Building and Maintaining Relationships

Your people are the DNA of your Company.

The quality of your company is only as good as the quality of your relationships.

Would you consider your company a high trust or low trust organization? Is gossip or dissention an issue?

In this age of technological communication, people are wrapped in technological cocoons, so they work and communicate in complete isolation. This lack of personal communication is making it more difficult for people to learn how to interact on a personal level and build lasting relationships in the workplace.

As a leader you are responsible for setting the tone for the quality of relationships.

All leaders need to take the time to teach by example the important human life-skill of building relationships.

Nothing is more important in an organization than a trusting environment. If you’ve ever worked in a place that lacked that air of trust, you will know the costs and why Sandy stresses this topic as priority #1 among my keynote topics. Through this presentation you will learn simple practices that build the core of you own daily practice of humanity at work.

• Simple means of personal communication that allow people to feel included
• How to practice forgiveness
• How to quickly sort through conflict, create forgiveness, clear away judgmental aftermath to create a cooperative upbeat organization that thrives on positive actions to move your company forward.
• How to foster active empathy among your workers
• The steps that rebuild trust in the workplace.

Creating a Vital, Inclusive Corporate and Community Culture

An inclusive culture is a vital culture, a trusting, productive, compassionate and empathetic culture where all are free to contribute and experience respect for their contribution. “How is this accomplished in this age?”, as leaders in every sector are asking for guidance. They know what the loss of these qualities is costing them. Sandy Costa has answers that offer lasting solutions.

Your audience will learn:

• How to deepen their understanding of others and relationship skills
• Appreciative inquiry that allows emotional safety to thrive
• Active listening that encourages Trust and Truth to flourish
• How to daily align their work life to their life purpose
• How to build individual self esteem and community self esteem

 

Solving “Isolation Syndrome” in Computer Culture Today

More and more employees, families and communities are creating technological cocoons that isolate them from one another and cost them in noticeable ways-

Loss of interactive skills, continuous partial attention, emotional withdrawal…

Are making satisfaction and cooperation more and more difficult.

Sandy Costa is an expert at building bridges, and relationships that flourish. He offers solutions for undoing the damage done in the past from the ‘cocoon isolation syndrome” for families, corporate teams and community groups.

Your audiences will come away with:

• Recognition of their own withdrawal patterns
• Techniques to reconnect when we find ourselves withdrawing
• Words that heal when damage has occurred in relationships
• Behaviors that include others and maintain healthy relationships
• How to share productive information

For Church groups, Community Crisis Healing Projects

We are ALL more than we appear

Am I a soul having a human experience? Or Am I a human having a spiritual experience? We have all pondered this. Sandy opens this question to us with loving kindness and helps us to understand that each of us decides on a daily basis whether to lead a life of faith or a life of fear, each of us is on a journey of self-liberation and self realization and that taking this journey with the intention to finding God in ourselves we reveal God in one another.

An exploration, a discussion and interactive keynote with Sandy Costa who Dr. Paul Hersey, Chairman of the Board of The Center for Leadership says is “Part philosopher, part storyteller and part artist, Sandy Costa uses his words as an artist’s brush to paint us insights into ourselves, others, and the challenges of life.”

 

Other topics of value and depth include:

• The Role of Emotions in Good Decision Making
  • Emotions do inform the intellect they should and they must. Your audience learns which emotions help you see clearly and act decisively, and how to engage them in moments of decision making.

 

• Good news! People Are Running The World
  • Tap into the energies of people everywhere who have hopeful and participatory relationships to their community and the world.   More and more people everywhere are ‘running’ the world not ‘ruining’ the world. Hopeful ideas for projects and Christian thinking that creates good.