Interactive Seminars and workshops, a partial selection:
• 'Works of Art: Creating Successful Sustainable Workplaces'
• 'The Fine Art of Workplace Relationships............ orJudging Books by Content not Cover '
• 'The Art of Life Balance'
• 'The Saying No Workshop For Compulsive Saying Yessers'
• 'Personal Foundation: Becoming the best you can be'
• Creating The Intrapreneurial Company.
• How Best To Support Anyone Laid Off Or Made Redundant.
• Changing Your Job, Your Career, Your Life.

Martin will also prepare and deliver presentations and workshops tailored to your organisation's specific needs. His speciality is seminars combining professional and personal development with painting in watercolours to access the creative right brain. No painting experience needed !

Works of Art: Creating Successful Sustainable Workplaces
Would you like your organisation to be not just a survivor but a leader ? ...........to be universally recognized for its success in every area of its operation with super-satisfied staff, customers and suppliers, to be highly profitable and considered the quintessential corporate citizen? If you would like to be part of building a new way of doing business - based on growing people rather than consuming them like a fossil fuel, this is the workshop for you.
You will access your right brain through wielding a paintbrush yourself and with your small group create your own work of art to inspire you in your journey. (Full-day)

Judging Books by Content not Cover............
or The Fine Art of Workplace Relationships

You will I am sure be surprised to learn that in some organisations interpersonal relationships there is room for improvement! In this interactive workshop we talk about relationships of choice and those at work, the impact of personality and the ways in which the people of the workplace are going to be different in future. How we respond is going to make all the difference between loving going to work and hating it!
You will access your right brain through wielding a paintbrush yourself and create your own work of art to inspire you in your journey. (Full-day).

The Art of Life Balance.
What are the components of Life Balance and what has that to do with painting in water colours? In this experiential workshop Martin addresses these and pays particular attention to relationships in the workplace and beyond.
You will access your right brain through wielding a paintbrush yourself and create your own work of art to inspire you in your journey. .
(Half-day)

All Aboard the Coaching Train - or How to Get on Track and Stay there! For everyone who ever wondered what coaching is all about, this is the presentation for you! A high-energy, interactive program in which participants look at some of their own challenges and experience a coaching "show-and-tell." (Based on Martin's article, "What is Coaching Anyway?")

The Saying No Workshop For Compulsive 'Saying Yessers.'
Are you the person who can never say 'No?' This is the class for you ! We look at factors to consider before making the decision you want in your heart, the one which your head supports and what you have to do to make that decision stick.

Personal Foundation and YOUR success.
If we really want to take charge of our lives, what are the steps ? The people we see who are always at ease, never flustered or at a loss - what is it that they have ? What have they done to get there ? Personal Foundation is the answer. An introductory short session is available and also a series of 12 interactive presentations.

Creating The Intrapreneurial Company.
The intrapreneurial company is one in which everyone from the janitor to the CEO is sensitive to new opportunities for business and knows what to do when they are recognized. How much faster would your business grow if everyone was equally keen and able to do this? It's not just about staff training. First you must create a culture in which your people want to stay, otherwise you'll simply be a training ground for great people to be stolen by the competition. This workshop looks at both aspects of this challenge and invites you to create your own, intrapreneurial company.

How Best To Support Anyone Laid Off Or Made Redundant.
As we hear of more corporations merging, more businesses reorganizing, so also more of our colleagues and neighbours find themselves unexpectedly pursuing new futures. Some of us don't know what to say when our friends lose their jobs, we don't know how to provide support and so we simply avoid them. You can learn the necessary skills! This presentation will show you how and also help you to empower other would-be supporters. Now is the time to act - your friend may be on the threshhold of the most exciting, the most satisfying time of his/her life. and your role may be crucial!

Changing Your Job, Your Career, Your Life.
This is usually a series of 4 presentations of an hour each. Each component can be the subject of a shorter presentation, but the 4 cannot be condensed into one, short, after dinner delivery. Subjects addressed are i) the components of a powerful resume, capturing and quantifying all our previous achievements, ii) Tools available to those wanting to make a career change or just entering the job market iii) Networking: what it is and what it's not (e.g. a competition to see who can collect the most business cards), obstacles to networking, getting the appointment, the promise to make, and questions to ask, iv) Skills for the job interview, researching the company and its people, anticipating and preparing for the toughest questions we can imagine, what to wear and your strategy for the whole interview day.

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Clients Have Said:

Works of Art - Creating Sustainable Workplaces.
Before attending the workshop "The Sustainable Workplace" I hadn't put paintbrush to paper since my earlier school days (long, long ago), I even considered finding a good excuse to bow out of the last part of the workshop to avoid painting. However, I stayed and found the experience to be highly rewarding. Taking the concepts presented during the day and presenting them as a painting not only helped remind me of what I had learnt that day but also was a lot of fun.

In my Company "The Sustainable Workplace"workshop has provided me with many tools to enhance the workplace. My employees are my biggest asset and these tools have not only helped increase my awareness of their needs but also helping them to be aware of the needs of those around them. It isn't about money, it's about belonging, contributing and acknowledgement, that everyone plays a part in the success of a business. Ian Basford President/CEO, LinFar Technology Inc.

Martin's workshop " Works of Art: Creating the Sustainable Workplace" was simply outstanding for me in terms of the strategies to use both in my
personal and work life. I found that the workshop gave me the opportunity
to see the ways I can make a difference to those I work with, to make our environment a positive place to be. It helped me to change my way of thinking to realize that no matter where you are on the corporate ladder you can make life a little more colourful for everyone everyday. Cara Jones, PDD Alberta Provincial Board.

I loved the the "Sustainable Workplace" workshop! I felt liberated in being given permission to exercise my brain's right-side! I thoroughly enjoyed painting with watercolours, and found that the process helped me to think both wider and deeper about what steps I could being to take within my organization to propel us further towards our goals. I found the workshop enlightening and at the end of the day I actually felt energized and invigorated, as opposed to many workshops I been in where I left feeling drained and tired. I've hung my "work of art" in my office as a reminder of renewed sense of purpose and am looking forward to having Martin share his talents with my colleauges in the near future. Sherry Moir, Western Economic Diversification Canada

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