The Challenge of Change:
Individuals and organizations operate within unspoken and invisible rules—“the box.” Many of today’s beliefs, values, stereotypes, misconceptions and prejudices—the very core of resistance to Change—can be traced back to the last two centuries. These outmoded, unconscious patterns can make Change the enemy: sabotaging problem solving, distracting decision making, undermining intentions, interfering with efforts to achieve improvement in anything and everything.
Go BOX-FREE!!
PJ: "The first—and often-overlooked—step is to identify the key limiting beliefs and repeating patterns that define ‘the box’ for individuals and their organizations. Gain control over these unconscious barriers and Self-Leadership is strengthened: creativity will awaken, decisions will reinforce confidence, innovation will flourish, change will become a manageable challenge…and much more."
"Informative, enlightening, very dynamic—excellent!"
Change Management Through Self-Leadership
Where you lead, you will follow: Seven often-underestimated self-leadership opportunities for accelerated, sustainable improvement—in business and in life.
What is your definition of "success" for your event?
Select the above theme most relevant to your organization’s goals or those of your client
base, or consult PJ to identify a variation or combination that delivers your message.
Choose from PJ’s topics and titles above for one that reflects the purpose of your meeting, or ask PJ to adapt to your title or event theme to ensure everything will be "dead-on" your definition of success for the event.
Raise a cross generation or communication issue that challenges your industry/profession or consumer audience, or let PJ help you uncover the ways in which the last two centuries have left an often invisible stamp on your audiences' skills, knowledge or futures.
FYI: Themes & Topics in bold above are links to detailed outlines below.
PJ’s relevant, provocative approach applies across the work/life continuum and can be tailored to executive, professional, client or employee audiences:
Business trends, workplace issues & careers
Client retention, investor relations, customer service & consumer education
Communication, technology & the impact of the Internet
"PJ is extremely knowledgeable, patient and has a tremendous ability to communicate concepts and ideas."
— A Consumer & Senior Business Executive, Communications Corporation
PJ Wade’s Themes & Topics
As "The Catalyst," PJ Wade starts people thinking, questioning, believing, acting…
Forward Thinking to Anticipate Future Trends
Topic — Forward Thinking: If I Knew NOW What I’ll Know THEN
Or, how to avoid whining in hindsight wherever you start and whatever happens. It sounds easy: "let go of the past," "live in the moment," "embrace the future." But if it's that easy, why are so many norms and dictates from the early 1900s still leaving their mark? PJ Wade is "The Catalyst" to trigger a conscious shift in thinking that can refresh your perspective on life, work and everything in between. PJ reveals simple, practical strategies for shedding society’s baggage and the bad habits that have been invisibly carried forward from the last two centuries.
Let PJ demonstrate how to uncover possibilities in the twenty-first century once free of constraints set by past generations. Don't get left behind—explore the first-time-in-history opportunities unfolding in the twenty-first century. Become aware of how various aspects of life influence you—your thinking, your sense of self-worth, your productivity, your decision making—and you'll begin to understand how you can set the stage for fresh thoughts and clear analysis whenever necessary. Join PJ to challenge The Best to become even better. More on Forward Thinking
Other Variations on PJ’s Forward Thinking Theme:
Topic — Unretirement: Retirement has no place in the twenty-first century. Do you?
Ask most people if they want to live the same retirement as their parents and grandparents and you'll get a firm 'NO.' However, many people are living out the same stereotypes and myths that limited the lives and futures of past generations, so their own futures may not be as different as they'd like them to be. Now, retirement has improved to become decades of active living…a new third lifetime, the new 'UNretirement'…and everything from customer service, retail, housing, profit and recreation to work, education and healthcare must improve, too. Explore your role in this wave of improvement and your opportunities as the "UN" revolution gains momentum.
Topic — Have Your Home & Money Too: The powerful formula for fulfilment, success & control, whatever the future holds.
A fresh outlook on "home" is long overdue, for professionals and consumers, employers and employees, parents and adult children alike. It’s long past time for each of us to rethink and redefine work, finances and real estate. Home means more, and can contribute more, to your future than ever before. Drop the caretaker mentality and think of your loveable asset, your home, as a partner in your financial future and as headquarters for your unfolding future. How does that shift in thinking affect almost every aspect of life and business? Where do your new opportunities lie?
Topic — Where you lead, you will follow: Seven often-underestimated self-leadership opportunities for accelerated, sustainable improvement—in business and in life. Opportunities for improvement are everywhere, but they are often eclipsed by stereotypes, negated by past experience and sabotaged by out-of-date thinking. Why is mediocrity the new workplace and personal standard? How do you consciously break through barriers that limit thinking and entrench resistence to change? Learn why PJ Wade says "The first and often overlooked step toward success is to identify ‘the box,’ so thinking inside, outside and ‘box-free’ becomes a powerful new set of skills."
