Keynote Speeches
As the landscape of work continues to evolve, organizations are faced with the challenge of creating environments that cater to diverse preferences and needs. Whether your team is fully remote, hybrid, or office-based, cultivating a thriving workplace culture is essential for improving performance, fostering productivity, engagement, and satisfaction. In this workshop, we will explore strategies and best practices to create inclusive cultures that support both individual and collective success, regardless of physical location. Join us as we navigate the dynamics of modern work arrangements and discover how to build a cohesive culture that empowers every team member to thrive.
This workshop helps leaders, managers and teams, regardless of their workplace model, enhance their organizational and performance by building workplace and team cultures that are respectful, innovative, resilient, healthy and inclusive.
- Understanding the benefits and challenges of remote, hybrid, and office-based work models.
- Exploring effective communication strategies for fostering collaboration across different work settings.
- Identifying tools and technologies that facilitate seamless connectivity and productivity in diverse work environments.
- Developing leadership skills that promote inclusivity, trust, and accountability within dispersed teams.
- Creating actionable plans for enhancing workplace culture and employee engagement in your specific organizational context.
WORKSHOP DETAILS:
The workshop is a combination of subject matter presentation, video examples, simulations/role plays and group engagement. This interactive presentation is divided into 6 sections:
- Introducing and examining the concept of the remote, hybrid and office-based workplace models.
- Outlining the pros and cons of each workplace model and their impacts on team engagement, performance and workplace culture.
- Helpful tools – tools, technologies and strategies to improve connectivity, inclusion and productivity in diverse work environments.
- Improving communication and leadership approaches within dispersed teams.
- Creating Action Plans – recommendations and action plans for enhancing workplace culture and employee engagement, regardless of your workplace model
- Question and Answer section.
As organizations embrace hybrid work models, leaders are challenged to navigate new dynamics of team collaboration, communication, and productivity. Balancing remote and in-office environments requires strategic leadership to foster cohesion, engagement, and high performance across all team members, regardless of their physical location. In this workshop, we will delve into effective strategies and leadership practices that empower managers to navigate the complexities of a hybrid workplace successfully. Join us as we explore how to lead teams towards peak performance in our evolving professional landscape.
This workshop helps leaders, managers and teams, working in hybrid environments, enhance their organizational and performance by building workplace and team cultures that are respectful, innovative, resilient, healthy and inclusive.
- Understand the key characteristics and challenges of a hybrid work environment.
- Learn strategies to build trust and maintain team cohesion across remote and in-office settings.
- Explore effective communication techniques for virtual and face-to-face interactions.
- Develop leadership skills tailored to managing performance and accountability in a hybrid team structure.
- Create an action plan for implementing best practices to maximize productivity and engagement in a hybrid work model.
WORKSHOP DETAILS:
The workshop is a combination of subject matter presentation, video examples, simulations/role plays and group engagement. This interactive presentation is divided into 6 sections:
- Introducing and examining the concept and evolution of the hybrid workplace model.
- Outlining the pros and cons of hybrid workplaces and the impacts on team engagement, performance and workplace culture.
- Helpful tools – tools, technologies and strategies to improve connectivity, inclusion and productivity in hybrid work environments.
- Improving communication and leadership approaches within dispersed teams.
- Creating Action Plans – recommendations and action plans for enhancing workplace culture and employee engagement in a hybrid workplace.
- Question and Answer section.
In today’s rapidly changing world, innovation is not just a goal but a necessity for organizations striving to stay ahead. Building a culture that fosters innovation requires more than just ideas; it demands a foundation of collaboration, inclusion, courage, and respect. In this workshop, we will explore how to cultivate these essential elements within your team or organization to unlock creativity, inspire bold ideas, and drive meaningful change. Join us on this journey as we discover the pathways to fostering innovation through a culture rooted in collaboration, inclusion, courage, and respect.
This workshop helps leaders, managers and teams create the ideal environment for innovation by building workplace and team cultures that foster the creativity and problem-solving that drive innovation.
- Understand the importance of collaboration, inclusion, courage, and respect in fostering an innovative culture.
- Learn strategies for promoting a collaborative environment where diverse perspectives are valued and leveraged.
- Explore techniques for cultivating a culture of inclusivity that empowers all team members to contribute their best ideas.
- Develop skills to encourage and support courageous innovation and risk-taking within your team or organization.
- Create actionable steps to embed these principles into your organization’s values and daily practices to sustain a culture of innovation over time.
WORKSHOP DETAILS:
The workshop is a combination of subject matter presentation, video examples, simulations/role plays and group engagement. This interactive presentation is divided into 6 sections:
- Introducing and examining the concept of innovation and the building blocks needed for innovation to take place.
- Reinforcing the need for collaboration and how diverse perspectives improve problem solving, team engagement, performance and workplace culture.
- Helpful tools – tools, techniques and strategies to foster innovation.
- Improving communication and leadership approaches to encourage and support courageous innovation and risk-taking.
- Creating actionable steps – recommendations for embedding these principals into your value,s leadership style, and daily practices.
- Question and Answer section.
In today’s diverse workplaces, true inclusion goes beyond mere representation; it requires a deliberate effort to create environments where every individual feels valued, respected, and empowered to thrive. This workshop is designed to explore the essential elements of inclusive workplaces and equip participants with practical strategies to foster a culture where everyone can contribute their best. By examining the intersection of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives with organizational culture, we aim to pave the way for workplaces that are not only diverse but genuinely inclusive. Join us as we embark on this journey to make work awesome for everyone.
