Training Topics
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All the subjects listed below can be tailored to meet your needs and desired length of presentation time. They can be presented at national or regional meetings, at retreats, organizational meetings or at your worksite.
Topics:
- Interact: Personal Strengths Assessment
- Do You Hear What I Hear? Intergenerational Communication in the Workplace
- Performance Coaching: Creating Giants of Others
- Culture and Diversity in the Workplace
- Networking Fable: Are You the Tortoise or the Hare?
- Engaging the Business Community: Job Development For People With Barriers
Interact: Personal Strengths Assessment
I am certified to administer the Interact Personal Strengths Assessment, a powerful personal assessment tool that relies on research-based behavioral styles and data that have been refined during nearly three decades of application. Interact was developed by Eric Allenbaugh, Ph.D., leadership consultant, executive coach, keynote speaker and author of two books on leadership.
The Interact Personal Strength Assessment:
- Is results based on 20 simple questions and can be administered within 30 minutes.
- Discovers how you can use your talents to be of even greater service to yourself and others.
- Identifies how you function under both favorable and adverse circumstances.
- Emphasizes rapport-building strategies for your specific behavioral styles based on Neurolinguistics Programming (NLP) principles and tools.
- Provides tools for connecting and communicating with other behavioral styles.
- Includes "Partnership Coaching" process for working through relationship issues between behavioral styles.
- Helps you understand how your strengths are serving you and how they can also be counterproductive and inhibit your effectiveness.
- Features user-friendly methods for communicating with any behavioral style.
Personal Strength Assessment Seminars
Half Day - Personal Strengths Assessment administered and results summarized.
Full Day - Personal Strengths Assessment and comprehensive discussion of behavioral styles; advice on use of specific behavioral styles.
Full Day - Team Building - Personal Strengths Assessment profiles help your team learn how to interact more effectively and improve communications.
Comprehensive Package - Combine the seminars listed above, into a two-day session to create an extremely effective assessment of your individual and group behavioral communication styles.
Do You Hear What I Hear? Intergenerational Communication in the Workplace
Today's workplace is comprised of five different generations of people working together. Each of these generations holds a different view of the world influenced by world events that have shaped each generation's place in history. Through exploration of these events and world views, it is possible to develop an understanding of why people react the way they do to any given situation and how to effectively communicate between diverse generations.
Generations Explored:
- Veteran/traditionalist
- Baby Boomers
- Generation X
- Millennial (Y Generation, Echo Boom, Baby Busters)
- Fifth Generation: No consensus on name yet.
Largest "Generational" Challenges in the Workplace:
- Beliefs are different.
- Language use is different.
- Reward systems and motivators are different.
How Can You Improve Intergenerational Communication?
- Learn the key traits that make each generation unique.
- Learn which communication tools work best with each generation.
- Learn the three keys to helping an employee feel significant.
- Learn how to help an employee feel valued by using a reward system appropriate for each generation.
Training: Do You Hear What I Hear? Intergenerational Communication in the Workplace
Half Day - Explore the unique characteristics of each generation and learn new tools to improve workplace communication.
Full Day - Includes all information presented in the half day seminar...PLUS gain first-hand experience practicing communication skills that will improve intergenerational communication...AND...learn how to custom design a Reward System specifically for your business - one that employees will enthusiastically embrace!
Performance Coaching: Creating Giants of Others
In my coaching, I employ powerful coaching tools that enhance productivity and profitability while bringing out the best in people. These tools have been refined over nearly three decades of application. These tools were developed by Eric Allenbaugh, Ph.D., leadership consultant, executive coach, keynote speaker and author of two books on Leadership.
These tools make my coaching highly effective by:
- Creating a context for positive performance coaching.
- Providing performance feedback strategies and techniques.
- Connecting with and honoring style differences.
- Enhancing performance.
- Working with performance challenges at all levels.
- Enhancing productivity while bringing out the best in people.
Culture and Diversity in the Workplace
Culture and diversity: the words alone can be highly charged and subject to personal and organizational interpretation. I help managers and employees understand and navigate the complicated world of culture and diversity in the workplace.
Let me teach you how to:
- Develop Awareness of Self
- Develop Awareness of Others
- Acknowledge Differences
- Find Commonalities
- Build Trust
- Build Relationships
- Get on with the Job!
Specific discussion and exercise topics can include but are not limited to:
- Culture and Personal Values
- Values, Beliefs, Attitudes, Behaviors
- Self-Awareness, Trust, Communication
- Interpersonal Conflict: Intent and Impact
- Giving and Receiving Feedback
- Understanding Differences/Leveraging Similarities
- Identifying Barriers and Biases
- Diversity and Change Management
Delivery of information can be tailored to suit your organization or business needs. Classes can be half day or full day in length. Keynote speaking and consulting services are also available.
Typically the learning objective of a half-day class is to build awareness. The learning objectives of a full-day class are to build awareness and enhance professional skills.
Networking Fable: Are You the Tortoise or the Hare?
Networking is right up there with public speaking when it comes to the fear and terror it causes in a person's mind when they think about getting out there and networking.
Through the use of stories, demonstrations and humor I help break down the art of networking into steps that actually help the person understand networking can and should be fun.
What I cover in my Networking training:
- Networking defined
- Three keys to communicating with people
- Language Differences - Men and Women
- Language Differences - Between Generations
- Where do you find networking events?
- How to read a newspaper so you find the events
- How do you prepare to go to a networking event?
- What do you do when you walk into a room?
- How do you start and maintain a conversation?
- How do you break away?
- How do you follow up?
- How do you write notes?
- Why do you need a contact program?
Engaging the Business Community: Job Development For People With Barriers (Disabilities)
In today's extremely competitive job market, it is important to present candidates in positive new ways that distinguish them from the rest of the applicants. Traditional job development techniques for people with barriers to employment have not been the most effective way to produce results. In this session, I present concrete, positive examples of how to effectively communicate with employers; build relationships/partnerships with employers; and market an individual to prospective employers.
This training includes:
- Communication Basics
- How to research your business community
- Networking to build relationships with the business community
- Preparing your clients for the job
- Resumes and portfolios
- Interviewing Skills
- Effective follow-up
Seminar Lengths
Tailored to organization or business needs, seminars can be two hours, one-half day or full day in length.
