LIVING in Full Swing...RISK IT!
Synopsis:
Maybe you’ve felt like you’ve been pushed off the swing of life…or maybe you just sense that you were meant to swing higher. Don’t settle for risk aversion and mediocrity. Get up, get out, and get in the swing of purposeful risk taking. Exercise your "risk-taking" muscles and learn practical strategies to maximize your potential.
Learning Outcomes: You will:
1. Define "purposeful risk taking."
2. Identify practical strategies for intellectual, social, and emotional
risk-taking.
3. Examine the benefits of taking the right risks for the right reasons.
Content:
Don’t gamble on your present or future performance. The authenticity you achieve in life depends on taking the right risks in response to the opportunities presented to you. This session will delve into three types of purposeful risk taking.
Part I. Intellectual Risk Taking - Research and technology create
constant change in information and practice. Learn and grow...or get
left in the dust. The payoff is your being smart, prepared and ready.
1. Stay mentally sharp.
2. Ask good questions.
3. Get moving.
Part II. Social Risk Taking - Re-discover how to connect with others,
create social capital and build positive influence.
1. See others as allies.
2. Look, listen and learn.
3. Build trust.
Part III. Emotional Risk Taking - Stressful circumstances or negative
people can jolt your emotional stability--if you allow it. Take control
of your emotional state.
1. Breathe…and become centered.
2. Don’t blow…re-direct the flow.
3. Take control of the situation.
Format:
This interactive 45 minute – 1.5 hour session will get you in the swing of purposeful risk taking. Peter Drucker said it best: “There’s the risk you can’t afford to take and there’s the risk you can’t afford NOT to take.” Risk is an action verb. You will be offered the opportunity to flex your risk taking muscles and get involved in some quick, interactive challenges. This experiential approach will help you practice the strategies outlined above, internalize connections to real-life situations, and make this session lively and fun!
INNOVATION in Full Swing...Flip Change-Resistance into a Change-Ready Mindset
Synopsis:
Just when you think you have something mastered, what happens? They change it! Change is risky business. Making a change requires a leap of faith. You must move in the direction of the unknown on the hope that things will be better. Are you and your team change-ready or change-resistant? You need a personal strategy to address your own attitude toward change and a strategy to move your team toward change-readiness.
Learning Outcomes: You will:
1. Recognize the signs of change-resistance.
2. Understand why people resist change and what you need in order to
be change-ready.
3. Identify specific steps that will help others (co-workers, clients, even
family members) take the risk to change.
Content:
In this ever-changing and fast-paced environment, you need a personal strategy to address your own attitude toward change and a strategy to move others toward change-readiness. This session will help you understand how to turn risk and change...into growth and success.
Part I: Whether it’s a major organizational re-structuring, a new co-worker,
or a procedural shift, change is an external reality that triggers
internal resistance. Recognize the signs of change-resistance:
1. Gossip
2. Overt or covert challenge
3. The resistance zoo
Part II: When the established order is upset, a person’s sense of identity can
be threatened because of three underlying handicaps:
1. Not knowing
2. Not able
3. Not willing
When resistance springs from these identity-related roots, you must
help people to know the benefits/rewards of the change; be able to
make the change with the right training and skills; and be willing to
change with support or mentoring.
Part III: Specific steps to promote change-readiness:
1. To influence another person’s commitment for change, you must
engage them in four ways: Listen, Empathize, Educate and Involve.
2. To enhance your own change-readiness, give yourself an
attitude adjustment.
Format:
In this interactive 45 minute -1.25 hour session, you will be offered the opportunity to flex your risk-taking muscles and get involved in some quick, interactive challenges. This experiential approach will help you practice the strategies outlined above, construct connections to real-life situations, and make this session lively and fun. This session will challenge you to confront your own biases on change and learn pro-active methods to help others turn change-resistance into change-readiness.
