Janus Associates Workshops and Training
Workshops
Our workshops are available in one-hour, half-day, and full-day formats.
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An Island of Peace in a Sea of Chaos: Teaches evidenced-based effective stress management techniques such as deep breathing, visualization, and positive affirmation.
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Assert Yourself: Being appropriately assertive can be a struggle – it seems easier to passive at times and at others aggression can rear it’s head. This workshop explores the components of assertiveness: expressing your feelings, asking for what you want, and saying no to something you don’t want. It helps participants to identify their assertiveness styles, triggers for self-defeating behaviors, and to develop more effective behavior.
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Behavioral Health: Examines the role of our thinking and belief systems in our commitment to health. This workshop is especially helpful for those who have high blood pressure, type II diabetes, are over-weight, or are struggling with a chronic illness.
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Brain Drain: Developed for safety personnel, this presentation takes a look at how our everyday behavior creates a stress chain reaction that could put us at higher risk for accidents.
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Change Management: Looks at how to cope when workplace changes are made.
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Chronic Pain: Provides evidence-based strategies for minimizing chronic pain.
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Dealing With Difficult People: If only people would behave nicely all the time. Unfortunately, from time to time we all need to deal with nasty customers, demanding bosses, and annoying co-workers. This workshop explores the root causes of difficult communications and provides strategies to alleviate problems, difficult situations, and common personality conflicts.
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Depression: A look at what depression is, how it develops, and how we can recover from it.
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How to Talk So Your Kids Will Listen; How to Listen So Your Kids Will Talk: If you think talking to your kids is like talking to a brick wall, this workshop will help. Being an effective communicator is about more than your ability to listen to what your child is saying. It is also about actually hearing what they are telling you. This workshop reviews some basics of active listening.
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It Takes Two to Tango: Review the contribution of work and personal stress and lifestyle to the development of Coronary Heart Disease and the proven methods of managing these factors.
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Keeping Your Kids Off Drugs: Proven strategies to monitor your kid’s behavior and keep them off drugs.
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No Ifs Ands or Butts: A Smoking Cessation Workshop: Provides a review of the dangers of smoking and focuses on the various evidence-based interventions that help people to quit. This presentation also looks at how to create a non-smoking culture within an organization.
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Overcoming Anxiety at Work: Help for the Overworked, Overwrought and Overwhelmed: A humorous look at workplace personality types that breed anxiety and how to overcome these traits.
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Preparing for Retirement: Helps participants understand and prepare for the psychological aspects of retirement.
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Resilience Strategies Applied to Home and Work: Explore the concepts of hardiness and resilience and the personal characteristics that develop resilience.
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Say Goodnight Sweatheart: An astonishing 50 to 70 million Americans experience chronic sleep disorders, and millions more are sleep-deprived, Increased sleeplessness is driven largely by broad societal changes, including greater reliance on longer work hours, shift work, and greater access to television and the Internet. This workshop assists participants to identify poor sleep hygiene and other contributors to insomnia. Cognitive and behavioral management techniques are reviewed.
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The Balancing Act: Looks at the challenges of balancing work and personal demands.
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The Grinch That Didn’t Steal Christmas: A humorous look at coping with the demands of the Christmas season without becoming a Grinch.
Training
Our training programs are generally conducted over at least one or two days and can require a commitment to further follow-up.
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Creating a High Performance Work Team: Using the “Team Performance Questionnaire” teams identify areas of strength and challenges and develop strategies for improvement.
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Creating Dignity at Work: Looks at various types of harmful behavior in the workplace such as protected ground harassment, psychological harassment (bullying), criminal harassment, and violence. This workshop raises awareness of these issues and looks at individual responsibilities for creating an harassment free environment.
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Exploring Personality using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator: A full-day workshop that helps participants understand their own and other’s personality strengths and challenges.
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Interpersonal and Team Skills Training: Provides training in the essential skills for individual functioning in a team setting. The training focuses on developing listening skills, giving and receiving constructive feedback, decision-making techniques, and conflict management. This workshop requires a commitment to two days of training, workbook exercises, and follow-up with the facilitator.
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Nag, Nag, Nag! Presents an opportunity for those who wish to change their behavior relating to their own personal health. This training is
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based on a ‘Stage of Change” framework and assists participants to identify one or two health-related goals, to identify the stage of change they are in and to develop a personal strategy to move toward the action stage of change. The workshop is best followed by personal follow-up (nag system) with a health psychologist for at least six-months.
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Psychological First Response to Critical Incidents: Trains personnel in safety sensitive occupations how to respond and manage people who have been part of a critical incident such as a workplace fatality or environmental disaster until a professional Critical Incident Stress Management team member arrives to help manage the event.
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Creating Resilience: Individual and Organizational Partnership: A two-part examination of both organizational and individual strategies for resilience.
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See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil: Examines the concept of bullying (psychological harassment) – what predicts bullying, who perpetrates it, and strategies for organizations to stop those who bully.
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Team Building using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator: A full-day workshop that helps participants understand how personality strengths and challenge influence team cohesiveness and creativity and helps participants to understand how to minimize conflict related to personality differences.
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