Organizational management and leadership expert, Mary Abbajay, understands the importance of creating a collaborative workplace culture, even if working from home. In order to accelerate success and retain top talent, organizations must allow their employees to feel like they have a voice in their business practices. Mary helps organizations learn how to build systems for better collaboration, empowers employees to learn to work well with leadership, and shares tools that anyone can use to increase productivity and ensure overall well-being of employees or members. Check out some recent news regarding Mary’s work as well as some of her requested virtual topics to help employees manage virtual work life.
Mary Abbajay’s “Managing Up” Course is now on LinkedIn Learning!
Establishing a good working relationship with your manager is one of the most effective ways to accelerate success in your organization. In this course, get strategies for managing up, whether you're collaborating with your boss in a remote environment or a physical office. Join Mary Abbajay—the best-selling author of Managing Up: How to Move Up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Type of Boss—as she provides practical strategies for working with a range of different personalities. Because working well with others requires us to understand how people operate, Mary steps through how to recognize (and accept) the different types of bosses you may encounter. Learn how to manage the extroverted (or introverted) boss, the micromanager, the workaholic boss, and more. Plus, discover what you can do to combat the ill effects of a toxic boss. Whether the person above you is a middle manager or a top executive, this course can provide you with the tools you need to set yourself up for success.
FEATURED NEWS:
New York Times: Managing Up: How to Deal With a Bad Boss During Quarantine
Forbes: Best Practices For Virtual Presentations: 15 Expert Tips That Work For Everyone
CNN: How to get along with your boss while working remotely
Fast Company 6 things to do if your boss is bad at managing a remote team
New Virtual Topics:
VIRTUAL PRESENTATION SKILLS FOR SUCCESS: PRESENT LIKE A PRO!
In today’s COVID-19 world, virtual meetings and presentations have become the norm. While many presentation skills and best practices apply to both in-person and virtual presentations, expert virtual presenters understand the importance of adjusting their approach to match the medium. Whether you are presenting at meeting or a more formal webinar style presentation, knowing how to engage your virtual audience is critical. In this fast-paced, high energy session, virtual presentation expert, Mary Abbajay will share tips, tricks, and techniques to help you present with confidence, professionalism, and polish! Participants will learn to:
· Look and sound professional and confident
· Engage the audience quickly and effectively
· Avoid the most common pitfalls of virtual presentations
· Learn the principles of connecting with virtual audiences large or small
· Leverage virtual technology to engage and delight the audience
· Employ 15 expert techniques for success!
TIME MANAGEMENT: BEST PRACTICES FOR MANAGING TIME IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT
Too little time and too much to do is a common condition for many of us—especially now as we have to blend our work life and home life. Getting the most out of a 24-hour day has proved to be a bigger challenge in our current environment—with a bottomless inbox, endless emails, sharing home office space and resources, hours of new virtual meetings, and the stress of the unknown. These constant time demands and competing priorities can make life difficult and stressful and it is easy to feel overwhelmed by the all the work life and home life pressures, distractions and interruptions. This fast-paced session provides essential time management skills and strategies to help you take control of your time and manage the stress and demands of a fast-paced, high-performance virtual workplace. This high-energy webinar helps participants:
· Explore the relationship between stress management and time management
· Assess personal time management & stress management style
· Learn to use one’s natural energy rhythm to increase productivity
· Identify top distractions in the virtual workplace—and how to manage them
· Learn to use a prioritization matrix for daily goal setting
· Realize the truth about multi-tasking
· Learn to say no to requests that don’t support your priorities!
Additional virtual topics may be found here on Mary’s speaker page.
ABOUT MARY:
Mary Abbajay, author of the best-selling Managing Up: How to Move Up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Type of Boss is the president of Careerstone Group, LLC, a full service organizational and leadership development consultancy that delivers leading-edge talent and organizational development solutions to business and government. Mary is a frequent expert contributor for television, radio and print publications where she provides practical leadership and career advice. In addition to her role as a Forbes.com contributor, her work and advice have appeared in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Forbes, The Financial Times, Money Magazine, Southwest Airlines Magazine, Monster, and the BBC.
Specialties: Meeting design and facilitation, team-building, training, generational diversity, launching new careers, and public speaking.