Speaking
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. Ben Jonson
What can Sandy do for your organization?
Restore Sanity, Increase Confidence, Put Fun Back in Your Life, Raise Morale, Improve Internal Communication, Increase Personal Productivity, Motivate Employees To Do Their Personal Best
= Bottom Line Impact
Is your organization experiencing burnout, overwhelming change, high employee turnover and low morale, increases in employee conflict and employees having to do more with less? Are your employees struggling to find a balance between their work and home lives or do they simply need a boost of positive energy? If so, Sandy Griffin can help you!
Clients say her exciting, motivational, action-oriented presentations have given their employees a new sense of direction, understanding, and hope.
I hope I will have a chance to make a difference in your workplace by helping you raise morale, improve retention, build customer and employee loyalty, boost productivity, and as a result, create a workplace of respect, caring, and joy. Remember, you will never get employees to treat customers better than they are being treated themselves!
Sandy delivers high-energy presentations packed with content and fun!
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TOPICS
Re-Ignite Your Fire
Step Into Yourself Picture the Perfect You
• Build yourself: What gifts were you born with? How are you wired?
• Perfectly Imperfect You: Get to know yourself, accept yourself, and fall madly in love with the person you were created to be
• How do you want people to perceive you? What are the first things you tell people about yourself? On Facebook who do you lead people to think you are?
• Be You, Magnified…be YOU – only magnified
• It’s not about you; it’s about them: what people say is where they are coming from
• You are special; learn to be content with who you are; people’s words won’t stick when you learn your worth
Life’s Gifts Uncover Your Talents
• Use your gifts – however you can. What are your God-given gifts? There is more than one way to use each gift – explore the possibilities.
• Victim or Victor? Life’s challenges Take your mess and make it your
message
Belief Change Your Thinking – Change Your Outcome
• Things are Not Always as They Appear Learn discernment when making judgment calls
• Beliefs bring results; actions and behaviors feed off of your belief system. If you want to make changes, change your beliefs.
• Take down walls of your own doing – church, culture, neighborhoods, family
• Your brain – fertile soil. What are you planting?
• You get what you think about…change the pictures in your head
• HOPE – when all else seems to leave
• Affirmations – Affirm yourself and your life follows
Connect The lost art of connecting with people
• Living alone together – the home – less family/meal–less The importance of gathering ROUND THE TABLE w/o technology - families, neighbors, friends, co-workers
• The importance of the smile, eyes and listening
• Learn how to make a connection with…everybody
• Conversation – Only 7% is the words…learn how to communicate without saying a word
• Communication – looking in eyes, listening – the lost art
• Right and wrong – if you have to talk yourself in to something, you are trying to justify. Become aware of our minds tricks
• Real vs. interpreted (made up)
• Treating people with love, without saying a word
Fears Break Down Your Walls
Attitude Change Your Attitude- Change Your Day
• Dance or shuffle? Dance – a state of mind; shuffle – to drag yourself through the days
The worst dancers are the best at dancing through their days; be the one
enjoying life and having fun – at work and at play
• Attitude is a choice you make every day: many times chosen the night before
Choices Your life is the sum result of the choices you make
• When you say yes to one thing, you say no to other things
• Do you belong in this picture?
• Take the first steps down the yellow brick road of your life, embrace your fears to find that everything you need is in your own back yard
• Ladder to ‘Mr. Right’
Be True to Self Being honest with yourself brings peace and success
• Being Obedient - listen to your heart, intuition doesn’t make sense; justify try to fit it in our practical, have-to-make sense world
• Co-dependent by any other names – is co-dependent
• Do I need it? Do I love it? Does it make $$? If not, get rid of it
Dreams/Passion Uncover your buried dreams; find your passion
• Failure vs. lessons – one and the same
• Dreams never die
• What is your passion?
Abuse Take back the remote control of YOUR life
• Take the face of the abuser off everyone
• The hidden abuse – verbal. No one deserves it
Addictions What hole is your addiction filling up?
• Break the chain without exchanging one addiction for another
Breaking the Food Chain: Freedom from Bottomless Hunger What are you ‘weighting’ for?
• When is eating not about the food?
• What empty hole are you ‘trying’ to fill?
Your Story Learn to live YOUR own life
• Years from now this will just be a story – will it be worth retelling?
• The empty canvas of your life – What are you going to paint on it?
• Pictures: Do you paint yourselves in pictures that you don’t belong in?
• When you are 95, what will you regret not doing?
• Write your obituary – live the rest of your dash
Live in the Present Learn to enjoy being wherever you are
• Carpe Diem – use your 5 senses to live in the present
• If you had to pay for baggage from your past when you got to the airport, how many bags would you have to check in?
• Running away from yourself – deal with ghosts from the past
• Make you pain your power; make your mess your message
• Your Empty Canvas
Ethics If everyone else does it, does that make it okay?
Gratitude
• Your happiness level is in direct proportion to your gratitude level. Take the gratitude challenge and look at life through different eyes
• The little things in life become the BIG things
Celebrate Put the ‘fun’ into each ordinary day
• Celebrate ordinary days and make them ‘extra’-ordinary
Humor
• Humor as relationship connector. Life = Art + Science Art – Humor, Science – Technology
The importance of humor for health and as a relationship connector
• Stories: Everyone can be a good storyteller; if they are telling their own story
• Mishaps as Stories – Play your mishaps ahead as the stories they will become; laugh at life’s accidents, and actually look forward to them
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
Herman Hesse