If what you want is employees who show up every day and put in their time, move along…Janine isn't about that. If you want more from your employees, however…if you want the productivity that comes from emotionally committed workers, then Janine's message is for you. As a leader you want your organization to be agile and responsive to whatever industry or business challenge comes your way. It’s not an accident that some businesses are better at this than others. Janine works with business leaders who want more resilient and agile employees, who respond to change with little resistance and with enthusiasm for success. Janine's speaking topics deal with change, building employee loyalty and turning Employees into Partners who work toward your business success. Janine’s unique experiences have made her practical, thought provoking, direct and challenging. She has experienced “work” from the handle of a hoe on a family farm to a C-level position at a utility company. As a “Corporate Wars” veteran, she has directed enterprise and not-for-profit organizations, developed and implemented human capital strategies and coached hundreds to define their goals, eliminate challenges and trust themselves to engage and achieve. She’s consulted and facilitated learning in businesses large and small, in varied industries and in office, field and manufacturing settings. She shapes learning within organizations by using her deep leadership experience, her knowledge of the changing nature of work and workers, and her extensive experience in engaging people to do their best work. She’s best at guiding people away from fear and toward strength. Janine has the credentials (corporate leadership, master's degree; master coaching certification) to match her experience and so brings a depth to organizations that few others can. All of her services are about Learning, tailored to bring a mix of experience and cutting-edge information about how brains and minds can be leveraged to tackle unknown challenges with unfamiliar tools.
Emotional Wellness
As work, home, the economy and society continue to throw change and challenge your way, how are you coping? Does your resilience help you bounce back or are you struggling to handle set-backs, big and small? Resilience can be strengthened by learning how to leverage your brain and mind: knowing your auto responses, consciously recognizing outdated thinking and then shifting your thinking and choosing to be effective in handling challenges and reducing stress. Just like all skills, resilience is strengthened by Focus and Repetition, so ongoing practice is needed for development. An accompanying workbook (for sessions over 1 hour) allows for self-paced, ongoing development of this critical characteristic.
Social Wellness
Each of the four generations in today’s workplace brings very different—and often contradictory—values, beliefs and expectations to work where the success of the organization depends upon their strengths and collaboration. Never before have four so different generations worked side-by-side: loyal Traditionalists; idealistic Baby Boomers; pragmatic Gen X-ers; and confident Millennials. And a 5th generation—Gen Z / Gen Tech—adds yet another set of expectations to the workplace.The “magic” of inter-generational (and ‘gender’ too!) collaboration includes viewing the world through others’ lenses, finding the similarities and discovering the strengths that each generation brings to shape a successful enterprise. This happens through trust, agility and respect.This program begins the discussion for organizations that want to improve collaboration by examining how each generation defines “work” and “how work gets done” so that future conversations can leverage those differences to improve business outcomes.
Professional Wellness
If you’ve experienced the disquiet of employees, you know that most are continually looking for “greener grass”…a better job, a better employer, better conditions, etc. But what if you could actually BE the greener grass that employees seek? You really can keep the employees you want and lose those you don’t by upping your expectations, shifting career responsibilities and providing career opportunity unknown in virtually all organizations.The Career Partnering model is a win-win approach to career direction that teaches employees to align their strongest work value with strategic direction through initiative, change-agility, mentoring and a thorough knowledge of your organization’s business reality. While not for everyone, Career Partnering provides opportunity for you to leverage the motivators of your brightest talent, allowing them to create an equity position in your business that drives success.
Professional Wellness
Change is always challenging because we default to our Inner Caveman: our fight or flight response takes over and interprets any change as a threat. As human beings we like comfort: we’re built to move toward “homeostasis:” our body’s default, our comfortable ways of doing and being. Change means that we have to adapt, to do something different than what is already comfortable. From a physical perspective, this protects us from approaching saber-tooth tigers and stray prehistoric hyenas. The problem is that our brains don’t distinguish between true physical threats and the emotional ones of today’s workplace. In our brains, the threats of potential job loss, reduced salaries and new and improved work processes are just as real and scary as the meat-eating predators of our ancestors.We can adapt to change ONLY when we become intentional about how we see it and, thus, intentional about how we respond!
Professional Wellness
The changing workforce is a constant challenge: it’s diverse, it’s aging and much of it may lack commitment to your business growth…and that can spell disaster for your business! This seminar reviews the challenges presented by today’s changing workforce as well as approaches to keeping the best and brightest of your workers. 21st Century business success requires getting the most from your workers; this learning forum shows you why “partner-owners” must replace “employees” and how to build a strategy to do it!
Emotional Wellness
Emotional intelligence or “EI”…the stuff of “soft” skills. Even though upwards of 90% of leadership success is attributed to EI skills, strengthening them is often ignored or overlooked. If you’re looking to get the best from the people in your business, you’ll get a huge return from growing everyone’s emotional intelligence.
Emotional Wellness
People are the critical assets of business in the “Information/Service” economy, and people come with emotions. Success in today’s economy requires creativity, flexibility, resilience, interpersonal skills, teamwork, and collaboration and conflict skills from these assets, and sometimes emotions get in the way. Emotional Savvy is knowing how to welcome and handle change and challenge as they happen by using skills that recognize and manage emotions…both yours and others. Emotional Savvy leaders know that the humanness of emotions can get in the way of productive business results, and so they focus on developing Emotional Savvy to ensure collaboration and teamwork, reduced drama, and big commitment to strategy and goals. Some estimates show over 90% of a leader’s success is due to his/her handling of emotions in the workplace.
