Courses

Course Name	Description	Key Learning Objectives
Professional Development Certification for Trainers	Professional trainers must be adept at balancing explicit and tacit learning. This certification helps corporate trainers fine tune their curriculum development, adult learning, and presentation skills.	Adult learning certification. Trained in instructional design. Trained in aligning training to business goals.
Train-the-Trainer Series	Train people within your company to present any of the modules in the Leadership Series. Howatt HR Consulting works with companies to develop their own internal capabilities to deliver high quality corporate training.	Train internal resources. Package materials. Mentor trainers.
Moving Beyond Conflict	One of the constants in managing people is conflict. This course provides managers with a set of tools and clear strategy for moving beyond conflict.	How different personalities deal with conflict. Strategies for dealing with anger. A tactical conflict resolution model.
The Discipline of Communication	Turn communications from your weakest link into a new strength. This course provides leaders with an opportunity to develop critical conversation skills for managing people and reducing miscommunication.	Exploring core skills of an effective communicator. Develop a strategic model for improving communications. Improve communication in the workplace.
Coaching 101	Transferring knowledge is a key responsibility for today's managers. This course introduces a set of tools for understanding what coaching is and how to coach.	Introducing a powerful leadership tool called coaching. Developing a coaching model. Strategies for enhancing a leader's coaching effectiveness.
Organizational Change	A guide for managing personal and professional conflict and creating new starts. This course provides managers with a road map for navigating organizational and individual change.	Understanding how people deal with change. Assisting an individual to deal with change. Assisting an organization to deal with change.
Crisis Management	Don't get caught. The wrong time to learn how to handle a crisis is when you are in one. Managers need basic crisis intervention skills to deal with the unexpected. This course provides a basic introduction to crisis management.	Why leaders need crisis management training. The kinds of crises leaders may face. Dealing with minimum, medium, and major crises.
Mediation for Resolution	Give a little, get a little, win a lot. Managers need to know how to help two or more parties solve a conflict and design an agreement. This course provides a process for developing agreements, using the tools of collaborative mediation.	Introduction to interest-based mediation. Strategies to mediate conflict. Tips for mediation resolution.
Negotiating for Action	Leaders need core negotiation skills each day to get things done. This course helps leaders refine and enhance their negotiation skills.	Negotiation skills for leaders. The art of negotiation. Developing a negotiation strategy
Business Ethics for Leaders	Business leaders cannot assume common sense will prevail throughout their organizations. This course defines and explores ethics and how to enhance ethical behavior in the workplace.	Ethical breaches leaders need to avoid. Ethics in business. Dealing with ethical problems.
Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Skills for Leaders	Leaders need to be assertive, confident, self-starters, passionate, committed, dedicated, social minded, civil, and resilient. This course gives young leaders a platform to discover core skills needed for effective interpersonal and intrapersonal interaction.	Core intrapersonal skills that build self-confidence. The relationship between interpersonal and intrapersonal skills and leadership. Establishing where a leader's passion and drive for success come from.
Influencing Skills for Leaders	Leaders are not always born; they can be developed. But it takes work and insight to understand what leadership is and is not. This course provides leaders an opportunity to enhance their leadership and influencing skills.	Key traits of successful leaders. A leadership model for influencing people. Why people trust some leaders and not others.
Building a Collaborative Team	Great leaders know teams need leaders. This program helps leaders understand some critical milestones for building a supportive group dynamic to develop a winning culture and lay the foundation for winning teams.	Organizational development and its impact on team building. Building collaborative teams. Collaborative vs. co-operative teams.
Future Thinkers	Avoid the trap of getting too comfortable and missing opportunities for enhancement. Innovation and creativity are the hallmarks for corporate identity to be unique and better than the competition. This program provides leaders an opportunity to develop and expand their strategic thinking model.	A tactical model for strategic thinking. Increasing creative thinking. Packaging strategy and leadership for business decisions.
Emotional Ergonomics	The meaning and importance of Emotional Intelligence – and how to enhance it. People can be emotional and lose their composure in the workplace. Managers who understand emotional intelligence are better equipped to deal with this reality.	Defining the impact of emotional intelligence on performance. Exploring a model to enhance emotional intelligence. Introducing a strategy to enhance emotional intelligence in the workplace.
New Beginnings	A pro-active plan to allow individuals to take charge of personal wellness and health. This course assists leaders to increase their own life balance and lower their stress so they can be more effective both at work and at home.	Introducing the five levels needed for life balance. Reducing stress in the workplace. Creating life balance.
Getting on Track	The questions people need to ask to get on track – and the answers they need to stay there. Managers know they need to make a business plan each year to get on track. This course focuses on managers' needs and wants and helps them develop a strategic personal and professional action plan that can be repeated each year.	Develop an individual game plan. Define personal and professional potential. A strategic plan for leading people.
Understanding Human Behavior	Humans are complex, but leaders can be trained to understand some basic core concepts of psychology. This course provides a basic introduction to human behavior for leaders to better understand employees and deal with different behaviors.	Why people do what they do. Influencing and motivating employees. Influencing change in human behavior.