Theme: Coaching the practice of problem-solving together

Nurturing talent and elevating team performance

Format

Practitioner Presentation
Wednesday, Oct. 30 Location Code
9:30am-10:15am Atlanta Marriott Marquis WS/20

Topic(s)

Overview

Join MANE for an inspiring session, "Nurturing Talent and Elevating Team Performance," designed to transform your team into a high-performing powerhouse. This session focuses on three critical areas.

First, improve interpersonal communications to foster collaboration, reduce misunderstandings and enhance productivity. Learn to cultivate an environment of open, honest and respectful dialogue, enabling greater team cohesion.

Next, master structured problem-solving by teaching your team to get the facts. Clear, factual analysis is crucial for diagnosing issues and developing robust solutions. Discover techniques for gathering and evaluating data methodically, leading to informed decision-making and better outcomes.

Finally, create a psychologically safe environment where team members feel comfortable asking for help. A supportive atmosphere encourages innovation, learning and resilience. By promoting psychological safety, you ensure everyone can contribute their best ideas without fear of judgment.

Key learning objectives

  1. Nurture your team
  2. Boost communications
  3. Make it safe to challenge the status quo
  4. Unlock and unleash people's potential

Company

MANE is one of the worldwide leaders in the fragrance and flavor design industry. By nature, we are very sensitive to the new trends that build desire and emotions. At MANE, "We Capture What Moves." https://www.mane.com/

Presenter

Melanie Buck is a mechanical engineer who has consistently delivered results. Buck has seventeen years of manufacturing experience in the automotive, flavor, pharmaceutical and chemical industries and has been responsible for change management in a rapid growth and continuous improvement environment.

Throughout Buck's career she has been a principled leader driving change in organizations. She is an accomplished team builder who has consistently aligned individual skill sets with business needs and upgraded organizational competencies, resulting in improved performance. She optimizes asset utilization, resulting in increased profitability.

Buck is currently the director of commercialization for Avanulo, a consulting organization, with whom Buck specializes in assisting organizations in managing their process improvement initiatives through providing strong and decisive leadership, managing documentation in support of process improvements and training all levels of employees to develop future leaders ready to take on more responsibilities.