What
does it take to be a truly great leader?
Outstanding leaders embody a very specific set of qualities that
actually inspire people toward a particular goal or action. Successful
leadership requires vision, courage and conviction. It requires
compassion, a willingness to look inward and the ability to motivate.
It requires self-discipline, huge energy and, above all, personal
integrity.
And
yet, it is often the quality of authenticity that makes
the leader truly effective. It is the honesty, the personality
revealed, the values shared - the qualities that make leaders
unique - that allow people to trust them and therefore trust their
leadership.
This
workshop is specifically designed to help leaders and emerging
leaders carefully define their visions of what successful leadership
means for them. We will draw on current and past leadership experience
as a basis of exploration. Participants will discuss the issues
facing leaders in various stages of development and access the
group for relevant insight and support. Through group coaching,
as well as individual and team exercises, each leader will leave
this workshop with a clearly developed leadership vision and a
plan to attain that vision.
Workshop Leader:
Karen Beckman
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When
any two or more people work together, conflict is inevitable.
In fact, conflict arising from business challenges is often the
spark that pushes breakthrough thinking and innovative problem
solving to the surface. Business leaders, in particular, find
themselves not only engaged in everyday conflict but also called
upon to mediate disputes among staff, clients and business partners.
Indeed, leaders are frequently looked upon as models for effectively
managing conflict in the workplace.
This
workshop identifies and explores the challenges leaders face regarding
conflict "on-the-job." This two-day intensive teaches
conflict resolution skill building and theory based on the highly
successful legal mediation practices used to resolve disputes
in our Federal and State court systems. With an 85-90% success
rate, legal mediation technique is an extremely powerful and productive
skill set for any leader dealing with conflict.
Led
by Karen Beckman, a seasoned leadership and executive coach and
corporate front line veteran, and Elaine Rosenblum, an attorney
and legally trained mediator who has conducted 60 + court-referred
mediations, this workshop uniquely ties the applications of mediation
technique to the conflicted situations corporate executives often
face.
Workshop
Leaders: Karen Beckman & Elaine
Rosenblum, Esq.
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Even
top performers can struggle on the road to leadership. Displaying
mastery and exuding confidence in junior and middle management
positions, the concept of what is expected from emerging leaders
as they step into more senior leadership roles can be vague and
sometimes altogether elusive. Compounding this is the misguided
belief that leaders should intuitively know how to conquer evolving
challenges and responsibilities without any support. This series
of half-day workshops are designed to bring consciousness, structure
and support to the process of emerging leadership.
Participants
will actively engage in a series of group dialogues about what
leadership means to them, who their role models are and why, the
differences between leadership and management, and the roles that
vision, integrity and personal values play in successful leadership.
Importantly, they are asked to consider how the way they carry
and present themselves (in meetings, presentations and even around
the halls) impacts the effectiveness of their leadership. Discussion
is ultimately focused on what people need from leaders and what
participants can specifically do to better meet those needs.
By
including participants from different disciplines/areas in the
company, a built-in support network is automatically developed
that emerging leaders can draw from on an ongoing basis.
These
workshops are led by Karen Beckman, leadership coach and Founder
of Empowerment Toolbox and are tailored to meet the needs of each
particular group/company.
Workshop Leader:
Karen Beckman
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This
workshop, which can be offered in series or as a stand-alone session,
brings management team members together in a unique environment
that leverages their full potential as a group. Facilitated by
Karen Beckman, veteran leadership coach and corporate front liner,
these coaching workshops have proven valuable in improving long-
term functioning of teams by facilitating the honest dialogue
necessary to create actionable, valuable and sustainable change.
Coaching management teams consistently brings increased focus,
productivity and energy to ongoing meetings.
Workshop
Leader: Elaine Rosenblum, Esq.
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Distinct
and subtle communication skills are the key to building effective
working relationships. This workshop focuses on the delicate language
of alliance and relationship building. Often used to enhance mediation,
the skills of active listening, looping, neutral language
and win-win mindset are remarkably useful
for relationship management among colleagues, teammates, superiors
and subordinates. When consistently employed, these skills offer
the opportunity for respectful, productive relationships, negotiated
with frankness and genuine integrity.
