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Derrick Mueller: Seminars/Workshops

Seminars, Workshops and Key note Topics - Training to fit your needs!

Thisway Communications offers a wide range of leadership training, seminars and motivational talks. Each session and topic is designed to suit your organization or company needs.

TOPICS

Team Profiling- Time Management- Leadership 101- Supervsion. the Art of Helping- Coaching Staff to Success-Strategic Planning- Creative Communication-Leading Your Self-Developing a Company Mission and Vision Statement - The Art of Coaching Others- Decison Making- Change Management- Fund Raising for Non Profits- Board Development and more.       

Format

All seminars and workshops are designed to fit your time frame and traing event. They can be designed as keynote presentation, 1 hour workshops, leadership courses, seminars and offsite training. Private coaching session also availble on any of the topics. See below for more information.

The Amaryllis Way Training System - Leadership Workshop

Training that will transform and revitalize your workplace!

Overview

The Amaryllis Way is based developing the potential of your people and business in a way that empowers and increases effectiveness.

The training system builds on four essential training components -Leadership, Coaching, Strategy, and Team development.

“The Amaryllis Way” concepts can be applied in a variety of formats: Motivational addresses, conferences, team building, off site retreats, organizational assessment, leadership training and one-on-one coaching situations.amaryllislogo.jpg

 

Growing Powerful Teams-The Amaryllis Way TM - Workshop

The quality of you organization is as good as the effectiveness of you people and the teams they work in.

“Growing Teams-The Amaryllis Way” is an interactive profiling/assessment tool and training event that seeks to unlock the secret potential of each person, by profiling individual strengths and limitations. Strengthening teams is the quickest way to get sustained results.

Team Profiling Benefits

Powerful teams uses personality profiling to get to the heart of team issues and understand work preferences.

• It develops a powerful synergy between people • It gives a clear picture of team members and their respective roles • It analyzes team structure • It opens channels of communication • It helps overcome personalities clashes • It identifies team DNA • It builds result oriented teams • It clarifies team roles and responsibilities

Training Components

Profiling, coaching, analysis, teaching and experiential learning are key training components to our “Growing Powerful Teams” events. We are committed to designing and developing a training event that is flexible, engaging and transformational for all involved.

“Quality teamwork is the cornerstone for success!”

What ‘s included: • Interactive training • Individual and team profiling • Team assessment • Team and/or individual coaching sessions • Analysis of team interaction • An analysis of team skills and contributions • Insights on improving team effectiveness

Time Frame

The seminar and training event can be adapted to various  time frames. It is ideal for half and full day seminars or offsite training.

 

Charting a New Direction - Workshop or Offsite Training

"Charting New Direction" In most industries today, events are so fast-paced and unpredictable that planning must be an ongoing process not just a one-time act. Charting new direction is a process of having a living document that is always changing, adapting and being modified. Overview Strategic planning is more than remaining financially sound-—it’s projecting where your association expects to be—and how you will get there. It is a systematic and includes mission, vision for the future, operating values, needs (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats), goals, prioritized actions and strategies, action plans, and monitoring plans.

Benefits of Training

• It provides focus • It provides a map to the future • It provides goal alignment • It serves as a framework for decisions • It provide a basis for more detailed planning • It explains the business to others • It assist benchmarking & performance monitoring. • It stimulates change and becomes building block for next plan. • It stimulates thinking to make better use of resources. • It assigns responsibility and schedules work. • It coordinates and unifies efforts. • It creates awareness of obstacles to overcome. • It identifies opportunities.

Format

The "Charting New Direction" workshops is ideal for conferences, team building, off site retreats, leadership training programs one-on-one coaching situations. It is ideal for revisioning and developing new directions for you company or organization.

Comedy Event- When I Look Back I Laugh - Christmas Parties, Customer Appreciation Events, Conventions

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Laughter is medicine to the soul! In a society where self improvement ranks as one of the most popular sources of reading and education, one man is taking the initiative to laugh at himself and all the moments where life is anything but perfect.

 

"When I look Back I laugh" or the business version "Office Hours" is a witty and humorous production about the stages of life. This story-telling comedy will make you laugh at your mistakes and make you wish you could do them all over again. It is a drama, play and comedy all rolled into one.  The show has been performed across Canada and is based on his book of the same name. Since 1998 Look Back and Laugh has dazzled audiences with its simplicity and hilarious look at the simple things of life, “It is therapy to the Soul”. 

 

Derrick Mueller is an energetic and hilarious communicator who combines humour, story telling, and comedy with high energy.   He is a writer, speaker, humorist as well as a radio and television personality. 

 

Combine humorous reflections on day to day living with the man of a thousand expressions and you get a comedy that not only makes you laugh but gives you hope to continue the journey. In this unique production, Mueller acts as a human computer mouse, turning every object he touches into a virtual reality session.

 

Take a journey down memory lane as you recall your childhood mishaps, first kiss, embarrassing moments, the wedding day and more.   It is a living script that evolves with each performance.  The stage comes alive as each prop is a trigger for a story, sketch or drama.  It is Bill Cosby, Seinfeld, The Waltons and Corner Gas all rolled into one.    An ironing board becomes a comedy tool as audiences are dazzled by its creative uses.  From kitchen antics with ninja salad knives to Broadway farce each performance is fresh and exciting, you just do not know what is going to happen.  He is the Ninja cook, Superman, struggling husband, pizza faced teen and doctor.  This is a must see performance.

 

“You won’t know whether to laugh,

cry or take notes.”

Format

The production can be contexulized and formated to your specific event. Ideal for conventions, customer appreciation events, fundraising activities,dinner theatre, or motivational training.

 

Time Frame

The event runs normally 2 hours, but can also be performed in 30 minute segments also.