Available Programs
A People Primer
Take more effective control of your life by clearing out the
clutter. This life changing seminar is about changing your
understanding of human behavior - which leads to more
effective management of self and others, while reducing stress! Using
Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) as a foundation for understanding
the latest scientific theory of human behavior you can enhance
your personal and professional relationships. Opportunities
for practicing applications in management, parenting, facilitation,
teaching and personal relationships will fortify integration of
these ideas into your daily life. Learn what it means to live
a full circle life! Find out how to manage
without using punishment and reward systems, how to resolve
conflict without getting involved and how to take advantage of the
natural learning process.
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Renaissance Thinking for
the 21st Century
Based on the work of Michael Gelb, Frijof Capra and Roger von Oech,
this session is designed to provide participants a chance to:
- increase their creativity.
- balance their thinking.
- take a refreshing new look at balancing their home and work
life.
Through interactive activities and self-reflection we will explore
organizational and personal systems. Utilizing the da Vincian
Principles of: Curiosita, Dimonstrazione, Sensazione, Sfumato, Arte/Scienza,
Corporalita, and Connessione, we will enhance our daily living and
working.
This session is best as a full day or multiple day session.
The interactive nature of this session keeps individuals engaged. The
self-reflective nature of the session allows for time between
sessions.
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Generations
For the first time in our history today’s workforce is made up
of four generations: The Traditionalists, the Boomers, the X’ers,
and the Millennials. As these generational values and experiences
meet, we need skills and strategies to bridge the gaps. How we
motivate, provide feedback and train each of these generations will
make or break today’s work places and learning institutions.
Effective understanding and communication are critical. This session
will help participants explore the tenants of each of the generations
and gain effective skills for working with the complexity of four
generations at work.
This session is an energizing fun active keynote. Originally
designed to be a half-day introduction to working, mentoring or
teaching to multiple generations, this session can be extended to a
full day session. A multi-day session would provide an opportunity
for fine tuning and reworking: workplace interventions, training
sessions, instructional courses, recruiting strategies, job coaching,
and other human resource activities.
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Critical Thinking Skills
Critical Thinking Skills is a course developed to provide teachers
with strategies to incorporate specific critical thinking skills into
a Standards-Based Curriculum and/or Performance Based Assessment
Programs. The course focuses on strategies for how to teach analysis,
synthesis, and evaluation.
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When using Critical Thinking Skills the teacher challenges students
with open-ended problems and learning experiences. Utilizing
Critical Thinking Skills encourages students to gain new
understandings and insights into presented or gathered information.
The Critical Thinking Skills taught will help students:
- Make Decisions
- Reason
- Solve Problems
- Increase Understanding
- Move to Action
- Reflect
This session is a refreshing, fun, active, multi-day session,
originally designed to be a two-day college course. The multi-day
session format provides an opportunity for fine-tuning and
reworking: training sessions, instructional units or integrating
critical thinking skills into course work. This is an excellent
session for teachers new to the profession and veteran teachers.
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Follow the Leader?
“For a long time, I believed the old leadership paradigm that
told me that my job was to plan, organize, command, coordinate, and
control. I saw my organization function like a herd of buffalo…
Then one day I go it! What I really wanted in the organization was a
group of responsible, interdependent workers… Then I saw clearly
that the biggest obstacle to success was my picture of a loyal herd
of buffalo waiting for me, the leader, to tell them what to do. I
knew I had to change the pictures to become a different kind of
leader, so everyone could become a leader.” J. Belasco and R.
Stayer
Using the latest research on human behavior, systems thinking,
and leadership, we will explore workable strategies on how to:
- utilize role involvement.
- build and maintain effective professional relationships.
- effectively handle complaints & de-escalate confrontations.
We will take time to investigate and plan for becoming the kind
of leader you want to be!
A leader who:
- transfers ownership for work to the worker.
- creates an environment where others self-monitor and
self-evaluate.
- coaches the development of personal capabilities.
- knows the importance of everyone being a life-long learner.
This session is designed to be flexible in it’s scheduling.
The longer the training time the more in-depth the content and the
more time for practical application and practice. A minimum of 2 1/2
hours for an introductory session is required. For a full in-depth
training based on these and additional ideas; a Level One and Level
Two training, each consisting of 24, hours has been designed.
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Living Your Life as a Work
of ART!
Are you in need of a tune-up?
Do you feel like your running on empty?
Have you lost site of what's important in your life?
Let’s take time to pull you into the garage, look under your
hood, kick your tires and pull out your road map to see if you are
ready for the Indy 500 we call life. Learn how to develop new ways
to think about yourself, what you want and what you are doing to
get it. You can become your own master mechanic and keep yourself
running like NEW!
… Remember stressed spelled backwards is desserts!
This session is designed to be a quick introduction to the
ideas of human behavior and creating balance in your life. It can
be a quick pick-me-up session of an hour and a half, a keynote, or
a full day of taking a new look at your life and where you are
heading. Personal coaching can be a great addition to this session.
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Graphic
Representation: A Key to Effective Instruction
Graphic Representations are visual organizers used as a way of
giving information a pattern for better understanding and meaning
making (i.e., semantic maps, Venn diagrams). Graphic
Representations have been especially effective with active
learners, who become bored easily, and students who have difficulty
processing the printed word.
Graphic Representations will enable learners to:
- represent and organize main ideas and key concepts, causal
relations, vocabulary, symbols, concepts, principles, and
generalizations.
- plan the sequence of their writing (beginning, middle, and
end), sort main ideas and supporting detail, organize sources of
information, and record brainstorming efforts of cooperative
teams.
- represent the connections between new knowledge and prior
knowledge.
- process the new learning by moving it into long-term memory.
The use of Graphic Representations is supported by:
- Brain Research: Construction of Knowledge, Metacognition,
Activating Schemata, and Patterning.
- Multiple Intelligence Theory: Logical/Mathematical and
Visual/Spatial.
- Generational Research on the Y Generation/Millennials
This session is an energizing fun, active full day session,
originally designed to be part of college course on the three top
instructional strategies. The daylong session format provides an
opportunity for fine-tuning and reworking: training sessions,
instructional units or integrating Graphic Representations into
course work..
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Inside-Out Service
We often think the key to good customer service is serving
others first. When you understand human behavior you know that
serving yourself is the only way you can serve others. Knowing
strategies for keeping your life stress free will translate into
effective strategies for working with clients and co-workers.
Together we will have fun while practicing the art of:
- Keeping Yourself in Balance
- Listening, and
- Handling Complaints
This session is an energizing keynote. This session was
originally designed to be a half-day introduction to the ideas of
human behavior and creating dynamic balance in your own life,
thereby, better preparing you to work with others. This session can
be extended to two full days of working on serving others through
serving yourself. This session lends itself to be an energizing
practical keynote appropriate for a wide variety of audiences.
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Custom Designed Training
Completely customized training is also available. The only
limits are your imagination!
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All sessions will be customized to your
setting!
The following delivery options are usually available:
- One-hour keynote intended to peak interest.
- 1/2 Day session to explore the basic ideas.
- Full day to gain understanding of the concepts.
- Multi-Day to gain understanding and integrate concepts.
