Beyond the Barriers Teleconference Series

Session 1: Beyond Barriers to Passion and Possibility
Denise Bissonnette, Diversity World

Session 2: Helping vs Empowering
Beverly Ford, ASM Associates

Session 3: Coaching Customers on Job Retention and Earnings Gains
Jodie Sue Kelly, Cygnet Associates

With training budgets stretched thin and everyone expected to do more with less, this series offers the perfect solution to bringing practical, results-oriented training to organizations and staff at all levels of responsibility. WDN has put together a three-part series featuring three of the top trainers in the field that can be brought to your locality at a fraction of the cost of hosting a traditional face-to-face training seminar. Now all staff can experience the insights and inspiration of these dynamic presenters without having to travel to costly national or statewide conferences. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to bring training by Denise Bissonnette, Beverly Ford, and Jodie Sue Kelly to your organization.

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The Beyond Barriers Teleconference Series: Session 1 Beyond Barriers to Passion and Possibility

Denise Bissonnette

Imagine the difference in working with a person stuck on the question “What does this program have to offer me given all of my problems and challenges?” to working with someone engaged in the question “What do I have to offer the world and how do I go about finding the best place to utilize my strengths and gifts?” In this fast-moving, dynamic two hour presentation, Denise Bissonnette l offers practical and innovative ways to assist people in changing their focus from their limitations and barriers to their assets and gifts. Drawn from her popular books and curricula developed over the last twenty years, Denise presents several “key inquiries” to identifying a person’s passion, uncovering their work preferences, and envisioning fresh possibilities in the world of work. The ideas and techniques presented can be used as part of a job club, in a job search workshop, or in one-on-one counseling situations. This thought-provoking session is recommended for those who support and assist individuals to become employed including employment counselors, job developers, job search instructors, job club leaders, and case managers.

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The Beyond Barriers Teleconference Series: Session 2: Helping vs. Empowering
Beverly Ford, ASM Associates

A primary focus of your work is to move participants toward greater self-sufficiency. You want them to take more responsibility for and control of their lives. Yet you may find that you are doing tasks for participants and then becoming frustrated when they become dependent on you. At the same time you do not want to abandon people who come to you for help. In this fun-filled, interactive, two-hour session, Beverly Ford gives you practical strategies for shifting your helping approaches to ones that empower participants to partner with you. In this session you will learn how to -

• Change helping words into empowering ones
• Make the participant the lead partner and you the back up partner
• Use participant strengths and resources in combination with yours
• Build plans with participants rather than for them, and
• Engage participants in sharing responsibility for solving problems.

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Beyond Barriers Teleconference Series Sess 3: Coaching Customers on Job Retention & Earnings Gains
Jodie Sue Kelly, Cygnet Associates

Sometimes helping customers and clients get a job is the easy part. For many, it’s keeping the job and advancing toward self-sufficiency that presents the problems. In this fast-paced, two-hour session, Jodie Sue Kelly will examine what post-placement services need to be available to help clients retain and advance in jobs. She will offer practical techniques for building job retention into placement as well as techniques that get results after they get the job. One of the key problems with coaching customers after placement is that customers often don't want the service. We will examine how to sell post-placement services to customers so they will want to participate. One strategy for helping clients advance in jobs includes providing more training, but in times of scarce resources training can’t be accessed by everyone. But everyone can learn how to keep jobs and increase their paychecks. In this session you will -

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Bldg a 21st Century Workforce System Complete Series
Building a Twenty-First Century Workforce System: Realigning, Reinventing, Responding
Presented by Greg Newton

Complete Series

Session 1: Creating and Implementing a New Workforce System Vision
Session 2: Reinventing Your One-Stop System and Centers
Session 3: Designing and Delivering Responsive Business Services

Each DVD Kit includes:

• The complete two-hour training session on DVD, segmented into easy-to-access chapters
• A CD with the training materials as a PDF file to make it easy to print additional copies
• All packaged in an attractive DVD Case

About the Series

This Training Series Will Help Your Leadership and Frontline Staff Make This Transition By:

• Presenting the imperatives for change and how the leading workforce systems across the country are reinventing their vision and operations
• Developing a shared vision for change so all partners and staff can contribute to this transformation
• Translating the larger vision of “workforce development for economic development” into the practical action steps that must be taken to make it real
• Showing how to provide even more responsive workforce services while still complying with regulations
• Identifying the key elements of workforce-responsive one-stop centers and comparing and contrasting the one-stop of the future with the one of the past
• Recommending steps to create and enhance cross-partner, business service teams to make businesses key partners and customers in your workforce system
  

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Bldg a 21st Century Workforce System Sess 1: Creating and Implementing a New Workforce System Vision
Join Greg Newton for this first of three sessions in the WDN Training Series, Building a Twenty-First Century Workforce System.

