Organizational Productivity & Effectiveness: it doesn't happen by accident 2.0
Total Credits: 2 including 2 CE Credit
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- Categories:
- Professional Development | Professional Development - Agency Management | Professional Development - Operations and Human Resources | Professional Development - Planning and Strategy
- Speaker:
- Sara Bradshaw Ray, CIC, CKC
- Course Levels:
- Intermediate
- Duration:
- 2 Hours
- Expiration:
- Access for 90 day(s) after purchase.
Description
Pre-pandemic, organizations were already facing changing consumer needs and expectations, talent management challenges due to generational differences in the workplace as well as shifting market cycles. The dynamic environment facing organizations today and beyond requires new approaches to productivity and effectiveness in order to continue to serve our industry's clients with excellence. This session will focus on raising awareness of the things that impact organizational productivity and effectiveness and introduce transformational concepts for maximizing opportunities to continue to serve our clients proactively and maintain healthy businesses in the future.
Prerequisite Required Before Purchase
You must complete the Kolbe A Index assessment before watchi
- Cost: $75
- How to Get It: Contact Sara Bradshaw Ray or complete this short form to receive the assessment and payment instructions.
Basic Course Information
Learning Objectives- Identify key factors influencing organizational productivity and effectiveness.
- Recognize the role of individual skills and team dynamics in performance.
- Apply knowledge of your individual Kolbe A™ Index results to improve personal productivity and reduce stress.
- Understand the three parts of the mind—cognitive, affective, and conative—and the unique role conation plays in decision-making and performance.
- Communicate more effectively by recognizing and adapting to the conative strengths of others.
- Identify practical strategies to reduce friction, improve collaboration, and build strengths-based teams.
- Apply Kolbe insights to everyday work scenarios, including leadership, hiring, delegation, and team dynamics.
Major Subjects
- Understanding Conative Strengths and instinctive action
- Overview of the Kolbe System™ and the Kolbe A™ Index
- The three parts of the mind: Thinking (Cognitive), Feeling (Affective), and Doing (Conative)
- Decoding and interpreting individual Kolbe profiles
- How differing strengths impact team interactions, communication, and problem-solving
- Strategies for aligning tasks, roles, and expectations with natural strengths
- Real-world applications in agency leadership, hiring, and team development
- Common misinterpretations and mistakes to avoid when using Kolbe results
Course Materials
| IMPORTANT_CE Credit Instructions_for_Video_on_Demand_Webcasts_Updated (135.2 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Organizational Productivity and Effectiveness 2.0 Timed Outline (680 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Kolbe Essentials (550.2 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Organizational Productivity and Effectiveness 2.0_Kolbe Strengths Slide (3 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| My Conative Strengths_worksheet (104.5 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
Speaker
Sara Bradshaw Ray, CIC, CKC Related Seminars and Products
Sr. Vice President of Strategic Initiatives
Big I Oklahoma
Like many agency principals, wearing a variety of hats on a daily basis is not new to Sara. As a full time wife and mother of college-age twins, which she claims as her greatest accomplishment to date; Ms. Ray also has over 30 years in agency ownership and management. She is a licensed Property & Casualty, Life & Health independent agent and also maintains her Certified Insurance Counselor designation of tenured distinction. Her agency management experience is complimented by a background in company commercial underwriting which enables her to uniquely step into the shoes of her agency principal clients with empathetic eyes to help evaluate and manage their agency ownership challenges.
Not only does Ms. Ray bring a wealth of industry expertise, resources and knowledge to the table, her vast experience coupled with a keen sense of the dynamics of efficiency, and its impact on productivity uniquely suits her to meet a variety of operational, management, and marketing needs in agencies today.
The founder of SynerDynamics Group, Ms. Ray is also an executive coach and heads up the consulting firm which has come to be known as an “agency asset maximization resource” in the insurance industry today. Regardless of the economics or industry cycle, agencies today are looking to maximize the power of their dollar. A renowned speaker on the subject of agency efficiency, Ray advocates that capitalizing on the power of synergy result in maximized productivity adds strength to the agency dollar and ultimately a blacker bottom line.
With a lifelong passion for developing female leaders, Ms. Ray founded MyNetwork.ins which is a national mastermind group. Soon to be in its fifth season, MyNetwork provides leadership, management, personal and professional development, executive coaching, training and network facilitation both onsite in her home state of Oklahoma as well as on a virtual platform through the United States and Canada.
When not coaching female executives or helping agencies identify their organizational efficiency issues and tackling them head on, she’s an avid volunteer in her community, church and alumni affiliations, making her home in Stillwater, OK. While she’d love to be a better golfer, she’s happy with “good enough” when playing with friends and family. She’s always happy on a beautiful beach, a black diamond ski slope or even just a “mental vacation” in the tangled web of a good mystery novel.
State Specific Details
State Approval Information Details OK - This course is approved for 2 hours of credit - # 6000146734Basic Course Information
PrerequisitesPrerequisite Required Before Purchase
You must complete the Kolbe A Index assessment before watchi
- Cost: $75
- How to Get It: Contact Sara Bradshaw Ray or complete this short form to receive the assessment and payment instructions.