Keynotes
Rubber Band Resilience:
Stretch Without Snapping
Roadblocks and unforeseen adversity, both personal and professional, stretch us every day. In this powerful session Kathy will share how devastating news led her on a journey to discovering the keys to thriving in the face of challenging circumstances. While sharing her 3-R method for resilient behaviors (React, Reframe, Re-energize), participants will engage in interactive exercises and leave with their own tools to increase their resiliency.
Kathy will inspire and encourage participants to stretch, not snap when faced with disruption. Known for her candid stories and optimistic approach, Kathy is an expert in creating energetic teams and engaged professionals.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the different reactions to adversity and how to use them to better manage disruptions.
- Discover five ways to re-frame disruptive events so that new ideas and attitudes are generated.
- Learn to escalate both personal and organizational energy levels to decrease absenteeism and increase retention and productivity.
Joy Jolt:
Ignite Your Culture and Retain Your Team
Busy professionals are often drained of energy. That will not change because project deadlines, workforce issues and changing regulations affect even the strongest teams. But that low energy can creep into your culture and negatively affect your productivity. So how do teams stay energized, productive and engaged? Elevate the motivator behind the energy: Joy. Not just a feel-good word, joy ignites purpose and propels teams to serve at their highest level. Like a big mug of morning coffee, Kathy Parry provides a jolt of power to ignite your joy and tactics to transform your culture into one that leads with joyful purpose.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the three reasons why teams lose purpose and revert to negativity in the workplace.
- Learn why loyalty fades in teams and tactics to retain great people.
- Explore how joy increases when we serve others and what this means to team culture.
- Understand two ways everyone should acknowledge team members to increase engagement.
Workforce POWER UP:
Engage, Energize and Retain Your Team
You and your team need to serve residents/clients at the highest level. But even the best team can be drained by workforce issues, changing regulations and budgets. In this session we will explore a circuit of power to help energize you and your teams. Participants will first explore methods to elevate mindsets around disruptions. Being able to articulate and share the benefits of working with your team will help attract new team members and retain current employees. Participants will then learn the five key practices that retain great people. Implementing these practices can very well be the difference between fully staffed and scrambling. After establishing how to attract and retain team members, the session moves into keeping those professionals energized and engaged. Three key factors that lead to higher satisfaction, joyful purpose and stronger retention will be explained.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the ONE thing organizations need to do to attract and keep people.
- Explain the five reasons team members leave and learn how to flip the switch ON to retain more people.
- Examine the three things you can do NOW to energize teams and yourself, so engagement and productivity stay high.
Building Resilient Teams:
Remodel, Renew & ReEnergize
Your team’s foundation is shaken. The last few years have brought new levels of stress, fear, and workload to your team. So how do build a stronger team that completes projects at the highest level? You start with a remodeling project! First, we look at the effects of the mental and physical exhaustion that have compounded over the last of years. Acknowledging this stress, not only personally but for your team gives a foundation to start building. In any good building project, we will grab the right tools to build back up. The tools used in this remodeling project include: Effective Communication, Clear Goals and Celebrating Accomplishments. Using interactive exercises, storytelling, and a bit of humor Kathy will give your team critical insights on how to begin the building project.
Loaded with their assessment, tools and mindset shift, participants build their individual and team resilience. Stress, workload and fear may be with us, but building each other up and finding ways to encourage high levels of commitment to their teams is the outcome of this session.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the disruptions that are affecting themselves and their team by examining both mental and physical burnout.
- Learn the three critical tools needed to care for each other and build stronger, resilient teams.
- Understand how to create a resilient mindset for disruption and change to aid in flexibility for future disruptive events.
Unlock Trust:
The Winning Combination to Retain and Energize Teams
Trust needs to be the foundation of all interactions to build culture and retain great people. At the core of caregiving is the need to trust another human. Trust must also carry over to our teams and leadership.
With the rise of retention issues, many team leaders have not had the opportunity to learn the skill set that instills trust on a team. In this session Kathy Parry helps participants understand five ways to build trust and how to apply them for their teams. We will examine best practices for consistency, transparency, listening, empathy and civility/respect. Using examples from her work with teams, participants will experience scenarios that they also may encounter on their teams. According to studies by NIH, by implementing a plan for competency in the five areas, organizations will see increased trust from team members which can increase job satisfaction. This interactive session will allow participants to share their own struggles and actively discuss best practices.
While the issues surrounding retention are not easily resolved, building trust within an organization is a key component to increasing an individual’s contribution to a team. And ultimately trust on a team will filter to best care practices.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the significant impact trust has on their organization and teams and why people leave when they do not trust leadership.
- Use best practices for consistency, transparency, listening, empathy and civility to build trust in order to increase retention and attract new hires.
- Conduct their own trust audit to assess the needs of their team and address the skills they may need to build.
The Trek Ahead:
Successfully Crush Your Goals
A full meeting schedule, professional development, or personal health – you must get things done and innovate on new ideas too. So, you set a goal to make progress. But emails, interruptions and life get in the way of that big, audacious goal. You look back and little to no progress has been made since that idea sparked. This session will get you back on track with the summit in sight.
Participants will go on a virtual trek up a mountain that presents a system to not only set goals but learn the process to complete them all in 90 days. First, goals will be defined and broken into milestone events. The motivation behind “why” the goal is set will drive the critical components of the system. Participants will learn how to assign an accountability component to their goals and add a habit tracker, so they don’t lose sight of the 90-day finish line. But not all goals are met, so this session leaves space for the best practices to stay resilient through the process of attaining goals. It isn’t always easy to reach the top of the mountain but with the right mindset and tools, goals can be crushed.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the number one reason goals aren’t met and what they can do immediately to get back on track.
- Learn the super simple method to track goals by breaking them into monthly, weekly and daily activities.
- Leave with a plan to achieve their top three goals in the next 90 days.
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