Creating and Implementing a New Workforce System Vision provides nearly two hours of training and discussion on key issues for your Board, Staff and Partner Agencies.

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Bldg a 21st Century Workforce System Session 2: Reinventing Your One-Stop System and Centers
In this second session in the Series, Greg Newton explores the answers to the critical questions facing One-Stops and helps your Workforce Board leadership and One-Stop team create responsive, integrated service delivery strategies to build the One-Stop Center of tomorrow, today.

Reinventing Your One-Stop System and Centers provides nearly two hours of training and discussion on key issues for Workforce System development.

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Bldg a 21st Century Workforce System Session 3 Designing and Delivering Responsive Business Services
Designing and Delivering Responsive Business Services provides nearly two hours of training and discussion on key issues for Workforce System development. In this final session in the series Greg Newton describes how business services differ from employer services, offers five models for business services teams, and clarifies the roles of system business services representatives, while offering practical suggestions to make businesses true system partners.

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Workforce Board Leadership, with Greg Newton Series
Now you can purchase these exceptional training sessions as DVD Training Kits. In each Kit you will receive the full two hour training session on DVD, allowing easy to access to the segments that are of particular interest for your Board and staff development needs.

The DVD menu allows you to select sub-topics for conducting 10 to 20 minute “mini-sessions” – breaking the content down into “bite-sized” pieces that will encourage discussion and interaction on the topic while fitting into the timeframes available in busy Board and Committee meeting agendas.

Now, with these DVD Training Kits, you can bring Greg Newton, one of the nation’s leading experts on workforce issues, into your Board and staff development sessions to stimulate new approaches, reinforce progress, and encourage discussion of important Board and workforce system issues. These are training products you will use over and over again in the months and years ahead.

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Workforce Board Leadership Session 1: Aligning for Action and Achievement
Aligning for Action and Achievement is the first of three sessions in the Workforce Board Leadership Series sponsored by the Workforce Development Network (WDN) and the National Association of Workforce Boards, and presented by Greg Newton of Greg Newton Associates. This session provides nearly two hours of training and discussion on key issues for Workforce Board development and increasing the alignment between Board policies and workforce system behaviors.

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Session 2: Ten Human Resource Challenges and What Your Workforce Board Can Do to Make a Difference

Ten Human Resource Challenges and What Your Workforce Board Can Do to Make a Difference is the second of three sessions in the Workforce Board Leadership Series presented by Greg Newton of Greg Newton Associates. After exploring the top ten changes and challenges in the workforce and workplace, Greg Newton offers specific recommendations on how your Workforce Board can respond and be an important part of the needed solutions.

Workforce Board Development Session 3: Partnering On Economic Development

Partnering On Economic Development is the third session in the Workforce Board Leadership Series presented by Greg Newton of Greg Newton Associates. Workforce development is one increasingly important element of a comprehensive community economic development strategy. Today, the communities that have workers with the right skills and work ethic have a competitive advantage in attracting new businesses. Workforce Boards have a critical role in developing the skills of employed, unemployed, and emerging workers in order to attract new businesses and to retain and expand the businesses you already have. This session shows how you can build meaningful partnerships for economic development, and decide which industry clusters you should target for maximum economic impact. Greg provides examples of how to convert your program operations into a demand-driven system for economic growth.

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The One-Stop Success DVD Toolkit: One-Stop Success: How Can You See, Touch, and Feel It?

Do You Want To Know…

• What a great One-Stop looks like?
  
• What factors have been found to be critical to One-Stop success?
  
• How your One-Stop stacks up against the “industry leaders?”
  
• What can happen when creative people act as leaders to challenge mediocrity?
  

If so, then One-Stop Success: How Can You See, Touch, and Feel It?, presented by Ed Strong and Nina Babich from the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce, is for you! Ed and Nina provide examples that will get you thinking as they lead you through the potential and the pitfalls of applying critical success factors in your One-Stop system. They will challenge you to develop a One-Stop that is so well renowned, others benchmark themselves against you.

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