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Stress Busters

Eighty-five percent of Americans suffer from stress-related illnesses, costing businesses billions of dollars in absenteeism and reduced productivity.  Common problems like boredom, forgetfulness, and procrastination result from stress, along with more serious illnesses such as cancer, arthritis, and coronary heart disease.  Join us in learning to identify your body’s stress signals, and then practical tools to turn stress into an advantage.  

 

Wake Up Refreshed

A recent study found three-fourths of Americans wake up ready for bed.  Seventeen percent say they take an entire hour to wake up, resulting in lowered concentration and poor productivity.  The elusive refreshing night’s sleep is really within reach -- closer than the coffee pot.  The human body craves good sleep, and when it is deprived, almost every system is effected.  There are many sleep aids that don’t come in a bottle -- by simply making a few shifts in your day, you could soon be waking up energized.

 

Dealing with Difficult People

Every organization’s got a few:  those who raise your blood pressure just by walking in the room.  Learning to handle those difficult people in your life is an art that can be mastered.  You no longer have to see your boss in your nightmares, or kick the dog because of your officemate.  This interactive workshop is a must for customer service representatives.  

 

Work Out:  Body Language and Negotiation

Research indicates up to 95% of communication is nonverbal.  Everyday negotiations and conflict resolution require “reading” others accurately, as well as conveying the exact message you wish to send.  This experiential workshop is designed to decipher what we’re really trying to say.  Once you learn body language you'll enjoy less conflict and greater negotiation abilities.  

 

Managing Humans

Effective managers are created. The importance of Emotional Intelligence in the workplace- the ability to get along with others, work as a team, handle conflict effectively, etc. can make or break your career. Two people with the same IQ will progress at different rates up the corporate ladder if their people skills are different. Come learn the basics of doing people splendidly. Become one of those people everyone wants to work with, enjoys working with, and recommends highly. A corporation's success truly does depend upon the people skills of its employees just as much as their technical skills.  

 

Personality Typing

Since you have never been anyone else, often it becomes difficult to understand how others look at life.  When you understand the different personality types, interacting with others can be a rewarding, curious journey, instead of a frustrating mysterious task.  You’ll learn your personality type as based on the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Inventory, and learn how your personality typically works best, some common stuck places, and benefits.  

 

Brain Sex

Men can read maps and women can read character.  Typically men and women have different patterns of interacting, priorities, and expectations in the world of work. These differences often lead to miscommunications and frustration.  Find out why a man often can’t think like a female, and visa versa.  Gaining an understanding of the differences reduces puzzlement and frustration, increasing your ability to work well with the other gender. Knowing how the other half thinks is vital to a productive work group.  

 

Fair Fighting

Conflict is a natural and potentially healthy aspect to all work relationships.  Problems arise when conflict is resolved in ways that create distance and hard feelings instead of camaraderie and mutual understanding.  A variety of tools will be presented helping to understand the dynamics of conflict resolution and move toward productive work relationships. We will be role-playing, so bring your boxing gloves!  

 

Courageous Communication

Communication is a basic, but rarely do we step back long enough to improve this building block of corporate America. In this seminar we'll learn how to clear up misunderstandings before they turn into costly mistakes, give constructive criticism to peers, subordinates and superiors, and manage differences to win-win solutions.  Once utilized, these powerful communication tools improve not only the quality of business interactions, but easily translate into family life.  

 

Take Your Family to Work

You do take your family to work every day, whether you like it or not.  Have you ever found yourself instantly "put off" by a colleague?  Or unable to resolve a subordinate's procrastination, because she's just "so nice, and I can't get mad at her"?  Most of us learn how to behave - our work ethics - from our parents and carry these messages into the office as adults. What inhibits you from being the most productive member of your organization? Leave behind ineffective habits, allowing you to enjoy work more and more.  

