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Karen Seeker has over 30 years of experience in learning consultation and meeting facilitation. Most recently she led learning and innovation for a large accounting firm where she managed a team of eight and a budget of $6.5M annually. Through the corporate university, Karen’s team issued 90,000 CPE credits and provided 26 conferences/workshops annually, several with over 250 people in attendance. She has turned her attention to her local community where she hopes others can benefit from her expertise and enjoyable learning experiences.
Whether you need specific training for your team or help gaining consensus during a meeting, Karen will work with you to design an experience with your outcomes in mind. She will lead the group through various discussions and exercises to achieve your goals. Below is only a sample of learning modules that are available. Please call 949-370-1040 or email [email protected] for additional information. |
Enhancing Your Presentation Skills
Everyone wants to look good and sound good. Confident speakers are persuasive and therefore successful. Trained speakers spend less time preparing and meet their objectives more successfully than speakers with little formal training. This workshop is designed for anyone who wants to improve the quality of their presentations.
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Gender Communications Awareness
While the communication process is very complicated, this workshop focuses on similarities and differences between the genders. Failures in communication can impede career progress, mar relationships, confuse and aggravate daily interactions, and be costly to an organization or our own financial well-being. The goal is not to ask a woman to act like a man or vice versa, but to enhance the future of gender communication in the home and workplace.
Learning Objectives/Agenda
Teaming Together
This workshop is designed in highly interactive exercises and experiences that help participants understand and appreciate the need to communicate well and trust each other in order to achieve mutual success. Through discovery learning, participants become more aware of one another’s preferences and differences, and develop an appreciation for all team members.
Learning Objectives/Agenda
Essential Supervisory Skills
This program is designed to develop the communication and supervisory skills needed by new managers to effectively manage the performance of individuals and teams. Areas addressed include leadership, managing people effectively, delegating to others and holding them accountable, giving feedback, and conflict resolution.
Learning Objectives/Agenda
Becoming an Effective Coach
Coaches are motivators of people and teams. They inspire others to work hard and continually improve. On-going coaching is a way to support the learning and development of your team as well as ensuring their success (and yours!). You are responsible not only for your own productivity, but that of your staff. Your day-to-day dealings may include colleagues, managers at all levels, as well as an increasingly diverse workforce. You need to develop a coaching and leadership style that works for you and that is also adaptable to different situations and people.
Learning Objectives/Agenda
Generations in the Workplace
This is the first time in American history that we have had four different generations working side-by-side in the workplace. In the past, there were definite rules as to how the boss was treated and how younger workers treated older workers.No longer: Roles today are all over the place and the rules are being rewritten daily. Particularly at work, generational differences can affect everything, including recruiting, building teams, dealing with change, motivating, managing, and maintaining and increasing productivity.
Learning Objectives/Agenda
Individual Performance Planning and Evaluation
You can’t coach and evaluate if you don’t have a track! Planning provides the track, and is therefore, a continuous and dynamic process, not a static event.
Performance evaluation involves documenting progress and results toward the plan. The evaluation provides a way to describe how your employees have performed on the job, and how they can improve in the future so that they, you, and the organization will benefit.
Learning Objectives/Agenda
Dimensions of Leadership
Most people feel they know what leadership is but have a hard time describing it. We think we understand what leadership is because we recognize leaders when we see and hear them. Perhaps that is because they inspire us. We want to follow. The presence of followers is an essential part of being a leader.
Learning Objectives/Agenda
Everyone wants to look good and sound good. Confident speakers are persuasive and therefore successful. Trained speakers spend less time preparing and meet their objectives more successfully than speakers with little formal training. This workshop is designed for anyone who wants to improve the quality of their presentations.
Learning Objectives/Agenda
- Analyze your audience and environment for your presentation
- Consider your intended purpose and expected outcomes
- Design, select, and organize your information
- Deliver your message—polish both your verbal and non-verbal skills
- Practice techniques to engage your audience
- Deliver a presentation and receive feedback for continued growth
Gender Communications Awareness
While the communication process is very complicated, this workshop focuses on similarities and differences between the genders. Failures in communication can impede career progress, mar relationships, confuse and aggravate daily interactions, and be costly to an organization or our own financial well-being. The goal is not to ask a woman to act like a man or vice versa, but to enhance the future of gender communication in the home and workplace.
