Coaching for Excellence

Workshops

Coaching for Excellence provides training, consulting and coaching in all areas relating to business development. We have ongoing workshops, as well as, workshops that can be scheduled at your convenience.

Workshop Topics

Click on the link for a short description of trainings. For a more detailed description please download our Workshop/Presentation Brochure.

Contact Kim Olver at (708) 957-6047 or email to: Kim@coachingforexcellence.biz to book any of the following workshops.

Choice Coaching
Basic Week in Reality Therapy
Intro to Choice Theory: Why do people do what they do?
Goal Setting & Attainment
Empowered Leadership: Get the Most Out of Your Workforce
Cultural Awareness
Training of Trainers
I Don't Understand Why You Do What You Do!
Decrease Client Resistance
Conflict Resolution: I Can't Stand Working With You
Stress Management : I Can't Take it Anymore!
Effective Communication: Getting more of what you want
De-Escalation Skills: Take the Wind Out of Their Sails

Choice Coaching

Learn why businesses are moving from the authoritarian approach in supervision to the collaborative coaching approach in this two-day class. Generation X and Y workers do not respond well to authoritarian supervision. Coaching provides a new model of supervision designed to reach those workers. Learn the psychology behind this supervision style and
practice its use while receiving feedback.

July 26 - 27 , 2010
8:30 a.m. -4:30 p.m.
Prairie State College, Matteson, IL

$139.00

Basic Week in Reality Therapy

This is a 4½-day workshop where you will be exposed to some highly innovative ideas of Dr. William Glasser. You will learn the new psychology of personal freedom called Choice Theory. There is application in this workshop for teachers, school administrators, counselors, therapists, social workers, business managers, clergy, nurses, parents, and anyone interested in improving the quality of their life. Upcoming Basic Weeks in Reality Therapy.

Why Do People Do What They Do?

This workshop is ideal for teachers, counselors, social workers, psychologists, and school administrators. Dr. William Glasser’s new psychology of personal freedom,“Choice Theory,” is discussed. Choice Theory empowers people to change their lives personally and professionally by putting their energy into those things they have control over—their own behavior and thinking. Learn how to self-evaluate and help others self-evaluate the effectiveness of their choices. Identifying the fundamentals of choice therapy and interviewing clients using reality therapy are covered in this workshop.

Goal Setting & Attainment

You can attain your goals year after year with an effective, time-tested system—a plan with built-in support and accountability.  Attaining your goals requires hard work and determination.  You need to plan and make time to work on your goals.  They will not just happen.  This workshop will give you the strategies you need to make a plan and manage your time while still maintaining a positive attitude and staying motivated until you complete your goals. 

Next Date: April 10, 2010

Empowered Leadership: Get the Most Out of Your Workforce

As a manager, you have the responsibility to create a need satisfying workplace for yourself and your workers. Managers need to hold the bar high—set the standards and lead by example. During this workshop, you will learn how to get the best from your workers, empower your workers, earn their respect and loyalty and open the lines of communication. Learning how to share the power between management and workers will empower both groups and ultimately lead to less employee turnover, improved employee satisfaction and an increase in productivity.

Cultural Awareness

Coaching for Excellence has developed a three-day training series to help propel your employees to the next level on their journey to cultural competence. In today’s world, in our society, it is imperative that anyone working on the front lines with people or anyone interacting with people in their work environment need to learn to value the concept of diversity and develop the skills necessary to navigate the diverse environment in which they work.

Day 1: Cultural Awareness
This first day is devoted to a scrutinizing introspective, inside out approach to looking at our own issues that may either enhance or hinder our ability to embrace members of cultures different from our own.

Day 2: Cultural Information
This second day is devoted to looking at what research tells about particular groups of people, while understanding that these results are actually just a perpetuation of stereotypes themselves.

Day 3: Cultural Skills
This final day is devoted to the development of cross-cultural communication and counseling skills to assist helpers in their cross culture communications.

Training of Trainers Workshop (2 days)

I Don't Undertand Why You Do What You Do!

This workshop will help you develop an understanding of why people do the crazy things they do. Whether it's men, women, certain ethnicities, particular religions, different generations, or various other types of people, you will leave with the knowledge that different isn't wrong, it's just different. We will look at similarities and differences. We will discuss the one overlooked factor that often gets in the way of diversity appreciation. Discover what it's like being on the outside.

Decrease Client Resistance

Research has shown the relationship a helper has with their clients is of utmost importance in facilitating behavior change. This presentation will how you the skills that you can use to create positive relationships while still representing the field of corrections to decrease client resistance and promote behavior change. Relationship is the root of all influence.

Conflict Resolution: I Can't Stand Working With You

We all have them at one time or another--someone you just can't stand to work with. Whether it's a supervisor, co-workier, or client you have probably encountered someone who just drove you crazy! In this workshop, discover the psychology behing it and develop strategies for effectively managing those situations.  

Stress Management: I Can't Take It Anymore!  

Learn how to reduce stress in your life. You can't always change or control the things that happen in your life but learning some revolutionary,outside-the-box techniques will help you better manage whatever life throws your way.

Effective Communication: Getting More of What I Want

Whether in your personal or professional life, whether you mean more of what you want personally or what you want from your clients, this presentation will show you how to get it. Learn effective methods of clarifying what you want, discriminating the behavior you're using to get it and self-evaluations methods to determine your effectiveness. Leave with a solid understanding of how to get more of what you really want.

De-Escalation Skills: Take the Wind Out of Their Sails

Coming into contact with angry people is more common than you'd like to admit. In this presentation, we will discuss the benefits people derive from using anger in personal exchanges. You will learn how to self-asses and prepare yourself to intervene in escalated situations. Practice the deescalation skills and keeping yourself safe in the process.