Programs

Sample of Our Most Requested Programs:

Motivational:

• Coping with the Diversity of Change
• Taking Control: What I can do to change the outcome
• Surviving the Challenge Course Called Life
• Women of Wonder - WOW

Leadership:

• Get the Lead on Leadership – Leadership Styles – How to build trust, deal with difficult situations, give feedback and more.
• Flying Solo: Toolbox for Leadership – From delegating, to resolving conflicts, and much more. Identify areas that your leaders need and we will customize the program for individuals or groups.
• Generational Diversity in the Workplace

Communication

• Understanding Personality/Communication Styles
• Remove the Fear of Resolving Conflicts
• Handle Difficult Conversations and Difficult People with Confidence
• Jump Start Collaborative Communication Skills
• • Pack Confidence into Your Communication
  • Learn to Hear the Words and the Silence
  • Genderly Speaking – The He She Art of Language

Train the Trainer or Supervisor

• Raise Presentation Skills to New Heights
• Take Motivation to New Heights: Retain Employees and Help Them to Succeed and Lead
• Leading Without Authority – Improve leadership skills and motivation.

Teambuilding

• Achieving Cohesiveness with Ease: ACE Team Building for Success

Other:

• When Every Second Counts: Learn to manage time before it manages you
• Crash Course on Stress Relief: Extinguish Burn-Out
• • Accelerate Your Business Potential Cultivate Service Excellence
  • Lean Out the Door and See the World: Cultural Diversity Issues
• Knockout Aggression: Learn how to deal with Aggressive People

Educators & Parents

• Automatically Activate Student Interest
• Master Mentoring Children and Teens
• Smoothly Navigate Life Issues: RISE
• • Responsibility
  • Increased Direction
  • Self-Esteem
  • Energy
• Get a Jump on Understanding the New Generation
• Prevent Disasters: Teens often Feel they are on Spiraling Freefall:
• • Understanding signs of Depression and Suicide in Adolescents
  • Understanding Eating Disorders in Teens
• Parenting Adolescents Is Natural (PAIN)
• Parenting Classes and Behavior Management Techniques
• The Good News and Bad News about Discipline Issues

Keynote Speaker

Motivating and Inspiring Speeches that Touch the Heart and Mind of the Audience. Onsite customized programs provide employees and employers with cost-effective learning.
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Genderly Speaking:

The He She Art of Language is an entertaining presentation on a rather serious topic. Improving communication between men and women both improves productivity in the workplace and decreases frustration outside the office as people learn how to cross the gender gap.

Cynthia draws from her diverse professional training as a corporate manager, corporate trainer, college instructor, adventure-based facilitator, Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), facilitator, coach, and consultant. Cynthia is an approved provider for Human Resource Continuing education events. In addition, Cynthia is a trained Critical Incident Stress Debriefer, with Specialization in Corporate Workplace Violence as well as Domestic Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction. Cynthia is an expert on how people work together, presenting no less than 100 programs a year. Her diversity of knowledge, experiences, and understanding of group dynamics enrich her ability to influence the way people work together. Presentations are customized to meet your business or conference needs.

Why this speaker? Cynthia Krosky, CSP, LCSW

has a proven track record for being a professional speaker. She is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) the highest earned designation in the International Federation of Professional Speakers as well as the National Speakers Association. Her areas of expertise are many. She is an Adventure-Based Trainer, Facilitator, Educator, Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Consultant, and Critical Incident Stress Manager, with Specialization in Corporate Workplace Violence, as well as Domestic Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction.

An expert on how people work together, she presents no less than 150 programs a year. Her diversity of knowledge, experiences, and understanding of group dynamics enrich her ability to influence the way people work together. She uses her expertise to assist organizations in developing leadership and team skills so that they may discover ways to increase productivity. Her interactive programs are engaging, fun, and provide the audience with practical easy to apply information.

Cynthia would probably qualify for ADHD, but she uses her energy productively. Before the program, she will contact several stakeholders including audience members for the program, so that she can deliver a presentation customized to meet your goals, your theme, and most of all your needs. During the program, she will keep the audience entertained as they learn, but her energy and time with the client does not end there. Cynthia understands the importance of building relationships, so her programs are not a one-day experience, they are a life-changing event, and audiences will want her back again and again. Her numerous areas of expertise, make her a great speaker to work with and one everyone will forever remember.

