Training Sessions

Getting Unstuck® Without Coming Unglued: Restoring Work-Life Balance
(Also known as: Avoiding Burnout: Five Strategies for Restoring Work-Life Balance)

What does work-life balance really mean, and what does it actually require of you?  In part it involves eliminating the energy drains in your life — the things that drag you down and drive you nuts — and doing more of the things that restore you and bring you joy.  This presentation offers a framework for understanding why it’s so critical to everyone in your life — and most especially you — that you keep your batteries fully charged.  It also offers practical, hands-on strategies for how to pull this off when the demands on your time are constant and insatiable.  You'll get to look at some of the classic themes and issues underlying high achievers' often-ambivalent attitudes toward work-life balance and the ineffective behaviors that can result.  Bring your challenges!

Creating Relief: Stress Management for Professionals

This program utilizes a powerful self-assessment instrument that allows participants to identify the TYPES of stress they are experiencing, and at what level.  It results in a personal profile that illustrates where individuals are in balance in their lives, and where they are headed for burnout.  Even more importantly, it offers very specific remedies for the very specific kinds of stress identified.  Each participant can leave this workshop with a plan of action directed at reducing the specific types of high stress he/she is experiencing.  This workshop consists of an introduction to the assessment and the topic in general, completion of the assessment itself, and a debrief process where people can engage with their results and come up with an actionable plan for dealing with their personal sources of burnout stress. Often used in combination with other training topics, this assessment is consistently identified by participants as one of the most valuable components of the overall training.   (Available in a two-hour format; may be combined with another topic to create a one-half day event.)

Delegation: Expand Your Capacity

What’s so hard about delegating?  Why WOULDN’T you get help wherEVER you could, considering that the demands on your time are constant and insatiable?  This presentation offers a look at some of the classic themes and issues underlying professional women’s often-ambivalent attitudes toward delegating and the ineffective behaviors that can result.   It offers practical, hands-on strategies for addressing the most prevalent delegation challenges (bring yours!), and makes a case for your becoming a much more effective delegator.  Find out why it’s critical to your career, your organization, your family, and yourself that you become fluent in this skill — and pick up some new on-the-ground skills for doing so. 

Coaching Skills for Managers

Research indicates that employees are more likely to leave a job because of their managers and supervisors than because of any other aspect of the job or the company.  Are you concerned that your own management style may not meet the needs of your reports?  Are you concerned that some of your managers may be driving valuable employees away?  Keeping or losing key employees often depends on the manager's ability to coach them through workplace, career, and work-life balance challenges.  This workshop helps managers enhance the effectiveness of their coaching skills by giving them the opportunity to learn and practice techniques for:

• Improving their listening and relating skills
• Empowering and challenging reports
• Advising and strategizing
• Enhancing their skill in developing members of their team
• Troubleshooting classic employee challenges
• Being a resource to their team

Managing Your Focus and Energy to Reach a Big Goal

Okay, you’ve identified that huge goal that will be the dominating and organizing principle in your life for a while.  Given that this will be an endurance event, not a sprint, what changes do you need to make so that you can sustain the effort over the long haul?  In what ways can you strengthen your self-management skills to meet the demands of this next chapter?  This session offers a framework for understanding why it’s critical — to the success of your project and to your personal sustainability — for you to actively and intentionally manage your focus and energy.  It also offers practical, hands-on strategies for how to pull this off when the demands on your time are constant and insatiable. 

Especially for MOMS

This session incorporates much of the information presented in Getting Unstuck Without Coming Unglued: Restoring Work-Life Balance and Avoiding Burnout, but is packaged especially for mothers of young children.

What does work-life balance really mean, and what does it actually require of you?  For mothers, it can be particularly challenging: where exactly does the job end and the Mom begin?  In part, balance involves eliminating the energy drains in your life — the things that drag you down and drive you nuts — and doing more of the things that restore you and bring you joy.  This presentation offers a framework for understanding why it’s so critical to everyone in your life — and most especially you — that you keep your batteries fully charged.  It also offers practical, hands-on strategies for how to pull this off when the demands on your time are constant and insatiable.  You'll get to look at some of the classic themes and issues underlying high achievers' often-ambivalent attitudes toward work-life balance and the ineffective behaviors that can result.  Bring your challenges!