The Training Tree Gazette

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Train Your Bargaining Team or Hire a Skilled Negotiator

The creation of a trained bargaining team will pay big dividends to your organization throughout the collective bargaining process. The Training Tree is proud to announce its new collective bargaining division and is actively seeking collective bargaining clients.

With the advent of some new possible collective bargaining forums in Florida’s public sector The Training Tree, Inc. is gearing up! We are establishing a new division and are compiling an associate staff

that will be solely devoted to collective bargaining. These will all be seasoned chief negotiators who have bargained for management in the public sector. From training your team to representing your jurisdiction we will be supplying comprehensive collective bargaining services.

Supervisory Excellence

It is never too late to create a supervisory series. Do it with a theme, link it to a season, or create an on-going Academy.  Training your supervisory personnel is essential in meeting the needs of your organization. The following are typical offerings in a Supervisory series. We also have mid-management versions.

  • Supervisory Excellence: Skills for a New Reality
  • Exceptional Service Delivery: It’s Process and People
  • Creating A Harassment Free Environment
  • Ethical Decision Making: The Public Trust
  • Progressive Discipline and Beyond
  • Evaluations: Making Any System Work For You
  • The Essence of Performance Management: Coaching and Counseling
  • Getting Things Done
  • Hiring The Best!

Building Your Customer Service Awareness
Two Customer Service Offerings
High Energy-“entertrainment”

New Offerings In Customer Service

Ambassador Customer Service-Our latest offering in customer service has received “rave” reviews.

From “first contact” personnel to full-time emissary your employees are ambassadors of your good will to your citizens. Get your employees to understand why Ambassadorship is more important than ever! Participants will be exposed to the realm of a changing public sector and the skills that are required to be effective in this millennium. Upon successful completion of this program, participants will be able to:

  • understand how government has changed in the last fifty years

  • recognize the difference between a “regulator” and “enabler” mentality

  • implement the dynamics of dealing with the challenging customer

  •  developing a citizen centered focus

This customer service offering has captured the attention of City and County clients where there is a focus for making a difference in a way that has never been attempted before. Steve’s high energy and humorous story telling let employees really understand what changes our Cities and Counties are going through.

CITIZEN-Centered Customer Service (CCCS)

CCCS provides the refinement of techniques of communication and customer service skills to create a culture of service excellence. It returns to the basics: government by the people, for the people! Most cities want to change a “regulating legacy” into an “enabling reality” and this workshop shows your employees how to do it!

Details - A white tablecloth with one tiny ink spot on it is more that 99 percent clean.  But every person who sees it will remember the stain, not the rest of the cloth!

Creativity - Creativity is asking questions when others have given up finding solutions.

Curiosity - Why do we do it this way? Should we be doing it this way? Should we be doing it at all? What should we be doing?

Drive - True success in life means recognizing a balance between family, friends and colleagues. Have you done a reality check to see if you are cheating any of these partners?

Ethics - It is not whether it is legal or illegal; it’s whether it’s right or wrong!

Initiative - Is not seizing the moment, it is seizing the future!

Loyalty - Loyalty is an all-important virtue. Blind loyalty does no one any good. Know who and what your loyalty stands for!

Strategy - An organization’s members need to have a sense for the direction of the organization and how their actions support that direction.

Vision -“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” Wayne Gretzky

Training Needs Assessment that Promote Professional Credibility

We are often asked what really matters in establishing credibility in an HR Department. Most experts will tell you that handling the core functions of the Department with competence and consistency is a key to success. At The Training Tree we can do training needs assessment that will target developmental areas for your organization within a budget that you can afford. Let Steve show you how you can assess your needs and start delivering training that will meet them. Establish your own internal Training Academy concept with training tracts. By tracking classes, producing registration lists, and creating certificates employees begin to realize that the organization is serious about employee development. At the Training Tree we can help you accomplish these initiatives starting from a Training Needs Analysis and moving into designing training in-house using internal and external trainers. For further information contact Steve by phone or e-mail.

Collaborative Review: Improving Your Operations

 

If you have a department that has a desire to improve efficiency and effectiveness in delivering services a collaborative review is a process perfect for the undertaking.  A collaborative review is not an audit report prepared by a consultant on what is “right” or “wrong” with a department.  It is not the preparation of a report on the “health” of a department.  Collaborative reviews are a proactive look by the department itself employing a facilitator.  It is the department making assessments, reviews of operations, and changes.  It is the Department focusing on asking the right questions of itself and moving towards improvement.

 

The purpose of a review is to assess the effectiveness of the department’s services and functions by that very department. Is the department meeting the expectations of its customers? Does the department reflect the organization’s mission, vision, and values? Does the department act as an enabling force within the organization? Is it utilizing best practices in the industry?  Has it identified improvement areas and developed plans to address these areas. There's an advantage to having the review facilitated by an external consultant. The external consultant has experience with other organizations and has fewer biases about the organization.  Thusly the consultant has less personal interest in the outcome of certain recommendations and directions the department chooses to take.  If you feel you have a department that could gain for the experience contact Steve for further information.

Contract With The Training Tree as a HR Partner to:

  • Develop Training Initiatives
  • Strategic Planning
  • Staff Retreats

For additional information contact Steve Rosenthal at:

(727) 415-0061

thetrainingtree@verizon.net

The Training Tree, Inc.
8264 136th St. North
Seminole, FL 33776

Thanks!

We want to thank all of our clients for a wonderful 2007. This past year has been our most successful yet! As we enter our fourteenth year we reflect on all the wonderful people and experiences we have had.

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