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Building a High-Performance Workplace: Creating a Positive, Productive, and Engaged Culture

Instructor Larry Johnson 
Webinar ID 95919
49 Days Left To REGISTER

Date Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Time 10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
Duration 60 Minutes  

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Overview

Frontline leaders have the greatest influence on the day-to-day experience of employees. While senior executives establish the organization’s vision and strategy, it is supervisors, team leaders, and middle managers who shape workplace culture through their daily interactions with employees. The quality of these relationships directly affects employee engagement, productivity, morale, customer satisfaction, and retention.

This practical and engaging webinar is specifically designed for everyday frontline leaders-the supervisors, team leaders, department managers, and middle managers who are responsible for leading people while simultaneously managing workloads, solving problems, meeting deadlines, and achieving organizational goals. These leaders often receive extensive technical training but very little guidance on the people skills that inspire employees to perform at their best.

Managing people is one of the most rewarding-and one of the most challenging-responsibilities in any organization. Every employee has unique personalities, motivations, communication styles, and expectations. Successful leaders understand that managing people is not simply about assigning work and monitoring performance. It is about creating an environment where employees feel respected, supported, trusted, and motivated to contribute their very best every day.

This webinar provides practical, easy-to-apply leadership techniques that participants can begin using immediately. Rather than focusing on complicated management theories, the session concentrates on proven, real-world strategies that help frontline leaders build stronger relationships, improve communication, increase accountability, and create highly productive teams.

You will learn how small improvements in everyday leadership behaviors can produce significant improvements in employee performance and workplace morale. You will discover how the way they communicate, coach, recognize accomplishments, handle conflict, provide feedback, and demonstrate respect can dramatically influence the attitudes and performance of the people you supervise.

Organizations that invest in developing frontline leaders consistently experience stronger employee engagement, better teamwork, higher productivity, and improved customer service. Employees rarely leave organizations simply because of the work itself-they often leave because of poor leadership, ineffective communication, or feeling unappreciated. This webinar will help you avoid these traps.

Benefits You and Your Organization Will Experience

Higher Team Productivity

One of the most immediate benefits of applying the leadership techniques presented in this webinar is improved team performance. Research shows that employees who trust and respect their supervisor are more likely to take ownership of their responsibilities, work collaboratively with others, solve problems proactively, and consistently produce higher-quality work. Motivated employees not only accomplish more-they also contribute ideas, support their teammates, and help create a culture of continuous improvement.

Reduced Employee Turnover

Replacing employees is expensive and disruptive. Recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and training new employees consumes valuable time and organizational resources. Effective frontline leadership plays a significant role in retaining talented employees. Leaders who communicate clearly, provide recognition, demonstrate empathy, and build positive working relationships create workplaces where employees want to stay. As employee satisfaction increases, voluntary turnover declines, preserving valuable organizational knowledge and strengthening long-term team stability.

A Less Stressful and More Positive Workplace

Positive leadership creates positive workplaces. When expectations are clear, communication is respectful, and employees feel supported, workplace stress decreases significantly. Teams experience fewer misunderstandings, less interpersonal conflict, and greater collaboration. Employees become more willing to help one another, share information, and solve problems together. The result is a work environment that is more enjoyable, more productive, and considerably easier to manage.

Practical Skills That Produce Lasting Results

Whether you are a new supervisor or an experienced one, seeking to enhance your leadership effectiveness, this webinar offers actionable strategies that you can implement immediately. Every concept is presented with the realities of today’s workplace in mind, making the content highly relevant for leaders across industries and organizational sizes.

Strong organizations are built one supervisor at a time. By investing in the development of frontline leaders, organizations create engaged employees, stronger teams, improved performance, and healthier workplace cultures. This webinar equips you with the leadership skills necessary to make a lasting positive impact-not only on your employees but on the success of the entire organization.

Why should you Attend

The success of any organization depends on the effectiveness of its frontline leaders. Every day, supervisors, team leaders, and middle managers influence employee motivation, productivity, morale, and retention through the decisions they make and the way they interact with their teams. Yet many leaders are promoted because of their technical expertise, not because they’ve received formal training in how to lead people successfully.

This practical webinar provides the essential leadership skills you need to build engaged, productive, and high-performing teams. You’ll learn proven techniques that can be applied immediately to improve communication, strengthen relationships, increase accountability, and inspire employees to consistently perform at their best.

Whether you lead a small team or managing an entire department, the principles presented in this webinar will help you become a more confident, effective, and respected leader. You’ll discover how small changes in your daily leadership behaviors can have a significant impact on employee engagement, collaboration, and overall team performance.

Strong leaders don’t just manage work-they create an environment where people feel valued, trusted, and motivated to contribute. When employees enjoy working for their supervisor, they are more likely to take initiative, solve problems, support one another, deliver higher-quality work, and remain committed to the organization.

You’ll also learn practical strategies for reducing workplace stress, addressing challenges before they become larger problems, giving constructive feedback, recognizing employee contributions, and building a positive team culture that encourages continuous improvement.

If you’re looking for practical leadership techniques-not theory-that you can begin using immediately, this webinar delivers actionable tools and strategies that will help you improve employee performance, strengthen workplace relationships, reduce turnover, and become the kind of leader that people genuinely want to follow.

Areas Covered in the Session

  • Lessons learned from Marriott and other Best Places to Work
  • How to motivate your team without money
  • How to become the leader everyone wants to work for
  • Lessons learned from the worst boss you ever had
  • The biggest killers of employee trust and how to avoid them

Who Will Benefit

  • Frontline Supervisors
  • Team Leaders
  • Middle Managers
  • Department Managers
  • Operations Managers
  • Shift Supervisors
  • Project Managers
  • First-Time Managers
  • Assistant Managers
  • Branch Managers
  • Field Supervisors
  • Production Supervisors
  • Warehouse Supervisors
  • Customer Service Managers
  • Call Center Supervisors
  • Healthcare Supervisors
  • Nursing Managers and Charge Nurses
  • Public Sector Managers
  • Government Supervisors
  • Manufacturing Leaders
  • Construction Foremen and Site Supervisors
  • Hospitality Managers
  • Retail Store Managers
  • Restaurant Managers
  • Distribution and Logistics Managers
  • Maintenance Supervisors
  • Transportation Supervisors
  • Human Resources Professionals who support leadership development
  • Learning and Development Professionals
  • Anyone preparing for their first leadership role

Speaker Profile

Larry Johnson, CSP is the co-author of two top-selling books: Absolute Honesty: Building A Corporate Culture That Values Straight Talk And Rewards Integrity and Generations Inc. – From Boomers To Linksters – Managing The Friction Between Generations At Work. He’s also written for Huffington Post and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and the Harvard Business Review. He has been interviewed on CNN. Larry has written more than 200 published articles on the topic of improving organizational culture.

An in-demand speaker and organization culture expert, Larry has delivered more than 2000 paid presentations for association conferences, corporations, and government organizations including Texas Apartment Association, American Bus Association, SHRM (Society of Human Resource Management), National Apartment Association, American Health Care Association, Harley-Davidson, Southwest Airlines, Westinghouse and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

He’s also presented more than 300 webinars for his own clients and for various webinar companies. Larry’s Education & Designation
• M.A. Counseling Psychology - Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ
• B.A. Education - Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
• CSP - Certified Speaking Professional from the National Speakers Association

Larry’s Experience
• 4 years in health care management
• 7 years as a training manager in government and the private sector
• 35 years as president of his own training and consulting firm