FountainBlue

Savvy Networking Tips for the Reluctant Networker

Linda Holroyd, CEO, FountainBlue

In this day and age when everyone knows the value of networking, the reluctant networker is at a disadvantage.

For this dynamic, hands-on workshop, Linda Holroyd will share the top ten dos and don’ts of networking, and engage workshop participants in exercises designed to overcome barriers to networking with people who are different from you, under a variety of circumstances. Strategize on where you can best network and why you, and those you meet would benefit from connecting.

Expanding Your Influence, With or Without Direct Authority

Linda Holroyd, CEO, FountainBlue

Influence: We respect those who know how to get it, and we all see the need for it.

For this workshop, we will identify the top ten qualities women of influence command, and strategize on how we can build more influence within our network, while focusing on delivering results in alignment with corporate objectives. You will break up into groups and brainstorm specific ideas for getting buy-in for ideas, for managing without direct authority, for getting recognition from the executive management team, and for influencing others from afar.

Heart-Head-Hands Leadership

Linda Holroyd, CEO, FountainBlue

Linda Holroyd’s Heart-Head-Hands leadership style has guided her throughout her personal and professional career.

-       Start with the heart, for your passion will drive your success.

-       Move to your head, for it’s strategic to think through why you’re passionate about something and what you can do to make it happen.

-       Move to your hands, for just feeling passionate and thinking about it won’t drive the results that will mark you a leader.

Linda employs it religiously as she works with entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs to build their businesses. This workshop will share her leadership strategy, and help you identify and work toward your next leadership objectives.

Politics in the Workplace: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Linda Holroyd, CEO, FountainBlue

Let’s face it – office politics is a reality for everyone, regardless of the size of your organization or your position. As professionals we have all dealt with the challenges of doing our job while watching our backs, managing “up”, and dealing with difficult co-workers who treat others around them badly.

For this interactive workshop, we will recommend ten top tips for successful engagement in office politics, and break up into teams to cover some common political challenges:

-       Gossip

-       Passive Aggressiveness

-       Playing favorites

-       Reputation Trashing

-       Turf battle and protection

-       Undermining

-       Withholding information

Building and Reinforcing Your Executive Brand

Linda Holroyd, CEO, FountainBlue

Your brand tells people who you, and what to expect from you whether at work or at home. It helps people decide whether to trust you, and what to trust you about. Effective executives, both women and men, proactively build their brand, to ensure that others think highly of them, and have the confidence that they can execute under specific circumstances, and even in situations where they have little connections and expertise. Indeed, your executive brand can limit or launch your success.  

For this interactive workshop, we will cover how to build and reinforce your executive brand, and how they leverage that brand to build credibility, position yourself, your team and your organization for success, and strategically manage your career development.

Agility - The Key to Building a Successful Career

Linda Holroyd, CEO, FountainBlue

Global megatrends are making it much more difficult to plan your career path, as there is more fluidity within and across corporations, across global markets, plus greater acceptance of people moving from one role or industry to another.

For this workshop, we will cover how agility is the key to building a successful career and what specific strategize you can embrace to transition between roles, industries and companies, always following your passion and growing your skills.

Women Making Their Own Rules

Linda Holroyd, CEO, FountainBlue

Successful women create their own brand - their own personal way of making things happen. Sometimes they play within the rules, sometimes they make up their own rules, but the results speak for themselves.

In this interactive workshop, think through how you thrive following the rules, and when you are most likely to break them. Then figure out how to best leverage your personal tendencies to command the results you seek and deserve.

Fostering An Intrapreneurial Culture

Linda Holroyd, CEO, FountainBlue

Innovation is today’s buzzword - considered integral to an organizations culture, its competitive advantage. Yet the revenue-generating demands and the cost-cutting measures taken by many corporations are reducing the capacity for companies to innovate from within.

This workshop helps you fight back! It encourages women and men to take specific actions in support of building an intrapreneurial culture, one that manages for today, and embraces new developments for tomorrow, leveraging corporate resources, connections and know-how with new ways of building and applying technology solutions.

Standing on the Shoulders of Mentors

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As leaders, we appreciate the mentors, leaders and role models upon whose shoulders we stood. We carefully consider the support and guidance we are consciously and unconsciously providing for those who come after us.

For this interactive workshop, we will define mentoring, identify the type of mentoring relationship most beneficial to you, strategize on how to recruit a mentor, and make recommendations on providing the structure, direction and support for a positive mentoring relationship that would benefit all parties.

Millennials in Our Midst!

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The Millennial Generation otherwise known as Generation Y is no longer made-up of just kids and teens. The eldest are now graduating college and entering the professional workforce. They are in our workplace, impacting what we do, how we do it! They bring their share of perspectives and challenges, but they also bring new ideas and innovations and approaches, a mix of pluses and minuses.

A successful corporation will embrace the diversity offered by this influential generation. This workshop will cover general profile of millennials, recommend strategies for working with millennials, development recruitment and engagement strategies for millennials, and embracing the best of the millennial traits into your corporate culture.

Women at the Top of the Game

Bobbie LaPorte, RAL & Associates

Climbing the corporate ladder and succeeding in competitive corporate environments requires many of the same characteristics and strategies employed by successful athletes including: Conditioning, Goal‐Setting, Commitment, Discipline, Resilience, Stamina, Endurance, and Perseverance.

For this fun, interactive workshop, you will learn:

• Specific actions you can take NOW to create your personal connection between fitness and career success to consistently perform at your highest levels of professional performance
• Practical tips and techniques that will inspire you to take action
• Why and how the integration of fitness into your overall lifestyle is possible for everyone, not just competitive athletes

Tips for Enlarging Your Sandbox: Learn to play with people who don't act right (like you)

Kare Anderson, Say It Better

Beyond honing your main talent, your surest way to stay sought-after is to strengthen your capacity to collaborate with people extremely unlike you. The biggest stumbling block in work performance is not the talent of a team but the ability for diverse individuals to understand each other and get along. From the Obama campaign team collaboration director discover three ways to bring out the best side amongst those of different cultures, ages, beliefs and expertise. That way, they will become higher-performing and happier together and for you.