Collaboration to Innovation! Learn How to Work Better Together to Achieve Optimum Results & Drive Innovation

Session Time: 2:15 pm — 3:15 pm

Speaker: Curt Archambault, Vice President, People and Performance Strategies

Session Description: Highly skilled team members are not enough. You must have high functioning teams to succeed today. Teamwork is the ultimate competitive advantage because it is so powerful and so rare. Leaders who take on the goal of building high performing teams need a disciplined, persistent, and thoughtful plan. Leaders and team members willing to do the heavy lifting with the team can experience the following benefits of high performing, cohesive teams:

• Avoid wasting time talking about the wrong issues and revisiting the same topics over and over again because of lack of buy-in

• Make higher quality decisions and accomplish more in less time and fewer resources

• Are comfortable asking for help, admitting mistakes and limitations and take risks offering feedback

• Tap into one another's skills and experiences

• Put critical topics on the table and have lively meetings

• Align the team around common objectives

• Retain star employees

• Core Competency #1: Communication

• Core Competency #2:Talent Acquisition

Speaker Bio:
Curt Archambault is Vice President for People and Performance Strategies and has over 30 years of experience in the training and development/performance consulting field for the hospitality industry where he began his career in operations. He has fulfilled every role from an entry-level employee (cleaning restrooms) to corporate training and development manager playing a key role in developing and implementing performance-improvement projects. Curt’s experience includes having been responsible for a team of consultants charged with improving operational performance at company and franchised locations. In addition, he has been a speaker on both the local and national level specializing in topics such as Return on Investment, Leading a Strategic Training function, and Executing First Class Guest Service. Mr. Archambault is a member and past President for the Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers (CHART). In addition, he serves as President on the Board for the South Lake Union Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the ASTD Puget Sound Chapter. He majored in Business Management and earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Management. He has been married 38 years with two adult children and has one fantastic little granddaughter, who he adores (and pretty much has him wrapped around her little finger). At PPSTRAT, he is responsible for business development as well as working with emerging and mid-size organizations seeking the right talent selection, training, development, and HR practices to achieve the next level of growth.