This workshop helps leaders, managers and teams create the ideal environment for high performance, , belonging and innovation by building inclusive workplace and team cultures.
- Understand the difference between diversity, equity, and inclusion, and their impact on organizational culture.
- Explore unconscious and conscious biases and barriers that hinder inclusivity in the workplace and learn techniques to overcome them.
- Identify strategies for creating a culture of belonging where all employees feel valued and respected.
- Develop actionable steps to integrate inclusive practices into everyday work processes and decision-making.
- Equip leaders and team members with tools to advocate for inclusivity and address issues of equity within their teams and organizations.
WORKSHOP DETAILS:
The workshop is a combination of subject matter presentation, video examples, simulations/role plays and group engagement. This interactive presentation is divided into 6 sections:
- Introducing and examining the concept of inclusion and how it fits into DEI.
- Discussing unconscious and conscious biases and how they impact workplace culture, team engagement, and performance. Learn how to nudge your biases when they aren’t serving you.
- Helpful tools – tools, techniques and strategies to build inclusive workplace and team cultures.
- Improving communication and leadership approaches to encourage and support inclusion on a daily basis.
- Creating actionable steps – recommendations for advocating for inclusion and addressing barriers to inclusion within your teams and organization.
- Question and Answer section.
Conflict happens. It is inevitable. If ignored or handled badly, conflict can devastate a project, team or organization like a wildfire. If handled early and effectively, relationships and workplace culture will be enriched. Innovation and team engagement improves. It takes skill to effectively avoid destructive arguments, clarify misunderstandings, deal with disputes, and repair relationships. Simply put – conflicts require fierce conversations.
This keynote provides attendees with tools and strategies for approaching and resolving disputes before they become full-blown conflicts. Learn how to assess the situation early, maturely and how to change the context of the conversation.
Key Takeaways:
• Enhanced conflict management skills and awareness.
• How to develop an action plan for addressing and managing workplace conflicts.
Organizations need both diversity and inclusion to be successful. Diversity means all the ways we differ. Inclusion involves bringing together and harnessing these diverse forces and resources, in a way that is beneficial. Inclusion puts the concept and practice of diversity into action by creating an environment of involvement, respect, and connection-where the richness of ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives are harnessed to create business value. The educational goal of this presentation is to broaden participant’s awareness of inclusion and its positive impact on employees and organizations.
Key Takeaways:
• The skills needed to approach inclusion more strategically and within the context of organizational policies.
• Effective strategies for implementing inclusion programs.
• How to develop an inclusion initiative for their organization.
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Critical to disrespect management, participants will develop strategies for changing the context of conflicts from negative to positive, from disrespectful to appropriate.
Participants will learn how to turn a disagreement into an opportunity to provoke learning and enrich relationships.
Lastly, the workshop will cover how to create lasting solutions to conflict and tips for sticking to them.
More specifically, it will enable participants to enhance their communication skills and awareness for: Addressing bad behaviour. having difficult conversations, tackling tough behavioural challenges, improving listening skills, and enriching relationships and workplace culture.
This workshop helps professionals improve their awareness of diversity and inclusion to improve their culture and success. People from different backgrounds, cultures, countries, sexes, ages have different approaches to communication, motivation and idea creation. They all belong and they all want to feel included. – by expanding your awareness of diversity, you can create as much opportunity for patients and staff to feel comfortable, cared for, empowered and respectful.
More specifically, it will enable participants to enhance their diversity/inclusion awareness and improve their workplace culture that will lead to: Improving the patient experience and attracting new patients, providing better patient care, increasing employee satisfaction and retention, and fostering problem-solving skills.
A diverse workplace reflects our communities. Diversity intelligence, just like emotional intelligence, can be leveraged to enhance office culture, improve employee engagement, support patients and foster innovation.
This workshop helps professionals use diversity intelligence to improve their culture and success. People from different backgrounds, cultures, countries, sexes, ages have different approaches to communication, motivation and idea creation – by expanding your awareness of diversity, you can create as much opportunity for patients and staff to feel comfortable, cared for, empowered and respectful.
More specifically, it will enable participants to enhance their diversity awareness and implement effective diversity programs in their workplace for: Improving the patient experience and attracting new patients, providing better patient care, increasing employee satisfaction and retention, fostering problem-solving skills, and promoting organizational values more fully.
Furthermore, by applying a series of thoughtful steps and tools, most conflicts can be resolved effectively. Critical to success is learning how to engage early, using skills to resolve the conflict and avoid escalation.
The focus of this workshop is on providing professionals with tools for approaching and resolving disputes in the early stages, before they become full-blown conflicts. Participants will learn how to assess the situation early, maturely and how to change the context of the conversation.
This workshop will enable participants to understand how to effectively reduce and manage conflicts and have conversations to resolve them.
More specifically, it will enable participants to enhance their conflict management skills and awareness for: Proactively engaging to reduce conflicts, addressing disagreements with both patients and staff, having difficult conversations with patients and staff, tackling tough challenges, improving listening skills, enriching relationships and workplace culture, and changing the context of conflicts from negative to positive.
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