Penny Tremblay

Topics

Increase Your Sandbox Factor
Maximize Performance with Productive, Peaceful and Profitable Relationships

Suitable for all audiences including managers and senior leaders, this keynote offers current trends and techniques for dealing with our most important assets … our people! Not usually taught in technical education, people skills, when mastered help gain promotions, lead harmonious and profitable teams and engage long-term clients.

Improve your ‘Sandbox Factor’ to cultivate more time and money. Peace and productivity increase profit.

• Understand conflict: why we’re attached to it, why we fear it and when to embrace it
• Lead yourself first, then others
• Navigate through challenging times and difficult behavior
• Adopt social graces of gratitude, praise, recognition, appreciation and acknowledgement

Penny’s captivating style is authentic, passionate, interactive, inspiring and swings like a pendulum from the depths of human emotion to hilarious. Audiences are taken on an unforgettable journey of possibility, realizing the value of relationships, and how to harness and leverage our people skills to maximize profit, save time and money and engage long term employees and clients.

What’s in Your Suitcase?
Unpack Your Authentic Self

This keynote inspires people to take personal responsibility for their presence, performance and inner peace for best practices in workplaces and beyond. Suitable for large audiences or smaller workshop settings, participants get to dive deeper into their own mixed bag of tricks and discover what personal inventory is worth keeping and what needs to go.

When we show up to work, we bring everything from our past experiences, including things that have been buried for years, causing low esteem, lack of trust, fear of speaking up, or a sense of not being good enough. Not only does this hinder our belief in our ability, it also is a major source of conflict. Why are we so attached to it? You’ll find out in this interesting keynote that swings from deep to hilarious, and sheds light on some of the darkest corners of our being, and the how and why to unpack those unresolved issues that continue to pop up.

• Discover what’s in your suitcase
• Why you’re so attached to it
• How to detach, unpack your authentic self and find peace

Penny’s delivery style is captivating, raw and real with stories, examples and research about how resolving conflict from the inside out leaves very little left for others to get entangled with. Unforgettable with actionable tools and advice, this transformational piece fuels positive and lasting change.

Love in the Workplace?
How Rich Relationships Build Successful Business

Workplace culture rooted in human connection is more challenged than ever in this digital era. With millennials tipping the workplace population scale, relationship strategies to build productive, peaceful and profitable teams that are engaged with their corporate purpose are critical.

Suitable for all who work with people, this inspiring keynote helps the audience reach new potential, realizing that relationships are the most valuable asset for business. When we leverage the power of connection and relationships, we earn loyalty from our clients and work teams.

Use Love in the Workplace to increase performance and profitability by:

• Reducing The Cost Of Conflict
• Improving Self Love (The Relationship We Have With Ourselves)
• Mastering Interdependence; Relating To And Loving Others

Give and Be Rich in Workplace Relationships
Tapping the Human Side of Business

We get so caught up in the chase for profit that we often forget why we got into business in the first place. Hopefully we entered into business as an entrepreneur or employee, because we wanted to help solve a problem for our customer. Yet many have lost track of the customer and instead focus on the bottom line. This is not a win/win situation. It’s win/lose. You win and the customer loses. Or You win and the employee loses, or vice-versa. That model of business won’t work. For rich relationships to last, everyone must be growing or gaining, or else they’re dying.

Workplace and business culture rooted in human connection is more challenged than ever in this digital era. With millennials tipping the workplace population scale, relationship strategies to build productive, peaceful and profitable teams that are engaged with their corporate purpose are critical.

Suitable for all who work with people, this inspiring keynote helps the audience reach new potential, realizing that relationships are the most valuable asset for business. When we leverage the power of connection and relationships, we earn loyalty from our clients and work teams.

Give and Be Rich in Workplace Relationships

• Giving Simply to Give
• Being Open to Receive
• Giving To Yourself and Others for Strong Business Relationships

Penny’s message is backed by her best-selling book, Give and Be Rich, which invites us to look deeper into our own authentic inventory, and find more within to give. Giving is the new sexy. Giving is where we become rich in self-worth, confidence, humility, respect, love, social grace and all of the currencies of life. Her dynamic stage presence and message delivery is entertaining, interactive and memorable. There is laughter and depth to inspire long lasting change in perspective, service, attitude and gratitude.

Workshops

Play Nice in the Sandbox – Workplace Training
Building Productive And Profitable Relationships At Work

How would it change your current workplace culture if all relations were productive, peaceful and profitable? Our leading system focuses on fundamental elements to lead ourselves first so that others are inspired to follow. Improve performance, engage employees and keep the whole team motivated, productive and on track.

Day 1 – Leading Ourselves (Introduction)

• Our Attitude
• What We Want
• Effectiveness Beyond Time
• Importance of Listening
• Understanding People and Their Personality Styles
• The Power of Praise, Recognition and Acknowledgement
• Posture and Personal Presence

Our team arrived this morning energized and lighter. They can’t stop talking about how great the session was and how much they learned about themselves.”

