Anne Barab
Resilience strategies, Change, Leadership, Life Balance, Stress, Communication and Humour.
Style
On the platform her use of humour, combined with executive level, from-the-trenches business experience, wins her applause and standing ovations on a regular basis. Terrific!
Profile
Anne Barab teaches people Resilience Strategies and … she is rumoured to be the lost love child of Mark Twain and Lucille Ball! Call Anne Barab a stand up comic and she’ll scowl and grumble. Ask her to tell a funny story, and Mrs. Barab, will smile and don a silly purple hat, sometimes a colander, for a laugh. But she is not a stand-up comic, she defiantly insists. “I am a humourist with a message”, Mrs. Barab said. “A comedian doesn’t have a message, except that everybody is stupid.” Anne is described as Erma Bombeck with a bite. Not as cozy as Erma’s lemon chiffon cake, she’s more tart like a raspberry cobbler that leaves seeds in your teeth.
Anne decorates her seminars on change, leadership and teamwork with lots of practical examples from business, politics, education and family life. Anne began her career in the telecommunications industry, then moved into insurance, banking and financial services. She shattered the glass ceiling when she became the first female Chief Operating Officer of a $1.4 billion mortgage bank. In 1980 Anne founded her own consulting firm to work with firms on strategic planning, marketing, profitability and productivity. Simultaneously she became an elected official in the education sector. Anne applies 30 years of business experience and public service to enlighten and entertain your people.
Clients Comments
"Your speech was great and sent a strong message that one can accomplish and even exceed the goals you set for yourself... Vaughan Gross, Hamilton Park Pacesetter.
Topics
- CHANGE - You Can't Make Me Change Anything but My Underwear!
- In this program participants will learn: Techniques for improving customer service or patient care - The differences between negative and positive explanatory style - Characteristics of people who habitually perceive change as danger versus opportunity, and how to deal with difficult situations - How to craft a positive attitude toward life event
- STRESS - Even Bald Guys Can Have a Bad Hair Day
- In this program participants will learn: Principles for managing personal and team stress to improve performance - Tips and tools for becoming more positive and encouraging with colleagues - How to cultivate excellence in professional and personal life
- LIFE BALANCE - I Had a Life Plan, but the Magnet Fell off the Fridge
- In this program participants will learn: Principles for understanding the differences in people - Strategies for reducing frustration and disappointment with others - Techniques for improving professional and personal effectiveness
- COMMUNICATION - Please Shut Up and Listen to ME!
- In this program participants will learn: Principles of in-depth communication - Techniques for asking quality questions to improve customer service - The difference between advising and coaching - Tools for presenting your ideas with clarity - What quality listening and talking feels like
- RESILIENCE - The Key to Happiness is Stuck in Your Lock
- In this program participants will learn: Principles of positive living - Techniques for assessing your negative attitudes and behaviors - Strategies for improving personal and professional excellence
- PRESENTATION SKILLS - So You Want to be Funny?
- In this program participants will learn: The rules, tools and techniques of creating business humor - How to use humor to improve customer service and employee satisfaction - How to incorporate appropriate humor into daily conversations - How to deliver humorous remarks