Are you looking for an impactful speaker for your next staff meeting, breakout session or keynote conference?
Iris Grimm combines powerful lessons, unique stories, tons of energy and enthusiasm to make your next event a memorable success!
Iris’ expertise and programs are centered on self-management and interpersonal skills.
Her unique stories, props, energy, and information will hold your audience’s attention and makes your meeting an unforgettable event.
All of our speeches, workshops and coaching programs are designed around the concepts that:
- self-management and interpersonal skills are the foundation for the professional success of physicians,
- people learn best when they’re actively involved, and
- follow-through guarantees results.
Topics:
Insight not Uptight: Proven Tools to Control Stress
More and more health care providers feel as if they are spending their life running on an endless treadmill. They often feel exasperated because they never really enjoy the life they work so hard to achieve. They have the impression that the system is working against them resulting in more work hours, more pressure and less reimbursement. Many of them sacrifice their personal life for their professional calling; stress, frustration, and resignation have become their constant companion.
This seminar will teach participants the importance of personal energy management. What we resist, persists. Life doesn’t have to be a struggle. Turning stress into a powerful positive influence is about identifying what is important and releasing what is not. Success and personal satisfaction are achieved by recognizing the differences and regaining control of life. During the program participants will:
- Realize how we create our own stress.
- Learn three categories of stressors
- Identify their unique stressors
- Understand the role of emotions in stressful situations
- Learn effective ways to manage emotions
- Realize the importance of integrating energy boosters in their lives
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What’s on your Clock Doc? Tools to leverage your Time and Energy
There are 2 asses in life that cannot be replaced: health and time. Everybody is busy these days and many people feel that they are never catching up, running out of time.
Most people feel trapped in this rat circle, wasting valuable time, procrastinating important responsibilities, repeating the same mistakes.
Leveraging time is about knowing and following your priorities, excelling in decision making and delegation responsibilities.
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No more Balancing Acts: Simple Solutions to get off the tight Rope
Everybody wants it; not many know it. Finding balance between work and life is a constantly evolving process. Once you think you have achieved it, circumstances shift and you must seek the fulcrum point again. One person’s perception of balance can be different from another’s; therefore calling it authentic balance. Identifying your authentic balance is a continual journey that can be enjoyable and rewarding.
This presentation will guide participants to:
- Realize the importance of balance in life
- Define what authentic balance and success means for each individual
- Accept that life is in constant motion
- Understand the importance of values, priorities and goals
- Develop an action plan for incremental change
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The Mirror on the Wall: Recognizing the Leader in You
Medical skills alone are no longer sufficient to excel in today’s health care environment. Physicians are not only responsible for patients; they also lead the entire care team while managing a practice and relationships with organizations like hospitals and insurers.
At the conclusion of this program participants:
- Know the 3 major leadership styles and their application
- Understand the unique role of physicians as leaders
- Realize the cost of substandard leadership skills
- Recognize the importance and impact of self-leadership and behavior
- Identify the cricial skills, qualities and responsibilities of effective leaders
- Develop a concrete plan how to improve leadership competencies
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Be the Leader of your Pack
Many people believe that leaders are born. The truth of the matter, however, is that leadership is a skill that can be learned and improved upon daily. By training her German Shepherd, Cito, Personal Coach Iris Grimm realized that Cito revealed more to her about leadership than any book.
Cito is a well recognized dog. His work as a therapy dog was featured on Atlanta’s Fox 5 News, Channel 11 and Channel 46 and his story was published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Cito and Iris also compete nationally in a dog sport called Schutzhund.
In this presentation, Iris will entertain, inspire and challenge through personal stories, universal truths and demonstration videos to impart valuable leadership lessons. This presentation will change your perspective on the role of a leader and offer a renewed approach to your staff. After all, leadership is about behavior that we demonstrate and refine every day. A special, one-hour presentation.
P.S. If the environment allows it Cito will join the presentation “in person”.
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The Balanced Physician: Patient Care, Profitability and Personal Fulfillment
Physicians work hard for their money and make many personal sacrifices to succeed in their profession and to provide the best care for their patients. Health care can be a rather competitive environment where clinical skills are simply not enough to maximize financial success and personal fulfillment.
The Balanced Physician presentation is a practical seminar that emphasizes an equilibrium of interpersonal skills, self-management skills, and clinical skills. This seminar provides a supportive, confidential environment for participants who will:
- Identify six critical self-management skills and six important interpersonal skills
- Develop a personal plan to better balance career with private life
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The Coach Approach: A New Paradigm for Staff Performance
Today’s highly competitive, ever-changing health care environment demands individuals and organizations perform at higher levels and with greater speed than ever before. Command and control leadership is out, emphasis on individual and collective learning is in.
This workshop is customized for physicians and health care managers and utilizes experiential learning exercises, small group discussions and didactic teaching to learn one of the most effective communication and staff development tools designed to increase performance, rapport, and success.
Objectives:
- Become familiar with tools that lead staff to higher performance
- Discover coaching as a powerful model of management, mentoring and leadership
- Understand the 4 communication styles
- Integrate a coach approach in all that you do
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Tear down Walls: Removing the Barriers to effective Communication
Lack of communication will wear you out. Without communication, life is tiring. If we are not skilled in effective communication, we will find ourselves exhausted by conflict and running from issues.
We are social beings who depend upon others, yet effective communication is a skill that we are never formally taught. The hands-on approach of this fun and engaging workshop will polish and strengthen this critical life skill.
Participants will:
- Understand the importance and purpose of effective communication
- Participate in the Personal Communication Style Inventory process to increase their awareness of their own communication style
- Develop a personal strategy for improved communication skills
- Get to know the characteristic of effective communication
- Practice how to lead goal oriented, focused conversations
- Learn how to provide constructive feedback
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Choose Iris when:
You want to set a positive and engaging tone for the day.
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Iris Grimm’s energy, atittude and personality are contagious. Audience members feel secure, comfortable and open for the newly shared ideas.
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Iris’ passion on her program topics is more than noticable and keeps your audience at the edge of their seat.
You want to provide a program that is content-rich but entertaining and light.
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Audiences love Iris’ stories. Her interesting experiences from living in East Germany, her accomplishments as an athlete and as a dog trainer coupled with her German accent holds your audiences attention and engages them to learn more.
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Her programs include audience participation such as self-reflective exercises, games and role plays. Consequently, your audience gets involved and the material will stick better.
You want to offer a program on self-management skills or interpersonal skills as a counterpoint to a clinical skills agenda.
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Iris emphasizes the importance of developing interpersonal and self-management skills in order to maximize their clinical skills.
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She challenges her audiences’ thinking and stretches them to expand their comfort zones.
Call at 770-428-2334 to inquire about Iris’ presentations and workshops.