Day 2 – Leading Others (Intermediate)

• Integrity and Authenticity
• Building Relationship Trust
• Relationship Currencies with Long Lasting Impact
• Positive Interpersonal Communication
• Improving Collaboration
• Dealing with Difficult Behaviour
• Difficult Conversations
• Conflict Resolution with T.L.C.
• Giving and Receiving Effective Feedback

Relationships are key to success in any business. Recognizing what people value most helps build a foundation for strong interpersonal relationships, creating win/win opportunities for the entire team, and their clients.

This interactive, fun and engaging system will advance your strategy toward effective communication and harmonious workplace relationships creating a positive corporate culture and long term loyalty.

Penny provided exceptional training to our office staff that inspired and energized my team. She is sincere, hard-working and provides an excellent experience. I highly recommend you use her for your next staff training session, she was fantastic.”

Day 3 – Assertiveness and Confrontational Skills (Advanced)

Workplace conflict doesn’t just go away. It festers, becoming bigger than the original cause. When it’s ignored, a culture of resentment, anger and frustration breeds, resulting in poor moral, low productivity, staff turnover and the possibility of violence. Conflict costs everyone.

Why do leaders let this happen? They just simply don’t have the tools to manage conflict effectively, so they avoid it causing a negative impact on the organization, and the long-term careers of the leaders themselves. For any manager, supervisor or leader, the ability to confront problems and handle conflict is not optional.

Bring these must-have skills to your team and create confident, conflict resolving, cohesive leaders.

• The Cost of Conflict
• Assertive Behaviour
• Effective Delegation Strategies
• Preventing Problematic Interactions
• Coaching Staff for Best Performance
• Confronting Issues, Best Approaches
• Conflict Management / Resolution
• Doing Your Own Internal Work

“You are very personal, intimate and genuine in your style which has been perfect for our small group. Your style is very fitting for our First Nations People. You have left a lasting impression. Your mentors and teachers have nothing on you…..your style is infectious and unique unto you!”

Engage Millennials in the Workplace
1/2 Day Program

An estimated 100 million Millennials are currently entering the workforce, making up the largest generation of our time, yet businesses have a difficult time recruiting, retaining and motivating them. Is your organization prepared? The Boomers and the Gen Xers are quite comfortable with managing each other, however managing millennials requires a different skill set and is a worthwhile investment.

The most productive, peaceful and profitable workplaces embrace the assets of all generations. In this interactive workshop, participants will learn to recognize, appreciate and engage all generations in their workplace.

Objectives:

• Perceptions and Attitudes Between Generations
• How To Recruit, Engage and Retain Millennials
• Creating an Inclusion Based Culture

Team Building
Options:

One of the most common requests that we receive is for team building. Under the desire for team building, is usually one of two needs:

(1) ‘edutainment’ (Some professional development delivered with fun interactive learning, for which our Play Nice in the Sandbox program is recommended

or…

(2) Some team restoration (there’s conflict, a disconnected team, or a very toxic environment, for which I recommend a a group process for conflict resolution)

Our conflict resolution group process is suitable for a workplace team, board, or community who wish to resolve work-related issues or improve relationships. The approach gives everyone a chance to be heard and understood. Without games or gimmicks, this real life approach teaches skills, empowers individuals and creates connections and bonds with authentic conversation. The emphasis is on creating focused, courageous dialogue that helps the group move to reconciliation, resolution and action.

Workplace Conflict Resolution
Restoring Conflict to Peace.
Specializing in workplace conflict resolution and relationship management in Ontario and beyond, these transformative mediation, seminars, workplace learning circles and coaching sessions help organizations restore culture to productivity, peace and profitability.

Penny Tremblay delivers these services. Penny has mediated and facilitated many situations for the Federal and Provincial government departments, not-for-profit organizations, Aboriginal communities, and private corporations.

Workplace Restoration
A workplace restoration is an inclusive process to support people through rebuilding workplace relationships and culture after a major disruption such as prolonged conflict, investigations, accusations of harassment, bullying, lateral violence, significant change or sub-standard behaviours.

Two common workplace interventions are investigations and restorations. Bill 168 created an incline in the need for investigations, while Bill 132 requires employers to use competent professionals to investigate incidents. This creates a complexity that requires external sources, yet third party intervention can be disruptive and intensify conflict, creating a growing need for a workplace restoration.

Penny Tremblay facilitates a team restoration using a circle approach; a historical way learned from our Indigenous People to resolve social conflict with shared responsibility, authentic conversation, honesty, listening, understanding, and empathy. In this process, participants find commonality, determine their ideal working relationships, and inspire new culture with the empowerment to implement it.

Without restoration, employees take stress or sick leave, or leave officially, sometimes by wave of mass exodus. The opportunity to recruit becomes challenging due to poor reputation of workplace morale.

A workplace restoration is very effective to reconnect teams after any significant change or disruption in relationships that has plagued employees with fear, doubt, stress or lack of trust.

In the end, participants have the skills to turn the crisis that lead to the need for restoration, into a proactive opportunity to manage conflict better in the future.

The best time to have a workplace restoration is before the need for a formal investigation. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of medicine. Restoration can be the ounce of prevention that prevents a long and arduous process of investigation.