Keynotes that Inspire and Empower Your Team to Embrace Their Emotions and Perform with Passion
Calm the Drama
Your team is not as productive as it could be when members are struggling with feelings that hold them back. When people are distracted by personal or professional problems, or troubled by others in the office that are, it can be difficult to get anything done.
Clear the Air
Create a drama-free workplace. Foster a culture of openness and communication, a safe place for employees to feel and share things in a productive way.
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Embracing Adversity to Create Resilience
There are two ways to look at the ups and downs of business: either see it as a series of unfortunate events or embrace it all as full of rich experiences. When Vivian unexpectedly lost her husband to cancer, she found she lost a great deal more than her life companion. Unbeknownst to her, her home was in foreclosure, there was no money in any of the bank accounts, and her once millionaire husband was financially ruined. Instead of cratering as a result of these overwhelming events, she embraced her emotions and challenges, leaned into her grief, and used the obstacles she faced as learning opportunities. She rebuilt her life, businesses, and emotional health.
Key Takeaways:
- 3 Steps to improve employee performance through perspective change
- Strategies to handle stress more effectively, resulting in happier and more resilient employees
- Ways to navigate through the varying emotions brought on by global events
Creating an Anti-Negativity Culture:
From Chaos to Calm that Creates a Culture Everybody Loves
Our negative self-talk permeates every aspect of our lives. Bringing that mindset to work is detrimental to workplace culture. Vivian guides management teams and employees to identify the undercurrent of negativity and discover the benefits of setting a foundation of positivity in their culture. This powerful shift produces happier employees who are more productive, who sell more, and take better care of each other, and ultimately, the customers.
Key Takeaways:
- Exploring where negativity originates
- Increasing awareness of the damaging effects of negativity
- Strategies to turn negativity into positivity
Resentment to Respect:
Embracing Emotions to Create Workplace Balance
Leaders typically think of empathy, resilience, kindness, communication, and other so-called touchy-feely skills as the soft competencies that are not always a high priority in the management scheme of things. As companies struggle in a climate of high turnover, employee burn-out, and retaining top talent, softer skills awareness is an increasing strategy to creating happier teams and healthier workplace cultures. Embracing the emotional side of employees is critical to the adaptability of organizations in these challenging times.
Key Takeaways:
- Identifying the danger zone of unprocessed emotions in the organization
- Discovering the value of embracing emotions and how that translates into employee engagement
- Empowering employees to recognize and create a balanced and healthy workplace
Why Hire Vivian
What They Say...
"Vivian Cobb speaks from her heart. She is intelligent, articulate, charming, clever, and entertaining. The emotion she brings to her presentations is matched only by the deep well of brilliance and meaning she conveys to her audiences. Although Vivian has navigated through many dark times, she is a courageously independent woman, which her listeners quickly recognize. She has committed to sharing her stories with the belief that others will sometimes identify, routinely grasp, and always appreciate her journey and her spirited delivery."
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