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“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”
Harvey S. Firestone

HALF DAY , FULL DAY and CUSTOMIZED
​ PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSES
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Small & Large Group Training
Virtual & Onsite Classes

All courses include an Excel Institute of Learning Certificate

LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSES
Time Management
Building High Performing Teams 
Leading Effective Teams
Mastering The Art of Management
Conflict Resolution
Strategic Planning​​
Diversity & Cultural ​
Excellence In Customer Care
​Grant Administration 
​Nonprofit Administration


NAVIGATING THE GRANT INDUSTRY TRAINING SERIES
Is Your Agency Grant Ready? Nonprofit Performance-Based Trainings

Effective Leadership, Management & Administration Practices
Attract, Engage, And Retain Volunteers
Program Design & Service Impact
Nurturing Partnerships With Grant Funders & Donor Retention
Strategies That Win Grants


EXCEL SIGNATURE SERIES TRAINING
Half-day and Customized Training
Great for non-traditional business owners, start-up/new businesses, solopreneurs, businesses under 5 employees and prospective business owners
Individual, 6 Week & 8 Week Series

COURSES
Excellence in Customer Care & Essentials of Office Administration

Mastering The Art of Management

Mastering Moments: A Time Management Workshop for Peak Productivity

Fundamentals of Strategic Planning & Structuring A Grant Proposal 

Bookkeeping Basics 

Marketing & Social Media

Foundations of Government Procurement: A Beginner's Workshop for RFP Success

COURSE REVIEW, EIOL CERTIFICTION & CELEBRATION


NEW ONLINE WORKSHOP COURSE PLATFORM 
LEARN ANYWHERE! 
School Site: Https://EIOL.Teachable.com

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Our Popular Courses and more!!!

Grant Administration Courses
ONLINE NOW - Is Your Agency Grant Ready?
COMING SOON (details listed below)
Corporate & Foundation Proposal Writing

​Nonprofit Administration Course 
How To Start A Nonprofit Successfully

LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT ON-SITE and VIRTUAL COURSES

Give the leaders in your organization the tools they need to help develop effective teams. We provide everything needed to effectively develop the skills of leaders within your organization. 

Our Professional Development training specifically targets managers, leaders, supervisors and anyone else that needs to work with a team.
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We help leaders build teams that work well together and meet business objectives required of them to accomplish your vision.

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TIME MANAGEMENT 
How often have you thought you need more time to feel accomplished before the end of the day?  Add to this the fact that there are plenty of things that draw us away from what we should really be doing and it’s easy to understand why we are all becoming more and more stressed.

Often it can feel like the amount of time we have available is dwarfed by the amount of tasks we have to cope with in our day to day.  It’s important to understand how to improve our time management skills and remove the distractions that we have to achieve success in our work and personal life. 

Our Time Management training course materials aim to give your participants the tools and resources they need to increase productivity for both themselves and the organization.

GOAL: To reduce anxiety, stress and increase productivity

The benefits of Time Management:

• Encourage your team to be forward thinking respond to actions before they become demands
• Help people focus on the important tasks that need to be done first, so they become more productive
• Remove procrastination activities that impact time and create stress
• Develop plans that support project timescales in a timely manner
• Practical work and life balancing skills

Objectives:
By the end of this course your participants will be able to:

• Recognize what prevents them from making the best use of their time
• Make necessary long medium and short term plans to help schedule, organize activities and reduce stress
• Manage their ‘To Do List’ effectively
• Control interruptions that limits impact
• Recognize and manage common time wasters
• Identify why they procrastinate and how to manage it

 
BUILDING HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS 
It’s not easy to develop high performing teams where everyone works together and towards the same goals. If you want to harness the different skills and attributes of the people within your organization, it’s important to focus on helping leaders to understand what makes a team tick and to put the effort into actions that make a real difference. 

Our Building High Performing Teams training course materials will give your participants the knowledge and skills required to meet the challenges of your organization and business goals. 

