Workshops for Employees
Workshops are available to all EAN client companies. Please contact your account manager, Dawn Klug or Louise Cate for more information or to schedule a training date.
Dawn and Louise can be reached at 800-454-1477 or by email at dawn@eannc.com or louise@eannc.com
For Employees: These workshops are designed to help employees with managing the problems that come up in their daily work and personal lives and help them to be happy, healthy and productive.
Caring for Elderly Parents: Multiple Needs, Difficult Decisions – Life at home can certainly impact workplace performance. Many employees belong to the “sandwich” generation and try to juggle caring both for their children and for their parents. This workshop focuses on some of the difficulties they face and provides a list of community resources that may be supportive to them.
Compassion Fatigue For people who work in the helping professions, burn out and compassion fatigue are pitfalls to understand and self care is the key to prevention. This workshop provides information on recognizing compassion fatigue and education on self care strategies to help yourself and co-workers who may be dealing with compassion fatigue.
Conquering Emotional Eating – Emotional eating contributes not only to weight gain, but also impacts our general health and well being. This workshop provides participants with information on the factors that contribute to emotional eating and provides practical ways to help manage emotions and prevent emotional eating. This workshop fits in well with lunch and learn seminars and wellness programs.
Coping with the Winter Blues – Winter can be a dark and cold time of year, and for some of us our mood can reflect the weather outside. This workshop reviews the challenges that winter brings and offers ways to cope more effectively and prevent “the blahs.”
Defusing Anger: Turning Mountains into Mole Hills – Many high conflict or even potentially violent situations in the workplace can be avoided by understanding how anger works and when to intervene. Understanding one’s own anger triggers and learning to listen responsively rather than reacting are stressed in this workshop. This workshop can be particularly helpful for “frontline” employees.
Facing the Challenge of Change – Change is occurring more rapidly than at any other time in history. This workshop focuses on normal reactions to change, provides critical steps in dealing successfully with change, and emphasizes a healthy mind-set that facilitates professional resiliency in employees.
Gossip in the Workplace – Gossip is one of the most difficult and stressful issues in many work settings. This hour long training looks at why employees gossip, what constitutes gossip and how to deal with gossip in any work setting.
Grief and Loss – Loss is a part of life, and this workshop provides information on the grief process, how to help others who are grieving and how to take care yourself. This workshop fits in well with lunch and learn seminars and wellness programs.
Harassment Prevention – In today’s world, having a respectful workplace is more important than ever. Not only does preventing harassment effect morale and productivity but it also protects employers, supervisors and employees from legal problems. This workshop educates participants about the dangers of harassment and hostile work environments and gives everyone the information they need to keep harassment out of the workplace.
Holiday Stress The holiday season can be a time of great joy and a time of great stress. This workshop helps participants understand the reasons why they may experience more stress during the holidays and identify ways to take care of themselves. This training can be most useful when provided in early November before the busy holiday season gets started!
Humor Your Stress – This workshop provides information about the causes and effects of stress and ways to use humor to help elevate the effects of stress in everyday life. With help from a video of Loretta LaRoche, a nationally recognized speaker on stress management, participants will learn eight steps to help lighten your load with laughter and joy.
Lighten Up! Stress Reduction for a Tense World – This workshop can be adapted for either individuals or organizations. It is largely experiential in teaching relaxation techniques and in providing opportunities for employees to evaluate ways to reduce stress in their personal and work lives.
Making Work Fun – This workshop is based upon the vision of the Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle, Washington and it will introduce participants to ideas that can easily be implemented in any workplace and make work fun. The philosophy of the Pike Place Fish Market goes beyond simply having fun to how to make your customer service truly world class and creating a work environment where people, employees and customers alike, want to be there.
Managing Your Time So It Doesn’t Manage You – There never seems to be enough time however, handling daily stress and time pressure can be easier with skills taught in this workshop. Participants will learn some simple and practical ways to prioritize and create a balanced personal lifestyle that can improve work performance.
Mental Shielding: What To Do When Anger and Criticism Hurt – This workshop teams well with “Defusing Anger” to teach participants how to recognize their own sensitivity to the anger of others and how to avoid escalating the emotional intensity by learning steps to self care and positive self-talk. There is also an experiential exercise for participants to practice shielding themselves.
Problem Solving – Problem solving is made simple for participants through learning techniques to help conquer difficulties. Participants learn to identify when problem solving is needed and how to develop a plan of action for applying problem solving as a group or individual.
Psychology of Retirement – Retirement is a major life transition and this one hour long workshop will help upcoming retirees understand what to expect, and how to better handle the emotional side of this change. Workshop participants will learn through a short written exercise how to judge what their psychological needs will be once they retire, so they can plan ahead to make the transition as comfortable as possible. Successful retirements are more likely when one thinks ahead of needs, expectations, and make plans for getting those needs met early on.
Sexual Harassment Prevention – In the workplace, sexual harassment is everyone’s concern. Many employees are unclear about what actions may be considered as harassment. This workshop gives clear examples and definitions and reinforces an employer’s policy and procedure for providing a harassment free work place.
Surviving a Divorce – With the frequency of divorce and the re-blending of new families, the workplace is often host to the multiple complexities of juggling family stressors and difficulties. This workshop provides some understanding of the emotional process of divorce and its impact on every aspect of a person’s life. Self-care issues, maintaining boundaries, and leaving personal problems at home are all addressed.
Understanding Substance Abuse – This hour long workshop takes a look at the various drugs of abuse and focuses on the concept of addiction. Participants will gain a greater awareness and understanding of substance abuse as it relates to individuals, families and co-workers. This workshop also explores the question of how to help someone who doesn’t want help.
Violence Prevention in the Workplace - An ounce of prevention is worth far more than a pound of cure when it refers to the threat of violence in the workplace. The employer who has a plan in place for handling highly sensitive situations is far less likely to be the target of any threats or actual violence. This workshop aims to assist employees in recognizing and responding immediately and appropriately to potential violence.