Institute Workshops Listed By Category

Management Science – Interactive Workshop series
Best Practices Sharing: Mining The Enterprise Gold;
Cultural Awareness In The Workplace: Successful Workforce Teambuilding;
Diversity In The Workplace: A Positive Workforce Protocol;
Ethics, Integrity, And Honesty Best Practices: True Foundation For Business Building;
Strategy And Strategic Planning: The Smart Track To The Future;
Strategic Partnering: Implementation And Conflict Resolution;
Team Builders: Building An Organization, Not Simply “Doing Business”;
The Total Quality Management Series: Outperforming Competition;
Training For TrainersÓ: Your Strategic Link To An Achievement Driven Workforce;

Leadership - Interactive Workshop Series
Communications And Leadership: Inseparable Issues;
Emotional Intelligence: Requisite For True Leadership Performance;
Leadership Development: Growing Leaders And Senior Executives;
Presentation Skills Building: Successful Communications For Leadership;
Women Of Color: Accomplishment-Based Executive Training.

Thinking Development - Interactive Workshop Series
Analytical Thinking: Developing And Harnessing The Workforce Brainpower;
Innovation: Preparing For Tomorrow’s challenges;
Learning Organizations: Magnets For The Best And Brightest Achievers;
Mentoring And Coaching: Creating A True Learning Organization;
Soft Skills That Matter: Using Emotional Intelligence To Grow a Business;
The Six Thinking HatsÔ: The New Idea, Thinking, And Communications Discovery.

The Fast Track - Interactive Workshop Series
Adult Employability Skills Workshop: For the Disadvantaged and Unemployed
Adult Entrepreneurship/New Business Expansion: Local Economic Development
Do It Now: Procrastination Is A Corporate Liability;
Entrepreneurship: Creating An Enterprise Vision, And Delivering On Its Premise;
Foreign Trade: Introduction And Primer To Overseas Markets;
The MATF ProgramÓ: Internal Fast Track Communications Format;
The Trade Show Mentality: Projects Delivered On Time, Every Time;
Win-Win Career StartÓ: Teen Employability Skills Development And Job Fair Preparation.

Your workforce must learn what they don’t know . . . and skillfully use what they learn. They cannot make expert use of valuable traits they do not possess. We refer to a new self-awareness, new skills development . . . new levels of wisdom and knowledge . . . strategies for planning and implementing action . . . successful execution of Strategic Objectives . . . and measuring accomplishments.

(Ô Dr. Edward DeBono /The Six Thinking Hats. All Rights Reserved.)


Management Science - Interactive Workshop Series


• Best Practices Sharing: Mining The Enterprise Gold
This Workshop focuses on determining what constitutes “Best Practices,” how the protocols can be measured at several levels, and how Best Practices Sharing is introduced into operating methodology. This intensely fundamental process is seamlessly woven into the enterprise fabric to derive the greatest value and benefits from the acquisition, and making prudent use of the accumulation of “operational smarts.”

• Cultural Awareness In The Workplace: Successful WorkForce Teambuilding
This Workshop examines the broad issues and idiosyncrasies that encompass the subject matter. Personal habits of hygiene, dress, hand and body gestures, speech, holidays, belief systems and perceptions, religious, racial and gender issues, food and dining habits and table manners, and a myriad of what-to-do, what not-to-do, relative to a great many cultures are examined and practiced as a function of this Workshop.

• Diversity In The Workplace: A Positive Workforce Performance Protocol
The full range of issues of gender, racial and religious bias and cultural misconceptions are explored. Legal Information pertinent to the Workshop issues is explored. Attendees become involved in a series of “mock” situations, and practice making judgments, initiate actions, create an overall strategy to satisfy the requisite issues, and seek to avoid litigation resulting in negative and disastrous Public Relations notoriety.

• Ethics, Integrity And Honesty Best Practices: Principles For Tomorrows Enterprise
Curative activity only works successfully through systemic applications. The activity steps also include the use of Company Manuals, presentations to new-hires, and a host of other Workshop based protocols that drive this issue home.

Understanding what constitutes adverse behavior in this program is coupled with the actions to be taken to prevent negative behavior through a series of strategies and implementation activity.

