Curt Steinhorst

Finding Focus in Uncertain Times

Whether through livestream keynote, interactive webinar or virtual workshop, this keynote will help your clients find the answers to today’s most pressing business questions:

• How do I achieve greater focus and productivity when working at home? 
• What are the new best practices for virtual meetings? Do we meet more or less?
• How do I lead my team to greater collaboration in this season? What are the best technology tools or rituals I can give them?
• How do I help my team balance the important demands of family when working from home?
• How do we view this time as an opportunity for people to come to know one another and establish an ‘attention alliance’ that will endure long after the crisis?

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Curt and his Focuswise team analyze organizations through the lens of focus and attention and identify the hidden and costly forms of distraction that plague teams and destroy productivity and innovation.

By applying the science of how the brain works to the reality of how we function in today’s data-saturated world, Focuswise equips leaders with the training and tools to create focused teams and organizations that thrive —resulting in greater productivity, engagement and innovation.

Navigating Through the Fog

In Navigating through the Fog: Leading a High-Performance Team through Uncertain Times, Curt shows how leaders like you can clarify your vision, find certainty, and lead organizations—even when the answers to pressing questions are still “TBD.”

Every leader in attendance will leave with new insights, strategies, and specific actions they can apply immediately to drive growth in uncertain times

Audience takeaways:

• Giving your employees a defined path and the confidence to follow it by clarifying confusing, uncertain, and unprecedented situations.
• Encouraging collaboration without overwhelming employees with endless meetings and constant interruptions.
•  Creating different rhythms of work that lower stress and allow focused productivity.
• Driving growth, innovation, and high performance without creating burnout.

Making Hybrid Work

This is a landmark opportunity to reconsider how to address many of the problems of the pre-pandemic workplace: what truly matters, what we expect workers to accomplish, how we enable or obstruct their capacity, whether the work is valuable, and whether we optimize human potential for greatest productivity and loyalty.

Audience takeaways:

• Build trust, unity, and buy-in with a dispersed workforce

• Know what best practices and out-of-the-box ideas leaders will use to innovate for the next five years

• Identify and lead past common and demoralizing threats to retention, productivity, and engagement

FocusFit

Despite our best efforts, teams are more inundated and overwhelmed than ever before. As workplace culture evolves at a dizzying pace, now is the most critical time to re-establish smarter, more effective patterns of focus, communication, and collaboration — individually and as a team — so that we can get the important work done.

By combining the science of how the brain works, with the realities of working in today’s constantly connected world, Curt’s “focus wisdom” resonates with anyone wishing to master their focus and ultimately, their future.

Audience takeaways:

• Drive innovation, efficiency, and performance for your team

• Reduce the futile feeling of never getting anything done

• Use physical space to encourage focused mental space

Avoiding the Great Resignation

In 7 Lessons from the Pandemic That Will Shape the Future of Work, Curt does a deep dive into the specific ways that work has changed, and what that means for both employees and their leaders.

Those in attendance will come away with a post-pandemic blueprint for their workforce, workplace, and workloads.

Audience takeaways:

•  How to retain your top employees during the coming “great resignation”
• How to eliminate uncertainty (and what to say and do when you can’t)
• How to increase productivity by reducing distractions
• How to foster a company culture that your employees actually care about (hint: it’s not happy hours)
• How to support and engage remote workers

Breaking Through

In Breaking Through, Attention Expert Curt Steinhorst will prepare you to you to authentically connect with multi-generational, constantly connected, and often-distracted employees.

Leaders will learn how to effectively communicate with their organization in ways that capture attention, sustain engagement, and increase clarity.

Audience takeaways:

• Learn a simple messaging structure that gets attention immediately.
• How to use repetition to reinforce key messages … without sounding repetitive.
• Counterintuitive communication methods that surprise, delight, and stick.
• Five well-intentioned Internal Communication mistakes that decrease engagement.
• Strategies to balance authenticity, transparency, and confidentiality.

Great Resignation

In Avoiding the Great Resignation: Attracting and Retaining Employees when Everyone’s Looking for an Exit, Curt covers the various forces at play that impact organizational morale like generations, technology, office spaces, and culture.

Leaders in attendance will come away with best practices that not only help keep employees from leaving but also unlock their motivation and true potential.

Audience takeaways:

• Reduce turnover and attract top talent with “return to work” best practices

• Identify the most common and demoralizing threats to retention, productivity, and engagement

• Navigate the varying and conflicting hybrid work preferences based on employee generation, experience, role, and personality