Cynthia's programs are regularly presented at national, state, and local conferences and retreats. She keynotes, provides various on-site program programs, and facilitates business retreats her programs can be provided in traditional settings or outdoors. Author of books covering topics from Success, Team Building, Leadership, Motivation, and Parenting. Cindy distributes a free electronic newsletter on leadership.

Memberships include International Federation of Professional Speakers, International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, National Speakers Association, and National Speakers Association of Central Florida. She volunteers time on the Florida Crisis Consortium Response Team, and the St. Lucie County Critical Incident Stress Management Team and is involved with Scouts, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and the Boys and Girls Clubs.

Member of:

National Speakers Association: http://www.nsaspeaker.org
NSA Central Florida: http://www.nsacentralflorida.com
Society of Human Resources: http://www.shrm.org
HR Certification Institute: http://www.hrci.org
United States Parachute Association: http://www.uspa.org
Florida Crisis Consortium ResponseTeam
St. Lucie County Critical Incident Team

Qualifications of Instructor

Cindy Krosky, CSP, LCSW - President of Achieving Corporate Excellence, Inc. is a professional speaker, trainer, author, educator, adventure-based trainer, and licensed clinical social worker. She is a highly skilled presenter and easily engages her audiences. Cindy has an extensive background in counseling and in education provides her with the skills needed to work with a variety of learners and ages. Her expertise and understanding make her programs unique, as her instructional methods increase retention and practical application of the information.

What is CSP?

The Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation, established in 1980, is the speaking industry's international measure of professional platform skill. CSP is conferred throughout the International Federation for Professional Speakers only on those who have earned it by meeting strict criteria. The letters CSP following a speaker's name indicate a competent speaking professional with proven experience who understands what is required and knows how to deliver client satisfaction. Fewer than ten percent of the 4,700 speakers who belong to the International Federation for Professional Speakers hold this professional designation and less than 160 female speakers hold designation.
Standards of the Designation

Every CSP must:

Maintain membership and subscribe to the Code of Professional Ethics;

Serve a minimum number of different clients within 5 years;
Present a minimum number of professional speaking engagements within this same 5-year period;
Submit testimonial letters from over 20 clients served;
Submit professionally prepared promotional materials;
Receive excellent ratings from past clients on professional performance evaluations; and
Continue education in the professional speaking field through NSA's many educational programs

You don't have to jump out of a perfectly good plane to find a speaker or program that meets your needs.

Programs by

Achieving Corporate Excellence, Inc.
Cynthia Krosky, CSP, LCSW - President
USA Office: (772) 461-8313 Eastern Standard Time

Web: www.achievingcorporateexcellence.com or www.acespeaks.com
Email: achieve@achievingcorporateexcellence.com
Email: teams@acespeaks.com
Approved Provider for Human Resource Personal
Courses below are the most requested courses.

Who Presents?

Programs are instructed by a professional speaker and trainer. The benefits of these programs multiply when you train your entire team, department, or association. We will provide comprehensive instruction to meet your needs by customizing the material to include corporate goals, philosophies, or mission.
Scheduling

Schedule the training when and where you need it. We will accommodate your learning schedule providing full day or half-day programs based on your needs. Our trainer Cindy Krosky surprised one company by providing the Leadership Series to employees on the night shift, which had her programs starting at 3 AM. This helped to keep down company cost and showed employees that this program really was for them, as it was done at their convenience not the trainers.

Customization

A pre-program questionnaire will assist us in assuring that the program requested is the right fit for the objectives identified. This brochure contains only the most requested programs. Another program or combination of programs may better meet your needs. Together we can design a program that fits your specific needs and compliment prior training that you have already offered. Effective training helps anchor information learned with new information being acquired so that the new information is more easily applied. Participants see the continuity and compliment of information being received and discourages compartmentalizing learning.

Need Continuing Education Credits or Units?

Let us know what is needed to earn credits for courses and we will do our best to accommodate this request.
Leadership Series - Customized to meet your needs. Get the Lead on Leadership a Five part series on Leadership- Pending ApprovalLeadership Styles - How to build trust, deal with difficult situations, give feedback and more.

