Rhonda Scharf – Big Idea Speakers

Rhonda Scharf is a well-recognized Professional Speaker, Trainer, Consultant, and Author. Since 1993 she has worked with tens of thousands of people in 13 different countries. As a certified speaking professional, Rhonda specializes in helping others thrive in their work environment using her proven tools and strategies. She enjoys speaking to and working with your front line support staff because by working with the people who actually do the heavy lifting, she makes a lasting impact on your organizational efficiency, effectiveness and especially, employee morale.

Organizations around the world sing her praises for her relevant and useful tips on administration, communication, and workplace effectiveness. Rhonda’s talks are full of real enthusiasm and radiate positive energy!

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Biography

Rhonda Scharf CSP Insightful … humorous … entertaining … even contagious …words that are often used to describe Rhonda Scharf. A speaker with the uncanny ability to look at the normal and see something quite different.

Rhonda is a Professional Speaker, Trainer, and Author, based in Ottawa. She has spoken to tens of thousands of people in 13 different countries. Rhonda has served as the 2004 Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS) National President, has served on the Board of the Global Speakers Federation and is named in the 2018 edition of “Who’s Who in Professional Speakers”(where she has been listed since 1998).

Rhonda will share some things she has learned to help you thrive in your work environment, emerging at the end of the day with a smile and a sense of accomplishment. Audiences far and wide sing her praises for her relevant and useful tips on administration, communication and workplace effectiveness!

Rhonda is an author, speaker, trainer, mom, and one of only 59 Certified Speaking Professionals in Canada. Her peers consider Rhonda a leader in the speaking industry! Her natural warmth and sincerity are balanced by a healthy sense of the absurd, a combination that is useful in any situation.

Rhonda’s professional speaking career began at age two… when her mother would offer her 25 cents to be quiet for five minutes!

Speech Topics

Dealing With Difficult People

Never again fall victim to those who love to make life miserable for the rest of us!

The ability to communicate effectively in the workplace has become a basic skill in today’s environment. As the workplace becomes more stressful there seems to be more difficult people to deal with. In this program you will learn how to work in more challenging environments by expanding your communication skills with all types of people that you encounter.

Dealing with difficult people on a daily basis can turn a dream job into a nightmare! As pressures in the workplace increase, many office professionals are finding there are more difficult people to deal with on the job as well as in our personal lives. Whether you have to handle a customer who shouts at you for doing your job or a team member who takes credit for your ideas, this unique workshop will show you ways to stop falling victim to those difficult people who love to make life miserable for the rest of us!

Sometimes You’re The Windshield – Sometimes You’re The Bug! How To Take Control of Your Life

Sometimes life gets the better of us, and we ask “Whose life is it, anyway”? When you stop living for yourself and live only for everyone else, something is missing! In this humorous keynote, Rhonda shares that not only do we all experience this feeling – it’s OK to be frustrated!

Learn how to stay away from contagious negativity, look at life through a positive focus and stop blaming (whether it is the economy, government, organization or just bad luck!) For those people who do this naturally, they will learn additional skills to keep on top!

Take control of your own life is the message – and through realistic, easy and fun approaches to control, Rhonda leaves everyone laughing about life, instead of crying – but most importantly, the knowledge on how to get back the life we want to have!

Maximizing Your Inner Super Hero

All Super Heroes have Super Powers, and when they use them for “good” rather than “evil” they can leap tall buildings in a single bound, catch a speeding bullet, or stop a runaway train in its tracks.

We all have super powers, we just don’t always know what they are, nor what to do with them. Learn to harness the superpowers you have to be a Super Hero every day at work.

Come along for a fun ride as Rhonda shares how to find your superpowers, and how to use them to help you maximize your Inner Super Hero.

– The top 10 superpowers, and how you can apply them every day to improve your life, both personally and professionally

– What do the Beatles, Starbucks, Amazon, and you have in common? Learn how innovation can make you stand far above your competition

– Easy to apply techniques to maximize your inner superhero

– Laugh, play, learn, and enjoy as you share your journey with Rhonda

Common Sense is NOT Common Practice

Face it, the world is filled with people who don’t seem to have any common sense, and we all wonder how they make it through the day. But every once in a while, we are the one with no common sense. Are you a little more clueless than you realize? Are you the one walking around with no common sense? Do you need to get some back?

Join Rhonda on a hilarious journey of common and not so common sense. Question what you are doing and why, and find out how you can have the common sense that others seem to be lacking.

Can’t Get No Satisfaction

Do you feel like you are just putting in time when you come to work?

Hopefully not. Do you feel appreciated, valued and like you are an important part of the team? Don’t fear if you don’t – You’re not alone!

Learn to get “satisfaction.” Just like Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones, we are going to do things a little different.

Don’t fool yourself into thinking that it’s about your “authority”. It’s about how you act, how you ask, and the credibility you bring to the office every day. By learning how to communicate professionally, you can learn “To Get Satisfaction!”

-Learn how to take control of your own satisfaction

– Are you setting yourself up for disappointment and don’t even realize it?

– The tiny secret that makes work much more satisfying!

– Learn when to change gears

Prepare to have fun, laugh and learn. When you go back to your office, you’ll have a new bounce in your step, and a smile on your face. After all, what is satisfaction if you don’t feel good? You will!

Leadership Bootcamp

What is “Leadership” anyway? Leadership in 2018 is different than Leadership in 1988. Do you know how to lead through your actions? Do you know how to lead without authority?

We’ll discuss what leadership means to admins, and how we can apply the same leadership skills that are used to run organizations of thousands to our own roles back at work.