part of our series: workinnewplaces
|
- Voice Matters®
- Communication
at a distance
|
workinnewways - categories: leadership, identity, distance work
Voice Matters® - Kay Kleinerman
workinnewways - categories: leadership, effective communication, distance work
Communication at a Distance - Chris Figari
Need to make your virtual communications easier and more effective?
When you are communicating on a conference call or a “virtual” meeting …
• Do you sound confident and passionate?
• Do you keep people engaged?
• Do you take full advantage of the virtual tools?
Christine Figari joins us as an executive coach with over 25 years of experience in consulting, mediating, training, and management. Having trained thousands of
individuals in both face-to-face and virtual communication, she brings us her coaching skills around communicationns for work on any platform, from any location, to
any location.
Her personal one-on-one coaching and small group facilitation sessions tackle distance work communication in three areas:
- Vocal production – how you deliver the words, including vocal variety, habits, pauses, eliminating “filler” words, impact of gestures
- Content organization – the message you send, including clear structure, engaging openings, confident language, clear endings,
interaction techniques
- Virtual platforms – the appropriate use of tools including annotation, white boards, slides, webcams and other distance work
mechanics
Chris has trained in the United States and the Asia-Pacific region, representing such diverse companies as Microsoft, Catholic Heathcare
West, Apple Computer, Quaker Oats, AT&T, Abbott Labs, Toshiba and Charles Schwab and additionally worked on behalf of Mandel
Communications, BayGroup International, Decker Communications, Drake Beam Morin, Alliance for Resolution, Wise Communications
and The Training Clinic.
If you are looking for customized coaching to help you over the distance communications hurdles, this coaching is for you!
Contact us for more information on how to better communicate to make distance work work for you.
Thought about your voice lately?
Your voice is one of your greatest assets! Those who know how to use their voices authentically inspire others to follow.
Voice is the primary tool of leadership when working over technology and engaging at a distance.
If you want to be able to move and motivate others by communicating with gut-level strength, passion and confidence, we have a program for you.
Led by scholar, writer, educator and voice expert Kay Kleinerman, Ed.D., an innovator in the field of voice and identity, Kay will guide you in a life-changing,
highly interactive, learning experience that will:
• Help you discover new aspects of your voice and yourself
• Enlarge and transform your capabilities to communicate with power and skill.
Tailored expressly for NewWorkPlaces and distance work, her groundbreaking Voice Matters® workshops
of discovery enable you to:
• Recognize the power of your authentic voice.
• Effectively hold a group’s attention and communicate with energy and meaning.
• Make each word and sound count.
• Discover the power of underlying emotions, non-verbal and verbal communication to convey your message.
• Understand the link between who you are and how you lead and express yourself
Whether you are leading large companies or just a small work group, Kay’s workshops give you the personal
power to connect, people-to-people, over technology and distance. Kay's workshops range from 1/2 day to
full, 2, 3 and 5 day sessions and can accommodate from 5 to 25 participants.
Contact us for more information on how to engage your voice to make distance work work.
“Leaders must find an individual and persuasive voice…that engages and recruits others.”
Geeks and Geezers: How Era, Values and Defining Moments Shape Leaders - Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas
|
“You lead by voice.”
Frances Hesselbein, Chair - Board of Governors of the Leader to Leader Institute; Former CEO – Girl Scouts of America
|
- Disruptive Events
Survival
- P3s: Personal
Productivity Places
|
Copyright © 2005-2010 Catherine Adams Lee Consulting. All rights reserved. Trademarks.
|
workinnewplaces - categories: productivity, preparedness, distance work
Disruptive Events Survival - Catherine Adams Lee

The Swine Flu and other Disruptive Events will require all or some of your population of employees to work away from the company site, probably
at home. Preparing for the H1N1 Swine Flu epidemic, or any disaster for that matter, is more than just instructing employees about good hygiene and creating policies
for who should or should not work from home.
