Professionalism Is for Everyone —
Five Keys to Being a True Professional

Learning Leader's Tools & Resources
(Illustrative items only,
kits include much more)

Participant's Tools and Resources
(Illustrative items only)

Free Article:
3 Steps for Inspiring Professionalism
in Your Organization

Professionalism Is for Everyone — Five Keys to Being a True Professional

Teach-It-Yourself - tools for teaching a seminar on Professionalism

See the video about inspiring professionalism in your organization.

Purposes of this Program

This program:

• Inspires individuals to pursue excellence, high values, and professional behavior
  
  
• Encourages people to press for being the best
  
  
• Motivates individuals to avoid mediocrity at home and at work
  
  
• Helps organizations teach and communicate good moral values and the standards and foundation principles for what it means to be a professional
  
  
• Teaches leaders and managers how to guide professional behavior in others
  
  
• Gives people an opportunity to discuss and explore how to address and correct behavior that is not professional

This is an interactive seminar where individuals have opportunities to learn, ask questions, and share experiences.

• They explore the importance of professionalism and the benefits of being a professional.
  
  
• They learn a simple and easy to remember framework of positive values, principles, and standards for guiding professional behavior.
  
  
• They leave the seminar motivated to act and with an understanding of what it takes to be a professional and what they can and should do to pursue and polish their personal professionalism.

Half- or Full-day Seminar:

This program may be provided as a half-day or full-day interactive seminar or as a series of one to two hour seminars.

See comparison to our shorter program that is primarily a presentation.

Content of this Program

The program is based upon the Five Keys to Being a True Professional in the book Professionalism Is for Everyone.

The program begins with an overview of professionalism, what it means to be a professional, and the benefits of pursuing a lifetime quest of professionalism at work and in life.

The program then covers the core concepts for each of the Five Keys to Being a True Professional in the book Professionalism Is for Everyone. The book is provided to each participant.

These Five Keys are:

1. Character
2. Attitude
3. Excellence
4. Competency
5. Conduct

Supporting Topics covered include those below (partial listing):

• Integrity
• Pride
• Respect
• Loyalty
• Trust
• Honesty
• Being Truthful
• Appearance
• Being on Time
• Being Diligent
• Being Accountable
• Being Responsible
• Manners
• Excellence
• Confidentiality
• Teamwork and more
• 10 Rules of Professionalism

Learning Approaches: The program uses a variety of approaches including:

• Presentations
• Cases
• Examples
• Stories
• Learning exercises
• Group discussion
• Role plays and skits are options in full-day programs

Organizations in HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION, and FINANCIAL industries are active users of this book. See a listing of users here.

Some examples of organizations that have provided this program to their associates using our Teach-It-Yourself Tools are American Cancer, AIG, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Verizon Wireless, US Dept. of Health and Human Services, Virginia College and many more hospitals, schools, associations, and other businesses. In addition, The Goals Institute has provided this program directly for many large organizations such as the US Postal Service, the IRS, and McDonald's.

Learning Leader Facilitation Kits

For each program, we offer the same high quality materials we have used for our own seminars. The materials vary from program to program depending upon the content, however we provide certain key materials for every one of our programs. These include a three-ring binder with the following items:

• Facilitator Guides for Learning Leaders - these guides are separately bound documents you can take out of the binder and use as a cookbook like tool for guidance and instruction in teaching the course. The Facilitation Guides provide step-by-step instructions for what to do and say to present the material.
  
  
• Unique layout: The Facilitator Guides are laid out to show the script and instructions for teaching each segment of the program along with small images of the Power Point slides to be used and the respective pages from the Participant Guides that participants will be looking at. This approach makes it simple to teach our programs.
  
  
• Complete word-by-word scripts are provided as suggestions for what to say and do to present the material and facilitate the program
  
  
• Power Point® presentation slides. These are not your typical Power Point slides with lots of words and bulleted text.
  
  While we provide many slides to aid in presentation, there is no chance of "death by Power Point" with our programs. Our slides are designed with impactful images that bring the concepts to life and make memorable impressions so that people stay focused on the right points and remember what they are learning.
  

• Suggested Timetables and Planning Worksheets to layout your program to suit your timetable and objectives
  
  
• Summary of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). This is a summary of the most common questions people have had about what to do and how to do it to teach our programs.
  
  
• Facilitation Tip Sheet -- provides quick tips for success.
  
  
• Telephone consultation for advice and suggestions for facilitating group learning sessions with these materials

Participant Kits

As with the Learning Leader Tools, for participants we offer the same high quality materials we use for our own seminars.

The materials for participants vary from program to program depending upon the content, however we provide certain key materials for every one of our programs. These include:

• Learning Guides for participants - these are full-color guides with exercises, tips, reminders, and teaching stories
  
  
• Reference, resource, and implementation tools for participants that include laminated reminder cards, buttons, and other implementation aids and reminders
  
  
• Books or Reference Guides on each topic that contain supplemental material and serve as ready references for self-study and follow-on learning

Want More Information About our Kits and Pricing?
It Is Easy to Request More Information

For competitive reasons, we do not provide specific pricing and actual samples of our program resources on our web site.

We would be happy to email you a comprehensive PDF Summary of the Contents of the Starter Kit for individuals that want to facilitate a learning program on one of our topics for their associates.

We would be happy to provide pricing information, too.

To request more information just give us a call or send us an email. Please provide answers to these questions so we may provide you with the information that will be most helpful to you.

1. What is your name and position and contact information?
   
   
2. What is the name of your organization?
   
   
3. What are the roles of the people you are thinking about for our programs?
   
   
4. What program or programs would like to learn more about?

Third-Party Training Organizations Please Note

Presently, we offer our materials only to end-user organizations for developing their employees and students. While we currently do not offer our materials to third-party trainers, we are considering this option for well-established firms with an ongoing business. If this is your interest, please call or send us an email describing your organization and interest.