Rita Schiano

Sometimes it is okay to go it alone, but most successful managers are only as successful as the team they lead. To build a successful team you don't need to break out the pom-poms. The right amount of support, guidance, encouragement, and good team spirit will take a team to the top.

In this program managers will learn:

• Boss, teacher, leader, friend?
• Lead, facilitate, motivate
• Building an effective team
• Team building...

We like to think of childhood as a fun-filled, stress-free time in life. Truth be told? It isn't. Kids experience stress. Schoolwork, peer pressure, family issues can create pressures that can be overwhelming for kids.

As a parent, you can't protect your kids from stress, but you can help them develop healthy ways to cope with stress and solve everyday problems. We call that resilience.

In this one-hour presentation, resilience strategist Rita Schiano will...

It can be difficult to keep a positive attitude 24/7, especially if you've spilled coffee all over your suit, or the dog just ate your new pair of Jimmy Choos. This program will teach you how powerful your attitude really is and the effect it can have on those around you.

In this program participants will be learn practical strategies that will help them understand and re-shape their attitude. Topics include:

• Stop complaining
• Less sick days = more productive...

Resilience is not a trait people are born with. Resilience involves behaviors, thoughts, skills, and actions that can be learned and developed in anyone.

In this program participants will be learn practical strategies that will enable them to be effective, resilient people. Areas cover may include:

• Optimistic or Pessimistic? Defining the skills and attitudes that make up resiliency.
• Understanding one's past and its affect on how we react and...

ts bound to happen. Just like the game Telephone we played as kids, you tell the details of the presentation you need created to your assistant, who relays the message to the IT staff manager, who tells her staff what she was told needs to be developed into PowerPoint, and before you know it, the presentation you have to give to your nontech-savvy board looks like the newest wizard movie.

Oftentimes our words are more powerful than our actions, so it is important to ensure that what...

Confucius said, "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

While most people are grateful to have a paycheck, particularly in a tight economy, many are not satisfied with the path they are on. They are simply earning an income or engaging in work that does not tap their inmost gifts, abilities, passions, and life purpose. In other words, they have a job, not a vocation.

A vocation is an occupation that you feel strongly about...

Time management is a big concern. Our work life (and home life) is filled with more and more duties and obligations and less and less time to get it all done. And while we've all heard that old saying, "Time flies when you are having fun," truth be told, time flies even when you're not having fun. An effective time management strategy can help you stay on task, accomplish your work, reduce stress, and gain more time for...

Does making everyone on your team happy sometimes seem like an impossible task? Not every person is always going to be pleased with your leadership. That's just how it is. Yet most people know they just have to roll with the punches.

But sometimes there is that one team member who is never happy. If you say yes, he says no; if you say store it up high, she says stash it down low. This person disagrees with everything, believing his/her way is the only way; he or she refuses to get...

Whether you manage five employees or five hundred employees, all managers deal with some level of conflict on a daily basis. Not all conflict is bad, however. Yet, without resolution, conflict often recycles old arguments and disagreements. With proper resolution tools, some conflict can be turned into opportunities. In this program, participants will learn practical strategies, usable, relevant and confidence building tools to help them handle difficulties more...

A resilient leader is one who inspires us to test ourselves, take brave action, and stand up to challenges we would never have dared to try on our own. Rita outlines the characteristics of resilient leadership, including: integrity, effective communication, optimism, taking responsibility, and building a resilient culture, and you can easily integrate these factors into your daily life. In this program participants will be learn practical strategies that will enable them to be effective,...

"You are responsible for the energy you bring into a room." This statement is a core component of this program, for as Seneca wrote more that two-thousand years ago, "A man is as miserable as he thinks he is." Understanding how our thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes affect our relationships at work is the key to creating a more positive and flourishing work environment. Areas explored include:

• Habitudes: Patterns of thought and behavior affecting our attitudes towards...

Having a satisfying and healthy retirement is a case study in resilience. When your days of working full time come to an end, much of what you have known ends too. Your sense of self, your financial underpinnings, possibly your access to good health care, your social structure, your relationships with others, all will undergo changes. This presentation looks at the six basic life areas below:

• Physical Environment
• Personal Growth
• Health and...

From ancient philosophers to modern day inspirational thinkers, the message has been the same: Your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, and your actions become your habits.

At the core of how we perceive ourselves, how we present ourselves, are our HABITUDES© - habitual ways of thinking and acting that affect our attitudes towards our life.

While our attitudes influence our behavior, it's our habits - those recurrent, often...

Resilience is not a trait people are born with. Resilience involves behaviors, thoughts, skills, and actions that can be learned and developed in anyone. In this program participants will be learn practical strategies that will enable them to be effective, resilient people. Areas cover may include:

• Optimistic or Pessimistic? Defining the skills and attitudes that make up resiliency.
• Understanding one's past and its affect on how we react and respond
• Breaking...