Who should attend?

Do you need to improve managerial skills that work across a diverse workforce? Most often attended by managers, new administrators, human resource personnel, etc.

What is to be learned?

Participants explore leadership and themselves as existing or emerging leaders. In each course, participants will assess various skills of their leadership examining competencies as well as attributes that relate to becoming an effective leader within their organization today. Leading people requires self-control and encourages personal and professional growth for all. Great supervisors eagerly take on this responsibility, as they serve as a role model for all. As a conclusion to each course, participants create a Leadership Action Plan to further enhance their leadership development.

Prerequisites:

Will customize the content for the Leadership Series to meet their needs and to compliment any prior training.

Flying Solo: Toolbox for Leadership -

Audience

This workshop is for people seeking to improve managerial skills needed to facilitate meeting or to negotiate more effectively with employees. Tools range from brainstorming to Chicago style voting, force-field analysis, managing meeting, disagreements and more.
Most often attended by managers, human resource personnel, team leaders, employees heading up quality improvement projects or committees, etc.

What is to be learned?

Anyone with a desire to improve ability to run meetings more effectively. Participants explore various tools available to gain consensus, build cohesiveness, and make decisions with input from other employees. Each tool that is taught will be demonstrated and then the class will practice using the tool to understand the pros and cons. As more tools are learned participants will have the opportunity to try combinations of tools and discover for themselves which ones their team will best benefit from.

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Generational Diversity in the Workplace- HRCertificate

Institute (HRCI) Approved

Audience

Human resources, managers, and employees in a leadership or supervisory role.

What is to be learned?

Understand how the workforce has changed and how this changes what employees are looking for in a job or career. Learn how to manage and motivate a diverse workforce by understanding the communication styles of each generation, their values, attitudes, and beliefs toward work. Develop strategies for effectively working with your current workforce and be better prepared for working with the ever-changing workforce.

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Coping with the Diversity of Change – HRCI Approved

Audience

Human resources, managers, and employees in a leadership or supervisory role.

What is to be learned?

The only constant in today’s world is change and diversity efforts have certainly changed.

Today, the need for a big-picture thinker on change is greater than ever, driven by an unstable economy, where downsizing is the norm and remaining employees are allocated to take on more work, without extra pay. HR personnel must be proactive in assuring that existing employees understand the change process and assist in decreasing the stress on the existing employees. Change requires developing a proactive response versus a reactive response. Understanding theories on the change process helps us increases the success of making the needed change initiatives and decreases resistance and stress for employees. Learning how people from different cultures and generations view change allows HR professionals to maximize the use of their energy and move their organization through change with more ease.

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Remove the Fear of Resolving Conflicts - HR CI Approved

Audience

Managers, human resources personnel, and employees in a leadership or supervisory role.

What is to be learned?

Learn the importance of handling both positive and negative conflict in your organization. Improve skills in managing as well as resolving conflict and dealing with interpersonal differences. Discover the dimensions of conflict and behavioral stages associated. Find the solution to resolving conflicts by examining the issues and defusing the situation.

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Take Motivation to New Heights

Audience

Managers, administration, human resource personnel, and people in leadership positions.

What is to be learned?

The pulse of life in an organization begins with the supervisors. These individuals are an invaluable asset, as they know the needs of the organization and of the clients served. The training will improve their expertise in motivating the employees and increase retention. Learn principles and processes that will provide training in: 1) effectively speaking to what drives employees by helping the employee find meaning in their work. Learn how to select the right rewards, recognition, and incentives for employees.

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Take Training and Presentations to New Heights- HRCI Approved

Audience

Trainers or Corporate Personnel, Educators, Anyone responsible for speaking in public.

What is to be learned?

Get the scoop on what makes information pop and audiences listen. Learn the behind the scenes techniques that make a program or speech move an audience to action and compel them to listen. Whether you are doing training or putting together elevator speeches these techniques will help you make a difference. Take the training and presentation to new heights by understanding strategies that will increase interaction, improve recall, and assist learning in transferring knowledge. Understand learning styles and training methods that will impact the message. Beginning with the handouts, guides, room set up, schedule and more.

