Corporate Webinars & Talks
Wellbeing talks for your team
I a m very proud to have worked with a diverse range of companies and corporations, including investment banks, chartered surveyors, lawyers, chocolatiers and fashion retail groups.
The following talks can all be run as webinars (1 hour), in-person talks (1.5 hours)
or interactive workshops (3 hours).
Embracing assertiveness and positivity in the workplace
This talk is focused on empowering and enabling attendees to handle difficult situations effectively and proactively. It also helps attendees to understand any fears they may be holding around potential conflict. It provides attendees with:
- Strategies and techniques to deal with challenging situations proactively and constructively
- An understanding of how assertiveness banishes resentment and helps us gain a stronger sense of self
- Strategies to be at ease in any professional or social situation
- An understanding of the importance of body language and its impact on ourselves and others
- Ways to 'invest' in colleagues and/or customers in order to build strong working relationships.
Managing stress and anxiety
This talk is focused on supporting attendees to recognise when they may be finding work, or life in general, overwhelming, and they may benefit from specific ways to alleviate any stress or anxiety they are experiencing. It provides attendees with:
- An understanding of our emotional thermometer and the importance of recognising where we are at any one time
- An understanding the difference between stress and anxiety and learning strategies to address both
- An understanding of why change can trigger anxiety and how to handle it
- Knowing how to manage our time and take control of our diaries (and our lives)
- What good self-care looks like and how to ensure we prioritise it going forward.
Why smart people burn out (and how to avoid it)
This talk is focused on building attendees understanding of the habits that can make us prone to burn out. It also provides an understanding of the important changes we need to make to ensure we don't. This talk covers:
- Recognising and understanding the stages of burnout
- The dangers of perfectionism and how to let go of the need to be perfect
- Over-responsibility – recognising and resisting the urge to take on too much
- How to calm a busy brain and find your "off" switch
- Recovery vs rest – what we need for burnout recovery
Looking beneath the behaviour; what our actions reveal about us
This talk deepens attendees psychological understanding of why people (including themselves) behave the way they do even when those behaviours are seemingly negative. It also explores how we can make significant, positive change through small, manageable actions. This talk covers:
- Why we become defensive and how understanding our defences allows us to become more receptive to constructive feedback
- Why some criticism hurts more than others and how to recognise how many things aren't as personal as they may seem
- Why people pleasers struggle to say ‘no’ and the steps to take if this applies to you
- Why conflict feels dangerous to some people and an exploration of why healthy conflict can be useful
- How understanding ourselves helps us respond differently and make better choices for ourselves
Building psychological safety in the workplace
This talk focuses on helping attendees understand the importance of psychological safety including why it is benefitial for the entire team. It also provides an understanding of the steps we can take to create a psychologically safe environment. This talk covers:
- Using compassion to aid understandings and connections
- Recognising our unconscious biases and spotting micro-exclusions
- Turning conflicts/potential conflicts into constructive conversations
- Boosting a culture of trust to drive business performance and innovation
- Understanding why a psychologically safe environment boosts productivity, innovation and creativity
