 All programs can be:
- Interactive
- Adapted to 45 minute, 60 minute or 90 minute formats
We all have them; we all dread them; conversations that make your mouth dry and your hands sweaty. Whether with our boss, teenagers, partners or aging parents, these conversations deal with critical life issues. Make these “must have” conversations easier, more effective and less stressful.
Learn:
- How to avoid the two biggest traps in critical conversations.
- Discover what happens “behind the scenes” during these conversations.
- Be more effective managing these conversations with new tools and techniques.
Public speaking is the #1 fear of adults, yet we are asked to do it all the time: proposals to clients, reports to committees, readings, toasts, and formal presentations. Does it ever get easier? Yes it can!
Laugh and learn:
- Physical and mental techniques to turn nerves into positive energy.
- How to keep audiences engaged.
- Tools to help you think on your feet and confidently handle audience questions.
Today’s retirees are the healthiest, most active, and in some cases, the youngest in retirement history. Some will be retired longer than they worked! Instead of the end of an active life, retirement can be the start of a whole new journey.
Explore:
- The next 25 years of your life in a whole new way?
- Who you are apart from your work?
- What a significant life post-career will look like for you?
Setting goals is easy. Achieving them is another matter. Goals need tending, and that’s where many fall short. Learn five easy steps to tend your goals: make it real, make it SMART, pay attention every day, take small steps, and know it when you see it.
Participants will:
- Define what success looks like for you
- Shape that vision into SMART goals
- Identify obstacles (i.e. are you getting in your own way?)
- Create a path of small steps to achievement
Change comes at us in every stage of life: school, career, marriage/divorce, dealing with elderly parents, and health. Coping with life transition can be draining-- even when the change is happily anticipated. Help yourself and others through the rough patches at work, at home, in life.
Discover:
- What happens after a change takes place
- How change be less painful, less confusing
- Techniques to deal more effectively with change and its effects.
“Holiday creep” happens earlier and earlier each year. With it comes the pressure to create a Normal Rockwell meets Martha Stuart holiday. This non-religious program helps participants recognize “tradition traps” and reclaim their holidays from the media and retail frenzy.
Participants will:
- Explore what is meaningful in their celebrations vs. the expectations of advertisers and merchants.
- Examine and dismiss “shoulds” that may be self-imposed and stressful.
- Develop strategies to bring more meaning to the holidays by creating new traditions.
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Speaking to groups is one of my passions. In the past months, I have had the privilege to speak to the following groups:
