With over 200 seminar options, we offer an extensive variety of topics. Seminars serve as an engaging way to kick-off a wellness challenge. We can also create a seminar to meet your needs and interests.

 

Seminars are presented by a wide variety of health professionals, including health educators, registered dieticians, exercise physiologists and ergonomic specialists. Seminars can be coordinated to accommodate your employees’ schedules. Most seminars are 60 minutes but can be adjusted to fit your timeframe. We also offer many webinar versions, please inquire if you are interested.

(If you don’t see your particular topic of interest listed, please ask us to customize a seminar for you.)

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AdvantageHealth offers seminars on the following wellness topics: 

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CHRONIC CONDITIONS:

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A Holistic Approach to Managing Chronic Pain, Fatigue and Fibromyalgia

This seminar examines the multiple causes of chronic pain and fatigue including neurogenic pain, arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome and Fibromyalgia.  Current research is provided and natural approaches to managing these conditions will be discussed.

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Blood Pressure – Stop, Drop & Control

According to research studies, 50 million Americans have high blood pressure. Many people are not aware that they have the condition or how it will affect their health. Left untreated, high blood pressure can damage blood vessels and internal organs. The detection, prevention and treatment of high blood pressure will be discussed in this seminar.

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Cholesterol – What You Need to Know

Cholesterol is a fat-like substance found in your blood and in all your body’s cells. A certain amount of cholesterol is necessary for good health, but too much cholesterol in your blood can lead to clogged arteries and potential heart disease. This seminar will cover the basics of “good” and “bad” cholesterol, what your cholesterol numbers mean and what you can do to improve your cholesterol profile.

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Diabetes – Prevention & Detection

This seminar defines diabetes, symptoms, how it affects the body, and how it relates to living a healthy lifestyle. Individuals will understand the importance of managing nutrition, glucose, exercise and other related risk factors.

 

Going Skin Deep

The skin is our largest organ and we absorb 60-70% of what we put on it. Many of our skin care products contain toxins which are banned in other countries. These toxins can contribute to obesity, thyroid issues, and hormonal concerns. Learn about ingredients to avoid, nutrition for the skin, and replacement skin care product ideas.

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Heart Disease – Prevention is the Key

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is caused by a narrowing of the coronary arteries that feed the heart. According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, coronary heart disease is the number one killer of both men and women in the U.S., with over half a million Americans dying of heart attacks caused by CHD each year. The fact is that many of these deaths could be prevented because CHD is related to changeable lifestyle risk factors like smoking, obesity and physical inactivity. This seminar will focus on the causes, detection, prevention and treatment of CHD.

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IBS, Fibromyalgia and Migraines – Food Sensitivities and Chronic Ill Health

Do you regularly experience extreme fatigue, joint pain, headaches, and/or digestive distress? Does the medical community tell you there is nothing wrong and it must be in your head? Food sensitivities affect 20-30% of the populations and may be a cause for many inflammatory conditions including IBS, Fibromyalgia and Migraines. In this class you will learn the difference between food allergy and food sensitivities and if food sensitivities may be impacting your health.

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Managing Bone and Joint Health Naturally

This seminar examines the common causes of bone density and joint problems. Conditions discussed include osteopenia/ osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and other auto immune join disorders. Dr. Kriva then presents natural methods to manage these conditions, including the use of dietary supplements.

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Managing Migraine Headaches Naturally

This talk focuses on new understandings of the cause of migraine headaches based upon the latest research using upright MRI imaging. The new understandings gained from this cutting edge research yield insight into managing migraine headaches naturally, without the use of medications. These methods as well as research in support of these methods are explored and discussed with the audience.

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Men’s Health 101

Discover the leading causes of death, what makes men’s health different, risk factors, and what men must do to lead healthier lives.

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Natural Management of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

This seminar discusses the causes and diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome. Natural treatment options are presented as alternatives to medication and surgery.

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Natural Solutions to Managing Arthritis

This workshop will talk about the causes and symptoms of arthritis. Non-drug and non-surgical treatment alternatives will be presented.

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Secrets to Living Longer

Based on bestselling author, Dan Buettner’s book, The Blue Zones, this seminar will identify the four places in the world where people live amazingly long, healthy and productive lives. Discuss what has been learned about these ‘blue zones’ and how we too can add years to life and life to years!

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Stop The Inflammation! – Healthy choices to reduce inflammation that causes aging and disease

Inflammation is the body’s natural response to injury, infection or what it sees as a foreign invader. Though acute inflammation is short lived, chronic inflammation is a continual response of the immune system and can lead to degeneration – aging the body and creating disease conditions. In this class you will learn what lifestyle choices you can make to prevent inflammation and promote good health and a long life.

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The 12 Health Myths Even Your Doctor May Not Know

This seminar takes a look at 12 common health myths even many doctors believe. Dr. Kriva looks at what current research is telling us and provides you with information you can use to make better informed decisions regarding your health. He takes on topics as varied as fluoride in the water and tooth decay, the use of sunscreen and the incidence of skin cancer and the ever popular and controversial topic of vaccinations. Be prepared to be surprised and leave better equipped to take care of your health.

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Treating Acid Reflux and Hiatal Hernia Naturally

This seminar focuses on the symptoms and causes of Acid Reflux, Hiatal Hernia and other common digestive disorders. Non-drug approaches to treatment including diet modifications and herbal supplements are presented.

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FAMILY HEALTH:

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Advocating for Your Child

Whether you’re at a doctor’s office or a school conference it can be intimidating to oppose their professional opinions and many parents wonder when is the right time to challenge and the right time to accept information that is being shared. As a parent, you know your child’s abilities and challenges more intimately than other people do, so it’s important to be comfortable stating what you know to be true about your child. This workshop outlines strategies to clearly and effectively communicate with your child’s teacher, doctor or other professional to build a strong partnership with your child’s best interests in mind.

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After the Baby: Maximizing Employee Transitions to Parenthood

Indeed, having a baby is a joyous occasion for most employees, yet the changes and necessary adjustments that come with the birth of a child often strain many marriages and partnerships, sometimes to the breaking point.  In fact, parent relationship conflict increases by a factor of nine and marital quality is known to drop sharply within the first year of a baby’s birth – a time when parents often revert to stereotypical gender roles and are overwhelmed due to family care, housework and career responsibilities.

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Clearly, there is stress in the homes of new parents that undoubtedly travels to the workplace to show itself in lost productivity, increased absences, lower profits, and higher health costs due to physical and emotional concerns, widespread depression, and fallout from associated risky behaviors.

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Managing the Gaming Appetite/Screen Time in Your Teens and Tweens

Although some gaming time can be fun, and even educational, it’s easy to go overboard. In our increasingly hi-tech age, television is just one form of screen time for kids. Add in videos, computer games, handheld game and the latest generation Apps, and you have a bewildering array of screens for our kids to stare at. Recent studies increasingly weigh in on the downside of too much screen time while some report that the generation raised with screens prefer that as their primary method of communicating. This seminar will present recommendations from the medical community regarding screen time and encourage conversation about how we can modulate our own screen usage, as well as moderate our children’s.

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Pediatric Sleep

As a parent, you want your children to be as healthy and happy as possible. Sleep plays a major role in their ability to achieve those goals. Learn about the impact your child’s sleep has on their ability to learn and grow.

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Raising Financially Successful Kids

Children face media and consumer pressures at a very young age. This seminar will give parents a better understanding of what they can do to teach their children about money. We also share fun exercises for you to use with your child as they develop an understanding of money and how to use it wisely. Content covers birth through the teen years. We’ll look at ways to make kids money-wise through allowances, healthy money management, savings, and credit awareness.

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Raising Healthy Kids in the New Millennium

“Raising Healthy Kids in the New Millennium” is a workshop that covers a variety of health topics, including: nutrition, exercise, natural approaches to treating common childhood health problems (such as ear infections) and overall enhancement of health.

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Sports: When Enough is Enough and Too Much is Too Much

The “Magic Moment:” your child’s coach takes you aside and says s/he thinks that your child should increase his/her participation in this sport. Businesses have grown up around helping young athletes garner interest from collegiate coaches, with an eye to a scholarship and even a pro career. How do you continue to encourage a healthy interest and participation in sport in today’s climate?  What are realistic expectations of your young athlete? This seminar will look at statistics regarding young athletes, research about physical and emotional growth and development as it relates to youth sports. Efforts to find a balance for your young athlete and family will be discussed.

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Teenagers and Sleep

Our community’s teenage population is one that suffers from fatigue the most. Learn how their shift in circadian rhythms leave them vulnerable to our society’s expectations, and what you can do to help them.

 

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AGING & ELDER CARE:

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As You Age – What Do You Want Your Family to Know?

No one can read your mind – even though we wish others could. Learn what documents to gather and just how to share these important documents with those you trust. Having things in order can bring confidence and a sense of peace as we all look into our retirement years.

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Be Brave Enough to Start a Conversation That Matters

It’s difficult to know when your concerns should qualify for action and possible change when it relates to another person. How do you bring up concerns over housing, finances, health care advance directives and even death? By recognizing those concerns and knowing what steps may follow, you can prevent crisis and maximize communication with everyone. Start those difficult conversations sooner rather than wishing you had started it months ago.

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Being A Working Caregiver

This presentation focuses on the impact of caregiver issues in today’s working population. The “sandwich generation,” while being employed and raising their own children, may also need to assist their parents. Collecting resources and accessing information early can save time as well as simplify the process.

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Caring From a Distance

Do you worry about your father falling when you are miles and miles away? Is your mother really taking her medication at the correct time with the exact dose and on an empty stomach? Are your thoughts occupied by your parents’ health status? “Distance” caregivers, from across the state to across the country, will be prepared for their role and benefit from gaining knowledge on local community resources to assist their loved ones at a distance. This seminar will inform about the options that you have as a caregiver, plus collect critical information to ease your stress level and paperwork

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Compassionate Caregiving

Caregiving can be hard. When did I become a caregiver? Where do I start? How do I do this because I feel like I am on an island all by myself? Because families are often the central unit in the job of caregiving, understanding roles, utilizing community resources and taking care of yourself is the foundation of caregiving. Learn that you are not alone and there are resources to help.

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Create Your Health Care Directive

Who would speak for you if you couldn’t speak for yourself? That’s the concept behind Advanced Care Planning, a guided conversation on about your end of life wishes and preferences. It is a process that identifies what is most important to you concerning quality of life and living. This class will prepare you to develop a Health Care Directive, a written document which describes your choices. Selecting your health care agent, the person who will make sure your wishes are carried out, will be discussed.

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Help! My Parents Are Getting Old … What Do I Need to Know?

By attending this seminar, you will understand the importance of gathering and sharing key information, learn the importance of planning ahead, give you confidence and a sense of peace for planning ahead, learn how to initiate those difficult conversations, identify important documents to gather together, understand your changing roles, and learn more about the resources that can help.

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Making Decisions Sooner Rather Than Later…Your Own Health Care Directive

Join us to learn how to identify key people in your life that should know about your wishes and understand the importance of expressing your wishes. Learn about what is included in the Minnesota Health Care Directive and “Five Wishes”. These are easy to complete health care directive forms that let you say exactly what your wishes are for the future as well as end of life decisions. Every age is the right age to have a health care directive!

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Parenting Your Parents

This is not easy. That said, it’s not supposed to be. The shift in roles does not come with an instruction manual and often happens abruptly. How do we plan to be there for our parents in the last phase of their lives? This class will focus on ways to have conversations to help everyone involved make plans and decisions in a respectful way.

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Staying Connected After Retirement

Your job offered social relationships just because you showed up. Research says that good relationships are critical to healthy aging.  How do you rebuild relationships that may not have been given much attention while you were working? Where do you look to develop new relationships and social communities? This class will discuss a variety of ways that retirees can stay socially connected, including seeking volunteer opportunities.

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Wellness and Aging

As we age, our bodies change, and it may be harder to lose weight than in our 20’s. We also may not be able to eat the same foods or exercise the same way. Learn some tips on how to feed, move, and be kind to your body as you age.

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When to Worry? Understand Changes and a Dementia Diagnosis

Have you ever wondered about your memory? Join us for a conversation to better understand what may be “normal” memory loss verses signs of early dementia. Discuss tips on how to manage difficult behaviors, repetitive questions and various approaches that can lessen stress for everyone involved. Understand the disease process and maintain one’s independence with a diagnosis of a dementia.

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FINANCIAL WELLNESS:

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Abundance: Financial Characteristics and Habits of Wealthy People

Learning how to save more and be debt free is always a good thing. This training will share valuable insight on traits and characteristics of individuals who are financially resilient and able to manage their finances in a way that offers a more abundant financial life. During the presentation we will address what it means to be financially reactive versus financially proactive, debt management strategies and resources to explore ways to align our awareness to slowly improve our financial situations.

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Breezing Through the Holidays Without Overspending

The holidays are a time of giving and receiving, but sometimes the giving can leave you broke. Learn how to organize holiday shopping and limit unplanned purchases, as well as many creative tips to make your holidays happy without overspending.

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Outcomes: After attending this seminar, you will learn valuable tips to organizing your holiday shopping, factors that go into helping you limit those unplanned purchases, and why holiday door-busters can be more like holiday budget busters.

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Money Cents: Effective Budgeting

This engaging presentation offers insight on ways to access a better understanding of how to effectively budget our money. Discussion revolves around tips and suggestions for how to have better control of our money, instead of the other way around. By addressing a proactive approach to spending and managing our finances, you will learn helpful tools to use to effectively modify habits and behaviors to restore financial balance in your life.

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Preparing Your Budget for Retirement

Come to this session to begin the process of preparing your Budget for Retirement. We will go over: Income changes, Social Security estimate resources and website, other retirement income. We will also go over a retirement budget, health costs and other resources.  This can be a useful session for someone who is in the beginning stages of the planning process and can be helpful along with a session with their financial planner.

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Psychology of Money: Understanding Our Behaviors in a Modern Consumer Society

Shame, guilt, fear and denial can significantly impact our financial lives. This workshop offers insight to how our minds work in relation to our behaviors around money and the potential outcomes that can come with various attitudes associated with our perceptions. This track is designed to help create a deeper awareness of our connected our feelings/emotions are to our overall financial situation.

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Successful Credit Management and Reducing Debt

There is a lot of information about credit and it can be hard to sort out fact from myth. We give you a general understanding of how credit works and why it’s important today, about credit bureaus, reports and scores and how you can keep your credit history and score looking good and working for you. Or how to improve both!

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Take Charge of Your Money

It’s not about how much you make; it’s what you do with what you’ve got. We’ve seen highly compensated celebrities end up in bankruptcy and teachers and plumbers end up millionaires. There’s no mystery to how this happens. Being financially successful requires planning, discipline, knowledge and practice. In this seminar, we get back to the basics: no gimmicks, no singing mascots, just a solid foundation for any financial plan.

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Understanding and Preventing Identity Theft

Are you overwhelmed by information on identity theft to the point that it’s become hard to sort out the facts? This presentation will give you concise, straight talk on what identity theft truly is including the many forms it can take, its prevalence, and what you can do to defend yourself. Participants will: hear statistics and trends on identity theft in the United States; receive tips on preventing and detecting identity theft; and receive a listing of resources available to victims of identity theft.

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What’s Your Money Personality?

Do you find yourself frustrated by the way that you or a significant other spends money? This seminar will help you understand why you treat money as you do. Based on Olivia Mellon’s work on different money personalities, we will guide you through five different money personality types, explain how these types inter-relate and illustrate what this means for establishing personal money harmony and money harmony within your relationships. In addition, we will review tips on budgeting, saving, spending, and credit.

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STRESS MANAGEMENT | MINDFULNESS | PERSONAL NEEDS:

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#DOMOREWITHLESS: Managing Stress, Time and Energy

Not enough time! To do what we need AND what we want- a constant stressor in an already volatile, uncertain, chaotic, ambiguous world. Research shows many of us spend only 2 of 8 hours working productively. What if we could double that by improving our focus and managing our energy for greater performance and productivity? While time is finite, energy can be expanded.

What if you could work smarter, not harder?

