Kelli Vrla
Employee Engagement and Corporate Communications Specialist, Inspiring
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A FESTIVE delivery! MEATY Content! Do-it-NOW SKILLS!
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Kelli Vrla, CSP, (Ver-lah: n Road Warrior for Employee Engagement & Full-Throttle Productivity in the Workplace; funny, entertaining, exciting, motivating, Greek).
Harry Paul, Speaker & Author of FISH! , REVVED! and Instant Turnaround! tells you why Kelli Vrla, CSP will be a GREAT ASSET to your NEXT EVENT:
“Kelli is a delightful speaker who instantly connects with her audiences with humor, wit and information that is instantly applicable. The tools she shares will help you and your staff become more motivated, productive and innovative. She is the breath of fresh air needed in these tough and turbulent times.”
If you’re searching high and low to find just the right speaker, someone who has over 30 years experience in the corporate trenches, someone who’s experienced rapid change on a daily basis, someone your people can relate to, someone who has learned how to adapt through hundreds of delayed flights and lost luggage, someone with a festive delivery of meaty content, someone who’ll inspire, delight and help your organization get more done and have more fun… then Kelli Vrla, CSP is who you want!
BEEN THERE, DONE THAT, EXPERIENCE HERE!
Kelli Vrla (Ver-lah), C S P, Rocky Mountain based Employee Engagement Specialist, has enlightened and “entertrained” thousands in the U.S., Europe, and Central America with one of her dynamic programs. Kelli shares over 30 years of lessons and experience: Sixteen years as a broadcast sales executive in radio and 14 years as CEO of her own people development firm.
Her in-the-trenches scope of learning comes from first-hand experiences in handling change, effective marketing, bottom-line communications, difficult and demanding people, and motivating the tough-to-motivate people. All of this prepared her for the variety of ways she now helps peope stay less stressed and laser focused on full-throttle productivity.
As the kick-off morning show host, Kelli energized listeners on the nation’s first all-women talk radio show.
Since her radio days at ABC & CBS, Kelli has successfully consulted companies in helping their people enhance personal and professional development skills. She has helped them learn to OWN their jobs and get others to OWN theirs. She has helped them learn to handle CHANGE before it handles them. She has even helped them optimize difficult and undesirable daily challenges.
Kelli has helped major corporations overcome the challenges and the chaos with her most-requested keynotes & workshops. She has done all of this with a festive delivery of relevant, memorable and ready-to-use-NOW skills.
MAKES A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR PEOPLE!THINKING DIFFERENTLY = WORKING DIFFERENTLY!
Not only does Kelli hold the CSP (Certified Speaking Pro = More Bang for your Buck!), she proudly carries the honor of GPE (Greek Pastry Enthusiast)!
In addition to serving on the boards of the National Speakers Association-North Texas and the Dallas Classical Guitar Society, she has worked with clients including:
ABC CBS Lockheed Martin NASA H & R Block Exxon Mobil Wal-Mart Discover Card
Capital One Time Warner Canyon Ranch Resorts Burger King IBM HSBC
American Dental Association Southwest Airlines
She is an active member of the National Speakers Association as well as the American Society of Training and Development. Her current publications include co-authored works in the “Pathway Series: The Top Ten Packing List for 21st Century Leaders” and “Glee = MC2, A Guide to Exceptional Customer Service.”
Soon-to-be-released publications: “Leadership: Employee Engagement: Have Them AFTER ‘Hello’!” and “The Power to Ponder: Strategic Inner-Visioning for Quantum Results!”
One recent attendee remarked, “Kelli was utterly amazing. She kept me awake, alert and assimilating. I laughed so hard my eyes were watering.” Kelli brings you relevant, memorable and Do-it-NOW skills to help you have more fun as you get more done!
Stronger Teams = Better Results, Better Processes, Better-Served & Happier Clients!
DRIVE your Team Building Awareness up!
➢ Build team player thinking
➢ Engage your clients with Leveraged Synergy!
➢ Gain support and cooperation from team members
➢ Optimize communication ➢ Work through and with team tensions
➢ Fuse individual talent into a team structure
➢ Personal action planning
➢ Ratchet up your team meetings ROI
➢ Big-picture Job Ownership
Don’t miss this festive fast-paced keynote! It gives you quick-use tools to hit the ground running to build better, stronger teams!
Teamwork makes the dream work!
This fast-moving session challenges you to pinpoint ways you and your staff can “Better Your Best”! Some of your success habits are working, while some need work. Find out which of your success strategies serve you and which ones swerve you from the path of superior excellence in performance and productivity. Don’t miss this festive delivery of relevant hit-the-ground-running tools to help you and your staff celebrate and accelerate in your quest to Better Your Best!
Learning Outcomes
1. Focus on full-throttle high “return on investment” activities to catapult your progress in any economy.
2. Learn how to focus on moving transactions forward.
3. Eliminate time-wasting and worry with a personal action plan to engage, enhance and explode.
Extended bullet objectives: Know whether you’re moving forward or in circles on your Best Quest Path
- Leave with a Personal Action Plan to Handle Life’s Speed Bumps!
