Mara Woloshin

Mara Woloshin Speaking Topics

• Presentations Without Fear ??

  Description

  This highly interactive training provides “take home” tools and techniques to help adult learners be comfortable during presentations while improving their organizational, formal and oral presentation skills.

  Typically this course is a half-day seminar where the presenter and the participants develop an interactive and meaningful process for two-way communication. Shorter versions (90 minutes) are available.

  OBJECTIVES

  At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  Relax, gain the attention of their audience and organize materials to be presented.

  Organize presentations effectively – to targeted audiences.

  Present information that also allows for two-way communication.

  Understand three main types of presentations: narrative, informative, and persuasive, and which is most effective for the learning situation they face.

  Become aware of (and improve) their personal presentation skills. Use a variety of visual supports when presenting (not just PowerPoint).

  Choose and use language that is appropriate and easily understood by the audience.

  Lead an audience in question and answer sessions.

• Tools for successful consultants & small busninsses

  This workshop provides best practices tools and techniques to help consultants, solo practitioners and small businesses at ASTD become successful in their endeavors. Having run a successful small business since 1991, I have studies and found the most cost-effective and reliable practices to sustain and grow my practice

  OBJECTIVES

  At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  1. Understanding the basics of starting their business on a shoestring.

  2. The proper protocol of generating referrals through networking.

  3. How to engage in relationship marketing.

  4. When not to invest in advertising dollars

  5. A roster of basic tools and practices to run, manage and sustain a consulting practice.

  6. How to properly niche and reach your targeted audience (creating the short list).

  7. All about sustainable revenue, from setting project fees to retainers to developing passive income.

Building a successful career pathway (in the new economy)

Downsized, laid off or seeking first time employment, acquiring a career-building job in a down market is not for the passive or the faint-of-heart. In this economic climate, fear is not the answer. This hands-on workshop will teach you successful job-search tools to apply to the most important campaign you will ever be involved with – your own career.

For those entering the market to the first time to senior managers, participants in this workshop will leave with a specific and individualized plan for successful job search.

If you are facing a layoff or want to change jobs, this interactive workshop offers a wealth of career-focused practical job search tactics, including:

• Skills assessment

• Specific job search techniques, based on your years in the workforce

• A strategy to transform your job search into a successful and satisfying career pathway

Growing Up Goldberg

Mara Woloshin lost her mother when she was 12 and was raised by an amazing and amusing collection of five siblings and her rough and tumble and very affectionate father from Coney Island.

Humorous life lesions and stories that apply to leadership and person motivation leave Mara’s audiences with insights about their own history, and what important experiences have shaped their own lives from the bad times, and the good.

Her talk, filled with vintage photos, takes her audiences through all many life stages, giving them the opportunity to reflect on the choices they have made, some good, some they would rather not even think about. Audience members leave Growing Up Goldberg with an understanding of how they are connected to those around them, from their past and in their immediate circle of those they care about. They will learn, in a gentle, humorous way the unrecognized wisdom they possess by making choices that succeeded and the sometimes-uncomfortable lessons they have learned from the mistakes they have made.

We have all had successes and failures and learned leadership lessons from both.

• We’ve been in control and sometimes not.

• We’ve faced issues of right and wrong and the gray in between.

• We’ve experienced a full range of emotions and their consequences.

• We have learned from the positive and negative examples of the behavior of others.

• We have cried, argued, laughed and loved.

Reference available upon request. No video clips exist but audio and still photos are available from this presentation.

Aging Influencers?? Social Media Marketing & Baby Bookers

With over 77 percent of Americans over the age of 65 using technologies such as an iPad, smart phone or laptop, Medicare-eligible Baby Boomers, also known as Aging Influencers®, are changing marketing and consumer culture. This workshop deals with effective best practices to reach this market.

Baby Boomers (Aging Influencers®) and their effect on health care and other forms of marketing are not to be ignored. The AARP estimates that daily until December 31, 2029, 8,000 members of this generation of nearly 80 million will turn 65 and become "senior citizens." This workshop represents research of 115,000 Baby Boomers nationally in 2012, and offers marketing information specific to urban, suburban and rural regions in the Pacific Northwest.