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POPULAR Keynotes (30—75 minutes)

The Rubber Band Principle: Easy ways to strengthen resilience
Never again say “It’s too hard.” You can increase your bounceability and capacity to recover from change, mistakes, setbacks and stress at work and home. The Rubber Band Principle will help you easily improve your physical, mental and emotional well being.
Participants will take away:

• 30 Second Quickies to better care for their body—increasing health, vitality and productivity
• Thought and talk edits for increased workplace and life satisfaction
• A lighter load and brighter outlook increasing their ability to focus on the important matters at work
  and home

Sunny Side Up: The power of joy at work and home
Too often we let petty and daily grumbles pull us down. The story of Bertha Honker will inspire you to increase your smiles, laughter, and joy factor. This session is filled with optimism, appreciation and
delightful surprises.   
Participants will:

• Re-capture what they knew as children; it is important to smile, laugh and play
• Learn to think optimistically
• Have ideas to create cheerful surprises
• Feel a sense of well being and happiness
• Hear ways to express their authentic appreciation, weirdness and silliness

POPULAR Workshops (45 minutes—3 hours)

Woe to WOW: Solutions for resilience at work and home
Discover that “You’re stronger than you think.” Resilience is the ability to stay steady in the face of challenge or bounce back and effectively adapt to problems such as disturbing change, loss, crisis, and unfair treatment. In this upbeat and practical how-to session you will strengthen your stress hardiness and walk away with a strategy to better cope and succeed.
Participants will:

• Take The Resilience Quiz
• Identify a problem or adversity they face at work and/or home
• Explore and assess options from the Woe to WOW Resilient Strengthening Strategy Cards
• Create a personal strategy that is the best fit for their situation

Pressure Proofing: How to calm down and lighten up
In this upbeat and practical ‘how to’ session you will learn to minimize unnecessary stress. Discover how to better manage emotions, thought patterns and physical discomfort while increasing your fun factor.
Participants will:

• Assess their distress (Frantic, Frenzied or Simply Fried?)
• Understand the difference between natural stress and unnecessary stress
• Learn how to limit and handle unnecessary stress
• Try out five relaxing 30 Second Quickies
• Transform distress into a smile

7 Secrets of Recognition: Building workplace resilience
Effective communication is the key to enhancing any relationship. Appropriate validation improves commitment, connection and satisfaction. Minimize criticism, increase encouraging comments and be a workplace cheerleader.
Participants will:

• Transform negative comments into positive phrasing
• Understand how to give meaningful and supportive feedback
• Recognize their and others’ strengths
• Practice attentive listening
• Take away a list of validating statements

The Lighter Side of Work: Discovering the joy factor at work
It is a myth that seriousness is a healthy standard for the workplace. Learn light hearted strategies to improve creative problem solving, productivity, team work and client relationships.
Participants will:

• Practice 2 easy lighteners to improve relationships
• Increase their ability to laugh at themselves and refocus on work
• Take away 13 fun surprise ideas to enliven the workplace
• See the humor in workplace distress—change, deadlines or dealing with grumpy people

Maximizing Personal Strengths: Self and relationship awareness
Working together productively doesn’t come naturally to everyone. Learn what motivates your behavior, what changes when you are in conflict and how your weaknesses are your strengths overdone. 

The SDI® (Strength Deployment Inventory®) is the flagship assessment of a suite of tools based on Relationship Awareness — a learning model for effectively and accurately understanding the motive behind behavior. When people recognize the unique motivation of themselves and others, they greatly enhance their ability to communicate more effectively AND handle conflict more productively.
Participants will:

• Be given a profile of how their strengths can be used for improved performance
• Become aware of their primary motivation and how it drives their behavior
• Learn how to “borrow” strengths to boost their effectiveness
• Have increased awareness and appreciation for their and others’ strengths

Patricia Morgan is a speaker, workshop leader and author of
From Woe to WOW: How Resilient Women Succeed at Work (http://www.FromWoeToWOW.org)
Contact her to help your people become stress hardy at 403-242-7796,
patricia@SolutionsForResilience.com or http://www.SolutionsForResilience.com