In May 2019, the World Health Organization declared burnout as a global occupational hazard with specific symptoms and warnings. Enter COVID 19 and an upside-down world. Burnout has become even stronger and insidious. Remote workforces, physical distancing, and dependency on virtual communication provide their own potential for burnout.

This presentation affords a way to step back and identify what burnout is, how it is triggered, how to break out of dysfunctional patterns (both personal and within the organization), and how to breakthrough to cultivate resilience through four critical connection/energy points. You’ll discover why “balance” is baloney and a better metaphor for moving through disruptive times. You’ll experience why Eileen has also been called a HOPE merchant, filling minds with positivity, laugh-ability and DO-ability.

Surprises are the new normal. Change is the new constant. Stress and burnout have reached epidemic proportions.Yet, not all is lost. Using the book Your Resiliency GPS: A Guide for Growing through Life and Work author and professional speaker Eileen McDargh will guide your audience on a different path.This workshop is for everyone from the leaders of Fortune 100 companies to small business owners to the unemployed.  Workshop pricing includes a copy of Your Resiliency GPS for each participant.
 Based upon the length of the presentation, participants will:​

• Cultivate PREresilience skills in order to be pro-active about change.
• Learn to see opportunities where others see only barriers.
• Learn a four-part model for methodically tackling the tough issues you currently face.
• Learn how to use Growth Potential Strategies (GPS) to get you to where you want to go.
• Discover recalculating questions.

Eileen McDargh does not believe in bouncing back. She will teach your audience how to “growth through” adversity and change.

Radically turbulent times demand professional and personal responses that transcend our regular work and life patterns. It’s not about happy faces on mirrors and mantras on coffee mugs. It’s not about hanging on while holding back. It’s about times when you feel someone ate your cheese, drained the swamp, and went from great to less-than-good. How can professionals cope with change while staying focused on their jobs and organization goals?  The answer is resiliency – the ability to find the inner strength to grow through a set-back, challenge or opportunity.

Radical resilience requires the courage to challenge, commit, and contribute in ways that positively impact both today as well as many tomorrows. Based upon the length of the presentation, participants will:​

• Discover how to grow the skills of adaptability, agility, laugh-ability, and alignment for producing results that put YOU in control of your ship.
• Learn a four-part model for methodically tackling the tough issues you currently face.
• Explore what great leaders do to inspire teams to stay in the game and thrive. (And it has NOTHING to do with money!) Get them energized, actualized, authorized, and gratified.
• Develop a personal legacy leadership goal that defies downturns and disappointments.

At the end of the day, you too yearn for a way to let your spirit soar and your gifts shine. The competitive global 24/7 world of heart-stopping competition puts personal energy at risk. We too yearn to connect with new possibilities for people, productivity, profitability and purpose.

This keynote is based on the premise that transforming our work requires nothing less than transforming ourselves and together we take a look at four inner skills essential for coaching ourselves along this journey. Our own “work in progress” becomes the touchstone for connecting at a deeper level with our work mates and our soul mates. As we ease on down this road, we find our wisdom, ah-ha moments and greatest learnings through the context of our lives. This wisdom becomes deeper if it is forged in a furnace fueled with mind, heart and spirit.

You’ll never think of energy in the same way again. Forget OPEC and prices at the pump. Discover your own reservoir of power and purpose with five tools to drill down into your own internal well of possibilities. Human energy is a priceless commodity. Learn a new formula for E=MC 2 . When it comes to energy and the capacity to do work, discover how to get it, renew it and stop giving it away.

The “soft stuff” of business is always the hardest part of business.

It’s time to START talking and get back to work! Create a competitive edge in engaging and retaining talented employees and customers on the most human of playing fields: conversation. Without that connection, there is no energy of engagement.

This is a hands-on, facilitated program that is crafted around the meeting outcome, interviews with participants, communication self-assessments, and tea, deliverables.  As such, it is best suited for management offsites.