INSPIRATION in Full Swing...Foster Positive Energy and Spirit in the Workplace
Synopsis:
There are stressful situations every day that can cause you to feel …no energy! ...scattered energy! ...even ugly energy! INSPIRATION is your ability to return to your inner spirit—your center of positive energy and
well-being. In that state, you will give quality service and focused attention to others. When your words and actions are sparked by positive energy, you can better cope with workplace issues. Get a power charge that will propel you into the full swing of INSPIRATION.
Learning Outcomes: You will:
1. Define Inspiration.
2. Identify practical and meaningful strategies to:
- Restore positive energy
- Practice relaxation
- Tap into creativity
3. Examine the relationship between positive energy, emotional fitness,
personal performance and the quality of service you give to others.
Content:
We are energy beings. You transmit energy with either a positive or negative charge…affecting everything you say and do. This session will examine practical strategies to get you in the full swing of inspiration so you can handle challenges and give quality service to others in a state of self-empowerment.
Part I: Spirit...and Positive Energy.
In stressful circumstances, how you handle negative emotion
determines the energy charge of your next words, action and body
language. These strategies will return you to a positive state:
1. Breathe…and become centered.
2. Don’t blow…re-direct the flow.
3. Take control of the situation.
Part II: Spirit...and Relaxation. The mind--relieved of the pressure of thoughts for a few minutes
--taps into the relaxation response, links to your inner spirit, and fills you with joy.
1. Benefits of the relaxation response.
2. Examples of how to induce the relaxation response.
Part III: Spirit...and Creativity. Creativity is an inherently spiritual act.
1. Types of creativity.
2. Creativity exercises.
Format:
This 1.25 or 1.5 hour presentation will build positive energy with stories, humor and audience interaction. Cathy has an innovative style of engaging participants with quick and fun interactive challenges to inspire them to internalize habits for higher performance.
INFLUENCE in Full Swing...Get Great Results in Building Your Social Capital
Synopsis:
Do you understand the give-and-take sequence that builds your
"social capital" and makes your organizational world go round? You can INFLUENCE others--co-workers, vendors, clients, family members--through understanding the EXCHANGE process. It’s the ABCs of Influence:
Allies...See other people as strategic allies with resources.
Behavior Styles...understand different styles of giving/receiving.
Create trust...with respect and caring.
Flex your social risk-taking muscles and learn practical strategies for maintaining habits that contribute to rather than compromise your relationships. Think of the great results you will get!
Learning Outcomes: You will:
1. Define Influence and social capital.
2. Describe the types of resources available to you.
3. Identify different behavioral styles of exchange.
4. Examine the correlation between the "ABCs of Influence" and the value
of improved relationships.
Content:
Relationships are risky business. Don’t gamble on your present or future ability to build your social capital. This session will delve into three practical strategies to get great results in INFLUENCE.
Part A: Allies: See other people as strategic allies with resources:
1. Jump-start the process of alliance-thinking and size up other
people as potential allies.
2. Know your resources. You have many potential bargaining chips
to use in exchanges with others.
Part B: Behavior Styles: Understand different styles of giving/receiving.
Don’t be blindsided by a clash in behavioral styles:
1. Look, listen and learn.
2. Understand and adapt to other peoples' behavioral styles.
Part C: Create trust. Relationships demand trust. The risk is that trust,
openness and caring won’t be returned or will be misinterpreted.
1. Self-govern your own emotional state so you can communicate with positive energy.
2. Connect to people with caring actions and kind words.
Format:
This 45 minute - 1.5 hour presentation will build positive energy with stories, humor and audience interaction. Cathy has an innovative style of engaging participants with quick and fun interactive challenges to inspire them to internalize habits for higher performance.
INTEGRITY in Full Swing...Keep Your Cool in a Crazy World
Synopsis:
We live in a crazy world that is more complex, less stable, and more problematic than ever before. Ethical breakdown proliferates. Emotional ineptitude is running rampant. Nevertheless, you are responsible for your actions and behavior. Learn how to integrate your behavior with universal tenets: Respect, Responsibility, Kindness and Self-Control. Learn practical strategies for maintaining habits that contribute to rather than compromise your integrity.
