Tammy Robertson

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Get Your Heart in the Game!TM 
Have you ever wondered what makes the difference between people who are genuinely excited and turned on to life and those people who just seem to be getting it done? This session unravels the mystery and pinpoints the key ingredients to a well lived life. More importantly it will point to some simple shifts that can bring more fulfillment to your life and work. Everybody dies only some people truly LIVE! This is Tammy’s most dynamic and entertaining presentation through laughter and tears Tammy will invite you to explore the truth of your life and excite you to be more fully alive than you dreamed possible! 

Outcomes

• Ripples of positive change as people embrace the opportunities and possibilities right now!
• A more engaged purposeful workforce
• People who have the tools and the desire to manage their energy and impact positively
• A more fun and alive work environment
• A culture that is self-reinforcing and celebrates itself

Key Themes

• Success without Fulfillment is Failure … Get Excited About What You’re Up To!
• Reclaim the Magic, Curiosity, Awe and Wonder of Childhood …What are we so Serious About?
• Get Excited About Your Life!
• Stimulate Your Dreams and Get In Touch With Your Personal Sense of Hope
• Two Defining Characteristics of People Who Are Genuinely Turned on To Life
• Live with Conscious Intention … Use the Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life
• Know Who YOU are at your Most Compelling … Build Your Leadership Presence
• Increase your Eccentricity Quotient … How Weird Can You Be and Still Keep Your Job?!
• Take Responsibility for Your Emotional Wake … Create Positive Energy!
• Adopt Practices that Help You Sustain Energy, Enthusiasm Even During Adversity and Challenge
• Other People’s Opinion of You is None of Your Business … Give Up Approval Addiction
• Preoccupied with the Spirit of Play! Create High-Impact Experiences with Customers and Colleagues!
• The Keys to Real Brilliance … Contribution, Accountability, Authenticity, Humour and Celebration

Grit and Resilience … You Have What it Takes to Bounce Back From Adversity and ChallengeHere’s what will happen after …

• More Ease, Calm and Grace … more people who are comfortable being uncomfortable and can access strength in adversity
• More Curiosity and Flexibility … people who can shift their thinking and adopt a perspective that serves them
• More Positive Support, Encouragement and Acknowledgement … teams have more insight, compassion and understanding of what it takes to be resilient
• More People who Recover Quickly … people have tools to overcome setbacks and the grit to put it into action
• More Eagerness to Persevere … acceptance and inspiration and practices that support true grit and resilience
• More Confidence and Less Fear … knowledge disarms fear, decreases resistance and people can walk through fear with more confidence

The key to resiliency – the ability to adapt to life’ changes and crises – is key to a healthy productive life. Knowing when to press on, and when to let go and how to live with “not knowing” … being able to feel secure and confident when the answers are unclear and the future uncertain is a new imperative. Old models of success are no longer relevant or resonant, and some of the rules we have lived by no longer make sense and may even create more pain than peace. You will leave with actionable insights and valuable tools to find confidence and feel armed to effectively handle the realities of today’s worried and frenetic world.

Beyond Crazee: Productive Life Harmony Here’s what will happen after …

• More Perspective, Insight and Commitment to What Really Matters
• More Energy, Focus and Tools to manage energy, attention and action
• More Strategies For Productivity … less distracted energy and feelings of overwhelm
• More Tools to Set Up Each Day … practices to stay present and appreciatively aware of the opportunity now
• More Modelling of Balance and Harmony … ability to relate and connect to core values of the youngest workers
• More Confidence and Ownership of Choices … big commitment that comes with taking full responsibility for your experience

If you feel distracted, overwhelmed and exhausted it is time to dive deep, develop some performance habits that will help you deeply recover, stay focused, get clear and be more present to the challenges in front of you. This is a transformative session that is both practical and inspiring and provides a highly practical and proven set of strategies to help you better manage the relentlessly rising demands we are all facing.

Happiness Practice: It’s Time to Ditch the Stress Here’s what will happen after …

• More Lightness, Fun and Joy … people understand more about what makes them happy More Acceptance of the Hard Times … less angst, frustration and guilt from not being “happy” all the time
• More Accessibility to Positive Moments … less waiting for the big events on weekends, vacation and retirement
• More Gratitude … people have strategies, practices and ways to invite and allow themselves to feel good
• More People Practicing Happiness … and holding one another accountable to their impact on the team

Is it possible to develop strategies that help you sustain positive energy, deep engagement and a sense of humour and lightness? Yes, and these same habits can help you build satisfying relationships, and give you the edge you need to be more productive at work. If you have been on achievement auto-pilot driven by goals that keep you pressing forward, but not feeling excited and alive, this session will show you how to get more of the satisfaction you are craving. Essentially, this is the mystery unravelled, and a comprehensive guide to understanding the elements of happiness. You will learn practical, empowering and easy to follow strategies and exercises for new ways of thinking and sustaining deep joy in your life. 

Life on Confidence Confidence: belief in oneself and one’s powers or abilities; self-confidence; self-reliance; assurance: “Her lack of confidence defeated her”. 

Fall Forward Faster

• In the last week did you fail at something?
• In the last week did you take a risk … try something where the outcome was uncertain?
• In the last week did you allow yourself to do or say something that you knew would be far from perfect?

When in Doubt, ACT

• In the last week did you make an important decision quickly?
• In the last week did you make a request for help or assistance to further your goals?
• In the last week did you make an offer that would allow you to act on your skills and contribute more?

Give up the Need for Approval

• In the last week did you say or do something without caring about what people thought?
• In the last week did you make a decision without worry over whether it would upset someone?
• In the last week did you act on your values and stand up for something important, even when it was uncomfortable?

