Emotional intelligence (EI) relates to our ability to identify, use, understand and manage our emotions. Researchers now acknowledge that EI is a major component in achieving authentic workplace success. This interactive workshop will translate theory into practical applications designed to help members of the UNF community to deal with conflict and disagreements in a way that maximizes the likelihood of a positive outcome, while fostering an environment of trust, high morale and motivation. Become a leader in establishing and building healthy relationships and interactions with colleagues, students, parents, and internal and external customers.

After completion of this course, participants will have the tools to:

• apply the 5 components of emotional intelligence to a variety of workplace scenarios and relationships
• develop self-awareness and use it to shape actions and responses when encountering challenging or negatively-charged situations
• develop social awareness skills to understand and relate to others in an empathetic and compassionate way
• learn to use a variety of tools and approaches to develop your EI during both daily interactions and long-term relationship building

If positive energy is so important, and we all agree that the research demonstrates that it works, then why are people not more positive? Why are there not more people skipping through the halls smiling at their co-workers and loving their job? This seminar will give you some tools to live your life in a more positive way when encountering negative people and experiences.

Learning objectives:

• Define optimism
• Understand causes of negativity
• Learn how self-talk affects attitudes
• Learn tips to support yourself and be your best

If you are like most working professionals, you have the responsibility of keeping your household running smoothly, creating healthy family relationships and keeping the demands of your job and superiors in check. These are all priorities in life; however, how do you deal with each responsibility when priorities collide? 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Identify the Causes of Work/life Stress, Learn to Prioritize Your Roles and Responsibilities, Learn Tips and Techniques to Help Better Create Balance in Your Life. 

Stress impacts all aspects of a person’s life, including their health, personal relationships, and work. The good news is stress is a controllable condition. Learn how to make some simple changes in your lifestyle that will make the difference. Create balance through the use of straightforward tips and techniques.

Learning objectives:

• Identify symptoms of stress
• Discuss sources of stress
• Discover healthy tips and techniques for handling stress

Research has shown there is a direct connection between a person’s mood and the food they eat. Certain foods alter one’s mood by influencing the level of brain chemicals called neurotransmitters. This workshop helps you understand how your food and mood can work for, or against you.

Learning objectives:

• Understand brain chemistry
• Learn what triggers food cravings
• Identify foods that increase relaxation, alertness, performance, and reduce stress
• Learn how to control carbohydrate cravings and lift your mood

Research has shown there is a direct connection between a person’s mood and the food they eat. Certain foods alter one’s mood by influencing the level of brain chemicals called neurotransmitters. This workshop helps you understand how our food and mood can work for, or against you. 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 

Understand brain chemistry, learn what triggers food cravings, Identify foods that increase relaxation, alertness, performance & reduce stress; and learn how to control carbohydrate cravings and lift your mood. 

Is your life filled with too many must have's and should do's? You'd be amazed at how much free time you really have - the problem is that there are too many ways to spend it! And what ever happened to the paperless office? Information is coming from every direction - e-mail, voicemail, and paper - not to mention meetings and hallway conversations.

There is help - even for the hopeless. Learn how to find what you need - when you need it! Create a system that is easy to maintain yet helps you stay on top of what you need to do, need to have, and need to know. Make time for the projects YOU want to work on because the day-to-day clutter won't take all day.

In this workshop you'll learn:

 

• How to find a system that keeps you on top of what you need to know, need to find, and need to do.
• How to spend less time on phone mail, e-mail, and junk mail so you can do what YOU want to do.
• How to create a communication center that means you and people in your department and family won't miss messages and overlap commitments.
• How to streamline the paper flow in your home or office - even if you aren't naturally organized.

Like many professionals, you may feel you have more work and less time to do what you need to do. It is time to define the goals that are most important to your success and think about ways to meet those goals.

In this session you will learn how to:

 

• Identify your goals
• Set smart goals
• Set yourself up for success so you can successfully achieve your goals
• Evaluate your goals
• Help others set goals

When you’re a working parent, times seems to fly by faster than you realize. Although it may not seem like school is starting back up for a while, it will be here before you know it! How about getting prepared now so you and your kids can experience a great year? This seminar will provide you with basic guidelines to better manage the responsibility of having school-age children.

Learning objectives:

• Get Prepared Soon (GPS)
• Plan for success in school
• Communicate clear expectations
• Follow through on safety strategies
• Encourage responsibility
• Reward effort & behavior

At the end of a workday do you often wonder where the time went?  Do you feel like you were busy all day, stressed out but accomplished little?  How to Make The Most out Of Your Work Day is a road map to achieve the positive, relaxed focus that unleashes your most productive state of mind. You’ll learn proven interactive strategies to manage all aspects of your workday so that you will end every day with a sense of accomplishment. 

