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Nora Spinks is an experienced and popular speaker, engaging keynote audiences and workshop participants with her interactive and inclusive style and deep understanding of work-life issues. Using a combination of case studies, research, anecdotes and thought-provoking exercises, she inspires, motivates and guides individuals, organizations and communities to achieve greater work-life quality.
Some of her popular topics include: (keynotes; 45-90 minutes, training workshops; 1.5-3.0 hours; personal and professional development workshops;3.5-5.5 hours)
Workload Unplugged: Strategies for the Overworked, Overloaded and Overwhelmed
Employees (across all sectors, industries and professions and at all levels through organizations) say that their workloads are increasing, becoming unmanageable and out of their control. Workload expansion is not happening by accident but rather by design, driven by six forces. Organizations that are aware of these driving forces and implement workload management strategies, processes and practices while continuing to meet increasing stakeholder expectations will maximize individual and organizational resiliency. Learn to deconstruct and demystify workload and learn how leading organizations are addressing workload issues from an individual, departmental and organizational perspective.
Work-Life Effectiveness: An Organizational Imperative
Work-life balance: employees want it, managers’ need it, organizational can’t afford to ignore it! Organizational success depends on people. People have multiple responsibilities, diverse needs and often conflicting priorities. Leading organizations need to attract and retain the best people. People need work experiences where they can reach their full potential, to be fully engaged and able to meet their personal and professional goals and objectives. Exceptional leaders create work environment where people can achieve work-life harmony. Learn how successful organizations around the world are leveraging their human resources by facilitating work-life effectiveness.
Creating Supportive Work Environments: Modeling & Mentoring Balance Behaviours and Harmony Habits
Managers create work environments, managers are the gatekeepers to well-being, and managers are the messengers and role models for their team. Learning how to create a work environment that is efficient, effective, and productive—where employees are able to; fulfill their multiple responsibilities; achieve their personal, business and career objectives; realize their dreams and reach their full potential—without regrets, fear, guilt or anxiety.
Managing the Sandwich Generation
They are called the "sandwich generation.” People caught between the conflicting demands of raising children, caring for aging parents or other relatives and the demands of the workplace. Almost 30 percent of people aged 45 to 64 with unmarried children under 25 in the home, were also caring for a senior. More than 8 in 10 of these employees reduced or shifted their hours or altered their career paths. Learn how increasing family responsibilities effect career advancement, succession planning and organizational development. Hear how organizations are leveraging their human resources and creating effective work environments.
Work-Life Harmony: Mission Possible
Finding harmony in your life while meeting your multiple responsibilities and pursuing your career
Work-life and well-being is a goal many strive for but few achieve. Work-life harmony is achievable and sustainable. Learn to apply practical techniques and to implement concrete strategies so you will be able to fulfill your multiple responsibilities without guilt, anxiety or fear. Learn harmony habits and balance behaviours in this fun and interactive after-dinner dialogue.
Do it ON Purpose; Achieve Work-Life Harmony
Work-life and well-being is a goal many strive for but few achieve. Work-life harmony is achievable and sustainable. Learn to apply practical techniques and to implement concrete strategies so you will be able to fulfill your multiple responsibilities without guilt, anxiety or fear. Learn harmony habits and balance behaviours in this fun and interactive workshop.
Work-Life Lessons From Around The World - An International Look At Work-Life Issues And Solutions
Establishing global standards, managing world-wide expectations and measuring international work-life effectiveness across borders is a compelling challenge faced by employers and providers. Learn to implement culturally appropriate responses, socially acceptable solutions and politically correct strategies as a foundation for local success and learn to apply universal work-life characteristics, metrics and language as a framework for achieving international success.
Generational Diversity: Today’s Management Challenge
For the first time ever, there are four generations working side by side in our workplaces; each with their own perspectives, experiences and attitudes. Effectively managing across generations can be frustrating or exhilarating. Learn what management skills and techniques will help you leverage the generational diversity in your workplace so you can enhance performance, increase productivity and maximize efficiency. Nora Spinks will offer insight, provide information and share best practices for managing, motivating and retaining a diverse workforce.
Retirement Or Career Redefinement – Managing An Aging Workforce
Demographics, work places, expectations and attitudes are changing all around the world. To effectively address the issues related to the aging workforce, employers and work-life professionals need to redefine retirement and redesign our work-life programs to accommodate the new workforce. Examine strategies and solutions around the world. Learn how organizations, labour unions and governments are responding. Get ideas for new initiatives that you can introduce in your work place. Gather data to build your business case for enriching your program to accommodate an increasingly diverse workforce. Explore what work-life programs will be global best practices in the near future.
Stress, Distress and Productivity
You need your employees to be healthy, resilient, creative, and productive. They are stressed, exhausted and burning out. As an HR professional, manager, supervisor or leader; it is your responsibility to create an environment where employees thrive, are able to meet your objectives and can reach their full potential. To fulfill this responsibility effectively, you need to know the latest about stress indicators, stress management techniques and managing for wellness. Learn how successful organizations are reducing the negative consequences of stress and burnout and building strong productive teams.
Facilitating Employee Retention And Fostering Employee Engagement: Leveraging Your Work-Life And Well-Being Initiatives
Aging workers, early career employees attract them, keep them, maximize their contributions; learn to strategically link your reputation management with your work-life quality initiatives and leverage employee engagement and commitment to maximize individual and organizational effectiveness.
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