May Professional Development Meeting
I am Soooooo Stressed Out!
Stress Management for Professionals


What does dessert and Elvis Presley have to do with stress management? Everything!


Everyone faces stress. It’s a fact of life. What you do with it makes the difference between enjoying your life or resenting it, between being challenged or being overwhelmed. The demands and the pace of our busy lives pressure us all. Some master it and some do not. The trick is to take back control!

In this dynamic, unconventional, and entertaining session, we will address the subject of stress from a refreshing common sense point of view. Helping you learn how to function with stress, as well as how to reduce it. You’ll learn how to feel better about yourself and become less vulnerable to stressful situations. At the same time you will learn to lighten up and see the humor that is all around us!



Some of what the participants will learn:

How to identify the “good” stress and “bad” stress

Understanding our optimal stress

The answer to two key questions to manage any stressful situation

Have a guaranteed, sure fire way to turn your love of dessert and the King of Rock and Roll into a practical, real world way to control your stress!

Biography
Julie Burch is the President of JLH Presentations, as well as, a past adjunct instructor at Southern Methodist University and a former member of the National Speaker’s Association.

In Julie’s almost 14 years of speaking professionally, has had the privilege of speaking to audiences in all 50 states, Washington DC, St. Thomas, St. Croix, Puerto Rico, Canada, England and Wales. Where she has designed programs for industry leaders such as Texas Tech University, The City of Southlake, Texas, The City of Cedar Hill, Texas, Texas Women’s University, Columbia Gas of Ohio, The American Payroll Association, The United States Army, The United States Air Force, Subway, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Holiday Inn, Husky Oil, and The Society for Human Resource Management’s HR Southwest Conference. She was also honored with a guest appearance on “Good Morning America” where she was interviewed by Diane Sawyer.

Julie has dedicated her life to the pursuit of helping companies improve the bottom line through customer service and the consistent growth and development of people. She has coordinated, developed and delivered top notch, highly effective classroom style training and motivational keynote presentations with powerful results. All of Julie’s presentations are dynamic, high energy, highly interactive and packed with real world, tangible techniques the audience can implement immediately. Julie also loves to make them laugh! She has discovered the more her audience laughs the more they learn.

Julie is also an author. She is the coauthor of two books including a motivational book for women titled “The Princess Principle: Women Helping Women Discover Their Royal Spirit” and “Success Simplified: Simple Solutions Measurable Results.” Julie also has released several CD’s and Webinar DVD’s on some of her most requested topics.

Julie lives in Flower Mound, Texas with her husband who is the love of her life and her adorable adopted cat Vernon.

 

Tutorial Subject: Delivering Processes to All Stakeholders with Web Technology
Tutorial Presenter: Henry Draughon

The Internet and the associated Web-based user interface has been around for over a decade and is well-adopted throughout industry and society. The Web-technology adopted as the Internet user interface offers process designers a delivery methodology which can revolutionize communications of process execution and strategy to all stakeholders. Web technology can address many human factors that affect effective process execution such as: · Strategic and tactical understanding of processes and associated tasks · Reduction of learning curves · Reducing human error and wasted efforts · Providing the only the information needed in the context of the work involved in an improved visual manner. Thus increasing understanding and ability to execute · Providing visual paths through process and exception execution Web-based Procedural Content Delivery - Technical workflows are segmented into discrete visual units. Technical workflow symbols are replaced with icons and pictures the non-technical employees easily recognize. Point and click drilldowns within the segmented units provide more detailed instructions as required. Links can be made to detailed step guidance, work instructions, training videos and other web sites and applications. The result is a very intuitive web-based framework that visually guides employees through process execution to work completion. Web-based Strategic Content Delivery – Web-based strategic and tactical operational models can also be developed that reflect the organizational relationships between goals and processes. All facets of effective organization planning and execution can be reflected and used, real time, to manage efforts to attain organization goals and strategies. The model aligns processes to performance metrics, projects to project portfolios and centralizes access to corporate process management resources like key performance metrics, process catalogs, dashboards, etc.

Biography
Mr. Draughon is President of Process Delivery Systems and a Principal in the PMO Practice of BOT International, a PDS partner firm. Mr. Draughon specializes in business process analysis, project and portfolio management as well as a variety of Information Technology disciplines. Mr. Draughon served in the US Navy from 1972 through 1985 rising to the rank of Lieutenant, Naval Flight Officer. In 1980, Mr. Draughon joined IBM where he led sales and implementations of complex data processing solutions, industry applications, and database systems. Mr. Draughon later founded Draughon & Associates providing IT management, special projects management, and enterprise network design, implementation, and maintenance services to a wide variety of businesses. In 1997, Mr. Draughon co-founded Florance and Associates Consulting where he led numerous practice areas including data center design, application implementation, and network optimization. Mr. Draughon earned a B.S. degree in Business Administration at St. Peter's College, and an MBA at Webster College. Mr. Draughon's hobbies include golf and physical fitness.