GOAL: Analyze team performance, focus on each individual's key attributes to enhance their performance and inspire them to success

The benefits of Building High Performing Teams:

• Work effectively with your team by nurturing talent and driving success.
• Identify with different types of team members and adapt to their needs.
• Understand how to adapt your leadership style to suit the situation.
• Communicate effectively with team members for stronger productivity on team goals.
• Effectively resolve conflict situations and promote a positive work culture.

Objectives:
 By the end of this training course, your participants will be able to:

• Describe high performance
• Appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of team members
• Measure team performance
• Manage conflict in the team
• Build effective relationships

LEADING EFFECTIVE TEAMS
Having an effective team around you is crucial. However, it is an area that is often left to chance, which can lead to unmotivated individuals that do not feel part of the business and consequently do not perform. 

This course looks at what it takes to lead an effective team and how you can get the best out of the people in it by understanding the role of leader, both personally and from the point of view of the team.

GOAL:  Motivate staff and develop strategies to support them

The benefits of Leading Effective Teams:

• Identify and rate the key characteristics of effective leaders and establish actions to develop their skills.
• Establishing the difference between leading and managing
• Strategies on how to deal with challenging team members behavior types 
• Learn coaching methods and action plans

Objectives:
 By the end of this training course your participants will be able to:

• Explain the qualities of an effective leader
• Benchmark themselves against those qualities and develop actions to improve
• Explain the difference between leading and managing
• Explain the value of sharing the business vision with the team
• Develop team goals based on the business vision
• Motivate their staff by understanding their drivers and developing actions to support them
• Deal with difficult staff members
• Challenge staff in a meaningful and effective way
• Coach staff effectively using a simple process

  
MASTERING THE ART OF MANAGEMENT
Being a manager means being able to organize and motivate a team, so that they are better able to deal with the challenges that their own role faces. Managers play a key part in the success of every organization. They are the people that provide difficult problem solving, adapt to business challenges and help ensure the effectiveness of an organization that will help lead it to success.  We inspire and cultivate managers for the workforce to lead with a strong vision.

GOAL:  Provide the key skills every manager needs to progress in their role and play an effective part in leading the business

The benefits of Mastering The Art of Management:

• Identify managers' own management approach and how to work best with it
• Meet the requirements of their role through goals, strategy, objectives and KPI’s
• Effectively delegate work, to focus on more important elements
• Deliver feedback in an effective way and help increase performance.
• Provide engaging meetings with clear communication
• Motivate their team and inspire results

Objectives:
 By the end of this training course your participants will be able to:

• Use a framework for effective management
• Set goals, objectives, strategy and KPIs
• Prioritize and organize your work effectively
• Create employee engagement
• Motivate and monitor your staff

CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Much of business success is about overcoming problems successfully, so why would you not want people who resolve conflict effectively?

Conflict can be extremely damaging to the success of an organization. In today’s society, disputes can become very dangerous. Anywhere conflict arises, it creates a tense and unproductive work environment.

GOAL:  Teams are able to resolve conflict with winning strategies

The benefits of Conflict Resolution: 

• Teams become better at creating positive relationships and a happier work environment.
• Teams are empowered when they can rise above issues and resolve conflict.
• Companies save money through increased productivity  when conflicts are resolved
• Participants leave with the skills, knowledge and awareness necessary to display a positive approach to conflict resolution

Objectives:
 By the end of this training course your participants will be able to:

• Define conflict and how to identify it
• Explain positions and interests and why conflict is so hard to resolve
• Identify the stages of conflict and the five methods of dealing with it
• Follow set approaches to handling conflict resolution

 
 
STRATEGIC PLANNING
Strategic thinking is the ability to see the total enterprise, to spot the trends and understand the competitive landscape, to see where the business needs to go and to lead it into the future.

Our course will help develop participants' knowledge and understanding of organizational strategy. It will help them to better understand why strategy plays an important part in the business performance, how to align strategy to a vision and put in place key measures that help ensure success when implementing organizational procedures and supporting the business through the change.

