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Mark's presentations are engaging, filled with real-life examples and packed with valuable strategies. Looking for a way to stir minds and emotions? Check out Mark's most popular topics below.

 

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Keynotes and Seminars

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES

Mark will customize any of the following talks to fit your group

All programs can be adapted as Break Out Sessions / Workshops as required

1) For Employers and Events Geared Toward Employers, Owners, Managers

 

Get Wired To Hire!

Harness the Net to Inexpensively Boost Your Recruiting Efforts

Competing for top talent? No need to spend a fortune. Start by ensuring your own website is a talent magnet. It doesn't cost an arm and a leg to ensure that when potential candidates visit your site, they will be impressed and find it inviting to apply for work there and then.

Managing Career Activists

Bring Out The Best In Your Employees

Your staff is concerned about the relative shortage of security at work these days. Help repair the bond between employer and employee by enabling them to be the best they can be - then watch loyalty and productivity soar

Loonie@ Work

A Happy Honest Talk About Workplace Depression

Did you know that fully 25% of Canada's workforce is being treated for, or otherwise lives with, clinical depression? Mark too. Which is why he can give such candid, helpful insights on what the condition is, how to prevent or spot it in yourself, or how to give and get ïthe help that is available. Lots of humour and compassion in this eye opening talk.

 

Your "Hire" Image

Enhance Your Online Reputation

What happens when the jobseekers you are looking for visit your website? Do you present an image that invites the best of the crop to apply? Or imaybe your "digital dust" is holding you back. Learn how to spruce up your hire image to attract better applicants--inexpensively and effectively.

 



2) For Job Seekers and Career Changers

Surfing For Work

Net a Better Job On The Web

If you're seeking to improve your employment situation, the Internet's the best place to start. Find out how to leverage the newest sites and tools for finding better employment.

Maximize Your Cyber-Image

Enhance Your Online Reputation

What happens when you Google yourself? Are you top of the list with glowing citations? Or is your "digital dust" holding you back! Learn how to spruce up your identity - the one that others can see online.

 



3) For Employees

Become a Career Activist!

 Take Charge Of Your Worklife

How do you deal with the lack of certainty in the workplace? By planning your own destiny and learning how to thrive and market yourself in today's hyper-competitive times. See what others have done to become Career Activists.

Loonie@ Work

A Happy Honest Talk About Workplace Depression

Did you know that fully 25% of Canada's workforce is being treated for, or otherwise lives with, clinical depression? Mark too. Which is why he can give such candid, helpful insights on what the condition is, how to prevent or spot it in yourself, or how to give and get the help that's available. Lots of humour and compassion in this eye opening talk.

 




WORKSHOPS and SEMINARS

Interactive, practical, engaging. This is how workshop participants have described Mark's sessions. Cusomized to your specific audience, each program is designed to deliver maximum results. Two hour, half day, 1 day or 2 day versions available.

 

Becoming A
Career Activist

(For Employees)

The classic workshop on how to manage your career. Free yourself up to increase productivity while feeling far less stressed. No need to leave your current employer - learn to give your best and get the most for win-win outcomes.

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Managing The

Career Activist

(For Employers and Managers)

Help your employees to take control of their own destinies. Benefit from increased commitment, lower absenteeism, reduced stress-care costs and a more energetic workplace.

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Becoming A Career Activist


Program OvervIew:

 

There is no better way to be at work than to feel in control. But it is increasingly difficult to experience self-confidence during times of heightened uncertainty. Continual cutbacks, heightened competitive pressures, worries about the economy--all of these can end up making you feel at risk..

 

A sense of empowerment is priceless. Being a Career Activist means creating a personalized career plan that includes work, life and financial elements. You end up with greater peace of mind and more fulfillment - while meeting the needs of your managers and the company as a whole. Sound like a difficult task? It doesn't have to be.

 

Becoming A Career Activist clearly spells out the tools and approaches that you'll need to take charge of your destiny. Learn from real examples, interactive exercises, case studies and the airing of your own experiences in a secure, supportive atmosphere.


You Will Benefit By:

  • Being more productive
  • Feeling less anxious
  • Gaining more enthusiasm for your work
  • Having your self-confidence boosted
  • Better appreciating what you have
  • Planning for financial contingencies

You Will Learn How To:

  • Identify your primary work strengths, areas for improvement, values, goals and traits
  • Determine opportunities within your existing place of employment that best fit your needs
  • Explore ways to increase your marketability
  • Review your financial status with an eye to creating a safety net
  • Create a plan to move toward where you want to be
  • Assess the risks and rewards of making specific changes
  • Communicate in ways that improve your chances of succeeding
  • Evaluate your progress and adapt to other people responses

 

Who Should Attend:

 

Employees at all levels of the organization up to and including the Director level.

 

A separate session can be arranged for senior level employees.

 

Available Formats:

 

2 hour,1/2 day, full day and 2 day versions.

 


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Managing The Career Activist

 

Program Overview:

 

A new reality is sweeping through Canadian offices. Our diverse workforce is becoming more vocal about asserting itself. Boomers, Xers and Y's, men and women, introverts and extroverts, diversity, team players and loners: how do you accommodate these and other personal differences yet still meet your business goals?

 

As a manager, your success depends on how well you inspire the people who report to you. Stick and carrot methods are not enough anymore to bring out peak performance. Today it is all about helping people to get to where they want to be while achieving the bottom line.

 

Managing The Career Activist shows you how to harness your staff's individual career aspirations and tie them in to your company's business goals.


You Will Benefit By:

  • Having a better understanding of what really motivates your staff
  • Being able to dialogue with your direct reports more effectively
  • Picking up on hidden signals your employees are sending you
  • Increasing your department's performance and morale

You Will Learn How To:

  • Identify the primary work styles of your staff members as well as your own dominant traits
  • Listen more accurately to what your staff is and isn't saying
  • Build an individual's aspirations into your performance management systems
  • Develop a safe haven approach to enabling individual expression
  • Create cost-effective opportunities for staff development
  • Establish appropriate boundaries
  • Evaluate your progress and adapt to shifting priorities

 

Who Should Attend:

 

Anyone in your organization who has one or more employees reporting directly to them, or is being groomed to do so.

 

Employees who have demonstrated future management potential

 

Available Formats:

 

2 hour, ½ day, full day and 2 day versions.

 

 

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