Learning Outcomes: You will:
1. Define Integrity.
2. Identify practical strategies to align your behavior with the universal
tenets of Respect, Responsibility, Kindness and Self-control.
3. Examine the correlation between integrity, ethics, emotional fitness and
the quality of service you give to others.
TEACHING in Full Swing...Looking for Truths and Seeking Answers in Difficult Times
Brief Summary:
Teaching is a high calling, but with it comes high pressure. Changes in methodology, testing, and student safety create a great deal of challenge for educators. In spite of that, your mission remains the same: student motivation and achievement! Look for the truths: revisit the reasons why you are here. Seek answers: learn practical strategies to motivate and engage students. Renew your commitment and get back in the full swing of high performance teaching.
Learning Outcomes: You will:
1. Analyze your personal reasons for choosing to be an educator.
2. Identify meaningful strategies to enhance student motivation and
achievement.
3. Examine the relationship between your personal motivations for becoming
an educator and your ability to motivate students towards higher
achievement.
Content:
Educators are looking for truths and seeking answers in difficult times. Here’s the TRUTH about teaching, about why you are here, about making a difference in the lives of the students you teach:
Part I: Love of Learning What causes brain activation and good chemical flow? And
how can you capitalize on it?
1. Social Interaction
2. Physical Movement
3. Creativity
4. Challenge
5. Successful Performance
Part II: Legacy...You touch the future, you teach! You do touch the future, but the demands that students make on you must answered in the present. Whatever students need in terms of guidance, knowledge, character, love--they need NOW:
1. Kind Words.
2. The "Sandwich" Technique for Error Correction.
3. Role Model for Positive State of Being.
Part III. Those Incredible Positive HITS of Emotion You get when
what you do WORKS! Celebrate your successes...when you.
1. Created a strategy to help a young person change a negative behavior and it worked!
2. Encouraged a student to believe in himself and it worked!
3. Gave a young person the power for self-directed learning and it worked!
Format:
This 1.25 or 1.5 hour keynote presentation will build positive energy with vivid stories, light-hearted humor and audience interaction. Cathy has an innovative style of engaging participants with quick and fun interactive challenges to inspire them to internalize habits for higher performance. This experiential approach will help participants practice the strategies outlined above, construct connections to real-life teaching situations, and make this session lively and fun!
LEADING in Full Swing...Expand Your Leadership and Teambuilding Potential
Synopsis:
Did you grow up hearing and believing: Don’t rock the boat? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it? If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen? Those "risk avoidance" mindsets might influence the way you engage in leadership. So get ready to FLIP your thinking! Take the right risks to find the rhythm of leadership. This session will teach you how to rock the boat, fix it, and turn up the heat with simple, effective ways to lead in full swing...like a pro in any setting.
Learning Outcomes: You will:
1. Describe "purposeful" risk taking.
2. Identify practical leadership strategies to RELATE (rock the boat),
PERFORM (fix it), and GET RESULTS (turn up the heat).
3. Examine the relationship between developing competencies and
expanding leadership/teambuilding potential.
Content:
There can be uncertainty and reservation about accepting a leadership position. Do you have the time, energy and skills to motivate others, perform up to par, and get desired results? Leadership is risky business!
This session will inspire you to get in the swing and take the right risks for effective leadership.
Part I: Rock the Boat! RELATE well to others, understand behavioral differences, and
motivate others to work together and accomplish tasks.
1. Look, listen and learn.
2. Cooperate and compromise
Benefit: You build relationships and create a working team.
Part II: Fix It! PERFORM up to par, work on yourself, and become better:
1. Open your mind; change your mind.
2. Correct errors.
Benefit: You establish a culture that supports individual building as
well as teambuilding
Part III. Turn up the heat! Establish a work ethic, expect personal responsibility & get RESULTS.
