Seminars and Workshops

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible!"

Professional speaker, coach and facilitator Kerri Gaskin promotes this simple yet empowering truth: “Nothing is impossible. If you find your Dream, Believe your Dream then you will Achieve your Dream. Never say Can’t.”

Below is a list of some of the training opportunities we offer. This is by no means a complete list. Please contact us to discuss your needs and how we can help you to move Beyond the Impossible!

You can also call us directly at 506-204-2182.

Seminar Topics Include:

· Leadership (various sub-topics, contact us for details)

· Team Development/Building

· Communication (various sub-topics, contact us for details)

· Life/Work Balance

· Giving and Receiving Feedback

· Career Planning and Exploration

· Career Transitions

· Goal Setting

· Motivation (various sub-topics, contact us for details)

· Full Value Contracts

· Customer Service (various sub-topics, contact us for details)

· Time Management

· Speech/Presentation Preparation

Team Building and Development

All Team Programs Include:
All handouts & manuals, all activity equipment, unlimited e-mail follow-up consultations up to 3 months, and a fun, empowering day! Improve your team’s communication skills, initiate creative problem solving, and build trust for a dynamic team with good leadership!

Our team building activities simply deliver more from every training and development dollar you invest. We begin the process by learning about your organization, your people and your challenges. We explore team interactions and roles within your teams. We learn about your team members’ motivation to change, their desire for growth and their passion to make real and greater contributions. We listen to what you want. We assess your needs.

We know that programs that have worked for one organization and one situation won’t work for every group and every situation. Every program we design and facilitate is as unique as the client we’re serving.

Team Goal-Setting
A Full-day session (includes establishing Full Value Contract)

In a recent study of 50 teams in thirty organizations, researchers found that the best teams have clear performance objectives. A clear mission statement, goals, objectives, and action plans help a cross-functional team stay focused and build commitment among team members. Goals also reduce conflicts among team members and the departments they represent. Goals are the basis for building partnerships with the functional departments. In this workshop participants will learn a methodology for developing a vision, mission, goals, objectives and action plans.

Specifically, you will learn how to:

Assess your current goal-setting process.

Create a vision of your future.

Prepare a team mission statement.

Develop long-term goals.

Write specific, measurable objectives.

Prepare action plans to implement the objectives.

Teamwork is not a solo sport: Building an effective team
A full-day session (includes FVC)

Research on team performance indicates that listening is the communication skill that is most needed and least well developed among team members. People typically receive training in reading, writing and speaking but rarely in listening. And yet, many of the key characteristics of effective teams include such areas as openness to new ideas, trust, consensus building, conflict resolution and a willingness to change--all of which require high-level listening skills. In this program, the participants will assess their current listening skills, explore active listening techniques and then participate in a serious of progressing more challenging listening practice exercises.

Specifically you will:

Assess your current listening style and strengths.

Review a series of effective and ineffective listening techniques.

Participate in a demonstration of communication methods.

Learn specific active listening tools.

Participate in successively more challenging listening exercises.

Prepare a plan for increasing personal listening skills.

Be prepared to move, to participate and to actively engage in personal and professional change!

Leadership Development and Training

We help your organization discover and develop leaders at every level. Organizations that ask us to create leadership development programs quickly learn that leadership is not exclusive to top management alone. Leadership is not the exclusive domain of a specific job title or function in the organization.

Before our programs, many companies struggle with employees looking passively to others for leadership. After our programs, leadership permeates the organization, emerging at every level. Leadership becomes authentic self-expression that adds value to the organization and to teams within that organization

These leadership seminars help you fulfill your potential through effective leadership skills training in areas like: team building, strategic planning, decision making and more. All leadership seminars teach valuable insights, proven to work in a “real world” environment

It’s a fact of organizational life: Leadership communication goes hand-in-hand with success. No matter how compelling the vision or how brilliant the strategy, without leadership communication there is no execution.

Example Session:
The Art of Followership: Leadership Doesn't Always Mean Leading (A 2-day session)

Do you need leadership training to prepare you to take that next step? Learn how to get noticed and selected for a leadership position and develop the skill every confident leader needs!

This leadership training is uniquely designed to help leaders-to-be get ready for their new challenges and responsibilities. You’ll discover the heart, soul and mind of true leadership.

Through role-playing, self-assessment and other leadership training scenarios, you’ll explore leadership roles as strategist, change agent, coach, manager, communicator, and mentor and team member. And you’ll learn how to develop your unique leadership style for maximum impact.

Teens and Young Adults

Dream * Believe * Achieve!
When college freshmen leave home, a real life epic journey begins! Going to college represents one of the most exciting experiences in the lives of young people. This fact goes for those individuals who plan to live on or near campus and who are leaving home for the first time.

Dream * Believe * Achieve! provides your students with important information on how to survive that first college year and use the entire college experience to drive themselves toward living their dreams and achieving their goals.

This interactive, assembly-style presentation helps students recognize choices they can make at several important “stops” along the college journey to make the most of their future opportunities.

We help students focus on choosing the right career path, choosing the right college major, and increasing their effectiveness in all aspects of life. Our experiential presentations help teens and young adults reach Beyond the Impossible and DREAM * BELIEVE * ACHIEVE!