CORPORATE SEMINARS
7 Steps to Loving
What You Do

Nancy O'Hara

 WorkLife Seminars

Perry Klepner &
Nancy O'Hara

 Samu Meditation


Nancy O'Hara

 The Bios

7 Steps to Loving What You Do
How To Work From The Inside Out
Nancy O'Hara
Practicing the 7 Steps
will lead to
optimum levels of performance
increased productivity
greater job satisfaction
a heightened sense of ownership
and personal responsibility on the job.
The 7 Steps Workshops

When people look forward to coming to work they produce more and get along better with others. Meetings run more smoothly, deadlines are met more often and communication is facilitated. There is only so much the company can do. At some point it is up to the individuals that make up the company to change. The 7 Steps Workshops will give employees the tools they need to self-motivate and produce results both for themselves and for the company.

While everyone hopes for a rewarding and fulfilling career, often the jobs we have feel more like, well, work. Office politics, redundant routines, long hours and competing demands lead to frustration, worry and disappointment. The quest to find pride in one’s work and personal satisfaction can be daunting.

It doesn’t have to be this way. With the 7 Steps, Nancy O’Hara will guide people into finding meaning in their work by looking within. Grounded in principles of Zen Buddhism, these workshops will give participants a simple plan to reclaim their job, and their life—and ultimately find the ability to truly love what they do, as they contribute to the success of the company.

Nancy will teach employees how to increase job satisfaction and how to minimize the inevitable stresses of difficult personalities at work and difficult (but inevitable) changes. She will show them the way to greater clarity and peace of mind.

They will learn how to:

Bring themselves into the present moment no matter the circumstances
(this will raise awareness and foster acceptance)

Engage in their work life, fully and completely
(this will bring clarity)

Practice mindfulness on the job
(this will increase satisfaction and productivity)

Make changes when necessary and accept the inevitability of change
(this will bring peace of mind and help optimize the work situation)

Sit still and just breathe
(this is the key to it all)
THE 7 STEPS to Loving What You Do:

Step 1: Understanding and Acceptance
Finding satisfaction in the daily routine. Learning the truth of impermanence -- things change.
Step 2: Seeing Clearly and Letting Go
Our attachments and the desire for things to be different than they are cause us to be dissatisfied.
Step 3: Realizing, This Is It! (or Becoming willing to change)
When we stay out of the past and the future and bring ourselves into each present moment, it is possible to be happy and productive.
Step 4: Balance (or Realizing personal satisfaction)
What we do and say, and how we do it and say it, determines how harmoniously balanced our life will be and how smoothly our workday will go.
Step 5: Disciplined Attention (or Practicing mindfulness)
By making an effort and practicing mindfulness and concentration, we can achieve deep satisfaction in all that we do.
Step 6: As Things Are (or Expressing one’s self)
By opening our heart and expressing compassion for all things, we have an opportunity to gain deep insight into the way of all things and acceptance of the way things are; which helps us to take responsibility for our own work.
Step 7: You’re Already There
Just be. Expect nothing. Just sit. Be Grateful. This will lead to: imperturbability, equanimity, and compassion.

Some questions that will be answered during the workshop:

1. What exactly is mindfulness and how can it help at work?

2. Why are so many people dissatisfied with their jobs?

3. How does one handle the stress of a job where the work is never done, there’s never enough time to do anything well and there’s always something more being demanded?

4. What is the most important tool one can use daily to help stay focussed and calm?

5. What is the greatest barrier to job satisfaction?
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WorkLife Seminars
Perry Klepner & Nancy O'Hara
Training People for Excellence. Strategies for mastering today’s work environment.

 The Goal
Support management and employees in attaining an efficient and satisfying work experience.

 The Challenge
Provide tools and strategies for individuals to master the demands of today’s work environments.

 The Process
Dynamic workshops with direct instruction and experiential practices, including team-building, self-exploration, visualization, writing, and role-playing exercises.

 The Results
Greater concentration and focus; Reduced absenteeism and turnover; Enhanced job and work performance; and Increased work commitment and productivity.
WorkLife for a
 Changing World

The business world is in a constant state of change, from corporate mergers and downsizing to economic uncertainty and increased workloads. The speed of life outside the office is also accelerating at a dizzying pace.

While these changes represent exciting new challenges and opportunities for both employees and managers, they can also be a source of stress and anxiety, factors that reduce efficiency, productivity, and job satisfaction.

WorkLife Seminars
are designed to support and assist business professionals in today’s fast-paced work environments. Each seminar focuses on a key work-related topic that individuals can use to enhance their work performance, work satisfaction, and overall quality of life.

WorkLife Seminars utilizes time-tested
concentration and awareness practices in an innovative program for training people to help themselves meet the challenges of their
professional lives. This approach helps align individual and company goals, which results in greater employee satisfaction and productivity.
The WorkLife Seminars

Striving for Excellence
Build a motivated workforce that aims for and achieves peak levels of performance. Separate workshops for managers and employees will explore challenges and opportunities for creating a company of individuals dedicated to optimum productivity.

