1. Joel Weintraub M.Ed, B.S. Physiology Health Education

2. Leadership Boot Camp

3. Topics Manage Stress Getting Along with Difficult People
Reduce Employee Turnover
Strategic and Creative Thinking to Improve Productivity & Efficiency
Office Productivity (Lightening Round)
Time Management & De-Cluttering Desk
Memory Techniques
Take Home Material
Five Sleep Techniques

4. Stress Positive and negative stress Work related stress
Type A and B personalities
Work related stress would be good to focus on for this subject

5. Five Brief stress reduction techniques
Breathing exercises
Progressive muscle relaxation
Autogenic Training
Visual Imagery
Mental Hypnosis
I don’t know some of these techniques- are they best for work or personal use?

6. Science behind stress reduction techniques
Passive observation
Letting go of control
This is excellent!

7. Rational Thought

8. Anatomy of Emotion
Amygdala

9. Three Levels of Communication
Content
Emotion
Power
How to love your job is communicating effectively?

10. Getting Along With Others

11. Negotiation Which way do you face them? Marriage Encounters
10 Point system

12. Replace but with and

13. End Complaints Instantly
Agree
Apologize
Act

14. Thank people for complaining
Agree
Apologize
Act
Appreciate

15. Two Types of Mentality
Fixed
Growth

16. Reduce Employee Turnover

17. Discover Employees Passions
Why Resumes are Written Upside Down
Take advantage of hidden talents
Nurture Employees passions

18. 1st Day on the Job Send employee welcome card Glad you joined the team
Include what impressed you about them during the interview

19. Show Appreciation Use the employee in your next print ad
Ask company president to write a personal note to employees who make a remarkable contribution

20. Constructive Compliments
Don’t say, “you’re a genius”
Say, “Everyone listened intently to your report. The statistics you gave drove home the point
You showed so much compassion by helping Bobby

21. Give Some Perfect Scores in an Annual Review
Lowering scores keeps achievement down
Changes their perception of themselves
Changes their perception of their employer

22. Feedback Should Be Specific about what you are recognizing Timely
The more you wait the smaller the impact
Don’t forget the power of intermittent reinforcement
Monopoly Game

23. Office Politics Meetings and office interaction Inclusion
60/40 rule of communication
Mind reading

24. Creativity and Strategic Thinking

25. Utilizing Creativity to Promote Team Building and Mediate a Dispute

26. Parallel Thinking Facts Positive Thinking Creative Thinking Reversal
Juxtaposition
Negative Thinking
Emotional Thinking
Overview

27. What Does Comedy, Creative Thinking and Problem Solving have in Common?
Reversal
Jokes
Credit Card Companies and Creativity
Health Insurance Companies and Creativity
Ketchup Bottles and Creativity
Preventing Crime with Creativity
Problem Solving at Work

28. Lateral Thinking Juxtaposition
Joke
Stop Highway from Drivers Going the Wrong Way
Making Money on Post Office Stamps

29. What Situations Arise at Work
1. Reducing crime in Philadelphia
2. How grandmothers influenced teenagers dress code
3. Vendors prevented groups from forming
4. Residents wandering off in a nursing
home

30. How to Stop Residents from Wandering Off
Fake Bus Stop in Germany

31. Lateral Thinking & Creativity
Creativity while talking or ing
Influenced by who you are talking to or ing

32. Empathy and Mirror Neurons
What is empathy?
Mirror neurons in a social situation
Monkey see monkey do
Have empathy for customers and employees

33. Using Strategic Thinking for Problem Solving

34. Frame/Risk/Choice

35. Framing/Risk/Choice

36. Time Management
How to get 25 hours out of a 24 hour day

37. How to Start Your Day Plan the night before Draft a to do list
Assign times to various tasks

38. Fallacy of Multitasking
How do you feel after multitasking?
Energized?
Exhausted?

39. Stay Focused Dealing with Tasks that Require Focus? Turn off phone
Shut down

40. You can’t to two things at once
Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London
Workers distracted by phone calls and
Fall in IQ twice that of marijuana smokers

41. Take a Bite Out of Mess Just clean one drawer
Just work on one section of the room
Associated friends calling with one chore

42. Trouble Getting Motivated Starting a Project?
Just take one simple step

43. Still Having Trouble Getting Motivated?
25 minute work sprints
5 minute break
After 2 hours do something to distract you

44. Simple Rule
If it takes less than 2 minutes
Do it now

45. Organize your Life Follow up File Equipment needed 12 Hanging Files
31 Manilla Folders

46. Category File
Equipment Needed
Accordion File

47. Library
Wall or Refrigerator Calendar

48. Organize your desk
File folder
Category file
Library
Rolodex

49. Avoid New Years Resolutions
365 days to fail
No adrenaline kick

50. Control the Information Explosion
File information in binder
Take advantage of idle time
Read with a highlighter
Memorize before highlighting
We forget at least 75% of what we read in three months

51. Read with Purpose Keep an Idea File
Be an active reader
Keep an Idea File
Note on the paper the reason you are keeping it
Review this idea file the first of each month

52. Phone Calling Group the call backs Tricks for getting off the phone
Have routine jobs available

53. Time and space Paretto Principle (80/20 Rule) Parkinson’s Law
Work expands to fill the time available
Space expands to fill the room available

54. Organize your Space One in-One out Rule
Keep items where you’ll need them
Put hangers in backwards

55. Memory Techniques/Overcoming Absent-mindedness
Emotions never forget
Have a logical reason or purpose where you put things
Say it out loud
Concentrate on what you are doing

56. Memory Techniques Four Principles of Memory Linking
Rooms of your House

57. Take Home Material Need answers to this material?
Please feel free to contact me
Contact information

58. Sleep Body temperature Exercise
Don’t associate your bed with too many activities
Worry
25 hour sleep/wake cycle
Go to bed the same time every night

59. Sleep Naps Don’t stay up late Diet Warm bath Three stages of sleep
Tossing and Turning
REM
Deep Sleep

60. Suprachiasmatic Nucleus

61. Suprachiasmatic Nucleus
Daylight = Adenosine builds up
Sleep = Adenosine + Phosphorous = ATP
Adenosine gets used up = You wake up
Groggy for first ½ hour before you are fully functional
Awake
Body cells derive energy from burning ATP
Adenosine builds up
Sleepy around 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

62. Caffeine Blocks the Adenosine Receptor
Adenosine can no longer cause sleepiness

63. Our Internal Clock Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Darkness Temperature drops
Melatonin is released
Light
Increase in temperature
Melatonin is suppressed
Cortisol is released

64. Pineal Gland

65. Pineal Gland Secretes Melatonin
Melatonin is released at night

66. Additional Sleep Tips Flat paint Lavender 45 watt bulb Dimmer switch
Replace pillow one-two years

67. Determine Type of Pillow
Stomach Sleepers
Soft with little elevation
Back Sleepers
Medium with moderate elevation
Side Sleepers
Firmer with higher elevation

68. Humor Memory enhancement Turn frustration into humorous dramatizations
Improved immune system
Memory enhancement
Turn frustration into humorous
dramatizations
The power behind a smile
Yeah!!!

69. Review Manage Stress Getting Along with Difficult People
Reduce Employee Turnover
Strategic and Creative Thinking to Improve Productivity & Efficiency
Five Sleep Techniques
Office Productivity (Lightening Round)
Time Management & De-Cluttering Desk
Memory Techniques

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