CURRENT TRAINING & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OFFERINGS
A great selection of professional development topics, right at your fingertips, when it’s convenient for you. Each training can be offered virtually or in-person. If you do not see a training topic you have in mind, no problem, I will develop a personalized training for you and your organization! Take action today!
PRODUCING POSITIVE PARTNERSHIPS
(A Leadership Development Course)
Facing challenges in leading adaptive change with internal team members or external stakeholders? Are you looking to develop a better ability to align and develop partnerships and coalitions? This program helps transformational leaders build guiding coalitions with ease, strengthen alignment based on core values, and resolve conflicts by infusing concepts of emotional intelligence and eliminating shame from accountability. If you face challenges in your work in internal or external change process and projects, this program will help guide you in removing barriers to become successful in your mission and vision for a better future.
Duration: 150 minutes (2.5 hours)
transformational leadership
A Leadership Development Course
This is a motivational speech workshop that transforms good leaders into great leaders. Learn and develop skills to be a transformational leader. Develop a deeper understanding of your own core values and how to align with your strengths. Understand and articulate innovative perspectives of management and leadership styles including resilient leadership, mentoring, and reflective supervision. Learn and develop skills in the area of building team consensus, reducing friction and shame, and expressing accountability.
Duration: 120-150 min
Ethics & Boundaries: Embracing the Gray in Post-Pandemic Practice
Boundaries have been blurred, the landscape of our professional practice have encroached upon our personal lives, and the relationships with our clients and colleagues have changed. The pandemic asked much of us by way of flexibility and adaptation; much of it to best serve our clients, but at what cost? Is virtual practice blending into your home life? Do you feel like the clear and rigid boundaries you once had created to protect dual relationships have crumbled or blurred? Have colleagues gotten a glimpse into your world via the virtual space, perhaps sharing more than what seems comfortable? We will explore all the new gray areas in our practice and collegial spaces. Uniquely, participants in the session will provide examples of ethical dilemmas they have faced and will walk through the challenges to learn how to best embrace, or color the gray, to improve ethical decision making when circumstances arise.
Duration: 160 minutes (4 hours)
cognitive bias: Our internal disguise
Emotions impact the decisions we make, including the ‘good’, the ‘bad’, and the ‘ugly’ influencers that rest in the deep areas of our mind: heuristics. We say we are not biased individuals but the reality; our underlying thoughts and emotions are based on preconceptions and lived experience. We will take a deep dive into the cognitive biases that are subconsciously impacting your decision making, your role as a helper, and may be disguising your awareness, discernment, and your perceptions when making the best decisions. We will explore how these biases affect your personal relationships, judgments regarding equity, diversity, and inclusion, and the day-to-day responses in working with others. Take a journey to provide clarity; removing the bias within your frame of reference.
Duration: 180-240 min (This training can also be combined with an Ethics & Boundaries component.)
““Dana was able to open my eyes, mind and surroundings to my own potential biases in my personal and professional life. I feel rejuvenated and empowered to continue my own biases awareness in my thoughts and actions, my home life, out and about in the community and at work. Thank you!””
““I appreciated Dana’s style and energy in presenting. I found this E&B valuable to my role as leader. The content will help me develop my competencies and seek input and feedback from others in a new way. I feel inspired to work together with my supervisory team and find ways to incorporate the information into our practice in an ongoing manner. Thank you!” ”
ETHICS AND BOUNDARIES: THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMM…BOUNDARIES, BARRIERS, AND SHAME OH MY!
Have that gut instinct, feeling of rumbling in your stomach, those things that make you go hmm…? This training offers participants an opportunity to explore the difference between boundaries and barriers in peer-to-peer and client relationships. It explores personal boundaries, trust, shame, vulnerability, and use of self-assessment tools. Participants learn new strategies in paradigm thinking, communication and conflict management in the workplace; through examining challenges they face when colleagues are unethical or cross professional boundaries. The training provides related information to enhance the workplace, conflict resolution strategies, and developing ethically informed decision-making model of practice with peer to peer and client to practitioner relationships. It furthers the development of teams, colleague’s adherence to the NASW Code of Ethics and improves performance in agency ethical decision making.
Duration: 240 min
““It was very inspirational, real, practical and provided us with simple but useful tools to self-evaluate our emotions and make positive changes/fixes to lessen burnout and increase happiness and productiveness. He kept us all involved using this virtual platform, managed to address the bad of the current world state while reminding us of all the positive and good that has also emerged from this year’s challenges and hardships. He helped us to think about, understand and develop a work/home harmony. This training also reminded me of how resilient we all are and left me feeling inspired and capable of continuing to move forward in a positive way.” - County Human Services Director ”
““All positives! Great training materials - - obviously well researched. E&B is such a dry topic and this was not that. Realistic and helpful tools. Dynamic presentation and pace for learners. Clearly extraordinary efforts were made to make the online learning format engaging.””