Topic — Client-Centric Thinking: Leverage what clients and prospects really think of your company, industry or profession to ensure they’ll choose you in spite of it or because of it! Thinking like a client is nearly impossible unless you are aware of the spin your training, experiences and education place on creative thinking, trust building and active listening. Presenting the clients’ point of view, PJ Wade will apply her professional research skills to produce an insightful and provocative deconstruction of "the box" that represents your company, industry or profession. Let your clients reveal “the good, the bad, the ugly”—and the overlooked opportunities ahead.
Titles include:
A Lot Has Happened, But Has Much Really Improved?
Breaking Patterns: The Key to…[Insert Your Goal Here]
Topic — Cross Generation Collaboration: "You Can Talk To Anyone if you can talk to your ! " Technology allows us to reach almost anyone, anytime and anywhere on the planet, within seconds, but have our communication skills progressed as far as the leap from quill pen to ipod would have us believe? Isn’t the problem with communication still the illusion that it has been achieved? Add to this continuing dilemma, the challenge of cross generation conversations, where stereotypes of "too young" and "too old" undermine understanding, and no wonder mis-communication is the norm in business, in the workplace, in families and anywhere generations collide.
Chronological age has lost relevance, but conscious and unconscious prejudice against age or ageism continues. Banish "act your age" and "that certain age" posturing and cultivate age-free thinking which focuses on abilities, contributions and individuality. Age is no longer a crucial indicator of what an individual can or cannot contribute or achieve. With teens launching successful dot-com corporations and those at the other end of the age spectrum climbing mountains, it’s long past time to let go of self-inflicted and externally-applied ageism and go AGE FREE into the twenty-first century.
A Variation on PJ’s Cross Generation Collaboration Theme:
Topic — MIND-LIFT: A No-Pain, Big-Gain Face-lift for The Brain That Sheds Years and Rejuvenates The Spirit So You Can Move Forward from Here So much has changed since computers took over the workplace, but our views on age and aging haven’t kept pace with the technology that is transforming our lives and redefining our futures. The first step toward an "AGE-FREE" workplace and cross-generation harmony is to identify the unspoken and invisible beliefs, stereotypes and values (many dating back to the early 1900s) that define your individual internal "age bias." Prejudice against age, or ageism whether directed at yourself or at others, is the most destructive force in today’s workplace—sabotaging workers across the age spectrum. How are your thoughts holding you back from embracing the twenty-first century?
The Age Wave PLUS: Boomers as Clients, Employees, Investors—We’re* everywhere!
Topic — Do Less, Know More & Achieve More: Why the difference between what Boomers think they want and what they should want represents seven significant business opportunities that Boomers may not now about but you should. Boomers, known collectively as "The Age Wave," cannot be considered in isolation—from their work, family or community. Boomers’ lives and careers overlap those of their children and their parents, which transforms this Age Wave into a diverse, demanding, cross generation Age Surge toward an Age-free future. And these are your clients, employees, investors, competitors…
Discover how business and lifestyle trends associated with the first-time-in-history demographic phenomenon—the Age Wave/Age Surge—and the related Maturing Marketplace will impact on your clients, your industry and your life. PJ Wade challenges conventional wisdom, stereotypes and follow-the-leader thinking to identify seven significant gaps between what Boomers think they want and what they will want. Who is prepared to step up and fill these opportunity gaps with relevant products and services?
*It takes one to know one—PJ’s a Boomer, too.
Topic — Sustainable Collaboration: Don’t just stand out in the crowd, create a new crowd! Technology and the resulting knowledge flood have transformed consumers from a mindless mass to demanding, discerning individuals who increasingly phone, email, blog and podcast to share what they’ve learned—and this is only the beginning. How will your business, profession, organization, community or government weather this online "wake up call?" And there’s no snooze button because, in today’s 24-7 work-life e-continuum, what matters at work has ramifications at home, and what affects private life usually represents significant issues for employees and clients a like.
As people-to-people e-collaboration—social networking— gains momentum, the content and context will broaden, replacing traditional marketing campaigns and advertising as powerful indicators and drivers of consumer action and inaction. Consumers and employees—and their passions—are your most challenging partners and most ruthless competition. With sustainability an issue at all levels of society, consumer collaborations and intentions can transform the future from random results into deliberate outcomes—with or without you. Blogs, podcasts, email, cell calls, text messages and the wave of technology that supports everyday collaboration foster new opportunities for being heard above the communication din—if you create a message that gains its own following.
"PJ Wade's enthusiasm, knowledge and open-mindedness impressed and inspired me. Perspectives rolling over perspectives…new ideas and a new thinking pattern…. A wonderful, positive attitude promoter!"
RICH CONTENT: Combine PJ's Keynote or Featured Presentation with a RICH CONTENT Project: Case studies, White paper, Blog/Podcast interviews, Intranet/Website content development, Featured column…for long-lasting impact
