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Dear Boss: What Your Employees Wish You Knew

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OUR STORY

Upon completing research into the American workforce, Transformational Impact LLC founder, Robert McFarland discovered the four biggest threats to a healthy company culture. Most companies are at a significant disadvantage because they do not sufficiently address these threats. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Transformational Impact LLC can help you address these threats, discover your blind spots as a leader, and map out a strategy to a more productive and profitable future for your company.

About Robert McFarland

Robert McFarland is President of Transformational Impact LLC, a leadership development consultancy helping companies envision their preferred future, map the strategy to get there, and create the company culture to bring it to fruition. Robert is a bestselling author, executive coach, and conference speaker, and he has worked with myriad organizations conducting strategic planning, providing branding guidance, and giving communications counsel. Robert serves as the Intentional Leadership Coach for the Intentional Living Center and is a frequent contributor to the Intentional Living broadcast and features. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Religious Broadcasters and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Family Foundation of Virginia. His first book, Dear Boss: Dear Boss, What Your Employees Wish You Knew, is a #1 international best seller. His second book, Dear Employee: What Your Boss Wishes You Knew, will be published Fall 2018.

About Transformational Impact LLC

Transformational Impact LLC helps companies improve their employee cultures to make the companies healthier, more productive, and more profitable. We help you build a vision to achieve societal impact, strengthen your employee and customer loyalties, and reach your business goals. By creating a values-based infrastructure, we help you better serve your customers, your employees, and your community.

Our Values

PASSION: We believe strongly in what we do and it shows.
DEVOTION: Everything we do is worship, especially our work.
CELEBRATION: Life is worth living and celebrating.

Our Principles

EXCELLENCE: Whatever you do is always worth doing well.
INTENTIONALITY: All thoughts and actions have consequences.
DIGNITY: Every individual has intrinsic self-worth.

Our Vision

According to a 2017 Gallup research study, one-third of all U.S. workers are engaged in their jobs. Half are not engaged at their jobs. And one in six is actively disengaged, biting the hand that feeds them.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

You can engage your employees in something bigger than getting a paycheck. You can use your company to serve your customers and community—and make more money in the process. You can do good and do well at the same time.

You can use your company to serve more than just your customers. You can remake your business into an agent of transformation.

Testimonials

“After meeting Robert and reading Dear Boss: What Your Employees Wish You Knew, copies of his book were provided to most of our supervisors and we participated in an organization-wide survey. … We are currently in the process of establishing coaching and communication systems to focus on Robert’s concepts of Tenderness, Team, Transparency and Trust.”

Mark Hanna President & CEO, F&M Bank
“The application of Mr. McFarland’s principles contained in Dear Boss: What Your Employees Wish You Knew has had a profound impact on the manner in which my school has reoriented our internal communications. … The result has enabled us to better synchronize our communications and improve problem solving in the endeavor to educate our cadets."

M. E. Black CAPT USN (Retired), Superintendent, Fishburne Military School
“Robert strategically led us to see the most important issues in our company and directed us to make actionable steps to get those problems resolved. Thanks to Robert, the future of our company is brighter, and the Goliath sized problems that we had have never felt so manageable.”

Elizabeth Guy Owner, Blue Ridge Chimney Services
“I have enjoyed your coaching services and benefitted greatly both personally and professionally from them. The monthly accountability and development insight have allowed me to move forward in areas that I wouldn't otherwise have been able to without your keen guidance.”

William Phillips Owner, Phillips Resources LLC
“I would like to thank you for sharing your expertise and insights during our strategic planning session last month. Your ability to read my employees and me was astounding.”

David Garrety President, Garrety Manufacturing Incorporated
“You really helped to put legs to our vision and God really used you to help bring clarity and actionable steps to our project. Thank you. I wish I had another project so we can work together again.”

Perry Santoloci Chief Executive Officer, MouthPeace Media Group
“If you are seeking trustworthy advice and consultation for your organization, I wholeheartedly recommend to you Robert McFarland.”

Tim Lambert President, Texas Home School Coalition
“Robert McFarland provided an invaluable service to the Christian Homeschool Association of Pennsylvania (CHAP) as part of our annual board retreat. … I heartily endorse Robert McFarland and recommend his strategic planning services to those looking to move their organization to the next level.”

Steve Wayde Board Chairman, Christian Homeschool Association of Pennsylvania
“Thank you for your leadership in our planning meeting. I and several others thought it was the best one in our 13 years.”

