Customized Corporate Training  

Customized Training is available to meet the personal and professional development needs of local businesses.  Whether you are a large or small business, these are just a few of the areas where we can provide customized training: Customer Service, Management & Supervisory, Leadership, Team Building, Computer & Software, and Diversity. 

If you have ever struggled with employee retention or turnover, low morale, productivity or training issues; or if you simply have a desire to provide quality training at affordable prices, Customized Training will be able to assist you in providing:

-         In-house training for a group of employees in one or multiple areas

-         Targeted, business-specific training tailored for your specific business or industry

-         Time-relevant training to enhance employee skills

 Customized training can be held at your location, or conveniently at any one of GCCC’s campus locations (Panama City Main Campus, Gulf/Franklin Center, North Bay Center, and Tyndall AFB Center).

To schedule a free assessment or consultation, contact Lori Luppino, Coordinator of Management and Leadership Development at 850-872-3818 or email LLuppino@gulfcoast.edu.

 

Supervisory Skills

In all of the following 12 modules, participants will review video presentations and case studies, participate in group discussions, practice new skills and receive immediate feedback. Managers will leave the session with implementation tools, troubleshooting guides, and additional resources to help them immediately apply their new skills on the job.

Essential Skills of Leadership
CED 0645, $60
Essential Skills of Leadership builds a foundation that enables team leaders to manage their team toward a shared goal: achieving the organization's strategic objectives.

Essential Skills of Communicating
CED 0646, $60

Essential Skills of Communicating helps managers learn the latest techniques in developing effective communication skills-improving their performance and increasing the productivity of the team and the organization.

Effective Discipline
CED 0686, $60
Effective Discipline helps managers learn effective techniques for addressing problem behavior. Using communication skills, the manager works to preserve the individual's self-respect and encourage the best kind of discipline - self-discipline.  

Developing Performance Goals and Standards
CED 0893, $60
Unless managers and team leaders are successful in spelling out the organization’s specific goals, their team members are not going to know how to meet those objectives. This module shows trainees how to establish specific, measurable, attainable, results-oriented, and time-framed performance goals. It then illustrates the steps that gain team member agreement and commitment to those performance goals.

Coaching Job Skills
CED 0891, $60
Coaching Job Skills helps managers learn how to effectively coach individuals through a process of observation, analysis and communication. By carefully planning one-on-one discussions, managers can have the greatest impact and gain individual commitment to achieving results.

Delegating
CED 0886, $60
Delegating helps managers master the skills needed to effectively assign work to others. By clearly communicating expectations and encouraging participation and involvement, managers can use delegating to develop team members' skills and abilities. 

Managing Complaints
CED 0993, $60
As the leaders on the front line, managers and team leaders are often the first to hear team member complaints. And though sometimes they may seem unimportant, each complaint should be addressed and resolved. This module shows how to resolve simple complaints and identify the hidden agendas that so often underlie the chronic grievances.

Resolving Conflicts
CED 0685, $60
Resolving Conflicts helps managers develop skills to identify the source of team member conflicts. Using effective communication and management techniques, managers can help individuals understand another point of view and move beyond the conflict.

Supporting Change
CED 0888, $60
Supporting Change helps managers learn to understand and to interpret change. By understanding it, managers can more clearly communicate change to their team. This clear communication helps to reduce misunderstanding and anxiety. It also helps the change initiative gain acceptance more quickly - minimizing lost productivity and decreased performance.

Improving Work Habits
CED 0889, $60
Improving Work Habits helps managers learn to clearly and specifically communicate the nature of the problem. It provides a process for working with the individual to develop a plan for addressing the issue while maintaining self-esteem.

Providing Performance Feedback
CED 0892, $60
This module shows the way evaluation is done by the experts. First, relevant performance standards are established. Then the team member's own performance evaluation is solicited. This accomplished, the stage is set for a summary evaluation that will be clear and credible to the team member.

Communicating Up
CED 0957, $60
Most managers and team leaders realize the importance of upward communication, but few accept the responsibility for the quality and effectiveness of communicating with their own managers. Managers and team leaders will learn how to frame communication so that a desired result is achieved.

The Extraordinary Leader:  Going from Good to Great
CED 0994, $50
Upon completion, participants will be able to articulate the difference between good leaders and great leaders, describe and explain the five key insights about leadership, define the 16 competencies of high performing leaders, understand the concept of powerful combinations of strengths and their importance to leadership effectiveness, explain the difference between weaknesses and fatal flaws, and apply strengths and behaviors that demonstrate leadership effectiveness in workplace situations

Peer Today, Boss Tomorrow
CED 0995, $25
Through the four strategies presented and applied in this program, participants will have the opportunity to learn:
- What it means to accept the responsibilities of their new role.
- How to exercise their abilities to set clear boundaries.
- The value of strengthening their communication skills.
- The importance of taking thoughtful and strategic action.  

