Get Your Heart in the Game!™

PROGRAM OUTLINES

• Get Your Heart in the Game!™
• Ignite the Power and Passion in Your Leadership
• The Power of a Whole New Mind ... Putting Leadership Presence into Practice
• Are You Ready for Anything? Dare to Embrace Any Challenge!
• Beyond Over-Caffeinated, Hyper-Tense and Semi-Hysterical ... Stress without Flip-out
  
• Organizational Pulse: Create a Compelling Culture
  
• Are You Having a Near Life Experience? ... How to Slow Down and Get a Grip on What Matters! 

 
*Be prepared to be moved, disturbed and exhilarated all at once as you examine your life with a new perspective and greater sense of possibility.

Get Your Heart in the Game!™

Have you ever wondered what makes the difference between people who are genuinely excited and turned on to life and those people who just seem to be getting it done? This session unravels the mystery and pinpoints the key ingredients to a well lived life. More importantly it will point to some simple shifts that can bring more fulfillment to your life and work. Everybody dies only some people truly LIVE! This is Tammy’s most dynamic and entertaining presentation – through laughter and tears Tammy will invite you to explore the truth of your life and excite you to be more fully alive than you dreamed possible!

Key Themes:

• Success without Fulfillment is Failure ... Get Excited About What You’re Up To!
• Reclaim the Magic, Curiosity, Awe and Wonder of Childhood ...What are we so Serious About?
• Get Excited About Your Life!
• Stimulate Your Dreams and Get In Touch With Your Personal Sense of Hope
• Two Defining Characteristics of People Who Are Genuinely Turned on To Life
• Live with Conscious Intention ... Use the Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life
• Know Who YOU are at your Most Compelling ... Build Your Leadership Presence
• Increase your Eccentricity Quotient ... How Weird Can You Be and Still Keep Your Job?!
• Take Responsibility for Your Emotional Wake ... Create Positive Energy!
• Adopt Practices that Help You Sustain Energy, Enthusiasm Even During Adversity and Challenge
• Other People’s Opinion of You is None of Your Business ... Give Up Approval Addiction
• Preoccupied with the Spirit of Play! Create High-Impact Experiences with Customers and Colleagues!
• The Keys to Real Brilliance ... Contribution, Accountability, Authenticity, Humour and Celebration

Outcomes:

• Ripples of positive change as people embrace the opportunities and possibilities right now!
• A more engaged purposeful workforce
• People who have the tools and the desire to manage their energy and impact positively
• A more fun and alive work environment
• A culture that is self-reinforcing and celebrates itself

Ignite the Power and Passion in Your Leadership

"In everyone’s life at some time our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flames by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."
Albert Schwitzer

Now is the time to get excited about your leadership and step up to an even greater positive impact. If you have wondered how it is possible to make a difference, especially given all the current challenges we face as we head into the future, you’re not alone. Many success-minded professionals are being put to the test and asking some hard questions about how to lead and succeed as the world and the way we live continues to transform.

Leaders who have their heart in the game will lead the way by working with the power of passion and patience to bridge the gap between the current reality and the vision of a vibrant compelling future. Our capacity to sustain enthusiasm, stay engaged and excited about work and life, build belief, remain positive, open and curious, find meaning and inspire our colleagues are being challenged and sharpened in whole new ways. This session will feed your hunger to live and lead with more hope and possibility and to position yourself for greater success and satisfaction. You will leave with practical tools that will help you inspire and make a difference to your organization, your team and your life.

