Monthly Archives: August 2011

Zoe Presenter Spotlight: Eleanor Hubbard

Posted by on August 29, 2011 Comments Off
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Eleanor Hubbardby Zoe Training staff

Retired from her position as Senior Instructor Emerita from the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Eleanor Hubbard, PhD, is passionate about teaching adults the varied subtopics of diversity, including gender, race/ethnicity, social class, age, and sexual orientation, with a special emphasis on workplace diversity.

What’s your favorite topic(s) to present on and why did you become a speaker/trainer?

My favorite topic to present is diversity and that is why I became a trainer.  I am passionate about diversity, and I love discussions with other adults about race/ethnicity, gender/transgender, social class, age, and sexual orientation. When marginalization occurs, spaces opens up for lively, interesting, practical and sometimes even life-changing discussions.  There is no room for guilt, only opportunities to change.  That’s why I do it. Read more »

Six “Getting Started” Tips

Posted by on August 16, 2011 Comments Off
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Julie Millerby Julie Miller

A survey was recently conducted in which over 1,000 professional people were asked what they were most bothered about when it came to writing. The overwhelming answer: Getting started and getting organized. Here are some tips to getting started and getting organized with any document you have to write:

1.     Consider your audience first and foremost. You can be a brilliant writer but if your words do not connect with the reader, you’re (or, I should say, they are…) lost. Think who is my reader and what do they need to know (rather than, what do I want to tell them)? Keep an image of your reader in your mind’s eye. How does your reader feel or think about your topic? Read more »

Zoe Presenter Spotlight: Christina Haxton

Posted by on August 8, 2011 Comments Off
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Christina Haxtonby Zoe Training staff

Would you believe part of the Zoe cadre is a team of horses? According to Christina Haxton, who occasionally integrates them into her training sessions, horses are ideal teachers: they are responsive beings with acute awareness of and sensitivity to their surroundings. Like people, horses have individual personalities as well as physical abilities and limitations. And horses very accurately sense a person’s level of trust, confidence, awareness, and interpersonal skills.

In one of her team-building courses called “Lessons from the Herd,” participants have an opportunity to get in an arena with two to three horses – without having to ride them – to learn team-building skills directly from the animals. With more than 20 years of experience owning, training, and showing her own horses, Christina incorporates her management experience and expertise as a marriage and family therapist with knowledge of equine behavior to offer a unique perspective to businesses and organizations.

Following are Christina’s responses to our interview questions.

What are your most popular presentation topics?

“How to Avoid ‘Lizard Brain’ and Turn Conflict into Opportunity” and “Lessons from the Horse: The Art & Science of Building Trust with Your Herd.” Read more »

Money, Money, Money

Posted by on August 1, 2011 Comments Off
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D.J. Vanasby D.J. Vanas

I often hear people say that money is the root of all evil.  However, this oft-misquoted biblical text actually says it’s the “love of money” that can be our undoing.  Few subjects are as emotionally charged as the concept of money – earning it, spending it, investing it, losing it, dreaming about it, wanting it… needing it.

We live in a society that is oftentimes contradictory, and at other times absurd, in the way we view money. If we pay a person $25 million a year to play a game, we don’t bat an eye.  But if a teacher gets more than $50k a year, they are accused of being in it for the money.  We love it, we hate others with it, we get inspired by it, we dream about it, fear for a lack of it, and yet have problems we could have never imagined when we suddenly get lots of it (study the Lottery effect and how many families are torn apart through feuding and fighting once a family member wins the lottery). Read more »

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