Tammy Robertson believes that the essence of our challenge today is captured in one simple message, “Get Your Heart in the Game™!” As a life coach, author, and professional speaker to audiences across North America Tammy Robertson inspires and challenges us to step into our BIG life and to be more purposeful and passionate about what we're up to. "Getting your heart in the game" requires courage and the willingness to take complete responsibility for our own lives. Her aim is to deliver effective and practical ideas to build environments that support a new level of individual and organizational success.

Tammy Robertson knows that being fully ALIVE and contributing more than we thought possible requires taking risks. She encourages, provokes and cajoles her audiences to approach life with a perspective of goodness and to reclaim our childlike wonder and curiosity. Her message is at once deeply meaningful, and light and playful. Tammy knows that if we're not getting a kick out of ourselves and taking ourselves lightly, it is pretty hard to make truthful and honest assessments about what needs to change. Humour is the gateway to exploring our potential - it facilitates the looking, and helps us gain new insights about how we "show up."

The result is a compelling new sense of possibility. Leaders at all levels of an organization experience a new accountability and responsibility for creating an environment where people want to be fully engaged. The question she asks is, "What impact are you having?" The suggestions she offers help us all to be a powerful, more inspirational role model.

Tammy has a Masters Degree in Physical and Health Education from the University of Western Ontario, and with 20 years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience she brings a keen understanding of current challenges to her audiences. In 2005 Tammy spoke to over 60 different business groups, organizations and associations, creating ripples of positive change and renewed energy among their employees. In the media she is a frequent commentator on workplace wellness and culture.

Tammy's unique gift is her ability to galvanize an audience while speaking directly to every individual. Her compelling message is an invitation to get jazzed up about your one wild and precious life and to live it boldly and passionately. Her intent is to leave everyone with new tools, strategies, and rituals so they can be fully engaged in life and work!

Get Your Heart in the Game!™

Have you ever wondered what makes the difference between people who are genuinely excited and turned on to life and those people who just seem to be getting it done? This session unravels the mystery and pinpoints the key ingredients to a well lived life. More importantly it will point to some simple shifts that can bring more fulfillment to your life and work. Everybody dies only some people truly LIVE! This is Tammy’s most dynamic and entertaining presentation – through laughter and tears Tammy will invite you to explore the truth of your life and excite you to be more fully alive than you dreamed possible!

Outcomes:

•     Ripples of positive change as people embrace the opportunities and possibilities right now!
•     A more engaged purposeful workforce
•     People who have the tools and the desire to manage their energy and impact positively
•     A more fun and alive work environment
•     A culture that is self-reinforcing and celebrates itself

Key Themes:

•     Success without Fulfillment is Failure ... Get Excited About What You’re Up To!
•     Reclaim the Magic, Curiosity, Awe and Wonder of Childhood ...What are we so Serious About?
•     Get Excited About Your Life!
•     Stimulate Your Dreams and Get In Touch With Your Personal Sense of Hope
•     Two Defining Characteristics of People Who Are Genuinely Turned on To Life
•     Live with Conscious Intention ... Use the Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life
•     Know Who YOU are at your Most Compelling ... Build Your Leadership Presence
•     Increase your Eccentricity Quotient ... How Weird Can You Be and Still Keep Your Job?!
•     Take Responsibility for Your Emotional Wake ... Create Positive Energy!
•     Adopt Practices that Help You Sustain Energy, Enthusiasm Even During Adversity and Challenge
•     Other People’s Opinion of You is None of Your Business ... Give Up Approval Addiction
•     Preoccupied with the Spirit of Play! Create High-Impact Experiences with Customers and Colleagues!
•     The Keys to Real Brilliance ... Contribution, Accountability, Authenticity, Humour and Celebration

Inspiring Leadership

Engage the Power and Passion of People!

There is a mismatch between what science knows and what business does. Motivation used to work. It's time to Inspire ... Do you know why?

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

Motivating leadership works if all you want is compliance. If you want full Engagement you need Inspiration. What is the difference? It is time to explore the biggest gap in current leadership and step up to a practice of connecting, communicating and influencing through genuine and authentic Inspiration. Engagement is Emotional. People take action when they want to ... Inspiration taps into heart, guts, and real desire to make a difference. And it is anything but soft ... it's a gritty real approach to helping people see their biggest potential and hold themselves accountable to getting there.

If you have wondered how all that is possible, especially given all the current challenges we face as we head into the future, you're not alone. Many success-minded professionals are being put to the test and asking some hard questions about how to lead and succeed as the world and the way we live continues to transform. This session covers the three key characteristics of Inspirational Leadership - Authentic Presence, Self Direction (Autonomy and Mastery) and Full Engagement (Purpose, Values, Vision, Belief).

