Speaking Categories

• Professional Development
      1. Presentation Skills
      2. Business Etiquette
• Travel Tips and Resources
     1. 3rd World Travel and Other
• Inspiration
• Change
• Disability

 
Professional Development

How To Present - 101

Public speaking is one of the most important skills for ensuring success in business - yet it's also one of the most difficult to master. This popular seminar provides participants with strategies that will help them become more effective and confident public speakers through preparing and structuring a speech, discovering the elements of an effective speech and self-introduction, developing a topic, remembering presentation material, and mini role-playing presentations.

Basics of Business Etiquette (according to Emily Post)

Today's rough-and-tumble business environment requires a new civility. From the basics of business attire to appropriate handshakes and e-mail "dos and don't" this timely seminar will help reduce embarrassing moments and leave a positive impression each and every time. Learn why communication, common sense and courtesy are the foundations of business etiquette. Understand the top-ten rules of behaving appropriately and ethically.

 
Travel Tips and Resources

Am I Forgetting Anything? Tips for Planning Your Trip Abroad (or anywhere else)

Are you ready to take off to see the world, but also want to make sure you don't leave anything behind? You have a desire for adventure, AND you want to be prepared. This is not a where-to-go or what-to-do travel class, but rather a class on how-to-get-ready for your adventure. Barbara loves to travel and shares from her world travel experiences and a recent 2.5 month trip to Peru. She will help make your trip planning a little easier by sharing trips, checklists, and resources. Save yourself time, effort, and worry at this one-stop resource class by learning what to consider so you don't forget anything. Topics include insurance, technology, clothing, documents, immunizations, luggage, paraphernalia, preparing your home for your absence, and lots of travel tips.

 
Inspiration

Out of the Ashes

Barbara’s personal and inspiring story: the oldest of three siblings, to sole survivor of her family, including her brother’s suicide in 1999. The loss of her capacities from a slip and fall on black ice in 1990 resulting in a traumatic brain injury to a resounding mainstream living comeback. Her mantra of “living in the moment” combined with courage, conviction, and faith give audiences permission to explore their own milestones and breakthrough’s in life’s journey. Barbara’s warmth, authenticity and humor leave audiences with a sense of personal empowerment and a plan of action!

Change

When Life Changes – Change Your Life

Change is an everyday reality. Economy woes, huge layoffs, mergers, tsunamis and hurricanes are affecting our everyday lives. We are expected to do more in less time with fewer resources. Based on Barbara’s book Thinking Out of the Box - Strategies for Handling Change, audiences learn how to maneuver through limiting attitudes and behaviors. Participants learn tools and coping mechanisms for dealing with the occurrences of change in daily life and life-altering times.

Disability

Effective Tools and Strategies for
Working with Brain Injury Clients

Created to help service providers, counselors and family members learn effective tools for working with their brain-injury survivors and move them toward successful employment and a better quality of life. These tools include anger management, developing successful approaches to bridge brain-injury learning styles, and many more useful and proven methods.

Customized to your needs

WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS AVAILABLE FOR:

½ DAY – FULL DAY – 2 DAY