Workshops and Speaking

If you’re looking for a keynote speaker, or workshop presenter who delivers powerful leadership success content with a twist of humor and a spark that ignites passion in your audience then you are looking for Rayna Schroeder!

All topics are available as keynotes or as half-day workshops unless otherwise noted.  Keynotes and workshops will be tailored to your particular audience and timeframe.

Her most popular speaking topics include:

Thriving at Work – Signature Session

There are a lot of ideas about thriving and being happier at work.  But how do you know which strategies really work?  This workshop shares how to thrive at work based on research and proven strategies from Positive Psychology, the science of what makes us thrive.  You will learn the latest models and tools around flourishing, learn about the Positivity Ratio that will transform your life and your relationships and take an assessment to determine whether you’re in danger of being fueled by negativity or whether you’re on your way to becoming alive with possibility and thriving. Did you know that flourishing and being happier makes you more successful in virtually every area of life?  Research shows you will be more productive and energetic, healthier, have closer relationships, earn more money, and even live longer

Thriving at Work – Four part series

This four part series dives into the science of Positive Psychology, the study of what makes us thrive.   The benefit of this four part series is that participants have the chance to apply what they learn each week, sharing experiences and insights at the next session.   The ongoing nature of the series motivates participants to implement ideas and as a result, the training has a lasting impact.   (Each component is two hours in length). Click here to learn more…

Bringing Out the Best in Your People

This workshop shares the best of Positive Psychology’s research and tools to help you bring out the best in your people.  Using discussions, questions, application, models and tools, this interactive workshop discusses the latest research about what really motivates people.  Employee engagement is about how fully involved in, and enthusiastic your people are about their work- it’s about their positive or negative emotional attachment to their job, colleagues and the organization.  The more engaged your employees are, the better your customer service, profits, morale, and productivity.  You’ll learn how to measure and increase employee engagement through a variety of tools including leveraging strengths to dramatically improve employee engagement.  Finally, together we will identify behaviors that create defensive responses in others and how to avoid them.

Manage Energy Not Time

You’re pushing yourself harder than ever to keep up.  You find yourself perpetually exhausted and overwhelmed.  You feel like you’re close to a breaking point.  Is this you?  If so, learn how to manage your energy – NOT your time.  Time is a finite resource while your energy is renewable.   This workshop shares the keys to high performance and personal renewal based on managing your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual energy.  Learn how to renew energy sources as well as how to improve employee engagement and energy.  Find out why fatigue is so insidious in draining your energy and how taking breaks at specific intervals can increase your energy by 30%!  Walk away with ideas for more energy, improved morale and more engagement with work and with life for your staff, your leaders and yourself. Life is too short to simply survive – learn to thrive!

Based on the book, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy not Time is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz.

Managing Organizational Change

Organizational change can be exciting, frustrating or both for you and your workforce. Navigating change at work by understanding and predicting behavior and the behavior of others when dealing with change is an invaluable skill. Using The Change Cycle’s six predictable and sequential stages that accompany any sort of change, participants learn about how we all think, feel and act during each stage of change, and how organizations have successfully dealt with the challenges that accompany each stage. This highly interactive session offers tools and success strategies needed for individuals at all levels, helping you understand what you can expect, from yourself and others, as you move through each stage of change.

For Coaches – Weaving Positive Psychology Tools into Your Coaching

Positive Psychology is foremost a way of looking at the world – of looking for what’s working.  This exercise-based workshop will share Positive Psychology concepts, coaching tools, exercises and assessments that you can use with clients and with yourself.  You’ll learn about how positive emotions aren’t just signals of well-being; they are creators of well-being.   You will also learn about the flourishing framework from renowned Positive Psychologist, Martin Seligman and the Positivity Ratio that can enable your clients to go from languishing to thriving.   We’ll cover how to increase client involvement with key people and activities to make life and work more engaging, energizing and meaningful and you will walk away with an assessment that identifies positive and negative thinking styles for insight into how your clients – and you – view the world.  You will personally experience a set of coaching tools that you can then turn around and use with your clients with comfort and confidence.   Additionally, you will know that those tools are grounded in scientific psychological research to show that they actually work to achieve the outcomes you want.

Custom Designed Workshops Available

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