GOAL: Learn strategic procedures and how to apply them in business and for personal goals

The benefits of Strategic Planning:

• Create a focus point through a clear strategic vision
• Develop strategic aims that are aligned to organizational goals and employee objectives
• Learn to ask challenging questions to critique strategy
• Review current practices and apply strategic thinking to processes
• Look for gaps in strategy using a simple health check
• Specify outcomes and goals with an aligned strategy
• Allow participants to explore the process of developing a strategy and design the process of implementing them

 
Objectives:
 By the end of this training course your participants will be able to:

• Identify the purpose of strategy in the strategic hierarchy
• Set a strategy in line with organizational vision and mission
• Set objectives and strategy measurements
• Link corporate strategy to operational activities
• Manage the strategic change process

 
DIVERSITY & CULTURE 
Diversity is about differences. Essentially, a valuing diversity approach focuses on the positive aspects of the differences between people. It recognizes that  different backgrounds, values, attitudes, skills and experiences that people have means that they bring a unique perspective to work issues.
In today’s society, companies' goals are to create a culture that truly values the diversity of its people, includes them, listens to them, uses their unique qualities and provides opportunities for them to achieve their potential.

GOAL:  To develop the participants' understanding of Diversity and Culture

The benefits of Diversity and Culture Training: 

• To develop the participants' understanding of diversity and the Learn uniqueness of the people in work environments and  possible consequences of ignoring the issue, but particularly to help enlighten awareness of issues participants could face.

 
Objectives:
 By the end of this training course your participants will be able to:

• Support a culture that values individuals’ differences, and which challenges any threat to an individual’s dignity and well-being
• Define diversity, bullying, harassment and understand the effect on victims of such behavior
• Participants can state their role in challenging inappropriate behavior and the impact they can have on changing the culture.

EXCELLENCE IN CUSTOMER CARE
With many products, services and prices being very similar the only way to set ourselves apart may be with the service we offer. If this is true, we need to make sure that we are setting ourselves apart in the right way and building a reputation that will keep customers returning time and time again.
Our course will help participants reduce risks and solve problems on their own. They will learn creative reasoning techniques to think of all possible approaches and repercussions to achieve the best outcomes.

GOAL:  To draw on participants' experiences to help them understand customer expectations before matching these to the service values of your organization

The benefits of Excellence In Customer Care:

• Increased Sales
• Boast Work Productivity
• Improve Employee Retention
• Build Stronger Teams
• Reduce Risks

Objectives:
 By the end of this training course your participants will be able to:

• Draw on their own experiences identify key customer expectations
• Link customer expectations with the customer service values of your organization
• Learn soft skills that influence how well they can work or interact with others
• Identify actions to provide better service to customers 
• Identify actions the organization can take to strengthen customer service

ONLINE COURSE PLATFORM COMING MARCH 2023 WWW.EIOL.TEACHABLE.COM

​​ONLINE COURSES 

IS YOUR AGENCY GRANT READY?
Students will receive industry insight into questions about grant readiness processes, prospectives of grant decision-makers, and nonprofit administration tips on how to move their mission forward. This course taught as a workshop setting that includes Grant Readiness Checklist, Grant Reviewer Tips downloads and an Excel Institute of Learning Certificate. 

Objectives:
 By the end of this training course your participants will be able to:

• Learn how the Nonprofit and Grant Industries operate
• Learn tips from a Grant Reviewer on how to get grants APPROVED
• Learn how to move your vision FORWARD!

HOW TO START A NONPROFIT SUCCESSFULLY
This course discusses the components needed to start a thriving non-profit. Students will learn nonprofit start-up procedures and strategic administrative processes for application completion.  This course taught as a workshop setting, provides the necessary resources needed to help organize administrative processes before grant requests and includes an Excel Institute of Learning Certificate.

Objectives:
 By the end of this training course your participants will be able to:

• Understand nonprofit setup procedures and documentation
• Understand Nonprofit Administration® operations
• Use class notes and downloads to form a nonprofit organization

CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION PROPOSAL WRITING
This course discusses the latest Grant Industry operations with students. Participants will learn Grant Industry terms, how to translate proposal guideline requirements, and how to write winning proposals to corporations and foundations. Includes an Excel Institute of Learning Certificate.

Objectives:
 By the end of this training course your participants will be able to:

• Use strategies to leverage funding opportunities
• Write competitive grant proposals
• Identify and write to the funders that are suitable for your business