Preparing is really about keeping yourself and your people healthy and productive, despite disruptive events beyond your control. Something both you as the
employer and your employees want. It is not fun to be sick, care for desperately ill family members or constantly worry that you will be exposed, debilitated or just even
fall so far behind with work that the stress to keep up brings on other illnesses and issues.
To work in other places at the drop of a hat means building flexibility and mobility into your company’s work process. It means being prepared, with practiced
new behaviors, ahead of time. It means instilling new habits and work patterns so when disasters hit - whether swine flu, bridge or road closing, natural disasters like
earthquakes, wild fires, floods, hurricanes, or just the regular family emergencies – everyone is ready, can easily migrate to new work environments and KEEP
WORKING.
KEEP WORKING includes four new takes on business:
1. Alternative Workplaces: Everyone has prepared one primary and two secondary alternative work places.
2. Available Technology: The appropriate technology, both hardware and software, has been installed, tested and practiced by everyone.
3. Advanced Skills: Working at a distance, off-site, requires new skills and abilities to carry on work. These include the ability to:
a. Conduct, facilitate and participate in productive remote meetings
b. Influence at a distance, regardless of location or technology
c. Lead and communicate succinctly and effectively in a virtual environment
4. Adjusted Funding: Make a strategic plan for where your infrastructure dollars are going - facilities, office capital equipment, leasehold improvement,
technology investments and human capital funding and training – to adjust and redistribute monies necessary to create a new business model that
incorporates flexibility and mobility and supports productive distance work.
How we can help: NewWorkPlaces is dedicated to helping companies work at a distance.
- We understand that the workplace no longer means the company-owned or operated place to which you commute.
We know that technology has turned that idea into a capricious fantasy.
We make work in new places work.
- We understand that doing work sight unseen is hard.
We know that just like your workforce learned the wonderful skills and abilities that made you hire them in the first place - they need, can learn and are able to
adopt the new skills and abilities to make this new way of working successful.
We make work in new ways work.
- We understand that new work places and new ways of working is as uncomfortable as a journey into the unknown.
We know 21st century work, creative knowledge work at a distance, requires new business models for success.
We make new work work.
The events and trends of 21st century life and work will affect your business life.
Contact us for more information on how to prepare for disruptive events and make distance work work.
part of our series: workinnewways
|
workinnewplaces - categories: productivity, identity, distance work
P3s: Personal Productivity Places - Catherine Adams Lee

Introducing a series of hands on, practical, how to workshops on selecting and creating the right work
environment at home and other places.
They are about being productive away from ‘the office”. Getting back in touch with who you are and your relationship
to work and the work environment. They are about regaining your senses, lost and buried after years of dwelling in
cubes and artificial environments, and putting them to work for you Note: They are not about compliance.
In our half-day workshop you will learn about your P3 – your Personal Productivity Places, how to get in touch
with your authentic work self and translate that into selecting the appropriate work environments for your new
variety and multiple of work tasks.
For our full-day session, we add a design segment where you will analyze your current home work environment
(yes, there is home work), develop new criteria that matches your P3 and start to actually design your work space.
Our two-day workshop expands the process to refine your designs and adds “Other Places” to your repertoire of
places where you can productively work. Included in this session are things to watch out for, how to instantly
evaluate your environment and safety and security tips for working away – on the road, airports, hotels and other
public places.
Though distance work is more than just about ‘place’, place is a necessary component of its success.
Contact us to learn more about how to be productive anyplace and how to make work in new places
work for you.
ain skills: personal and business for new work places
ase pain: around engaging people at a distance
ove forward: become a 21st century colleague, client, company
g.
e.
m.
Introducing our new series
|
Each offering is a G.E.M unto itself, presented by G.E.M. people - special people. giving extraordinary value. We are looking for more GEMs. We know you are out there! We want to meet you.
Want to acquire value from our G.E.M.s? or Interested in adding your value? Contact us.
|
more|