• By understanding how to manage stress more effectively.

• By understanding how to create energy and focus for productivity.

• By understanding how to become more present in the moment.

Walk away with:

• Tools and tips to manage stress, overwhelm, and energy.

• Knowhow to work with, not against your biology for greater focus.

• Tools and tips for aligning priorities with what matters.

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3 Simple Steps for Having More Energy – Every Day!

Rushing to get everything done from the time you wake up until you go to sleep can wear you out. But you can actually get more done with less effort. This entertaining presentation will introduce powerful energizing activities you can use every day.

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10 Small Changes You Can Make That Result in Big Changes to Your Health

Enjoy learning 10 simple, practical activities that will improve your health and well-being. As you embody these changes you can modify, adapt and maintain healthy behaviors for you and your family. Implementing these ideas will improve your health naturally.

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A Fragile Juggling Act – Work and Family

Boundaries between work and home are no longer clear and maintaining work-life balance is a fragile juggling act, but it is not out of reach. This seminar will help you strike a better work-life balance by considering how to -take advantage of your options, learn to say no, leave work at work, manage your time, find support, and take care of you.

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A More Balanced You

Do you find yourself stressed? Is your to-do list never ending?  Are you forgetting things that occur on a regular basis? What keeps you from taking care of yourself? We all have the same 1,400 minutes in a day and often times it is our own perceptions of things that can keep us stuck and unbalanced. By attending this seminar, you will:

• Learn time-saving techniques for self-care.

• Identify physical, emotional and mental tools that can fit into your busy schedule.

• Improve your sense of well-being.

 

Are You Ready?

“I want to quit smoking.” “I want to lose 10 pounds.” “I want to start exercising.” We’ve heard it all before. However, not everyone is ready to change at the same time and behavior change does not all happen in one step. Each of us progresses through the “Stages of Behavior Change” at our own pace. Come learn about what stage you are in and how this can help you to reach your behavior change goals!

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Building Your Core (Resilience): Purpose Matters

What gets you up every morning? Knowing your purpose has significant health benefits, including increased longevity, positive attitude, & decreased risk of dementia. Once you are clear on why you are here, and what you value most, you can prioritize your time, energy and attention wisely. Being clear on our purpose, being connected to something larger than ourselves whether that is a community, workplace, religion or nature, and having a sense of our values and beliefs helps insulate us from the stress of the increasing change we all face both at work and at home. Knowing ourselves creates “core” resilience and much like our core abdominal muscles stabilize your body during movement; these resilience “muscles” stabilize us during times of trouble. So, don’t wait until you need those muscles to work them; build your “core” before you need it, and you will sail through the inevitable storms. Walk away with: understanding what matters to you today, how to create alignment, and tips to keep it that way for long-term health and happiness.

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Change… It’s Not Just in Pockets: Managing Life’s Stresses

This seminar will discuss ideas for managing stress in everyday life. Creative ways to deal with stress management during change, as well as tips for staying connected to those close to you will be explored. We will focus on keeping the fun in adult relationships, while managing life’s stress.

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Communicating Effectively with Health Care Providers

Ever wonder if there is a way to improve communication with your health care providers? This seminar will help anyone who wants to increase communication, get more out of your office visit and create a team approach towards your health care needs. By learning effective communication techniques, you will save time and energy by making the most of your health care provider visits. By attending this seminar, you will:

• Identify key principles to communicate effectively.

• Learn how to state your individual concerns/needs.

• Create a team approach to your health care needs.

 

Conflict: Obstacle or Opportunity

We’ve all been there – faced with conflict and not sure how to handle it. Unresolved conflict impedes progress, creates unproductive tension and wastes large amounts of emotional energy.

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On the flip side though, well-managed conflict is one of the most important driving forces we have to growth, development and change. When people resolve conflicts quickly and respectfully with a positive attitude, they become better working partners and increase productivity. The key to resolving conflict is to understand the choices we have available when we encounter conflict situations. This session provides participants with techniques and strategies to overcome the obstacles and focus on the opportunities of conflict.

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By participating in this presentation, you will:

• Learn what you should do with your anger when resolving conflict.

• Understand your conflict resolution style.

• Develop a conflict resolution attitude.

• Learn strategies for negotiating ‘win-win’ solutions.

• Turn conflict into opportunity for personal, interpersonal, and professional growth.

 

Conflict Prevention and Management

Do you want to learn how to avoid tensions from turning into conflicts? Are you tired of wasting energy on overreacting? Do you wish to develop the insights and self-control it takes to deal with conflicts positively? This very practical session helps you prevent some conflicts from developing and deal with others more effectively which starts with diving into roadblocks to dealing with conflicts productively. In this engaging, practical seminar you will gain insights and tips to:

• Improve your mindset before and while dealing with tense situations.

• Apply a variety of ways to honor emotions while not taking it personal.

• Tailor de-escalating communication techniques to your circumstances.

 

Confrontation Without Altercation: How To Manage Difficult Conversations

In this interactive session, participants will learn an effective approach which can be applied to situations involving conflict, having to provide negative feedback, making a complaint or delivering unwelcome news. Learn the key steps to achieving the most positive outcome possible.

 

Constructive Worry

Some anxiety and stress are useful in our lives, and it’s certainly appropriate to worry about important matters and to care about getting things right. However, we can be our own worst enemy by misusing our minds. This session will give you the tools you need to either turn worries into action or reduce their impact.

