Rhonda Scharf
Motivational Speaker - Success; Expert on Support Staff Training
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Rhonda has enough energy, charisma and sense of fun on the platform to carry the whole day or whip up the group for an hour of her high-energy keynote presentations. Knowledgeable and fun.
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Profile
Rhonda has been a professional trainer for almost 20 years. She has a magical ability to entertain while educating, wooing her audience into embracing her message while celebrating the messenger. Her combination of energy, passion and experience packs an amazing wallop. Rhonda trains in the areas of customer service, teamwork, stress management, communications and time management. She was the 2004 National President of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS) and named in this years edition of "Whos Who in Professional Speaking" where she has been listed since 1998. Rhonda was Canada's 3rd female to receive her CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) which is the highest speaking designation in the world to be earned.
Rhonda is a highly interactive trainer and has worked successfully with such organizations as Nortel, Mitel, Compaq, Proctor and Gamble as well as with many government departments such as Health Canada and Transport Canada. Her programs can be entirely customized and are delivered over several days or through keynote format.
Clients Comments
"Rhonda brings the material to life. She keeps your attention with her great sense of humour." Rebecca Edgar, Admin. Assistant, Ceridian Canada Ltd
Topics
- The New Amazing Assistant Workshop
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Achieve satisfaction at the end of the day because you know you excel in what you do – and others know it too! Be proud, stand tall and be confident in your ability to be An Amazing Assistant! Using your strategic skills to work together in an effective partnership with your boss will ensure you are amazing (and they look amazing as well!)
Here’s What You’ll Learn:
• How to communicate with your boss with confidence, credibility and charisma – without being either pushy or a pushover
• The 15 vital strategic interpersonal skills that amazing assistants need to master
• Build and strengthen your “people” skills
• Get more done in less time by working as a team
• Develop the credibility you need to get things done without authority
• Develop a winning combination of diplomacy and professionalism
• Project a “take-charge” image that wins respect and recognition
• Increase your effectiveness, productivity and satisfaction!
- SOMETIMES YOU’RE THE WINDSHIELD … SOMETIMES YOU’RE THE BUG!
- Sometimes life gets the better of us, and we ask “Whose life is it, anyway”? When you stop living for yourself, and live only for everyone else, something is missing! In this humorous keynote, Rhonda shares that not only do we all experience this feeling – it’s OK to be frustrated.
- TEAM BUILDING – AN EXERCISE IN LEADERSHIP
- Do you have a team that needs a boost? Are you lacking direction? Need motivation? Or just want to celebrate the great group of people you have – this is the one for you.
- IT’S NOT MY FAULT!
- Are you tired of hearing “It’s not my fault” from people who constantly want to shift the blame onto someone else? If so, then this is the program for you.
- THE ROAD TO SUCCESS IS ALWAYS UNDER CONSTRUCTION
- Have you ever wondered ho you got to where you are? And how you can get back on the right track again? This inspirational and humorous keynote leaves you laughing at the things we’ve done in the past and how they reflect where we are now.
- CHARISMA, CREDIBILITY & CONFIDENCE
- Why is it that some people can walk into a room, and everyone will notice. Or with others, there is that immediate connection with (or the opposite – the immediate dislike!)
- WHAT'S LIFE GOT TO DO WITH IT?
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Can you have your cake and eat it too? Is it possible, or just asking too much of ourselves? Do we actually think the Brady Bunch was real?
This isn’t your father’s Oldsmobile or your mother’s pearls and high-heels, but work-life balance does exist; it just looks different than what you are taught to believe.
Join Rhonda in this humourous, practical, realistic and off-the-wall look at how to get balance by keeping your sanity, credit cards intact, and your job!