Enhancing Communication
Identify and eliminate barriers to effective communication with exercises that will deepen listening skills, enhance teamwork and sharpen self-expression.

Team Building
Hands-on techniques for developing the four C’s of successful teamwork: communication, cooperation, confidence, and commitment.

Critical Incident Processing
Designed to help people process disturbing personal and business events. Coping techniques and strategies will assist in regaining a sense of security and joy in living and working.

Job Satisfaction
This workshop will give participants tools to discover their own way to a fulfilling work experience. We will explore changing attitudes and paths to self-empowerment.

WorkLife Balance
Today’s professional, working harder than ever, can lose direction in satisfying personal and professional needs. Here are the tools to restore balance and promote a healthy work-lifestyle.

Creative Thinking
Learn to tap into creative abilities to generate work-enhancing methods and opportunities.

Transforming Stress
Learn strategies to transform stress into productive, creative and successful work outcomes.
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Samu Meditation Corporate Workshops
Nancy O'Hara
Healthy
satisfied employees
mean
lower turnover
& increased profitability
The Stressed-Out Dissatisfied Worker Can Drain Your Bottom Line

 A Stress-Free, Healthy Employee Can Improve Your Profitability
**Workers compensation, absenteeism and stress-related healthcare costs drain business coffers of $150 billion to $300 billion each year.

**Metropolitan Life Insurance studies estimate that the equivalent of one million workers is absent from work each day as a result of stress related problems.

**Employee turnover is at an eight year high. Workers are leaving their jobs at the rate of 1.1% per month, over 13% a year, resulting in high re-training costs and reduced productivity.

**Stress is the culprit in increased risk of workplace injuries, heart disease, stroke, insomnia, ulcers, and colds and flu's, contributing to high levels of absenteeism.

**Health care expenditures are nearly 50% greater for workers who report high levels of stress.

Stress dulls analytic abilities and reduces the brain's processing capabilities, which often results in job dissatisfaction and high turnover.

When employees suffer stress, the work environment can become a more rigid, tense, and less open-minded one.

Stress expresses itself in employees' chronic criticism of projects and plans, in sarcasm, suspicion, boss bashing, and an 'us v. them' mentality.

Also, when the body is under stress, it produces cortisol, a hormone that in large quantities can weaken the immune system and promote hypertension.
 Clinical, on-the-job studies show that meditation:

**Lessens job worry, tension and the desire to change jobs
**Increases efficiency, concentration, productivity, and job satisfaction
**Decreases absentee rates
**Improves interpersonal skills
**Lowers blood pressure and improves overall health
**Reduces anxiety, insomnia and fatigue


In the three years after Montgomery Chemical in Detroit instituted a meditation program, absenteeism fell by 85 percent, injuries declined 70 percent, sick days fell by 76 percent and profits soared 520 percent.

After employees at Tower Companies in Maryland began meditating, their hospital admissions and physician visits dropped so much that the firm's insurer reduced the company's premium by 5 percent and agreed to pay 80 percent of the meditation course costs.

Phil Jackson's winning strategy, as he coached the Chicago Bulls to six world championships, and the LA Lakers to one, included a strong emphasis on meditation.

Meditation is the remedy for the tension and fatigue that naturally follow a succession of long days spent sitting in meetings, responding to telephone and e-mail demands, and dealing with difficult people.

Meditation, when practiced regularly, has a positive impact on productivity, efficiency and creativity.


THE PROGRAM
Meditation is not just sitting still and breathing. And it certainly isn't a method of 'zoning out.' It is a tool to focus attention and heighten productivity.

Workshops and seminars are customized to suit the needs of each workplace and will include:

**Listening exercises that teach the value of listening effectively and how to build skills to listen without judgment and ready reaction.

**Writing exercises that help participants achieve clarity in the communication process.

**Oral exercises that integrate the listening and writing exercises to further improve communication.

**Instruction on how to sit still to develop concentration, self-discipline and a greater understanding of how and why things happen the way they do.

**Breathing exercises that cultivate focus, clarity and equanimity.

**Movement exercises to make clear that meditation is not a static activity, but rather a strategy for mindfulness in all situations.

Meditation works for each person in a different way and, once learned, does not require a special place or equipment.

Author Nancy O'Hara, with her Corporate Meditation Workshops, provides a way to reach each associate at his or her core to encourage emotional balance. The sessions will give them the tools they need to self-regenerate on a regular basis, cutting down on absenteeism and turnover, and expanding creative and intellectual critical mass.
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The Bios
Nancy O'Hara

Nancy O'Hara

Author of four books,including WorkFrom the Inside Out, which offers simple advice on how to find satisfaction in everyday work life. A former executive in the publishing industry and a longtime practitioner of Zen Buddhism, Nancy conducts meditation classes and workshops, and corporate seminars and retreats on mindfulness at work.
Perry Klepner

Perry Klepner

Psychotherapist in private practice in New York City and Kingston, New York, since 1977. Former president of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, and an instructor at several institutes providing training, supervision, personal coaching, and individual, couples and group therapy. He has over ten years experience in a corporate setting as a manager and financial analyst.
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