Seminars From Jo Smith
These events were developed especially for professionals who want to thrive! If you want to learn more, achieve more and thrive now, these opportunities were created for YOU. Contact us by email or at 503.913.0499 if you want to learn more or schedule one of these events for your firm or organization. See Speaking for additional topics.
Leadership: How to Energize Your Workplace
Learn Six Ways to Create a Great Place to Work
What if your workplace were fully energized, a place where people and ideas thrive? Would it be a more fun and profitable place to work? Would it be easier to lead your team if they were fully energized? Can you energize your team with your leadership if you’re a mid-level leader or even if you have no leadership authority? Absolutely! Whether you’re an authorized leader or a leader by influence, learn six ways to bring your team and workplace to life for greater engagement, satisfaction, retention and profitability.
“My experience with you and the depth of your experience, your
easygoing manner, remarkable insight, and thoughtful advice has been
extremely valuable to me, to my organization and the people within it.”
Dave Leland, Managing Director, Leland Consulting Group
Masterful Teaching: How to Empower Excellence
Learn Three Techniques to Elevate Your Delegating to Masterful Teaching
Are you delegating to teach and empower others or just to get the job done. Or, worse, are you just doing the work yourself, because that’s easier and faster than delegating? Getting the job done is fundamental, but if it’s your only focus, it’s short-sighted. Learn how to recognize signs that you’re telling too much and teaching too little. Then learn three techniques to empower long-term excellence. Teachers who empower excellence as they delegate build team knowledge, capability and depth. Their attention to masterful teaching, while getting the work done, improves long-term satisfaction, retention and profitability. Learn how to elevate your telling to the level of masterful teaching.
“Jo Smith offers a rare combination of professionalism, insight, intellect
and empathy that truly make her a ‘coach’s coach’.”
Mark Long, Managing Partner, Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt
Achieve It: The Power of Goal Setting
Everything begins with imagined possibilities.
What do you want to achieve that you haven’t yet achieved? Is it one big goal or a few smaller ones? Which goal is most important? What has prevented you from achieving it until now? Maybe it’s been lack of time or money, the two most common reasons given, or maybe it’s been lack of focus or support. If you wait until the money, time, focus or support magically appear, your big goal might become a big regret. Our greatest regrets are not the things we did, but the things we didn’t do. Now is the time! Identify your most important goals, goals that support your values and vision of success, and create an action plan to make them happen. Don’t wait! Live your best life NOW!
“I’ve done everything you said I could do.”
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About the Presenter:
Jo Smith is a certified management consultant (CMC) to successful professional service firms, businesses and institutions, helping them design and implement strategies for success; develop leadership; improve satisfaction, retention and profits. Her client list includes law, accounting, financial, consulting and real estate firms, the Multnomah Bar Association, the School of Law of the University of Oregon and Willamette University’s Atkinson Graduate School of Management. She is the Project Director and one of four instructors in Atkinson’s Leadership for Attorneys in Business program.
Jo is an executive coach to business owners, firm leaders and professionals who want to grow their business and live fuller, richer lives. She helps people define and achieve their goals and dreams to achieve their potential. Topics addressed begin with the meaning of success and commonly include leadership, business development, client service, practice management and communications, as well as work/life integration.
Prior to returning from Los Angeles to her hometown of Portland Oregon in 2001, Ms. Smith served as Managing Consultant of the Los Angeles office of Drake Beam Morin, leading a team of professional consultants and staff to become one of the global human resource firm’s top performing offices worldwide.
Jo earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing with high honors from Portland State University (PSU). She earned a Certificate in Human Resource Management and completed a 77-hour course in coaching in 2006.
Jo served on the Board of Directors of the National University of Natural Medicine. She served on the National Board of Directors of the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC) USA and chaired its National Marketing Committee. She is a Past President of the PSU Alumni Association and of the Oregon Chapter of the American Marketing Association.