Speech and Workshop Topics
Our most requested Performance topics are available in keynote, seminar or workshop formats and in lengths suited to your requirements. Productive to the Max works with you to select the exact modules that best meet your needs. We ensure that your focus is reflected in every one of our presentations. Examples of some suggested alternate speech and workshop titles are shown at the end of each of the outlines that follow.
Performance
“Remodel - Don’t Move”: Survive and Thrive With Change
Learn to understand and grow with change
We are all working in a constantly changing environment. Whether the process involves a large organizational or departmental change, a future planned movement that will disrupt activities, or the constantly changing daily priorities that affect consistency, it is disconcerting and stressful to go through the process. How do we cope with it all? How do we deal with the myriad of emotions that change involves and still remain focused on what is important?
This topic stresses the positive aspects of change and identifies information, skills, competencies and behaviors necessary to manage the impact of change.
Key concepts
- Understand the need for change
- Acknowledge the concept and cycle of change
- Provide an understanding of feelings,
emotions and reactions - Communicate, influence and take positive action
during
the process - Improve teamwork
- Commit to the change in a positive way
Available modules
- Where you are currently?
- Where are you going?
- How to deal with the physical, mental
and emotional aspects of change - Process of undergoing change at work
- The reaction with the team
- The reaction to customers
- How to think outside the box
- The cycle of change
- Transitions and ending
- Tips and tricks to alleviate the stress of change
- How to get from “here to there”
- How to enjoy the experience
- How to organize for change
Suggested alternate titles available for this session
- Change is just ‘Temporary Disorganization’
- Organize to Take the Stress Out of Change
- Change is a GOOD Thing!
- Change Happens – Deal with It!
Hi Ho! Hi Ho! It’s off to Work We Go!
Effective workload and information management
Dwarfed by your job or whistle while you work? Overloaded by information? Can’t find important papers and files? Develop an easy information management system that will take you from start to finish with ease. Streamline your paperwork and information processes and complete your work in a timely and efficient manner. Set up systems that will increase your efficiency, make you happier and create more time to excel in the interesting parts of your job.
Key concepts
- Apply the laws and solutions of clutter
- Remember general organizing principles to organize
your environment - Declutter and organize your space
- Create a proper paperwork process
- Streamline your filing systems
- Process and manage information and e-mail
Available Modules
- Declutter and organize space, files, papers, e-mails
and electronic files - Follow 17 organizing rules
- Maintain an organized environment
- Manage your e-mail
- Create information and workflow processes
Suggested alternate titles available for this session
- Making it Work
- 17 Organizing Rules to Live By
- Reduce that Workload: Be SMARTER
- Overworked, Overwhelmed, Overbooked?
Get Productive to the Max!
You Never Know When You Are Going to Need It!
Identify and refine your organizational personality
Does your office look like a tornado has gone through it? Are you constantly looking for files, papers and information? Does your computer desktop resemble a junkyard? Do you have a problem getting rid of clutter? The perception of you as a disorganized individual will do little to help you progress toward your future success.
Learn why you are disorganized and what to do about it. Discover how to maintain a clutter and stress-free environment by recognizing the signs and effects of disorganization. Identify your own Organizational Personality to help you modify behaviours that are blocking achievement of your lifetime goals.
Key concepts
- Discover the reasons for disorganization
- Set goals to live your life in an organized fashion
- Learn behaviour modification techniques
- Identify your organizational personalities
- Determine organizing principles to assist in
your transformation
Available Modules
- Define you and your values
- Determine where you are going
- Understand disorganization
- Modify your behavior
- Apply the golden rules of organization
- Obtain tips and tricks to bring order into your personal
and professional life
Suggested alternate titles available for this session
- Chaos? Clutter? Confusion? Maximize your Environment!
- Overworked, Overwhelmed, Overbooked?
Get Productive to the Max! - Straighten Up and Fly Right!: Organize your Environment!
Start - Stop - Start over again
How to manage multiple priorities
We are constantly stressed and out-of-control due to multiple demands on our time and energy. Numerous projects, interruptions, urgent requests and constant changes in technology prevent us from managing our time and meeting deadlines. If you feel that you never have time to complete your tasks, are not accomplishing your goals and are torn in all directions this very practical program is for you. It will deliver skills you can immediately incorporate into your everyday work schedule so you can leave at the end of the day with a feeling of completion and accomplishment.
Key concepts
- Meet goals and deadlines
- Establish and recognize priorities
- Eliminate unproductive habits
- Keep track of and effectively handle multiple projects
- Manage and control your workload and conflicting demands
Available modules
- Assess where you are now
- Determine where you are going
- Pinpoint your ‘Real Priorities’ and juggle them
to your best advantage - Organize your systems and processes
- Create information and workflow processes
- Handle multiple projects
- Schedule well
- Differentiate between project and to-dos
- Eliminate time wasters and interruptions
- Deal with stress
Suggested alternate titles available for this session
- Gain Control – Eliminate Conflicting Demands
- Smooth the Pot-holes and Manage your Multiple Priorities
- Stop Spinning your Wheels – Learn How to Complete
your Projects
Win Win as an Admin
Effective administration, communications, team support
Administrators are the solid foundation of any organization. With changing office environments, technologies and interpersonal relationships they have become, more than ever, an integral part of the office evolution. They need an in-depth knowledge of communication procedures, efficient systems and processes and management and leadership skills to support the team. They must manage strategies, public relations, time, stress, difficult people, conflict and crisis situations efficiently and professionally.
Some administrators are new to the organization and arrive without sufficient knowledge or skills. Others could benefit from a refresher course to upgrade their skills. All administrators need a non-threatening environment to vent their concerns and share information. In this seminar administrators will thrive in an interactive learning environment, learn to communicate and apply organizing and time management skills to improve their productivity and efficiency.
The session provides the participants with opportunities to assess their current strengths, develop new skill sets and create action plans to reach their goals. In an interactive, open, communicative and fun-filled atmosphere, they share insights, learn new skills and empower themselves.
Whether they are a seasoned professional or a promising newcomer to the administrative field, the opportunity to network and communicate with their peers will leave them with a sense of confidence, camaraderie and support. You owe it to your administrative staff to provide the opportunity to relieve their everyday stresses, nurture the soul and pamper the spirit.
They will emerge feeling more like a winner than ever before!
Key concepts
- Define values and goals
- Influence the team by communicating effectively
- Apply general organizing principles to declutter and
organize your environment - Streamline processes and systems to manage time
- Empower yourself through identification of leadership
and management skills - Upgrade your role and image
- Determine how to influence your organization
- Control, balance, and simplify your life
Available Modules
- Define yourself, your values, your role
- Learn to set, prioritize and achieve goals
- Incorporate proper communication skills and techniques
- Deal with conflict
- Manage difficult people and learning to say no
- Integrate negotiation skills
- Upgrade your writing and editing skills
- Organize your space
- Declutter and organize space, files, papers, e-mails
and electronic files - Create information and workflow process
- Organize your time
- Eliminate time wasters
- Empower yourself
- Keep up with new advancements and deal with change
- Manage your career
- Learn leadership and management skills
- Organize your organization
- Perfect your life-work balance
Suggested alternate titles available for this session
- Administrators – the Organizational Glue!
- Use your Masters of Common-sense (M.Cs.)
to Administer your Organization - Be the Hercules of your Office and Survive!
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Better performance means greater
job satisfaction and organizational efficiency!
Productive to the Max offers a no-cost, no-obligation 20-minute session
to determine how we might help increase your productivity,
performance and profitability
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