Janet Mills, Ph.D.
Speeches & Seminars
Dr. Janet Mills delivers dynamic keynote speeches, engaging workshops and seminars that produce awareness and action. Below are her most popular presentations.
Body Watching: Gender, Power, and Nonverbal Communication
Dr. Janet Mills is a body watcher...but lest you think this an unseemly pastime for the Boise State professor, be assured...she does it for professional reasons...and she watches women as well as men in the mixed-sex workplace. Mills describes and demonstrates how men and women speak different body language and uses the audience members as volunteers to gently and humorously illustrate unspoken messages of power, dominance, and high status...or affiliation, subordination, and low status. The potentials for confusion and misrepresentation are clear. So are implications for increased personal effectiveness.
Eavesdropping: Gender and Conversational Style
Dr. Janet Mills is an eavesdropper...but lest you think this rude or intrusive, be reassured...she eavesdrops for purely professional purposes. Different subscripts underlie what women and men say. Not knowing these subscripts...or even knowing they exist...we may misunderstand our conversational partner. Strategies for adapting one’s conversation style are revealed for improving interpersonal effectiveness.
Discovering the Power of Teams
In this experientially-based workshop, participants work in teams to accomplish a series of tasks. Each task presents opportunities teams, other people and the self. Be ready to cooperate, innovate, laugh, puzzle things through, untangle messes, and learn-by-doing in this powerful, fun workshop.
Psychological Type at Work
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator identifies four preferences that describe psychological type (extraversion/introversion, sensing/intuition, thinking/ feeling, judging/perceiving). With humor and insight, Dr. Janet Mills urges us to understand, accept, respect, and utilize differences...and to learn to flex our style. When we do, we enhance our ability to influence and motivate others, process information more fully, make better decisions, and adapt gracefully to meet our own needs and those of others.
Awareness to Action
Instrumented learning is the key feature of this workshop designed for managers. Participants complete a variety of instruments and receive debriefing about what their scores mean. As they reflect on this potentially new information about themselves, Dr. Janet Mills guides discussion about how to manage the self appropriately in order to lead others effectively.
Thinking Outside the Box
Are you creative? Can you "think outside the box" when you intend to? In this delightful session, you will either "think outside the box" or knock your head on the walls of the box! Be ready to dive into mind-benders, thought-twisters, surprises, and FUN! Interactive exercises will challenge you to entertain alternative perspectives, shift paradigms, generate ideas fluently and flexibly and exercise right and left brain thinking styles.
Exquisite Communication Skills for Managers
There are several things people want from you when they interact with you professionally. For the most part, these things are communicated implicitly and unconsciously. When they are present, your impact is positive and powerful! Here is an opportunity to sharpen skills and techniques for attending exquisitely to verbal and nonverbal cues; creating wordless messages of acceptance and rapport; listening actively and empathically; delivering information clearly and assessing others’ understanding; and terminating interactions gracefully so that others leave experiencing self-esteem and optimism.
Generation Personality
Growing up in different decades marked by different events, generational cohorts develop similar world views. The stamp of the times is revealed in behaviors, attitudes, values, and beliefs. Portraits of Veterans, Boomers, Gen-Xers and Millenials provide the basis for understanding others, building respect and working well together in the mixed-generation workplace.
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