Presentations and Workshops

For businesses, teams, and groups.

Authentic Development seminars and group presentations can be a great way to build skills in a fun, interactive environment with peers and other like-minded individuals. Below is the current list of seminars available.

Authentic Selling—The Oxymoron that Works

Increase Sales by Being Yourself

Sales gets a bad reputation for being slick and manipulative. Many sales methods teach us how to overcome objections and how to control the client relationship. A salesperson/client relationship is actually just that—a relationship and it will bear the most fruit if the focus is in the right places. Authentic Selling is a workshop demonstrating the way that we want to be sold. We will practice building relationships of trust and connection that lead to sales. Some of the workshop sub-topics include:

  • Identifying the value proposition
  • Increasing self-attractiveness
  • Building relationships of trust
  • Focus on client desires
  • Selling out of passion
  • Listen, Listen, Listen

 

Jump Start Your Authentic Journey

Bringing Fulfillment and Balance to our Crazy Lives

What are people really after? They want to live lives of joy and passion—focused on the ones that they love. This workshop will provide real skills for people to find the fulfillment that they are after and begin the process of increasing the balance that they need. Participants will walk away with a self-mission statement and two to three steps on their journey towards balance.

 

We Own It!

Spreading an Attitude of Ownership Across Your Organization

We Own It! is a workshop that demonstrates a 90-day plan to increase employee ownership levels through relationship building, inclusion, goal-setting, vision casting, and results tracking. As a key member of your business, you know exactly what is required to grow and improve the bottom line. The real question is about the other members of your team—who have less at stake—are they as committed? Participants will leave with a plan of action to increase ownership and accountability.

 

Start, Stop, Continue

Bringing Focus to Your Next Twelve Months

Business is like archery—you hit what you aim at. The Start, Stop, Continue workshop will bring focus to your business by taking participants through a deliberative process of determining what is really important over the course of the next twelve months. Participants will walk away with two to three action items that will dramatically increase their effectiveness on a go forward basis.

 

Overcoming Fear

Taking Risks That Matter

We all listen to the voices of “can’t” and another day, another month, or another year goes by and yet another voice keeps telling us to give it a try. Fear is a very real limiter for our personal and business effectiveness. This workshop will help participants identify one or two self-sabatoging voices and provide the strategy for moving beyond them. Participants will commit to take at least one risk as a result and watch their personal and professional lives grow as a result.



The Chemistry of Business Growth

FUN-FILLED SCIENCE DEMONSTRATION SHOW TEACHING BASIC BUSINESS TOPICS


Chemistry demonstrations are an effective way to teach us in a memorable way. Participants will be awed by experiments that apply directly to how they can operate more effectively. Participants will leave with amazing visual and audio reminders of how to increase their productivity. Demonstrations will include:
  • Catalysts
  • Explosions 
  • Equilibrium 
  • Spontaneous Reactions 
  • Phase Changes


  1. What Is Your Inauthenticity Costing You? Ken Carlson 27-Jan-2012
  2. What Row Are You In? Ken Carlson 16-Jan-2012

Grow and Give Wellness Retreat Day

Grow and Give Wellness Retreat Day

Feed Your Soul, Feed Others

Offered by From Scratch Wellness and Authentic Development

Cost: $75 plus Northern IL Food Bank Donation ($20 or 3 hours of volunteering)

Come join Authentic Development Coaching and From Scratch Wellness for a full day of creating growth in Geneva, IL with programs designed to feed your mind, body, and soul. We've partnered with the Northern IL Food Bank  as a way to give back.

Agenda:

8:30-9:00: Arrival and Setting Intentions 

9:00-10:00: Feed Your Soul: Yoga/Body Movement

10:00-11:30: Feed Your Heart: Living Our Truest Life Experiential Workshop

11:30-1:00: Feed Your Body: Energy Essential Nutrition/Foods that Help Us Manage Stress and Lunch provided

1:00-2:00:Feed Your Mind: Soundscape Wellness

2:00-3:00: Feed Your Soul: Qigong Moving Meditation

3:00-4:00: Wellness Wrap-up and Tour of Food Bank (With an Opportunity to Sign-Up to Volunteer at Geneva or Lake County Food Bank)

The theme of the day is to feed your soul, feed others. The day will begin with your arrival and setting intentions for the day and for your life. We will then move into soul feeding with basic Yoga (no experience necessary) led by Pamela O'Brien of Green Leaf Yoga to prepare our bodies and our spirit to receive. We will then participate in an experiential workshop to feed our hearts on Living our Truest Life. We will feed our bodies as a part of a Energy Essential Nutrition--Foods That Help Us Manage Stress workshop led by Dr. Jen Stanley of From Scratch Wellness. A healthy lunch will be served. Then we will feed our minds in the early afternoon with a Soundscape Wellness workshop in order to raise awareness on the effects of sound and music on your personal wellness. We will then discover tools and strategies for choosing your own personal soundscape. In mid-afternoon, we will again feed our souls as we participate in Qigong Moving Meditation led by Dr. Stanley before wrapping up our day together and touring the Food Bank.

Our last Winter Wellness Day filled up early! We'd love to have you!

SIGN UP HERE!

Please contact Ken Carlson at 847.873.9559 or ken@authenticdevelopment.com with any questions. 

Top Five Reasons to Focus on Wellness in 2012

1. Living authentically is truly the only way to experience the fullness of your entire life.

2. Wellness will make you feel strong in your own body; able to meet the challenges of daily living.

3. Improved self-esteem. Increased belief in being able to achieve your own goals.

4. Increased alkaline food intake reduces overall inflammation and increases oxygen and repairs organ function.

5. Wellness practices enhances mental capability; including reducing forgetfulness and eliminating mental fog. 


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