If you are interested in attending a NEXT retreat, Linda Christopherson and I have assessed our own third chapters and have decided this 2025 NEXT retreat will be our last one. We have a couple of spots left and welcome anyone who wants to experience this. More info at https://nextchapterretreat.org/ and let us know if you’d like to grab one of those spots.
Start your New Managers off with Success!
Are you onboarding new managers? Here's a way to start them off on the right foot to build engagement and productivity right away. Use Everything DiSC Management (on the Catalyst platform) to introduce them to the key principles of Management:
1. Your DiSC style has a strong influence on how you approach management. Other factors such as life experience, education, and maturity also play a role,
2. People with all styles can be effective managers, even if they approach the role differently. No style is better than any other,
3. No matter what your style, you’ll need to adapt to the styles of the people you manage if you want to be effective.
Then they can apply their personalized style to 4 key roles a manager must play: directing/delegating, motivating, developing talent and managing up.
And when review time comes, you can offer the Delivering Constructive Feedback module to those managers so they can apply their approach to a specific direct report.
This is a way you can integrate training and development with the work of your managers to build a strong and effective culture.
DM me for more info or a demo.
Learn to unleash the power of teamwork!
Do you often think you could work together with your teammates more effectively and productively?
If you do, The Five Behaviors® can be your roadmap.
The Five Behaviors Personal Development is based on best-selling author Patrick Lencioni’s ground-breaking model for developing high-performing teams through five key behaviors: Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, and Results. This powerful solution teaches you the critical behaviors and interpersonal skills needed to be effective team players on any team by combining this powerful team model with personalized insights.
Come to Unleash the Power of Teamwork on June 17, 11-noon ET (online) where you will…
*Learn about the powerful Five Behaviors model, its groundbreaking approach to team development, and how it can be leveraged to unlock the power of teamwork in your organization at all levels
*Preview The Five Behaviors Personal Development solution
*Receive a complimentary Personal Development assessment and personalized profile.
Let me know you’re interested and I’ll register you at no charge!
Come to the NEXT Chapter Retreat in September 2025!
Fellow women over 50: let’s be real. Aging comes with its challenges and “aging gracefully” has long been the goal, but it’s time to flip the script. It’s not just about accepting the years as they come; it’s about “aging with intention”. This mindset shift invites us to actively shape our journey—it’s about embracing, growing and finding strength in the wisdom and resilience you’ve gained along the way.
Join 9 other women in September 2025 for a long weekend where you will plan your "third chapter" intentionally. Designed and facilitated by Karen A. Geiger and Linda Christopherson, you will have time to think about what is most important to you in your next chapter. More information at https://nextchapterretreat.org/
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Build your capacity to manage conflict!!
Social media algorithms that are designed to produce outrage and divisive politics make conflict inevitable in thesen times and handling it productively will make or break our organizations and even our country.
We can build our capacity to communicate about conflicting points of view with a tool inside Everything DiSC on Catalyst: 1 of 5 modules called “Managing Conflict”.
In this 1-hour session, your managers will learn their own instincts in a conflict situation, and be able to tailor their approach to a specific person - thereby making the conflict a source of increased engagement and understanding rather than something that isolates people. Using this tool will build a culture of acceptance and skill when it comes to managing conflict in your organization.
DM me for more info or a demo!!
Help your managers empower their teams!
Help your managers understand the buzzwords of a productive work environment and enable them to create an action plan focused on a specific colleague.
For example, one of the Everything DiSC Worksmart modules is called “Empowering your Team” and is live now. What does empowerment mean? The module helps managers define this and put it into action, like, having information to do their job, being confident about making the right choices, and knowing who to talk to about issues they can’t resolve alone.
After learning what empowerment means to every DiSC style, your managers can then use the module to create a specific action plan for each colleague they manage, making them effective at empowering their teams rather than just using buzzwords.
Contact me today for more info or a demo!
Come to the Why Feedback Fails: Guiding Managers Through Constructive Communication webinar!
Come to the Why Feedback Fails: Guiding Managers Through Constructive Communication webinar on either June 12 or July 22 at 11-noon ET (you will get a recording if you register and can't make that time). You will learn how DiSC® styles—both manager's and direct report's—impact feedback dynamics. You will gain practical tools to help managers adjust their style for different team members, so they can overcome barriers and build positive interactions.
