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Tip: Give sincere recognition several times a day - you'll earn more
trust
from your  colleagues (who will like your willingness to share credit)

Performance Leadership Consulting was founded by Janis Allen in 1990. The consultancy has since grown to include partner, Michael McCarthy. Janis and Michael are married and live in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Brevard, North Carolina.

     
About Janis Allen

Janis Allen established Performance Leadership Consulting following a successful 18-year career during which she focused on people-related performance in a variety of capacities. She has held the positions of Personnel Associate for J.P. Stevens; Plant Personnel Manager, Corporate Management Trainer and Internal Consultant for Milliken & Company; Editor-in-Chief of Performance Management magazine; and Vice President of Operations and Performance Consultant for Aubrey Daniels and Associates.

As owner of Performance Leadership Consulting, Janis Allen helps organizations implement positive recognition programs and put-in-place performance teams, concurrent with installing measurement and feedback systems to support these efforts. She uses a wide range of positive recognition techniques, together with applied behavior analysis, in teaching and coaching executives, managers, supervisors and associates to improve performance and transform their cultures to be more people-oriented.

Books by Janis Allen include: "You Made My Day: Creating Co-Worker Recognition and Relationships" (with Michael McCarthy, ©2000); "I Saw What You Did and I know Who You Are: Bloopers, Blunders and Success Stories on Giving and Receiving Recognition" (with Gail Snyder, ©1990); "Team Up!" ©2003 and "Performance Teams" (©1982). She has an audiocassette recording titled, "Janis Allen on Recognition: What Everyone Who Works With People Needs to Know" (with Michael McCarthy, ©1992), and a CD program "Do's & Don't's for Delivering Recognition," (with Michael McCarthy, ©2003).

Janis Allen gives motivational talks about positive recognition at conferences, association meetings and other special events. Contact Performance Leadership Consulting to schedule her for a speaking engagement.
Phone: (828) 862-6552   E-Mail:
janisallen@janisallen.com

 

About Michael McCarthy

Michael McCarthy has over 25 years of consulting experience with large, medium and small-size companies.

He has been a Manager with Accenture Consulting, assisting clients with change management, performance measurement and process change. Previously, Michael McCarthy was a senior consultant with the firms of Aubrey Daniels & Associates and Tarkenton & Company. He served as editor of Performance Management magazine for three years, where he researched and wrote about transformational leadership, quality, and performance improvement concepts and applications. As part of his broad background, he once worked in a "wilderness therapeutic camping" program for youth in Florida, and sailed around Europe for a year -- aboard the 157-foot sailing schooner, Te' Vega -- teaching for a private school in a program emphasizing principle-based character development.

Michael McCarthy helps organizations improve performance and teamwork through a positive management approach. His clients not only get results, they create a more positive atmosphere at work.

Michael McCarthy holds a Master's degree in Counseling from Kent State University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Florida. Together with Janis Allen, he co-authored the book, "You Made My Day: Creating Co-Worker Recognition and Relationships."

Michael McCarthy speaks to groups about performance leadership, quality improvement and relationship skills. Contact him at Performance Leadership Consulting to schedule him for a speaking engagement. janisallen@janisallen.com

Representative Clients

Performance Leadership Consulting’s long list of national, regional and local 'll business, industrial and government organizations of all sizes.

  • BellSouth
  • Black & Decker
  • Blue Cross & Blue Shield  of Wisconsin
  • Blue Ridge Parkway
  • BMW Manufacturing
  • Brevard/Transylvania Chamber of Commerce
  • California State Employment Development Department
  • Coats American
  • Coldwell Banker
  • Community CarePartners
  • Eastman Chemical
  • Emerson Electric
  • FedEx
  • Fiber Industries
  • Fireman's Fund Insurance
  • First Service Networks
  • Ford Motor Credit
  • GTE
  • International Paper
  • Kodak
  • Lebhar-Friedman Publishing
  • Midwest Express Airlines
  • New York Department of Motor Vehicles
  • Oldsmobile
  • Philadelphia Electric
  • Preston Trucking
  • Ryder Transportation
  • Siemans-Corning
  • SKY Chefs
  • Stephens Federal Bank
  • Tennessee State Finance & Administration
  • 3M
  • Transylvania Community Hospital
  • United Airlines
  • U.S. Army
  • Viking Freight Systems
  • Volvo
  • Walgreen's
  • Wisconsin Gas
  • Xerox

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