Sarah McVanel

If you had the easiest, fastest, simplest, and no-cost strategy to engage, unite, and retain everyone in your organization, would you want to know about it? Many passionate, brilliant, hard-working people want to do their best yet feel unappreciated and overworked. Similarly, there are well-intentioned leaders who wish to show appreciation to their people, but they're busy and unsure if their efforts will make a difference. Add to that a stale and misaligned corporate recognition program, and what you have is the perfect recipe for disengagement and turnover! How do we bridge the gap between what employees need and what organizations are prepared to do? Recognition is the answer. And it's easy! All you need to know are the 3 universal strategies that work instantaneously. As a result, you're going to raise trust, boost satisfaction, deepen a sense of belonging, and you will go down in history as the best boss and colleague ever! This work is magical. And it creates a ripple effect. It gets leaders, employees, and everyone in between excited again. It gives people hope that they can LOVE work again. This session will introduce you to a proven process for self, team, and organizational recognition called F.R.O.G. Forever Recognize Others' Greatness„¢. You will walk away ready to take action to shift your culture right away. Tap into this universal need that everyone has and isn't getting enough. Join Canada's Recognition Expert, Sarah McVanel, in creating a recognition movement that will be so contagious it will cascade through your event and beyond. Learning outcomes: Develop greater confidence in giving and receiving sincere and authentic acknowledgments Understand where your organization is wasting time and money on recognition programs that do not work (and what to do about it) Be inspired to apply simple recognition habits at home and work Understand the data and evidence substantiating the exponential power of recognition from a neuroscience, behavioral economics, and work psychology lens Explore what retention-rich organizations do that transforms their employees into an army of recruiters

Sick of people fixating on problems, focusing on issues beyond their control, pointing fingers, and casting blame? Do you feel like you're constantly firefighting a revolving door that churns negativity? Isn't it more productive to identify solutions and, in turn, fuel connection, awaken creativity, and elevate appreciation? And what if you weren't the only one doing it? Here's the secret everyone has greatness. They just don't all believe it. People want to do well and have a desire to contribute. What if we see their greatness even when they're not operating at their very best? How might you lead differently? How might you show up with greater curiosity? How might you do less telling and do more asking to co-create possibilities? When you embrace the belief that people are already greatness, it acts as a wedge in that negativity revolving door. You don't lose hope, your best people, and your most innovative ideas. This session will empower you to leverage the 5 most resourceful questions (that you're not currently asking) to access the solution to any problem. Learning outcomes: Practice the 5 most effective, solution-focused coaching questions that address negativity, gossip, and a problem-fixated mindset Understand how to foster an environment that's rich with curiosity and continuous improvement Increase your team's hopefulness, resiliency, and well-being through easy to implement tactics Notice the signs that you're firefighting, micro-managing, and behaving unresourcefully Create collaborative and innovative solutions even when no easy answers seem to exist