Personal Development

Available in St Louis, MO and Beyond

Adult Learning - Mental Skills

With our Adult Learner: Mental Skills course, your participants will discover the specifics of how the cognitive domain increases intellectual capability.

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Adult Learning - Physical Skills

With our Adult Learning - Physical Skills course, your participants will discover how to navigate their physical environment better. The understanding and coordination of physical skills provide an incredible benefit to everyone.

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Advanced Skills for the Practical Trainer

Behind every spectacular training session is a lot of preparation and meticulous attention to detail. A truly skilled trainer can make a program exciting! This course will teach you advanced skills that can help you take your training programs to the next level. We recommend that you complete “The Practical Trainer” before beginning this course.

Anger Management

Our Anger Management course will give your participants that constructive approach. Participants will learn how to identify their anger triggers and what to do when angry. Through specific coping and planning techniques, anger can become a positive tool.

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Attention Management

Attention Management is a valuable skill that allows managers to connect with their employees emotionally and motivate them to focus on their work. Our course will help your participants reach their personal and company goals. They will gain valuable insight and strategies into what it takes to be more attentive and vigilant.

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Being A Likeable Boss

Our Being a Likeable Boss course will show that honesty and trust will be your participant"s most important tools in fostering a better relationship with their employees. Trusting your team by avoiding micromanagement, using delegation, and accepting feedback will put your participants on the right path to being a more likable boss.

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Critical Thinking

Our Critical Thinking course will lead your participants to be more rational and disciplined thinkers. It will reduce their bias, providing a greater understanding of their environment. This course will provide your participants the skills to evaluate, identify, and distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information, which will give an incredible boost in performance.

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Developing Emotional Intelligence

Taking control over the emotions that shape our lives can have powerful effects. Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to recognize and manage our emotions, behaviors, and impulses, as well as apply this knowledge to the world around us. It encourages self-awareness, internal motivation, and the exploration of diverse perspectives. Through effective and authentic communication, emotional intelligence will create positive relationships within any organization. The Developing Emotional Intelligence course will provide participants with the tools to gain control over emotions, navigate challenging situations, and communicate empathetically. With emotional intelligence, you can build a happy and prosperous life.

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Developing a Lunch and Learn Program

If you look at any successful organization, they have the support of employee development as a core part of their culture. For these organizations, it goes beyond professional or even personal development to offering learning opportunities that create increased energy, creativity, and fun. Lunch and Learns are a venue to foster sharing and peer learning and are typically aimed at fostering cross-organization collaboration and communication. They are a tool for sharing information, approaches, and talent. Further, they offer opportunities for networking in a safe, friendly, and relaxed atmosphere.

This course will give you the tools to be able to create a Lunch and Learn Program that creates opportunities for learning that might not otherwise happen. You will also prepare a short Lunch and Learn session and receive feedback from other course participants.

Developing a Training Needs Analysis

The right training at the right time can make a huge difference in the productivity and profitability of your organization. Whether you are scanning your workplace for opportunities to make things better and training is the answer, or a client asks you to come into their organization and do an assessment, your answer is best framed in the form of a training needs analysis. Your ability to create an analysis that is comprehensive yet simply prepared is critical for it to be understood and acted upon. This course will help you to gather the information, assess the data, and present your suggestions for training or non-training solutions.

Developing Your Training Program

Training is an essential element of development in any organization. Being knowledgeable and continuing to learn throughout your career can make you a very valuable asset. We also know that training and orientation (or ‘onboarding’) for newly hired employees is a key factor in retention. This course is designed for a trainer who wants to develop training programs that are meaningful, practical and will benefit both trainees and the organizations they work for.

Facilitation Skills

It is impossible to be part of an organization today and not attend meetings. Staff meetings, project meetings, and planning and coordinating meetings all take time.

There has been a growing realization that we have to pay attention to the process elements of meetings if we want them to be effective. With its focus on asking rather than telling and listening to build consensus, facilitation is the new leadership ideal, the core competency everybody needs. Managers and supervisors are often asked to facilitate rather than instructor manage their meetings and training sessions. How can you facilitate, rather than control, group decision-making and team interaction? With no formal training, people may find it difficult to make the transition from instructors or managers to facilitators.

This course has been created to make core facilitation skills better understood and readily available for your organization. It represents materials and ideas that have been tested and refined over twenty years of active facilitation in all types of settings.

Goal Setting and Getting Things Done

Our Goal Setting and Getting Things Done course will cover strategies to help your participants deal with distractions and overcome procrastination. These skills will translate into increased satisfaction in their professional and personal lives. Your participants will learn the Goal Setting characteristics of successful people and, in turn, will become happier and more productive individuals.

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Improving Mindfulness

Improving Mindfulness will provide benefits throughout their professional and personal lives. Improving mindfulness through gratitude, filtering, and active listening will give your participants the advantage of seeing things in a new light. This course can give your participants an increased recognition of mental events in the present moment, which provides countless benefits.

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Improving Self-Awareness

Improving Self-Awareness will improve self-control, reduce procrastination, and develop mood management. Your participants will improve their relationships and create a more fulfilling life. These improvements will, in turn, translate into a wholly improved workforce. Stress will decline, and productivity will increase as internal turmoil will decrease, all though improving self-awareness.

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Increasing Your Happiness

With our Increasing Your Happiness course, your participants will engage in unique and helpful ways to increase their happiness. This will have a robust affect on their professional and personal lives. It will improve their communication skills, increase productivity, and lessen absenteeism.