Bruce Eagleson Board Chairman, Nat’l Ass’n of Christian Home Education Leadership
"We came away from the meeting encouraged in our shared vision and mission, and excited about building hope for future generations."

Anne Miller President, Home Educators Association of Virginia
“Robert McFarland has an amazing grasp of the principles, process, and priorities of Strategic Planning. We are grateful for his guidance.”

Kevin Strite Senior Pastor, River Oaks Church
“It feels like a new day here. Thanks for your time and heart to help us define what is on our hearts. We are already benefitting from our time together.”

John Shales Chief Financial Officer, Hope of the Generations Church
“I would like to thank you for sharing your expertise and insights during our strategic planning session last month. Your ability to read my employees and me was astounding.”

David President
“Robert McFarland has an amazing grasp of the principles, process, and priorities of Strategic Planning. We are grateful for his guidance.”

Kevin Senior Pastor
“I heartily endorse Robert McFarland and recommend his strategic planning services to those looking to move their organization to the next level.”

Steve Chairman of the Board
“You really helped to put legs to our vision and God really used you to help bring clarity and actionable steps to our project. Thank you. I wish I had another project so we can work together again.”

Perry Chief Executive Officer
“Robert strategically led us to see the most important issues in our company and directed us to make actionable steps to get those problems resolved. Thanks to Robert, the future of our company is brighter, and the Goliath sized problems that we had have never felt so manageable.”

Elizabeth Owner
“If you are seeking trustworthy advice and consultation for your organization, I wholeheartedly recommend to you Robert McFarland.”

Tim President
“Thank you for your leadership in our planning meeting. I and several others thought it was the best one in our 13 years.”

Bruce Chairman of the Board
"We came away from the meeting encouraged in our shared vision and mission, and excited about building hope for future generations. Thank you for working through the process of creating vision and mission statements with us."

Anne President
“It feels like a new day here. Thanks for your time and heart to help us define what is on our hearts. We are already benefitting from our time together.”

John Chief Financial Officer

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Expertise

COACHING

Most people know what they need to do to achieve their goals, but they need to be reminded often. That’s why a coach enables you accomplish more in your life. Robert McFarland will push you beyond your comfort zone so that you can achieve what’s important to you. Robert will help you from a biblical point of view both as a person and as a leader to effect the change you want to see in yourself and your company.

Ongoing Culture Building Guidance

Robert McFarland will guide you through the process of changing the culture at your company. After Robert has helped you develop the strategic plans for building the culture at your company, he will walk you through the process of implementing the necessary changes.

Robert will lay out an entire program of culture change for your company and then set up a series of regular coaching points along the way. He will make sure that you understand all that you will need to do, when to do it, how to do it, and why you should do it.

360 Synergistic Coaching & Mentoring

Robert McFarland will enable you to make your core biblical convictions find expression in your day-to-day business dealings, and he will keep you on track in your spiritual and professional development. He will help you focus on growing as a person so that you can become the leader you want to be.

Robert will help you succeed in business and in every other area of your life through individual and group coaching settings. Robert will periodically accept new coaching clients into his client-focused coaching program and mastermind group coaching offerings, which are offered in a combination of phone and in person settings.

SPEAKING

If you need a speaker who can address both large conventions and small board events about unleashing your potential, then look no further than Robert McFarland. Robert encourages his audiences to believe who God made them to be so they can achieve what He created them to do. Robert will entertain and inspire you while challenging you to think bigger about the impact you can have.

Board Meetings & Retreats

Robert McFarland will speak to your board meetings or retreats about the benefits you receive from running your business according to biblical principles: the competitive advantage you gain, the boost in company culture you achieve, the employee engagement you obtain, the impact on the community your company will have, and the personal peace you will get from knowing that you’re doing the right thing.

Reactions to Robert McFarland’s presentations:

“Outstanding!”

“It was the best one in our 13 years.”

“It feels like a new day here.”

“We came away from the meeting encouraged in our shared vision and mission.”

“Thanks for a wonderful day! Praise God for you and your leadership.”

Convention Keynotes & Sessions

Robert McFarland can speak at your convention to unpack the importance of cultivating vision in your personal life and your professional life. Most people don’t achieve what they want in life, because deep down they don’t believe that they can do it. Robert passionately inspires people to achieve their God-given goals and dreams.

Reactions to Robert McFarland’s speeches:

“If no other sessions, this was worth the event. Thank you!”

“Very helpful information, very good, visionary.”

