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Standing-ovation Professional Paradise Presentations. Vicki’s presentations are tailored for every audience and customized to your organization’s specific needs and objectives. Formats range from a 45-minute interactive keynote to a full-day workshop. All formats include time for participants to develop a simple yet specific action plan for implementing positive change back on the job. For a complete list of Vicki’s presentations, visit www.VickiHess.com. Her most popular topics include:

• SHIFT to Professional Paradise: 5 Steps to Less Stress, More Energy & Remarkable Results at Work
  Many other folks get it right, then they will be happy at work. The fact of the matter is that each of us is the CPO – Chief Paradise Officer – of our job. Accepting responsibility for creating our own Professional Paradise creates long-term behavior changes and develops an emotional commitment that leads to remarkable results and job satisfaction. After this memorable, uplifting program, participants will be able to:
  
  • Define what Professional Prison and Professional Paradise mean to them
  • Create and maintain positive connections with customers and coworkers
  • Apply the proprietary SHIFT™ technique to turn workplace POWs into WOWs, transforming stumbling blocks into stepping stones
  
  
• Leading Your Organization to Professional Paradise and Beyond
  Would employees say they work in Professional Prison or Professional Paradise? Evidence indicates that far too many people feel stuck in their jobs. Perhaps that’s why disengagement is still consistently cited as a top concern within organizations. And while engagement is without question a personal matter, an organization’s leadership plays a crucial role in supporting employees to create their own Professional Paradise. This presentation provides leaders with a proven methodology for creating an organization-wide culture of Professional Paradise by teaching them how to:
  
  
  • Develop their own personal accountability for engagement and job satisfaction
  • Identify key work beliefs and how these impact staff behavior and, ultimately, results
  • Lead their team in learning how to escape from stressed to satisfied, pooped to productive and stuck to soaring
  
  Who wouldn’t want to work in Professional Paradise?
  
  
• Navigating the White Waters of Change: Will You Sink or SHIFT?
  Keeping up with the pace of organizational change can seem like an adventure on Class V rapids. What will happen the next time change impacts the workplace? Will people be able to enjoy the ride? Learn how to implement the proprietary SHIFT™ technique to maintain control, create energizing solutions and integrate change. Participants will jump aboard the raft and:
  
  
  • Discover where they fall on the Change Tolerance Index
  • Identify work beliefs and mindsets that affect their perception of change
  • Competently use SolutionSHIFT™ to master the art of change management
  
  
• Working With Bullies, Babies & Brats
  Got cranky customers? Cantankerous coworkers? Unresolved workplace conflicts and interpersonal disconnects lead to increased stress for employees and cost businesses billions of dollars each year in lost productivity. Can we work with difficult people and still work in Professional Paradise? Absolutely! Takeaways from this session include:
  
  
  • Understanding when workplace conflict is productive and when it’s harmful
  • Identifying workplace bullies, babies and brats by their key behaviors
  • Using ConnectionSHIFT™ to resolve conflicts and work effectively with all kinds of people
  
  
• SHIFT, Rattle & Roll: 10 Tangible Tips to Boost Your Energy at Work
  People who work in Professional Paradise are chock full of energy and bring renewed passion and purpose to work each day. More energy leads to higher productivity and better execution. Participants will literally rock and roll during this presentation (and back at work) as they:
  
  
  • Identify the Energy Boosters and Energy Busters which affect productivity every day
  • Define energy and positive energy management and chart where they are on the Energy Grid
  • Learn ten strategies for boosting energy and rekindling their passion for work