Guest Speaking
I present interactive presentations throughout the United States, featuring a variety of leadership, team-building, sales, and customer service topics. Whether it is conferences, annual meetings, associations, or company education, presentations can be customized to the client’s needs and what they feel the audience is craving.
Explore my presentations topics for companies looking for additional education to motivate their workforce:
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NEW Presentations Topics
Reslience Sprinkled with Self Care
Estimated Time: 60-90 minutes
Resilience is a key strategy that helps employees tackle stress, a competitive job market, workplace conflicts, and address challenges on the job. Improving resilience is important because employees identify work as the number one stressor in their lives. In this interactive session, I will teach your employees how to manage stress effectively with resilience training and self-care practices.
TIGERS Company Culture Survey
Estimated Time: 60 minutes
To create a relationship building culture, it is important to get a real pulse of your company culture first. I use an assessment based on TIGERS (Trust, Interdependence, Genuineness, Empathy, Risk and Success) Leadership model by Dianne Crampton.
Once there is an understanding of culture needs, I outline an educational/coaching plan for the year on how leadership members can coach their employees in the different areas, accompanied by weekly 15-minute micro trainings through TIGERS. The assessment is then administered again after six to eight months to see the progress.
Trauma-informed Workplaces
Estimated Time: 60-90 minutes
Most businesses have a crisis plan designed to help manage any number of difficulties that could negatively impact their employees, customers, and the communities they serve. But how many are prepared for the psychological and emotional aftermath when tragedy strikes?
You should have a plan to help support your employees as you work to restore health and well-being to your workplace. With the recurring complex trauma of social injustice and the COVID-19 pandemic, I provide information on how to implement a trauma-informed approach to help your workforce feel safe, supported, and empowered.
Strengths and Personality Assessments
CliftonStrengths Assessment and Team Building
Estimated Time: 120 minutes
An interactive team building experience where all employees learn their top five strengths. The team members will be mapped out and show the categories (Executing, Influencing, Relationship Building and Strategic Thinking) each person falls into. The concept is that we focus more on our strengths to be the best company contributor we can be.
Sales Profile Assessment and Team Building
Estimated Time: 150 minutes
This presentation is an interactive team building experience where all employees review together as a team their sales assessment report. The DiSC (Dominant, Influencing, Steady and Compliant) sales profiles are also intertwined and reviewed with the team, outlining how to communicate with different behavior types. The team will learn their sales strengths and areas of opportunity as well as how to be more effective at their sales jobs through this team building experience.
People Skills
Building Relationships through Hospitality
Estimated Time: 90 minutes
Designed for employees who have internal and external customer contact where it is discussed how to serve the needs of each customer. Your employees will learn about internal customers and external customers, what relationship-building looks like, and how to bring in empathy, as well as immediately connecting with anyone.
Creating Buyers by Empowering
Estimated Time: 90 minutes
Sales can come across as pushy when buyers aren’t listened to or empowered with options. When you empower buyers, relationship building happens along with loyal customers. Your employees will learn about strong, open-ended questions, consumer elements of value, the difference between features and benefits, as well as ways to make the customer right.
Email Etiquette and Texting in a Technology World
Estimated Time: 90 minutes
Specifically, for employees who spend a high percentage of their time selling over email. Your employees will learn how to draft a professional email and learn phrases that convey empathy. They will understand the importance of bringing in a warm tone to emails and how to build trust with the customer through email techniques, as well as relationship-building in texting communication. Closing with when it is time to pick up the phone and 15 email etiquette rules.
Friendly Up-selling
Estimated Time: 90 minutes
Data shows that existing customers are likely to spend 30% more with your company. To successfully up-sell we must have trust in place and understand what is important to the customer. Your employees will learn how to build trust, understand how to find out what is important to the customer, and steps for up-selling, as well as the different forms of customer elements.
Is it Empathy or Compassion?
Estimated Time: 90 minutes
Outstanding service requires a high level of compassion and empathy to work with different personality types. These are traits that don’t always come naturally and should be practiced daily. Your employees will learn what compassion and empathy look and sound like, why empathizing before educating in challenging customer situations is essential, and how service providers are reacting if they are not practicing empathy and compassion.
Overcoming Customer Challenges
Estimated Time: 90 minutes
In the service industry, there are often many guidelines. It is all about how you present those guidelines, whether it is pricing, minimum stay requirements, pet stay guidelines, etc. Your employees will learn how to strategically overcome price challenges with value building, understand the importance of giving options, react confidently with negative feedback, and steer conversations.
Practicing Conflict Transformation
Estimated Time: 90 minutes
By creatively navigating the conversational landscape of differences and disagreements, we can create something new. This theory is based on creating a deeper understanding and requires perspective-taking. In turn, creating a solid connection with customers who then become loyal. Your employees will understand why dehumanizing customers during conflict is unhealthy, how to have a deeper understanding of customer issues, and why it is essential to bridge the gap between the right and left brain with emotionally charged customers.
Sales Lead Management and Follow up
Estimated Time: 90 minutes
Digging into what really is a lead and how to get the information you need. Your employees will learn how and when to ask for the reservation, followed by the next steps when customers aren’t ready to commit.
Winning with Difficult Customers
Estimated Time: 90 minutes
There isn’t an exact script for working with difficult customer interactions; however, there are tools that once learned, can be drawn upon to consider using in difficult customer interactions. Your employees will learn how to communicate with challenging customers, techniques for the recovery process, and how to manage the stress of challenging situations.
Workplace Culture
How to Build Trust in a Distrusting World
Estimated Time: 90 minutes
Trust is the foundation of all relationships. In our current day, we are operating from fear more than trust so when working with internal and external customers we must focus on building trust. Your employees will learn the foundations of trust, why trust is the base of all relationships, and how to make customers feel like they belong.
Mission Statement and Values
Estimated Time: 90 minutes
An interactive team-building experience where all employees are involved in learning what the company mission statement and values are in detail. Team members will describe what it looks like as employees to demonstrate the mission statement and values during everyday interactions with internal and external customers. This presentation is also offered as a team-building experience where the values are built with the team.
Self-Care in an Industry of Service
Estimated Time: 90 minutes
The service industry can be very demanding with the work hours required as well as working with many different personality styles and always striving to please. Your employees will learn about healthy boundaries, the importance of self-love, and techniques for self-care and managing stress.
TIGERS Team Building Game
Estimated Time: 2 1/2 hours
This proven approach for building group cohesion and engagement aligns with the TIGERS 6 principles of Trust, Interdependence, Genuineness, Empathy, Risk, and Success. Years of research and application of these principles proves that their presence or omission affects team member engagement and effectiveness. The TIGERS Team Wheel Game is a team cooperation-building exercise that builds upon your existing values. Part One includes an understanding of the TIGERS 6 principles, followed by opening the lines of communication between group members to discuss group consensus, group norms, and building accountability so that any group can collectively arrive at a decision they can agree to, champion, and implement during the game. Part Two reviews the benefits of embodying the TIGERS 6 principles and how diverse, winning companies have thrived culturally, creating pride and commitment among teams.