Just Do It - Now!
Do you find yourself procrastinating? Everyone is tempted to put off unpleasnt or time consuming tasks. But then, they pile up and WHAM! you get slammed all at once. The seminar will help you motivate yourself to start - and complete - those dreaded tasks and minimize the stress associated with procrastination.
7 Signs of Burnout - And How to Prevent Them
Endless to-do lists, overloaded email inboxes, PDAs that keep us wired all the time - so many things to perpetuate a frenetic pace. It's easy to see how burnout can happen. But the biggest risk of burnout is not recognizing the signs until it's too late and your work, your career, and your personal life begin to suffer. This seminar identifies identifies 7 common signs of burnout and what you can do to catch yourself before you "burn out". 
Keeping Your Cool - Working Effectively With Difficult People
This is Austin - and temperatures can certainly rise in the Texas sun. But tempers can heat up any time when you're faced with working for, alongside, or even managing a person with a "difficult" personality. If you're tired of "losing your cool" and want to learn a more effective way of dealing with "difficult" people, this seminar is for you.
Work/Life Balance: Fact or Fiction?
As professional women, we always seem to be juggling our careers and our personal lives. Deep inside, we might wonder: Is there any truth to the concept of “perfect” work/life balance? If work/life balance is achievable, why can’t I get it right? This seminar explores what’s true and what’s not true about work/life balance and discloses 3 truths that will help you redefine balance in your own life.
How to Have a Creative Crisis
Whether at work or at home, experiencing a crisis is just part of life. In fact, a crisis in and of itself is not always bad. A crisis can even become a turning point for the better – discovering strengths, acquiring new skills, developing a new way of coping in general. This seminar will help you learn to convert and restructure a crisis into a positive experience from which to grow personally and professionally. With excerpts from the popular book by H. Norman Wright, you’ll leave with insight into alternatives to the chaos and confusion that typically accompanies crises.
Saying "No" Without Guilt
Most of us know that over-committing can lead to feeling overwhelmed. Then why is it that we continue to say “yes” when we know we should be saying “no”? Often, the answer is GUILT – the voice that says “I really should do that”, “They’re counting on me”, or “I’ll miss out if I don’t”. This seminar explores not only the reasons behind why we give in and say “yes” when we should be saying “no”, but also how to say “no” without guilt.
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"What Was Her Name?"
The world memory champion can memorize 170 names and faces in 15 minutes. Yet many people cannot recall a single name thirty seconds after hearing it. This career seminar addresses one of the most important and commonly used skills in business and will highlight strategies for remembering names, even in large group settings.
Time to Jump?
"Should I stay or should I go" are not just lyrics to a popular song, but can be a running theme in the back of someone's mind when they're in a tough situation at work. Be it financial insecurity, lack of other percievable options, or reluctance to leave co-workers behind, indecision can result in the choice being made FOR you, rather than BY you. This seminar provides insight into what issues to consider in making the choice to leave or stay in your current position, to place you in control of your career path, despite difficult circumstances.
You Are Where You Sit
Research shows that where you sit in a meeting does influence where you stand in the dynamics of the group. After all, people are social mammals with primal methods of expressing group power hierarchies. Join us for a lively discussion on how choosing where you sit can impact how others perceive you and even whether your ideas are seriously considered.
Core Elements of an Extraordinary Executive
Have you ever worked under an extraordinary executive? If so, then you may have experienced a level of passion, commitment and cohesiveness throughout the organization that is often missing in other companies. This seminar takes a look at the core elements of an extraordinary executive, and how you might incorporate some of those attributes of leadership in your own management style.
Mid-Course Correction -
Re-charting Your Career
Have you begun to lose interest in your job? Or perhaps what you used to love about it has faded away? Maybe your personal circumstances have changed – marriage, family, etc. – and your career doesn’t fit very well anymore. How can you tell if you should change companies or whether its time to “re-chart” your career? This seminar will help you “look under the hood” and evaluate whether you just need a “tune-up” or whether you’re ready to “shop” for a new career.
Stretching into Management - New Skills for a New Role
Congratulations - you've been promoted – you’ve been promoted to managing a team! You’re excited about your new role, but you’re not sure you have all the skills you need to be successful. This seminar reviews the key disciplines critical to effectively managing a team and how to integrate your own natural leadership style into one that works well for both you and your new team.
Team Dynamics - Converting Challenges into Opportunities
One of the most difficult aspects of managing a team is managing team dynamics. Individual personalities don’t get checked at the office door, and the interplay of those personalities can make or break a team’s effectiveness. This seminar identifies different types of team “players” and what you can do to transition potential challenges into opportunities for overall team success.
Inbox Overload
Email has been one of the most efficient business tools ever developed. But it has also become a burden that can crush productivity and, ironically, even communication. Burgeoning inboxes are filled with emails that are often superseded before they are read, with many emails not read at all. There are no pat answers to the problem of email overload, but this Career Seminar offers some ideas on how to "think outside the [in]box".
Meeting Mania! - Reclaiming Productivity Lost in Endless Meetings
Meetings are an important part of the business world, but they can also grind personal productivity to a halt. This seminar reveals what you can do to make all meetings more productive, as well as providing tips on how to make your own meeting schedule more manageable. |
