Cecilia devises customized programs to meet specific company goals and enhance management and employee skills and abilities, resulting in a more productive and motivated work force. These services include supervisory and management training and tools for employee skill development.

These programs are carried out in one of the following settings:

• On location, tailored to the specific needs or issues of a specific company
• At a public conference, to address general needs of smaller companies or individuals

All programs are 2 1/2 hours long, bearing in mind the time constraints with which most start-up contend.

TRAINING MODULE MENU
RECRUITING, INTERVIEWING, AND HIRING SKILLS
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS
MANAGING MEETINGS
HUMAN RESOURCES POLICIES
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
COMPENSATION MANAGEMENT

RECRUITING, INTERVIEWING, AND HIRING SKILLS:

• Objective: To hire and build an effective team.
  
  
• Target Audience: All employees involved in hiring, including Executives, Line Managers, HR Managers and Engineers.
  
  
• Description: Workshops address the hiring process, recruiting resources, sourcing strategies, behavioral interviewing skills, and new employee integration.

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"It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom."

Dee W. Hock

 

 

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS:

• Objective: To understand communication styles and achieve effective, successful communication within an organization.
  
  
• Target Audience: All employees.
  
  
• Description: Workshops emphasize assertive communication and active listening, with a focus is on communication that is concise, direct, caring and timely.

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"The voice emerges literally from the body as a representation of our inner world. Whether or not we try to tell the truth, the very act of speech is courageous because no matter what we say, we are revealed."

The Heart Aroused by David Whyte

 

 

MANAGING MEETINGS:

• Objective: To achieve meeting objectives when conducting a meeting.
  
  
• Target Audience: Employees who conduct meetings.
  
  
• Description: Workshops emphasize process, organization, and effective facilitation. Each identifies different types of meetings and how to conduct them in order to achieve meeting objectives.

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"If you already have a company newsletter, the best way to generate more communication without the risk of transferring information is the 'staff meeting.'"

Dilbert

 

 

HUMAN RESOURCES POLICIES:

• Objective: To comply with labor laws and communicate company human resources policies.
  
  
• Target Audience: All employees.
  
  
• Description: Workshops emphasize building a culture that adheres to legal requirements against discrimination and harassment, including all legal aspects of employment and corporate policies.

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PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT:

• Objective: To achieve individual and team 'peak performance' to meet corporate objectives.
  
  
• Target Audience: Managers and leaders.
  
  
• Description: Workshops emphasize effective communication, performance management process, achieving 'peak performance,' and self-awareness. Aspects of effective performance management include setting goals, providing feedback, managing good and bad performance, and using rewards and coaching.

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"To motivate an employee to work toward your goals, you need to take a judo like approach: Find the person's locus of energy and leverage it to achieve your ends. Instead of pushing solutions on people with the force of your argument, pull solutions out of them"

Harvard Business Review on Motivating People

 

 

CHANGE MANAGEMENT:

• Objective: To foster a culture that embraces 'change' as a constant factor that enables growth.
  
  
• Target Audience: All employees.
  
  
• Description: Workshops emphasize accepting and dealing with change as a way of life in a start-up and a growing company and in life.

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"Changing behavior is less a matter of giving people analysis to influence their thoughts than helping them to see a truth to influence their feelings. Both thinking and feeling are essential, and both are found in successful organizations, but the heart of change is in the emotions. The flow of see-feel-change is more powerful than the analysis-think-change."

The Heart of Change, John P. Kotter

 

 

COMPENSATION MANAGEMENT:

• Objective : To create and convey an incentives and reward system aligned with corporate objectives.
  
  
• Target Audience: Managers.
  
  
• Description: Workshops emphasize the alignment of performance and compensation, basic compensation structures, and communication of compensation practices. There is a focus on the concept of 'total compensation' with incentive stock options as key, when applicable.

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"Nobody can get paid enough to do something they don't want to do."

Cecilia Hayes