Note: All presentation offerings include a follow-up Digital Resources Package (DRP) that includes notes and highlights from the presentation, tutorial videos, workbook exercises, articles and other materials for reinforced and continued learning.
When I partner with your organization, I immerse myself in understanding your unique objectives and audience. Together, we craft customized content that not only aligns with your goals but also resonates deeply with your attendees. My presentations go beyond mere interaction—they are immersive experiences designed to forge authentic connections and provide actionable takeaways that your team can implement immediately. Some of the topics I offer include:
“Talk to Me: How to Communicate Successfully in Any Situation”
In this lively and informative seminar, New York Times bestselling author and expert Jodee Blanco explains the human component of good communication and how to engage these principles to transform the workplace.
Imagine conversations in which every team member is equipped with a powerful tool kit to articulate themselves with grace and confidence. Jodee provides those tools, giving participants simple, intuitive strategies and techniques that they can start using immediately with concrete business results.
Take-aways include:
- How to read any room and find your stride using “The 3-Step Assess and Address Technique”
- How to avoid being put on the defensive
- How to turn an honest mistake into an opportunity to deepen the human connection with someone
- The “3-Tenets of Emotional Credibility in Communication”™
- Expectation management—what it is and why it’s important
- How to communicate feedback that transforms into fuel
- 3-step method for documenting a conversation that motivates and secures follow-through
- How to find compassion for someone when it’s the last thing you feel and why it’s a gamechanger
- Why body language matters from posture and facial expressions to the handshake
- The power of the pause
- How to rewind, reset and redirect any conversation
- Ascending versus descending conversations
- 3 steps for successfully navigating an uncomfortable exchange
- The “Authenticity Self-Check”
“Preventing Workplace Drama and Creating a Positive Environment”
Jodee Blanco, author of the seminal New York Times bestseller Please Stop Laughing at Me…, and an agent of change in hundreds of schools across America leverages her successful strategies to strengthen corporations.
Imagine a positive, high-performing, drama-free workplace that fosters open communication, mutual respect and trust. Imagine every team member being equipped with the skill set to express truth clearly, neutralize negativity, focus on solutions and engage in healthy communication habits that enable the organization to thrive.
In this fun and engaging session, Jodee will provide tools that are simple, intuitive and easy to put into practice. She will empower participants with a fresh, new understanding of workplace culture informed by the need in each of us to feel valued. She will offer suggested verbiage, step-by-step advice and specific techniques for preventing drama and creating an environment that nourishes growth and brings out the best in everyone.
The human heart is ageless. Whether someone is fretting over being excluded at school by the cool crowd or feeling left out or laughed at by co-workers, it can significantly impact performance and productivity. Participants will also learn how fear is the primary emotion driving most bad behavior and how to engage compassion to harness cooperation.
Take-aways include:
- What you should and shouldn’t say to a team member who feels bullied or disrespected and why
- A communications tool kit with conversation starter cards, templates and other time savers
- How to “tell instead of tattle” and why it’s not just a school thing
- The warning signs that your communication style may be undermining your success how to become a better, more courageous and compassionate you
- Smart, effective follow-up strategies for circumventing drama and achieving clarity
- Step-by-step guidance on how to self-advocate
Drawing upon her decades long tenure as a communications consultant in the corporate arena and her expertise as a bullying survivor and activist, Jodee will empower participants with the skill set to handle delicate situations, workplace drama and sensitive moments with professionalism, positivity and grace.
Mastering Challenging Conversations in the Workplace and Beyond: A Pro’s Tool Kit
Good communicators know how to navigate any conversation without losing their compassion or composure. They’re centered, keenly aware of others and articulate. They sense when they need to shift gears or adjust their approach and can self-correct in the moment using fundamental strategies that speak to the need in everyone to feel heard and respected.
In this lively and informative presentation, Jodee gives audience members a master communicator’s tool kit and shows them how to engage these simple yet powerful principles to achieve success in every facet of communication, from in-person exchanges and phone calls to zooms, texts and emails.
Take-aways include:
- “The 3 Tenets of Emotional Credibility in Communication”™
- Documentation and follow-up that keeps everyone honest
- How to prevent an “I wish I would have handled that differently” moment
- 3-step technique for how to respond instead of react
- How to reply to a rambling email or text without getting sucked into the rabbit hole
- Scripted verbiage, email templates and other time savers
- How to access your compassion when it’s the last thing you feel and why it can be the gamechanger you need
- A litmus test for knowing if it’s better to meet, call, email or text
- The secret to keeping your cool
She will conclude with some of her most unforgettable experiences in the entertainment business as well as her seminal work inside America’s schools and what they taught her about the ability in all of us to be better communicators.
Other Options Include: (Descriptions available upon request)
“A Communications Tool Kit for HR Professionals” (also available as a workshop—click here)
“Worthy Conversations: The Human Component of Being a Successful Communicator”
Expectation Management Strategies
How to Handle A Difficult Person without Losing Your Cool or Compassion
*Jodee also customizes keynotes and presentations by topic upon request. For more information, please call 312-961-3430.