Gather women together and you have an energy source to light even the darkest corners of the world. Eileen puts a match to that energy. A presentation for reliving and laughing about our foibles, for celebrating our uniqueness, for renewing our passion and commitment to life, and for establishing the common traits which allow all of us to bloom where we are planted. We can learn to be heroines of our own story and leaders shaping tomorrow for all our children. This is your time to refresh, realign, reawaken, reflect, refuel, regenerate, rejoice, release, remember and renew.

1. Celebrate all you are (outlaw negative thinking and projection paralysis; banish living to someone else’s expectations.)
2. Be fully alive (laughter and tears flow from the same well.)
3. Act on the dream (small gifts-great rewards.)
4. Love without ceasing (the grace of gratitude.)
5. In-joy the ride (power of laughter.)

A good career fit is not like squeezing into Spanx. Nope! It means thinking, listening,and sensing where, when and how to craft actions that bring you from good work to great work! The result: you feel GREAT and you stop the busywork and start the work that matters. It begins from the inside out.In this session, you will:

Discover the difference between UGH work, Good Work and GREAT work.

Explore through exercises how to identify what is uniquely YOUR authentic work.

Learn how to ask for what you want and three possible steps to leverage you into your GREAT/Authentic work.

Understand the difference between a mentor and a sponsor.

Explore the six qualities of charisma and how to develop these qualities so that you attract people to you and your authentic work.

Life would be easy if it weren’t for other people! Would you like to turn from mad to glad with your colleagues and customers?Eileen can show you how.

This session focuses on improving relationships at work through successfully dealing with people. Using humor and examples, Eileen will guide participants through the process of learning how to defuse anger in themselves and others. They will discover how to identify and understand problem behavior and how to use systematic methods for handling such behaviors.

Participants will also:

• Understand techniques for “scripting” and creating rapport
• Identify the behavior of difficult people and personal responses to such behaviors
• Focus on effective responses to the hostile-aggressive trio
• Discover the 4-step model for handling anger on and off the phone
• Learn the difference between difficult people and people within a difficult situation
• Identify self-management tools for developing rapport and maintaining inner calm and integrity under pressure

Please note: This session can also be interactive; including role-play, phone practice, etc.

Fear paralyzes us. Clear thinking moves us. This session is designed to open a conversation about what we can do as individuals and professionals to move from pandemic panic to realistic response. During this 45-minute session, I will guide you through the accurate definition of resilience and begin to explore actions to take in cultivating four critical resilience skills: adaptability, agility, laugh-ability and alignment. And it all begins with YOU-what conversations you are having with yourself and what emotions rise as a result? In times like these, we also have the opportunity to be inspired, innovative, imaginative.

Format: ​45-60 minute presentation

Alone again-and not so naturally.  With employees scattered in various locations-even within the same city-a leader’s job becomes a blend of psychologist and coach, teacher and student.  Within the reality of both optimism and pessimism which we all deal with, this program helps managers focus on attributes: clarity, collaboration, creativity, comedy and compassion. Note: this program -depending upon the number of participants-can also offer a forum for leaders to discuss critical issues and share best practices. 

Format: ​45-60 minute presentation

Make no mistake-everyone works-whether for free or fee!
How can you work smart and live happier? Is it even possible to have work/life balance in this fast-paced, frantic world? From senior executives to front line employees, this issue is key to the changing nature of America’s workforce and today’s world.

We hear about the need to balance personal and work priorities, but how do you go from burned out to fired up? How can we juggle the many responsibilities and demands on our busy lives?

In this insightful and interactive program you will:

1. Understand why traditional models of balance no longer work in these times of change.
2. Discover how to conduct your own “CAT” scan of life.
3. Acquire the skills to “sail” within the five critical areas of living.
4. Create your own action plan for juggling the demands of your fast-paced life.
5. Develop personal strategies for creating “a life by design, not be default”.
6. Learn at least three methods for effective self-management and self-improvement that you can put to work immediately.

This program can include a copy of Burnout to Breakthrough:  Building Resilience to Refuel, Recharge and Reclaim What Matters.

Eileen McDargh does not believe in bouncing back. She will teach your audience how to “growth through” adversity and change.