The Art of Asking for What You Want

An interactive workshop with Executive Coach, Deena Gornick

Difficult conversations have always been, well, difficult, and the last year certainly hasn’t made them any easier. The loss of face-to-face connection and the pressure to be ‘always on’ while we essentially live at work has meant that saying no and asking for what we want has felt like even more of a challenge.

As the world opens back up, we all have our sights on a richer and fuller work life and home life. The move toward a more hybrid mix of working between home and the office means that we need to define for ourselves what we want (and don’t want!) from work, and need to know how to ask for it. This is not always easy to articulate, so in this workshop we explored:

• What boundaries are, and the things that can stop us drawing them clearly at work.

• How to ask for what you want

• How to say no assertively so it lands

We were led in an interactive workshop by Executive Coach, Deena Gornick, with some chalk and talk, and explorations in breakout rooms to equip us with techniques for designing the work life we want.

£2 per ticket sale went to charity.

Speaker:

Deena Gornick is an executive coach and international speaker with over 30 years’ experience. She is a trained psychotherapist with fifteen years of experience as an actress and theatre director, which informs her work as a coach and a speaker. What began as a passion for presentation skills and inspiring passion for performance grew to an in-depth understanding of the facilitation of assertiveness, team building, leadership, and confidence-building. Deena has run training events from one-to-one to one-to-2,000 on these themes and has worked with organisations such as Redbull, Oliver Wyman, Baringa, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, Barclays, Allianz, Citibank.

Deena knows that laughter is a powerful learning tool, and she insists her participants learn through this vital tool. She is currently writing a book about her personal journey with confidence aiming to make the physical practice of presence achievable to its readers.