Joe Robinson

There's a lot on everyone's plates these days. More and more messaging channels barking for our attention. Interruptions eroding impulse control and working memory. It's easy to get caught up in overwhelm and the stress it sets off, which is bad for employee engagement, satisfaction, mental health, and the work itself. The good news is that there are great tools to manage it all, which your group learns in the Work Smarter Live Better program.  

This fun and interactive session gives your audience the strategies they need to manage chaos,  keep stress, overwhelm, and burnout at bay, and build mental health, wellbeing, and better balance. 

In the sailing world, they have an expression, "You can't control the wind, but you can adjust the sails." We all have work we have to do--the wind--but HOW we do it, our work style, is where we can build in the adjustments to manage time, stress, email, distractions, and deadlines with proven practices we can all do. This gives your group a feeling of perceived control, which cuts stress and builds satisfaction and engagement. They no longer feel out of control.

Inspire, energize, and recharge your group with solutions they need to survive—and thrive—in an always-on world. They learn how to build a smarter, more sustainable work style, one based on thinking before autopilot reaction. The program shows through the latest research and best practices how to make adjustments to how we think, react, and do our tasks that make us more effective and less subject to stress and frenzy.

Participants learn how to manage pressure, multiple demands, devices, deadlines, and refuel the chief productivity tool: attention. They also learn how to put that attention on life outside work, find balance at home, improve wellness, increase optimism in their outlook, and build the keys to a gratified life. It’s a work- and life-changing experience that gives them tools they can use for a lifetime. They will be inspired!

Takeaways

• How to manage demands and pressure, instead of having them manage you
• Multiple stress reduction and wellness practices to promote mental health and sustainable wellbeing
• How to control email overload, message apps, and distractions
• How to manage emotions, reactions, worries, and thinking traps
• How to build resilience through the science of optimism and positive emotions
• Top strategies to recharge life, balance, and wellbeing and activate the fullest life

Stress and burnout are at all-time highs, reports Gallup, but when you turn off the danger signal that triggers stress, the stress response stops in three minutes. Knowing how to do that may be the best takeaway your team ever got from a conference. 

Is your dog still barking two months after a stranger dog walked on your sidewalk? No way. That's why your dog is smarter than you are. He drops the incident as soon as it’s over. Humans hang on to the stressful event, and that's what causes our stress. This program shows how to be as savvy as a spaniel, by dropping stress like an old chew toy, reframing, defusing, contesting, and disputing the bogus overreactions of a brain that thinks it’s 100,000 B.C.

Your group learns how to navigate pressure, workload, deadlines, difficult people and conversations, bounce back from negative events, prevent burnout, and build resilience. This is the missing manual we never got on how not to take the bait of stress.

Takeaways

• How to manage stress, pressure, and overwhelm, and prevent burnout

• How not to take the bait of stress by looking at the thought that causes it, not from it 

• How to leave work stress at work through the science of work recovery

• Multiple stress reduction tools to build resilience and manage any challenge

Studies show that employees who are intrinsically motivated are continuously interested in the work they are doing. That absorption and interest are the engines of employee engagement, which has been shown to triple shareholder return.

Give your organization the tools to unleash the extra effort in every employee. Drive self-initiative, trust, purpose, and results. Employee engagement can't be commanded, only enabled. This program shows how to do that by unleashing the little-known but most potent motivational system, Motivation 2.0, and the power of intrinsic motivation.

Takeaways

• How to use intrinsic motivation to drive optimal experience and full absorption in the moment 

• How to identify the right work goals needed for intrinsic motivation—excellence, service, craft, challenge

• Rationales that promote perceived choice and willing engagement

• Key strategies to unleash self-initiative

Are information overload, interruptions, and distractions driving attention and productivity south? Get tools from this timely program proven to increase focus, manage distractions, and get more done.

Unbounded interruptions and intrusions erode impulse control and focus. The more you check email, the more you have to check it. You lose the ability to regulate impulsivity for not just email-checking, but also for Jim Beam, Sara Lee, or any other habit you don’t want. Control the crazy with strategies from the latest research.

Takeaways

• How interruptions shred your impulse control and discipline, and how to manage them

• Why multitasking thinking tasks is a myth, which we demonstrate in a fun exercise from the University of Michigan's David Meyer

• How rushing fuels stress and mistakes and why we need to be quick but not hurry

• Top time management tools, from the next physical action to base camps to order chaos and your priorities

Scientists have found exactly what makes humans happy, but it isn't what we think. This inspirational program breaks down the skills we need to increase gratification, the long-term version of happiness.

Discover the strategies that create an extraordinary life. Some 60% of our potential happiness we have no control over. It's how we use the other 40% that makes the difference. Lift your audience sky-high with this popular program.

Takeaways

• The 7 key life skills needed for an extraordinary life

• How to satisfy the brain’s chief goals for long-term fulfillment: novelty and challenge

• The 3 Core Needs you have to satisfy to be gratified and the under-the-radar goal structure necessary to make it happen

• Why experiences make you happier than material things