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LIVE TRAINING

 

Schedule an On-site, live, custom training for your group or event

Cornerstone offers effective communication skills workshops that often include entire work groups and focuses on improving communication skills, understanding and enhancing working relationships, conflict resolution, supervision and leadership skills, group team building, appreciation and gratitude, and other professional development topics.

Workshops can range from 2 hours to 3 days.  All workshops are designed and tailored to fit the needs of your group. 

INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION

The Truth about Interpersonal Communication

Are you ready to learn some new communication skills or dust off some old ones?

Learn about your own communication style and those of your work group and gain hands-on training to improve your interpersonal communication skills, having difficult conversations, and small changes in the way you communicate that can make a big difference.

Performance Coaching: Unlocking Your Team’s Potential

Do you wish you could better motivate your colleagues and staff?

Learn results-oriented tools to help create a work culture that will improve communication skills, enhance working relationships and result in better performance results.  This workshop is highly transferable to immediate use at home and work.

Partnership Coaching: Transforming Your Relationships Through Better Communication

Would you like to improve your communication with your spouse, fiance, partner, child or friend? This workshop is for couples who want to learn more about communication styles, interpersonal communication, dealing with conflict, and make your relationship stronger through better communication.

CONFLICT STRATEGIES

Moving from Conflict to Collaboration

Do you wish you had the skills and courage to handle a conflict situation well?

This workshop build skills and tools you need to gain confidence in handling conflict situations well, and develop your own conflict strategies for having those hard conversations. You will also learn how to identify and resolve “potential” situations before they result in conflict.

MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP

Supervision Skills for Success

This workshop covers all the essential training for the new supervisor or serves as a refresher course for experienced supervisors.  It covers roles and responsibilities, state HR laws, hiring, performance improvement and more!

Mission-Vision-Values

Your mission statement.  Do you have one? Does is identify clearly what you do and why?  Could your grandmother understand it?

This workshop will develop or revisit your mission statement, your organization’s vision, and the values that you work by.

Developing your Team

This workshop will help unleash the power of your team and develop an engaged team that creates, owns and embraces your mutually developed goals.  You’ll learn communication styles of you and your team members, and how to define your team’s vision and improve communication skills to benefit your team.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Communicating Across Generations: From Boomers to Bloggers

For the first time in history, today’s workplace includes four generations working side-by-side.  This engaging workshop will help you discover how to better understand and relate to all groups and gain skills to communicate more effectively at all levels of your agency and in your relationships at home.

Overcoming Procrastination

You don’t need to do work faster or to eliminate gaps in productivity to make better use of your time. You just need to spend more time on the right things!

This workshop will help you learn what causes you to procrastinate and how to stop procrastinating and prioritize your work for better results.  We’ll practice some simple tools including using the “Priority Matrix”, a tool that has been described as a “life saver” by previous participants.

Exploring the Art of Public Speaking

Learn about the professional and personal barriers that either prevent or undermine your ability to speak and present information to small and large groups. You will discover techniques and tips that will help you prepare, practice and present information without stress!

APPRECIATION AND GRATITUDE

The Attitude of Gratitude

You may say you practice the skill of gratitude, but do you regularly show it?  Learn how embracing the art of appreciation and gratitude in your daily life at work and home can transform relationships.

Celebrate What’s Right with the World

This presentation explores how look for possibilities in your life and be the best for your world.

Tackle Morale Before it Tackles You

Spend some time with your group dealing with the stress of working in tough economic    times.  Discover how you can contribute to improving morale by learning some easy (and fun!) morale busting activities.

Culture Shift: Igniting and Sustaining Positive Change

Learn how to change your workplace culture.

Participant Feedback:

• Betty’s expertise and passion with helping people to improve their communication skills and quality of life is evident within moments of meeting her. Her friendly and respectful manner, along with her fun and genuine approach are disarming and made it very easy to engage and learn. Her exercises were simple, yet very effective to illustrate her lessons. Her advice is also practical, do-able, and it makes sense! Betty is truly a gifted teacher! ~ Susan Ford, Communication Skills for Success Workshop

• What a fun instructor! Really enjoyed the class and the other couples. ~ Karen Lindsey, Providence Hospital, Partnership Coaching Workshop

• Thank you for the wonderful workshop yesterday.  You are an excellent presenter and I enjoyed your stories and humor. ~ Connie Herrera, Pierce College, Team Building Workshop

Contact me to schedule a training for your group!