Renée Giarrusso

Gift Mindset Culture for Wellbeing

Is your organisational culture one that is built on sharing challenges and successes?

How open are people to sharing mistakes knowing they will be supported beyond this?

How are people connecting and contributing to each-others growth and performance?

Imagine creating a Gift Mindset Culture, one where our biggest lessons come through embracing, not resisting the challenges and successes we experience.

Workplace culture is made up of shared values, beliefs, and social behaviors and so often these can be hidden, stifled, or not lived within the organisation. The lessons we learn need to be shared to empower others, create openness and psychological safety and wellbeing.

Renée creates an experience for audiences that will have them asking: How could we not, adopt a Gift Mindset?

Gifts can come in many forms; we just have to be open to seeing them. These lessons can come from people and situations.

By adopting a Gift Mindset® we get to live our legacy now by creating a culture of purpose, connection, and contribution.

Challenging situations and people can be seen as ‘gifts’ that are just as valuable as the amazing positive situations and people we encounter in life. To embrace them, we need to raise our awareness, accept them as gifts and apply the lessons they present both as a limitless leader and in our own life.

Renée has helped thousands of people develop and build on their leadership and mindset to overcome adversity and challenges and to be motivated and ready for success. Her personal stories, processes, insights, and practical tools give the audience all they need to step back, become self-aware and unwrap their gifts to create a culture of openness, connection, and contribution.

As with all keynotes Renée tailors the content and focus to your objectives and audience.

‌Gift Mindset Culture Keynote themes:

• Unwrapping the Gift Mindset and the barriers
• The benefits of a Gift Mindset Culture
• The 4 drivers of a Gift Mindset
• Provide the G.I.F.T process to embrace challenges and successes.
• Strategies and stories to reinforce learnings and make this part of the culture moving forward.
• Creating sharing experiences to contribute to the wider team such as Win Wednesdays and Failure Fridays
• The 12 Gifts (soft skills) we can deepen and develop with a focus on one: Optimism, Empathy, Resilience, Curiosity, Re-energising, Connection, Gratitude, Contribution, Growth, Change, Courage, Forgiveness
• How to foster the sharing of successes and challenges

The 12 Gifts of a Gift Mindset®

Stand-alone Keynotes

Creating a culture where we adopt the Gift Mindset can take wellbeing, connection, and collaboration to the next level. By sharing the experiences and lessons we encounter, we can empower others through our challenges and successes and create a culture of honesty, openness, and psychological safety.

There are 12 key Gifts we can develop when we adopt a Gift Mindset. These are all soft skills and are important to build on in any role. There are 12 Gifts (soft skills) we can deepen and develop with the keynote focused on 1-2 Gifts: Optimism, Empathy, Resilience, Curiosity, Re-energising, Connection, Gratitude, Contribution, Growth, Change, Courage, Forgiveness

These interactive sessions will explore and expand on the concept of the Gift Mindset® and will then deep dive into any of the 12 Gifts you nominate.

These gifts can be run in any order based on your priority needs. All sessions will take place in a learn and do environment with a plan of application back into the organisation.

These presentations include:

• The Gift Mindset® concept and how to adopt it.
• Stories relevant to each gift
• 6 key strategies to implement.
• The G.I.F.T process to unwrap each Gift.
• Interaction (optional)

‌Limitless Leadership in the new World

We are all leaders, either of self, others, and decisions.

Leadership is a journey, and one that needs to be constantly built on, improved, changed and forever evolving-there is no final destination.

To be limitless means we need to learn, unlearn, relearn, and evolve continuously.

In today’s fast-moving world, there is so much to deal with from technology, strategy, and hybrid work to people, AI, constant change and much more. These things can bog us down and hold us in a management mindset where leadership feels out of your grasp.

In this high energy and dynamic keynote Renée shares what it takes to be Limitless in the new world of work.

As with all keynotes Renée tailors the content and focus to your objectives and audience.

Keynote themes:

• What is means to be a limitless leader and organisation?
• Going from limited to limitless.
• The 3 C’s-Commitment, communication & connection
• The 6 superpowers to lead.
• Strategies, stories, and interaction to bring learnings to life.

‌Motivate to Collaborate OR Lit up and leveraged?

When people do what truly motivates them, they have a spring in their step; they feel lit up.

Motivation can account for up to 65% of predictability of success in a role.

By understanding what motivates self and others, we have a platform to appreciate and leverage each other’s strengths. It also assists in building subliminal rapport and contributes to deeper, more meaningful conversations and relationships.

Working with thousands of executives we find many face these challenges:

• Lack of understanding of what really motivates themselves and others.
• Breakdown of communication and motivation
• Lack of appreciation of the diversity of strengths of others which results in strengths not being leveraged.
• People doing what they are good at but not what they necessarily enjoy.
• Feeling disconnected working in a hybrid/virtual environment

Keynote themes:

• Motivation and the role it plays.
• What lights you up and why?
• Identifying 3 key motivations (interactive activity)
• Understanding and driving motivation through language
• Rapport building for deeper relationships and interactions.
• How to leverage a strength-based team

‌Collaborative Communication

Take your communication, influence, connection, and team collaboration to the next level!

In any team, mastering effective communication is vital to meaningful interactions and connected relationships.

In a world heavy with distraction, juggling technology, innovation, strategy, people, processes and working in a hybrid environment often communication and connection can become stifled. This can impact performance, happiness, team moral and motivation resulting in increases attrition, conflict and erosion of team trust and collaboration.

In this interactive session we play the 2 Sides In 2 Minutes game to bring learnings to life. This is optional but takes the session to the next level.

Key themes:

• Communication- the foundation for relationships and interactions
• The barriers to verbal, written and virtual.
• Reading and matching body language
• Rapport equals influenced and how to build it.
• The dimensions to communicate and cut through.

How to appreciate the 2 sides of any idea or opinion-play the 2 Sides in 2 Minutes game

This is for any audience who wants to connect and collaborate more deeply with their team, peers and stakeholders and learn how to do this in a fun and thought-provoking environment. If you are ready to take your relationships, interactions, and results to a new level and walk away with REAL tools and tips you can implement straight away this keynote will deliver.

‌Workshops and Skill Pill Sessions

Renée is often engaged to run workshops and 2-3 hour “Skill Pills” to support keynote presentations or run as a stand-alone. These may be run at conferences, launches, or off-site events.

These immersions of insight, discussion and practical tools are bought to life-based on what is needed and top of mind in your organisation right NOW!

Skill Pills can be run as often as required. They can be run to up to 100 participants (face to face) or 500 (virtually), creating a rich and interactive learning environment whilst maximising return on investment. All sessions cover content brought to life with hands-on skills practice and discussion with an action plan to implement back on the job. All sessions include a session manual.

Bringing over 25 years of leadership, communication and sales capability expertise and experience the value and insight Renée brings to these sessions is outstanding.

Skill Pill topics (not limited to):

• Emotional and Social Intelligence
• Limitless Leadership
• Mindset over matter
• Review and renew habits.
• Supercharge Working Remotely
• Adopting a Gift Mindset® Culture
• Self-management for productivity
• Re-energising for wellbeing
• Leading with gratitude & empathy
• Curiosity for innovation
• Courageous conversations
• Who’s looking after the leader.
• Leading from the inside out
• Coaching to empower
• Cut through Communication
• Brand You- personal branding
• Road to Resilience