coaching & consulting services inc.

“Edutainment”

The Neutral Zone provides award-winning educational programs on a full range of current and sought-after topics. Whether conference presentations, workplace training workshops or our intensive courses, all our programs balance research-based evidence with highly interactive and practical instruction in a multi-media format including presentation, video, case study and practice. Audiences consistently describe our programs as engaging, entertaining, informative, provocative and effective at building insight, motivation and skills.

Many other trainers and speakers only teach or present without actually doing what they talk about. The Neutral Zone speakers are skilled presenters and practitioners with “in the trenches” experience that challenges common myths about what is supposed to work in difficult conversations, but often doesn’t. This means that our speakers' daily involvement with bullying and bad behaviour informs our lively presentations. Our skills and strategies are proven effective on the ground.

Contact us to discuss our motivational and educational sessions further.

Our speakers present in three formats all of which can be modified to suit other formats and audiences:  presentations for large groups, workshops for small groups and webinars for all.

presentations

Conference organizers are challenged to identify speakers that appeal to a wide range of interests, that challenge and engage audiences and leave people excited and motivated afterwards. For over 15 years, The Neutral Zone’s speakers have provided motivational presentations that inspire large, diverse audiences of 50, 100, 1,000 or more participants, such as conference keynotes and plenaries with new ideas.  Popular topics include:

1. •Lessons from the Economic Collapse:
   The 5 New Rules of Organizational Resiliency
   

2. •Facing Change, Embracing Opportunity:
   The 6 Habits of People who Profit from Change
   

3. •Grace under Pressure: Managing Stress through Strategy
   

4. •Turning Conflict into Opportunity: Resolving Disputes for Good
   

5. •Generations at Work:  Understanding the Differences of the Ages
   

6. •If Women are form Venus and Men are from Mars, What do We do here on Earth: Gender Differences at Work
   

7. •The New Playbook for a Global Economy: Difference and Intercultural Communication:
   

8. •How to Score when the Goalposts Keep Moving: Updates on Professionalism
   

For complete session descriptions... [more]

workshops

The Neutral Zone specializes in debunking common myths, still perpetuated by other trainers, in finessing difficult conversations, communicating cross-culturally, resolving conflict effectively and creating and maintaining respectful and professional work environments.  We specialize in training the “hard-to-reach” learners with poor insight as well as taking excellent communicators to the next level.

Workshops may be ordered individually or in series:

1. •Best Workplaces Series:
   Held for intact teams or groups of personnel at the worksite, these three to seven hour programs provide staff and management with both training an opportunities to hear from each other.  Popular topics include:
   

2. -Maintaining Respectful Work Relationships: The 7 Keys
   

3. -The 5 Strengths of a Team: Team-building 2.0
   

4. -From Flat to Firm: Asserting Effectively without Aggressing
   

5. -Refusing Bait: Managing Emotional Intensity
   

6. -Communicating across Cultures:
   Diversity in the Global Workplace
   

7. -Conflict 101: Baffling Conflict made Easy
   

8. -Critical Communication Skills for Professional Survival
   

9. -Suffering Fools: Working with the Hard to Work with
   

10. -What to Do when Nothing Else Works:
    Advanced Skills for Dealing with Disruptive Behaviours
    

11. -Drinking from the Firehose:
    Thinking on Your Feet without being Overwhelmed
    

12. •Leadership Excellence Series:
    Held for specifically those in leadership roles including union representatives, supervisors, managers, directors, vice-presidents and senior leadership heads at the worksite or at special venues off site, these three to seven hour programs provide management with advanced skills to ensure leadership success.  Popular topics include:
    

13. -New Leaders’ Toolkit:
    Everything You Need to Succeed in Management
    

14. -Advanced Leadership Skills: Dealing Effectively with Complaints of Discrimination, Harassment, Bullying and Disruptive Conduct
    

15. -The Manager as Mediator: Resolving Staff Issues
    

16. -Leading with Fairness:  How to Investigate with Due Diligence
    

For complete workshop descriptions... [more]