Eileen McDargh: Motivational Resilience

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  • Crafting Connections That Count For People Who Matter
  • It’s time to START talking and get back to work!
  • Create a competitive edge in engaging and retaining talented employees and customers on the most human of playing fields: conversation.
  • Without that connection, there is no energy of engagement.
  • Discover the secret of viewing points, orange batons and Little David’s in creating teams and fostering loyalty.
  • The latest report from DDI reports that more than 40% of leaders crave soft skills that can help them work better with others.

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  • Travels from: Dana Point, CA
  • **Fee range: $10,001 - $20,000

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Building Resiliency to Refuel, Recharge, and Reclaim What Matters

This presentation affords a way to step back and identify what burnout is, how it is triggered, how to break out of dysfunctional patterns (both personal and within the organization), and how to breakthrough to cultivate resilience through four critical connection/energy points.

Crafting Connections That Count For People Who Matter

It’s time to START talking and get back to work! Create a competitive edge in engaging and retaining talented employees and customers on the most human of playing fields: conversation.

Without that connection, there is no energy of engagement.

Discover the secret of viewing points from Eileen McDargh, orange batons and Little David’s in creating teams and fostering loyalty. The latest report from DDI reports that more than 40% of leaders crave soft skills that can help them work better with others.

The results will be:

  • ​Clear understanding of what energizes employees and what depletes.
  • Connected and cohesive stakeholders.
  • Candid conversations that can generate a renewed commitment.
  • The “soft stuff” of business is always the hardest part of business.

It’s time to START talking and get back to work! Create a competitive edge in engaging and retaining talented employees and customers on the most human of playing fields: conversation.

Without that connection, there is no energy of engagement.

With Difficult People for Resilient Relationships

This session focuses on improving relationships at work through successfully dealing with people. Using humor and examples, Eileen McDargh will guide participants through the process of learning how to defuse anger in themselves and others.

They will discover how to identify and understand problem behavior and how to use systematic methods for handling such behaviors.

Participants will also:

  • ​Understand techniques for “scripting” and creating rapport
  • Identify the behavior of difficult people and personal responses to such behaviors
  • Focus on effective responses to the hostile-aggressive trio
  • Discover the 4-step model for handling anger on and off the phone
  • Learn the difference between difficult people and people within a difficult situation
  • Identify self-management tools for developing rapport and maintaining inner calm and integrity under pressure

Eileen McDargh is the CEO (Chief Energy Officer) and founder of the consulting firm, McDargh Communications and The Resiliency Group.

Since 1980, she has helped organizations and individuals transform the life of their business and the business of their life through conversations that matter and connections that count.

She believes that resiliency is a critical life skill and one that requires the energy of connections.

Eileen McDargh draws upon practical business know-how, life’s experiences and years of consulting to major national and international organizations that have ranged from global pharmaceuticals to the US Armed Forces, from health care associations to religious institutions.

Her programs are content rich, interactive, provocative and playful—even downright hilarious.

Expert On:

Eileen McDargh blend of inspiration, humor and content make her one of the most sought after females in the country.

She’s HUGE on customization.

Customization begins from the first conversation. “Fit” is essential before any deeper research can be done.

Then, if Eileen “fits” your meeting, you’ll understand when you see her pre-program survey which begins a second, deeper conversation.

Frankly, she’ll ask more questions that you ever thought possible. And why not – you and your group are like no other group on the planet!

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