Workshop
Leaders: Karen Beckman & Elaine
Rosenblum, Esq.
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The
key to successful presentations is often the comfort level and
confidence of the speaker. Yet, facing an audience - the fear
of public speaking- is actually the number one fear in America.
This full day workshop enables executives at all levels to improve
their presentation and public speaking skills through self-hypnosis.
By learning to stay relaxed and focused, presenters step into
more powerful and confident states.
First,
important aspects of the physiology of stress and the stress reaction
in the body are covered so that presenters understand their own
reactions. Next, presenters learn the importance of preparation,
and the most effective ways to prepare for presentations. Ultimately,
presenters learn powerful relaxation and focusing techniques like
visualization for 'rehearsing success', desensitization for removing
fears, and use of a self hypnosis anchor for calmness, which can
be used before and during presentations. These valuable relaxation
tools are learned and then internalized so they may be used to
improve future speeches, meetings, presentations, performances.
Workshop Leader: Susan Spiegel
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Being well organized is a pillar of success in today's business world. Too often executives lose time, money and energy because they simply lack the skills and support systems to keep them on top of things. Designed to support people caught between the pressure and time constraints of corporate America and the daily barrage of incoming paper, this half-day workshop provides tools and customized systems for filing, calendar and time management.
Do not underestimate the impact of a flawless filing system. We offer step-by-step, practical solutions that anyone can learn to create systems that will actually work for them. This workshop is guaranteed to free up time and space and is valuable for anyone who has difficulty focusing because his/her desk or office is cluttered or who is currently unable to swiftly locate important documents.
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There
has never been a more urgent need for people to have tools to
ease their anxiety about flying. Fear of flying has risen dramatically
since the tragedies of September 11th. For some, the fear can
be debilitating; with people even changing their work to avoid
flying. Even seasoned travelers have new levels of anxiety as
they fly.
Learning
techniques to distract and calm the mind and the body are key
to overcoming fear of flying.
This
half-day workshop begins with lucid, left-brained information,
including a basic understanding of flight, as well as the physiology
of stress and fear in particular. Next, cutting edge technology
is taught about how to separate from, watch and distract our minds
from reflexive thoughts and the accompanying fear that results
from them in order to affect new behavior. Participants learn
the relaxation response and desensitization, simple and effective
self-hypnosis, take-with-you tools that can be called upon for
any actual flight experience.
This
workshop is specifically designed to be inclusive, so that participants
with all different levels of fear can feel safe and have their
needs met.
Workshop
Leader: Susan Spiegel
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It
is common knowledge that smoking has serious health consequences;
the unfortunate truth is that well before causing life-threatening
disease, smoking contributes to respiratory infections, shortness
of breath, low energy, and suppressed immune response. In short,
it hurts the smoker, and can translate to lower productivity in
the workplace.
Sadly,
many smokers feel powerless to quit. Often describing the habit
as a way to deal with stress, smokers are challenged by and fearful
of giving up this measure of 'comfort'. Over time, they experience
less and less enjoyment and more and more physical problems: the
cough, the smell, the burns, the social consequences. The smoker
is often stressed about finding a way to quit.
Hypnosis
is a well-known way to quit smoking. Stop Smoking Today can provide
the means for smokers who are ready and want to quit, to be free
of the habit forever.
In
this 3-hour workshop, guided self-hypnosis is used to close the
door on the old habit and open the pathway to feeling healthier
and better. First, there is some important sharing of the issues
and reasons the participants have for liking smoking/hating smoking.
These are later utilized as each person comes to his own inner
commitment to quit, when in a relaxed hypnotic state. Then, simple
techniques for relaxation of the body and mind are taught to replace
some of the old behaviors, like reaching for cigarettes in times
of stress.
The
level of success for this program is very high; many people never
reach for a cigarette again. Offered in this type of group setting,
there is the additional benefit of the 'support' group that is
created by quitting together.
Workshop
Leader: Susan Spiegel
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