The Business and Learning Connection

Intersection of business and training - building the capability to achieve business goals. Training can accelerate the performance of an organization by enabling its people to adopt new concepts, new actions and new behaviors that are required by the business strategy. Training is the vehicle by which a company’s people come to understand and believe in its strategy and learn to think and behave in ways that will make the strategy win in the marketplace.

Clients that use Dave Basarab Consulting custom learning solutions come to understand and believe in our recommended strategy, and make the strategy win in the marketplace.  Our approach has been proven again and again through client successes. We design our programs to create the right Intentions (goals and beliefs) and Adoptive Behaviors that drive business results (Impact).  The outcome is that people learn to think and behave in new ways, maximizing business success across all areas of the entire organization.

Sample Courses

Here are a few examples of the custom courses Dave Basarab Consulting creates for its clients.

THE TIME MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Course Description: The purpose of this workshop is to increase your time management skills – you will learn to prioritize tasks and activities, eliminate unnecessary routines, and manage personal and professional time efficiently. This workshop will help you to identify and overcome barriers to effective time and management issues. You will use proven time management skills, time management approaches and time management strategy development plan your time and organize it for your personal success.

Objectives:

• Use the Time Management system resulting in increased productivity and minimal things “falling through the cracks”
• Establish your collection points, folder system, notebook, inbox, calendar, and email processes
• Create and effectively use your To-Do system

Length: 2 hours

SUCCESSFUL PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS - THE BASICS

Course Description: This 2-day workshop is specifically designed to focus on the practical application of Project Management (PM) basic concepts. You will return to work with the knowledge and tools needed to get projects started right and completed successfully - using standard PM templates. This workshop provides sound techniques for planning, estimating, tracking and controlling projects.

Objectives:

• Ensure that projects are set-up for success from the start.
• Effectively gather and document requirements.
• Understand the role of the project manager and others in managing projects
• Develop an integrated project plan including realistic scope, schedules, budgets, and risks—then turn the plan into successful action.
• Effectively track and report on project progress.

Length: 2 days

LEADING FOR RESULTS

Course Description: Developing leaders who operate with strategic agility and inspire permanent behavior change in their operations is essential to a firm’s continual growth. This is the purpose of the workshop. The target audiences are the current leaders and HI-PO employees. Workshop size is set at a maximum of 10.

The design of this program is to use the workshop approach (a learning experience to improve leadership skills by discussing their experiences and doing practical exercises).

Objectives:

• Leverage strategic agility at the operational level to add organizational value
• Ask questions that generate new thinking and solutions
• Inspire permanent behavioral change in their team members.

Length: 6 hours