PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT SERIES

Being in charge of a company does not automatically make someone a leader. Becoming a good leader involves nurturing and inspiring your team while using emotional intelligence, communicating clearly, providing effective feedback, and giving them the confidence to do their jobs well. 

Some people immediately command attention and respect when they walk into a room. Do you have that kind of presence? If not, is it something that you would like to develop?  You will build your credibility, improving your personal appearance, honing your networking skills, and enhancing your ability to communicate effectively. You will also receive an introduction to core leadership skills including techniques for coaching, motivating, and delivering feedback.

Anyone can become a manager, but not everyone can lead. This course focuses on learning about business leadership, giving new and aspiring leaders all the tools they need to become a manager who leads. Topics include: being an active part of a learning organization; understanding the functions of leaders; applying systems thinking to leadership; practical methods of leadership, including change, performance, and people management; and understanding when to lead and when to manage.

Business networking is an effective and efficient way for business people to connect, develop meaningful relationships, and grow their businesses. In this course, you’ll learn the essential ingredients for business networking, including in-person, people-centered connections, and online spaces such as LinkedIn.  This course also offers growing relationships, mastering small talk and conversation, a discussion of introverts and extroverts, and more.

Some people immediately command attention and respect when they walk into a room. Do you have that kind of presence? If not, is it something that you would like to develop? This course will help you do just that by building your credibility, improving your personal appearance, honing your networking skills, and enhancing your ability to communicate effectively. You will also receive an introduction to core leadership skills; and learn how to develop key leadership skills, including techniques for coaching, motivating, and delivering feedback.

What is the point you are trying to make? What is your goal? These questions and more will be answered in this course.  You will be prepared to develop a message and remain on topic when you are presenting that message to the media and/or the public, without straying from the point they want to make.

You will touch on clarifying your message, determining how to present it, how to successfully communicate your message using various forms of communication, how to effectively listen and communicate, and how to ensure listeners hear your message.

This Boot Camp is designed to help you to become more organized, efficient, and effective at time and task management.  You will learn:  How to create a personal vision statement and goals, the building blocks of a strong organizational system, how to overcome procrastination and develop effective habits, what personal efficiency means, and the skills and attitudes that make it possible Systems for being more organized

A healthy sense of self-esteem is essential for growth and achieving success.  During this course, participants will discover techniques that can dramatically change how they feel about themselves, and how to approach the world in a way that will facilitate achieving desired outcomes.  Course includes learning how to turn negative thoughts into positive thoughts, building confidence, and setting goals that reflect one’s dreams and desires.

Gaining that Extra Edge can make a huge difference in the lives and careers of trainees. In this courseware program, participants will learn to manage otherwise awkward moments, and to handle them with grace. This training course includes sessions on networking, introductions and remembering names, how to dress for success, confident communications, how to make great first impressions, etiquette at meal time, and much more.

Creating a positive working relationship, gives you the foundation you will need to interact in a meaningful way with members of the media.  You will learn how to be interviewed successfully, how to provide information to the media, how to build efficient media packages, and how to craft useful and effective press releases. The course wraps up with a look at developing relationships with members of the media.

Your brand speaks for your company and its products and/or services. In today’s online-focused world, it’s important that your brand has a definitive, consistent, and responsive presence. We’ve designed a program that will teach you how to build, implement, review, and revise a social media branding strategy, brand-focused messages, and social media guidelines. 

Communication Strategies will provide you with an understanding of the impact that their communication skills can have on others, while exploring the different ways in which developing these skills can make it easier for them to succeed in the office and beyond.  This course helps you develop the skills to ask questions; learn what non-verbal messages are saying, developing skills in listening actively and empathetically to others; enhancing the ability to handle difficult situations; and dealing with situations assertively.

This course is designed as an exploration of the type of impact each of us want to have in life and at work. You will consider and define their influence, build credibility and trust by committing to living a brand and taking ownership of one’s own personal image – both online and in-person to create circumstances for success. 

Strong presenters rely on both skill and confidence, and this course delivers solid content that encourages growth in both of those areas. Speakers will learn to: Establish rapport, Implement nervousness management technique, Appeal to different learning or listening styles, use visual aids to make an impact and command the attention of the audience, create a professional presence and Organize information.

In order to be effective and most importantly, adaptive, public speakers need to react appropriately in situations where the audience is hostile, demanding, or difficult. An asset this course is tailored to those seeking the confidence to speak up in meetings, make presentations on behalf of their business, or effectively organize thoughts and ideas to convey them convincingly, persuasively, and confidently particularly if the group is not sympathetic to what you have to say.  

This introductory course in Public Relations is ideal if you have little to no PR experience, whether they are just started your business or a serial entrepreneur.  You’ll learn what they need to know about strategic versus tactical PR, managing the media relationship, selecting the right spokesperson, creating valuable media kits, writing engaging press releases, and even how to manage communication during a crisis.

People regularly struggle with writing reports, proposals or business plans.   This course offers the techniques and tools needed to master the type of writing required as an entrepreneur. Whether this involves producing a report on a product analysis, inventory, feasibility studies, a business plan or something else that are engaging and understandable. You will learn about using persuasive language as a means to get noticed and increase buy-in.

Our body language can help to reinforce and add credibility to what we say, or it can contradict our words. Understanding what signals you are sending, as well as being able to read the signals that your clients send, is an essential skill in sales.  You will understand the implications of space during a conversation, understand the nuances of body language, know how to use techniques to build rapport, to think about how they project themselves, and to consider the message behind the words, along with acquiring other useful information.

This course gives an opportunity for everyone to learn skills that will enable them to make choices that will ensure their time spent in the digital world is safe and rewarding, not only for themselves but also for others.  The course introduced 3 principles which explain expected behaviors and the specific skills and habits to meet expectations.