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Lean Out the Door and See the World: Cultural Diversity Issues- HRCI Approved

Audience

Anyone and everyone can benefit from expanding their understanding of the world.

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What is to be learned?

Each person has a unique personal identity that may be associated with a particular class, ethnicity, or race. Businesses know that diversity in the workplace enriches the business since better customer service is given to the internal and external customer when a workforce respects the diverse perspectives. Diversity training compliments a proactive response to assist employees in coping with change and to prepare everyone to meet the goals and challenges of the future. This training will examine the definition of diversity as it relates to age, race, gender, socioeconomic status, language, beliefs, physical status, and cultural background. This training provides everyone the opportunity to develop an understanding and appreciation for the unique attributes, history, and resilience that define personal diversity. Education and awareness are the best instruments with which to map this course.

When Every Second Counts: Learn how to manage time before it manages you

Audience

Anyone seeking to improve time efficiency.

What is to be learned?

Learning to manage time can be done without reinventing your life. This program
offers easy to apply methods that will allow participants to regain control of time and to experience positive results immediately. This program encourages participants to use these steps in both their personal and professional lives. Since we are creatures of habit, if we mismanage time in one area of our life, there is a good chance we will mismanage it elsewhere. Participants will be asked to make a commitment to adopt at least one method and to implement it immediately. The instructor of this workshop then follows up with the progress and is available to assist and encourage them in their process.

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Leading without Authority is like Skydiving without a Parachute

Audience

Open to all people who find themselves leading or supervising someone without authority over the person or employees who need to improve their method of working with other people.

What is to be learned?

Almost every situation in our lives benefits from good leadership. The opportunity could present itself in anything from a formal work setting to an unexpected crisis. When people don't have the advantage of "positional power” to help carry weight, as does the official boss, depending on true leadership qualities is necessary to enlist others in working with you. As organizations continue to flatten their structures, more and more employees find themselves in positions where they are leading teams or projects without direct authority over the other employees involved. Leading without official authority can be one of the most challenging leadership situations. It certainly is the opportunity when one must demonstrate great leadership skills to be effective. Leading without authority requires significant insight into what needs to be done, the ability to create and/or align people behind a compelling vision or goal, and the ability to organize and implement action as summarized above. We will look at existing situations in the organization and develop a program to meet the needs of the employees as we look at steps to help people land safely as they guide others.

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Genderly Speaking - The He She Art of Language

Audience

Anyone desiring to improve his or her communication skills at work or at home.

What is to be learned?

Learn basic communication barriers that both genders experience. Then examine factors that influence your personal communication style. Now go deeper and understand how communication is interpreted by each gender. Learn how to use words that are gender friendly and decrease miscommunication.

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Teambuilding- Achieving Cohesiveness with Ease: ACE Teambuilding for Success

Audience

No limits: Managers, human resource personnel, team members and team leaders. Whole departments or people working on committees or on projects intended to function as a team.

What is to be learned?

Increasing productivity and quality can only happen when people work together. Achieving cohesiveness takes skill and commitment. It is a process! Revitalizing the energy and establishing closure with the past provides an opportunity for people to adapt and accelerate the business potential while increasing personal satisfaction for a job well done. In a world where change is constant and stress is high, then utilizing our human resources is a must. One way to improve communication, increase cooperation, and decrease complaints to build a cohesive team. Maximize the involvement of each employee from the newest to the most senior member. Gain a commitment to increase cohesiveness and increase your organization's ability to reach goals successfully.

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Crash Course on Stress Relief: Extinguish Burn-Out

Audience

No limits - we all experience stress. This is most requested by organization experiencing change.

What is to be learned?

This program provides audience members the opportunity to learn proactive ways to extinguish burnout. We live in a world full of both positive and negative stressors. Participants will identify their responses to negative stress, so that they may be more proactive in extinguishing stress that leads to burn out. Learn how reactions impact our responses to stressful situations. Practice stress relievers to use anywhere at any time. Participants will learn and practice techniques that they can use at home and work to feel more positive and energized.

More programs are available than are listed in this site. Please let us know what your needs are so that we may develop a program to meet your specific needs.

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