 

Dealing with Everyday Changes, Big and Small

Going to college, switching companies, getting married, moving to a different area, having children, not getting the promotion you expected, getting a divorce… We all deal with changes regularly. Small and big changes, expected ones and unexpected ones, desirable and undesirable changes. You may dread or love change, but we all have to deal with them and we sometimes do so poorly. Dealing with personal change is mostly about understanding yourself and about learning how to best deal with transitions. This seminar provides you with insights and tools to do both – effectively.

 

De-stress Rather than Distress

Working in business can be rewarding, but also challenging and stressful. Our busy schedules can lead to lack of self-care and diminished resiliency. We can all benefit from better resiliency and self-care to help us mitigate the daily stresses of work and life. The organization that understands and nurtures the life in work life is the organization that people are drawn to.

 

Emotional Intelligence: The New Science of Success

Emotional intelligence or EI refers to the ability to use your emotions intelligently, to gain the performance you wish to see within yourself, and to achieve interpersonal effectiveness with others. It has to do with how well we handle people, how we deal with set-backs and failures, how well we achieve our life goals, how we motivate ourselves, and how well we manage our emotions. It is the ability to understand what our emotions are telling us and then to choose appropriate action. In this presentation, participants will learn about the emotional competencies of self-awareness, self-management and social awareness that lead to interpersonal effectiveness in all business relationships.

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Learning Objectives

• Define Emotional Intelligence.

• Learn about the anatomy of an emotion and how emotions and thoughts work together to influence our actions.

• Understand the link between Emotional Intelligence and our success in life.

• Learn both cognitive and behavioral strategies for managing emotions intelligently.

• Explore social awareness and relationship effectiveness.

• Understand discretionary emotional energy and how to increase engagement.

 

Emotional Intelligence

How smart do you need to be to succeed? Research shows that IQ only matters up to a point just above average and that beyond that it is actually your emotional intelligence that is a contributory factor. So, the real question is: How are you smart? In this session, you will actively engage with the competencies of emotional intelligence and identify concrete ways to practice and apply them in your life.

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Enhance Your Life Through Mindful Living

This presentation will offer a deeper understanding of the art of mindful living. We will discuss practical ways to incorporate conscious awareness into everyday life experiences. Mindfulness is the art of paying attention to our current moment experience. By becoming mindful we learn to respond to our circumstances rather than react to them.

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Experience Mindfulness Practices

Mindfulness practices enable you to calmly and confidently experience life’s natural flow with ease. You can integrate these easy to practice activities throughout your normal day so you are a positive energy in your workplace and at home.

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Forget Time Management – It’s all about Energy Management!

Managing schedules has become an all-consuming chore, leaving you so stressed out that your relationships and job performance suffer. You can solve this problem with real life tested solutions to the time crunch we all face every day.  Join us to learn how you can manage your time efficiently and effectively.

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From Stress to Resilience

This workshop helps you attack stressors in your life from multiple angles. In addition to offering both practical solutions for managing and balancing your life, this session will also leave you with usable strategies for changing the way you perceive, experience and respond to stress.

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Get a Good Night’s Sleep – The Seven things You Must Do

You’re not doomed to toss and turn every night. Consider the Mayo Clinic’s seven simple tips for better sleep, from setting a sleep schedule to including physical activity in your daily routine.

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Health for the Holidays

Why is it that one of the most joyous times of the year tends to be our most unhealthy?! Come learn ways to stay fit and healthy over the holidays! Emphasis will be placed on portion control, low-fat holiday cooking, regular physical activity and de-stressing.  Participants will walk away with the tools to help them make it through the hectic holiday season stress-free!

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How to Control Smart Devices and Not Let Them Control You

The prevalence of (mostly) self-imposed stress is increasing as smart devices, technology, and constant access increase, further blurring the line between work and home and thus requiring increasing willpower and better priority setting. The biggest problem is of course the way we use technology and smart devices, not the technology or advice itself. Prevention is always better than intervention, so this seminar provides insights and tips from neuroscience and psychology on topics such as multitasking, willpower, and mindfulness practices. Specifically, in this engaging, practical seminar you will gain insights and tips to:

• Better understand your many habits around devices and technology.

• Strengthen your willpower and avoid the wrong kind of multitasking.

• Thwart the effects of stress while not abandoning the technology you depend upon daily.

 

Identity Theft: How to Protect Yourself

Identity theft and fraud is the number one crime in the United States. This workshop will detail specific areas that you can employ to protect your identity, how identity theft works, and tips you can use to create a solid overall plan to avoid any potential hardship. Real life case examples are shared and discussed, and resources are made available to attendees on education that is available to learn more.

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Just Breathe

Would you be interested in something easily available to you that increases your level of energy and ability to solve problems, aids digestion and encourages weight loss, provides resistance to the common cold and assists in the healing of wounds? It costs nothing to use, requires no special equipment, and is always easily accessible.

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We make use of it every day yet seldom notice its functioning — our breath.

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In this workshop, you will have an opportunity to learn about a simple, uncomplicated choice for better health, increased resilience, and anxiety and stress reduction: focused, quiet breathing. With the introduction and practice of the simple art of “mindful breathing”, you will develop a new awareness of your own breath and learn how using it can provide all of these daily health benefits.

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You will leave with strategies to easily incorporate this tool for better health into your already very busy life— a life that will become calmer, more productive and more resilient to workday stress.

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Just Say No! (Thank you)

Most of us find it easier to say yes than no. Saying no can make us feel unkind, ungenerous, uncooperative and uncomfortable, yet a lack of balance in this skill leaves us cluttered, overwhelmed and over-committed in many areas of our lives. Discover how to establish a pattern of worthiness around making the best decisions for you and the people around you.

