Jenny Barkan | SpeakerHub

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Bio

My educationa background is in Law and Psychology, but my passion always was to help people to live better lives. A few years ago, I decided to transform my passion into a business and received formal training as a Life and Business Coach at Erickson Coaching International Institute, Vancouver, Canada. I also became a member of the International Coaching Federation, a global organization that retains very high professional and ethical standards.

I mainly specialize in Leadership Skills Development for Emerging and Experienced Leaders and Employee Experience Creation and Employee Retention Strategies.

I believe that leaders play a crucial role in creating a healthy, engaging, motivating, and accommodating environment, no matter if they lead two or two thousand people.

We spend long hours at work and how we are being treated and how we feel about ourselves at work has a tremendous impact on all areas of our lives.

Thankfully, effective and emotionally intelligent leadership is a learned skill, and I can help you develop or sharpen one.

Current position (1)

Business Coach and Facilitator

Jenny Barkan, Business Coach

Degrees (1)

Coaching

Erickson Coaching International

2014

Presentations

Presentations (8)

Embracing Change: How to Create Sustainable Transformation

Change is hard for many people. And in the last three years, we experienced so much change that it would be enough for a few lives. Why are some people thriving, and some – are just barely surviving? What aspects of change make it so hard, and can we get it under control?
In this interactive session, participants will have a chance to look inward and learn what causes their resistance to change, how to deal with anxiety and fear, and what mindset shifts they need to adopt to reach their goals. We will also learn how embracing gradual evolution rather than expecting drastic revolution allows for more sustainable and lasting transformation.
We don't need to start loving change to accomplish great things. What matters most is recognizing that change is an opportunity for growth and development. And organizations and leaders now have a unique chance to support their employees on the journey from surviving to thriving.

Employees' Retention Strategies

1. First step: How to Attract the Right Person for the Right Job. What to look for during a resume screening and an interview process. The participants will learn a different perspective on behavior during the hiring process, recognize the set of skills that is really needed and if the candidate has these skills or able to develop them. 2. Second step: How to Keep Employees Engaged? What keeps Employees motivated? Participants will learn about types of motivations, pros and cons for each type, how to create and keep an engaging and motivating environment at the work place. 3. Third step: Letting Go. Letting a wrong person go sometimes might be the best retention strategy. Participants will learn how to recognize the wrong person, analyze the damaging effect, make the firing process as less stressful as possible for all the parties involved.

Effective Communication in the Workplace

Attendees will learn about how do we listen and what we really take from the conversations. Assumptions vs. reality. Importance of listening skills, tools and tips on how to develop and apply listening skills.
How to be heard and get your point through without "screaming".
What vs how. What we are saying and how we do it - are two sides of the same coin.
How to have difficult conversations at work and the positive impacts of conflicts; ways to deescalate the situations and work through the conflict.

Psychological Safety is a First Step to Collaborative Workplace and Thriving People.

Collaborative teams are the foundation for thriving businesses, low turnover and happy customers.
Great collaboration doesn’t mean everybody agrees with each other and all new updates go live without a hitch. Real collaboration appears when everything is wrong, but the team manages to find a perfect solution. And it won’t be possible without having a high level of psychological safety within the company.
Main learning objectives and takeaways:
• What is psychological safety, and is it different for hybrid and remote work models?
• What are the most common myths about psychological safety?
• Who is responsible for creating and maintaining psychological safety: leaders, HR, or frontline employees?
• How does psychological safety affect collaboration and companies’ bottom line (for better or for worse)?
• Where to start and how to get to the finish line on the psychological safety creation journey?

Smooth Sailing Through Stormy Seas: Mastering Conflict Navigation

Addressing problems and navigating conflict are vital to creating an organization where people can thrive. Yet, despite all the benefits, teams, leaders, and organizations struggle to address problems and navigate conflict effectively.
By avoiding difficult discussions or using approaches that
create persistent and escalating problems, we negatively
impact motivation, engagement, and teamwork and create an
an environment where neither people nor performance can thrive.
This workshop will focus on the following topics:
1. Consequences of avoiding difficult conversations.
2. Identifying common reasons for conflict aversion and possible solutions to become comfortable with the conflict.
3. Types of difficult conversations and tools to navigate them.
4. Stress as one of the strongest conflict triggers. How to recognize and respond to stress-induced protective behaviours.

Engagement and Performance in hybrid and remote work settings

Learning objectives:
1. Understanding of why performance and engagement in the remote and hybrid work settings requires a different approach from in-person work setting.
2. What leadership skills are essential for keeping high levels of engagement and performance in the remote and hybrid work settings.
3. How to recognize and mitigate effects of cognitive biases in the remote and hybrid work environment.
4. Best practices from organizations that successfully transitioned to remote and hybrid work style.
HRPA Professional Competencies addressed in this presentation:
1. Strategy (Strategic Perspective)
2. Organizational Effectiveness (Employee Engagement)
3. Workforce Planning and Talent Management (Performance Management System)
Research used in the presentation:
1. “The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers” by Longqi Yang, Nature Human Behaviour, 09.09.2021
2. Owl Labs, State of Remote work 2021. 01.09.2021
3. Great Place to Work ® Return to work and Fu

Effective Performance Reviews and Feedback Conversations

Learning objectives:
1. Understanding of positive outcomes of effective performance reviews and feedback and negative implications of the feedback done incorrectly.
2. Coaching for success vs. policing for failure approach to performance reviews and feedback.
3. Understanding why managers procrastinate giving feedback.
4. Learning about tips and tool for making performance reviews and feedback conversations as placid as possible for managers and employees.
5. Performance reviews and feedback conversations in remote and hybrid work environments.

Unlocking the Power of Employee Experience

In this 2-hour interactive workshop participants will learn about: - the role employee experience plays in attracting and engaging employees, as well as financial results - different stages of employment (Interview & Hire, Onboarding, Experienced Employee, Exit) - how to maximize total employee value at every stage - creating actionable steps for designing an impactful employee experience through using physical space, technology and culture, so employees WANT to come and STAY. Learning Objectives: After participating in Unlocking the power of employee experience workshop, HR professionals will: - Understand key elements of building an impactful onboarding program - Gain an awareness of key elements that impact employee performance at various stages of employee journey - Learn about tools that can be used to get employees involved in the process of creating employee experience - Learn about specific strategies for maximizing retention rates at every stage of employee journey - Be able to educate executive team on importance, value and financial impact of intentionally designed employee experience

Past talks (7)

Employees' Retention Strategies

HRPA Algoma Workshop

North 82 - 82 Great Northern Road, SSM, ON, P6B 4Y5

March 8, 2023

Employees' Retention Strategies

HRPA Niagara Workshop

Johnny Rocco's, 271 Merritt St, St. Catharines, ON L2T 1K1

February 16, 2023

Employee Experience Creation

HRPA Hamilton Webinar

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