 Key Themes:

• Inspiration is More Powerful and Lasting Then Motivation ... Leaders Move People
• Create a Compelling New Sense of Possibility ... Inspire through Clarity of Vision, Bold Optimism and a Big Belief in the Ability of People to Turn Dreams into Reality.
• Develop Simple Practices That Enable you to "Show Up" and Live as an Authentic Leader and Human Being
• Adopt the Key Habits that Build Rock Solid Relationships
• Turn Anxiety into Confidence Through Honest Feedback and Courageous Conversations
• Learn to Have Effective and Impactful Coaching Conversations in 10 Minutes or Less
• Use Real Stories and Open Discussions to Restore Hope to the Future ... Build them into Meetings
• Develop a Team that Embraces Curiosity, Learning, Mistakes, Growth, Innovation and Moving Forward
• Assess Your Own and Your Teams Blocks to Learning and Introduce Ideas to Embrace Curiosity, Learning, Mistakes, Growth, Innovation and Moving Forward
• Remember to Laugh ... Leaders Have a Kid Alive In Them ... Let Your Passion Ignite Others!
• Restore And Replenish The Pure Fun And Enjoyment Of Work!

Outcomes:

• Leaders who know and act on the key inspirational factors for today's workforce
• More energized, confident, optimistic, alive, purposeful passionate and engaged employees
• More employees and leaders reporting higher levels of satisfaction with the organization
• Less turnover (the most common reason people leave is because they don't like their boss)

The Power of a Whole New Mind ... Putting Leadership Presence into Practice

Use ALL of Your Extraordinary Ability

Would you like to be more powerful and influential as a leader? Do you find it a challenge to make sense of all the changes, pressures and demands you face everyday? Would you welcome an approach to living and leading that expands your capacity to see, sense and realize new possibilities? This is a course for anyone who wants to survive and thrive in an emerging world that will rely as much on the right brain as the left; that will call for more “right brain” qualities of inventiveness, empathy, curiosity, connection, joyfulness, and meaning and purpose. It is a daring call to action to embrace the future with the six essential abilities you will need to excel in business and everyday life.

Key Themes:

Moving From the Information Age to the Conceptual Age

• Describing the Shift ... Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age
• Right Brain, Wrong Brain, Left Brain ... You Need the Whole Thing!
• Why Does It Matter to You? ... Equipping Yourself and Your Children for the Future
• Why is the Shift Happening? Three Causes.
• How will it Impact You and Your Business?
• Is it a Good Thing?

The Six Key Questions:

• Are you Emotionally Engaging?
• Can you tell a Good Story? (“Just the facts maam” won’t cut it)
• Have you Got a Vision/Big Picture that’s exciting?
• Do you Understand What Makes others Tick?
• Do You Know How to Play? (Too much sobriety is bad for business)
• I’ve Got Enough Stuff ... Can You Create Meaning, Purpose and Fulfillment?

Inspiration and Tools to Make it Happen

• Exercises You Can Try (these are not “touchy/feely” – exercises are practical challenges designed to assist you in discovering for yourself how to put them into play in your life and work)
• Portfolio of Resources, Websites, Lists and Books for further support
• Accountability Tools ... A Simple Process for Taking Action on What Matters

This is the age of art and heart. The good news is that these skills and abilities reside in all of us. Now they are important. It’s time to put them into play ... in your life and leadership.

Outcomes:

1. Greater insight and understanding about the Conceptual Age and what that means for business and humanity.
2. Strong confidence to lead in changing times.
3. Increased capabilities as a leader to connect, inspire and design great work and corporate cultures.
4. Powerful Presence made possible by accessing right brain qualities such as intuition, calmness, compassion, curiosity, inventiveness.
5. Way more Fun and Enjoyment in work and life!

Are You Ready for Anything? Dare to Embrace Any Challenge!

“We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew in our hearts and in our souls the sense that life is miracle and magic.”
E. Merrill Root

Exude Confidence in Every Situation

Are you bracing yourself for change? Is uncertainty getting in the way of inspired action? Get ready to take on the future with the courage and calm you need to position yourself for success. This session will bolster your resolve to move forward with confidence. It will give you new skills to find calm amidst the storm, to recreate yourself, to stay present to all that is still available to you and to live each day with more positive intention, hope, and fun than you thought possible!