“Perfect presentation.”

“Clear, concise, practical.”

“Food for thought!”

“He did great – always want more.”

“Inspiring, yet simple, practical & organized.”

“Good ideas and thoughts. Very practical.”

“Powerful! Listening to his talk was motivating me to be more involved.”

Our Process:

In advance of your event, Robert will interview you to determine what you are trying to achieve through this presentation at your event.
Robert will prepare and deliver a dynamic and professional presentation geared to produce the desired effects with your audience.
After your event, Robert will conduct a post-event interview to determine how much your expectations were exceeded.

TRAINING

A good workplace culture must be proactively designed, but it must be actively modeled, taught and reinforced to sustain it. If you are not actively training your team the company way, then you are losing the opportunity to express your brand promise. Based on his book, Dear Boss, What Your Employees Wish You Knew, Robert McFarland will develop customized training to fit your unique workplace culture.

Exceptional Leadership
- Robert McFarland will train you how to move beyond managing and become an Active Leader. Based on his book, Dear Boss, What Your Employees Wish You Knew, Robert will customize your team’s training to produce a healthy workplace culture and develop a more inspired and engaged workforce.
- Listing of courses:
  - Active Leadership
  - Building an Effective Team
  - Inspiring Employee Engagement
  - Communicating Effectively

Creating a 4T Culture
- - Robert McFarland will provide training for your leadership about how to address the four most important concerns expressed by employees in national research. He also will train your leadership team in understanding and living the 4T’s to create a good and healthy company culture.
- Listing of courses:
  - Creating a Culture of Tenderness
  - Creating a Team Culture
  - Creating a Culture of Trust
  - Creating a Culture of Transparency

Blog

Jan 04, 2019 Start Over by Being Brutally Honest with Yourself

Understand What Happened and Try It Again

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Dec 23, 2018 How Will You Change You in 2019?

You Will Be the Same Person in Ten Years — Unless You Change Three Things

As you think through…

Dec 15, 2018 Consider Your Personality Trajectory

Who You Hang Around Influences Who You Will Become

How’s your personality trajectory? Do you…

Nov 29, 2018 Stick With It

Don’t Get Distracted, Disengaged, or Discouraged

About twenty years ago, I tried to get a…

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Specialties

Express Your Interest

Self-Leadership Training

We will provide transformational training for your team so they will see you, their work, and themselves in a new light. Based on Robert McFarland’s book Dear Employee: What Your Boss Wishes You Knew, we will customize training for your team to fit your unique workplace culture. As a result, we will help you develop a more engaged workforce.

Active Leadership Coaching

We will train you how to move beyond managing—and even leading—to become an agent of transformation. Based on Robert McFarland’s book Dear Boss: What Your Employees Wish You Knew, Robert will coach you to a new level of performance in your role. As a result, you will become a better leader than you have ever been before.

Executive Presentations

Robert McFarland will speak to your board meetings or executive retreats about the benefits you receive from running your business according to biblical principles: the competitive advantage you gain, the employee engagement you obtain, and the personal peace you will get from knowing that you’re doing the right thing.

Reactions to Robert McFarland’s presentations:
“Outstanding!”
“It was the best one in our 13 years.”
“It feels like a new day here.”
“We came away from the meeting encouraged in our shared vision and mission.”
“Thanks for a wonderful day! Praise God for you and your leadership.”

Convention Speeches

Robert McFarland will speak at your convention to unpack the importance of cultivating vision in your personal life and your professional life. Most people don’t achieve what they want in life, because deep down they don’t believe that they can do it. Robert passionately inspires people to achieve their God-given goals and dreams.

Reactions to Robert McFarland’s speeches:
“If no other sessions, this was worth the event. Thank you!”
“Very helpful information, very good, visionary.”
“Perfect presentation.”
“Clear, concise, practical.”
“Food for thought!”
“He did great – always want more.”
“Inspiring, yet simple, practical & organized.”
“Good ideas and thoughts. Very practical.”
“Powerful! Listening to his talk was motivating me to be more involved.”

Find Out How to Better Lead Your Team

Your leadership is measured by your employees and team members. Even if you are a good leader, you can still become disconnected from the people who are there to help you accomplish your goals.

This survey will help you become aware of your blind spots, and it will put you on the path to find the answers that you may not even realize that you need.

Find out how you can intentionally use your words and actions to unleash the best in those around you. This survey will help you identify what you need to change in order to become that kind of leader.

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