Steps To Success Seminars
Joshua - Six Steps
It targets two groups. Firstly, believers desiring biblically based personal development study materials and secondly, men and women that are incarcerated to use as an evangelism and personal development tool. Joshua teaches how to be successful in your personal life and leadership roles. It presents biblical and practical steps for successfully fulfilling your purpose.
The six steps presented are: Respond, Remove, Relocate, Request, Require, and Respect.
Joseph - Fulfilling Purpose
It targets two groups: men and women who are in leadership positions globally who need leadership and life-coaching tools and believers who seek biblically based personal development study materials.
The steps are taken from biblical characters reflecting part of their life’s quest and challenges. Joseph - Fulfilling Purpose. The principles and concepts are taken from the life of an Old Testament leader named Joseph and are found in the book of Genesis.
Also provided is a Fulfilling Purpose Personal Audit. This audit serves as an assessment tool and a goal-setting device.
Leadership Essentials
In essence, we are all leaders, be it in our homes, ministries, workplaces, or leisure places. Continual personal success and the successes of those we influence are in part connected to Visibility, Prayer, Counsel, and Faith. They should be prominently positioned in our mentoring and personal development efforts.
These topics are discussed, and participants are provided with personal and group study questions. A personal audit is also provided for assessment and further development.
Practical Wisdom
What to Expect
Practical Wisdom for Building Your Vision is just that. It’s a seminar that presents practical wisdom principles for leaders related to building their visions, organizations, ministries, and personal lives.
God gives vision; however, we are partly responsible for its fulfillment. This seminar attempts to provide answers for various vision fulfillment challenges. The format of the seminar is a three-part one. This format encourages personal interaction with the presented material and allows for corporate evaluation, enrichment, and growth.
Effective Leadership
Nehemiah wore three hats: he was a cupbearer, a builder, and a governor. In our seminar, we will view the enquiring & rebuilding principles from his roles as cupbearer and builder.
The Fine Art of Enquiring: Enquiring of Others • Enquiring of God • Enquiring of Superiors.
The Fine Art of Rebuilding: Preparation • Process • Problems.
These timeless principles are timely in dealing with challenges with rebuilding and restoring that today’s leaders face. This seminar provides several projects for you to undertake to enhance your learning of these God-given principles, including an Effective Leadership Personal Audit, which serves as an assessment tool and a goal-setting device.
Reset Series
for any leader or ministry that...
- Needs a personal, family or ministry Faith Reset
Faith RESET can easily become an ongoing process for maintaining growth patterns.
- Needs a personal, ministry, or marriage focus through a Family Reset
Family RESET can easily become an ongoing process for maintaining growth patterns in marriage and family life.
- Needs to evaluate a possible Friends Reset
Friends RESET can easily become an ongoing process for developing and maintaining healthy personal and ministry friendships.
- Needs to regain a focus through a Finances Reset
Finances RESET can easily become an ongoing process for developing and maintaining biblical personal and ministry financial perspectives.
- Needs to recapture a Fitness Reset
Fitness RESET can easily become an ongoing process for developing and maintaining biblical personal and ministry fitness perspectives in the realms of the physical, mental, and emotional.
5R Circle Process - Administrators and Educators
There are many challenges facing today’s school administrator and educator. Students entering classrooms below grade level, ineffective teacher evaluation components, bullying and other growing acts of violence, lack of supportive leadership and need for higher salaries. These challenges and others are stifling and crippling the educational process in many nations, as a result, systems and personnel are struggling to stay afloat with visions both personal and organizational in need of being rewritten. This seminar was developed with that purpose in mind. The seminar provides practical steps to success for administrators and educators, allowing them access to a tool for developing or rewriting a working vision.
5R Circle Process - Organizations and Ministries
The following seminar has been provided to give you a working tool for building your vision. It was developed over a three-year field-tested exercise and has proven to be worthwhile and effective for various organizations and ministries. The objectives of the seminars are as follows: • To explain the value of understanding shifts and challenges in your vision • To help you see the importance of, and a commitment to, the development of a complete vision for your organization or ministry • To present the 5R Circle Process of a complete vision • To provide a format for your team to use the 5R Circle Process in the development or revision of your complete vision. The principles and methods presented in this seminar may also be used in personal vision planning. They are designed in a format that allows easy adaptation to almost any vision-building endeavor.
Foundations for Disaster Response
One-Day Course - 7 Hours
Whenever a major crisis or disaster happens, people tend to want to get involved. They want to respond. Some individuals create online groups and some self-deploy and show up at a disaster site. Volunteers reaching out to organizations during a crisis are often sent away. What most don’t realize is that spontaneous volunteers without specific training and no affiliation can cause more problems than they alleviate in a disaster situation.
What you will learn:
- Gain a broad overview of what the possibilities are for community volunteers and churches to respond to a disaster
- Learn what the established national expectations are for responders and
organizations who respond to disasters - Learn about existing training resources for community volunteers and churches responding to disasters
Operational Stress First Aid
(One Day Workshop) 7 Hours
There is no cost for the training, however we require you to schedule three months in advance.
Operational Stress First Aid (OSFA) is a unique program to teach psychological first aid to first responders and others who are susceptible to stress injury. The program originally developed by the Department of Defense for the Marines is used to prevent, identify and treat stress problems caused by operations, critical events, and personal or family crises. The goal of OSFA is to build resiliency and awareness and to keep personnel fully functional. The program also includes tools to assist leaders and personnel to take appropriate actions to restore personnel to full function and readiness when necessary. The principles of this class are foundational to all psychological first aid and resources that reference legitimate and credible crisis intervention organizations.
What You Will Learn
- Four sources of stress injury
- Understand the operational stress continuum illustrated by 4 colors.
- Signs and symptoms of stress injury
- Leadership functions during stress
- How to do an after-action review
- Understanding the checklist to determine the level of stress.
Communication During Crisis (One-Day Workshop) 7 Hours
Intentional Listening and Compassionate Responding
Even in the best of circumstances, communication is difficult. Understanding what people mean and responding so people understand is a constant challenge in “good communication.” Effective communication during critical moments requires skills in mitigating stress, building rapport, and compassionate responses. Listening to facts is much easier than listening to the emotions of a person during a crisis. Responding to a cognitive question is much easier than responding to “Why?” During critical moments, impacted people need listeners who know how to apply the principles of psychological first aid and still respond compassionately.
What you will learn
• How communication is impacted by crisis reactions
• What communication needs exist during the crisis
• How people communicate when distressed
• Principles of active listening
• Ethics of Listening
• Principles of compassionate responses
• How to communicate with fearful people
• How to communicate with people who are grieving
• How to communicate with difficult people
• What to say if someone is suicidal