Keynotes & Seminars

Programs | Programs for Healthcare Professionals

As an internationally recognized professional speaker, Jody has the expertise and the experience to deliver the right message to revitalize hardworking professionals.

The Nerve to Serve,Say Hello to Humor & Goodbye to Burnout!

Humor helps. The ability to laugh at life helps us deal with daily disappointments and setbacks. Humor gives professionals the nerve to serve in a complex and challenging environment. Join us as we demonstrate how humor helps you stay in control and maintain balance and perspective.
In this humorous and inspiring session participants will learn how to:
•    Laugh at the tough stuff
•    Say hello to humor and goodbye to burnout
•    Use appropriate humor as a tool not a weapon
•    Play along the way and enjoy work
•    Be compelled to use humor, laughter, and play to breathe new passion into work
•    Use their Amuse System to Boost their Immune System
•    Use humor to create rapport and win customers’ trust and loyalty
•    Know that a sense of humor is invaluable in promoting flexibility, resilience, and coping skills
•    Use humor to stay in control
•    Use play to be in the moment (where time flies) and there is no stress
Corporations are increasingly using laughter and humor to counter stress, improve morale, and create a work environment that is friendlier, less stressful, and more productive.

I Love My Job, It's the People I Can't Stand!

Join us in this hilariously interactive, practical and inspiring presentation that shows you how to develop healthy communication patterns with anyone.

You can learn to handle the most difficult of situations and people by understanding more about personality style and how to get through to others without giving in. Never again fall victim to those who love to make life miserable for the rest of us. Knowing how to deal with difficult people at work will allow you to approach your job with more enjoyment and your coworkers with greater confidence.

Cooperation, collaboration, and compromise will improve

Build a more productive and efficient workplace for everyone

Learn the 4 basic personality styles and what they mean

This would be Funny…. if it wasn’t Happening to Me!
How to Embrace Change with Enthusiasm and Vigor

Laugh as you confront the absurdity of your life. In this inspiring presentation you will step outside yourself to assess your life because it’s not as you wish it would be. Taking an objective look at change can help you get a more realistic picture.

Nothing about life seems to turn out as we had expected it to. So how do we solve this dilemma? The best way is to laugh at it from another perspective. When you can laugh at something you are in control of your environment and the way you feel. Learn how to adapt and stay flexible in changing times. Don’t survive change; thrive in it.

Derive strength from change
Transform bad into good
Laugh when things go wrong
Summon your strength, courage, and talent during the topsy-turvy times in your life
How to bring others kicking and screaming into this century
Laugh at your own inner dramas
Stop running from your own shadow

The Joy of the Job… Keys to Find More Fulfillment in your Work
 
OK, you're really busy. While you are dutifully doing your job, do you ever get a sense that you are disconnected from the purpose of your work? Do you sometimes find that your work lacks fun and enjoyment? Do you feel under-motivated and under-focused? Do you feel unappreciated? Is job stress and burnout getting you down?
By adopting a humorous and fun approach, the Joy of the Job inspires professionals to be focused and productive by nourishing the meaning, fun, and joy of their work.

No more humdrum work days that put you to sleep; no more anxious waiting for the week to unwind.

The Joy of the Job will turn around your attitude to the workplace and show you how it can be dynamic, fun, and attractive as well as being lucrative and productive. Joy of the Job promises to be humorous, relevant, and inspiring. It will bring synergy to any workplace and provide a lighthearted, yet effective balance for any program.

After experiencing the Joy of the Job, participants will:

•    Know how to bring more JOY to their job
•    Strengthen their commitment to the job
•    Find their get up and go
•    Recognize and appreciate others
•    Embrace wisdom that brings meaning and fulfillment to any job
•    Create a rewarding work environment
•    Understand the only way to beat stress is through it
•    Adopt a lighter attitude
•    Be stress-savvy and avoid burnout
•    Create excellence through humor
•    Feel upbeat versus beaten up
•    Inspire vision and purpose!

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Managing Millennial’s - A Survival Guide!

A lively, humorous look at how people can work more effectively and productively with other generations and their styles, preferences, and work ethics

Follow Me I’m Right Behind You!
How to Lead and Influence Others

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Great Leaders influence others by recognizing and appreciating them in a personalized and genuine way. By following others lead you understand what motivates and inspires them.

Everyone needs acknowledgement.  We won’t die without it, but it really makes a difference when we know other people appreciate the job we’re doing. Most people don’t get enough appreciation; in fact, it is one of the main reasons people leave their work.
The problem is, it is hard to notice the absence of a negative condition. When you don’t create problems and do your work well, and you allow other people to do their jobs unhindered, what is there to notice? Your good job becomes business as usual.

This lively seminar helps people understand how to follow others lead to help them feel respected and appreciated.

Learn how to:

•    Create a culture of respect and appreciation
•    Acknowledge others without turning them off
•    Notice Me Please! Turn Grumbling into Respect
•    Increase Purpose and Vision
•    Create a sense of involvement and belonging
•    Use unexpected appreciation to have the greatest impact

Lighten up and Laugh
For Health Care Professionals

Working in health care can be complex, challenging, and chaotic. Join us as we discover how laughing at our stress and the absurdity and intensity of our work can be the only way to survive it.

Learn:

The benefits of living a more joyful, humor-filled life
How humor helps you survive
To celebrate a surviving spirit with humor
How humor always improves your mood
To use humor, laughter, and play to breathe new passion into health care

Daring to be Caring
Leading a Spirited Health Care Team

Health care professionals ignite the fires of hope in others. Daily they muster the nerve to serve in a complex and challenging environment. Leaders in health care need tools to energize their staff to keep their own fires of hope lit. Through humor, insight and inspiration Daring to be Caring shows health care leaders how to inspire a spirited and resilient workforce that stays focused on providing the most compassionate care possible.

In this humorous and inspiring session learn how to:

•    Attract and retain health-care professionals
•    Use the art and science of humor to create a resilient and healthy workforce
•    Effectively appreciate your team with a creative acknowledgment program
•    Bring more JOY to the workplace
•    Create a fun culture of service excellence
•    Eradicate employee dissatisfaction
•    Recognize the signs of a miserable job
•    Deal with patient satisfaction and staffing issues
•    Deal with errors and mistakes without crippling employee confidence or affecting team morale

The Joy of Work for Health care Professionals
Keys to find more Fulfillment in your Work

OK, you're really busy. While you are dutifully doing your job, do you ever get a sense that you are disconnected from the purpose of your work? Do you sometimes find that your work lacks fun and enjoyment? Do you feel under-motivated and under-focused? Do you feel unappreciated? Is job stress and burnout getting you down?
Through a humorous and fun approach, the Joy of Work inspires health care professionals to be focused and productive by nourishing the meaning, fun and joy of their work.
The Joy of Work promises to be humorous, relevant and inspiring and is a lighthearted balance for any program.

After experiencing the Joy of Work, participants will:

•    Be inspired by the Meaning and Joy of Working in Healthcare
•    Know how to bring more JOY to their job
•    Recharge their commitment to their profession
•    Be Stress Savvy and avoid burnout
•    Create excellence through humor
•    Feel upbeat versus beaten up
•    Inspire vision and purpose
•    Add Laugh Luster to their Life

All programs promise to be very humorous, educational, and relevant and are designed to give support and appreciation for the vital job health care professionals do.