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Self-Development


Optimizing Your Personal Strengths

Are you aware of your strengths? Do you know how your actions facilitate or impede your effectiveness? Are you as successful as you would like to be? This course helps you get the results you desire when working independently or with a team.

You will learn to:

  • Recognize your values and strengths
  • Clarify personal goals and priorities
  • Identify which behaviors strengthen your self-image
  • Give positive feedback
  • Examine the choices you make and the impact on your accomplishments
  • Develop techniques for improving cooperation
  • Identify and eliminate personal time-wasters

You will benefit by:

  • Achieving goals resulting in growth
  • Communicating more effectively
  • Increasing your ability to interact with others
  • Managing criticism more effectively
  • Using effective listening skills
  • Acquiring skills for improving confidence

Audience:
All staff members interested in acquiring comprehensive interpersonal skills that will provide greater personal and professional success

Schedule Selection(s) - 3 Day Course

   

Cost: $349
Location: HRD
Presenter: Deborah Orlowski

Dates: Mon. 6/15, Wed. 6/17 & Mon. 6/22/09
(3 Day Class)
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Code: SFD901

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Assertiveness Skills

Do you have a difficult time saying “no?”Are you frustrated because you are so busy attending to the needs of others that your own go unfulfilled? This course helps you stand your ground and secure the respect of others. Discover how to manage powerful emotions and feelings, express yourself with confidence and learn a step-by-step approach for increasing your personal power.

You will learn to:

  • Be empowered in interpersonal relationships
  • Express yourself from a position of strength
  • Benefit from early negotiation
  • Break down obstacles and barriers to effective communication
  • Solve problems

You will benefit by:

  • Gaining new skills to help resolve “sticky” situations
  • Understanding yourself better and increasing your self-worth
  • Seeing old relationships in a new light
  • Realizing a new freedom in asserting yourself

Audience:
All staff members who want to handle communication situations with confidence and build interpersonal strength

Schedule Selection(s) - 2 Day Course

   

Cost: $149
Location: HRD
Presenter: Jacqueline Doneghy

Dates: Fri. 9/19 & 9/26/08 (2 day course)
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Code: SFD850

   
  Dates: Wed. 5/6 & 5/13/09 (2 day course)
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Code: SFD900
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Succeeding with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)™

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator™ is one of the most highly regarded systems in the world for understanding why people respond to situations in the way they do. The MBTI™ can help you understand your own and others’ strengths and natural preferences and help you communicate more effectively.

You will learn to:

  • Identify your preferred style in taking in information and decision-making
  • Recognize how others’ style preferences are similar to and differ from yours
  • Recognize the impact when you are required to work outside of your preferences
  • Determine ways to use your preferred style to work with others more successfully

You will benefit by:

  • Developing increased skills in working with others with different styles
  • Becoming more effective in making decisions
  • Increasing your pride in your unique and innate talents

Audience:
Anyone who desires to learn more about their innate strengths and abilities or those wanting a refresher in the MBTI™

Program note:
Participants will need to complete the MBTI™ assessment prior to taking the class.

Schedule Selection(s)

   

Cost: $149
Location: HRD
Presenter: Deborah Orlowski

Date: Thu. 3/12/09
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Code: SFD902

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