Today, many high potential employees and others who seek increased satisfaction from their professional life work with a coach.

As your career strategies coach, Jerilyn will be a resource you can trust to give honest, in-the-moment feedback. She’ll be your sounding board for new ideas and a partner that provides nonjudgmental support for your success.

Outcomes of working with Jerilyn include:

• Increased awareness of strengths
• New skills and action steps to address development needs
• A better understanding of how you are perceived by others
• Recognition of choices and opportunities available to you

Coaching can help you rediscover the power of your potential, explore the possibilities, and gain the courage to act.

Take a moment to contemplate the following questions.

• How much does your work define you? Introduce yourself without mentioning the work you do.
• Other than financial security, what do you consider the essential components of a successful retirement?
• What is your life purpose is right now? How do you see it 10 years from now?
• How in sync is your spouse/partner’s vision of retirement with yours?

If you are a Baby Boomer you’ve probably thought about retirement. Perhaps you’ve already taken the plunge. The average age of first retirement is around 58. Leading edge Baby Boomers hit that birthday back in 2004!

What do you see when you visualize your life after you step away from your career? Chances are there’s not a rocking chair in sight. In fact, it’s called “first retirement” because many retirees :

With planning and focus you can make your post-career life a time of inspiration, exploration, and meaning. What thought have you given to success factors other than finances? Factors such as life purpose, identity apart from work, socialization, time management and adaptability, goals are critical to a successful retirement.

Inspired Retirement Coaching offers you the opportunity to investigate and plan for living the next 20+ years of your life with passion and purpose.

Inspired Retirement Coaching with Jerilyn provides:

• Recognition of choices and opportunities available to you
• Time to build a framework for what you would like this next phase of life to be
• Focus, so when opportunities arise you can evaluate them according to your values and priorities
• A chance for dialogue with your partner. Do you share your retirement vision?

Coaching can help you rediscover the power of your potential, explore the possibilities, and gain the courage to act.

Call or e-mail Jerilyn for a more information on Inspired Retirement Coaching. Programs and packages are available for individuals, couples and groups.

Presenting to an audience is one of my passions. Recently, I have had the privilege to speak to the following groups:

• T.O.P.S. State Awards Conference – April 2015
• Elmhurst Library – April 2015
• Kishwaukee Women’s Network – February 2015
• Lions Club Illinois Winter Conference – January 2015
• Windy City Chapter / RWA – January 2015
• Northern Illinois Society of Human Resource Managers – January 2015

Is your organization or association or looking for a paid speaker ?
All programs offered below can be customized to your audience and your timeframe from as quick as 30 minutes to as extensive as a full day program.
Please send an email or call Jerilyn at 630-924-8362.
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Keynotes and Programs that Motivate, Educate and Entertain

Eyes on the Prize:

Five Steps to Get Where You Want to Be

Setting goals is easy. Achieving them is another matter. Goals need tending, and that’s where many fall short. Learn five easy steps to tend your goals: make it real, make it SMART, pay attention every day, take small steps, and know it when you see it. Participants will:

• Explore their own unique vision of success
• Shape that vision into an achievable goal
• Identify obstacles (i.e. are you getting in your own way?) and solutions
• Create a path of small steps to achievement

How to Make a Presentation Without Passing Out

Speaking before an audience is the #1 fear of adults, yet we are asked to do it all the time: proposals to clients, reports to committees, readings, toasts, and formal presentations. Does it ever get easier? Yes it can!

Audiences laugh and learn:

• Physical and mental techniques to turn nerves into positive energy.
• How to keep audiences engaged.
• Tools to help you think on your feet and confidently handle audience questions.

Navigate Life’s Curves and Corners: Managing Change at Work, at Home and In-Between

Change comes at us in every stage of life: school, career, marriage/divorce, dealing with elderly parents, and health. Coping with life transition can be draining– even when the change is happily anticipated. Help yourself and others through the rough patches at work, at home, in life.

Discover:

• What happens after a change takes place
• How change be less painful, less confusing
• Techniques to deal more effectively with change and its effects.

Critical Conversations:

From a Pounding Heart to an Open Mind*

We all have them; we all dread them; conversations that make your mouth dry and your hands sweaty. Whether with our boss, partners, teenagers or aging parents, these conversations deal with critical life issues. Make these “must have” conversations easier, more effective and less stressful.

Your audience will learn:

• How to avoid the two biggest traps in critical conversations.
• Discover what happens “behind the scenes” during these conversations.
• Be more effective managing these conversations with new tools and techniques.

Break Free: Build a Post-Career Life of Purpose and Passion

Today’s retirees are the healthiest, most active, and in some cases, the youngest in retirement history. Some will be retired longer than they worked! Instead of the end of an active life, retirement can be the start of a whole new journey.

Explore:

• The next 25 years of your life in a whole new way
• Who you are apart from your work
• What a significant life post-career will look like for you

Surrounded By Santa: Take Back the Holidays and Create Less Stressful, More Meaningful Celebrations

(offered from Nov.1 - Dec 19)

Holiday creep” happens earlier and earlier each year. With it comes the pressure to create a Normal Rockwell meets Martha Stuart holiday. This non-religious program helps participants recognize “tradition traps” and reclaim their holidays from the media and retail frenzy.

Participants will:

• Explore what is meaningful in their celebrations vs. the expectations of advertisers and merchants.
• Examine and dismiss “shoulds” that may be self-imposed and stressful.
• Develop strategies to bring more meaning to the holidays by creating new traditions

“Jerilyn was able to engage and elicit participation from even the most skeptical folks on the team to ensure that the team session was a success. She helped us pull everything into action items that we could use to hold each other accountable.”

– “Cindy Akins”, VP Human Resources

Jerilyn helps:

• New teams determine their identity, goals, skills they possess, and process.
• On-going cross-functional project teams or intact work teams who may have lost focus. She raises awareness of impeding dynamics, helping the team create solutions to prevent such roadblocks in the future and regain lost momentum and commitment.

Your team will:

• Create a common understanding of the goal
• Clarify roles, responsibilities, and agreements on how they will work together
• Learn to self-manage
• Hold each other accountable for achieving results

Team interventions include:

• A custom design for your situation, need and resources
• Meetings with stake-holders pre-intervention
• A written report of results and outcomes
• “60-day follow-up”

Jerilyn has facilitated meetings and leadership development workshops all over the United States as well as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico and Brazil. Her experience with participants spans all the generations now in the workplace.

Meeting Facilitation Style

Jerilyn knows facilitators must “stay out” of the content of the meeting and manage the process. She makes sure everyone is heard, information is recorded, and that decisions are made.

Workshop Delivery Style

Adults learn best through active participation, practicing the skills they are expected to transfer to the workplace. Jerilyn asks questions, gets people up and out of their seats, and involves even the most hesitant participants.

Workshop Options

Depending on your needs, Jerilyn will:

• Work with your materials
• Design a new program
• Customize one of her own programs

“Jerilyn’s programs include:”

• Behavior-based interviewing for Interviewers
• Communicating for Results
• Coaching for Improved Performance
• Presentation Skills