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Keeping the Main Thing, The Main Thing

In this seminar, participants will assess how they use their time based on what is important or unimportant.  You will explore a process of time management based on what is personally important to you.

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Managing Stress Naturally

“Managing Stress Naturally” begins with a personal stress survey to help participants gauge their stress exposure. Topics include: sources of stress, “good” versus “bad” stress, and effective ways to manage in a natural, holistic way.

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Mastering Motivation for Life

What does “being motivated” mean to you when it comes to making changes with your health or other areas of your life? If you think it means having no struggles or conflicting desires, then this class is for you! Learn the killers of motivation, determine where you are in the “Ready to Change” Ladder, discover how to get and stay motivated with your efforts and how to handle a relapse.

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Meditation Made Easy

You’ve heard meditation is good for you, but you don’t quite know how to get started? Come have some fun while learning ‘how to meditate’ tips.

• Learn how easy mindful meditation can be.

• Experience several forms of meditation.

• Learn techniques to combat stressors.

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Positive Thinking – How to Make Good Things Happen

Positive thinking sometimes gets bad press. Let’s take a look at why it causes this polarizing effect and how you can develop the best method of thinking to feel better and move in the direction of your dreams.

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Relaaaaax

You may have heard that a little bit of stress is actually good for you. In the just-right amount, that adrenaline rush can power you through a long day at work, boost your workouts and help you complete your “to do” list. But, while it feels good to conquer the day, in the end, it just simply feels better – and is more beneficial to your health – to relax. Rest and relaxation protects your heart, lowers your risk of catching a cold, boosts your memory, lowers your risk of stroke, lowers your risk of depression and even stops weight gain – just for starters. Learn tools and techniques to use every day whether you have one minute or one hour available. You will walk away feeling…relaaaaaxed.

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Relax Your Body, Calm Your Mind

It’s one thing to talk about stress management, it’s another thing to practice stress management. In this seminar, participants will practice deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, and visualization as a way to relax the body and calm the mind.

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Resilience Is Your Superpower: Thriving Through Change and Adversity

Did you know you had a hidden superpower? Resilience is our ability to bounce back when bad things happen. While some of us are naturally more resilient to start with, the great news is resilience is a set of skills that can be developed. Better news, we can actually create opportunities from adversity and challenge once we learn resilience.

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Learn how to work with, not against, your biology, and why you are wired the way you are. Learn why mindset is so important, and what you can do to change it. Understand the key components of resilience, backed by research, and why it’s so critical for surviving and thriving in today’s complex, fast paced world. You will walk away with your personal framework for understanding resilience and stress management, how to build it, and a few easy tools to restore performance and focus and manage your stress on the fly.

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Self-Care: Do You Make Yourself a Priority?

Self-Care and well-being go hand in hand. Self-Care is tending to and balancing our whole self- mind/body/spirit. If we are not our priority how can we help anyone else? We all have the capacity to make ourselves better today than we were yesterday. We all have the ability to mitigate the daily stresses of everyday living. And, we all could use some inspired guidance to help us find our own path to inner strength and resilience.

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We will explore stress, health and the healing benefits of truly attending to your body, mind and heart. We’ll delve into the healthful advantages of breath, mindfulness, movement, sleep and nutrition. We’ll learn about how we can rewire our brain, neuroplasticity, and why it is important to create space for creativity, self-care and self-compassion. We will discover the ways you can apply all of this into your daily life.

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Self-care for Busy Professionals

Self-care is essential for your success as a busy professional. When you are feeling healthy and happy, you enjoy working. Any challenges that come your way are managed with greater confidence. You are able to release negative stress, replenish your own positive energy and establish healthy emotional boundaries. You can live your life with an empowered mind and fit body.

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Self-Image

Self-image is a very important part of who we are and how we see ourselves. Self-image can be affected by several areas such as our body image, environment, job status and financial status. This seminar will help participants analyze their self-image and determine if it being a positive or negative influence on their day-to-day activities.

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Sleep- The 3rd Pillar of Health

Diet, Exercise and Sleep are considered the “3 Pillars of Health.” Yet sleep is widely ignored or sacrificed despite it’s how necessary it is to maintain every aspect of our health: physical, emotional and mental. Learn about sleep’s impact on your body as the 3rd important pillar of health.

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Speak So They’ll Listen

The meaning of communication is in the way it is received, so are you sure your target audience is on the same wavelength as you? Using practical exercises and examples you’ll learn how to get your point across for maximum effect. You’ll also examine the multiple ways we communicate non-verbally, and how to manage the whole package.

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Strategies for Quality Sleep

If you are one of millions who do not wake feeling rested and refreshed this course will help. Discover the science of sleep and what sleep does for us. Learn how diet sets the stage for normal sleep patterns. Understand daily rhythms and how the choices you make throughout the day influence your sleep at night. Also included are strategies for calming the unsettled mind.

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Strength of Spirit: Resiliency, Self-compassion, Self-care

What is resilience? Why does resilience matter? How can I become more resilient? We all have the capacity to make ourselves better today than we were yesterday. We all have the ability to mitigate the daily stresses of everyday living. And, we all could use some inspired guidance to help us find our own path to resilience.