Giving constructive feedback is one of the 5 topics in Everything DiSC’s latest innovation – Worksmart. This tool helps managers tackle workplace challenges with short, facilitated trainings. In this 60-minute webinar, you will learn:
· The importance of delivering feedback effectively
· Why giving and receiving feedback often presents challenges
· Feedback superpowers and limiters unique to each DiSC style
· How to tailor feedback delivery to match direct reports’ DiSC styles
· Actionable strategies to implement these personalized insights immediately
Get a sneak peek by watching this preview video: https://players.brightcove.net/3742124946001/jHepbYsjj_default/index.html?videoId=6370145775112
Let me know if you're interested and I will register you today!
Give managers what they need to build engagement and productivity!
If you are in the training field and realizing that targeting content to specific real-time challenges is the best way to train now, you have a great option.
Everything DiSC® Worksmart is a set of five targeted learning modules designed to help managers apply DiSC® to everyday interpersonal challenges.
Worksmart combines DiSC insights, short-form facilitated training, and on-demand action planning, ensuring managers can immediately apply DiSC to a range of interpersonal situations. This will help managers develop and put into practice the concrete skills that are demanded of them every day.
Two of the five modules will be released TOMORROW (May 5, 2025) for the exclusive reduced price of ten credits (50% off the regular price). If you want this reduced price, all of your learners will receive two modules right away, then get the remaining three modules as they become available through late summer—for no additional fee! This offer will end on July 31, 2025, when Worksmart officially launches.
Contact me at karen@karengeiger.com for more information or details!
Plan your Third Chapter to be rewarding and enjoyable!
For women 50+: Let’s plan your third chapter.
How can you reconnect with dreams that you buried?
What makes you happy and how can you bring more happiness into your life?
What have you always wanted to learn but never found the time?
How can you keep yourself fueled for the decades to come?
Come to a long weekend retreat where you will make the time to ponder these questions, let them marinate and find answers that will illuminate the path toward a fulfilling third chapter. Give yourself this gift and meet other amazing women who are asking the same questions!
More info at NEXT: Designing Your Third Chapter - Home and either Linda Christopherson or I will be happy to get on a call with you to answer any questions. Spaces are going fast so register soon!
Build agility throughout your organization!
Building your agile organization starts with developing the emotional intelligence of your workforce. Everything DiSC®Agile EQ™ was designed to help participants discover an agile approach to workplace interactions and learn to navigate outside their comfort zone, empowering them meet the demands of any situation. Want to learn more? Contact me today!
Come to NEXT 2025!
For centuries, philosophers and scientists have attempted to answer the question of why we're here. Some have claimed that good health or growth is our purpose, while others see it as a divine blessing or a means of passing on our genes. Yet, no matter the answer, one thing is consistent: we're meant to connect with each other.
It's part of our nature to build relationships. From a young age, children naturally form bonds with their parents and caregivers—and this pattern continues throughout our lives. We constantly seek companionship and support as we go through life's stages together.
If you are woman 50+ years old, our NEXT retreat (Sept. 18-21) offers you that companionship and support as you enter your "third chapter". Give yourself that gift and register for your spot soon - we limit our group to 10 and there are only a few spots left. More information at https://nextchapterretreat.org/ or DM me or Linda Christopherson.
Get results from your teamwork!
Making the best of our organizations, communities, advocacy groups or any other collection of people working together to produce meaningful results requires intentional work to build connectivity between them. The Five Behaviors model and related assessments helps to be the catalyst for some powerful teamwork. DM me today for a demo or for more information.
Make your Feedback Effective
Facing challenges in delivering constructive feedback as a manager? Join Dr. Mark Scullard’s webinar, Why Feedback Fails: Guiding Managers Through Constructive Communication, on May 5, 11-noon EST. to:
· Discover the importance of delivering feedback effectively
· Unpack why giving and receiving feedback can be a challenge
· Learn feedback superpowers and limiters of each DiSC style
Just let me know you want to attend and I'll sign you up. This is worth your time!
Plan a fulfilling third chapter!
At a key moment in the twenty-first century, demographers are recognizing the significance of a distinct developmental phase: those years following early adulthood and middle age when we are "neither young nor old." Whether by choice or not, many of us in our "third chapters" are finding ways to adapt, explore, and channel our energies, skills, and passions in new ways and into new areas.
It's this process of creative reinvention that the renowned sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot details in The Third Chapter, which redefines our views about the casualties and opportunities of aging. She challenges the still-prevailing images of aging by documenting and revealing how the years between fifty and seventy-five may, in fact, be the most transformative and generative time in our lives, tracing the ways in which wisdom, experience, and new learning inspire individual growth and cultural transformation.