• Strategy And Strategic Planning: Window To Your Future
Strategy is explored in a simple format so that a consummate understanding of the process is effectively absorbed. We continue the Strategy learning process in its many forms and nuances that can be understood and utilized effectively by introducing “training units.” We “attach” a series of Strategic tools and protocols in a building block process that allows for quick understanding and multiplicity of use.

• Strategic Partnering: Implementation and Conflict Resolution
The Strategic Objective of having clear, definitive, understanding between interactive groups regardless of their precise relationships is foundational for cooperative activity. When those understandings are violated, conflicts arise and costly steps are required for resolution.

Partnering Protocols serve to eliminate or reduce conflicts in the target enterprise environment. Our Partnering Implementation Workshop Program is based upon successful, demonstrated experiences in the US and overseas markets. The forum is purposely Interactive since the most effective learning takes place in this focused, deliberate, environment.

• Team Builders: Building A Business, Not Simply Doing Business
Team Builders explore the intricate mechanisms of every individual’s activity in a combined effort to achieve the pre-ordained goals and accomplishments that Teams have skillfully planned. Sounds like a mouthful to chew on, but it spells coordinated and practiced activity that successfully harnesses the brainpower and energy of your entire workforce.

• Total Quality Management Series: Outperforming Competition
True productivity is a result of wise decisions, education, skills, commitment, and attitude! This Workshop addresses the primary differences between activity and productivity and benchmarks the process for clarification and utilization in the enterprise or “public” environment. TQM is one of the most lethal forms of competition reduction and strategic advantage.

This Workshop explores the individual segments that comprise the Total Quality Management subjects into their individual areas of operational characteristics. We begin with the early protocols to the later more mature agendas. They are addressed in that order.

• Experiential Training For TrainersÓ: Your Strategic Link To The Most Productive Workforce
This workshop is devoted to the training of Trainers who will be conducting Experiential Workshops. However, the training format will dramatically improve and upgrade the skills of any mentor, trainer, teacher, coach, or any one who is charged with the responsibility of engaging in a Learning or skill-based curriculum effort.

This Workshop makes a valuable distinction between “telling and talking,” a primary aspect of conveying information that does not imbue skill development, from Experiential Learning, which encompasses knowledge management, skill-building, practice under supervision, leadership and communication drills, Teammanship, and innovative thinking.

In seminar activity, the thinking-skills issues that imbeds the knowledge and/or skill building that was expected of the training activity is not accounted for, nor fulfills the promises inherent in what the training should have accomplished. All of the above is fulfilled in Experiential Workshop venues. This has been delivered as a University Level, Accredited Certification Program.


Leadership Interactive Workshop Series
• Communications and Leadership: Inseparable Issues
The requirements of an effective Leader are multiple-level; the ability to create and communicate the desired vision for the enterprise, determine the cultural environment in which it will thrive and perform, initiate the ideas for the strategy to be employed to secure a desired result, and successfully implement and execute the agendas that determine the planned-for achievement, growth and value.

How all of these vital requisites are “communicated” is the basis for this workshop, a “Communications makeover” for Senior Executives, Supervisors and Managers.

• Emotional Intelligence: Requisite For Outstanding Leadership Performance
Emotional Intelligence has become a critical issue in the new frontier of Management Leadership Development. This program explores in definitive detail what constitutes Emotional Intelligence, and the pathway to achieve what Emotional Intelligence offers to the successful individual who can learn, adopt, and PRACTICE PERFECTÓ this skill. This is a Strategic Issues Workshop that demands a certain level of intelligence and intellectual capacity.

• Leadership Development: Growing Leaders and Senior Executives
Enterprises seek out and depend upon people who have Leadership qualities, and who can use these valuable skills effectively. What is relevant about Leadership in an Inter-active Workshop setting is the ability to practice the new skills . . . without paying for the mistakes. Attendees should not have to pay for them the hard way in the real workplace situation . . . and/or, at the enterprise expense.

Leadership is a complex issue. When it is broken down into key parts, it becomes “understandable and digestible.” Attendees learn and practice skillful Leadership, in addition to the Leadership qualities they now possess.