12 Danger Zones for Supervisors:  Employment Law Training System
CED 0996, $75
Through these 12 modules, supervisors and managers will be trained in 12 critical areas of employment law:  hiring, documentation and evaluations, discipline, firing, sexual harassment, other harassment, discrimination, FMLA, safety and workers’ comp, wage and hour/labor law, privacy, and workplace violence.



Diversity

Just Be F.A.I.R.
CED 0997, $25

It’s one thing to talk about diversity and fairness in the workplace; it’s quite another to grapple with issues day-to-day, face-to-face.  The F.A.I.R. approach (Feedback, Assistance, Inclusion, and Respect) equips employees at every level to broaden the definition of diversity and build positive, productive relationships. 

Generations…M.E.E.T. for Respect in the Workplace
CED 0998, $25
Participants will be able to define key characteristics of the four generations in the workplace, identify issues and situations influenced by generational differences and apply practical tips for working successfully in a multigenerational workplace.

Clown
CED 0999, $15
A unique, thought provoking and entertaining look at diversity.  The program illustrates racial bias, prejudice and discrimination, and also includes references to the biases that exist based on ethnicity, language, ability/disability, and religion.  Participants will be inspired to take a fresh look at their personal assumptions and interactions in our diverse society.



Motivation
 

Encouraging the Heart
CCC 0004, $20
This program illustrates the importance of employee recognition and presents examples of the types of rewards leaders can give to truly motivate top performance. 

Whale Done!
CED 0517, $20
Whale Done! Highlights how catching people doing things right and redirecting negative behaviors are some of the best tools to increase productivity, build trust, create high commitment and motivation, retain your best workers, promote positive customer relationships and sustain your competitive advantage.



Customer Service

Give ‘em the Pickle
CED 0687, $20
Participants will understand the importance of attitude and consistency and learn how to make serving others their number one priority.

Remember Me
CCC 0005, $15
Remember Me has a timeless theme:  treat the customer as an individual and you will be rewarded with loyal patronage for years. 

Johnny the Bagger:  A True Story of Customer Service
CED 0906, $15
Johnny the Bagger will help motivate your employees to take personal responsibility for creating a positive, memorable experience for internal or external customers; the kind of experience needed to generate customer loyalty, improve employee retention and strengthen team morale.



Personal Development

Start Right, Stay Right
CCC 0006, $50
This program teaches 24 behaviors critical to employee and organizational success.  The behaviors are divided into four training categories:  You and Your Mindset, You and Your Co-Workers, You and Your Supervisor or Manager and You and the Organization.

Speaking Effectively to One or One Thousand
CCC 0008, $15
Participants will learn what causes public speaking fear and how to avoid it, the roles of appearance and body language, and how to most effectively communicate their message.

Time Challenged
CED 0992, $25
At the core of this training is the fact that we all get the same 24 hours a day, but how we use those hours greatly impacts our success or failure.  Participants will learn how to identify and take responsibility for time-management concerns, set goals, and prioritize tasks.

Employability Skills
CED 0814, $10
Participants will understand the basic skills needed at any job, understand why a positive attitude, initiative and enthusiasm are necessary in any position, understand the importance of time management and goal setting, and understand the importance of decision making in the workplace

The Art of Interviewing
CED 0817, $10
Participants in this class will learn how to prepare for typical interview questions, understand the importance of the first impression, identify common interview blunders, learn what their body language says, and learn how to establish rapport with the interviewer.

Developing a Professional Image
CCC 0009, $10
Participants will understand the importance of first impressions, understand that perceptions do matter, identify the “do’s and don’ts” of business attire, and learn how to positively represent the brand of their organization.

Business Communication
CED 0816, $10
Participants will understand the three types of verbal communications:  passive, aggressive and assertive and understand the importance of non-verbal communication and clear, concise written communications

FISH!
CED 0518, $20
The FISH! philosophy is a lifelong learning approach that inspires us to feel alive and engaged in the work we do.  It is an invitation to re-awaken the self-trusting, creative spirit within all of us.



Teamwork

Teamwork in Crisis
CCC 0010, $15
Participants will examine how skills in five key factors can be brought together to achieve a significant team goal, and better understand the specific roles of preparation, cooperation and communication in minimizing the impacts of unfortunate circumstances, or capitalizing on unexpected opportunities.

 

 

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