Learning Objectives/Agenda
- Facts and fiction about gender differences in speech communications, approach, and interpretation
- How stereotypes are created and played out in the workplace
- Men and women use communications for different purposes
- How the genders interrupt and overlap each other
- The link between organizational barriers and women’s progress
- Differences in gender leadership styles: task oriented vs. interpersonal relationships
- Action steps for both men and women
Teaming Together
This workshop is designed in highly interactive exercises and experiences that help participants understand and appreciate the need to communicate well and trust each other in order to achieve mutual success. Through discovery learning, participants become more aware of one another’s preferences and differences, and develop an appreciation for all team members.
Learning Objectives/Agenda
- Exercise: Well this is Kind of Awkward
- Exercise: Definition of a Team—Ready, Set, Go
- Video Clip—Communication Difficulties
- Discussion: How trust is critical to overall team success
- Exercise: How Others See Me
- Exercise: Assessing the Value of Different Styles
- Exercise: The Five Things
Essential Supervisory Skills
This program is designed to develop the communication and supervisory skills needed by new managers to effectively manage the performance of individuals and teams. Areas addressed include leadership, managing people effectively, delegating to others and holding them accountable, giving feedback, and conflict resolution.
Learning Objectives/Agenda
- Stepping Up to Supervision
- Setting Goals and Progressive Counseling
- Coaching and Training Others
- Degrees of Delegation
- Resolving Conflict
- Teambuilding and Setting Expectations
Becoming an Effective Coach
Coaches are motivators of people and teams. They inspire others to work hard and continually improve. On-going coaching is a way to support the learning and development of your team as well as ensuring their success (and yours!). You are responsible not only for your own productivity, but that of your staff. Your day-to-day dealings may include colleagues, managers at all levels, as well as an increasingly diverse workforce. You need to develop a coaching and leadership style that works for you and that is also adaptable to different situations and people.
Learning Objectives/Agenda
- Understand and appreciate the diverse needs within your team
- Learn about basic coaching skills: contact and core skills, counseling, mentoring, tutoring, and confronting and challenging.
- Anticipate and resolve conflict situations
- Discover your individual challenges and the “real” issues that cause day-to-day stress
- Understand the connection between trust, influence, and your personal sense of control
- Successfully influence others and gain their trust
Generations in the Workplace
This is the first time in American history that we have had four different generations working side-by-side in the workplace. In the past, there were definite rules as to how the boss was treated and how younger workers treated older workers.No longer: Roles today are all over the place and the rules are being rewritten daily. Particularly at work, generational differences can affect everything, including recruiting, building teams, dealing with change, motivating, managing, and maintaining and increasing productivity.
Learning Objectives/Agenda
- Discuss the characteristics associated with each of the generations
- Define the generation gap and how it applies in the workplace
- Learn about communication preferences among the generations and how to better communicate
- Understand how the future workplace is changing and how it impacts productivity
- Apply the lessons to enhance your relationship with others
Individual Performance Planning and Evaluation
You can’t coach and evaluate if you don’t have a track! Planning provides the track, and is therefore, a continuous and dynamic process, not a static event.
Performance evaluation involves documenting progress and results toward the plan. The evaluation provides a way to describe how your employees have performed on the job, and how they can improve in the future so that they, you, and the organization will benefit.
Learning Objectives/Agenda
- Ensure that appropriate behaviors are explained and reinforced with your employees
- Offer consulting to your staff when writing their SMART objectives
- Understand how the output of the evaluation phase feeds as input to the planning phase
- Ensure that you have the appropriate data for the evaluation
- Practice providing evaluation feedback in a simulated evaluation meeting
- Learn how to handle corrective actions
Dimensions of Leadership
Most people feel they know what leadership is but have a hard time describing it. We think we understand what leadership is because we recognize leaders when we see and hear them. Perhaps that is because they inspire us. We want to follow. The presence of followers is an essential part of being a leader.
Learning Objectives/Agenda
- Discuss leadership practices and essential characteristics: being authentic, acting with integrity, demonstrating confidence, behaving with courage
- Watch a leadership video and discuss lessons learned
- Draft your own self-improvement plan
- Draft your vision for the work of your department
- Practice communicating your vision and coaching others to attain it
- Learn about how to inspire and motivate others
- Discuss how your behaviors set the organizational tone and climate