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Job Search Skills

The Job Search Skills course will give you the answers to all these questions, plus a plan to get you to a new job within a month. After completing this program, you’ll be more than ready to start your search for your perfect job. Identifying the purpose for working and assessing skills can help determine the types of jobs your participants should apply for.

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Life Coaching Essentials

With our Life Coaching Essentials course, your participants will discover the meaning of life coaching and how life coaching services can be utilized to achieve their goals.

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Making Training Stick

We have all participated in training courses or workshops. Some of these have been helpful and useful in our everyday lives, and others have seemed redundant and a waste of time. How often have we cheered or grumbled at being asked to participate in a training day?

The good news is that all training can be useful and applicable if the trainer keeps some simple tips in mind when developing and applying training. We all learn differently, but there are some truths about learning that can be applicable to most groups and can be tweaked to fit any training session.

Managing Personal Finances

Most people know that a map can tell them how to get from point A to point B. A well-developed budget is like a map as it helps you reach your financial goals. You start at point A, and the funding enables you to go the distance get to point B. And with our Managing Personal Finances course, your participants will learn how to budget and create a plan for their future.

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Managing Workplace Anxiety

Our Managing Workplace Anxiety course will provide your participants with the essential skills and resources to recognize and manage workplace anxiety. By identifying these symptoms and coping skills, employees and managers will be better suited to dealing with these everyday situations. Your participants will be better suited to the workplace's challenges through this course.

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Measuring Training Results

There are lots of good reasons to offer training and even more reasons to participate and take training. But there is also an accountability element, where we ask ourselves:

What was the value of that training?
Did we meet the objectives that were set out?
Did the training bring about some kind of lasting change in behavior?

In this course, we’ll explore the essential elements of evaluating training and measuring results while creating a process that is simple for trainers and human resource practitioners to implement.

Personal Productivity

Personal Productivity is a goal most of us have. Your participants will be on the right track in achieving that goal through this course. Some people blame everything that goes wrong in their life on something or someone else, but your participants will take ownership and begin to lead a more productive life through this course.

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Public Speaking

The Public Speaking course will give participants some basic public speaking skills, including in-depth information on developing an engaging program and delivering their presentation with power.

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Social Intelligence

Increasing Social Intelligence will provide benefits throughout their professional and personal lives. It is a fantastic tool for coaching and development as people learn “people skills.” Improving social skills through active listening, understanding body language, and being more empathetic will give your participants an advantage in their interactions. Social interactions are a two-way street; know the rules of the road!

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Social Learning

With our Social Learning course, your participants will be creating learning communities that benefit every aspect of your organization. They will learn new behaviors through observation and modeling and be instilled with a passion for learning.

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Stress Management

The Stress Management course will give participants a three-option method for addressing any stressful situation and a toolbox of personal skills, including routines, relaxation techniques, and a stress log system. They will also understand what lifestyle elements they can change to reduce stress.

Video Link: https://youtu.be/Mn5DpV7UA08

Survival Skills for the New Trainer

Few people choose training and development while they are still in school, and yet there are talented and knowledgeable trainers working in every industry. Some individuals become trainers because they are passionate about sharing their knowledge and about helping people. Others become trainers because their employer asks them to get involved in mentoring, training, or coaching new or existing employees. Trainers also get started when they want to make some changes to their daily activities but wish to continue contributing to a particular organization or industry.

If you are thinking about becoming a trainer or have started doing some training already and want to know more about what will help you to become an excellent trainer, this course will help. This course is designed as an exploration of the essential skills that trainers need to develop and to get you started in the learning process in an interactive and fun environment.

Taking Initiative

With our Taking Initiative course, the class participants will learn what initiative is, how to take it on, its advantages, and when to know one's place. By enrolling in this class, participants will be taking the first step in making something positive happen for them! Now that is initiative!

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The Practical Trainer

Most people who call themselves trainers today probably didn’t start out to be trainers. They often work in a field where they develop extensive knowledge and then are asked to share what they know. Many trainers have some experience with teaching, writing, or leadership, although they come from nearly every field.

As such, people who work as trainers are often put into difficult situations without much understanding of what training is or how to do it well. We know that being a good trainer is the result of developing skills to bring information to an audience. This information will then engage, empower, and encourage continued learning and development.

This course will give you the skills that you need so that your students not only learn but also enjoy the process, retain information shared, and use their new skills back in the workplace.

Training with Visual Storytelling (LEVEL 2 COURSE)

Training is constantly evolving, just as the needs and desires of learners are constantly changing. This course is for trainers who are ready to make their training stronger, more memorable, and more engaging for learners by using visual storytelling and graphical techniques to create better learning experiences that lead to better retention.

Using Activities to Make Training Fun (LEVEL 2 COURSE)

A study of adult educators conducted by Pennsylvania State University doctoral student David Tanis found that playfulness creates a learning environment of “fun, enjoyment, and laughter” and that their students notice cognitive gains in terms of “engagement, retention, and understanding.”

Ways to incorporate playfulness into the training classroom include the use of games and other activities, along with humor, which will be explored in this course.

Purposeful, well-thought-out, and engaging activities in a training course can help learners apply new skills and knowledge, as well as retain that information in a meaningful way while meeting learning objectives.

Work-Life Balance

With a Work-Life Balance, you will be managing your time better. Better time management will benefit all aspects of life; you will work less and produce more. This course will show how to focus on the essential things, set real and achievable goals, and communicate better with your peers at work and your family at home.

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