Jenny Barkan | SpeakerHub

Personal Details

Bio

I hold two degrees: Law and Psychology & Management, but my passion always was to help people to live better lives. A few years ago, I decided to transform my passion into a business and received formal training as a Life and Business Coach at Erickson Coaching International Institute, Vancouver, Canada. I also became a member of the International Coaching Federation, a global organization that retains very high professional and ethical standards.

I mainly specialize in Leadership Skills Development for Emerging and Experienced Leaders and Employee Experience Creation and Employee Retention Strategies.

I believe that leaders play a crucial role in creating a healthy, engaging, motivating, and accommodating environment, no matter if they lead two or two thousand people.

We spend long hours at work and how we are being treated and how we feel about ourselves at work has a tremendous impact on all areas of our lives.

Thankfully, effective and emotionally intelligent leadership is a learned skill, and I can help you develop or sharpen one.

Current position (1)

Business Coach and Facilitator

Jenny Barkan, Business Coach

Degrees (1)

Coaching

Erickson Coaching International

2014

Presentations

Presentations (6)

Employees' Retention Strategies

1. First step: How to Attract the Right Person for the Right Job. What to look for during a resume screening and an interview process. The participants will learn a different perspective on behavior during the hiring process, recognize the set of skills that is really needed and if the candidate has these skills or able to develop them. 2. Second step: How to Keep Employees Engaged? What keeps Employees motivated? Participants will learn about types of motivations, pros and cons for each type, how to create and keep an engaging and motivating environment at the work place. 3. Third step: Letting Go. Letting a wrong person go sometimes might be the best retention strategy. Participants will learn how to recognize the wrong person, analyze the damaging effect, make the firing process as less stressful as possible for all the parties involved.

Effective Communication in the Workplace

Attendees will learn about how do we listen and what we really take from the conversations. Assumptions vs. reality. Importance of listening skills, tools and tips on how to develop and apply listening skills.
How to be heard and get your point through without "screaming".
What vs how. What we are saying and how we do it - are two sides of the same coin.
How to have difficult conversations at work and the positive impacts of conflicts; ways to deescalate the situations and work through the conflict.

Unlocking the Power of Employee Experience

In this 2-hour interactive workshop participants will learn about: - the role employee experience plays in attracting and engaging employees, as well as financial results - different stages of employment (Interview & Hire, Onboarding, Experienced Employee, Exit) - how to maximize total employee value at every stage - creating actionable steps for designing an impactful employee experience through using physical space, technology and culture, so employees WANT to come and STAY. Learning Objectives: After participating in Unlocking the power of employee experience workshop, HR professionals will: - Understand key elements of building an impactful onboarding program - Gain an awareness of key elements that impact employee performance at various stages of employee journey - Learn about tools that can be used to get employees involved in the process of creating employee experience - Learn about specific strategies for maximizing retention rates at every stage of employee journey - Be able to educate executive team on importance, value and financial impact of intentionally designed employee experience

Engagement and Performance in hybrid and remote work settings

Learning objectives:
1. Understanding of why performance and engagement in the remote and hybrid work settings requires a different approach from in-person work setting.
2. What leadership skills are essential for keeping high levels of engagement and performance in the remote and hybrid work settings.
3. How to recognize and mitigate effects of cognitive biases in the remote and hybrid work environment.
4. Best practices from organizations that successfully transitioned to remote and hybrid work style.
HRPA Professional Competencies addressed in this presentation:
1. Strategy (Strategic Perspective)
2. Organizational Effectiveness (Employee Engagement)
3. Workforce Planning and Talent Management (Performance Management System)
Research used in the presentation:
1. “The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers” by Longqi Yang, Nature Human Behaviour, 09.09.2021
2. Owl Labs, State of Remote work 2021. 01.09.2021
3. Great Place to Work ® Return to work and Fu

Effective Performance Reviews and Feedback Conversations

Learning objectives:
1. Understanding of positive outcomes of effective performance reviews and feedback and negative implications of the feedback done incorrectly.
2. Coaching for success vs. policing for failure approach to performance reviews and feedback.
3. Understanding why managers procrastinate giving feedback.
4. Learning about tips and tool for making performance reviews and feedback conversations as placid as possible for managers and employees.
5. Performance reviews and feedback conversations in remote and hybrid work environments.

Moving Forward While Going Back. How to help employees in the post-pandemic reality

Learning Objectives:
1. Gaining better understanding of employees' fears and concerns around return to in-person work.
2. How to improve levels of energy and restore sense of belonging through teamwork and communication.
3. Best practices from companies that are successfully returning to in-person work (including hybrid style work setting)
4. Role of the leaders in the return to in-person work process.

Past talks (2)

Employee Experience Creation

HRPA Hamilton Webinar

Online

May 11, 2022

Employee Experience Creation

HRPA Durham Webinar

Online

February 16, 2022