Topics for Speeches and Presentations
The Big But Syndrome – How to Get Out of Your Own Way and Achieve Greater Success
What happens when you say, “Yes, but….?” You’re sending a mixed message to the Universe. Learn about the Laws of Attraction and how to use them more effectively.
The Art of Getting Your Own Sweet Way: How to Do More Than Get Along With Others
Establishing boundaries & comfort zones and how to defend them. Honoring and understanding other peoples' zones and boundaries. The relationships between zones, boundaries, selfishness and peak performance. How are aggressive and assertiveness behavior different? Is lying ever right? What's the relationship between manners, frankness and common courtesy?
The Platinum Rule – Achieving Quality Customer Service
Essential techniques for creating and maintaining positive relations with clients and customers: listening, body language, not taking it personally, courtesy, tone of voice.
How to Do Ten Things at Once - Planning Basics
What are the four essential elements of a good plan and an effective planning process? How to keep planning from becoming a "big deal" while routinely producing and implementing the different types of plans: SOPs, strategic plans, contingency plans and budgets.
There Is an I in Team – Team Building Truths
What’s the difference between a group and a team? Why are some teams productive while others are destructive? Topics include: phases of group development, matching leadership style and expectations to each phase, cliques and sub groups, synergy.
There's Got to be a Better Way -- Creativity for Fun and Profit
Does everyone have the potential to be creative? How can innate creativity be tapped? Learn the basic techniques for understanding, stimulating and developing one's own and other people's creativity.
The New Professionalism: Connecting Science and Spirit
How to use the Laws of Attraction to achieve personal, team and organizational objectives.
Dealing With Difficult People: Being a Fixer, Not a Finger Pointer
Why are some people easy and others not? What makes someone difficult for you? This workshop emphasizes understanding why people, be they friends, bosses, spouses, customers or family are difficult for us, individually, and then using that insight to develop a plan to work through the difficulty.
I’m Already Dancing as Fast as I Can - Stress Management & Wellness
How to cope with the symptoms of stress by using the relaxation response; nutrition; exercise; the flight or fight response and positive addiction. Identify, neutralize and then eliminate your stressors.
Doing More With Less: Improving Productivity
What is the 80/20 Rule? Can fishbone charts really solve problems? Amaze your co-workers and impress your boss. Learn to use basic operations research concepts to improve your ability to do more -- at home and on the job.
The Five, or was that six, Methods for Memory Improvement
echniques to improve the powers of observation and retention. Topics include: how to master word pictures; scientific study methods; memory rules; patterns of association; and the powers of intention and self confidence.
What Did You Say? Improving Oral Communication Skills
Master the fundamental elements: body language, word selection, tone of voice, spatial distance and gestures. Identify the everyday breakdowns and the ways to fix them.
Become a Quick Change Artist: Managing Innovation and Change
The marketplace, customers, competition, technology and workforce are constantly changing. Identify how these trends are effecting you then learn how to "ride the horse in the direction it's going."
These Are the Good Old Days - Time Management for Busy People Procrastination, time bandits, setting priorities, scheduling techniques, designing a personal time management system, why time flies when you're having fun - the differences between subjective and objective time.
Live Your Destiny, Not Your History: Self Awareness, Self Control & Motivation
Who are you, really? What's your motivational profile and what difference does it make in the quality of your life? Learn to use values clarification, the hierarchy of needs, reality therapy, behavioral reinforcement and cognitive dissonance to live the life you want.
Three Tips for Speaking in Public
Building self confidence; using visual aids; gestures and body language; organizing the presentation; analyzing the audience; controlling stress and state fright.
Writing Made Easy
The fundamental elements of business-like written communication: style, tone, grammar and clarity. Participants will practice writing, have that writing critiqued and then rewrite. Participants will use actual writing samples and assignments.
Your Career or Your Life – How to Almost Have It All
Two presentations: one aimed at HRD professionals, the other at employees.
Training for People Who Hate to Train - Train-the-Trainer
How to become an effective trainer. Nuts and bolts techniques for identifying training needs, designing, delivering and evaluating short or long training.
Making the Best of a Difficult Situation - Annual Reviews
Two versions: one for those conducting evaluations and one for those being evaluated.
Duh? There’s More to It Than You Think - Using the Telephone
Taking messages; tone of voice; transferring the call; calming the irate caller; encouraging the caller; the dreaded hold. Goal: help people answering or using the phone all day to be more effective and to enjoy themselves, too.
Cultural Diversity: Threat or Opportunity?
Can an Anglo sell to an African American or an Hispanic? What does "diversity" really mean in practical everyday terms? How can organizations and individuals recognize and make the most of it?
It's OK to Get Upset and Yell Once in Awhile - Managing Conflict
Not all conflict is equal. There are ranges: degrees of strength and violence. Learn when to whisper and when to nuke 'em. Understand how conflict works, on and off the job and the techniques for turning most conflicts into "win/win" outcomes.