Training Courses

Being productive is not a luxury, it’s a necessity. Dive in and analyze your day from the moment you get to the office until the time you leave. We all get the same 24 hours… learn how to make the most of yours!

This course provides strategies to increase your efficiency and productivity by focusing on very tactile areas of your work day that you can easily control through proven systems. We will tackle areas such as: effective planning and scheduling, creating and using effective to do lists, email management, work space organization and creating an effective filing system (both paper and digital document management). Your work day will become manageable, controlled and organized!

You’ll identify your organizing personality (yes, we all have one!) using our Founder, Deb Cabral’s matrix that was featured in Better Homes and Gardens “Secrets of Getting Organized” Magazine and use that knowledge to create your ultimate work space. Most importantly, we’ll also share tips and strategies to help you stay on track and continue to be productive and organized in the future.

Learning objectives:

• Learn how to control your day vs. your day controlling you
• Gain imperative planning skills that will help both your professional and personal life
• Reinvent your work space for ultimate inspiration and productivity

Do you always feel like you have NO TIME?! Learn proven strategies for time management success and the tools that can help you get there. Time is a precious commodity and you CAN master it.

In this course, you’ll create a personalized time management action plan. You’ll dig deep into how you currently spend your time and identify what’s working and what’s not. We’ll learn to set goals, organize your time, plan wisely, tackle procrastination, create habits and rituals and how to manage multiple priorities and deadlines. In addition, we’ll cover how to manage successful meetings and save time, handle interruptions, and how to delegate effectively. Because we know that every person and every job is different and has its own challenges and responsibilities, this course will concentrate closely on personalization of strategies and will deliver on many proven methods that can be adopted as is, or customized for each individual participant. Attendees will walk away with a time management plan that they can start implementing right away.

Learning objectives:

• Walk away with a personalized time management plan that will work for you
• Have more control of your day and feel less stressed
• Be more productive, more efficient and motivated

Your greatest fear could become the most powerful weapon in your professional arsenal. Being an effective speaker can lead to professional success and provide confidence in presenting your opinions and ideas.

This course will teach you how to prepare for and conduct engaging and informative presentations to any audience, from five people to several hundred. We’ll cover how to identify your audience to create a customized presentation, share great tips on how to take your thoughts and content and effectively turn it into a powerful presentation, uncover strategies for establishing credibility with your audience, and we’ll even touch on overcoming nervousness. We’ll discuss the best delivery methods to enhance your presentations such as PowerPoints, flip charts, video, white board, audio, etc.

Learning objectives:

• Confidently take your presentation skills to the next level
• Gain skills and insight that will make the preparation of your presentation easy and effective
• Deliver an informative and engaging presentation that will leave your audience wanting more

Imagine if you could approach problems effectively, evaluating information to offer the best solutions and inspire those you work with to join in and collaborate!

This course is all about thinking differently – learning techniques to change the way you approach things, how to expand your thinking and ultimately how to perform better at your job and with your team. You’ve heard the term “thinking outside of the box” many times, but we will go even further to create breakthroughs and embrace how to expand your thinking for amazing results. We will review how to gather and understand types of information, the best ways to prepare for brainstorming, how brain writing and mind mapping improve creativity, how to develop and analyze solutions and implement a plan. It also includes the components and essentials of critical thinking, evaluating information and learning from mistakes. We’ll discuss characteristics of critical thinkers as well.

Learning objectives:

• Implement new skills to be a more effective problem solver and critical thinker
• Have a better understanding of what critical thinking is and how you can apply it to your work
• Develop and analyze solutions that dig deeper into problems to yield better solutions and results

Conflict is inevitable in the workplace – it’s just human nature. It could be internally between employees or with management or it could be external where you’re dealing with difficult clients or vendors. This course will arm you with the tools to deal with it effectively and possibly prevent it from happening at all.

This course includes: the five conflict resolution styles, creating an effective atmosphere to resolve conflicts, getting to the root cause of the problem, generating options and building a solution. You’ll learn diffusing methods including stress and anger management techniques, neutralizing emotions, focusing on what the other party needs and building positive energy. In addition, you’ll learn The Productive Conflict Model. An easy, effective way to neutralize emotions and focus on what the other party needs to build positive energy to resolve conflict.

Learning objectives:

• Learn and apply the principles of successful conflict resolution
• Gain resolution skills that can be applied to your professional and personal life now and for years to come
• Learning to manage your emotions and help other parties involved in the conflict to do the same

Improve your self-awareness and social intelligence to be perceived in your best light by those around you. You will learn everything you need to make a good first AND a great lasting impression.

