Speaker Profile
AUDREY HALPERN
Audrey Halpern is a soft skills training facilitator consultant with 20+ years of experience. Audrey is currently a faculty member of the American Management Association where she trains communication skills.

Audrey Halpern
April 01 2025
11 : 00 AM EST
60 Minutes
Strategies for Managing (and Minimizing) Interruptions in the Workplace
Handling a wide variety of tasks you often have limited time to complete your work due to frequent interruptions. These interruptions can break your train of thought and slow your work pace. It's critical to stay focused, not just for your own priorities but for those of the company as well. Interruptions at the workplace are estimated to cost businesses in the U.S. over half a trillion dollars each year.An..

Audrey Halpern
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Improving Your Assertiveness Skills
It sounds obvious and it is obvious; if you do not want to do something, just say ‘No’. However, you may find ‘No’ to be the hardest word to say. This is generally due to a fear of the response you might receive. Contrary to what you may think, when you exercise that right appropriately, people become more respectful of you and your time. In the long run, learning to say ‘No’ helps you to avoid conflict, se..

Audrey Halpern
Recorded Webinar
90 Minutes
Managing Conflict For Productivity
Although conflict may never be comfortable, understanding its causes and learning strategies to address it can relieve much of the stress that it triggers. In this webinar, participants will better understand the nature of conflict, potential sources, and strategies to resolve and prevent it.This session covers how to address conflict in the workplace. The program will provide understanding of conflict as w..

Audrey Halpern
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Managing Micro-aggressions in the Workplace
Microaggressions are the everyday slights, insults, putdowns, invalidations, and offensive behaviors that people from marginalized groups experience in daily interactions with generally well-intentioned people who may be unaware that they have engaged in demeaning ways. Confronting microaggressions can be a daunting task, especially for those instances that are rooted in unintentional and unconscious bias o..

Audrey Halpern
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Mastering the Art of Controlled Urgency
Organizations these days act in two common modalities, either everything is urgent or nothing really is. In order to find some sense of logic and prioritization. Leaders must develop an astute attitude to guide their institutions through real emergencies and those situations that could be defined as not pressing. Based on current research and available data, assertive strategies can be put in place to navig..

Audrey Halpern
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Overcoming Remote Work Challenges
There are a couple of key techniques that are specific to remote management. Trust needs to be established quickly when working with remote team members, as well as communicating expectations to collaborate towards successful outcomes. You need tools that will help you to influence others to address differences and establish credibility while learning how to supervise across time zones and even cultures. In..

Audrey Halpern
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Remote Communications Techniques
As managers or supervisors who are tasked with getting work done through others your communication style matters. The way to begin to communicate more effectively will depend greatly on your knowing more about your particular communication style, as well as your preferences for taking in information and your ability to filter the incorrect information from the correct. By learning how to effectively and app..

Audrey Halpern
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Setting Priorities amongst the Chaos
Prioritization is a process that successful leaders use to assure that they are focused on the right things. If you don’t respect your time, then why would anyone else? The art of saying “no” gives you more control of your time, and who wouldn’t want?Learning ObjectivesLearn to prioritize work according to what is most important. Make time for the most important tasks and focus on work that matters. Don’t l..

Audrey Halpern
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
The Art of Prioritization: Maximizing Your Time and Energy
Join our dynamic webinar, "Art of Prioritization: Maximizing Your Time and Energy," designed exclusively for business owners and entrepreneurs. Discover how to master the skill of prioritization to elevate your productivity and achieve exceptional results. Learn the powerful Eisenhower Matrix to categorize tasks effectively, create a personalized prioritization system using the ABCD method, and leverage tim..

Accountability as a Goal at Work
In the workplace, you might think that being accountable means you're the one who gets blamed when things go wrong. In fact, accountability is about helping people to take responsibility for their obligations.It's up to you to make sure your team knows what they are supposed to do and that they have what they need to get the job done. This webinar gives you the tools to hold your employees accountable and c..

Best Practices for NEW Managers
Unfortunately, being good at your job doesn’t guarantee that you will be a good leader or manager. Yes, you were good enough to get promoted but being a manager has challenges you never dealt with when you were an employee. The transition to management isn’t just a promotion and a pay raise—it’s a shift into a new type of role that requires new skill sets and you are bound to trip up along the way when you ..

Elements of Effectively Coaching Employees
Coaching is a process of helping another individual realize their inner potential, delivering fulfilment to both the individual and the related organization. Coaching in the workplace typically focuses on an improvement in individual performance against key performance indicators or job expectations but can also focus on career development and employee growth. Unfortunately, coaching is the part of a manage..

Handling Generational Conflict on Your Team
Today, there are four different generations of employees in the workplace. These include Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y, and Generation Z employees. Since each of these employees has been affected differently by their upbringing, it should be no surprise that conflict may arise between different members of these generations. In this webinar, a brief overview of the characteristics of each of these..

Managing Difficult Employees and Tough Situations
When difficult employee behavior is not addressed properly, other employees become resentful, they lose respect for your organization’s leaders, and they start modeling the difficult employee’s behavior. Employee morale decreases and your organization’s results and culture suffer. This webinar provides practical strategies for dealing with difficult people and situations in the workplace. The strategies tha..

Successfully Manage People Who Are Older Than You
Generational diversity” is no longer just a buzzword. We’re seeing younger and younger individuals in positions of power and influence in the workforce, and these days it’s not uncommon for the power hierarchy to be reversed, with older individuals reporting to younger bosses. You cannot manage an experienced worker based on authority from your position title alone. Managing someone older than you don’t hav..