Resource Tools for Learning Leaders

We offer several programs that experienced learning leaders may purchase and deliver themselves in their organizations. Our tools are high quality, full color, affordable, effective, and easy to use.

We provide all the tools and resources you need: a comprehensive Leader's Guide, instructions, a complete word-by-word script you can follow, PowerPoint slides, timetables, teaching tips and more.

Our materials are adaptable to the format and length of program you prefer. Use them for presentations of 30- to 90-minutes or half-day and full-day interactive learning seminars.

We  have 5 Teach-It-Yourself Program Offerings:

• Professionalism Is for Everyone
• Soaring with Professionalism (short presentation)
• It's About TIME!
• Soar . . . If You Dare
• The Leader's Toolbox

For a PDF summary of these offerings click the image in the column at left or here. For a short description of each offering see below.

See later below for an overview of our approach and the tools and resources we offer.

Third-Party Training Organizations Please Note

Presently, we are offering our materials only to end-user organizations that purchase and use our materials themselves for developing their employees, students, and other associates.

While we currently do not offer our materials to third-party trainers, we are considering this option for well-established firms with an ongoing business and existing client base. If this is your interest, please call or send us an email describing your organization and interest. We will give you a call to explore the possibilities with you.

Participant Comments:

"Professionalism Is
for Everyone is the
best class I have
ever attended."

"The case studies
really helped me look
at professionalism
from a new
perspective."

What Our Clients are Saying About Our Materials

Professionalism Is for Everyone
Five Keys to Being a True Professional

Purpose: This program inspires individuals to pursue excellence, high values, and professional behavior. It encourages people to press for being the best and avoiding mediocrity at home and at work. This program helps organizations teach and communicate the standards and foundation principles for what it means to be a professional and how to behave and act professionally.

Half- or Full-day Interactive Seminar: This program may be provided as a half-day or full-day interactive seminar or as a series of one to two hour seminars.

Content

The program is based upon the Five Keys to Being a True Professional in the book Professionalism Is for Everyone.

This is an interactive seminar where individuals have opportunities to learn, ask questions, and share experiences. They explore the importance of professionalism and the benefits of being a professional. They learn a simple and easy to remember framework of positive values, principles, and standards for guiding professional behavior. They leave the seminar motivated to act and with an understanding of what it takes to be a professional and what they can and should do to pursue and polish their personal professionalism.

The program begins with an overview of professionalism, what it means to be a professional, and the benefits of pursuing a lifetime quest of professionalism at work and in life.

The program then covers the core concepts for each of the Five Keys to Being a True Professional in the book Professionalism Is for Everyone. The book is provided to each participant in the program.

These keys are Character, Attitude, Excellence, Competency, and Conduct. Topics covered include Integrity, Pride, Respect, Loyalty, Appearance, Being on Time, Being Diligent, Being Accountable and Responsible, Manners, Confidentiality, Teamwork, and more.

The program uses a variety of learning approaches including presentations, cases, examples, stories, learning exercises, and group discussion. Role plays and skits are included as options in full-day programs.

Learn More About the Content of this Program

See below for what's included in our Teach-It-Yourself Kits for use by Learning Leaders in presenting our programs themselves.

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Want a Shorter Program? If you want a shorter, summary presentation of professionalism, see the Soaring with Professionalism presentation resources below.

Soaring with Professionalism
Five Keys to Being a True Professional

Purpose: This is a short-version presentation of the key concepts in the more complete seminar above. This program inspires individuals to pursue excellence, high values, and professional behavior. It encourages people to press for being the best and avoiding mediocrity at home and at work. This program helps organizations teach and communicate the standards and foundation principles for what it means to be a professional and how to behave and act professionally.

If you do not have the time or resources for a half-day or full-day program, use this program to provide a 30 to 90 minute overview of professionalism, its importance, and teach the Five Keys to Being a True Professional.

30-, 60-, or 90-Minute Presentation: This program may be provided as a short presentation from 30 to 90 minutes and may be expanded an extra hour or so by using the discussion questions provided as supplemental facilitation tools.

The Presenter's Kit for preparing for and making this presentation includes:

• Book: Professionalism Is for Everyone
  
  
• Presenter’s Notes: A booklet containing a word-by-word complete presentation script for making the presentation. You may follow the script as is or modify it to add in your personal comments, stories, and suggestions.
  
  
• Suggested Timetables: Timetables for making 30-, 60-, and 90-Minute Presentations. These timetables list the modules in the presentation and time estimates for each.
  
  
• Optional Discussion Questions: You can use these during or after your presentation to stimulate group discussion and reflection on the key points in the presentation.
  
  
• Professionalism Quick Test: This is a reproducible master copy of an optional 30 Question Quick Test you can have everyone take before or during the program to stimulate interest and open up thinking about what it means to be a professional.
  