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This session will explore stress, health and the healing benefits of truly attending to your body, mind and heart. We’ll delve into the healthful advantages of breath, mindfulness, movement, sleep and nutrition. We’ll learn about epigenetics, the neuroplasticity of the brain and why it is important to create space for curiosity, creativity and self-compassion. We will discover the ways you can apply all of this into your daily life.

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Stress Management                                                                                                                             

Stress occurs when life’s demands seem too heavy. You feel anxious and tense and may be aware that your heart is beating faster. A certain amount of stress in our lives is unavoidable and a little may even be good for us.  Too much stress, however, is harmful. There are many techniques that can be used to manage stress in your life and to cope with stress that you can’t avoid. Deep breathing, meditation, stretching your muscles, improving your diet, increasing your exercise, and learning to relax can help you manage stress.

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Take This Stress and Love it

The one thing that is constant in life is change. We all experience the stress that is a natural result of changes in our workplace and personal lives. Knowing how to ignite your own personal power so that you feel happier, healthier and have more energy is the key.

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The Mind/Body Connection and Mental Health

Understanding the mind/body connection empowers you to make healthier choices. You can learn how to exercise your own personal power in a new way so you are better able to cope with everyday stressors. You learn how to replace harmful behaviors like smoking, overeating, depression, and anxiety with nurturing habits.

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The “New Biology” and What it Means for Your Health

This talk is based on cutting edge research in cell biology which is shattering our previous notions of how the body operates and provides clues for further improving our health. Dr. Kriva looks at what the research is saying and explains it in a way that is understandable. He then lays out the implications for the listeners in terms of long term maintenance of health. This talk has the power to forever change old views of health and empower the listeners to make better decisions regarding their own health in the future.

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The Power of Laughter

Could you incorporate more laughter into your life? Laughter affects human physiology by reducing pain, strengthening our immune system and decreasing stress. Learn some simple tools and laugh a little along the way. Increasing humor helps put life’s trials and tribulations into perspective and allows us to take ourselves less seriously. By attending this seminar, you will learn simple tools to laugh along the way, understand the importance of laughter and see how humor can be the curative our ancestors professed it to be.

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The Power of Sleep

Sufficient and good quality sleep is often the first thing to be sacrificed in our busy lives, yet it plays a vital role in our wellbeing. Find out what sleep does to our moods, productivity, weight and long-term health, and make a plan to improve the quality of this essential component of health. 

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Work-Life Success: Get Organized to Reach Your Goals!

Are you always busy, overwhelmed or never quite get round to those projects that can really move you in the direction of your dreams? Look no further. This practical workshop will introduce you to systems, schedules, tools and resources to make a real difference over the next 12 months and beyond.

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Are We Having Fun Yet? Attitude and Peak Performance

Your ability to enjoy life and have fun both at work and home is directly tied to your ability to maintain a powerful, positive, energized attitude. Studies have shown that people with a positive attitude, get sick less often, have better relationships, and are more successful in their careers. Attitude is also contagious and helps create an energized work environment. We would all like to have a positive attitude!

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Unfortunately, it’s a jungle out there! Maintaining a positive attitude can sometimes be a real challenge. This session explores the skills of “Attitude Mechanics” – how to build and hang on to a positive, powerful attitude and more fully enjoy life, personally and professionally.

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Building Inclusive Cultures

As multifaceted individuals and team members, we each have an enormous impact on our team and the organization’s culture. How do work teams build inclusive, positive and resilient environments? How do inclusive cultures benefit productivity and healthy working relationships?

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Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What Effective People Do Differently

If you want to succeed as a business, a team, or reach your full potential you must learn how to connect with people. Learn the five principles and practices that are crucial to connecting, including: finding common ground, keeping communication simple, inspiring people, capturing people’s interest, staying authentic in all your relationships.

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Goal Setting for Powerful Results

In this talk the power of goal setting is revealed. The audience is taken step by step through the process of effective goal setting and given tools to accelerate the accomplishment of their goals. This is done in a workshop format, so every class participant will leave with their own set of personal and professional goals.

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I Can’t Stand You – Now What?

Dealing with others is probably the most stressful and time consuming part of our working lives, and unfortunately we can’t change that! We can, however, learn how to make ourselves more immune to the effects of toxic coworkers, micromanaging bosses, and difficult clients. Learn some cool techniques for diffusing the power that others can have over your emotions.

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Innovate or Stagnate: The Cutting Edge of Change

In today’s competitive marketplace, no organization can afford to stand still. Continuous improvement and progressive innovation are required to achieve success. “Innovate or Stagnate” examines how creativity can be enhanced and focused toward innovation. The program helps your people cultivate a creative mind set and use it to brainstorm innovative solutions to problems faced by the organization. They will learn how to ride the waves of change, rather than be overwhelmed by them. The objective of this program is to empower staff to see change as an opportunity for innovation rather than a threat to be avoided.

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Invisible Differences in the Workplace

One of the goals at many organizations is to create an environment where employees recognize and value one another’s unique differences, and are therefore better able to work with each other as well as serve the diverse communities where our clients live. Our ability to provide positive connections and to remain inoffensive is often dependent on appreciating and respecting these differences. Unfortunately, sometimes our differences are subtle and even invisible. In this program we will explore the principles of diversity that enable us to value and respect both the visible and invisible differences that represent the strengths, experiences, and unique skills of each and every individual. Participants will learn the skill of people agility, or how to approach people with an attitude of openness, curiosity, appreciation and respect.

