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Are you Ready to Lead Your Workforce
Into The Virtual Future?
For more than 25 years, I have worked with organizations in numerous industry sectors who want to develop outstanding leaders, activate resilient mindsets and create future-ready workplaces. Together with my clients, I have also experienced boom times as well as periods of tremendous uncertainty, including several recessions and the global financial crisis of 2009. Although the journey hasn’t always been easy for many of us, I have been inspired and honoured to help people who have shared their stories of growth, learning and opportunity that resulted from unexpected challenges and hardships.
If your meetings or events have been cancelled due to the pandemic, or you are seeking online educational sessions to maintain momentum, connection and learning, I offer virtual workshops, presentations, group mentoring and coaching via the Zoom meeting portal with instant, real-time video communication. Alternatively, if your organization has an online portal such as Adobe Connect, Go-To-Webinar, Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business, I would be delighted work with your preference. I am also partnering with local A/V companies to offer my keynote speaking services via livestreaming capabilities to any location.
We are fortunate to have amazing access to technology in order to stay connected. My virtual sessions are designed in collaboration with you and your planning team. All materials are created specifically for your needs. My objective is to help your participants engage and enjoy a practical, dynamic, interactive and content-rich learning experience. Your attendees will leave the session inspired to apply practical strategies and actionable solutions, long after the experience.
Live and Online Virtual Sessions
Staying Power! Success Strategies for Resilient Leadership
One can never diminish the influence and impact of great leadership. During these unprecedented times of uncertainty, people need inspiring leaders who demonstrate confidence, steadiness and genuine interest in the well-being of others. When people are thrown into a new reality, they look to their leaders for hope, encouragement and stability. A leader who is able to role model resilience and share his or her experiences of overcoming adversity can make an immediate, significant difference.
Who Moved my Future? How to Lead Yourself Through Change and Uncertainty
Why is this happening?” “If it ain’t broke, don’t. fix it.” “We’ve always done it that way.” Three clichés that have become part of the dialogue when it comes to the topic of change. To successfully lead our organizations into the future amid disruptive change, we must learn to take charge of ourselves. Self-directed leadership is essential in the face of unexpected or tumultuous events, understanding the shifts occurring with our customer’s buying habits and preferences as well as the ongoing technological revolution. The ever-changing business landscape is the new reality.
Home Alone: How to Lead, Inspire and Engage your Remote Team
Working from home has undergone a revolution in the last two decades. However, we are witnessing an even more profound shift in the world of work brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. Millions of people are now working from home out of necessity, not desire. Government and businesses are quickly adapting to the new reality as offices, retailers and industries of every description are telling their workforce to stay home and stay safe. The impact on work and culture will be unprecedented. It is highly likely that working from home will be the new norm, impacting workplace culture and permanently changing work patterns.
It Starts with You! The Power of Positive Communication at Work and in Life©
Ensuring psychological safety in the workplace should be every employer's priority. Unfortunately, many individuals often feel that they cannot express themselves without fear of being judged or ridiculed by a manager or colleague. Having the courage to speak up positively and proactively is essential. Articulating our thoughts and words purposely and powerfully during a challenging interaction is possible when we are equipped with the skills and self-belief to counter negative or unacceptable behaviour from others.
Staying Power! Success Strategies for Resilient Leadership
So, where to start?
If are seeking new strategies to help your yourself, you team and your organization during this global health and economic crisis, my “Staying Power” presentation will provide three practical steps and easy to understand concepts to hone a resilient mindset.
Rethink: Let go of negative thought patterns and reframe your perspective
Respond: Learn to manage rather than cope with new realities in the short and long-term
Rebound: Grow from adversity and develop a resilient mindset
During this thought-provoking and interactive session, attendees will learn how to access their resilience DNA and leave with new ideas, ready to respond to current and future challenges with greater confidence.
Learning outcomes and benefits of attending this session:
- Become a resiliency role model for your leaders and teams
- Hone a resiliency mindset and tap into your inner strengths
- Develop a greater understanding of the emotional impact of disruption and unexpected change on your team
- Learn to lead and manage adversity with clarity, confidence and composure
- Reframe your perspectives regarding the peaks and valleys of business and life
Who Moved my Future? How to Lead Yourself Through Change & Uncertainty
Are you ready to embrace, accept and adjust your mindset?
