We provides  variety of corporate training programs that are custom tailored to match the client's specific needs.

The descriptions shown below contain the basic components of the training.

For specific details on programs custom tailored to meet you exact needs, contact us for a discussion and proposal.

Common Sense Project Management

Applied Project Management

Executive Project Management

Intellectual Property Law for Managers

Corporate Training Needs Analysis

Leveraging Your Time using Scheduling and Calendaring

Meeting and Event Planning

Written Communication

How to Manage Paper and Electronic Documents

Train the Trainer

Web site and Internet Expertise for Managers

Marketing – An Ongoing Process 

How to Effectively Plan and Conduct Meetings

Common Sense Project Management

Most projects don’t get finished or don’t turn out the way they were hoped for because no formal planning was involved.

Common Sense Project Management is a training program for just about anybody in business that needs basic project management skills that can be used to organize, plan, schedule, budget, and manage 95% of the project that we encounter.

This program covers the foundation and fundamentals of project management including complete explanations and demonstrations of SpeedScheduling™, the quick and simple way to manage most projects. Manual includes forms and charts for scheduling your own projects.

Applied Project Management

Sitting in a classroom or reading a book about planning and scheduling projects is fine but nothing works better than a practical, hands-on training session.

This is a hands-on project management training where the participants actually organize, plan, schedule, and budget projects. Participants are encouraged to bring an actual project with them and then divide into teams to work on planning, scheduling, and budgeting their project.

Following a review of the basics of planning and scheduling a project, the group will be divided into teams to actually plan, schedule, and budget projects that can be taken from the training session and applied immediately.

Executive Project Management

Although project management schemes, systems, and methodologies exist for a variety of project types, management planning by and for the executives in an organization is a unique form of project management that requires specific understanding of:

• The organization’s goals and objectives
• The management structure, both existing and proposed
• The organizational guidelines that enhance or inhibit
• The background, experience, and capabilities of the executives involved

The curriculum explains the management approach to effective project management using a combination of the SpeedScheduling™ system and proven delegation techniques including an interactive program consisting of a three phase program:

1.       Proposal/Research Phase

2.       Planning/Budgeting Phase

3.       Implementation/Review Phase

If you’re concerned about the overall profit and loss of the projects within your sphere of influence, you’ll appreciate the value of this program  and the control it will afford you.

Intellectual Property Law for Managers

From non-competition and confidentiality agreements though copyrights and trademarks, managers need to be aware of the current legal status surrounding intellectual property law.

This entertaining program explains everything needed to handle just about any situation and its explained in simple, everyday language so that participants understand what the laws state, what actions need to be taken, and how to apply them.

Areas covered include:

• The hierarchy of enforceability
• Contract law
• Time and date authentication
• Notarization
• Legal recourse documents
• Non-competition agreements
• Assignment agreements
• Licensing agreements
• Patents
• Trademarks
• Copyrights

Elements will include information about current laws regarding downloading of copyrighted materials like music and graphics and the liabilities involved with allowing employees to go unchecked during their work hours.

Corporate Training Needs Analysis

The world is changing- FAST!

This necessitates the need for constant training and retraining of both management and employees in order to stay current and focused.

But what training needs to be implemented?

This interactive program is designed to work with the core executives to assist them in precisely defining their wants, needs, deadlines, and budgetary constraints in terms of money, personnel, and timing. 

Critical areas covered include how to:

• Accurately asses the training needs of your organization.
• Identify existing degree of knowledge, skills, and the attitudinal characteristics surrounding a particular issue or topical area.
• Identify individuals or groups of individuals who most need additional skills training or access to information and technologies.
• Identify motivations and conditions that contribute to an individual’s degree of interest in an issue and ability to access or purchase the final product or training course.
• Solicit opinions about content, functionality, etc. in order to draw participants into the design process, and build interest and active participation in the product, service, or training.
• Use the ADDIE process for determining the structure of the required training  
• To conduct a SWOT Analysis
• Conduct a 12 step needs assessment program
• Develop effective questioning techniques to accurately determine training needs

Leveraging Your Time using Scheduling and Calendaring

Meetings and planning documents like things to do lists have become notorious as some of the biggest time wasters in our day because they are not really designed to get things done in an effective, manner.