How You Will Benefit: 

• Learn to: use the 15 most important minutes of the day 
• Manage multiple priorities more efficiently 
• Reduce stress and anxiety 
• Get more done with less effort for better results 
• Balancing priorities 

What You Will Learn: 

• Time management techniques 
• Relaxation and stress reduction tips 
• Organization strategies 
• How to plan for success 

Job Stress has become a common and costly problem in the American workplace, leaving few workers untouched. Stress is unique for everyone. While you may want to cry, instead let’s learn to laugh! This course focuses on the benefits of incorporating appropriate humor as well as other stress management techniques to help deal with the stresses at work.  

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Recognize the benefits of using appropriate humor at work and explore concrete ways that humor can be injected into the work day. 

This fast-paced interactive presentation is a combination of a musical journey, personal coaching session and a one-woman show filled with energy and highly entertaining stories and lessons learned from her life as an efficiency expert.  The Beatles’ success wasn’t a fluke of luck; it was a function of deliberate, conscious decisions. 

This program focuses on five of those decisions covering everything from leadership to team work to managing change. You’ll get sound nuts and bolts information that you can put to use immediately. But in the next moment, you’ll be laughing hysterically as your fellow audience members compete in a customized Beatles trivia game. There are song clips and video clips. And then there is the finale.  But we don’t want to spoil the surprise.  So get ready to laugh, get ready to play, and get ready to learn.  Here come the Beatles! 

How You Will Benefit: 

           Gain more and control focus with new workflow techniques 

           Gain significant time and energy for more creative, more proactive endeavors 

           Manage communications and transactions seamlessly 

           Increase productivity by increasing work/life balance 

What You Will Cover: 

           This program helps people leave the office with less stress and more to show for it 

           Your team will leave inspired, informed and entertained through this powerful program 

Who Should Attend: 

Business professionals who want greater control of their time, management style and life 

It doesn’t have to be New Year’s Eve to set new goals! Become inspired to set new goals at both home and work, and learn tips on how to reach them.

Learning objectives:

• Discuss strategies for successfully achieving goals
• Explore obstacles to effective goal setting and change
• Discuss realistic goal setting
• Make a plan for getting started

If constant stress has you feeling disillusioned, helpless, and completely worn out, you may be suffering from burnout.  When you're burned out, problems seem insurmountable, everything looks bleak, and it's difficult to muster up the energy to care - let alone do something about your situation.  The unhappiness and detachment burnout causes can threaten your job, your relationships, and your health.  But burnout can be healed.

Learning Objectives: To describe what Burn-Out is and how to avoid it, as well as the causes and symptoms of it.  Describe resiliency, learn how to become more resilient, and learn how to maintain a positive outlook on life.

 In today's fast-paced world, people often struggle to find meaning and gain knowledge from an influx of information that is neither needed nor wanted. Information overload makes it difficult to think clearly enough so people can reach their full creative potential and function at a high level of productivity.  Thinking Inside the Box: How to Focus to Get the Job Done will provide you with the techniques and strategies to remove the clutter from your mind and focus on what is important.

Attendees of this workshop will learn how to:

• Gain more control and focus with new workflow techniques
• Gain significant time and energy for more creative and proactive
  endeavors
• Get and keep your inbox, email and voicemail at ZERO
• Manage communications and transactions seamlessly
• Recover at least one hour per day to devote to critical, high-level
  tasks
• Increase productivity by increasing your work-life balance
•  Cope with information overload
•  Banish procrastination and its repercussions
•  Achieve peak performance more quickly and efficiently

Do you find yourself constantly putting in more time at the office, but getting less accomplished? Do you want to spend more quality time with your family and friends? Working Smarter, Not Harder is a fast-paced interactive workshop, which includes case studies, action planning, group discussions and exercises which will provide you with strategies you can use to improve the quality of your work and your life.

Learn How-to:

• Choose the Most Important Task
• Create the Time to Get Things Done
• Interrupt the Interruptions
• Embrace your Work-Life Balance

You Will Benefit By:

• Gaining more control and focus with new workflow techniques
• Gaining significant time and energy for more creative and proactive endeavors
• Getting and keeping your inbox, email and voicemail at ZERO
• Managing communications and transactions seamlessly
• Recovering at least one hour per day to devote to critical, high-level tasks
• Increasing productivity through improved work/life balance

With all the focus on health care cost, people want to make sure they are  getting what they pay for, right? Do you really know the quality of care you are getting from your doctor? What do you know about the hospitals in the area besides what you hear in the news or read in the paper? As a consumer, do you truly look into what you are getting and what precautions you need to take in order to prevent medical errors? During this session we are going to cover research information and different items to assist you in making informed decisions as it relates to your health care.

Learning Objectives: Research information regarding medical errors; different ways to actively get involved when dealing with health care providers; types of questions to ask so you can make informed decisions and choices; and additional resources that are available for consumers.