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An entertaining and enlightening speaker, Art Schoeck offers fresh perspective on high turnover, personality conflicts, poor communication, internal strategic planning, implementing and coping with change, improving interactions between management and support, boosting sales and productivity, and building project-oriented teams.

Mr. Schoeck is available to speak at your corporate retreat, association conference, or meeting.

Art Schoeck's speaking engagements

Behavioral style analyst and President of Data Dome, Inc. Art Schoeck shared his expertise with executives at a recent seminar given as part of a week-long program at the Scarlett Leadership Institute.

Participants received advanced training in leadership applications and strategies using the insights of DISC behavioral style analysis.

The Scarlett Leadership Institute, located at Belmont University in Nashville Tennessee, brings together world-class business minds from Fortune 500 companies and successful leading-edge organizations to interact with a selected class of participants. The "for-leaders by-leaders" Center for Executive Professional Development was designed to develop the people and talent that leading executives most need to support the continued success of their organizations. Participants in the Signature Executive program must be high-potential individuals nominated by senior leadership in their organizations.

Several of the participants indicated that Art Schoeck's seminar was their favorite piece in a special week-long leadership program.

Art Schoeck was a featured speaker at the 2007 Atlanta HR Star conference, held at the Georgia World Congress Center.

Predicting Turnover: How to Keep Your Best From Leaving

Employees are showing less loyalty and less patience for their employers. In addition to the more aggressive recruiting efforts of other companies, employees now have easy access to information about what positions are available in their industries. Coupled with a fast-approaching drain of skilled workers that is looming on the horizon, what can you do to proactively attract and retain talent? Some companies play a “hit or miss game” to try to retain their most talented workers, but now is the time to gain a real competitive edge with employee loyalty and engagement. In this session, you will learn exactly how to determine who your best people really are, why they would leave, and what you can do about it. Topics include:

Why your best employees may leave.

Why current practices like exit interviews and certain reward systems are not working.

How current workforce trends impact turnover.

How to uncover the bad news you can’t afford not to know.

Data Dome Inc. was also a featured exhibitor at the conference. Qualified participants at the conference received a valuable behavioral style assessment from Data Dome, so that they could see its accuracy and applicability for themselves. We donated a complimentary Career Planning assessment (with a debriefing session) for the end-of-conference giveaway. Art, Heidi, Ralph and Amanda enjoyed meeting with HR professionals and other HR resource vendors at the conference.

How to Create and Be Part of a Winning Sales Team

Art Schoeck spoke at the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce on how to use assessments for sales hiring and training.

Leadership Behavioral Insights: What You Need to Know About Yourself to Get to The Next Level

Art Schoeck spoke to the YoungBucks (the young professionals of the Buckhead community in Atlanta, GA) on behavioral style insights for leadership development. To achieve full potential as a leader, you must objectively analyze yourself to understand your strengths, weaknesses, behavior, motivation level and intellectual aptitude - and then know what to do with that information. This seminar includes instructional opening, shared behavioral style reports with group participation and other targeted exercises.

Topics in Business Strategy

Art is a speaker and participant in the Atlanta EntreVille chapter meetings held at the Druid Hills Golf Club in Atlanta Georgia. Ongoing face-to-face meetings of chapters of the online community provide opportunities for industry peers to discuss key issues facing entrepreneurs and business leaders.

How to Make your Best Sales Person your Worst Sales Manager
How to Pay Higher Wages While Lowering Labor Costs
Key Entrepreneurial Tips for Building Your Business, Round-Table Panelist

Hire Better, Retain Better: Upgrade Your Hospitality

Art spoke to the Members of the Georgia Restaurant Assocation to call for a talent upgrade in the hospitality industry. Startling statistics about the reality and risks of losses generated by turnover, poor hiring, absenteeism, and counterproductive behaviors by employees in the hospitality industry demand solutions. Citing a number of recent surveys and studies, Mr. Schoeck demonstrated the pervasiveness and cost of cash/product theft, alcohol/drug abuse, anti-diversity, disrespect for others, sexual harassment, unreliability, and food handling violations. While those who engage in one counterproductive behavior are actually more likely to engage in several, the employees who are productive tend to be so "across the board."

Restaurant owners can hire better, retain better, raise profits, and ensure customer loyalty using a thorough process of pre-employment assessment. Not only does such a consistently-applied process select the best performers for the job in the first place, but it also makes them feel they are working for the best. Retention of such talent increases profits in several different ways, not least of which is customer satisfaction and loyalty. A second section outlined the importance of the development of the Restaurant Manager as a leader, particularly in light of the demographic shifts of the near future, and he concluded with methods for measuring and tracking success.