- Capitalize on Your Victories & Learn Quantum Leaps from Your Losses
- Work Smart, Not Hard to Achieve Your Highest Priority Goals
- Eliminate Time-Wasters & Worry
- Focus on Moving Transactions Forward, so you & your Staff Can Optimize Victories & Learn Quantum Leap-Lessons When Things Don’t Go As Planned!
- Set Reasonable & Obtainable Targets
- Enjoy the Journey Along the Way
- Take Away Over 148 Different Ideas to Work Smarter Amidst Daily Challenges!
Catch Kelli’s festive delivery of one of her most-requested programs: “Engage Your People! Have Then After ‘Hello’!
You will see ways to :
- Clarify Expectations of Excellence
- Help them Connect the Dots to Client Satisfaction!
- Get Employees to OWN their jobs
- Enlist a “No Tolerance for Gossip / Negativity” Policy
- Handle CHANGE before it handles you
- Deal with people you cannot stand
- Stay Laser Focused amidst the chaos & change
Motivate & Energize – & Recharge for Resilience!
Keynote / Lecture & or Workshop Mixed Interaction
- Learn the art of constant flexibility.
- Unleash your power to survive and thrive with a high AQ (Adaptability Quotient).
- Learn how to handle change in your own world, as well as lead change in your organization
- Kick-Start your productivity meter
- Recognize when you’re moving forward or in circles in the Change Cycle.
- (Can be customized for management leading a change or staffers going through changes):
- The Leader’s Role in Making Change Happen (We’re all Leaders in the Change Movement)
- Understanding why we and others often instinctively resist change
- Top reasons why organizational change often fails
- Important considerations to address before introducing any change
- The keys to overcoming staff resistance (and your own) to change
- How to project confidence that inspires you & your staff during change or transition
- What you must do as a leader or staffer when you or your people flatly refuse to embrace critical changes )
Staffs must work well together to survive and thrive in all economies. Each employee needs to think and act like a team member with a common goal: to serve the client/customer.
This fast-moving session focuses on COACHING your team to laser focused productivity, which leads to TEAM cohesiveness and end user satisfaction.
Your Attendees will Learn How to :
•Build Team Player Thinking
•Establish a “No Gossip/ No Negativity” Policy
•Establish a problem-solving mindset
•Refocus on the top ROIs (Time/investment/work)
•Productively & proactively handle conflict
•Work through tension triggers
•Develop a big-picture mentality of how personal efforts lead to success
•Ratchet up ROI on team meetings, so they become productive motivators—not time wasters!
•Create a Personal & Office Action Plan to Use Right Away!
•Optimize Streamlined Communication
Bring it!
What got us here won’t get us to the next level. “Good enough” won’t do it.
This fast-moving session challenges you to pinpoint and quest to “Better Your Best!”
Some of your success habits are working, while some need work. Find out which ones are serving you and which ones are swerving you from the path of superior excellence in performance and productivity.
Quantum leaps happen when we apply action to our beliefs. This is not the time to sit and bask in our victories; celebrate and accelerate.
Kelli’s festive session will show you how to:
- Know whether you’re moving forward or in circles on your Best Quest Path
- Capitalize on Your Victories & Learn Quantum Leaps from Your Losses
- Focus on Full-Throttle High R.O.I. Activities to Catapult Your Progress
- Work Smart, Not Hard to Achieve Your Highest Priority Goals
- Eliminate Time-Wasters & Worry
- Focus on Moving Transactions Forward
- Set Reasonable & Obtainable Targets
- Enjoy the Journey Along the Way!
Spinning plates? Dropping a few? About to pull your hair out? Have you reached your last straw???
Statistics show we work 1/3 or our lives, sleep 1/3 of our lives, and spend the final 1/3 of our lives with home & hobbies. Stress from our work lives is now creeping over into our home lives and vice versa. There’s a healthy line of balance that needs to be drawn.
Harvard Business Review says we.re all in the middle of at least 15 things at once diminishing our effectiveness and adding to our burn out.
Most of us have reached a breaking point and we’ve quite frankly had enough.
Kelli’s program Stress Busting with Humor can help you find your balance, so you can focus on moving over, under, around and through your daily challenges!
This festive delivery of hit-the-ground-running skills will help enlighten you and your staff.
You will walk away with a Personalized Stress Busting Plan for Having More Fun While You Get More Done!
This most-in-demand program will help you:
• Assess current work-life balance and why it may be draining you instead of sustaining you!
•Learn at least 52 Known Stress Reducers
•Understand the cause of the GAP
•Learn how to reach for your OWN OXYGEN MASK first, then help others
•Quickly Use Dynamite & Easy Coping Techniques to handle your Most-
•Pressing Challenges
•Stay Laser-Focused Amidst the Chaos
•Know What Makes Us Tick and What Ticks Us Off
•Control Your Energy Surge when you really need it!
