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PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Personal and professional development programs are most effective when they are not mutually exclusive.

Professional development provides the skills needed to maximize performance in your current role and helps you acquire the skills and knowledge necessary for career advancement. Effective programs also includes an element of personal development.

Personal development is crucial to becoming a better leader, employee, mentor, colleague, family-member, or friend.

When combined, personal and professional development equip you with the skills you need to accomplish desired results --
both in and out of the workplace.

SPEAKERS

A thoughtful and experienced speaker helps set the tone for your event, engage the audience, provide valuable insights, and inspire audience-members to take action.

Their speeches and presentations are aimed at inspiring and motivating individuals or groups of people to achieve their goals, overcome obstacles, and improve their lives. They use their expertise, personal experiences, and stories to captivate and engage audiences, with the aim of instilling a sense of enthusiasm, empowerment, and determination in their listeners.

Alpstra has vetted speakers with a variety of professional backgrounds, who offer insightful and inspiring speeches that are sure to leave a lasting impression on your audience.

SPEAKING TOPICS

Leadership
Development

Great leaders are fully committed to the success of their team members and are willing to invest time and energy in them. They see areas of potential and know how to bring out the best in individual contributors.

Create intentional leaders, who can inspire high performance with Alpstra's Leadership Development Program.

Business Development

Solid sales methodologies and good business development skills equip you with the strategies and resources to grow your organization’s market share.

Expand your impact and improve sales, customer service, and brand awareness with our Sales Leadership Program or our Business Development Program.

Manager

Development

The best managers understand the science behind human behavior and use this knowledge to motivate and inspire their teams. Our manager training program provides critical skills necessary to help managers lead through these times of rapid change and uncertainty, while nurturing employee engagement and performance throughout their teams.

Effective
Communication

Good communication is critical to organizational effectiveness. When each member of your team communicates effectively, you’ll reduce conflicts and misunderstandings while improving efficiency and fostering growth, and you'll improve relationships with customers.

Working with Different Personalities

Your personality affects how you communicate and interact with others, tackle challenges, and resolve conflicts.

Understanding your own personality as well as the personalities of others can help you improve your relationships, work more efficiently, communicate with others better, and resolve conflict.

Improving Employee Engagement

According to a June 2023 Gallup poll, 59% of workers are "quiet quitting," meaning they are not engaged at work. Another 18% are "loud quitting," or actively disengaging but still employed.

An effective leadership development program can help business leaders and managers understand how to prevent employee burnout, improve morale, and increase engagement.

Emotional Intelligence & Adaptability

Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and regulate your own emotions while understanding and responding to the emotions of others.

A high EQ helps you build relationships, reduce team stress, defuse conflict, and improve job satisfaction, while AQ allows you to pivot and flourish in today's world of fast and frequent changes.

Self-Confidence & Assertiveness Training

Self-confidence and assertiveness are skills that can be developed by anyone, regardless of their position within the workplace.

Those who are assertive and display self-confidence in life and at work achieve more success. Our training provides participants with the tools to overcome fear, learn personal empowerment, and inspire confidence in others.

SPEAKING FORMATS

Live Workshops

Half-day to three-day in-person events aligned with your organizational goals.

Virtual Workshops

Half-day to three-day virtual events aligned with your organizational goals.

Webinars

One hour interactive and engaging sessions specific to the needs of your team.

Keynotes

Thirty to ninety minute sessions customized to your business and industry.

A recent Carnegie Foundation study found that career success is linked to 15% of one's technical skills and knowledge, while an overwhelming 85% is attributed to soft skills.

Most companies spend 95% of their time and budget offering technical skills training while investing a mere 5% on interpersonal skills - the very ones proven to make the most significant impact on
both the individual's and the organization's success.

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COACHES

As Bill Gates is quoted as saying, "Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player. We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve."

Coaches encourage and promote solution-focused thinking, and help individuals identify priorities for growth and development and implement strategies for change.

Working with a coach is proven to increase confidence and drive success. Whether you choose to participate in one-on-one or group coaching, Alpstra has a bench of coaches ready to help.