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Linda Edgecombe, CSP is an internationally renowned, award-winning humorous speaker, trainer and consultant. She is a best-selling author who energizes every room as she leads people to loosen up, lighten the load and laugh. Her audiences are motivated and shown how they can shift their perspectives on life, work and themselves. Change has never been this painless! 

As a professional, with a degree in Physical Education, Linda brings 20 years of Recreation, Employee Wellness, Lifestyle and Corporate Consulting experience to her programs and her clients. She was a consultant for PARTICIPACTION promoting healthy living to Canadians and is known for being one of the country's most popular speakers. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal as an expert in "Shifting Perspectives".

Inside all the laughter, Linda's audiences are inspired to find the meaning in what they do and let go of what's not working. Her message is as welcomed as a deep belly laugh and as profound as an honest look in the mirror.

Presentations Include:

Batteries Included: Lessons to Energize and Balance Your Life
Take your organization on an Energy Boost. Linda Edgecombe will lead your group through an educational, hands on, and highly humorous ride that will re-focus and re-energize your team. This program is available in a Full or Half day workshop as well as an Entertaining keynote. After Linda's Workshop you and your team will come away with:

 •    An honest snapshot of yourselves and how you affect the energy in your work and home life
•    Ideas how to change negative drainers in your lives and produce more positive effects
•    The motivation behind the perfectionistic unattainables so many of us are striving for
•    5 Keys to increasing your personal, family and co-workers energy levels
•    An honest look at the balance in your life
•    Steps to get you moving towards a more balanced, energized work and home life
•    Clearl knowledge of your own "Personal Recipe for Happiness" in yourlife

Through all the learning each participant will experience a variety of activities, individual and group, that will get everyone laughing while creativity flows. It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This!

Positive Spin: Perspectives at the Speed of Life

Join us for an informative and energizing workshop that will leave the participants with a renewed perspective on themselves and their work. Designed especially for workplaces that have a desire to get their teams out of the victim box. Turning workplace victims into striving workplace survivors: Linda uses humorous life experiences and activities to get her audiences laughing while they move from 'blame mentality' to 'accountable thinking.'

The following key points will be covered:
•    The key steps to move towards accountable attitudes
•    Tips to improve our work/life balance
•    Change, why we love it and dread it
•    3 Keys to creating a healthy 'change response' personality
•    Developing a plan for 'shifting perspectives', 'facing your fears' and 'dumping excuses' in the face of change, while              
      acknowledging the internal turmoil being experienced by the team, all of which can hold you back
•    Strategizing an Action/Focus Plan vs. a Perfection Plan
•    Strategies to Re-Energize Yourself, Your Team, Your Family
•    Learn the secrets to Motivational Motion and "Just do it"

Team Leadership "Survivor" Style

Join us for a Full or Half day workshop where we will combine Team Building Material with energizing Team "Challenges" so the participants can examine themselves and their team-mates throughout a day of activities "Survivor Style". Our goal has always been to make learning fun and interactive.
Your team will come away with:
•    A greater understanding of themselves and their impact on Team Outcomes
•    How effective or ineffective the team is operating at the present time
•    Specific areas the team must work on to become a fully operating, effective team
•    An understanding of age diversity and how it affects the outcomes of their team
•    An action-plan to make meetings more productive
•    Communication and Problem Solving tools
•    An outlet for fun and humour that will be essential in the success of the team

Throughout the workshop we bring in "Team Challenges" that will bring out specific behaviours in the individual team members, while keeping the entire group laughing and energized throughout the day of learning.

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