Pre-Employment Selection Tools

Art spoke at the Georgia Safety, Health and Environmental Conference for the Georgia Dept. of Labor Safety Engineering Division. The presentation, given at the Gwinnett Center in Duluth, explained how to use pre-employment assessments to lower labor costs and increase safety. The most effective applications of advanced tools for drug testing, attitudes, style, and surveying were presented. The proper use of these tools in hiring and assessing current employees increase safety and cut costs - a savings that can then be used for higher wages and benefits, resulting in more satisfied and motivated employees.

Performance Management: The Key to More Effective Performance Evaluations

Mr. Schoeck spoke at the YMCA (Young Mens Christian Association) Forum in San Francisco on the topic of how to make the performance evaluation process useful in actually improving performance. Effectiveness is not based on the length of a survey or process but on clearly-defined objectives and action plans. The more effective evaluations consider personal, team, and organizational levels in which performance is defined in concrete terms of optimal tasks, goals, motivations, priorities and behaviors. While more complicated job positions require more complex information, using the best practices with the most advanced tools will always give you the best and most useful information.

Enhancing the Use of Selection and Retention Assessments

Art Schoeck spoke for The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) at their Greater Atlanta Chapter Meeting.

New Processes to Enhance the Use of Selection and Retention Assessments

Mr. Schoeck addressed the latest techniques and technologies in hiring and retaining the "right people" - from defining job competencies to strategizing the roles of personal values and motivations. He shared how organizations can actually increase compensation and benefits while at the same time reducing overall labor costs. Attendees left with an understanding of how selection, retention and motivation come together in one seamless process.

Addressing the Hidden Costs of Turnover in the Hotel and Restaurant Industries

Mr. Schoeck was a featured speaker before the Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers (CHART) Conference entitled "Celebrating the Spirit of Success," in Savannah, GA, co-sponsored by The Coca-Cola Company and the Educational Foundation of the National Restaurant Association. The topic for the talk was Turnover: The Phantom Expense.

Abstract: Did you know that 80% of hiring decisions are made on the basis of hard skills, but that 85% of turnover is a result of behavioral incompatibility?

Art Schoeck, a communications expert and specialist in style-based behavioral strategy, identified across-the-board guidelines to improve communications, develop teamwork, and enhance management placement. Art addressed solutions to common problems such as high turnover, personality conflicts and poor communication.

Art was joined by other notable key speakers, including:

  Dr. Kenneth Blanchard
Co-Author of The One Minute Manager.

  Jack Stack
President/CEO - SRC Holdings Corp.

  Daniel R. Scoggin
President/CEO - Houlihan's Restaurant Group, former President/CEO of T.G.I. Friday's.

  Truett Cathy
Founder and Chairman - Chick-Fil-A, Inc.

Attending Art Schoeck's keynote lecture were an estimated 150 CEOs, Directors of Operations, Human Resource Directors, Career Development Specialists and other executives.

Training the Trainers to Apply Behavioral Style Internally

Art Schoeck was a featured trainer at the TTI Performance Systems Winners Winter Conference in Scottsdale, AZ.

The title of his training seminar was:

Vending Machine Heaven:
Building Internal Corporate Advocates and Applying Assessment Tools Internally

This was a Training Seminar for Consultants on building internal corporate advocates and training them to use behavioral style software on-site. It focused on the applications of behavioral and motivational tools, and on how to select the right tools - with the right people within an organization - for optimum benefits.

Combating High Turnover:
How to Recruit, Retain, and Motivate Customer Service Reps

Mr. Schoeck spoke before the International Quality & Productivity Center (IQPC) at their Career Pathing for Call Center Representatives meeting held in New Orleans, LA.

The theme of the speaking engagement was:
Hire Effectively, Communicate Effectively, Reward Effectively

Combating High Turnover: How to Recruit, Retain and Motivate Customer Service Reps

Recruit and Find the Right People
Retain and Motivate the Right People
What causes turnover:
- Don't Know...
- Can't Do...
- Don't Care...
Retention - Keeping the Right People
Keys to Managing

Preventing Burnout: CTI for Management Expo

Art was a speaker at the Exposition of Computer, Internet and Network Telephony (Human Resources for Management Division) in Baltimore, MD.

Preventing Burnout: Proactive Strategies by Style, Redirecting Resources toward Motivators

How to hire to prevent burn-out by HIRING correctly
How to prevent burnout by creating the proper work environments
Effective uses of assessments to select, retain and motivate

Re-engineering, Recruiting & Staffing
for the Healthcare Professional

Telemarketing and Call Center Solutions (TCCS) Conference
Division: Healthcare

Art Schoeck took the Conference attendees on an in-depth look at validated tools for the healthcare industry in Atlanta, GA.

Re-engineering, Recruiting & Staffing for the Healthcare Professional: What Healthcare is Doing Right...and Wrong

How to re-engineer effectively
How to recruit & select for long-term stability
Effective applications of assessments to select, retain and motivate.