This course includes learning about the four “selfs”, mood management, interpersonal awareness, limitations of self-awareness, and independence vs interdependence. Walk away with tools to increase your self-awareness, learn the keys to empathy and active listening, be aware of social cues and body language, sharpen your conversation skills and gain insight on how to build rapport. We’ll also discuss many ways you can take initiative – taking a chance, recognize when you can step in, weighing the consequences, finding opportunities, being persistent and balancing initiative and restraint. The skills and insight you receive in this course can open you up for advancement or promotion at work, increase your influence with your peers and team and help make you a more aware person.

Learning objectives:

• Understand your newfound self-awareness and apply it to improve your performance
• Strengthen and enhance your skills for greater social interactions
• Help others around you see their self-awareness through mentoring and supporting them

Negotiating isn’t fighting. It’s a calculated, planned discussion to get an acceptable result for each party. This course will provide the strategies and confidence to take on any negotiation… and succeed!

In this course, you will gain an understanding of what negotiation is, learn to negotiate in a professional manner, get prepared by calculating the strengths and weaknesses of your position as well as knowing the other side, learn the best ways to communicate through negotiations and gain strategies for coming out with a win-win solution. Learn how to bargain, how to deal with difficult issues and of course, close the deal. You will also learn more intangible skills to help you negotiate more successfully such as dealing with your emotions, being adaptable and flexible, putting yourself in the other person’s shoes and seeing the bigger picture.

Learning objectives:

• Come out of the course as a more confident, effective negotiator
• Develop skills to become more flexible during negotiations and still have a successful outcome
• Learn how to maintain your professionalism and the relationship with the opposing party during and after the negotiation

People are forming judgments about you from every angle – how you dress, how you conduct yourself and how you portray yourself on social media. Your personal brand is extremely important to establish to foster success and this course will help you discover and enhance yours.

This course will start with analyzing your personal brand: defining yourself, developing and controlling your image, personal and professional influences, sharpening your brand and branding personality strategies. We’ll move to a comprehensive overview of general business etiquette, dressing appropriately in the workplace, email and phone etiquette, best practices for business writing, etiquette during business meals and more. We’ll review effective networking for success and how to seek out mentors to help grow your career and maintain a positive, influential personal brand. We’ll also discuss social media at length and include our popular “Ten mistakes not to make on social media”.

Learning objectives:

• Learn and follow proper business etiquette so you can put forth the best version of yourself
• Learn to develop your image and create a unique, authentic personal brand
• Be aware of how social media can affect your professionalism and avoid pitfalls

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is so critical that it accounts for 58% of an individual’s performance. This course will assist in assessing and enhancing each participants Emotional Intelligence skills. We’ll learn how to recognize, acknowledge, and manage feelings and emotions to maximize professional as well as personal success.

Weʼll cover the benefits of enhancing EQ as well as the four core competencies of Emotional Intelligence. Participants will take a sell-assessment during the training so they have a baseline for where they are and will learn effective strategies for how they can take their skills to the next level.

Learning objectives:

• Learn the four core competencies of Emotional Intelligence
• Increase professional awareness as it relates to their Emotional Intelligence
• Gain knowledge of effective strategies to increase EQ.

You’ve heard that “teamwork makes the dream work”. If you build and manage a successful team that people WANT to be a part of, it will increase motivation, loyalty and productivity!

This course is full of easy-to-implement strategies to build, manage and motivate your ultimate team. You will learn the types of teams, the 4 stages of team development, the 5 Commandments of a Successful Team, common mistakes in team building and the 6 Thinking Hats of Problem Solving as a Team. We’ll cover problem solving and conflict resolution and share team building activities to use to build trust and confidence. In addition, you’ll learn how to make the most of team meetings and how to consistently encourage teamwork. Learn some new ideas for motivation, steps to retaining high performers and improving team performance.

Learning objectives:

• Learn how to bring people together to form an effective, motivated and productive team
• Gain strategies to guide your team through the 4 stages of team building to improve performance
• Enhance your ability to help your team solve problems, grow, perform and succeed

Are you an emerging leader in your organization or are you in a new leadership role? This course is targeted to help develop your leadership style and create professional success. It’s also a perfect course for seasoned leaders who want to re-charge their skills.

In this course, you will learn how to set expectations and goals, assign work, implement delegation, provide productive feedback, manage your time and your team’s time to align with their duties and responsibilities. You’ll also learn strategies for special situations such as being promoted from within the team. We’ll cover the important qualities and attributes that a great leader possesses and discuss how you can own and implement them. We will also delve deeper into how you can identify candidates early for potential leadership roles, build competencies in others and pair others with mentors. Participants will walk away armed with skills to strengthen their own leadership skills and motivate their team.

Learning objectives:

• New leaders will receive a foundation of necessary skills to be successful immediately
• Gain strategies and tools to use to connect with your team, gain trust and build rapport
• Develop or enhance skills learned to dramatically increase performance of your team

Feedback is imperative to keep employees on track and motivate them to continue to strive for excellence. It’s also important to openly address any areas that need improvement. Conducting performance reviews is a craft that can be learned and perfected to assure the best outcome and direction for the employee and organization.