REFUEL, RE-ENERGIZE: BEAM UP MOTIVATION, RESILIENCY, & HEAL OUR COLLECTIVE TRAUMA
(motivational speech & training)
Duration: 120-180 min
““Dana was one of the best presenters I have had the opportunity to listen to. He made the information easy to understand and I appreciated the real life scenarios which was all very relevant.””
Understanding and Supporting the LGBTQIA2S+ community
*This training can be modified for varied audiences (i.e. foster parents, helping professionals, health professionals, etc.)
How do I support a youth who identifies as LGBTQIA2S+? What do all of the letters mean? What is PRIDE? What contributions have LGBTQIA2S+ people made to our world? What defines the culture? This workshop will develop and enrich your knowledge of the LGBTQIA2S+ culture, community and share the history of the struggles faced. Do you know and understand the history of the Gay Rights Movement? We will also explore what youth are experiencing in today’s political and community environment. We will learn the ‘lingo’ and gain an understanding of personal identity development, the coming out process, and examine supportive steps you can take to help youth in your care and community.
Duration: 150 min
SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP & ADMINISTRATION IN ORGANIZATIONS
This 3-part series offers skill-building for the new leader, manager, or supervisor trying to hone their skills in successfully building teams, trust and working through difficult challenges in the workplace.
Do you have what it takes to be a leader? Are you searching for ways to improve your management skills? This webinar will dive into the complex work of successful management and leadership of teams. It will engage learners in understanding change theory and the skill sets needed to manage, lead, and administer change in an organization. This is part 1 of a three part series on supervisory and leadership skill building.
Part 1: Leadership, Change Theory, Building Teams, Supervisory Skills
Part 2: Conflict Resolution, Managing Change, Forms of Intelligence
Part 3: Performance Reviews, Performance Management, Appreciation in the Workplace.
Duration: 120 min (each) - For best results and skill building register for the webinars in sequential order.
*We will develop the training around your leadership team and bring the training to you in-person or VIRTUAL.
ETHICS AND BOUNDARIES: STEPPING FORWARD WHEN COLLEAGUES CROSS THE LINE
Ethics & Boundaries has never been this fun to learn! You will learn and enhance professional skills in conflict resolution and understanding conflict theories. Exploring difficult crucial conversations; you will build skills in the 5 Essentials to Navigating Difficult Conversations with peers and gain the ability to hold colleagues accountable when needed. Communication styles and mitigation of risk is examined through personal and professional review of workplace culture. This workshop focuses on appropriate ethics and boundaries in client-social worker, therapist, counselor and peer-to-peer relationships. Use of workbook activities, case scenarios and personal reflection will foster understanding of ethical, reflective practice with clients, agency and colleague ethical challenges in the workplace, and building skills in communication, and cooperative confrontation. We will examine how appreciation in the workplace can relieve ethical dilemmas and improve decision making. You won’t learn this content anywhere else!
Duration: 4 hours
*We will develop the training around your leadership team and bring the training to you in-person or VIRTUAL.
““I have been attending E&B trainings for 41 years, E&B Stepping Forward When Colleagues Cross the Line was the best E&B training I’ve ever attended.””
““You would automatically think that having a training on a Friday afternoon about ethics and boundaries would be boring BUT this was beyond what I could have expected. Dana was professional, comical and had me laughing throughout the training while we were learning valuable content. This was by far one of the best trainings I have ever received! I hope to have Dana as a presenter in the future. He kept my attention the entire 4 hours, had us do some work on scenarios we all encounter day to day and made it engaging. I highly recommend anyone in need of ethics and boundaries training contact Dana. Thank you so much!””
TRAUMA INFORMED practice: being the impact
This webinar will BLOW YOUR MIND. It will help you discover the importance of shifting your paradigm to a Trauma Informed Practice lens and how to incorporate a new ‘trauma informed lens’ in your interactions with clients, co-workers, and our community. We will learn about trauma, the brain science; ways in which we can utilize this approach in the private sector and in professional settings and how this ‘movement’ is reshaping work in our communities. Be in the know of trauma and get to the root of words like ‘empathy’, ‘compassion’, and ‘understanding’. But make no mistake, if implemented in your personal and professional life, within institutions and organizations, and in partnership with the community; changes in how we connect with people, students, professionals, and those who may be most vulnerable in our community; will enhance and grow our relationships and careers.
Duration: 150 min
*We will develop the training around your leadership team and bring the training to you in-person or VIRTUAL.
BUILDING CULTURAL humility: UNDERSTANDING THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY
What is PRIDE? What contributions have LGBTQIA+ people made to our world? What defines the culture? This webinar will develop and enrich your knowledge of the LGBTQ+ culture, community and share the history of the struggles faced. Do you know and understand the history of the Gay Rights Movement? What states allow for legal same-gender marriage? What does the ‘+’ or the ‘Q’ in the title of this training mean? Explore the history and development of the LGBTQ+ culture. We will examine its social movements and advocacy from a historical lens, beginning in the 19th century to present day. Increase your knowledge and develop cultural competence with people of the community and experience a culture and history often untold.
Duration: 180 min
*We will develop the training around your leadership team and bring the training to you in-person or VIRTUAL.