Trainings

Stress Management

One-hour seminar that provides essential information regarding the true nature of stress and stress management. The seminar covers the physiology of stress, how stress develops, and real life techniques to keep stress manageable.

Coping with Organizational Change

One to two-hour seminar that covers the stages of adaptation to organizational change and the techniques often used for successfully optimizing organizational change, including the use of stress management and positive thinking skills.

Education for the Drug-Free Workplace

One to two-hour seminar on addiction and frequently abused substances. The program covers the physiological, psychological and emotional features of addiction, as well as in-depth training regarding common symptoms of abuse of specific substances and how to best help a substance abusing employee.

Communication Skills

One to four-hour seminar on improving communication skills. The program examines verbal and nonverbal components of communication and management of the expressive and receptive components of communication.

Time Management

One-hour seminar that provides essential information about time management at work and at home. Discussions include improving organization and prioritization skills and the physiology of focusing and attention capacities throughout the day.

Career Transition

One to three-hour seminar that covers the information and skills needed to pilot a successful career change. Topics include developing a successful resume, creating a personal marketing strategy, and building your career change network.

Relationship Enrichment

One-hour seminar that provides essential information about how to improve all your relationships. Examples of a few of the topics include:

Defining a vision of the relationship

Setting goals and expectations of a relationship

Defining the rules of a relationship

Conflict resolution within a relationship

Communication within a relationship

Parenting Skills

One to two-hour seminar providing essential information for successful parenting.

Describing the family's vision of parenting

The use of authority and the authority role of the parent

Factors related to child development

Responding to your child's individual differences in temperament and development

The building of psychological and interpersonal skills in a child

Special issues of parenting

Positive Thinking

One-hour seminar on positive thinking and its relationship to stress and stress management. This seminar compares and contrasts various thinking styles and points-of-view that influence positive thinking.

Managing Your Finances

One to two-hour seminar on improving financial management skills. The seminar details the development of a personal budget, how to handle credit and credit problems, and developing a savings and investment strategy.

Organizing for Success

One to two-hour seminar on self-organization skills for personal success. The seminar covers time organization, work efficiency, and arrangement of personal space to enhance a higher degree of organization.

E-Mail Etiquette

One-hour seminar on professional, efficient and deferential e-mail messaging.

Anger Management

One to three-hour seminar on stages of anger and methods to manage anger.

Managing the Troubled Employee

Two to three-hour seminar on knowledge and skills helpful when assisting a troubled employee. Content includes identifying and documenting work performance and conduct problems, and assisting managers prepare for a successful work-counseling interview. The seminar also focuses on how the Employee Assistance Program can best serve the needs of the manager or supervisor.

Workplace Violence Prevention

Two to three hour seminar on violence prevention in the workplace. Seminar content includes identifying the potentially violent employee and important information to consider in regard to the enhancement of a violence free workplace.

Drug Free Workplace - How to Recognize the Substance Abusing Employee

One to two-hour seminar on the signs and symptoms of a substance-abusing employee. Information regarding employee intervention strategies is also included.

Handling Conflict in the Workplace

One to two-hour seminar on conflict resolution strategies specifically designed for supervisors and managers.

Dealing with Organizational Change

Two to four-hour executive seminar on planning and implementing organizational change.

Team Building

Two to four-hour seminar for executive and supervisory personnel on how to develop a team-building program. The seminar reviews various team-building models, examines team-building strategies, and discusses common personal and organizational resistance examples.

Building and Maintaining Organizational Diversity

Two to three hour seminar for executive management and human resource personnel regarding prominent workplace diversity training issues. Issues include blending diversity values with organizational values and cultural realities, promoting and encouraging diversity values in the organization, and building a management team that handles issues of diversity.

Leadership

Four to twelve hour seminar on executive leadership skills. The seminar examines the full range of skills necessary for leading and directing an organization, including developing and disseminating an effective organizational vision, building an organizational culture that supports the organizational vision and its goals, and optimizing the uses of authority. The seminar provides information on a number of topics relevant to quality leadership, such as group and one-on-one communication skills, systems theory, coaching techniques, and conflict management skills.

Downsizing and Career Transition

Two to four-hour seminar for executive management and human resources personnel regarding downsizing procedures from an organizational perspective. The seminar examines information regarding the organizational culture and morale, workplace violence, and work force shaping. Seminar materials include how to minimize organizational disruptions with proper planning, timing and communication.

Sexual Harassment

One to two-hour seminar on sexual harassment in the workplace. The seminar covers the definitions of sexual harassment, recent legal rulings concerning sexual harassment, and steps that organizations and supervisors should take to protect themselves from sexual harassment litigation.

Performance Management

A single day training on implementing performance management in the workplace. This includes principles, systems, and skills that support performance management and create high performance potential in employees.

Critical Incident Stress Debriefing & Diffusion (CISD)

One to two-hour session to assist employees affected by a violent or traumatic incident at the workplace. Counselors trained in critical incident stress debriefing and diffusion meet with personnel soon after the incident to assist with processing any emotional and psychological trauma. Counselors assist with referrals for additional services, as needed.

Developing a Safety Team for Preventing Workplace Violence

A seminar that assists executive management and human resource personnel in terms of developing an internal safety team to respond to incidents of work-place violence. The consultants help an organization select appropriate personnel for the safety team, develop policy and procedures, and help the team develop a plan to promote and communicate safety issues within the organization as a whole.