•Generate a Personalized Productivity Plan that works for you!
Perfect Audience for This Program: Extremely high pay-off for anyone wishing to manage work-life stressors/challenges more effectively.
A festive & highly entertaining Women’s Program Helping You Have More Fun & Get More Done!
“A festive delivery of relevant, memorable, & immediately-usable skills!”
Designed by women in business, for women in business, this seminar prepares you to take on greater organizational responsibilities, assess your strengths, pinpoint areas for improvement, redefine your personal brand and achieve a higher level of job satisfaction and effectiveness.
You will learn how to:
- Maximize your natural leadership capabilities
- Release your “mental brakes” and unlock your potential
- More creatively solve business problems
- Stay positive and focused
- Develop creative ideas to improve operations and effectiveness
- Master assertive communication with tact and skill
- Heighten your AQ (Adaptability Quotient)
- Use your time for maximum productivity
- Overcome procrastination
- Focus on your most valuable activities
- Have a laser focus on full-throttle productivity
- Have More Fun and Get More Done!
It costs five times as much to get a client as it does to keep one.
This festive-fun presentation will engage and delight with fresh-look tools to serve up WOW-NOW helpings of client care, ultimately boosting your bottom line. The key to rapport-building is like a muscle you can continue to improve, while sharpening your skills to enhance client relations. Learn quick-&-easy, hit-the-ground-running techniques to help you keep your day on-track. Meaty content delivered with a festive flare.
Learning Outcomes:
- Expand & Customize a WOW NOW awareness
- Establish and understand who our “client” really is: Internally & Externally
- Manage even the hardest-to-please people in your world
- Create rapport and increase productivity and practice the art of smooth recovery when folks aren’t always happy campers—even when they caused the problem!
- Optimize Streamlined Communication
- Stay cool amidst the chaos. Keep moving transactions forward—despite challenges and set-backs
Talking to yourself in your car? Wish you had used your “Inside Voice”? Communication glitches cause more than 85% of frustrating problems at work. Ever answered the same question to the same person in the same day more than once–within a few minutes? Great communication increases productivity and morale! Learn how to overcome obstacles with tips for tuning IN instead of OUT. This fun, fast-moving presentation gives you the keys to communication success BOTH INSIDE with your TEAM & OUTSIDE with CLIENTS!
Learning Outcomes:
- Learn powerful phrases that get things done!
- Handling the 10 Most Difficult & Demanding Personalities
- Learn how the Best Listeners speed up solutions & shorten meetings by tuning in on KEY Words
- Learn to avoid potential “land mines” hidden in our everyday language
- Learn how to combat the “Talk to the Hand” hard-to-reach client or coworker
- Learn to “Speed Read” one of the 4 Key Communication Styles and the Do’s and Don’ts with each
- Learn the power of Silence and the best times to use it
- How to get people to Stop Texting and Start Talking again!
Audience: Team Leads, Office Manager, Staff members, Spouses
Learning Outcomes:
- Learn the art of constant flexibility.
- Unleash your power to survive and thrive with a high AQ (Adaptability Quotient).
- Learn how to handle change in your own world, as well as lead change in your organization.
- Kick-Start your productivity meter
- Recognize when you’re moving forward or in circles in the Change Cycle.
CHANGE (Can be customized for management leading a change or staffers going through changes): The Leader’s Role in Making Change Happen (We’re all Leaders in the Change Movement)
- Understanding why we and others often instinctively resist change
- Top reasons why organizational change often fails
- Important considerations to address before introducing any change
- The keys to overcoming staff resistance (and your own) to change
- How to project confidence that inspires you & your staff during change or transition
- What you must do as a leader or staffer when you or your people flatly refuse to embrace critical changes ) Kelli’s festive presentation brings you hit-the-ground running techniques to help you have more fun as you get more done!
Can you handle the “Tooth”? A realistic look at actual vs. desired team performance in addition to pinpointing and working through some of the common “speed bumps” that hinder optimal team performance. People will always remember the way you make them feel. Model the excellence you expect from your team!
Audience: Team Leads, Office Manager, Staff members
Learning Outcomes
1. Understand team dynamics & where your team is now on the road to excellence!
2. Identify critical success factors for high performance teams.
3. Pinpoint and work through speed bumps hindering optimal team performance.
4. Establish TEAM Player Guidelines for Critical Practice areas: Meetings, Communication, No Gossip Policy, Discipline Norms and Consequences
My background is radio and stand-up comedy, so i keep the show going in a light upbeat way.
I’ve also emceed at comedy clubs many times.
Key takeaways include how to:
* Tap in
* Tune in &
* Turn on WOW NOW habits to
* Stand out with your valued customers!
* Stay top-of-mind as their “go-to” resource
* Engage their crucial feedback to provide over-the-top service
* Excel at Customized Service, making each individual client feel you really “Get Them”
* Ensure your clients feel seen, heard and understood
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