Leaders who have their "heart in the game" will lead the way by working with the power of passion and patience to bridge the gap between the current reality and the vision of a vibrant compelling future. Our capacity to sustain enthusiasm, stay engaged and excited about work and life, build belief, remain positive, open and curious, find meaning and inspire our colleagues are being challenged and sharpened in whole new ways. This session will feed your hunger to live and lead with more hope and possibility and to position yourself for greater success and satisfaction. You will leave with practical tools that will help you inspire and make a difference to your organization, your team and your life.

Outcomes:

•     Leaders who know and act on the key inspirational factors for today's workforce
•     More energized, confident, optimistic, alive, purposeful passionate and engaged employees
•     More employees and leaders reporting higher levels of satisfaction with the organization
•     A Corporate Culture that attracts, retains and engages people who perform at the highest level
•     Greater organizational and individual success and satisfaction

Key Themes:

•     Inspiration is More Powerful and Lasting Then Motivation ... Leaders Move People
•   Understand the Limitations of If-Then Rewards, Extrinsic Motivation, and Mechanistic Systems that Feel  Disingenuous
•    Engage People with three key principles of Authentic Presence, Self Direction and Full Engagement (Purpose, Values, Vision and Belief)
•    Learn and Develop Simple Practices That Enable you to "Show Up" and Live as an Authentic Leader and Human Being
•     Adopt the Key Habits that Build Better Connection, Communication and Rock Solid Relationships
•     Turn Anxiety into Confidence Through Honest Feedback and Courageous Conversations
•     Learn to Have Effective and Impactful Conversations in 10 Minutes or Less
•     Use Real Stories and Open Discussions to Restore Hope to the Future - Build them into Meetings
•    Assess Your Own and Your Teams Blocks to Learning and Introduce Ideas to Embrace Curiosity, Learning, Mistakes, Growth, Innovation and Moving Forward
•     Remember to Laugh - Leaders Have a Kid Alive In Them ... Let Your Passion Ignite Others!
•     Restore And Replenish The Pure Fun And Enjoyment Of Work!

Resilience and Life Balance

"Tammy's session in the Banff ICAA controllership training was the highest rated of 16 modules. Her overall impact was rated 9.6 out of ten, with participants describing her program as energetic, humorous, and positively impactful. She has an extraordinary ability to speak coherently at length without notes and connect powerfully with her audience."
Scott Ferguson Program Director ICAA Controllership Program
    
Manage Your Time and Your Life

How can you be Fully Engaged when you are exhausted, overwhelmed and depleted emotionally, mentally and spiritually?

Crazy, Busy, Nuts doesn't have to describe a typical day. This session will provide fresh insights, new strategies and real inspiration to recover your time and your life. Programs can be customized to focus specifically on one, or all three themes of life balance, resilience and managing pressure.

If you feel distracted, overwhelmed and exhausted it is time to develop some performance habits that will help you deeply recover, stay focussed, get clear and be more present to the challenges at hand. Invest in a transformative day that is both practical and inspiring and decide today to come up with your own plan for optimal performance and a rewarding life. Manage Your Time and Your Life offers smart already high performing individuals leaders and organizations a highly practical proven set of strategies to better manage the relentlessly rising demands we all face in an increasingly complex world.

Outcomes:

• People who have the skills to access calm under pressure and contribute positively even during massive change, challenge and uncertainty
• People who have the tools necessary to create greater balance in their lives and accept ownership for creating their experience on a day to day basis.
• Leaders who understand the significance of their actions and strive to model a balanced approach to life and work.
• Teams that support one another and communicate well in times of stress.
• Decreased costs in terms of productivity, absenteeism and short term disability?

Key Themes

The Way We're Working Isn't Working:

•     Constantly Juggling, Rarely Engaged - The Need for Presence and Focus
•     The Real Challenge: Work More Intensely, Recover More Deeply
•     You Can Choose A More Sustainable Way to Live and Work

Paying Attention:

•     You Can`t Change What You Don`t Notice
•     Personal Energy Audit: How are You Currently Managing Your Time and Energy?
•     Developing New Habits ... You Don`t Rise to the Occasion, You Sink to Your Level of Practice  
  

Time and Energy Renewal:

•     Build a Better Balance Between Energy Expenditure and Energy Renewal
•     The Key Differences Between the Best Performers and Mediocre Performers
•     Choose a Better Story - Negative Emotions Steal Time and Energy
•     Five Strategies to Manage Your Perspective and Impact
•     Three Signs of Real Fulfillment: Contentment, Calmness and Connection
•     Build Boundaries around Time - Say No, Set Some Policies
•     The Most Effective Way to Slow Down and Respond and Live in This Moment.
•     The Myth of Multi -Tasking and Value of One Thing at a Time
•     The Easiest Hardest Thing You Will Ever Do To Expand Your Thinking
•     How to Take Control of Technology - Apply One Key Concept to Reclaim Your Time
•     Sleep or Die: Stop Telling Yourself You Don`t Need Sleep
•     How to Get Back To Basics: Simple Nutrition and Exercise Habits
•     Living What Matters ... How to Find Your Own Sense of Work/Life Balance
•     What Does it Take to Sustain it All?
•     A Simple Profound Method for Holding Yourself Accountable

Communication and Relationship Building

Engagement is all about Connection ... WHO are you connected to in a real way?

Everything that can be measured doesn't count and everything that counts can't be measured.

RealTalk ... restoring the art of conversation and influence

Have you thought about changing the way you and all the people in your organization communicate? Is conversation a valued activity? Can you have a relationship without conversation? Can you have influence without a relationship? What might be possible if you were more conscious and intentional about improving communication and building relationships? What impact would it have on leadership, transformation, resilience and the overall evolution of your business, success, and the world we live in?

To teach, model and give people tools to improve conversation, communication and connection requires more than a mechanical unemotional process. With RealTalk your people leaders will be prepared to have more meaningful talks with people. They will know how to prepare for a conversation. They will manage emotions without burying them. They will be present? They will know how to use a conversation to inspire others to think better, be more self-directed, become clearer and get excited to take action. Communication really is the key to engagement and ultimately influence.

Conversations can dissolve apprehension, build trust, respect and understanding, and bolster confidence, optimism and action. And they don't need to be longer than ten minutes to be powerful. When conversations begin from a place of genuine curiosity and interest they go a long way to help people get their "heart in the game" even when the future is uncertain and unclear.

Key Outcomes

•     Solid Trusting and Respectful Relationships where Conversations are Honest, Truthful and Gutsy
•     Information Flows Freely and People Leaders Have Significant Influence
•   Leaders Support and Encourage People to Reach Their Biggest Potential and Strongest Performance
•     People are Resilient, Engaged and Committed to Add Value and Make a Difference
•     A Stronger Bottom Line and Increased ShareHolder Value

Do You Want ...

•     People to speak up and share their thoughts, feelings and ideas?
•     To reduce the stress and fear that blocks real contribution?
•     People to listen in a way that demonstrates respect and builds trust?
•     To help people think better, get clear, and feel confident about their ability?
•     To stop giving advice, and influence others more powerfully?
•     To stop owning other people's problems and over-selling and directing?
•     To help others commit to take action they are excited about?
•     To build teams that are totally engaged and excited about what is still possible?

RealTalk Key Themes:

Introduction:

•     Connection and Communication that Drives Real Engagement, Performance and Success
•     The Three Key Qualities Of Leaders Who are Effective Communicators
•     Consequences of Failed Communication
•     How to Get Past The Discomfort and Stress of Difficult Conversations
•     Develop Solid Habits to Practice and Master RealTalk and Great Communication
•     Learn to Touch People Emotionally and Inspire them to Reach Their Biggest Potential
•     The Stakes are High ... Are You Ready? ... Are you up for the challenge?

Three Key Principles:

1. Authentic Presence:

•     Be Ready Anytime to Have a Conversation - Preparation is Fundamental and Often Ignored
•     Know Yourself First - Who are YOU BEING in the Conversation?
•     Be Present - Engage and Manage Your Head and Your Heart
•     Deal with Emotions - Know How to Stay Grounded
•     How To Move Past Fear, Judgment and Assessment
•     Learn to Stay Curious - Passion and Curiosity Live Together
•     Release Your Agenda/Script or Predetermined Outcome for the Sake of Something Better
•     Be Free of "Your Story" and What You Have "Made Up."
•     Move to New Levels of Respect ... It's not What is Commonly Practiced
•     Promote Real Self Esteem vs Psuedo Self Esteem ... First For Yourself and then Everyone Else
•     Stay Grounded in Truth and Respect
•     Practice New Skills and Adopt New Habits in Authentic Presence (RealTalk Tools)

