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Attitude & Communication
Management & Leadership
Additional Topics
Keynote Presentation
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DETAILED COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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Attitude & Communication |
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Adventures in Attitudes® - A Journey of Discovery
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This empowering, strategic, and comprehensive program is designed to help people understand that how they perceive and respond to events around them is their choice. Participants move through several high-involvement projects that help them to increase self-awareness, change attitudes, and improve relationships for greater personal and professional success. |
ATTITUDE: A Choice That Makes a Difference
Gain control of your life by positively gaining control of your attitude, in any environment. This program will help take action against your own worst enemy, a bad attitude. You will learn techniques for analyzing, adjusting, and maintaining your own attitude, as well as strategies for helping others improve their attitudes both at work and at home.
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| Work Expectations: What Makes It Work? |
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Work expectations are those things people consider likely to happen in their job situation, either now or in the future. Whether spoken or unspoken, met or unmet, expectations have a powerful impact on our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and play a key role in driving our attitudes. Research shows that people who have clearly defined, well-communicated expectations find more satisfaction and success in their work than people whose expectations to unspoken or unrealized. This program helps people explore 10 work expectations that impact today's employment relationships.
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Dealing With Conflict & Difficult People...Confidently!
This fun and information-filled seminar will take a light-hearted look at the common types of troublesome people you encounter. Then it will provide you with guidelines for coping with difficult behavior, responding to and resolving conflict, and reinforcing desirable action in others. After gaining valuable insight into how you handle conflict situations, you will have an opportunity to practice dealing with difficult personality types and managing conflict confidently.
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| Learn to Listen: Improving Communication through Positive Listening |
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Good communication is one of the most valued skills in the workplace. It's not just about speaking; it's about listening, too. How a message gets delivered, and understood, by both senders and receivers depends on each skill. This program focuses on developing your ability to listen effectively. Understanding your approach to listening in different environments will give you valuable insight about your ability to successfully communicate with others. The practice activities will help you to strengthen your listening skills, and discover ways to quickly improve overall performance.
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| How to Work Together Most Effectively |
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Enhance personal effectiveness and gain powerful insight. Positive attitudes about individual behavior styles strengthen an organization. This workshop uses the Personal Profile System® to group behavioral responses into four dimensions. The DiSC™ model and language provide a non-judgmental way for exploring behavioral issues and effectively communicating throughout an organization. It helps employees sharpen their people skills to clear away the biggest obstacle to success on the job. Building style awareness and individual participant action plans increase the effectiveness of interactions with others.
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Positive Change . . . Leading the Way!
Change is affecting all of us in one way or another. With change comes a responsibility for being positive leaders of change. Many people aren't prepared for such a challenge. Yet...the ability to lead change vs. change leading us can be developed over time by learning and practicing key behaviors. This workshop is designed to help participants examine how their behavior contributes to leading change and encourages them to improve their ability to change positively.
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Management and Leadership |
The Entrepreneurial Employee . . . Instilling the VISION! |
Visionary leadership is based on acquired knowledge ... knowledge about yourself, those you influence, your organization, and the world. This insight will guide you to discover untapped potential, and identify where you can take action to make a difference. Do you or your employees embrace "visionary thinking?" Think like an entrepreneur (i.e. one who takes calculated risk and control in a business endeavor) and become an influential force behind the success of your organization. |
Transforming Organizational Culture
This program is not your typical training workshop. It focuses on comprehensive management and team development processes to bring out the best in everyone. The Management Development Process™ helps managers develop the knowledge and skills they need to control their work environment rather than direct their people. The Team Development Process™ helps team members learn how to communicate more openly and directly with each other, and how to value what each individual brings to the team. A shared leadership approach achieves continuous improvement for all areas of the organization. Becoming an "Employer of Choice" means everyone is willingly accountable for performance.
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Dimensions of Leadership™ |
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Leaders come in many varieties, ranging from charismatic visionaries to quiet team players who help their peers work together in accomplishing goals set by others. Most leaders display several leadership characteristics or ""dimensions of leadership". This program can be used to strengthen your organization by selecting up to three focuses which assess how leadership roles contribute to success. Develop leaders at all levels of the organization. |
Do Your Best!
Setting direction and living by it have become critical issues in today's organizations. Do Your Best! provides an exciting hands-on experience that uses fast-paced, enjoyable exercises to dramatically illustrate the principles of mission, vision, and goal setting. The short (five- to fifteen-minute) interactive exercises provide an active, stimulating means for understanding these refined principles. The activities are easy to understand for all members of the organization, yet provocative enough to use with executive and management teams.