• Women Of Color: Accomplishment based Executive Training
Recent valid surveys cited a lack of access to an effective Mentor/Coach as one barrier to advancement and indicate deprival for huge numbers of talented, knowledgeable, and professionally skilled Women of Color. This Workshop explains advancement technology and methods, and participants join with Teams of Peers to practice this new knowledge and advancement technology. The training provides for immediate application for the Workshop contents into each individual’s world-of-work, and a sharper, planned focus on career goals and related accomplishments.


Thinking Development Interactive Workshop Series

• Analytical Thinking: Developing and Harnessing The Workforce Brainpower
Critical Thinking Skills, as we see it, is remarkably different from most popular definitions. We believe it is the ability to develop and employ the Brainpower of an individual to think, create, innovate, and perform beyond their prior capabilities. The first realization is acknowledging the difference between ”acting smart” and “being smart.” Knowledge is what you learn in schools and life experiences; Wisdom is what you do with what you have learned! Reading books or “studying harder” will not resolve this issue. We borrow from The Wisdom SeriesÓ curriculum in a less complex, shorter version.

• Innovation: Preparing For tomorrow’s Challenges
The key to all future development and growth will be heavily dependent on Innovation Technology. Many individuals do have the ability to be innovative in degrees, but usually lack the fundamental knowledge and skills to unleash this great source of creative energy.
We instruct the attendees in a precise, extraordinary series of exercises in how to create and develop new and effective ideas, products or services.

• Learning Organizations: Magnets For The Best And Brightest Achievers
This Interactive Workshop explores in great detail what a Learning Organization truly represents, and how it functions on several levels in accomplishing its specified goals. The attendees plan and rehearse under supervision how to create and implement a Learning Organization in their enterprise environment. Skilled Productive trainers and skill/knowledge-based programs are required with Best Practices Sharing protocols.

• Mentoring And Coaching: Creating A True Learning Organization
Mentor/Coaching is a necessary Management Development tool essential for smart enterprise growth. The role of the Mentor/Coach in the total environment and specifically, the Team-Building Process is definitively explored as an effective yardstick to gauge future performance achievements.

• Presentation Skills Building: Successful Communications For Leadership
This Workshop instructs the individual in the ability to make effective and successful presentations from small meetings to keynote speeches to major addresses and covers all forms of media, especially use of a microphone and dais. Each individual receives personal and group instruction in the entire presentation process. Writing skills and digital technology issues are not included in this program.

• Soft Skills That Matter: Using Emotional Intelligence To Grow A Great Business
We live in a world where “transparency” is self-evident. Everyone takes notice of our personal and business conduct in enterprise affairs, anger management and conflict resolution, issues of sexual harassment, dining etiquette, and dress codes. This Workshop addresses behavior and issues that spell the critical difference between continuing levels of success, and stalling out for the wrong reasons

• The Six Thinking HatsÓ: The New Idea, Thinking and Communications Discovery
Edward de Bono’s “Six Hatsâ” (Registered trademark) is studied and practiced on an Inter-active basis, since it is a process of having every participant engaged in the same direction of thought in any form of group communications.

This program is the only key to infinitely more productive meetings, Team Development Strategy, and group dynamics outperforming any other methodology. A critical segment for Innovation, Best Practices Sharing, Group Think, and all forms of problem resolution activities.

The Fast Track Interactive Workshop Series

• Adult Employability Skills Workshop: For The Disadvantaged and Presently Unemployed
This Workshop is designed to prepare individuals who have been displaced by exiting businesses or industry sectors that are no longer viable employers for this level of the general manual labor Workforce. We do not yet focus on Job re-training, but on appropriately preparing the individual in successfully seeking new employment and career establishment utilizing their existing skill sets.

• Adult Entrepreneurship New Business Development: Individual/Local Economic Development
This Workshop is designed to prepare individuals who have been displaced by exiting businesses or industry sectors that are now ready to become a business owner rather than continue as an employee. All of the rudimentary protocols necessary for a new business startup covering the issues demanded of a initial two years of operations, and delivered in an Interactive Workshop setting.

• Do It Now: Procrastination Is A Corporate Liability
A comprehensive and highly charged program that focuses on why individuals procrastinate and put off addressing critical as well as casual, but necessary functions of responsibility. We first illustrate WHY this emotionally based activity occurs, then undertake a series of steps to create new behavioral activity to eliminate this common, but wasteful, costly enterprise and personal behavior characteristic.

