Speaker's Bureau

"Family & Children's Services has helped me understand some of the more difficult people I work with."
- A participant in dealing with difficult people seminar

Family & Children's Services offers a Speaker's Bureau, with skilled speakers from our professional staff. Our speakers facilitate workshops, give lectures for corporations and community organizations, and assist with misfortunes and crises that may occur. Services can be individually tailored to employer's needs and include seminars, workshops, employee training and management consultation. Call the F&CS Education Department, 918.560.1112, to schedule a speaker. We offer educational workshops on the following topics:

Building Employee Skills
Goal Setting for Success at Work -- Participants will learn to identify personal values, develop a personal mission statement, and creating reasonable short-term and long-term.

Team Building -- Designed for use by a work team, participants will have the opportunity to become committed to a shared vision and to appreciate and respect other members and their roles.

Creative Problem Solving -- Participants will have opportunities to find new ways to understand problems and acquire skills in dealing with novel situations.

Communication Skills -- This workshop provides participants with opportunities to develop efficacious communication skills that can help individuals and groups move forward.

Controlling the Chaos of Clutter -- Participants will learn tools for getting organized and managing paper flow, as well as for creating a personalized filing system.

Assertiveness Training -- This workshop is designed to help identify personal rights and to learn verbal and nonverbal behaviors for appropriate and effective expression.

Time Management -- Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to effectively use a personal filing system, prioritize tasks, and break the procrastination habit

Preventing Procrastination -- Participants will learn to identify their motivations behind procrastination and will be presented with techniques to avoiding this nonproductive behavior.

Balancing Work and Family
Stress Management -- This workshop helps participants identify stress, stressors, and their effects on work life.

Managing Emotions at Work -- Participants will identify situations at work that cause emotional reactions as well as learn strategies for responding to them.

Conflict Resolution -- This program focuses on understanding conflict-resolution styles, viewing others objectively, and acquiring skills in cooperative forms of negotiation.

The Human Touch in Technology -- This workshop addresses the interaction between humans and technology with a "high tech/high touch" philosophy.

Dealing with Troubled Personnel -- This workshop will direct participants through scenarios with difficult people using discussion and guided imagery.

Crisis Management -- This workshop provides immediate consultation and education to help employees deal with job-related crisis situations and the emotions that accompany these events.

Substance Abuse and the Workplace -- Participants in this workshop will learn the criteria of substance abuse, become acquainted with effects of specific drugs and alcohol, as well as the outcome of substance abuse on the work group.

Sensitivity Training
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace -- This workshop defines the range of behaviors of sexual harassment and provides sensitivity training to combat it.

Men and Women Working Together -- The workshop is designed to evaluate gender-role stereotypes, examine gender-defined roles within the workplace, expand gender-cooperative skills, and focus on productive partnerships between men and women.

Appreciating Diversity -- This workshop focuses on the importance of cultural uniqueness and values of different groups. Participants will learn and practice using a human relations model to analyze and enhance intercultural relationships.