  
• Optional Review Quiz: This is a reproducible master copy of an Optional Review Quiz along with an Answer Key. While the questions are not hard and most of the questions will be addressed in the presentation, participants will need to have read the book to answer all of the questions correctly.
  
  
• Thumbnail Images: A folio illustrating the images on the PowerPoint Slides for use in planning.
  
  
• PowerPoint® slides on a CD disc: These slides contain high-quality images and minimal word content.  The right picture is worth a thousand words and these slides will help you bring life and energy to your presentation.
  
  
• Participant Kit: One copy of the kit that we recommend for each participant who will hear the presentation. See below.

Participant Kits

We offer Participant Kits to go along with the Soaring with Professionalism presentation. Each Participant Kit is prepackaged in a vinyl bag, which makes handing out materials easy.

• Book: Professionalism Is for Everyone
  
  
• Bookmark: Stand Tall bookmark
  
  
• Booklet: A 5.5" by 8.5" 12-page, full color Soaring with Professionalism booklet that follows the program presentation
  
  
• Reminder cards: Two reminder cards
  
  
• Note-taking: A card for taking notes

See below to request more information about this program

It's About TIME!
5 Steps to True Time Management

Purpose: This program motivates people to appreciate time and the need to manage themselves well to be effective and make good choices of how they will invest their time. The program helps people manage their time, get things done, and enjoy life more at work and at home.

Half- or Full-day Interactive Seminar: This program may be provided as a half-day or full-day interactive seminar or as a series of one- to two-hour seminars.

Content

This program teaches participants how to use the 5 Steps to True Time Management system that is presented in the book, It's About TIME!

This is an interactive seminar where participants learn the importance of time management and the core principles and concepts that must be applied to manage one's time and self effectively.

The core content of this program are the 5 Steps to True Time Management in the book, It's About TIME!

These five steps comprise a simple and proven system for organizing work, planning weeks and days, and being effective and getting results on a daily basis.

The book comes with the program.

Learn More About the Content of this Program

See below for what's included in our Teach-It-Yourself Kits for use by Learning Leaders in presenting our programs themselves.

See below to request more information about this program

Soar . . . If You Dare®
10 Keys to Make Your Dreams Come True!

Purpose: This program is all about individual achievement. The program rejuvenates people and motivates them to become the best they can become and to pursue and achieve the greatest results they can achieve.

Half- or Full-day Interactive Seminar: This program may be provided as a half-day or full-day interactive seminar or as a series of one- to two-hour seminars. Once taught, the keys can be covered separately as needed for refresher programs or to focus attention on specific opportunities or challenges.

Content

This program presents the 10 Keys for Making Your Dreams Come True which are based upon the core principles in the book Soar...If You Dare.

This is an interactive seminar where participants learn to appreciate their personal abilities and potential and how to apply the skills and knowledge they have and can acquire to pursue their full potential.

This program boosts self-confidence and the belief that individuals have in themselves, their abilities, and their potential for being great and doing great things.

Each of the 10 Keys covered in the program represents a lifetime skill and represents a core strategy or series of tactics and tools for success, happiness, effectiveness, and results.

Topics covered include Personal Greatness, Overcoming Negativity and Limitation Thinking, Staying Positive, Setting Goals, Developing Plans to Achieve Goals, Strategies for Daily Effectiveness, Acquiring Habits for Success, Being Persistent, and more.

Learn More About the Content of this Program

See below for what's included in our Teach-It-Yourself Kits for use by Learning Leaders in presenting our programs themselves.

See below to request more information about this program

The Leader's Toolbox
10 Tools for Leading Better, Smarter, and More Effectively

Purpose: This program provides leaders and managers with ten specific tools and strategies for inspiring and leading others to produce greater teamwork, performance, and results. The program is designed for seasoned individuals who are already in leadership roles and emerging leaders ready for the next step.

Half- or Full-day Interactive Seminar: This program may be provided as a half-day or full-day interactive seminar or as a series of one- to two-hour seminars. Once taught, the tools can be covered separately as needed for refresher programs or to focus attention on specific tools.

Content

Tools: This is an interactive seminar where participants are provided a 6 x 9 box containing ten tools they can use to improve results for their teams by becoming better at leading, managing, motivating, guiding, and developing others.

These tools address important skills such as Setting Goals, Communicating Goals, Developing Action Plans, Creating Systems and Tools, Providing Feedback, Establishing Key Performance Indicators (KPI's), Motivating and Inspiring Excellence, Creating a Positive Work Environment, Dealing with Negativity and Limitation Thinking, Coaching, Mentoring, Conducting Effective Meetings, and more.

This program gives leaders and managers real tools they can use immediately. It boosts the self-confidence of those in leadership roles. It shows them how to use a variety of important nut-and-bolt tools that will help them be better leaders and managers and produce greater results.

Learn More About the Content of this Program

See below for what's included in our Teach-It-Yourself Kits for use by Learning Leaders in presenting our programs themselves.