 

After Shock

With changes both inside organizations and out, flexible employees are succeeding, while those who don't know how to grieve the change and go on, are wasting time and energy living in the past. Teaching employees grief tools and flexibility shortens the time between major changes and getting back on track. Explore tools to make the transition smoother and turn a potentially splintering situation into a time for corporate unity.  

 

Working on Yourself:  Self-Esteem and Assertiveness in the Office

Americans often tie work with self-image, so when we fail at a task or don’t get the promotion, our very selves may be shaken. Your self-esteem even impacts your length of stay on this planet. Take a moment and look at you: your self-image probably doesn't reflect reality 100%. Learn concrete steps to assertively get what you want, as we encourage your positive traits and learn from the negative ones. And when you don’t achieve your wants, learn how to keep your self-esteem intact.

 

Guilt:  The Parental Hormone

This experiential workshop explores the guilt, stress and fears of raising healthy kids in the 90’s.  Enhance your creativity in finding quality-time activities to do with your children, while attending to your needs.  Ideal for working parents, and families with multiple children.  

 

Family Ties

Building a strong, emotionally and psychologically healthy family is one of life’s greatest challenges.  We’ll gain an understanding of healthy family dynamics, and how to strengthen the areas in which your family may be struggling.  Healthy family ties can change the lives of generations to come-- learning about them is the first step.  

 

Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP)

Choose from either a short introduction to the training, or a complete 4-8 week course of training.  This is one of the most widely used and effective parenting programs in the country.  Created by Dinkmeyer and McKay, STEP is for parents of children and adolescents. There are so many creative and healthy tools for parenting young children.  Join us as we take a look at some of the most effective.  You can pick and choose, mix and match.  The greatest gift you can ever give your child is to be the best possible parent.  

 

Child Safety

Often parents struggle with how much “Stranger Danger” information to give their children, without sacrificing the child’s peace of mind. Explore how to keep your child safe in an unsafe world without creating paranoia and panic.  

 

Role Reversal:  Caring for Aging Parents

Whether foreseeable or unexpected, caring for your elderly parent(s) can produce extreme physical, emotional, and mental stress.  Issues of daily needs, emotional support, relocation, parent-child role reversal can end in irreconcilable differences.  Explore this phenomenon and learn new skills for growing together instead of apart.  

 

Effective Parenting Through Life Transitions

As if parenting isn’t hard enough -- the major transitions seem to hit from nowhere.  The move, the death, the teenage rites of passage.  These transitions often put a strain on the entire family, and have lasting negative effects.  Prepare now for transitions you know are going to be coming. We’ll look at the healthiest ways to get through them.  

 

Blending Families

A large segment of the population struggles with putting two families together, often taking several years before equilibrium is reached.  As new partners attempt to find out what their marriage is going to be like, the children are often going through some of the toughest issues of their young lives.  The Brady Bunch it is not.  Come learn the best management skills for this family transition, creating a special, new family.  

 

Power, Manipulation and Independence

We manipulate constantly.  Manipulation skills are learned very early in life, but become rather troublesome during adolescence.  Take a fresh look at your teen and learn to improve relationships through specific, practical tools based on understanding teen manipulation tactics.  Confused by the miscommunication with your teen?  As adolescents search for autonomy, adults perceive them as speaking a foreign language.  Come learn effective methods for talking to your teen.  This seminar is designed to prevent the “we didn’t talk for several years” syndrome.

 

Battling the Blues

When is it depression and when is it just feeling down?  Every person goes through periods of feeling blue, and those who know the best skills bounce back rather unharmed.  Pick from a wide variety of coping strategies presented to make your own personalized smorgasbord of blues busters.  

 

Holiday Madness

Does November trigger instant stress?  Approaching the Holiday season, pressures from family and friends often collide, producing many casualties.  Gather some fresh approaches to handling the holiday hurricane.  Come prepared to experience innovative relaxation techniques and ideas for managing the merriment.  

 

Birth Order

Why are the majority of US Presidents first born?  Does your order of birth impact your current life?  Find out how you can use an understanding of birth order to improve your parenting skills, work relationships and life.

   

 

 

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