Get Out of Job Jail
Are you underemployed? Do you want more from your career? Are you unhappy in your current position? Do you long to break out of corporate America? For every job seeker, career changer, returning to work candidate or laid off/downsized/former employee, sound career management advice is here. Now you can take control of your career and stop allowing the economy, employees and envious family and friends from having control over your destiny.
Join Audrey, as she coaches you step by step on successful career strategies, in order to Get Out of Job Jail. There are eight ways to have the career you’ve always wanted. Learn how to recession proof your career for good. You will learn ways: to improve your communications skills, assessing your abilities, recognizing your responsibilities, evaluating your etiquette skills, entrepreneurial traits, ethics and enthusiasm and reestablishing sound working relationships
Avoid Hiring Nuts, Lemons & Flakes
In today’s economy many businesses are finding there are hundreds of people applying for one position. Decision makers need effective tools to recruit, properly screen and ultimately hire the best possible candidate for their team.
Hiring managers must develop creative methods to recruit quality personnel, be able to construct an accurate job description and to relay this information to a prospective candidate. When the time comes to offer the opportunity to the best candidate you’ll find that you also need brilliant negotiation skills.
Assertive Skills for Managers & Supervisors
Managers who shy away from conflict risk losing the support and respect of their team. Yet, managers who use force, fear and manipulation to get results, risk lowering productivity and general morale. Between the extremes of passive and aggressive leadership styles is an effective management approach entitled the assertive style.
Once you have learned the difference between passive, assertive and aggressive management styles, you will be able to determine your own leadership style. Then, you can adopt the qualities of successful managers, who always get the job done in a considerate and confident manner. You’ll be amazed at how effective and productive your team will be when you gain the strength, confidence and insight needed to lead successfully. Coaching Skills For Managers & Supervisors
Great coaches inspire great achievements. They demand excellence, expect sacrifice, inspire victory and garner respect. What secrets do great coaches know about motivation? How can you get super performances from your employees?
Learn to create a winning strategy to motivate your players. This
class provides you with action steps to improve your leadership skills.
Along with ideas and techniques that will put you in a position to better
your team.
Convincing Communication Skills
No matter what job you hold, no matter what your level inside of the organization may be, no matter where your current communication skills stand you can do a better, more effective job the every next day with increased confidence and self-satisfaction.
Look behind any successful person and what will you find? Again and again, research proves that communication skills are the most essential ingredient to success.
Conflict, Anger & Emotions
Has the cost of flaring emotions been too high for you or your organization? Anger can cost valuable time, disrupt work-flow, cripple team spirit and generally stifle productivity. Losing your temper can cost you the respect of employees, co-workers and management.
Conflict and opposing viewpoints are part of the workplace and part of life, you can’t change that. You can change the way you react and manage conflict when it does occur.
Customer Service
Satisfied customers are the crucial component in building and maintaining a successful business. Customer satisfaction comes from quality customer service, the valuable competitive edge to stay in business.
Quality customer service is more than just a smile or a memo filled
with slogans. It means handling unhappy people, solving their problems,
and turning them into happy, repeat customers. You can put great customer
service into action right now.
Human Resources Employment Law
If you find yourself asking questions regarding your organization’s effectiveness at meeting, if not exceeding state and federal compliance laws, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, then this seminar will remove all the legal language from your and allow your to write, amend and update all of your organization's policies and procedures regarding:
• Reporting practices
• Interviewing & hiring procedures
• Disciplinary guidelines
• Benefits administration
• Training opportunities
• Performance evaluation process
• Promotion criterion
• Termination process
After completing this dynamic Human Resources class your company’s house will be in total compliance to state and federal law.
Managing Multiple Projects
Do you have difficulty accomplishing your most important task, the ones most important to your career? Do you feel disorganized? Do you forget things you must do or lose track of appointments, dates, and deadlines?
What about big jobs? Do you ever put off what you know you should start on now, until you can find the time to do it “just right,” and instead work on small trivial tasks?
During the day, we are all besieged by priorities great and small,
by piles and piles of paper on our desk, seemingly incessant telephone
calls and other interruptions. We wonder how we’re going to get an important
project done on time and then the boss drops another one onto our desk.
Negativity in the Workplace
Is negativity a pervasive, widespread problem in your department or on your work team? Consider this, just one negative person can infect an entire team. In fact, negativity can spread so fast that many managers and professionals are left bewildered in its destructive path.
Productivity plummets in the negatively charged workplace. Good ideas are shot down or not proposed at all. The status quo reigns supreme, even when change is desperately needed. You’ll hear about problems over and over again, but no one proposes any solutions. Is it any wonder very little gets accomplished under these conditions?
Passion vs. Pension
The most rewarding and productive approach to business comes from being passionate about what you do for a living. This class provides participates with a road map designed to assist individuals in identifying, researching and beginning their road to a career that is more fulfilling and rewarding.
A step-by step program consisting of the ten passion secrets of powerful people, will help you clarify your goals, learn to trust your instincts and assist you in cultivating relationships with individuals whose passions connect with yours.
Powerful Presentations
Learn the presentation skills and speaking techniques that will have you off the sidelines and standing up with confidence in no time. Take specific steps to overcome the fear of speaking in front of small, medium or large groups. Succeed when you stand up and speak with confidence and power.
Are your presentation skills moving you forward or holding you back? Discover the communication strategies that guarantee you’ll get everyone’s attention from the moment you turn on the microphone.
Project Management Skills
Learn to complete all your projects on time, on budget and on target. Master the art of project planning and organizing your project from start to finish, without omissions, mistakes or miscalculations. Stress Survival Skills
What stresses you out? Common stressors for most people include multiple roles at work and/or home. Many of us have a job in the workplace, as well as a job at home, tending to the needs of a family. There’s an inability to say no to colleagues or to our family. Add in the need for perfection and the sense of having to prove ourselves and we are heading on a collision course to burnout because life is so stressful.
Supervising People Effectively
Do you wear a lot of hats? Most supervisors do. Perhaps you have to be a friend, a coach, a boss, and a mediator. You’re in charge and you know it’s not easy. Being in charge means you’re responsible for delegating, motivating, praising, delivering criticism or discipline, working under pressure, meeting deadlines, training new employees, organizing people, arranging projects and making schedules on an ongoing basis.
No doubt about it, you wear many hats. Regardless of your previous experience in supervising, you can always work smarter and do a better job with fresh ideas and techniques.
Team Building
Despite all the changes and upheaval in American companies lately the one thing everyone agrees on is that we are in a new economic age where the rules of the game as it used to be played no longer work. So, we have to learn to play a new game and almost always this involves forming and maintaining high performance teams.
Whether we call these teams self-directed, self-managed, quality improvement, employee involvement or something else, their purpose is always the same: to enable us to compete in the global marketplace by working smarter. Smart systems, empowered workers, and incredible team work is needed by all organizations regardless of whether you are in manufacturing or service, union or non-union, profit or non-profit settings.
Clients:
| Bellsouth | Founty County Government |
| Clark-Atlanta University | Georgia Dept. of Natural Resources |
| Clemson University | Federal Employees Credit Union |
| Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) | IBM |
| SunTrust Bank | The Atlanta Journal & Consitution Newspapers |
| ... and many, many more in diverse industries | |


