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Karen Eddington is a 20 year resilience researcher, keynote speaker, and author, who teaches you connection skills based on her research in The Under Pressure Project. Featured on ESPN for helping student athletes develop leadership skills, founder of a non-profit Outreach program in Utah, and street chalk artist, Karen teaches the importance of community at conferences across the country.
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Disconnection is keeping people away. Learn interaction building solutions based on Karen’s research in The Under Pressure Project. Have an opportunity to cheer each other on as we learn to live and do business in a time of isolation. The effort to connect is worth it.
An alternate title for this program is “Healing Isolation: Celebrate Connection in a Leave Me Alone Era”
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Got disengagement? Elevate people by learning skills to see and support people. Go beyond saying thank you to boost productivity and strengthen the psychological safety needed for high performance and hospitality. Get practical tools to bring out the best in your people.
-Recall the difference between first order and second order motivation in order to tap into sincere and the most powerful forms of appreciation.
-Explore appreciation examples that you can use to immediately start seeing and better supporting your people.
Lessons Learned from the Under Pressure Project
Fuel up! Rally around community as we talk about what it means to be strong under pressure. Find out what patterns researcher, Karen Eddington noted while interviewing people across the country about stress. Explore how we can uphold excellence while making people feel seen, genuinely cared for, and resilient.
Explore Stress Surfing and be able to recall a series of “life waves.” For example an IMPACT WAVE, explain why morale can go up after something like a natural disaster and what to do when it dips.
Get the S.O.S. Method to stress helping you understand when you are being pushed too far and when you are not being enough.
Learn how to rest and repair when you are tired.
Discover how laughter, community, and creativity can be part of your tool kit to navigate stress.
An alternate title for this program is “Stress Surfing: Get Skills to Ride the Wave.”
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