures (or more) in poten..