Monday, November 17, 2008

New Season of JanetSpeak - Dates Released

JanetSpeak Season 2 – 2009

As a follow-on to her Internet Radio Show of the same name, Janet will be bringing you a series of new teleseminar titles from “the Human Zoo: An Exploration of Why We Do the Things We Do.” This season the focus will be on exploring and understanding yourself – next season, she will explore “the others” and how to handle them.

Asserting Yourself – choosing to be heard (2 teleseminars): Learn how to professionally position yourself in your workplace as an effective communicator. How to recognize and choose to exercise passive/assertive/aggressive behavioral patterns. Increase your visibility to the decision-makers in your organization. Develop your personal catalogue of assertiveness techniques for application at work and in your personal life.
Feb 2, 2009 9:30am PST
Feb 23, 2009 9:30am PST

Influence without Authority (1 teleseminar): Improve your skills for negotiating with individuals and groups. How do you gain commitment for your ideas? Work collaboratively to achieve win/win situations. How do you get compliance without the ability to enforce?
Mar 2, 2009 9:30am PST

What are your Learning Styles? (1 teleseminar): How do you learn most easily? What is your preferred learning style? Following the completion of an assessment tool, you will identify and develop an understanding of your style preference. Learn to maximize time learning new things.
Mar 23, 2009 9:30am PST
Becoming More Resilient (4 teleseminars)
Resiliency is the ability to thrive and increase competence in the face of adverse circumstances or obstacles. Human beings have a naturally resilient nature but it must be nurtured or it can be lost. Professionals who are resilient draw upon all resources: biological, psychological and environmental to succeed. Resilient people have a competitive advantage. They adapt and thrive better than others in conditions of challenge and non-stop change.

Participants will identify personal “resiliency builders,” discover how to strengthen their ability to overcome whatever they are facing and understand their unique personal strengths. The four sessions are: Managing Your Sphere of Influence, Developing Your Emotional Intelligence, Learned Optimism, Practicing Resiliency.

April 6, 2009 9:30am PST
April 27, 2009 9:30 PST
May 4, 2009 9:30 PST
May 25, 2009 9:30 PST

All sessions are offered free of charge to the first 10 people to register and are available at $26.50 per session for the remaining. Space is limited. Contact train@actraining.com or 604.521.5473 to register.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Disney Webinars for Advance Corporate Training Clients


We at Advance Corporate Training Ltd. are pleased to announce our new relationship with the Disney Institute based in Orlando, Florida.

The Disney Institute Difference
Learning about the ‘Disney Difference’. . . has inspired leaders to change not only their business practices, but to examine their business issues in an entirely new light. After participating in a Disney Institute experience, they soon find they have more in common with Disney than they could have imagined. All organizations are driving toward the same goal–serving the people who purchase their products and services. Whether they are clients, customers, constituents, or, in Disney-speak, Guests, organizations must satisfy them or risk losing them.”


–From Disney Institute book, “Be Our Guest”

Our key clients and soon-to-be clients will be able to access these world class Disney programs, courses and webinars through their contacts with us. And best of all, we have secured great exclusive discounts and special savings that you can only access by quoting special code "ACT".

For more information, please contact Advance Corporate Training Ltd. President Janet Dean directly at 604-521-5473 or dean@actraining.com.

To get a taste of what you can expect with the full Disney Institute experience, consider signing up for one of several upcoming free webinars. Email Lindsay at events@actraining.com for a list of topics, dates and how to register.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Why Remember?


"We must remember. If we do not, the sacrifice of those one hundred thousand Canadian lives will be meaningless. They died for us, for their homes and families and friends, for a collection of traditions they cherished and a future they believed in; they died for Canada. The meaning of their sacrifice rests with our collective national consciousness; our future is their monument. "
Heather Robertson, A Terrible Beauty, The Art of Canada at War. Toronto, Lorimer, 1977.









For a great article on the who, what, when, where, why and how of Remembrance Day in Canada, please visit http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=history/other/remember/why