• Entrepreneurship: Creating A Vision, And Delivering On Its Premise
Differentiating Entrepreneurship from Leadership is the primary issue in this Workshop. We explore and demonstrate the issues that manifest “The Internal Visioning Process.” Attendees write their observations for individual changes to be made to become effective Entrepreneurs, Leaders and Coaches. The Workshop covers positioning the enterprise, defining the corporate culture, and other critical methodologies.

• Foreign Trade: Introduction And Primer To Overseas Markets
A Workshop devoted to Import and Export marketing that focuses on researching international trade at critical levels, Cultural Awareness issues, and Government Assistance and implementation procedures for initiating an Import/Export Program. Methodologies are detailed, and the attendees are invited to share their plans and/or concerns as case studies for moving forward in this area of commerce.

• The MATF ProgramÓ: Internal Fast Track Communications Format
MATFÓ represents the term Management Advisory Task Force. This Workshop is a fast track to intra-business growth and achievement. We teach the methodology for the upstreaming of information throughout all levels of an organization, regardless of its size. The validity of this protocol is timely, precise, strategic feedback from every area of operations, transcending all levels of management. The MATFÓ also develops innovation, leadership and CHANGE issues more efficiently than other forms of implementation.

• The Trade Show Mentality: Projects Delivered On Time, Every Time!
This Workshop examines a critical function of every enterprise that suffers critical deadline failures without sacrificing quality, people, product, profits or value. This is a task oriented training format that instills key operational protocols of how projects are developed, maintained, and implemented so that all key objectives are met within a specified time frame.

• The Win-Win Career Start Program: Teen Employability Skills & Job Fair Preparation
This Workshop was developed to properly prepare High School Juniors and Seniors, the unemployed, and those seeking a career change; what they must precisely focus on and develop prior to the job search, implementing the Job search, and creating the foundation for successful Career Development. The program is “document rich,” comprehensive in interview technology, and many other requisites for an accomplishment based, Career origination effort. Win-Win represents Winning in starting a career, Winning at accomplishing a long-term goal.

Personal Coaching Services

Executive or personal Coaching at any level has a few primary objectives.

To create a forum of “reality” for the client;
To then aid in determining what a course of action is suitable;
To suggest alternatives relative to the suggested course of action to be taken;
To aid in choosing an alternative, and working through the implementation process;
To never forget whose needs are being served, first and foremost!

The famous author, Peter Senge (from the introduction to the book "Synchronicity" by Joe Jaworski), speaks loud and clear to this human condition:

"Most of us aren't very good at perceiving reality as it is. Most of what we "see" is shaped by our impressions, our history, our baggage, our preconceptions. We can't see people as they really are because we're too busy reacting to our own internal experiences of what they evoke in us, so we rarely actually relate to reality. We mostly relate to internal remembrances of our own history, stimulated and evoked by whatever is externally before us . . .

If we could only see reality more as it is, it would become obvious what we need to do. We wouldn't be acting out of our own histories, or our own needs, or our own purely reactive interpretations. We would see what is needed in the moment. We would do exactly what's required of us, right now, right here. This is … living one's life by "participating in the unfolding". You can't do that unless you can actually see what is right before you."
We Coach individuals to access the true value of their human capital, and take full advantage of valuable new technology, work processes, strategies, and other required methodologies. This is demanded in today’s competitive enterprise environment.

Knowledge (education and experience) integrated with Wisdom (smart decisions and choices) and finally, effective Execution! That is our Coaching agenda.

The famous scientist, Albert Einstein, stated so eloquently, that “it is insanity to do the same things over and over . . . and expect different results.”
The message is simple. If you want “things” to be different, you have to change what you do, why you do it, and how you do it!!

You must learn what you don’t know . . . and skillfully use what you do learn. You cannot make expert use of valuable traits you do not possess. New self-awareness, wisdom, knowledge, and strategies for planning, implementing, measuring accomplishments.

What you don’t know . . . creates a far greater risk to your future . . . than what you do know!

As a result of our Coaching services, you can become more focused on career goals and accomplishments. You can now possess the tools and the where-with-all to achieve what you are capable of achieving!

We look forward in earnest to hearing from you, and to energizing your career forward.