For Leaders and Staff

Thriving With Change:
Resilient Leadership Through Toxic Stress and Difficult Times

In this motivational, content-rich presentation Wayne and Mary Sotile teach today’s leaders the secrets of staying resilient and “bouncing forward” through challenging times. Combining pearls of wisdom from their work as counselors and consultants for the past 30 years, they outline practical strategies for coping with change while promoting collegiality, collaboration, and work/family balance through all the stages of career and organizational development.

This presentation will empower you to transform your workplace into a positive interpersonal culture and to manage the emotions, attitudes, and relationship processes that come with professional, organizational and personal changes. You will learn how to facilitate communication, resolve conflict and promote interpersonal harmony, and work/life balance. Emphasis is placed on highlighting practical applications of the best findings from the past 50 years of research in the fields of health psychology, organizational development, resilience, and marriage/family systems.

Topics Include:

The Truth About Stress
• Healthy Stress
• Toxic Stress: High Demand / Low Control
-At Work
-At Home

The Psychology of High-Powered Performers
• Attempted Solutions That Perpetuate Problems
• The Individual and Organizational Risks of Burnout
• A Burnout Checklist
• A Coping Strategies Checklist

Why is Changing So Difficult?
• Continuous and Discontinuous Changes
• The 4 Stages of Organizational Change
• Assessing Your Coping-With-Change Habits

Collegiality and Collaboration
• Five Reasons Why
• Coping Characteristics that Complicate Collegiality

Fostering Resilience
• Moving Beyond Conflicts with Colleagues
-How to Keep Disagreements From Becoming Conflicts
-Dealing With Passive, Aggressive, and Passive/Aggressive People
• The Myth of the Balanced Life
-What Works in Real Live
-What Doesn’t
• Workaholism and Compulsive Work
– What’s the Difference?
– Why Does It Matter?
• Why Loving Your Work is Important

What Great Leaders Say and Do
• Old and New Styles of Leadership
• A Leadership Checklist

Keeping the Flame Alive!
• At Work
• At Home

Learning Objectives