Once you get your meeting and task schedules under control you’ll find that your work schedule will goes much smoother with fewer delays.

Attendees will learn practical methods for:

• Prioritizing their To-Do's
• Limiting Interruptions
• Delegating Tasks
• Consolidating Tasks & Errands
• Using Time Blocks for Optimum Effectiveness
• Processes for setting goals, prioritizing them to determine if the activities are time & goal-directed
• Using less time putting out fires each day
• Recognizing the key components of effective goal setting
• Identifying ways to deal with distractions and interruptions
• Taming the Typical Timewasters
• Eliminating (or at least) minimizing e-mail overload

Meeting and Event Planning

From a breakfast meeting through a national convention, meeting and event planning requires a working knowledge of the requirements and resources involved in order to guarantee that the event happens as planned.

This course will provide you with tools to improve the effectiveness of your special events. Develop your skills as an Event Manager as you identify the potential challenges to a successful event and select appropriate solutions plus essential information for success in the following:

• Identifying Event Goals and Objectives
• Developing Timelines and Budgets
• Establishing a Meeting Design
• Writing Specifications for the Venue
• Working with planning committees
• Managing volunteers
• Venue selection, resources and negotiation
• Improving catering quality while maintaining budgets
• Event logistics
• Marketing your event
• Establishing registration procedures
• Managing on-site

• Where to book a room (not just in hotels)
• Eat, drink and be merry—or not
• Negotiating your contract
• Selecting best time of day—best day of week
• Room set-up considerations
• Post- Event Evaluating

Written Communication

Do your organization’s written documents accomplish the results you intend?

Would you like to write business and technical documents and handle email faster? Save reading time for others by reducing the length of emails, letters, reports, proposals, or manuals? Select appropriate details and information to include in your messages? Improve clarity? Sound more authoritative and persuasive? Eliminate grammatical errors? Choose an appropriate writing style for your audience and purpose?

This business writing and technical writing training program addresses all of these concerns and help you accomplish these objectives 

• Overview of the email technology
• Netiquette – tips and techniques
• Streamlining Your Efforts Using Signatures and “Stock Replies”
• The Purpose, Form and Style of the Message
• The Inverted Pyramid Writing Style
• More Ways to Enhance Your E-Mail Communications

Depending on the amount of time available for the training program, the actual modules may include:

• Information Delivery – The instructor will give information and explanations of the pertinent material
• Review and Understanding – The instructor will engage the trainees in Q & A
• Practice – The trainees will apply what they have just learned
• Interaction – The trainees will interact with each other to share their experiences and learn from both the positive and negative things they have just created
• Critique – The instructor will provide open critique and feedback on the efforts

How to Manage Paper and Electronic Documents

There is 80 times more paper in use than when the term paperless office was coined. Because information now comes to us via paper (faxes, books, reports, etc.) and electronic (email, internet, voice mail, etc.) we must deal with it all. A weekday edition of the New York Times today contains more information than the average person living in seventeenth-century England would come across in a lifetime!

Getting a handle on your documents and getting it under control for many people is the difference between success and failure.

In this entertaining and information seminar, you’ll learn:

• How to setup filing systems that work
• How to get off mailing lists
• What the four options of a piece of paper is
• How to start dealing with your backlog
• Tools that will help you file
• What to keep and for how long
• Tips for faster and more effective filing
• Techniques for handling active paper and to-do's

Train the Trainer

Mangers and supervisors at all levels are being called upon to train associates and subordinates. Learn simple yet effective methods for imparting knowledge and skills with a minimum of resistance and hassles.

During this highly interactive workshop participants learn to teach a 5-minute lesson to a partner and get feedback on their natural teaching style.  Special techniques to relate to mature learners are developed along with appropriate audiovisual support.

