Next Skills Institute Train the Trainer Program Planned
8/10/2009
The Next Skills Institute (NSI) curriculum develops a wide range of interrelated soft and technical skills identified by employers as critical to work success. Skilled, seasoned trainers and faculty members are invited to attend this two-day train-the-trainer workshop for their participating community colleges or partnering Workforce Investment Boards.
Contact us for schedule workshops in your area.
Next Skills training includes:
Creativity and Innovation for Everyone: introduces and focuses on the idea that continuous creativity and innovation are necessary for ongoing organizational growth and development. Provides you with tools and techniques to aid you in thinking creatively.
Valuing Diversity at Work: explores cultural and non-cultural differences representing benefits and barriers to getting work done, and reveals the value that those differences bring to any organization.
Navigating Technology @ Work: trains you for today’s digital workforce, using computers, applications, networking, devices, and safeguards for operating them safely.
Effective Listening: reveals how employees who listen effectively can improve their rapport and influence with others in the workplace as well as reduce costly mistakes caused by miscommunication. Teaches you how to become an active listener and more effective communicator.
Verbal Communication for Working Professionals: identifies the benefits and barriers of effective verbal communication and explains how this can impact your image, credibility, and perception at work and elsewhere.
Employability Skills: helps you differentiate between effective and ineffective time management behaviors, improve organizational skills used in every day situations, describe primary causes of bad attitudes, and demonstrate effective actions to convert negative situations into positive outcomes.
Service Orientation: provides you with insights to better understand customer needs and to help build better relationships with customers, co-workers, and supervisors.
Interpersonal Skills for Building Teamwork: provides you with insights to help you recognize and develop your own interpersonal skills, understand and respect the unique strengths and challenges that others bring to the work environment, find ways to handle conflict, and learn how to adapt your own behavior to interact more effectively with each member of your work team.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Dynamic, experienced workforce development trainers
Innovative, enthusiastic community college faculty in the Business, Communications, and CIS departments who will be teaching these modules in existing or future credit courses
Only trainers and faculty with a community college or partnering WIB sponsor are eligible.
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