SPEAKING

For inquiries about speaking engagements with Teresa Amabile, please contact Tom Neilssen at BrightSight Speakers.

The Progress Principle: Boosting Creative Productivity at Work

What really makes people happy, motivated, productive, and creative at work? Teresa’s research has discovered the answer. It’s “The Progress Principle,” and it reveals the single most important thing that managers can do to engage their employees. Analyzing nearly 12,000 daily diaries from over 200 knowledge workers, Teresa discovered eleven specific actions that managers can take to catalyze progress and nourish employees’ motivation. Through speeches, workshops, and interactive discussions on this topic, you will learn how to leverage The Progress Principle to achieve the dual goals of supporting employee well-being and igniting creative productivity:

• The secrets of inner work life and how to harness them for creative productivity
• The power of “small wins”: How seemingly minor events at work have a major impact on people’s emotions, perceptions, and motivations – all affecting work performance
• Tracking progress, setbacks, and workplace actions that affect them by using a simple checklist
• Creating a climate of attention to progress in your organization

Retiring Well: What People and Their Companies Need to Know

Retiring, as a major life transition, can be both thrilling and challenging in unexpected ways. Beyond financial security and physical health, people need preparation for the psychological, social-relational, and life restructuring upheavals they will face. The secrets of facing them successfully lie in the 215 interviews conducted and analyzed by Teresa and her expert research team over the course of a decade. The 120 corporate professionals interviewed, including the 14 followed for years throughout their retirement transitions, reveal what it takes to have a retirement that benefits both the person and the organization from which they retire. In speeches, workshops, and interactive discussions, Teresa engages audiences in key takeaways:

• What organizations get right about retirement – and what they get wrong.
• The four tasks of the retiring process, the work they require, and how to do the work.
• Vivid case studies of people who experienced smooth, quick transitions into satisfying retirement lives – and people who had long, difficult journeys.
• How to use “The Four A’s” – alignment, awareness, agency, and adaptability – to meet the challenges and reap the rewards of this and other life transitions.