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SUMMARY:Lunch & Learn: Improv Techniques for Better Communication and Listening Skills
DESCRIPTION:We are the authority on everything Meetings-related. Our lunch-hour workshops focus on the ins and outs of this industry. We invite Facilitators\, Meeting Planners\, Retreat Programming Coordinators\, Administrative Assistants and everyone in between to get insider insight with a delectable meal! \nJoin us as Julie Ostrow shares the fundamental rules of improv and how to apply them to diverse business settings\, leading to improved communication and connection. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nLunch & Learn: Improv Techniques for Better Communication and Listening Skills\n \nHave you ever walked away (or hung up) from a conversation wondering\, “What did we just agree to?” Or how about\, “Hmmm…I really don’t think that vendor truly understands our organization’s needs.”? \nAnd\, later at your meeting you find out that your instinct was right…they didn’t use the specifications you thought you agreed to? These are just a few examples of what can happen if there is a gap in communication and listening. \nIn this interactive and fun presentation\, you will learn skills that you can use in your business to make sure you say it right and get it right. Effective communication skills—especially listening—lay the groundwork for cohesive business relationships…and successful events! \nLearn how to use improvisation skills to connect\, collaborate\, and truly listen to your association’s members\, vendors\, and clients. Improv skills allow us to be in the present moment to practice reflective listening\, while encouraging others to do the same. When we’re listening to each other\, we are tuned into each other’s needs and expectations. Listening as a skill means not having our own agendas to drive conversations that will lead to deeper connections. Join the fun and learn the skills and tools that can be applied to your professional\, business\, and personal interactions. \n\nLearn the fundamental rules of improv and apply them to diverse business settings—internally and externally.\nApply reflective listening (also known as “Yes\, and”) to practice empathy and eliminate—or at least reduce—assumptions.\nAcquire the art of being in the moment through improv skills.\nLearn to have fun while collaborating in a fun and interactive way.\n\nAdmission price of $10 includes:\n\nEngaging content with Julie Ostrow.\nA mouth-watering meal from our catering partner Big Delicious Planet.\nAll ticket surcharges.\n\nPlease purchase your admission by Wednesday\, July 24!\n*Please email bryan@catalystranch.com with any dietary restrictions\nClick here for tickets!\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Our Presenter:\nAs the Humorous Speaker and Communication Coach\, The Second City-trained and First-Ever American Laughing Champion Julie Ostrow teaches organizations and corporate teams to use improv skills to improve Creativity\, Communication\, Team Building\, Problem Solving\, and Productivity with their clients and within their organizations. She teaches the benefits of using humor\, laughter\, and improv in all aspects of our lives. \nHaving more than 20 years of corporate marketing communications experience including five years with SmithBucklin\, the world’s largest association management firm\, Julie is able to identify the trigger points of miscommunication and low morale in the corporate culture and among team members. By infusing her corporate experience with her humor\, laughter\, and improv tools\, she is able to guide organizations to communication\, connection\, and creativity. Resulting in re-inspired teams and increased productivity. \nJulie conducts her interactive and transformative workshops for corporations\, conferences\, and professional organizations. Julie’s enthusiasm and passionate spirit\, combined with her comedic insight\, help to make her a warm and engaging presenter and workshop facilitator. Her personal motto\, “find the funny\,” helps her to find humor in everyday moments and in life’s seemingly most difficult situations…and she’ll help your teams do the same! \n\nWebsite: www.JulieOstrow.com\nEmail: Julie@GoFindTheFunny.com\nCall or text: (815) 893-9255\nTwitter: @JulieOstrow\nLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/julieostrow/\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/gofindthefunny/\n\n\n\nLearn more about Chicago’s Most Creative Meeting and Event Space Catalyst Ranch!
URL:https://playground.catalystranch.com/event/lunch-learn-improv-techniques-for-better-communication-and-listening-skills/
LOCATION:Catalyst Ranch\,  656 W Randolph St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60661\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lunch & Learn,Networking,Professional Development,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Lunch & Learn: How to Activate Leadership
DESCRIPTION:Catalyst Ranch continues its series of lunch-hour workshops focused on the ins and outs of Meeting Planning with Lunch & Learn: How to Activate Leadership! \nWe are the authority on everything Meetings-related\,\nand we invite Facilitators\, Meeting Planners\, Retreat Programming Coordinators\, Administrative Assistants and everyone in between to get insider insight over a delectable meal. \n \nLunch & Learn: How to Activate Leadership Through Planning and Facilitating Your Meeting\nA meeting can be a powerful leadership tool driving change in your culture\, bringing out the best in people\, expanding what’s possible. Yet\, often people don’t like them or know how to use them strategically. How you think about and approach them makes all the difference. When your meeting really\, really needs to make a difference\, what can you do to shift how people think and act? \nJoin us to explore:\n\nCreating an environment in which others are engaged and own the meeting outcome you seek to produce\nActivating ownership\, leadership through how you plan and conduct meetings\nA model for using a meeting as a focal point for a process to shift mindsets and have conversations you have not had before together\n10 common meeting traps to avoid\n\nThis session is ideal for anyone involved in planning a meeting – meeting planners\, administrative assistants\, office managers\, department or firm managers or leaders\, facilitators. \n\nAdmission price of $10 includes:\n\na two-page handout summarizing key points;\na mouth-watering meal from our catering partner Big Delicious Planet!\nall ticket surcharges.\n\nPlease purchase your admission by Wednesday\, April 24!\n*Please email bryan@catalystranch.com with any dietary restrictions\nClick here to purchase admission!\n\nAbout the Facilitator: Jackie Sloane\, MCC  \n Jackie Sloane loves working with people to cultivate leadership around them and expand what’s possible through how they use meetings\, and engage others. She is a seasoned executive coach and consultant\, specializing in enhancing ability to achieve greater well-being and significant results through how clients communicate\, cultivate relationships\, and lead key initiatives. Jackie has over 25 years’ experience in executive coaching\, leadership development\, communication and organizational engagement consulting. \nThe Transformational Leadership Retreats she co-created\, based on a 6-question coaching model\, have provided leaders a powerful way to utilize the focal point of an event to lead a process to “change the conversation\,” set a new tone\, and co-create new behaviors and practices\, launching culture change in their organizations. She has a background in marketing and has served clients at privately-held\, nonprofit\, public sector and Fortune 100 firms\, in most industries. She has served clients at Abbott\, Accenture\, American Society of Anesthesiology\, Bank of America\, Comcast\, Deloitte\, Exelon\, Grant Thornton\, Hollister\, Navistar/International Truck and Engine\, PepsiCo\, Plante & Moran and Purdue University Northwest among others. \nShe has two coach certifications\, including Master Certified Coach. She completed the graduate-level Mastering the Art of Professional Coaching in 1994\, and many leadership\, communication and coach training programs\, and is a member of the International Coach Federation. Jackie has a B.A. in political science and completed graduate work at Columbia College. She is a mentor for Chicago Innovation’s Women’s Co-op. \n\n\nLearn more about Chicago’s Most Creative Meeting and Event Space Catalyst Ranch!
URL:https://playground.catalystranch.com/event/lunch-learn-how-to-activate-leadership/
LOCATION:Catalyst Ranch\,  656 W Randolph St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60661\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lunch & Learn,Meetup,Networking,Professional Development
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