If you are a woman over 50, the NEXT Retreat on September 18-21, 2025 in Lake Junaluska is a gift to yourself to define your own third chapter. You'll have a private room, private bath, and a supportive community around you in a beautiful setting. Let us know if you are ready by visiting https://nextchapterretreat.org and letting us know you're interested!
Create a community that welcomes productive conflict!
Conflict is part of human interaction but doesn't have to involve fear, anger and even violence. There is a way for each of us to manage it productively and there is a tool called Everything DiSC Productive Conflict that will give you this:
-Appreciate how your style of handling conflict affects those around you
-Learn how to “catch” yourself when going down a destructive conflict path
-Learn how to reframe a conflict situation and choose more productive behaviors
-Build a common language in your workplace or community around appropriate conflict behavior
The 22-page Everything DiSC® Productive Conflict Profile provides an in-depth, highly personalized report that highlights techniques to improve self-awareness around conflict behaviors. You can explore your own DiSC style and learn how to interact in conflict with people with different DiSC styles, you can explore common destructive responses to conflict and why you and others might react this way, then practice stepping back from and reframing your unhealthy thought patterns, allowing you to choose more productive responses to conflict.
Create a community that welcomes productive conflict - DM me today for a demo!
Choose the best person for the role you’re looking to fill!
Choosing the best person for the role you’re looking to fill is a gift now with turnover high and engagement low. PXT Select is an assessment you can give your finalists that matches their results with your ideal colleague and produces 13 reports you can use over their tenure with you. And the first report gives you targeted and personalized interview questions!
Here are just a few samples of the information you will get from this assessment - including Thinking Style (verbal and math skills), Behavioral Traits (work behavior preferences) and Interests (seeing if they will like the role). DM me for a demo or more information.
Live your life from the inside out.
Ramesh Srinivasan and just released a book titled “The Journey of Leadership: How CEOs Can Learn to Lead from the Inside Out. They acknowledge that the world is changing rapidly, geopolitics have become quite complex, technology is having a huge impact, and climate change is here to stay.
In this context, they felt the world needed a new paradigm of leadership and call it human-centric leadership. They propose that leaders need to reflect on their purpose, who they are, how they show up in the world, and how they can inspire their teams and the institutions they’re leading.
We can apply this to our own lives and this kind of reflection helps us create a next chapter that is satisfying, fulfilling, meaningful, and even inspirational.
This is what happens for you at the NEXT retreat - this year it’s Sept. 18-21, 2025. You will give yourself the gift of time and a beautiful setting to reflect on your purpose at this time in your life, how you show up in the world, what gives you joy, and what you need to let go of.
We only accept 10 women and we have a pretty awesome group forming so reserve your spot now! DM Linda Christopherson or me to get answers to any questions you have.
https://nextchapterretreat.org/
Move from disengaged to “let’s do this!”
The way we “team” is more complex than ever before. Whether we are collaborating in person, through screens, or a little of both, building a successful team can be daunting. But what if it doesn’t have to be?
Through impactful virtual and classroom learning experiences that empower your team members through self-discovery and constructive behavior modeling, The Five Behaviors is the only team development solution that rewrites the traditional rules for teamwork to build stronger teams. You can transform the team dynamic on any team from disengaged to “let’s do this!”.
DM me for more information!
Give yourself or someone you know the gift of coming to NEXT 2025
In this time of political turmoil, hybrid work and rapid technological changes, it is important to stay centered and plan your next chapter in a supportive community of fellow life travelers. We only accept 10 women maximum and spaces are filling up. Come to NEXT 2025 - September 18-21, 2025 in Lake Junaluska with a private room and bath to think about yourself and your vision for your next chapter. Linda and Karen ask the questions and each person answers them for themselves. Visit https://nextchapterretreat.org/ for more information, ask us anything, and register to give this gift to yourself.
Register for NEXT 2025 or tell a friend!
If you are a 50+ woman ready to plan and create the third chapter of your life, come to NEXT 2025! Along with a small cohort of peers, design a life with purpose and productivity, personalizing all of these elements:
*Meaningful purpose
*Spiritual enrichment
*Skill development
*Community connections
*Physical, mental, emotional health
*Your legacy
*Educational opportunities
*Nurturing relationships
*Healthy lifestyle
The power of the program arises from the intentional community we will build through large and small-group discussions, silent reflection, journaling, and other creative ways to engage. We will share a beautiful retreat designed to be a space of beauty, contemplation and rejuvenation while we plan a third chapter that builds on the wisdom gained in your early years, but reaches for more than simply slowing down in retirement.
Let me or Linda know you are interested or visit https://nextchapterretreat.org/ for more information. Register early - spots are filling up quickly!
