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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.

Current Workshops

Specialty Workshops

Keynote Speeches

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Reality Therapy & Choice Theory
Basic Intensive Week

July 21 - July 25
Chicago, IL
Monday - Thursday - 4 1/2 days

The Basic Intensive Week in Choice Theory and Reality Therapy is a 4 day or 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. You will learn how to empower yourself by distinguishing between those things you can control and those you can’t and focus your energy on those you can. There is practical advice about how to improve the important relationships in your life and how to become the person you want to be. This workshop helps you become more effective in counseling and teaching others, particularly those who may not even know they need your help—non-voluntary clients and less than enthusiastic students. The group size is kept small enough that you will receive individual attention and have plenty of time to have your questions answered.

Introduction to Choice Theory

October 6, 2008
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Prairie State College, Matteson Center
Chicago, IL

Choice Theory® takes the mystery out of behavior—yours and theirs. It provides and explanation for why we do the things we do. Choice Theory ® explains how a person’s perceptions shape their reality and teaches the four components of behavior. Armed with this new knowledge, problem conceptualization becomes much easier and the path to taking effective action is clearer.  

One of the things I like best about Choice Theory® is its wide-spread application—you can use it in your personal, as well as your professional life. It provides transferable skills for everyday life. Choice Theory® helped me to become a better counselor, mother, life partner, friend and a better all around person. When you truly embrace its teachings, Choice Theory® becomes a way of life instead of a hypothetical theory of human behavior.

Goal Setting & Attainment

December 1 , 2008
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Prairie State Colllege, Matteson Center
Chicago, IL

Every year millions of people make their “New Year’s Resolutions” and every year many of those same people make the same resolution again. Are you one of those people? Do you know why you are not achieving your goals year after year? I know you start out the year strong and determined that this will be the year you will lose weight, go back to school, buy a home, look for a new job, complete that project etc… and you suddenly find another year has gone by and your list is not only the same, but it has gotten longer! You have new goals to achieve. That is why it is so important to work on your goals now!

You are constantly learning and growing and there will always be a new goal you want to achieve. You can attain your goals year after year with a 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. My Goal Attainment Workshop will give you the strategies you need to make a plan, manage your time while still maintaining a positive attitude and staying motivated until you complete your goals.

Diversity from the Inside Out

December 2 , 2008
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Prairie State Colllege, Matteson Center
Chicago, IL

During this workshop, we will talk about concrete steps you can take to achieve the results you want. Finally, real answers to creating, managing and expanding the diverse workforce you need to succeed in today’s diverse marketplace—whether you are competing globally, nationally, regionally or in your backyard. Demographics are quickly changing. If you want to keep pace with the changing times, now is the time to take action!

Empowered Leadership

December 3 , 2008
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Prairie State College, Matteson Center
Chicago, IL

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.

1. Discuss important leadership qualities.

2. Create the proper balance between focusing on the product or service and the producers of that product or service.

3. Practice a five-step coaching model for maximum efficiency and effectiveness.

4. Formulate a time management time for you and teach the strategies to your employees.

5. Discuss benefits of teamwork and diversity and develop plans for improving each.

6. Mediate a conflict situation and demonstrate positive problem-solving methods.

Cultural Awareness

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This workshop 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.

• Participants will learn that cultural is more than race and ethnicity---it is a total way of life.
• Participants will begin to discuss some aspects of their own culture.

• Participants will describe primary & secondary dimensions of diversity and visible and invisible characteristics of diversity

• Participants will experience what it is to be included and excluded from the main group.

• Participants will discuss their own cultural values and how they may impact the work they do with clients.

• Through an experiential activity, participants will experience culture shock first-hand.

• Participants will view a video that depicts how easy it is to teach hate, discrimination and oppression.

• Participants will develop an action plan to move them in the direction of developing their cultural awareness.

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Depending on your needs, Coaching for Excellence can come to your place of business or organization and provide a half-day, full-day or week long workshop.

Workshops
Stress Management
Choice Theory/Reality Therapy
Quality Schools
Lead Management
Leadership Training
Teamwork
Customer Relations
Time Management
Conflict Resolution
Effective Communication
Assessing and Meeting Clients’ Needs
Managing Anger: De-escalation Skills
Goal Setting & Attainment

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A specfic Workshop unique to your needs

SPECIALTY WORKSHOPS

Training of Trainers Workshop (2 days)
Train your staff to develop their own highly interactive, engaging training. These two days are structured as a workshop so after the two days, your staff will leave with the beginning of an outline for their own training topic.

Diversity Workshops
(Series of Three 6 hour Workshops)

Day 1: Cultural Awareness - In this highly interactive workshop, the trainers help their audience to experience diversity from the inside out. Participants begin to think of diversity in terms of their own experiences, values, stereotypes and prejudices. Through several sets of meaningful exercise, participants will actually experience a little of what it feels like to be a minority within a majority culture.

Day 2: Cultural Information - In this workshop, information will be presented regarding research and what it tells us about particular cultural groups. If your agency encounters specific cultures, the information can be tailored to the particular groups you serve. This is the day where staff can get their specific questions answered about other cultures. ( Day 1 is a prequisite to Day 2 and must be taken first)

Day 3: Cultural Skills - In this workshop, the trainers focus on skill development for helpers so that counselors/therapists/social workers can feel comfortable interacting with members of cultures dissimilar from their own. It involves identifying our areas of strength and knowing when it is necessary to seek supervision and possibly refer to someone more qualified.
(Day 2 is a prequisite to Day 3 and must be taken first)

Diversity Discount: If you schedule all three days, either consecutively or spread out over a period of time, you will receive a discount. Call 708-957-6047 for pricing and details.

Click here for Diversity Brochure (pdf file)

Choice Theory/Reality Therapy
4 - 4 1/2 day Training toward Certification

A. When your agency schedules a week of training for your staff only, there can be a maximum of 16 people in the group. This training is typically scheduled for six hours Monday through Thursday and then three hours on Friday. However, it could be structured for seven hours a day Monday through Thursday or it could run for two seven hour days and then two more seven hour days with a maximum of 14 days between the two sets of days. Upon purchase of this Training you will receive our free eBook by Dr. William Glasser, "Treating Mental Health as a Public Health Problem".

B. You can send an individual from your organization to an open week of training, the cost is $500 per individual.

These are the current Choice Theory/Reality Therapy
Workshops we are offering:

Keynote Speaker