Keynotes & Workshops

Keynote topics

Looking for a conference speaker who offers content-rich presentations with an Australian flavour, a dash of humour from props-based demonstrations and educational twist? Want your delegates to wlak away with proven ideas to use straight away? These are the ingredients of Dr Villiers' presentations.

Making a difference - Qualities for shaping our future

Drawing on iconic Australian stories both past and present, discover the qualities needed to leave a lasting legacy. In a world in great need of people who are willing to step forward, speak up, labour long and hard for what must be done, it is the elegant sense-makerss who will have the most influence.

Monumental women - Lessons in making a difference

Based on a visual pilgrimage around sites in the nation's capital that honour women's legacies, learn about the character strengths of visionary leaders, how to influence people to build support and leverage thinking to reframe issues in new and engaging ways.

Rediscover names like Adelaide Miethke, Caroline Chisholm, Edith Cowan, Mary Reiby, Miles Franklin as well as contemporary women who have made a difference. Be inspired by their legacies so you can help forge Australia's future.

Read about the qualities for making a difference.

Mental Nutrition workshop topics:

Interpersonal Communication

Influencing and persuading

Wellbeing

Employability

Ann Villiers, Mental Nutritionist, is available for customised keynote presentations, half and full day workshops and consulting.

Interpersonal Communication - sense-making for better communication

Workplace people skills - how to reduce the stress of disagreement, criticism, mistakes and complaints.

• What is meant by 'effective communication' and how a sense-making approach to communication contributes to greater interpersonal effectiveness.
• Methods for building self-awareness, flexibility and resilience as they relate to managing relationships at work.
• Techniques to unravel what events and decisions mean for people and how these interpretations can be managed to deliver more fruitful results.
• Techniques for handling stressful communication, including negative situations such as mistakes, criticism, performance feedback, and positive situations such as compliments and recognition.
• How to handle differences and diversity of viewpoints and mindsets and confront resulting conflict.

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Influencing and persuading - sense-making for more effective results

• Distinguish consulting, influencing, persuading, manipulating, negotiating.
• How people make sense of experiences and information and how this impacts on audience responses.
• Factors that increase confusion about a subject and how to manage complexity and uncertainty with credibility in times of change.
• The relative merits of 'showing' and 'telling' and how to use diverse narrative techniques to engage support and interest.
• How to use the voice and language to influence and persuade.
• How to ask effective questions and reduce the stress of other people's questions.

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Confidence building - how sense-making hobbles or enhances confidence

Confident Communicating - taking the fear out of speaking up in the workplace

• The mental frameworks surrounding speaking up in the workplace - exploring the fears and beliefs that can undermine and sabotage confidence.
• How to break the sabotage cycle, build confidence and address fears.
• Language and voice strategies that enhance confidence and build capacity to influence.

Confidence-building for women - A Den for Daring Dames
Based on Ann's book Gorgeous Daring Dames, How to grow in confidence, clarity & commitment

• How to build the courage to step out, step forward, speak up.
• Become clear about who you are, what you stand for, where you're heading.
• Unbind beliefs about money, ageing, health and speaking up that hold you back from being all you want to be.

Grab your talents, speak up and be heard

• Conduct a stock take of your personal talent warehouse.
• Speak about your strengths without sounding cocky.
• Introduce yourself and your business so people take notice.
• Strategies for being heard.

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Wellbeing - using sense-making to cut stress and enhance wellbeing

Work/Life Wellbeing

• Understand the impact of mental frameworks on how you view, interpret and respond to events and experiences.
• Explore personal meanings for life balance and build flexibility by examining the thinking processes that affect how you deal with change.
• Establish personal clarity to assist decision-making about priorities.
• Practice tools that foster resilience and reduce stress.

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Employability - applying sense-making to job applications and interviews

For more information about Dr Villiers' work in this field visit www.selectioncriteria.com.au.

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