Personal Development

PDV-001. Anger Management
Objectives: Examine how to transform the negative energy of anger into a positive, productive force. Discover emotional "first aid" through innovative practices that help you get control in the critical first minutes of a crisis. Uncover "hidden" resentments and learn what’s really bugging you or others. Find steps you can take right now to "repair" relationships damaged by past conflicts.

PDV-002. Communication
Objectives: What are you really saying? Examine body language, personal space and how to talk “to” and not “at” people. Improve interpersonal communication skills to achieve more effective results and more satisfying relationships. Practice listening skills to improve communication. Identify and practice a four-step model of communication to improve effectiveness and get needs met.

PDV-003. Communications Plus
Objectives: Establish a common language that everyone can understand; identify communications traps; develop a shared vision; understand the effect of doing Exactly as you’re told; understand Communication Styles; decode the Language of Conflict; Identify Gender Differences in Communications.

PDV-004. Decision Making
Objectives: Learn how to identify and clarify the decisions that need to be made. Explore the variables that impact decision-making. Identify the affected parties of a decision outcome and examine how to define strategic goals. Consider all analysis points and system impacts. Learn how to move from decisions to action.

PDV-005. Diversified Communication
Objectives: Understand the elements of diversification. Learn how stereotyping,
prejudice, discrimination, and cultural differences effects communication. Improve
your ability to communicate as well as listen to those subordinate and senior to you.

PDV-006. Genesis of SELF
Objectives: Create a framework for improving the effectiveness of relationships. Explore Spirit, Expectations, Longevity and Faith. Increase self-confidence and competence through increased insight, productivity and readiness.

PDV-007. The Secret of Influencing Others
Objectives: Participants will be led to a new way of thinking about the topics of motivation and influence in the professional environment. An influence model will be introduced and extensively discussed. The model's practical applications will be presented to the participants by the instructor, providing them with another tool for use in their professional activities that affect others' behavior as well as their own.

PDV-008. Listening Skills
Objectives: We are all better at talking then we are at listening. This training strengthens our listening skill by identifying individual listening styles. By understanding what style we use when listening we are better equipped to recognize our differences. Recognizing our differences invites the opportunity to improve effective communication though an ability to adjust to the listening styles of others.

PDV-009. Managing Emotions
Objectives: Increase awareness of emotions – yours and others. Examine emotional vocabulary. Identify common emotions that evaluate and provoke. Explore the sources of emotions, the emotion iceberg and emotional intensity. Practice "communicate and respond" emotions role-plays for effective resolution skills. Establish boundaries for the emotions of others.

PDV-010. McGyverism (Improvising)
Objectives: Learn to use the tools that are available, sometimes not in the ways they are intended to be used! Find unique ways to solve problems when they arise.

PDV-011. Presentation Skills
Objectives: Participants will learn how to prepare for, and the dynamics of effective presentations. Investigate ways to research and identify the audience’s needs, the strengths and weaknesses of various forms of presentation media, and effective techniques to capture and maintain audience attention. Based on the customer’s target learning objectives, participants in this course will receive training through presentation and exercises. If requested, labs and role-plays can be added and video taped for practice and feedback analysis.

PDV-012. Proper Prior Performance Prevents Poor Performance – The 7 P’s
Objectives: To discuss the importance of proper preparation to any task, no matter how small.

PDV-013. Relational Intelligence
Objectives: This training discusses the ways individuals, departments, or organizations display poor relational esteem. Where there may be strength in the area of substantive esteem or policy and practice (toeing the legal line), without a healthy balance of relational esteem and organization or company could be headed for trouble. This training will outline the characteristics of poor relational esteem displayed typically by shame and grandiosity. We will also discuss the skill set for repair communication. Substance without relationship in the workplace means a slow death for everyone.

PDV-014. Repair Skills
Objectives: This training discusses the ways individuals, departments, or organizations display poor repair skills in work relationships. This training will outline the impact of poor repair skills on productivity and communication. We will also discuss the skill set for repair communication, including characteristics of an effective apology.

PDV-015. What Are We Doing to Each Other
Objectives: Woman against woman...why? In this time of women wanting equal 16 access and equal opportunity, why are we our own worst enemy? Using case studies and personal experiences, participants will learn the unique characteristics of women's conflict with each other and the destructiveness that women in conflict can cause to the workplace, to the home and to society at large. Participants will also craft a strategy to manage themselves and minimize their own contributions to the woman vs woman climate.

PDV-016. What’s My Personality?
Objectives: (Using the Enneagram) This presentation will look at the nine personality types, gaining an understanding of the key motivations of each type and how those motivators impact behavior. We will look at how each personality type manages stress, personal relationships, communication, and identify ways for maximizing your personal power and potential at work, as well as other areas of your professional and personal life.

PDV-017. What’s My Style?
Objectives: (Using the Gregorc Style Analysis Instrument) Everyone has an individual “style” they use to approach life and its’ management, whether it involve time, work, leisure or other personal issues. When people interact, their “style” impacts how well they work together and what the end product might be when they do.