Video feedback with a take home CD can be included if required

Workshops are customized to the individual needs of the client and can include how to:

• Design Effective Training Programs
• Manage the Training Function
• Develop Games for Trainers
• Write Terrific Training Materials

• Create a useful, effective learning environment.
• Use the principles of adult learning to improve learning results.
• Write learner centered instructional objectives.
• Deliver training that meets the learning objectives.
• Use effective organization of material to improve the group's learning.
• Prepare visual aids that are clear, effective and related to the topic.
• Use visual aids without distracting the class - in a professional way.
• Eliminate and/or handle classroom disasters.
• Effectively deal with difficult participant behaviors.
• Effectively prepare to deliver a training session.
• Lead a classroom discussion so it meets the desired outcomes for the participants and the intended learning objective.
• Teach others a skill, so they can replicate it correctly.

Website and Internet Expertise for Managers

Even though it’s been in popular usage for over 15 years, most users have never been schooled on the practical uses for the internet and more specifically, in using and searching the web in solving their management and communications problems.

With 65% of the population connected via email and 35 billion pages of information available on the Web, the tools of communications technology have become an important an integral part of business environment.

Even if you’re not personally going to do the programming of your organization’s web presence, it’s imperative that you understand the mechanics of web sites, what they are used for, how they interface with the outside world, and which functions will become most effective for your specific needs.

In this informative and entertaining program you’ll learn:

• The fundamental overview of the Internet, Web, and related tools
• What a website is and what you can put in it to improve your business
• How to analyze your needs and select the best web design criteria
• How to make the site user friendly
• How to integrate and implement shopping cart technology
• How to promote your website and link with search engines to make sure you can be found
• How to effectively and efficiently search the web

Marketing – An Ongoing Process 

Marketing doesn’t have to be Expensive,

But It Does Have To Be Profitable

We’re constantly marketing and in a world where change is happening faster than we want, it’s imperative that we stay on top of the efforts.

From a practical standpoint, marketing is truly the project management used to create the master plan and incorporates the following seven elements involved with getting and keeping clients:

1.                 Market research

2.                 Product research

3.                 Advertising 

4.                 Sales

5.                 Fulfillment

6.                 Customer service

7.                 Aftermarket sales

Since everyone, especially anyone in an organization who interfaces with  the client or potential client base, is a marketing emissary for the organization, it’s more important  than ever before to make sure that all the involved personnel are thoroughly schooled in the process for successful and effective marketing.

This program covers:

• The six steps in developing an effective marketing plan
• Insights into reality - The dichotomies in marketing and how to address them
• Planning, scheduling, and budgeting marketing – effectively
• The differences between marketing products and services
• Marketing events VS the Marketing Process
• Technology in Marketing
• Creating credibility for you, your products,  and your services

How to Effectively Plan and Conduct Meetings

Industry Week estimated that poorly led meetings cost American businesses over 37 billion dollars annually. The current number is undoubtedly higher when one considers the cost of labor for the meeting and how much can or cannot get done in them.

Meeting management tends to be a set of skills often overlooked by leaders and managers. Although the process used in a meeting depends on the kind of meeting you plan to have, e.g., staff meeting, planning meeting, problem solving meeting, etc. there are certain basics that are common to various types of meetings that will be covered in this program.

The objectives of this course are to familiarize the participants with the basics of successful meetings, explain what decisions must be made before the meeting in order to get maximum benefits, and how to plan and conduct meetings that get results rather than just waste time.

Course Outline:

• The purposes for a meeting
• What's In a Meeting?
• What a meeting is NOT!
• The four kinds of meeting situations
• The four reasons to hold a meeting
• The questions to ask before you decide to hold a meeting:
• 7 myths that make meetings miserable
• Who conducts meetings?
• Who Should Attend Meetings?
• Ground Rules and the agenda
• The venue AKA -where's it gonna be held?
• Meeting tips that actually work
• Handling conflicts in meetings
• Misinterpretation and effective listening
• How to get out of a meeting
• Physical layout and facilities
• Electronic meetings