Juliet Funt

WOW THEM | How to Build a Presentation from Start to Finish

Many professionals, even those with ample experience, either don’t have a system in place to plan a presentation or skip planning entirely, diving headfirst into assembling their elements without foresight. This approach rarely leads to success. Instead, this session will show them how to take a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to transform their presentations into persuasive and inspiring stories that command attention. The process is segmented into five critical stages: Material Gathering, Emotional Arc, Vivid Illustration, Honing, and Slide Creation. Each stage is a stepping stone in your journey to master the art of presentations, giving you the
confidence and expertise to captivate any audience.

YOU’RE ON MUTE | Strategies for Communicating in a Hybrid World

Hybrid work is here to stay, and so are the communication challenges that accompany it. As teams spread geographically, the dynamics of interpersonal communication morph, necessitating a transformation in our traditional strategies to maintain connection and efficacy.

This session delves into the fundamental aspects of communication crucial for hybrid work success. It provides insights into our virtual presence, expressing ideas clearly and persuasively across various mediums, and on strategies to foster a cohesive team dynamic that transcends geographical dispersion.

The session also outlines the perfect balance between synchronous and asynchronous communication, optimizing productivity while mitigating the risks of communication overload in a hybrid work environment.

FEED THE FIRE | Going Upstream from Mental Health at Work

Organizations are providing resources for mental health, and that’s good. But despite all of the yoga, therapists, and puppy parties (yes, really), there’s a problem. Rarely are these solutions going upstream to address the chronic, predictable, and solvable conditions and norms that make folks so stressed in the first place. Health care costs soar, and people remain unhappy.

As a remedy, this session shines a light on the concept of ‘white space’ – unscheduled, open periods that offer a much-needed breather and a platform for restoration. Drawing inspiration from Juliet Funt’s acclaimed book A Minute to Think, the session explores strategies to reclaim and make effective use of this margin. It also offers tools to alleviate burnout and exhaustion, simplify work, curb the flow of digital pestering, and reduce the weight of meetings.

DE-CRAPIFY YOUR WORKFLOW! | Solving the Equation of Too Much Work and Too Few People

Are your talented teams drowning in meetings, emails, decks, and to-dos without the foggiest clue about how to reduce the pile? Today’s organizations are aggressive in their goals, and workers often lack the skills to choose the right focus for their energies. Eventually, they can’t bear the workload anymore and leave, fail or quietly disengage. The solution, however, isn’t as simple as hiring more hands. Instead, it requires a significant paradigm shift in how we perceive activity vs. true productivity.

This session offers a roadmap to this shift, providing practical tools, strategies, and frameworks to reevaluate, prioritize, and streamline your team’s workload. It champions the adoption of a Reductive Mindset, which emphasizes efficiency and effectiveness by ruthlessly eliminating unnecessary and non-value-adding touchpoints of the day.

TOO MUCH WORK AND TOO FEW PEOPLE | Solving the simple but painful equation of work

The American worker needs a witness. Two and a half years ago, there was a crisis. Like most good people do in a crisis, they dug in. Then, the sprint they signed up for changed. The race became a marathon in duration yet maintained the intensity of that sprint for months and eventually years.

Now, as burnout has become latent and ingrained—where employees’ tanks are empty, the fumes are faint—it’s time for a recession-wary lockdown on headcount and resources. It’s no wonder people are quitting and disengaged; leaders are sandwiched between the teams they love and the goals they’re given.

The solution is to aggressively increase team prioritization skills; learn models and formulas for eliminating projects that don’t have direct benefits; and reduce wasteful work, emails, and meetings so that 10 workers can go back to doing the work of 10. In this session jam-packed with tools, techniques, and usable frameworks, Juliet will show you how.

Outcomes:

• Adopt the powerful tool of the Reductive Mindset
• De-crapify your workflow by reducing emails and meetings
• Reallocate expensive talent time to high-value work
• Learn models and techniques that keep quality work out in front

FEED THE FIRE | How taking a minute to think changes the nature of work

Do you wish you could stop the mayhem of work and life for a brief moment and just take a minute? Do you sense that you could contribute more if there was a little more room in the day? Many people feel this way but taking a restorative pause has felt impossible—until now.

Today’s global workforce is so fried that it belongs in the food court of a county fair, and 3:00 a.m. insomnia provides the day’s only unscheduled time to think. What we need in our lives is the missing element of white space—short periods of open, unscheduled time that, when recaptured, change the very nature of work. White space is the stepping back, the strategic pause, and the oxygen that allow the sparks of our efforts to catch fire. It’s yours to reclaim, and this session based on Juliet Funt’s popular book A Minute to Think will show you how.

Outcomes:

• Reduce burnout and exhaustion
• Increase time for creative, innovative, and meaningful work
• Unify hybrid teams with mental models and shared language
• Maximize talent capacity to do the right work

THE VIRTUAL SALES STAR | How to consistently nail your online presentations

For those who sell, present, or represent a brand in any way, the future will now forever be a blend of in-person and virtual relationship building and selling. We must learn to both charm in the room and charm on camera—and the latter is tough. When forced to present important material through the tiny lens of a webcam, many executives, sales teams, and other professionals still are making cringe-worthy mistakes, even almost three years into using the medium.

It’s time to create a uniform standard of excellence—not just good-enough-ness—whether the goal is landing a client, building a relationship, or closing a sale. A content-rich first half of this session will segue into live coaching for three participants, allowing interactive learning to occur as the rest of the audience observes. Elevate your skills and you’ll elevate your results.

Outcomes:

• Upgrade critical virtual presence and pitches
• Stop embarrassing mistakes online that reduce your brand’s status
• Reap the revenue rewards of increased online confidence
• Improve production, tech support, and visuals