Key Themes:

• Adopt an approach to living and leading that expands your capacity to see, sense and realize new possibilities
• Stay Centered Regardless of What’s Going On Around You
• Embrace It All – Three Skills Needed to Stay Open to Life ... Attention, Intention, No Tension
• Create A Powerful Intent: Get Crystal Clear About What You Want
• Capitalize on Positive Thoughts, An Inspiring Vision and Focused Action
• Learn to Recreate Yourself in a Fulfilling Way
• Ignore Negative Messages ... Create an Honest, Optimistic and Bold Beginning for Each New Day
• Get Good at Recovery ... Develop this Important Skill
• Be Endlessly Curious and Fascinated ... Ask What’s Next with Keen Interest!!
• Take a Genuine Interest in People ... How Can You Support One Another?
• Have Courageous Conversations ... Talk About What Matters, Listen with No Agenda
• Learn Fast. Use a Proven Approach for Dealing with Setbacks
• Stop Worrying About What Other People Think ... One BIG Tip That Helps!
• Protect Your Confidence ... It is Your Most Valuable Resource
• Invite Humour and Lightness to Your Meetings and Create Memorable Moments
• The Keys to Moving Forward During Change ... Fast Learning, Flexibility, Authentic Leadership, Organizational Optimism, and Infinite Enthusiasm!

Outcomes:

• Employees who are well-equipped with tools to manage the human side of transition
• Greater engagement, a feeling of aliveness and a powerful belief in what’s possible!
• Employees who have more guts, stamina and resilience that comes from positive leadership and belief in people.
• Increased focus and commitment leading to greater productivity even during times of profound personal and organizational transformation

Beyond Over-Caffeinated, Hyper-Tense and Semi-Hysterical ... How to Slow Down and Get a Grip on What Matters!

Excel without Losing It!

Is it time to cool down ... maybe examine the way you respond to life’s daily challenges? There has never been a better time to experiment with your ability to "get a grip", find some fraction and stay with the adventure. Today everyone is being given lots of opportunities for noticing how they respond to pressure, endless demands and ongoing uncertainty! Good news - you can become an expert in resilience, recovery and finding funa nd fulfillment in a very short time. This session is about getting serious about managing your Energy, Attention and Action so that you can experience success without the struggle and exhaustion. It will provide practical advice and simple tools and strategies to help you stay on track and live the life you imagined.

Key Themes:

• Personal Indicators of Overload: Are You About to Go Over the Edge?
• Are You Feeding Your Ego and Starving Your Soul? ... Getting Past our Dependence on Feeling Busy
• Slow Down! End the Frenetic Pace and Reclaim Your LIFE ... in every single moment
• Ten Tips to Live More Fully NOW ...To Stay Present
• Stress Management is an Inside Job: "What are you thinking?!"
• Understand the Impact of Unconscious Negative Stories that Keep You Stuck
• Cultivate Skills And Practices To Remain Positive and Open to Possibilities and Opportunities Right Now
• Choose Your Response: Avoid "Pole-vaulting over a Mouse Turd"!
• Create More Psychological Space – Give Yourself Room to Respond Rather Than React. This is a Skill You Can Practice
• When You're Feeling Terrific ... Notify Your Face: Attitude is a Daily Choice
• Adopt Strategies for Dealing with People who Suck the Life out of you ...
• Let Go of Worry and Angst ... How to Find Calm Amidst the Chaos
• The Three Key Self Care Habits You Gotta Have to Keep Life Juicy and Delicious!