Developing Strong, Cohesive Teams
Teamwork depends on the communication and leadership skills of all members, both staff and management alike. This program will help you learn about building and playing by participating in structured, experience-based games and initiatives. You will also look at up to 52 behavioral characteristics of effective teams. The activities will allow attendees to use their senses of touch, sight, and sound in order to stimulate thinking and discussion. Ultimately, you will discover the fundamental dynamics required for transforming a group of individuals into a team of high performers.
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Quality results are generated when organizations identify their creative thinkers and partner them with team members who can effectively advance, refine, and execute original concepts. This program helps individuals identify their unique approach to innovation and teamwork. It also helps people to interpret their natural innovation tendencies so they can effectively collaborate as a creative, productive team.
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| How to Manage Your Time More Effectively |
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The advantages of efficient time management are significant: meet deadlines, improve service levels, pursue opportunities, achieve objectives and simply get more out of each and every day. This unique program encompasses both assessment and training activities which allow participants to focus on their specific issues and learn methods to improve their skills.
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| SUPERVISION SERIES: Supervisory Training |
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Are people within your organization being asked to do more with less? Is your environment shifting and changing? Because of the diversity and challenges in today's business environment, managers and team leaders more than ever need the basic tools to effectively manage the work force of the millennium.
To meet this need, VISION QUEST provides the Supervision Series. The flexible Supervision Series utilizes behavior modeling to instill the basic foundations of interpersonal supervisory management. You determine desired competencies, and select modules for a customized program essential to your needs.
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SERIES MODULES
Fundamental Skills Modules
- Essential Skills of Leading & Managing
- Essential Skills of Communicating
Interpersonal Skills Modules
- Using Positive Discipline
- Developing Performance Standards
- Improving Employee Work Habits
- Coaching for Improved Performance
- Delegating Effectively
- Performance Assessment
- Dealing with Complaints
- Communicating with Your Manager
- Dealing with Conflicts
- Assigning Tasks Effectively
- Preparing for Change
- Management Orientation, Reinforcement, and Support (MORS)
For more information, click HERE to download the PDF. (To save the PDF, click on the above links to view and then click the disk icon in the Acrobat toolbar to save. If you have trouble downloading this way, click on the link and hold until the menu pops up or right-click on the link. Then select Save Link... or Save Target... and save to your Desktop.)
OPTIONAL TRAINING FORMATS:
Supervision Series CD-ROM
Available on CD-ROM, the Supervision Series is a self-paced, modular program with a user friendly design that's interactive and fun. Features include skills based training, pre- and post-test data, an administrative tracking module, and full motion video.
Supervision Series Online
The Supervision Series Online also utilizes behavior modeling to instill the basic foundations of interpersonal supervisory management. You'll be assured of the same quality content, flexible programs, and measurable results that you've come to expect from classroom products. The web-based training will allow you to expand training opportunities without increasing classroom space, trainer cost, or participant's time away from the job.
For complete descriptions of the Supervision Series courses available via traditional classroom training, CD-ROM or Online click HERE to download the PDF.
(To save the PDF, click on the above links to view and then click the disk icon in the Acrobat toolbar to save. If you have trouble downloading this way, click on the link and hold until the menu pops up or right-click on the link. Then select Save Link... or Save Target... and save to your Desktop.)
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Facilitator Excellence...in Action
Great facilitators promote employee commitment and satisfaction, and supplement team performance and problem solving. Communication and cooperation is crucial, and facilitation skills can promote these essential elements for organizational success. This workshop will help you learn key facilitation methods, step-by-step instructions for facilitating meetings, and more. The Skills Profile helps you determine areas for improvement.
Powerful Presentation Skills
This program focuses on communicating a message clearly and succinctly. Learn skills for delivery, effective use of visual aids, and various formats for organization. Then, see your "performance" on tape and learn to discern professional, powerful presentation quality for yourself. These presentation skills are effective in small group settings, for conducting meetings, or when speaking to large audiences.
Activities for Creativity and Problem Solving
In this program participants will learn to develop approaches to problems that will not respond to traditional problem-solving methods. Learning will focus on problem analysis, finding solutions, the thinking process and implementation of creative problem-solving methods. Application of learning points will be tied to the work setting.
Quick Wits
These activities add value to your skill development program by expanding participants' critical thinking skills. Each activity illustrates how the cognitive principle can be taken back to the workplace and put into practice. The activities cover a wide range of skills and promote discovery on both the individual and team levels. The activities are separated into three distinct learning segments including quick thinking skills, creative thinking skills, and analytical thinking skills. Activities will be customized based on the principles and skills selected for specific applications.
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The Whimsical, Imaginative, Visionary Mirror: A Reflection of Your Success!
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Reflections of the past and future guide us to achieve more than we thought possible. Have you developed a framework for the mirror of your future? This program will help you uncover the images you want as a reflection of your success through visionary thinking; and then motivate you toward accomplishing your goals using positive attitudes and self-belief. Look into the mirror and enjoy your journey! |