Alex Winnicker | SpeakerHub

Personal Details

Bio

Alex has worked in athletics since 2003. He has held roles as interim, associate and assistant athletic director at several NCAA Division III institutions throughout the Mid-Atlantic and New England, as well as been the director at a large non-profit health and wellness center in New Jersey. Alex entered the field of athletics through coaching basketball, where he attained positions as a head coach both at the high school and collegiate level before shifting to full-time higher administration. In addition, he has taught several college-level courses, including a Master's course in NCAA compliance. Currently, he is a leadership development consultant and coach specializing in the fields of athletics and higher education.

Current position (1)

Leadership Consultant and Certified Trainer

Everything DiSC: A Wiley Brand

Degrees (3)

M.Ed Athletic Administration

Endicott College

2010 to 2011

MA Organizational Communication

Kean University

2004 to 2006

BA History

Penn State University

1998 to 2002

Presentations

Presentations (5)

Building Teams

Teams are dysfunctional, whether we like to admit it or not. The quicker a leader realizes this fact the faster they can work to remedy the situation and transform their team into a successful, forward-facing, vision and purpose-driven, cohesive unit. In this session, we explore the major dysfunctions of a team by focusing on the individuals who comprise the whole, learn how to recognize when a team might be in trouble, and identify specific, tangible actions a leader and manager can take to build successful teams, whether those teams are already working together or are just being selected.

Productive Conflict

Workplace conflict is inevitable. Everything DiSC® Productive Conflict helps learners' self-awareness of conflict behaviors. Rather than focusing on a step-by-step process for conflict resolution, learn effectively respond to the uncomfortable and unavoidable challenges of workplace conflict. Everything DiSC® Productive Conflict assists learners in curbing destructive behaviors to make conflict productive and, ultimately, improve workplace results and relationships.

By increasing self-awareness around conflict behaviors, Everything DiSC® Productive Conflict helps learners effectively respond to the uncomfortable and unavoidable challenges of workplace conflict.

With Productive Conflict, learners will:

• Explore the destructive and productive conflict behaviors of each DiSC® style

• Understand how to manage individuals' responses to conflict situations

• Discover communication strategies for engaging in productive
conflict with colleagues

Developing Managers

Everything DiSC® Management offers a customizable development solution proven to increase the effectiveness of anyone in a management role--whether managing direct reports or fostering a positive working relationship with one's own supervisor.

The complete program, including classroom training, and online pre-work and follow-up, highlights five key areas:

1) Understanding DiSC® styles
2) Directing and delegating
3) Creating a motivating environment
4) Developing others who possess different styles
5) Identifying strategies for working more effectively with managers

Participants will learn how their specific management style influences their time management, decision-making, and problem-solving skills, and discover methods for adapting to the styles of others to bring out the best in each and every employee under their charge.

Work Of Leaders

Everything DiSC Work of Leaders® helps leaders at all levels make the connection between their DiSC® style and leadership. This all-inclusive classroom and online program approaches leadership as a one-to-many relationship (as opposed to the one-to-one relationship explored in Everything DiSC® Management). With one unified model of leadership—Vision, Alignment, and Execution—Everything DiSC® WOL helps leaders understand their own leadership styles and how their tendencies may influence their effectiveness in specific leadership situations.

Participants Take-aways

•Recognize the priorities and tendencies that shape one's approach to the fundamental work of leaders:
- Creating a vision
- Building alignment around that vision
- And championing execution of that vision.

•Explore in detail how to play to one's strengths and overcome challenges to improve their leadership effectiveness

•Identify strategies to develop preferred behaviors based on best practices

Be Your Best Seller

Everything DiSC® Sales puts the power of the dynamic Everything DiSC model into the hands of salespeople and provides a dynamic tool for learning how to create customer-centric interactions that delivered improved results. Sales-specific content, modular facilitations tools, and online tailoring features deliver an easy-to-customize development solution to help participants discover new strategies for stretching beyond their natural preferences to make the selling process more productive and successful—regardless of the customer’s unique buying style.

Participant Take-Aways

Discover their own DiSC® style: recognize the priorities, personal strengths, and challenges that shape their sales interactions with others

Create a plan of action to get more out of the sales process—and deliver better bottom line results