Examples of Sessions Topics

Creating an Environment of Growth and Collaboration

• Enhancing individual creativity and collective creativity – flow, group genius
• Finding and pursuing ideas, opportunities and innovations
• Exploring supportive solutions and positive approaches
• Being present in the moment and thinking on your feet
• Developing trust and making partners (audiences, clients, peers) look good

Don’t Just Take Charge, Lead

• Identifying existing wants
• Aligning visions of the group
• Inspiring and engaging so that people want to follow
• Giving opportunities for everyone to shine
• Creating Supporting innovation, rewarding risk, celebrating failure

Getting on the Same Page as a Team

• Building familiarity and common ground
• Noticing and using the tenets of collaborative communication
• Increasing listening, openness, and empathy
• Dealing with expectations, fear, risk-taking, mistakes, consequences
• Balancing ambition with clarity by setting goals while getting clarity

Speaking and Presenting with Greater Comfort and Impact

• Developing connection through stories (being genuine)
• Moving the conversation forward at the listener's pace (connecting to the audience)
• Creating character and imagery (role play)
• Adding influence/persuasion or for clarity/explanation (experimenting with status)
• Dealing with uncertainty – prepare for spontaneity (taking questions)
• Integrating verbal and non-verbal cues (body awareness, room setup)
• Preparing for Carnegie Hall – practice, practice, practice

Intro to Stress Release
Participants learn and utilize the five main factors that determine the intensity of stress for immediately workable solutions to their (and their clients’) stress:

• The gap between how things are and how you want them to be
• Attachment to getting what you want
• Gratitude for what you have
• The uniqueness or familiarity of the situation
• Mood