See below to request more information about this program

Our Train-the-Trainer Approach

• You Can Teach Our Programs: We offer facilitator and participant resource materials at affordable prices for experienced learning leaders in organizations that want to facilitate their own learning programs for their own associates on the topics listed and described above.
  
  
• Everything You Need: Our facilitator materials are complete with everything you need see below.
  
  
• Free Telephone Consultation: We provide one-hour free telephone consultation to answer questions and make suggestions for how to adapt and use the materials for your organization.
  
  
• No Required Training or Certifications: We have found that experienced learning leaders are able to quickly grasp and understand our content and then easily use and adapt our programs to their needs. We therefore do not provide or require traditional "train-the- trainer seminars" where we show other individuals how to teach our programs and then certify instructors. By eliminating this step you save time and money and can get started immediately.

Affordable Pricing

We create, produce, and publish all of our books and learning materials. We sell directly to end users. We therefore are able to keep costs to a minimum and share the savings with our clients. We would be happy to provide pricing information for the program or programs you are considering teaching yourself. Please contact us.

We would be happy to
send you a PDF summary
for the programs of
interest to you.

These summaries outline
the contents of our
Starter Kits.

They identify and
answer the most
frequently asked
questions we have
received.

10 Person Starter Kit - Your Initial Investment

The minimum initial purchase for each of our learning seminars is a 10-person Starter Kit.  See below for the items included in our Presenter's Kit for making the shorter presentation entitled Soaring with Professionalism.

The Starter Kit includes one Learning Leader Facilitation Kit and 10 Participant Kits. After one Starter Kit is purchased, additional Facilitator Kits and Participant Kits may be purchased for the same organization in any quantities desired.

The general content of our Starter Kits is described below. There are additional content-specific items in each kit and these depend upon the program topic. We would be happy to send you detailed information on any program you like.

Learning Leader Facilitation Kits

For each program, we offer the same high quality materials we use for our own keynote presentations and seminars. The materials vary from program to program depending upon the content, however we provide certain Key materials for every one of our programs. These include a three-ring binder with the following items:

• Facilitator Guides for Learning Leaders - these guides are separately bound documents you can take out of the binder and use as a cookbook like tool for guidance and instruction in teaching the course. The Facilitation Guides provide step-by-step instructions for what to do and say to present the material.
  
  
  • Unique layout: The Facilitator Guides are laid out to show the script and instructions for teaching each segment of the program along with small images of the Power Point slides to be used and the respective pages from the Participant Guides that participants will be looking at. This approach makes it simple to teach our programs.
    
    
  • Complete word-by-word scripts of what to say and do to present the material and facilitate the program
    
    
• Power Point® presentation slides. These are not your typical Power Point slides with lots of words and bulleted text.
  
  While we provide many slides to aid in presentation, there is no chance of "death by Power Point" with our programs. Our slides are designed with impactful images that bring the concepts to life and make memorable impressions so that people stay focused on the right points and remember what they are learning.
  
  
• Suggested Timetables and Planning Worksheets to layout your program to suit your timetable and objectives
  
  
• Summary of Frequently Asked Questions. This is a summary of the most common questions people have had about what to do and how to do it to teach our programs.
  
  
• Facilitation Tip Sheet -- provides quick tips for success.
  
  
• Telephone consultation for advice and suggestions for facilitating group learning sessions with these materials

Participant Kits

As with the Learning Leader Tools, for participants we offer the same high quality materials we use for our own keynote presentations and seminars. The materials vary from program to program depending upon the content, however we provide certain Key materials for every one of our programs. These include:

• Learning Guides for participants - these are full-color guides with exercises, tips, reminders, and teaching stories
  
  
• Reference, resource, and implementation tools for participants that include laminated reminder cards, buttons, and other implementation aids and reminders
  
  
• Books or Reference Guides on each topic that contain supplemental material and serve as ready references for self-study and follow-on learning

Please Note:

We offer a 100% replacement guarantee for our items in the event they arrive damaged or do not work properly (in the event of software discs.)

Our Teach-It-Yourself Resource Tools, related Participant Kits, books, posters, and other items are not returnable.

We recommend that potential buyers purchase the book that the course is based on to evaluate course content as the courses we offer track the content that is in the books.

It Is Easy to Request More Information:

For competitive reasons, we do not provide specific pricing and actual samples of our program resources on our web site.

We would be happy to email you the PDF Summary of the Contents of the Starter Kit for individuals that want to facilitate a learning program on one of our topics for their associates.

This summary illustrates the components that come with the kit for both the Learning Leader and the participants.

We would also be happy to provide pricing information.

Just give us a call or send us an email with answers to these questions:

1. What is your name and position?
2. What is the name of your organization?
3. What are the primary roles or jobs of the people you are thinking about for our programs?
4. What program or programs would like to learn more about?

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We are not a high pressure sales organization. You may request this information without any obligation or pressure to purchase.