Teaching Big Shots To Behave -- Before It's Too Late!
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Too often, senior executives, leaders and high performers operate under their own outrageous 'Big Shot' rules causing distrust and turnover, brand crushing headlines and social media spread, compliance crises and performance related disasters. Examples arise in every industrial sector including healthcare, education, finance, utilities, public, and private employment. This practical session will provide an HR strategy and tools for preventing and addressing 'Big Shot' misconduct before it causes lasting public, team and organizational damage.
Learning Objectives:
- Consider several high-profile examples and recent cases where senior leaders or 'high performers' engaged in routinely outrageous behaviors which caused significant harm inside and outside their organizations explaining why and how it was tolerated;
- Discuss strategies involving Board, C Suite and team members which will prevent or correct such problems benefitting talent acquisition, staff retention, performance, diversity, inclusion and results;
- Discuss strategies for addressing the 'conceptual resistance' that allows blatantly improper behaviors to continue, causing others to avoid speaking up or, if in leadership roles, failing to address such behaviors.
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Stephen M. Paskoff, Esq.

Stephen Paskoff is president and CEO of ELI®, which helps organizations activate and align their values with core organizational behaviors to build respectful, welcoming and inclusive cultures, maximize results and reduce legal and operational risks.
Paskoff has been named the highest-ranking speaker at SHRM’s national conference. The EEOC recognized ELI’s impact and quoted Paskoff in its Harassment Study. He is a nationally recognized speaker, commentator and author on workplace issues.
Before founding ELI® in 1986, Paskoff was an EEOC trial attorney and partner in a management law firm. He authored Teaching Big Shots to Behave and Civility Rules!
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