1. Set the standard
2. Delegate and follow-up.
Benefit: You encourage action and get desired results
Format:
This 3 hour – 6 hour session will build positive energy with stories, humor and audience interaction. Cathy has an innovative style of engaging you with challenges to inspire you to internalize habits for higher leadership. This experiential approach will help you practice the strategies outlined above, internalize connections to real-life situations, and make this session lively and fun!
LIVING in Full Swing...Maximize Your Competencies and Achieve a Higher Level of Performance
Synopsis:
What if you could...welcome change? ...positively influence others? ...maintain your integrity? ...and restore your positive energy? Achievement of these competencies--Innovation, Influence, Integrity, and Inspiration--requires some RISK. A negative view of risk can put blinders on your performance and personal growth. Don’t settle for risk aversion and mediocrity. Get up, get out, and get in the swing of purposeful risk taking. Exercise your "risk-taking" muscles and learn practical strategies to maximize your potential.
Learning Outcomes: You will:
1. Define "purposeful risk taking."
2. Identify meaningful strategies to develop the competencies of Innovation, Influence, Integrity, and Inspiration.
3. Examine the relationship between developing your competencies and achieving a higher level of performance.
Content:
Maybe you’ve felt like you’ve been pushed off the swing of life…or maybe you just sense that you were meant to swing higher.
Part I: Innovation - The ability to be change-ready.
A. Learn and practice strategies for intellectual risk taking:
1. Keep Mentally Sharp
2. Ask Good Questions
B. Recognize the signs and handicaps of change-resistance.
C. Identify specific steps to promote change-readiness.
D. Summarize the benefits of purposeful risk taking for Innovation.
Part II: Integrity - The quality of self-governing your emotional state:
A. Identify the factors that affect your emotional state
B. Understand that a person with integrity knows how to recover from the stress of a negative emotion and say or do the right thing.
C. Learn and practice strategies for emotional risk taking:
1. Breathe! – Become centered and calm
2. Don’t blow...re-direct the flow – Release the negative
emotion by quickly re-directing the flow of positive emotion
back into your being.
3. Take control of the situation – Access your problem-solving
ability, interpersonal skills and proficiency in communication
to say and do the right thing.
D. Summarize the benefits of purposeful risk taking for Integrity.
Part III: Influence - The power to build positive relationships:
A. A. Define influence, exchange, resources and social capital.
B. Learn and practice strategies for social risk taking:
1. See others as allies – Jump-start the process of alliance
thinking and size up other people as potential allies.
2. Know your resources – you have many potential bargaining chips to use in exchanges with others.
3. Look, listen and learn – Understand and adapt to other
peoples' behavioral styles.
4. Create trust – Connect to people with caring actions and
kind words.
C. Summarize the benefits of purposeful risk taking for Influence.
Part IV: Inspiration - the aim to restore positive energy (the spirit within):
A. Examine the meaning of energy and spirit.
B. Learn and practice strategies for spiritual risk taking:
1. Maintain thoughts of peace and appreciation.
2. Practice relaxation techniques.
3. Tap your creativity.
C. Summarize the benefits of purposeful risk taking for Inspiration.
Teaching Methods:
"Risk" is an action verb. Participants will be offered the opportunity to flex their risk taking muscles and get involved in several quick, interactive challenges. This experiential approach will help participants practice the strategies outlined above, internalize connections to real-life situations, and make this session lively and fun! Peter Drucker said it best: "There’s the risk you can’t afford to take and there’s the risk you can’t afford NOT to take." The presenter will also incorporate vivid stories, light-hearted humor, reflection and small group discussion. This workshop will get participants in the swing of purposeful risk taking and give them the lift they need to reach new heights in well-being and performance
Cathy will gladly customize a presentation to meet your specific needs or to reflect the conference or meeting theme/purpose.
© copyright 2010 Cathy Newton & PRT
Consulting, Inc.