In this course, we will learn when and how frequently feedback should occur, how to choose the best time and place and how to thoroughly prepare and plan prior to feedback delivery. We’ll cover how to use the “feedback sandwich” successfully, how to set goals for optimal performance, how to ask for a self-assessment and how to tie performance to compensation. We’ll also share how to keep emotions in check, diffuse anger and negative emotions and go over common mistakes managers make when conducting employee reviews. You’ll leave with ideas for incentives and how to begin creating a culture of recognition. If you are the one getting reviewed, we’ll also dive into tips on how to successfully prepare for your own annual performance review.

Learning objectives:

• Prepare and deliver feedback that will inspire employees to make positive changes
• Learn year-round strategies to produce the best performance review possible for each of your staff
• Create and implement a culture of recognition within your team

This class is a deeper dive into the topic of performance management, which is critical for leaders to continue to grow and learn to enhance their skill sets. The course is designed for executives, directors, managers, leaders, and supervisors who want to master the process of performance evaluations and transform staff performance. It builds on foundational concepts and focuses on advanced strategies for effective performance management, aiming to equip leaders with tools and insights to drive continuous improvement and professional growth within their teams.

In this course, we’ll cover rethinking performance evaluations, the Performance Management Cycle, how to meticulously prepare for a performance evaluation, the best practices in writing comprehensive evaluations that transform staff performance, successful strategies for delivering a performance evaluation and tips for effective performance evaluation follow-up.

Learning objectives:

• Develop Advanced Performance Management Skills
• Master the Preparation and Delivery of Performance Evaluations
• Implement Effective Follow-Up Practices

This course includes a deep dive into Daniel Goleman’s 4 domains and 12 competencies of Emotional Intelligence. You’ll learn the importance of emotional intelligence in the workplace and how it can have a positive impact on culture. In addition, you’ll complete a self-assessment to evaluate your own emotional intelligence and learn strategies to enhance or improve your emotional intelligence. When you know where you are and have the strategies to improve, you’ll set yourself up for success! 

This class is a great class for leaders at all levels as well and emerging and aspiring leaders!

Learning Objectives:

• Gain knowledge of the domains and competencies ofemotional intelligence.
• Understand and apply the strategies to enhance and improve youremotional intelligence
• Learn how to utilizeemotional intelligence to improve leadership 

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is so critical that it accounts for 58% of an individual’s performance. This course will assist in assessing and enhancing each participants Emotional Intelligence skills. We’ll learn how to recognize, acknowledge, and manage feelings and emotions to maximize professional as well as personal success.

We’ll cover the benefits of enhancing EQ as well as the four core competencies of Emotional Intelligence. Participants will take a sell-assessment during the training so they have a baseline for where they are and will learn effective strategies for how they can take their skills to the next level.

Learning objectives:

• Learn the four core competencies of Emotional Intelligence
• Increase professional awareness as it relates to their Emotional Intelligence
• Gain knowledge of effective strategies to increase EQ.

Stop spinning your wheels and start taking control of your life! This course will provide easy-to-implement tips to improve balance between work and home life through healthy integration.

In addition, we’ll assessing your current work-life balance and learn the difference between work-life balance and work-life integration. We’ll cover a three-step process for achieving better work-life balance and you’ll learn the causes of unhealthy work-life balance and how to fix it. We’ll also share strategies to implement immediately to improve your work-life balance/integration. If your work-life balance is not where you want it to be, this course Is for you!

Learning objectives:

• Become more aware of your current work-life balance
• Have better balance overall in your personal and professional life
• Learn strategies to improve work-life balance

Stress in inevitable. Being able to manage stress is critical to professional and personal success. In this course, you’ll learn how to identify stressors and how it affects the body and mind. We’ll also the Triple “A” Approach to stress management and discuss the commons causes and symptoms of work-related stress. You’ll complete a stress self-assessment and learn common strategies to manage stress at work and home. You’ll leave the class armed with the confidence to improve your stress management by implementing changes in the way you think and act.

Learning objectives:

• Identify your stress through a self-assessment
• Implement strategies and create habits to manage the stress you experience at work and home
• Create a self-care plan to reduce stress

It’s never too early or too late to take control of your finances. Whether you are living paycheck to paycheck or have a positive net worth and are saving for the future, there are specific steps you can take to be more financially fit. In this course, participants will learn the five steps to take control of their finances. They’ll learn how to better manage their finances and have the confidence to move forward and make positive changes.

Learning objectives:

• Learn and implement the 5 steps to take control of your finances
• Develop skills to better manage your finances
• Master your finances to have reduce stress