Outcomes:

• Employees who are able to access calm under pressure and contribute positively even when things are frantic
• Employees who support one another and communicate well in times of stress
• Decreased costs in terms of productivity, absenteeism and short term disability

Organizational Pulse: Create a Compelling Culture

“We must learn quickly now how to work and live together in ways that bring us back to life.”
Margaret Wheatley

Are you committed to renewing your workplace, to breathing life into your culture and creating a place where people are inspired and excited about what they’re up to? Many leaders today, facing the challenge of attracting and retaining great people, are asking questions about how to lead in a more meaningful way and create workplaces that stand out from the rest. Cultures that inspire peoples’ best stand for something good ... they have clear vision and values that help employees to know what they are part of. They build intrinsic pride. They also exude positive energy, see relationships and communication as central to getting the job done and know the value of fun!

Key Themes:

• Energize Your Workplace ... Inspirational Leaders Wake People UP!
• The Keys to Attracting and Retaining the Best People ... "Show me the Love, Baby!"
• The Five Expectations of Today’s Employees ... Know what Every Generation Still Wants
• The Five Key Questions to Ask About Your Culture
• Build Meaning ... Ask, “What are we here for?” Why does it matter? Real Passion comes from Emotional Engagement ... Knowing Why You’re Doing What You’re Doing!
• Establish Personal Connection to the Values and Vision of the Company ... Make it Compelling!
• Take Responsibility for Your Emotional Wake ... Create Positive Energy
• Turn Negative Stories into Moments of Inspiration
• Learn Simple Habits to Make Strong Connections with Everyone
• Adopt Strategies for Creating Significance, Success and Satisfaction for Each Member of the Team
• Assess Your Ability to Learn ... As an Indivudual and an Organization
• Build Psychic Income ... Practice Thank You Therapy
• Practice Easy Ways to Acknowledge and Appreciate … Too Much is Never Enough!
• Commit to Creating an Environment that Appreciates Humour
• Increase the Pulse of Your Organization - One Person at a Time

Outcomes:

• A work culture where every single employee recognizes their leadership role and significant contribution within the organization
• Greater organizational pride among employees at every level - stories that go out to the marketplace about the employee experience
• A "turned on" culture that attracts the best talent and retains good people
• Sustainable success for your company

Are You Having a Near Life Experience? ... Mastering Real Life Balance

A dynamic and inspiring call to action with a simple message: Your Life Matters.

If you are in pursuit of down-to-earth, practical and sincere methods of balancing all the demands and responsibilities in your life and work it’s time to find some answers. The realization that we can’t have everything, and that speed isn’t the answer has fuelled the search for insights and strategies that can make an honest difference. This program will help you decrease the burden of stress and guilt, become more focused and committed to your important goals and values, and magnify the satisfaction and fulfillment you get from both home and work life. You will leave with insights, tools and strategies to slow down, let go, be present, stay focused, create boundaries, lighten up, build resilience and sustain your enthusiasm for life!

Key Themes:

• Balance is not a Math Problem: A Real Look at the Concept of Life and Work Satisfaction
• Are You Fully Alive? Maintain Perspective, Optimism and Enthusiasm for Living
• Life isn't a Race ... Strategies for Slowing Down and Reclaiming Peace and Ease
• Keys to Renewal and Recovery: Mindfulness, Hope and Compassion
• Three Signs of Fulfillment; Contentment, Calmness and Connection
• Strategies to help you Banish Guilt Forever
• Build Boundaries Around Your Time, Set Some Policies and Regain Control
• Avoid "Out of Body" Experiences ... How to be Present in your Life
• Peace without Struggle - Let Go of Worry, One Step at a Time, Deal with What Comes
• Protect Your Sanity: Use Rituals to Rejuvenate and Stay Connected to What Matters
• Forget Quantity or Quality it's Connection that Counts: How to Keep Relationships Vital
• Delight Everyone - Even Yourself! Never Miss an Opportunity to Laugh
• Live above the Line ... Experience The Freedom of Accountability

Outcomes:

• Employees who have the tools necessary to create greater balance in their lives and accept ownership for creating their experience on a day to day basis
• Leaders who understand the significance of their actions and strive to role model a balanced approach to life and work
• Acceptance and understanding that each individual has different needs, desires and values related to balance