2. Self Direction

•     Take 100% Responsibility for the Experience you Create and the Impact You Have
•     Use the Great 8 to Help People Think Better and Get Clear
•    Get People To Notice and Observe their Perspective (Thoughts and Feelings) and Choose a Viewpoint that Serves   Them Better
•     Build the Confidence and Address the Need to Speak UP and Speak the Truth
•     Stop Motivating People - People Take Action When They are Inspired and Self Directed
•     Stop Over-Doing It ... Praise is the New Criticism ... Model/Teach People to be Self-Reinforcing
•     Provide Support and Encouragement That Lands and Resonates Authentically
•     Ease the Fear Affair - Stress and Anxiety Block Creative Ability and Thinking Power
•     Practice New Skills and Adopt New Habits in Self-Direction (RealTalk Tools)

3. Full Engagement

•     Learn HOW to Engage People Emotionally - People Take Action When They WANT To
•     Choose a Transformational Experience over a Transactional Interaction More Often
•     Use Practical Strategies and Ideas to Inspire People To Do More Than They Thought Possible
•     Practice Positive Emotional Contagion and Build a Genuinely Turned On Culture
•     Practice New Skills and Adopt New Habits in Full Engagement (RealTalk Tools)

The GREAT 8

1.     WHAT IS GOING ON FOR YOU NOW?
2.     WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT?
3.     WHAT DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT?
4.     WHAT IS THE IMPACT FOR YOU, YOUR TEAM, ORGANIZATION OR LOVED ONES?
5.     WHAT ARE YOU LEARNING HERE?
6.     IDEALLY, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE HAPPEN?
7.     WHAT IS THE FIRST MOST IMPORTANT STEP IN THAT DIRECTION?
8.     WHAT DO YOU NEED AND HOW CAN I HELP?

And Here's how I see it ...

The Power of the Great 8

•     They are Simple
•     A Great 8 Conversation Can Happen in TEN Minutes or Less
•     It's a Natural Way of Communicating
•     The Impact is Greater Trust, Respect and Influence
•     People Think Better, More Confident Decisions are Made
•     Committed and Effective Action Leads to Greater Business Success

 

“Your keynote address on "Get Your Heart in the Gameª! was spectacular and the feedback from our participants was excellent. Consensus was they felt rejuvenated by your session and thoroughly enjoyed your humoristic approach but recognized that the session also carried some serious and important messages. The combination was unforgettable and awe-inspiring... thank you Tammy, for an exciting and exhilarating three days. Your keynote and workshops were true highlights of the conference and your participation in our extra-curricular activities added a personal touch for all and demonstrated that you were truly interested in us as an organization and as individuals.”
Canada Revenue Agency

“Tammy Robertson is one of the best motivational speakers that I have seen. She is a great person on stage and off. She is able to reach out to the audience and put them in the palm of her hand and keep them mesmerized, even at the end of a long conference day. She was able to pick them up and make them feel like they had just entered the room. Tammy was the highlight of the conference. I would recommend her highly ... she is contagious.”
Value Drug Mart Associates Ltd.

"Our varied audience of over 600 teachers, secretaries, educational support staff, bus drivers, maintenance and custodians were all entertained and challenged by your presentation. Our staff was very impressed with the background work you did in researching our division and in making personal contact with a number of them. Your message was both heartwarming and thought provoking. You kept our goals for the year in mind when you developed your talk and that made your message powerful. Thanks for making our day a success!"
Wild Rose School Division

"Tammy was a delight! She led us through a difficult area with humour, honesty and discussion. I feel pumped and ready to go back to my team with new found knowledge." "I really enjoyed the class! Tammy is a great instructor and kept things lively. The toys were a neat tool to promote a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. This was my favorite management development seminar so far." "You are a dynamic speaker Tammy. Your knowledge and experience is outstanding." "Tammy's presentation was right on the mark. This seminar provided me with invaluable tools and information to become a better manager."
Dianne Dutton - University of Calgary

"The responses to the evaluation of the day were amazing! I would have Tammy Robertson come back and continue - I think she was a great motivation to all of us. "This year was great! Tammy was superb, I could have listened to her for a couple of days." "Tammy was excellent!"
Matt Norton - Lethbridge School District No.51

"Tammy's knowledge, experience and enthusiasm are exceptional. She has a very engaging manner and a captivating presentational style that makes her very effective in both personal interactions and group presentations. Her abilities allowed us to work together in a very collaborative manner, customizing her knowledge into the requirements of our assignments and delivering an outstanding one day workshop. That workshop was very successful in delivering the key concepts, having attendees personalize this new information, and energizing staff so that they took action to enact the concepts immediately upon returning to work. Importantly this session was FUN!"
Keith Palmer - CIO Alliance Pipeline

"You did an outstanding job! Your presentation, Get Your Heart in the Game was well received and the feedback was tremendous! "Tammy is amazing, I want her as my mentor! Her contribution to our conference made it an even greater success."
Ross Gilchrist - Chief Marketing Officer TWC Financial

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