Please contact Julie at 1.800.211.5671 to discuss your professional development objectives.  Julie offers customized:

• Keynote Presentations
• Full Day Leadership Retreats
• Full Day Staff Retreats
• Various workshops for leaders and/or staff on a multitude of topics related to a positive and productive workplace.

5 Simple Steps To Manage, Motivate and Retain Great Staff

During this motivating and informative program, Julie shares with leaders of small to mid size teams the most comprehensive, step-by-step plan of action for managing, motivating and retaining great staff. Participants discover proven results-getting strategies to help them:

• Create a cohesive, high-functioning team
• Inspire team members to make behavior changes
• Motivate team members to achieve higher goals
• Eliminate destructive communication patterns (GOSSIP!)
• Break down barriers that are keeping them stuck
• Reduce turnover and absenteeism
• Retain Motivated Staff

This program can be facilitated as a keynote presentation or a full day leadership retreat. 

The Positively Professional Staff Retreat(TM)

Whether your team needs a jolt of positive energy or a total transformation this program is a great journey to take with your staff. Julie presents a systematic approach to staying motivated, communicating constructively, breaking down barriers and overcoming obstacles on a long-term basis.

This program is most often facilitated as a full day staff retreat but it can also be facilitated in 2 and 4 hour time periods.

The main objective of this program is to help people who work together function as a dynamic team. This includes building constructive communication patterns and eliminating those destructive ones (like gossip) that seem to tear teams a part and cause much unwanted stress, frustration, and anxiety. It also includes breaking down communication barriers between staff and leaders, and among co-workers. The program provides immediately applicable strategies and helps participants feel motivated to make change happen. Yes, this program helps participants feel motivated to make change happen, a very important element in achieving long-lasting, positive results.

Break the Gossip Chain (For Leaders)

Leaders, I've heard your frustrations with gossip and I understand how draining the process of trying to eliminate gossip is. I've heard how the memos you write and the lectures you give on gossip avail little or no results. I know how gossip can escalate into huge, time-consuming, costly problems. Yes, it's frustrating, time-consuming and draining to work day after day after day with people who gossip. Is there a way to eliminate gossip for good? ABSOLUTELY! During this dynamic and energizing program, leaders learn 11 time-tested, results-getting keys to eliminating workplace gossip for good.

Break the Gossip Chain (For Staff or Entire Teams)

During this program, participants develop motivation to take a proactive stance against workplace gossip and learn essential strategies to break the gossip chain. Participants learn:

* A clear, concise definition of workplace gossip
* If they are a link in the gossip chain
* How their actions, destructive or constructive, play a major role in determining team morale
* The devastating impacts of gossip on morale
* 5 specific strategies to break the gossip chain
* How gossip diminishes professional (and personal) growth
* How to overcome hurt feelings caused by gossip
* 9-step success formula for resolving issues positively and directly
* The long-lasting and silent impacts of words

Staff Meetings That Sizzle

This program helps leaders facilitate solution-focused, energizing staff meetings - ones that staff members look forward to attending! Participants learn how to use staff meetings as a tool to create dynamic, high-functioning teams, how to create morale boosting, team building, solution-focused activities and one thing they should never start their staff meetings without.

Love Your Job and Live Longer

Stress less…like what you do more…and live longer. What a great concept! This program provides strategies that can be implemented immediately to help your staff generate a wealth of self-motivation, rejuvenate their passion for their professions, and build more positive and productive relationships with co-workers and customers. As a result of attending this program, participants feel inspired and have a new level of confidence to overcome their daily challenges.

The Power of Words

Words have the power to start wars or transform lives. Through this program, participants are inspired to use the power of their words wisely. A greater realization of how words have shaped the world we live in and how we can shape our future with the words we decide to use is gained.