Keynotes & Workshops

All of Sally’s Keynotes and Workshops are based on People Skills That Work! Learning powerful, effective communication, being your best and bringing out the best in those around you will create real solutions to most people challenges.

All presentations are designed to reflect the needs and wants of your participants, your organization and your focus. Whether your group wants to explore motivation, handling conflict or change, positive attitudes, team building, leadership, customer service, communication or reducing stress – it all comes down to understanding yourself and how to work most effectively with those around you.

An advocate of experiential learning, all of Sally’s keynotes and workshops are learner focused, interactive and designed to provide real solutions that will create positive change in the workplace long after the session is over.  Sally accomplishes these goals by:

• Making certain that the content is relevant to the needs of her participants
• Forging a partnership with participants to share the responsibility for the success of the session
• Leaving powerful materials in the hands of each participant so when a real world challenge pops up two months after the training, participants have a ready reference with the answers they need right at their fingertips
• Posting a page on her website after each keynote or workshop to follow up with learning issues
• Finding the humor in some of our most taxing situations

Talk to Sally about designing a presentation perfect for your organization.

Example Topics

These are a few examples of topics that have been presented in keynote, half-day or full day format:

Updating The Golden Rule

Creative, positive, effective communication can eliminate about 98% of the conflict and stress from your life. Sounds simple, and it is, but it isn’t easy. Most of us spend our lives giving others what we want, following the Golden Rule – Never suspecting for a moment that others may not want what we want at all! We might want activity, excitement, risk, while someone else wants peace, solitude, and stability. No wonder we get into trouble so often! Learn your own DiSC Style(tm), and the styles of those around you so that you can discuss openly what each of you really wants. Live by the Platinum Rule, “treat others as they would like to be treated.”

Power Partnering – The Success Building Workout

Learn the power of partnering with someone who wants to be successful as much as you do!  Whatever your goal, a Power Partner can help get you there quicker, better, easier and you’ll both have fun doing it! Push, prod and cajole each other to the top.

The subject of Sally’s new book, due out soon, Power Partnering is a practical, inspiring, humorous presentation that will motivate your participants and remind them of the power of partnering in all endeavors.

Designing Your Life’s Work To Fit Your Life

We spend way too much time at work to settle for an energy-draining career path or work environment.  This session will take a good hard look at your profession, your bosses, your office environment, and most importantly, yourself.  Know yourself, how you relate to others, and what you must have in your workplace.  Discover how to design and a mold a rewarding career and work environment that lights up your life!

The A4 – Attitudes Activate Accomplishment – Always!

Is your attitude working for you? Your attitude has a powerful impact on every area of your life – make it a good one! In this motivational presentation Sally will involve your participants in discovering and utilizing Attitudes of Success. Participants will explore the relationship between expectations and attitudes and how to bring them into sync. Although you cannot change someone else’s attitude, you can create an environment that encourages and facilitates that change. Participants will challenge the naysayers of the world. They will discover that we change the world one person at a time, and it starts with the person in the mirror.

Growing Into Your Best Self

Our strengths are the center and source of our unlimited power. They can also be the root of our demise. Creating balance in our lives in this hurry-up-and-get-it-done-yesterday world is a challenge, and yet essential to living a successful, full life that allows you to experience the pure joy of blending personal and professional fulfillment. Creating balance in your life grows out of knowing, maximizing and never over using your strengths. This inspiring presentation will motivate your participants to create balanced lives that celebrate the best in each of us and build powerful relationships based on shared strengths.

Conflict – Guess What? It’s Normal!

From early childhood we are taught that arguments and disagreements are bad. Conflict in the business world is especially frowned upon. Guess what? There has never been a society, a company, an organization, or a relationship in the history of the world that did not experience some conflict. Conflict is not only normal, it can be down right healthy and can generate positive synergy when managed properly. It is not the conflict that is bad – it is how we deal with it that is the problem. Learn to reframe conflict and use it to make both organizations and relationships more efficient, effective and stable.

Putting the “Pow!” Into Powerful Presentations!

Great speaking, even for the verbally challenged! Giving powerful presentations is crucial to success in business today. You cannot advance your ideas with clients, management, your peers or your team if you cannot articulate those ideas well in front of a group. Sally will give your participants the powerful basics of designing and delivering powerful presentations that will help accomplish their business goals. This presentation focuses on building on what you are already good at – you just don’t know it yet!

Laugh in The Face of Change – And Stress – And Conflict – And Aggravation . . .

The importance of laughter in today’s world cannot be overstated. We crave it, we need it and our very survival depends on consuming a healthy dose of it everyday. This short program involves your participants in discovering and exploiting the humor in their lives both at work and at home. Life today is just moving too quickly for us to risk missing some of the humor and absurdities that surround live in the new millennium. Find them – laugh at them – share them with your friends and neighbors! Learn to use humor to move joyfully from frustrated to fascinate!

Humor in Government Is Serious Business

Government workers in today’s tight budgets are often stressed to their limits.  This session takes a light-hearted look at how government workers can derail the stress and get the appreciation they so deserve.  This fun session includes serious real solutions that your participants can take back to work and apply today!

Mastering The Time Monster

This workshop gives participants some real hands-on activities and ideas for bringing order to their time challenges by covering 12 Time Mastery areas on which to focus their attention – one at a time.  (They don’t have time to do it all at once!).  They will take home the Time Mastery Profile®, so that as they master one time challenge, they can move on to the next, and the next and the next!  Sally provides an outline that guides managers and supervisors in using the Time Mastery Profile to incorporate time management training into future team meetings.

Building Business Relationships That Work

This session looks at the strengths we each bring to the workplace.  How those strengths are working for us and how, if over used, they may be inhibiting our success.  By sharing our strengths, we create a synergy that facilitates positive problem solving and creative thinking that generates real solutions in sales, motivation, conflict, change, leadership skills, management skills, coaching skills, etc. etc!

Today’s Mentoring Partnerships Have A New Attitude

Many organizations are discovering the new value of the age-old practice of Mentoring.  This session looks at how today’s Mentoring has changed to meet the needs of today’s world, both at work and in the community.  Mentoring today is a partnership that must generate a win for the Mentee, the Mentor, the organization and the community.  Explore how a Mentoring Partnership might bring new growth to you and your organization.

And These Topics Are Available From Sally’s Life Experience:

The Depressed Optimist

Living with clinical depression is a challenge for anyone, but when you have been an incurable optimist all of your life, clinical depression is a curse! Even growing up in an abusive family, Sally had always believed that life would get better, “someday.” As an adult, mother of four she suddenly found herself void of that faith in life, and shackled to an unrelenting darkness that threatened her very will to live. Sally has lived with depression for much of her adult life and can speak to the challenge of hiding this perceived weakness from an unforgiving world – of finding the strength to finally ask for help, and to begin to forgive herself the weakness. She discovered that you don’t get clinical depression, just like cancer or heart disease, from being weak and you can’t cure it by being strong. Sally brings a humorous, informative insight into the misunderstood world of clinical depression.

Caring For Loved Ones Who Have The Audacity To Die Before You Do!

When her sister, El, learned she had a brain tumor that would probably take her life, she asked if Sally would come to California and care for her so she wouldn’t have to die in the hospital. Her first reaction was, “No!! I wouldn’t know what to do – I’m not a nurse – I might really hurt you!” But of course, she simply said, “Yes.” Living through this impossible situation helped Sally learn about life and death and strength and humor. Living with dying can really change your life in ways you would never imagine.

“The annual forecast of business strategies found that the key emerging trend was toward restructuring organizations toward self-management.”
- Tom Petzinger, The Wall Street Journal, 1997