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Keys to Improve Trust and Credibility

Productive collaboration within and across teams and successful team leadership are built on a foundation of trust and credibility. A team without trust is not a team, but a group of individuals working together, probably with subpar performance. It doesn’t matter much how capable or talented you are, without trust among team members, most people do not reach their full potential. However, when team members feel safe in an atmosphere of trust, they will share, open up, take risks, expose vulnerabilities, and act accountable without wasting time being overprotective of their interests.

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Knowing How to See Things Differently: Using the Frame

The Frame helps us understand why we are getting the results we are getting out of life. The session examines (1) the tendency we have to blame others when we are not getting the results we desire, (2) how our ‘need to be right’ activates blame, (3) how curiosity helps us to get better results, and (4) what we can do to see more or differently.

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Learn From Mistakes and Failures

This session focuses on (1) the beliefs we form about ourselves from the messages we receive from others when we make mistake or fail, (2) what keeps us stuck in our comfort zone, and (3) more effective ways of responding to our own mistakes and the mistakes of others.

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Leave-It-To-Beaver Meets Instagram: Bridging the Generation Gap

The “forty-something” reached out and shook the hand of the “twenty-something”.  They had just been assigned to partner on a key project in their department. Each felt uneasy, wondering how best to connect with the other. Success would mean finding a way to bridge the gap – the gap of years, the gap of generations.

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Organizations typically are communities that include people from across the generations. Some spent their youth watching black and white TV, while others were weaned on video games. To create a community capable of bridging the generation gap, we must learn to appreciate and understand the influences of our different generations. What were the historical events and social trends that shaped the ‘silent generation’, the ‘baby boomers’, ‘gen X’ or ‘gen Y’?  What experiences, skills and values do each generation bring to the whole? How do I reach out and connect with someone who grew up in a different world then I did?

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Learning objectives for this seminar include:

• Explore the different generations spanning your workplace culture and learn what makes each generation tick.

• Gain tools and techniques for bridging the generation gap and connecting with those from different generations.

• Challenge yourself to respect and appreciate generational differences.

• Expand your ability to gain new perspectives and to learn from what each generation has to offer.

 

Let’s All Get Along! Professional Boundaries in the Workplace

Boundaries are a funny thing – they are rarely noticed or spoken about – UNTIL they are broken. In this workshop, tips and tools for creating and maintaining healthy professional boundaries are outlined, including: Knowing when to speak up and set boundaries (and doing so with confidence); Using Meta-communication to set expectations and intentions in positive ways; Maintaining respectful relationships with your colleagues.

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Learning objectives for this seminar include:

• Participants will learn Meta-communication and how to use it when addressing boundary issues.

• Will understand the role professional boundaries play in their work (and personal) relationships.

• How to listen to their internal “voice” to know when to address boundary concerns.

 

Let’s Make a Deal: Tips for Negotiating Win-Win Solutions

In this seminar we will discover the techniques and strategies of principled negotiation. The goal is to give participants the tools they need to achieve solutions that are respectful, efficient, and mutually rewarding.

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Simple Steps to Dealing with Difficult People/Situations

Conflict is inevitable in any long-term relationship and the key to maintaining respectful work (and personal) relationships is easier than you think. Most people struggle not with WHAT to say; rather, they struggle with the actual saying of it. In step by step fashion, this workshop gives you the keys to keeping your relationships on a healthy and long- lasting track.

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Staying Energized in a Draining World

There is an energy crisis happening in America today! And it is happening in the personal and professional lives of people everywhere. Increased stress both on and off the job is causing a loss of productivity that run into billions of dollars each year. This energy drainage is robbing us of our own health and happiness. This seminar will explore the symptoms and causes of stress in our lives, and introduces personal strategies for reducing stress and restoring energy. You will develop your own “tool box” for combating burnout and reducing your personal stress-o-meter.

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Staying on Track: Giving and Getting Feedback

Growth and improvement in our individual and collective effectiveness require frequent and helpful feedback from and for others. This session provides means by which we can reduce defensiveness and give and get feedback effectively.

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Supercharge Your Communication Skills

The meaning of communication is in the way it is received, so need to be sure your target audience is on the same wavelength as you. Using practical exercises and examples you’ll learn how to get your point across in both written and spoken style, for maximum effect. You’ll also examine the multiple ways we communicate non-verbally, and how to manage the whole package for maximum influence.

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The Power of Perception: The Impact of Perception on Performance

The philosopher states that perception is reality. That is, what we know and understand to be true is not necessarily reality itself. It is merely our reality as it is filtered through our method of looking at it – “interprefacts.”  Perception thus becomes our truth and begins to impact all of our experience. This class explores how perceptions impact relationships and performance.

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The Power of Persistence

This talk focuses on a major component of success in career and in life, persistence. Dr. Kriva discusses how persistent effort over time is the key to ultimate success in reaching personal and professional goals. This talk is entertaining and filled with amusing stories to drive home the point that persistent effort brings large rewards. Most importantly, Dr. Kriva gives the audience the practical tools they need to keep up sustained energy and effort over time in order to achieve their goals.

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The Power of Your Dreams

This talk focuses on the power of setting goals for your life. It covers the basic seven steps to goal setting, but more importantly discusses how to supercharge your goals to get the best results in the shortest amount of time. This talk is entertaining and inspirational and tremendously powerful for those who choose to use this information in their lives. It is based in part on Dr. Kriva’s award winning book, Let Your Innate Sing; The Key to Achieving the Life of Your Dreams. Take home message: People who have written goals accomplish more in less time than those who don’t, goal setting, done right, can be fun and tremendously effective, goal setting is an essential tool to achieving the life of your dreams.

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