Huge Newsletter! PR© Returns!, Smart People© all new, MCC©. Adv. WMF©. New article

In this issue:

Productive Relationships© returns!

Smart People:

The Challenge of Giftedness©

Compressed Managing Corporate Change

New Advanced WMF®

Article: Decision Fatigue

Susan and John's Video Library

Productive Relationships© Returns Virtually!

Productive Relationships©, the course that started it all for John, returns for the first time in a virtual format in November. Listening is the primary skill of communication yet most of us have never been trained in listening especially to peoples emotions!

Whether it is team members or kids, spouses or others that we care about need need to be heard. They need the support of a committed listener to process all the emotions so they can fix their problems.

All change generates conflict. We are living in perhaps the most conflictual time of our lives. But do we have the skill to resolve the conflict? This is the other major skill set of PR©. (See our Website for the complete description)

Dates: November 17-19, 2020

Format: Virtual via Zoom

Special Price for this session of PR© $2,250

Click here to go to SVVCI® Website

Is "Smart" a Problem?

Smart People: The Challenge of Giftedness

When our kids are born we hope and pray they will be smart and talented. Then the wish comes true and the roller coaster ride begins. Bored at school, frustrated with same age peers, endless arguments, intense emotions and so much more.

We hope and pray that after school when they are working it will be better, easier. Then we find out it is just a different set of issues all stemming from being smart, with high standards for every part of life. They have a sensitivity to the world that frequently shows up as a burden. The arguments shift to ethical battles with the organizations they are in.

It is as if we were not given the owners manual for how to operate when we are gifted. Things always seem a bit off. This very special course is the culmination on 35 years of work with gifted individuals. All are welcome, gifted individuals and those around them.

This is the owners manual!

October 27-29, 2020

Format: Virtual via Zoom

Course fee $3,750

Click here to go to SVVCI® website to Register

Virtual

Advanced Women Moving Forward®

Nov. 12-13, 2020

The next step for WMF© graduates, with a deep dive into "purpose". Don't miss this opportunity to work with Susan and other graduates in a small group setting; virtually.

$1,500 for one person

$2,500 for two

Click here to go to SVVCI® website to Register

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Compressed Managing Corporate Change©

Covid changes have accelerated an already crazy world!! I know I need help but where do I find the time? We have done the core skills of MCC© in a compressed format 7 times now. The format is 3 half days taught virtually.

Don't miss the opportunity to get all the essential skills of MCC© in a format that fits your life.

Nov 11, 12, 13, 2020

9 AM-1 PM PST

Course fee $1,500

Format Virtual via Zoom

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WMF® Get-together

via Zoom

Friday Oct. 30 9:30 AM PST

Open to all WMF© Grads

No charge.

Email us to

reserve your spot.

2020-21 Courses Public Workshop Schedule

Smart People: The Challenge of Giftedness, Oct 27-29, 2020 Virtual $3,750

Managing Corporate Change© Nov 11-13 Virtual (4 hours/day) $1,500

Advanced Women Moving Forward® Nov 12-13 Virtual $1,500

2021 Courses

Women Moving Forward® Feb 23-25, Westlake Village CA $4,750

Women Moving Forward March 9-11, Singapore $6,750

Advanced WMF® April 8-9, Cincinnati OH $3,250

Women Moving Forward® April 12-14, Cincinnati OH $4,750

Managing Corporate Change© April 27-29 $3,750

Women's Leadership Retreat® May 11-13, Ojai CA $4,950 FULL

Enabling Purpose through Relationships© June 22-24 $3,750

Women Moving Forward® July 20-22 Westlake Village CA $4,750

Women Moving Forward® October 6-8, Geneva Switzerland $6,750

Adv. Women Moving Forward® October 12-13 Geneva Switzerland $3,750

Women's Leadership Retreat® November 3-5 Westlake Village CA $4,950

The Hidden one: "Decision Fatigue"

Them: "What do you want for dinner?

You "I don't Know! I picked yesterday"

Them "No, you didn't I did! Its your turn! Pick something!"

You "I can't do it. Do we have to eat?"

How could this decision possibly be this hard? It's dinner.

But it is. Because you have been making a hundred decisions all day long that you normally did not have to do pre-covid. You have decision fatigue. Your Instacart order just came in. What's the protocol now? Do I have to just wipe down the bags? Or is it the bags and each individual item? What is the standard today? Wait, is it the vegetables you can't use wipes on? Or the fruits and the vegetables? Are we supposed to quarantine all this or just the items in plastic?

Remember those halcyon days when you came home and just put the groceries away? Totally on automatic pilot no concious decision making at all!

Nope in a pandemic, decision making is constant and relentless.

What about the parents home schooling how many decisions does that add?

By 5:00 PM the decision making part of you brain is pooped. The simplest thing is overwhelming, by the end of the day.

Here's our recommendation.

-All the decisions you know you are going to make; make early in the day....like dinner. Don't worry about how hungry you will be just pick.

-Keep in mind how many of the choices have little to no negative consequences. Geography first, English first? Just pick one. She's in the 5th grade Harvard acceptance does not hang in the balance!

-Your attitude and levels of stress will effect the outcomes way more than the actual choice most of the time!

Hope this helps. FYI We picked dinner for today right after dinner last night.

As always we invite your input.