Change starts with YOU. The first step is to realize that your perceptions are your truth. Thoughts are driven by deeply held beliefs that manifest as attitudes. The manner in which you choose to interpret situations and events… and subsequently make decisions, will result in specific outcomes. The more you recognize the advantages of activating a proactive mindset, the better equipped you will be to fully implement all the change management strategies that you already have set in motion.
Change is a visceral, emotional experience. When a person discovers his or her “pain point” then he or she is ready to move forward. The same principles apply for organizations.
Learning how to manage situations and events that are outside of your control is not as complex as you may think, although the process often necessitates a readiness to let go of the old and a willingness to embrace the new.
Learning outcomes and benefits of attending this session:
- Apply Michelle’s practical, three-step process: “Awareness, Acceptance, Action” with immediate results.
- Manage change though a new lens and embrace new realities with greater confidence
- Deepen your understanding of the emotional side of change to achieve greater buy-in
- Move beyond the status quo and learn to anticipate change
- Choose to respond rather than react in the face of uncertainty and disruptive forces
Home Alone: How to Lead, Inspire and Engage your Remote Team
As organizations navigate the altered landscape of work, leaders will need to be even more prepared and attuned to the wants and needs of their remote managers and teams. The key to success is exceptional, real-time communication. Today’s technology has become very affordable, providing great opportunities for leaders and teams to stay connected. Your success will depend upon whether you have established strong relationships with each member of your team, or leaders who you may not necessarily see in person on a regular basis, if at all.
As a leader of a remote team, ask yourself:
Do I trust my team?
How often do I need to connect?
Have I clearly articulated the vision, as well as the higher priorities?
Is the team equipped with the essential tools to work remotely?
Your answers to the above questions will help to determine what is working and where the gaps exist. My presentation can help you focus your energy appropriately to ensure that you are maintaining connection and engagement, decreasing isolation and strengthening the collective bond…essential elements to lead and inspire from a distance.
Learning outcomes and benefits of attending this session:
- Implement practical strategies to mitigate disengagement and “disconnect”
- Master the art of meaningful connection and conversation when working remotely
- Learn to lead effectively through different time zones
- Keep team meetings on track and engaging with interactive ideas
- Establish high trust and greater awareness of team stressors and preferences
It Starts with You! The Power of Positive Communication at Work and in Life©
Ensuring psychological safety in the workplace should be every employer's priority. Unfortunately, many individuals often feel that they cannot express themselves without fear of being judged or ridiculed by a manager or colleague. Having the courage to speak up positively and proactively is essential. Articulating our thoughts and words purposely and powerfully during a challenging interaction is possible when we are equipped with the skills and self-belief to counter negative or unacceptable behaviour from others.
A fully–functioning workplace enjoys high morale, high engagement and lower stress, making it a desirable place to be. When we achieve an exceptional standard of communication, we can influence the workplace dynamics and shift perspectives, resulting in a dynamic, positive culture, low turnover, greater camaraderie and respect.
During this highly engaging virtual presentation, the benefits of outstanding communication will be reinforced with an emphasis on framing messaging in the positive. Attendees with learn the differences between critiquing and criticizing when giving feedback, how to manage difficult conversations and minimize defensiveness, build rapport and harness their influence during all interactions.
Delivering her content with rich insights, depth of experience, wit and humour, Michelle will remind your audience of the power of positive communication. Participants will learn strategies to hone these essential skills…priceless assets for career success! They will leave with practical tools to build influence, trust and respect at work and in life, long after the event ends.
Sample of expected learning outcomes for your attendees:
- Build a communication blueprint to use at work and in life
- Realize the incredible leverage of modeling a “do-what it takes” mindset
- Learn to “defend” without offending…even in the most challenging interactions, whether manage to employee, or peer-to peer
- Hone your capacity for to influence a conversation and give feedback in a positive, proactive manner
- Discover how to acknowledge others, even when you don’t agree
- Tap into your innovative potential to bring out the very best in yourself
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