Three Corporate Speaking Engagements

Growing Your Leadership Garden

Audience:  All levels of management and anyone in a team leader position.

Objectives:  Audience will learn how to:

• Identify the qualities/characteristics of best leaders/worst leaders.
• Identify the 25 EQ characteristics and why they are important in becoming a more effective leader.
• Develop an awareness of the importance of self-development as a leader through coaching and getting feedback from direct reports and the coach.
• Identify and incorporate the three tiers of leadership* into your daily plan.
• Use a Focus/Energy Model as a time management tool on working on what’s important, not urgent.
• Identify the three criteria** that create success in the workplace and how to use them effectively.
• Identify the six key barriers to effective 2-way communication.
• Using the listening skills to enhance 2-way communication.

Benefits:

• Retention of most talented employees, which reduces cost.
• Increased team productivity.
• Using your strengths more effectively as a leader.

Length of workshop:  1 ½ - 2 hrs or ½ day or 1 day

*  provide a vision, provide resources, remove obstacles
**empowerment, technology, and teamwork

Growing Your Career Garden

Audience:  employees who have an interest in positioning themselves with upper management to gain lateral or upward mobility in an organization.

Objectives: Audience will learn how to:

• Identify the six criteria that create an employee’s reputation.
• Use the10 key tips to marketing yourself as a product.
• Become professionally savvy by “managing up”.
• Identify the value you bring to the workplace and maximize it to create a win/win for yourself and the organization.
• Develop a 30-second commercial on how you contribute value to the workplace.

Benefits:

• Enhanced professional reputation and visibility in the workplace
• Retaining internal and external marketability in the workplace.

Length of workshop:  1 ½ hrs. or ½ day or 1 day

Growing Your Retirement Garden

Audience:  Men and women approaching retirement or downsized employees taking a buyout package.

Objectives:  Audience will learn how to:

• Identify and prioritize “life markers”, those qualities, values and characteristics that are important to you in your transitioning lifestyle.
• Define what your life markers mean to you.
• Answer questions based on your chosen life markers to focus on how to incorporate the life marker into your daily routine.
• Maintain your retirement garden on a daily basis.

Benefit:

• Enjoyable and satisfying retirement.
• Improved health on all levels: physical, mental, and spiritual.
• Increased self-worth and image.

Length of workshop:  1 ½ - 2 hrs.

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