Workshops and Talks

Here are a few of the topics for my workshops and talks. Content is customized with exercises and examples tailored for your organization. Content is also tailored to fit the timeframe available in your program.


Conflict Resolution for Managers
Differences of opinion and different styles of getting things done are a fact of life in the workplace. Managing differences of opinion is an essential skill, but few managers have been taught how to handle conflict. Most of what we know how to do creates unproductive conflict. Unproductive conflict among members of your team or between your company and your clients drains team morale, compromises creativity and ultimately can lead to the loss of employees, clients and revenue. This workshop covers: the sources of conflict, the emotional needs that fuel conflict, how your view of conflict influences how you deal with conflict, what's behind anger, assessment instruments to identify your work style and mode of dealing with conflict, and advanced communication skills to move differences of opinion away from a focus on personalities towards a focus on business objectives and productive resolution.


Getting Unstuck: The Root Cause of Anxiety and Self-Doubt
There are times when even the most confident, accomplished executive has a moment when he thinks “I’m not good enough” or “I’m going to fail”. There are times that no matter how well prepared you are or how much positive thinking you do, your anxiety gets in the way of you making a sales call, giving a presentation, or pursuing something else in your professional or personal life. This workshop will help you identify what’s at the root of your anxiety or negative beliefs and how memories of past events unconsciously come into play in your present and get in the way of your future.


Depression and Loss During Career Transition
Sadness, worry, fatigue, loss of motivation, hopelessness, and other depression symptoms are an understandable and common experience following job loss and during the career transition process. This talk covers: three causes of depression (physical, reactive, intrapsychic), how to work through each type of depression, drug-free approaches to treating symptoms, why you can't just "get over" a traumatic loss, a six-step mourning process for accommodating loss, how recent loss activates prior experiences of rejection or loss, and how depression symptoms can actually serve a purpose during the career transition process.


Managing Energy Not Time as the Key to High Performance
Do you feel like your life is a marathon or some other endurance event? Do you feel even more overwhelmed by your “to do” list, even though you have all the latest technology to stay organized and in touch with others? Have you tried to apply time management principles and still find feel drained and behind at the end of the day? This talk addresses the principles of energy management that professional athletes use when they train to achieve peak performance and how those principles can help you achieve peak performance.


Building Your Stress Management Portfolio
Why is it that two highly skilled, competent professionals can have two very different reactions to the same stressful event at work? Stress management is much more than sleep, diet, exercise and breathing. In this talk, you’ll learn what determines your level of stress response and 15 qualities you can develop to build your portfolio of stress coping resources.

To read testimonials from people who have attended my talks, see Testimonials.

To learn more or to schedule a talk for your company, call 770-310-9305 or kalpana@genuineconnection.com.