WORKSHOPS

All workshops can be tailored to one to two hour speaking engagements. Parent Leader workshops are engaging, practical, and interactive. They provide a fun and valuable experience for your parents' group, for religious organizations, in school settings, and at conferences. Many workplaces are discovering that it makes good sense to offer workshops that support working parents. Contact us to find out how we can customize workshops to meet your needs.

Parenting with a Leadership Advantage
What good leaders do closely corresponds to what good parents do. During this workshop, you will explore the relationship between parenting and leadership and practice leadership strategies that can help you confront parenting challenges with increased ease. By the end of this workshop, you can:

• Identify the essential attitudes and behaviors of the best leaders and parents.
• Identify your primary Parent Leader strengths that can help you overcome challenges.
• Apply leadership tools to maintain perspective and avoid reacting in ways you later regret.
• Discover ways to discard entrenched habits and make enduring improvements.
• Ask transformative questions that deepen self-awareness, clarify desired outcomes, and build optimism.
• Utilize practical leadership skills to increase your personal mastery and build stronger connections with your children.

What's Your Parental Intelligence?
Guilt, frustration, anxiety, and negativity are all hazards of the job. Welcome to the realities of parenting. This workshop provides tools successful leaders use that can help parents even in the heat of the moment so that your parental mastery becomes more habitual. By the end of the workshop, you can:

• Understand the components of parental intelligence
• Better understand your unique leadership strengths and weaknesses and how they affect your parenting.
• Practice using tools to help build your parental intelligence even in the heat of the moment.
• Learn to short circuit unhelpful reactivity so that your actions support your deeper purpose.
• Identify and embrace behavior that brings out the best in you and your children.
• Realize the role you play in creating a unique family culture.

Treat Everyone Differently: Understanding and Respecting Differences
Participants take assessment questionnaires to learn about their parenting style and their child's style and needs. Participants come away with an understanding of why certain interpersonal battles seem to repeat over and over. The goal of this workshop is to build closer, more satisfying relationships with family members. By the end of the workshop, you can:

• Recognize what parenting assumptions and behaviors are hard wired and acquired.
• Learn how to tailor your parenting to your unique child.
• Overcome co-parent and parent-child power struggles by recognizing and respecting differences.
• Embark on a personal journey of parental mastery.

The Balancing Act: How to Find a Work and Family Balance
This workshop takes you through a process of assessing your needs, identifying flexible work options, and developing strategies for securing a desirable work arrangement. By the end of the workshop, you can:

• Identify creative alternatives to traditional work schedules.
• Plan negotiations with your employer.
• Write successful proposals.
• Begin to develop career plans that match parenting needs.
• Reassess priorities.
• Examine emotions that surface as you explore work and family balance issues.

Coaching and Consultation
Individual consultations and Parent Leader Circles allow for a more intensive and customized examination of family, team, or work/life challenges. Through personalized coaching, you can clarify your goals, better understand your primary strengths, and chart your course to achieve your goals. You are guided and supported through a structured improvement process in which increased self-awareness leads you to your highest aspirations.

The Parent Leader has demonstrated success coaching and consulting with parents, community leaders, educators, employees, managers, and executives in a wide spectrum of settings.

Parent Leader Circles

• Share with parents who face similar challenges
• Exchange new ideas, resources, and approaches
• Achieve clarity about desired outcomes
• Learn innovative leadership tools that apply to parenting challenges
• Get support from other parents to take action to achieve your aspirations

Circles meet once each month and are confidential and action oriented. Members are encouraged to translate new insights into actions that foster parenting success

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