Learn Fast

• In the last week did you receive feedback or request feedback?
• In the last week did you change a behaviour, insight or perspective based on feedback received?
• In the last week did you actively learn something new?

Recover, Recover, Recover

• In the last week did you make a mistake and recover quickly?
• In the last week did you recognize your own limitations and use compassion to get back in the game?
• In the last week can you recall a setback and response that bolstered your integrity and personal power?

Stop Trying to Figure Things Out

• In the last week did you consciously stop ruminating, analyzing and problem solving and allow things to unfold?
• In the last week were you completely present to “what wants to happen” and able to release a script or rehearsed speech.
• In the last week did you do something spontaneous and completely conjured up in the moment?

Rewire Your Brain

• In the last week did you replace negative ranting with a recollection of your strengths and achievements?
• In the last week did you reframe automatic negative thinking by shifting to positive possibilities or a neutral perspective?
• In the last week did you accept positive feedback with a simple thank you?
• In the last week did you accept constructive feedback with curiosity and gratitude?

Speak UP

• In the past week did you ask a question, or challenge someone with a different perspective, or advocate for a cause or value in a conversation or meeting?
• In the last week did you speak with confidence and without upspeak (raising the tone of your voice at the end of a sentence in a way that suggests what you are really doing is asking a question, not making a point).
• In the last week did you allow silence as you speak and avoid filler words such as … “um, ah, you know, like and stuff like that?”

Be Powerfully Present

• In the last week did your body language support your emotional presence? (head up, chin up, shoulders back, eye contact, smile, open body posture, relaxed movements)
• In the last week did you “own your space?” (not make yourself physically small, or sit at the back of the room, or along the wall).
• In the last week were you completely yourself? Real? Authentic? Not faking anything?

Authentic Leadership: Stand in the Fire! (Without Getting “Fried or Fired”) Here’s what will happen after …

• More Leaders, More Authentic, More of the Time … Leaders will know what the roadblocks are. what is at stake, where they sit on the authentic leadership scale and how to show up more authentically
• More Influence – Leaders will be able to let go of pleasing and controlling to exert influence, and know how to express themselves honestly and directly while hearing and acknowledging what others think
• More Trust and Respect – Leaders will build solid relationships based on deep trust and full respect
• More Hard Decisions Faster – Leaders have more curious conversations and the skills and tools to involve others, examine possibilities and make the best decisions
• More Positive Energy – Leaders build habits that sustain energy, enthusiasm and belief
• More Accountability – Leaders have the tools to challenge people to high standards and give honest feedback in a way that is inspiring

Real leadership isn’t about theories or models it’s about what happens every day with the people you lead. It’s about the guts and courage to be real and accessible to people. It’s about telling your stories, the really hard ones where you got knocked down a couple of times, and managed to get up, learn something and go again. It’s about hearing other people’s stories of struggle and challenge too, and acknowledging and providing encouragement. The grit to keep at leadership comes from knowing it’s not supposed to be easy, and what you are working towards matters. 

How do you become a more authentic leader? What practices could you adopt to help you “stand in the fire” more of the time? Can you assess authenticity? What are the characteristics of an authentic leader? What gets in the way of being real and genuine? Can you still be powerful? Or Influential? Or even more influential? This program is a compelling call to real leadership and the foundation for engaging people to lean in, care and show up to make a difference each day. As the world changes, this quality is becoming more important than ever. Most people won’t follow you without it. 

Energize Your Workplace: Inspire and Engage the Heart! Here’s what will happen after …

• More People Engaged … who care about what happens and want to add value
• More Leaders Who Get What People Need to Feel Engaged and can apply the Three keys to Inspiration in meetings, in conversation and team projects
• More Leaders who have ideas and tools to meet the 6 Expectations of today’s workers
• More Leaders who Inspire … and have practical ways to put it in action, and know and understand the limitations of motivation
• More Compelling Cultures … where leaders apply the 15 simple tools to build a positive environment

This program will provide new insights, tools and strategies to inspire and bring out the best in people. You need a fresh perspective, and understanding about why people take action or why they just kind of want to get the day over … that’s what you will discover. And it will feel like someone just took a load off your shoulders. Your burden to motivate is gone. In its place is a whole new level of responsibility … to lay down the challenge, build belief, optimism, resilience, and the courage to take action. Get out of their way. Spark new thinking. Be a model. Point the way. Hold them accountable. And have fun.

Communication and Relationship Building Communicate, Connect and Have Curious Conversations Here’s what will happen after …

• More RealTalk … less pretend scripted and transactional conversations
• More Involvement … less silence, fear and apprehension to speak up
• More Serious Connections … people are inspired to take time to talk about what matters and be more present and more focused when talking to one another
• More Listening that demonstrates respect and builds trust
• More Curious Questions that deepen creative problem solving, ownership and capacity
• More People Thinking Better … more clarity, confidence and less advice, directing, over-selling and “motivating”
• More Energy and Engagement and people who are excited about what is still possible

To teach, model and give people tools to improve conversation, connection and influence requires more than a mechanical unemotional interchange. Engagement is all about connection … WHO are you connected to in a real way? Through an exploration of the three keys to RealTalk, (authentic presence, self-direction and emotional engagement) teams and leaders will know how to prepare for a meaningful conversation, manage emotions without burying them, and most of all to ask questions and be able to ignite, uncover and spark internal energy. 

Conversations can dissolve apprehension, build trust, respect and understanding and bolster confidence, optimism and action. And they don’t need to be longer than ten minutes. With the Great 8 Questions and three principles for engagement, leaders can help people truly get their Hearts in the Game even when the future is uncertain and unclear.