Eileen McDargh, CSP, CPAE

Resilience Skills for Pandemic Panic

This keynote is designed to open a conversation about what we can do as individuals and professionals to move from pandemic panic to realistic responses. Fear paralyzes us. Clear thinking moves us.

Audience takeaways:

• Guidance through the accurate definition of resilience and begin to explore actions to take in cultivating two critical resilience skills: adaptability and agility.
•  How it all begins with YOU—what conversations you are having with yourself and what emotions arise as a result?
• We’ll talk about the power of the present and how to develop intelligent optimism. Action is the antidote for anxiety and you’ll be guided on how to control the controllable.

Burnout to Breakthrough: Building Resiliency to Refuel, Recharge and Reclaim What Matters

​In May 2019, the World Health Organization declared burnout as a global occupational hazard with specific symptoms and warnings. Enter COVID 19 and an upside down world.  Burnout has become even stronger and insidious. Remote workforces, physical distancing, and dependency on virtual communication provide their own potential for burnout.

Audience takeaway:

• You’ll experience why Eileen has also been called a HOPE merchant, filling minds with positivity, laugh-ability and DO-ability.

Lead-Her-Ship – Owning Our Power, Passion, Play and Purpose

Gather women together and you have an energy source to light even the darkest corners of the world. Eileen puts a match to that energy.  We can learn to be heroines of our own story and leaders shaping tomorrow for all our children. This is your time to refresh, realign, reawaken, reflect, refuel, regenerate, rejoice, release, remember and renew.

Audience takeaways:

• About the POWER of choice.
• To understand The POWER of who you are, what you know and what you have done.
• About the POWER of PRESENCE – PERSONAL vs. SOCIAL.
• How to use PASSION to leverage your career to match your authentic self.
• HOW TO PLAY… and how to help others enjoy their work and world.
• About your PURPOSE: the bigger picture. Why am I here, and what do I leave behind?

Leveraging Your Career To Fit YOUR Authentic Self

A good career fit is not like squeezing into Spanx. Nope! It means thinking, listening, and sensing where, when and how to craft actions that bring you from good work to great work! The result: you feel GREAT and you stop the busywork and start the work that matters. It begins from the inside out.

Audience takeaways:

• Discover the difference between UGH work, Good Work and GREAT work.
• Explore through exercises how to identify what is uniquely YOUR authentic work.
• Learn how to ask for what you want and three possible steps to leverage you into your GREAT/Authentic work.
• Understand the difference between a mentor and a sponsor.
• Explore the six qualities of charisma and how to develop these qualities so that you attract people to you and your authentic work.

The Art of Balancing an Unequal Life: The Secret to Resiliency!

Make no mistake—everyone works—whether for free or fee! How can you work smart and live happier? Is it even possible to have a work/life balance in this fast-paced, frantic world? From senior executives to front-line employees, this issue is key to the changing nature of America’s workforce and today’s world.

We hear about the need to balance personal and work priorities, but how do you go from burned out to fired up? How can we juggle the many responsibilities and demands in our busy lives?

Audience takeaways:

• Understand why traditional models of balance no longer work in these times of change.
• Discover how to conduct your own “CAT” scan of life.
• Acquire the skills to “sail” within the five critical areas of living.
• Create your own action plan for juggling the demands of your fast-paced life.
• Develop personal strategies for creating “a life by design, not by the default”.
• Learn at least three methods for effective self-management and self-improvement that you can put to work immediately.

Your Resiliency GPS Workshop

Surprises are the new normal. Change is the new constant. Stress and burnout have reached epidemic proportions.  Yet, not all is lost. Using the book Your Resiliency GPS: A Guide for Growing through Life and Work author and professional speaker Eileen McDargh will guide your audience on a different path.

This workshop is for everyone from the leaders of Fortune 100 companies to small business owners to the unemployed.  Workshop pricing includes a copy of Your Resiliency GPS for each participant.

Audience takeaways:

• Cultivate PREresilience skills in order to be pro-active about change.
• Learn to see opportunities where others see only barriers.
• Learn a four-part model for methodically tackling the tough issues you currently face.
• Learn how to use Growth Potential Strategies (GPS) to get you to where you want to go.
• …. Recalculating Questions.

Cultivating Radical Resiliency: Leadership Skills for Complex Times

Radically turbulent times demand professional and personal responses that transcend our regular work and life patterns. It’s not about happy faces on mirrors and mantras on coffee mugs. It’s not about hanging on while holding back. It’s about times when you feel someone ate your cheese, drained the swamp, and went from great to less-than-good.

How can professionals cope with change while staying focused on their jobs and organization goals?  The answer is resiliency – the ability to find the inner strength to grow through a setback, challenge, or opportunity.  Radical resilience requires the courage to challenge, commit, and contribute in ways that positively impact both today as well as many tomorrows.

Audience takeaways:

• Discover how to grow the skills of adaptability, agility, laugh-ability, and alignment for
  producing results that put YOU in control of your ship.
• Learn a four-part model for methodically tackling the tough issues you currently face.
• Explore what great leaders do to inspire teams to stay in the game and thrive. (And it has
  NOTHING to do with money!) Get them energized, actualized, authorized, and gratified.
• Develop a personal legacy leadership goal that defies downturns and disappointments.

Resilient Relationships: Plain Talk for Complex Times

At the end of the day, our very success hinges on relationships. These relationships grow or die based on a skill too often we forget: CONVERSATION. How meaningful are yours? The proliferation of cell phones and the glut of chat rooms show us what society yearns
for: meaningful human connection, community, and the value of relationships.

The pace of change, the lure of dazzling technology, and the speed of life have created the opposite. The most human of all connections is conversation – an internal and external event that has become blurred. We’ve forgotten how to talk to each other – if in fact some of us ever knew. In many instances, we have never been taught how to listen.

At the deepest level, we’ve probably never stopped long enough to even listen to ourselves.

Audience takeaways:

•  This presentation explores a model for understanding and growing the conversations we have with ourselves and with each other so that everyone becomes fully engaged in the work we are tasked to do.
• Audience members also celebrate the power of humor to connect. Be prepared to think, laugh, and learn.

Resilience Skills for Pandemic Panic

This keynote is designed to open a conversation about what we can do as individuals and professionals to move from pandemic panic to realistic responses. Fear paralyzes us. Clear thinking moves us.

Audience takeaways:

• Guidance through the accurate definition of resilience and begin to explore actions to take in cultivating two critical resilience skills: adaptability and agility.
• How it all begins with YOU—what conversations you are having with yourself and what emotions arise as a result?
• We’ll talk about the power of the present and how to develop intelligent optimism. Action is the antidote for anxiety and you’ll be guided on how to control the controllable.

Creating a Resilient Workforce: The Care and Feeding of Remote Teams

Alone again—and not so naturally.  With employees scattered in various locations—even within the same city— a leader’s job becomes a blend of psychologist and coach, teacher, and student.

Audience takeaways:

• Within the reality of both optimism and pessimism which we all deal with, this program helps managers focus on attributes: clarity, collaboration, creativity, comedy, and compassion.
• Can also offer a forum for leaders to discuss critical issues and share best practices.