Kathleen Johnston helps organizations implement cost-effective initiatives and programs for workplace wellness through:
- Keynotes / Speaking engagements delivered by Kathleen Johnston are typically structured as 60-90 minute sessions. Kathleen's lively approach, including a touch of humour, make her a powerful presenter. Popular keynotes include Women Redefining Career Success, Superwoman is Alive and She's Stressed, Women's Careers: Past, Present & Future, Celebrating High Achieving Women and Preventing Work-Related Burnout. Several of these topics can also be delivered as 3 hour seminars.
- Workshops / Training focused on how to increase vitality, improve productivity and enhance employee engagement in the work place. World class research from the Canadian Institute of Stress provides a foundation for content of training and materials. Workshops range from building stress resiliency or work/life balance, to structuring time and interpersonal communication and personal leadership skills for career success. Half or full day workshops are custom-designed to address unique organizational needs. In addition, individuals and organizations can engage Kathleen for consulting to address various stages of the stress continuum–stress overload to anxiety, depression, burnout, and illness.
- Program Development a consultative process that includes assessment and analysis, development and implementation / delivery related to building stress resiliency in the organization.
Please contact Kathleen directly to explore the benefits of these consulting services.
Successful employees make successful businesses. Organizations who recognize their people as important resource invest in training with many benefits: increased productivity and engagement, enhanced health and well-being, and reduced absenteeism—all good news for the bottom line.
Kathleen Johnston delivers this important training on stress resiliency, workplace wellness and career satisfaction. With a focus on core personal competencies and strengths, each workshop is custom designed. Training content encourages the development of indviduals and teams. The result is increased energy and productivity and enhanced interpersonal effectiveness.
Workshops are custom designed. Your ideas and suggestions are both welcomed and encouraged. Here are just a few examples of the training sessions that are most in demand. Contact Kathleen today to review your unique requirements.
Success Not Stress: How to Thrive in Hectic Times
Workshop, 3 or 6-Hour Option
When stress gets out of control it saps vitality and weakens the immune system. Stress overload has become the leading contributor to absenteeism and diminished productivity in today's workplace. In this workshop participants learn the health risks from stress overload, have access to the best stress assessment in the field, identify current coping strategies, and learn several strategies for building stress resiiency. Learners develop a personalized wellness plan designed to safeguard and improve long-term health and vitality.
Preventing Burnout
Workshop, 90-Minute or 3-Hour Option
Burnout describes a crisis in one aspect of people's lives-their relationship with their work. Stress overload, work overload or work addiction all eventually lead to burnout. The concept of burnout is not restricted to the social or human services fields-the important variable is the relationship of the individual to his/her work.
Research in the field of mind-body medicine has shown that people need to regularly replenish their energy and rejuvenate themselves if they are to maintain their health and vitality. Based on the principle that burnout is reversible and can be prevented through intentional monitoring and self-care, this experiential workshop is designed to help participants understand the warning signs of burnout. Participants will also be provided several practical self-assessment tools for meaningful discussion and learning.
Leading From the Inside Out
Workshop, 3 Hours
The foundation for effective leadership lies in knowing oneself. This workshop explores the leader within. Participants will clarify their personal values, principles, vision, and goals. Learning how to apply an ethics-based decision-making model is just one core objective of this session. Each individual will also be able to recognize the changes they want to make in order to enhance both workplace and personal success.
Assertiveness: The Most Powerful Communication Skill
Workshop, 3 Hours
Communication is a key strategy for career success. It provides the basis for understanding in all our signficant interpersonal relationships. How many of us experienced frustration from a failure to communicate? The best strategy for powerful communication lies in our ability to be assertive. Assertiveness is being able to express yourself clearly and with respect, about what you need and want. Sounds simple and it can be, however the skill must first be learned and then practiced.
This workshop helps participants understand their current assertiveness style or lack thereof and introduces them to the skills needed to increase their communication effectiveness in both personal and professional relationships. Participants will learn the difference between assertive, aggressive and passive behaviors, and how to consistently apply assertive behaviours. The result is career enhancement and life changing.
Creating Work / Life Harmony
Workshop, 3 or 6-Hour Option
Balance is a hot topic in today's work world. Many people think they can divide their work and personal lives up into tidy little compartments of commitments and if they do it just right, they will achieve a magical balanced state. This erroneous belief is the source of much of the dissatisfaction people feel about their work/life "balance."
In this workshop participants discover a new perspective: balance is simply the feeling of satisfaction that comes from concentrating on what really matters most at their current life stage. Participants will clarify their vision, values, priorities and goals in relation to their roles and responsibilities. They'll also identify role and priority conflicts and create strategies for increased satisfaction.
Don't Shout to be Heard: The Power of Effective Communication
Workshop, 3 Hours
We tend to assume that communication is a natural skill. In fact, effective interpersonal communication is a learned skill and accompanies behaviour that significantly affects your ability to work effectively with others. This experiential workshop is designed to advance your interpersonal communication skills. Effective communication increases your self-confidence and your competence: two critical factors for career success.
Your Career: Who's In Charge?
Workshop, 3 Hour
How do you rate your career progress? Are you where you want to be? Are you doing the type of work you want to do? In this workshop, participants will examine the purpose and values they wish to express through their work. They will explore what motivates them to do their best. They will articulate their strengths (a combination of talent, knowledge, skills, and experience). They will clarify their ideal work. The result is a plan for ongoing fulfillment and career success.
