Eileen McDargh

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 Davids in creating teams and fostering loyalty. Latest report (Summer 2007) from DDI reports that more than 40% of leaders crave soft skills that can help them work better with others.

The competitive edge is never a product or service. It's the brainpower that makes it, the hands that hold it, and the hearts that deliver it. Innovation, productivity, service, and bottom-line profits are the result of people: solid, talented, engaged, and committed employees. Even as some sectors of the economy slow down, the reality is that losing valuable, industry-trained people has long-term implications, particularly if your star performers go to the competition! In this interactive program, you'll learn that star performers aren't always looking for more money, but rather career growth, learning and development, exciting work, meaningful work, making a difference, and the chance to make a contribution on a team. And, of course, a good manager who makes the difference in winning the talent war.

Radically turbulent times demand professional and personal responses that transcend our regular work and life patterns. It's not about happy faces on mirrors and mantras on coffee mugs. It's not about hanging on while holding back. It's about times when you feel someone ate your cheese, drained the swamp, and went from great to less-than-good. McDargh's book The Resilient Spirit is an ideal gift that can be personalized as a take-home reminder of powerful lessons.

This inspiring keynote is based on the belief that successful organizations and individuals continually hone their thinking and self-management skills in order survive in rapidly changing times. They are experienced navigators who lead their people and their organizations through tough times to smoother waters. These companies and their top performers are usually experienced masters at accepting and welcoming the change process as the path toward individual and organizational growth.

From backpacking in the High Sierras to trekking remote regions of the western Himalayas, Eileen McDargh takes audiences on the adventure of discovering what lessons for work and life can be learned from the high country. Her book, Gifts from the Mountain: Simple Truths for Life's Complexities, helps participants drive the lessons deeper as leaders, coaches, or community. Your audience will join McDargh on this walk in the wilderness to discover fresh perspectives, practical practices, and laugh-out-loud joy in the process. Whether they are a world-weary worker juggling the demands of a hectic life or a seeker of soul-satisfying experiences, this speech is their key to refresh, renew, rethink, and recharge.

Gather women together and you have an energy source to light even the darkest corners of the world. Eileen McDargh puts a match to that energy in a keynote presentation for reliving and laughing about our foibles, for celebrating our uniqueness, for renewing our passion and commitment to life, and for establishing the common traits which allow all of us to bloom where we are planted. We can learn to be heroines of our own story and leaders shaping tomorrow for all our children. This is your time to refreshed, realign, reawaken, reflect, refuel, regenerate, rejoice, release, remember, and renew.

Balance is baloney! Discover a better metaphor for the realities of living in a 24/7 world. Learn the power of choice and how to conduct a C.A.T. scan of your life. Develop strategies to create a life by your design and not by default. A critical topic for all walks of life and one Eileen McDargh has followed since authoring the first book ever written on this topic. How can you work smart and live happier? Is it even possible in this fast-paced, frantic world? From senior executives to front line employees, this issue is key to the changing nature of America's workforce and today's world. We hear about the need to balance personal and work priorities, but how do you go from burned out to fired up? How can we juggle the many responsibilities and demands on our busy lives? McDargh has the answers to these questions and more.

You'll never think of energy in the same way again. Forget OPEC and prices at the pump. Discover your own reservoir of power and purpose with five tools to drill down into your own internal well of possibilities. Human energy is a priceless commodity. Learn a new formula for E=MC2. When it comes to energy and the capacity to do work, discover how to get it, renew it, and stop giving it away.

At the end of the day, our very success hinges on relationships. These relationships grow or die based on a skill too often we forget: conversation. How meaningful are yours? The proliferation of cell phones and the glut of chat rooms show us what society yearns for: meaningful human connection, community, and the value of relationships. The pace of change, the lure of dazzling technology, and the speed of life have created the opposite. The most human of all connections is conversation—an internal and external event that has become blurred. We've forgotten how to talk to each other—if in fact some of us ever knew. In many instances, we have never been taught how to listen. And at times of crisis, these conversations become even more important. This presentation explores a model for understanding and growing the conversations we have with ourselves and with each other so that everyone becomes fully engaged in the work we are tasked to do.

Life would be easy if it weren't for other people! Would you like to turn from mad to glad with your colleagues and customers? Eileen McDargh can show you how. This session focuses on improving relationships at work through successfully dealing with people. Using humor and examples, McDargh will guide participants through the process of learning how to diffuse 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.

Talk is never cheap. It's priceless! How would you rate your communication efforts? Better still—what would others say? Using a personal communication profile (the DISC), Eileen McDargh will help you discover your unique behavioral preferences. You'll gain insights on where and why relationships grow or suffer. This workshop is designed to open channels for sharing communication preferences and valuing differences. With interaction, humor, and high content, McDargh will help you walk away with ideas for improving your own communication while understanding others. This program provides high content, useful information you can put to work at the office and at home.