Alan Black

My Popular Programs

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Leading-Communicating-Teaming-Creative Thinking

All my programs focus on the development of styles, skills and knowledge in each of these 4 topics to help turn entire workplaces into thriving, successful Cre8ng Communities.

Cre8ng™(creative thinking & creative solution generation)

Coordinating (leading the efforts of a few to many)

Communicating (from one on one to large audiences)

Collaborating (teaming small teams to entire groups)

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Popular Programs Section of my website contains.....

1. Sample Popular Program Titles

(popular with many clients, associations, & audiences)

2. Sample list of clients and audiences from 1976 to today

3. List of Basic Programs (basic programs & consulting work).

4. Brief Descriptions (4 primary and integrated areas of focus...)

Cre8ng™(creative thinking and creative solution generation)

Coordinating (leading the efforts of a few to many)

Communicating (from one on one to large audiences)

Collaborating (teaming small teams to entire groups)

5. Detailed Descriptions (programs and speeches.)

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Sample Popular Program Titles

(scan down to read course outlines & descriptions)

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These are sessions that have been done for several clients: corporate, professional and governmental.

Cre8ng Programs

"Cre8ng People, Places & Possibilities"©

"BROKEN CRAYONS: Drawing Outside the Lines"©

"DON'T JUST SIT THERE! BE CREATIVE!!!"©

Coordinating/Leading Programs

"Everyone A Leader In The 21st Century"©

"Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, Mother Theresa, Genghis Kahn, Which are You?"©

Communicating Programs

"Is What I Believe I Said, What They Think They Heard ?"©

"You're Up Next!"© (you've got 5 minutes to prepare a speech)

Collaborating/Teaming Programs

"Training is More Than Standing in Front & Talking"©

"We Ain't a Group! We're a T.E.A.M!"©

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PARTIAL LIST OF CLIENTS & AUDIENCES

General Motors,

Nestle,

Johnson & Johnson,

CertainTeed,

Kimberly Clark ,

American Management Association,

Battelle Institute,

Gillette-Stationery Division,

Danisco,

Coloplast,

Ferrosan,

Novo,

Duck Head Apparel,

Bibb Manufacturing,

Thiele Kaolin,

Warner Robins Air Force Base,

Fort Gordon,

Fort Benning,

police departments in ...

Athens, Forest Park, Rome, Lawrenceville, Georgia, Georgia Police Chiefs Association's Command College (27 week-long programs since 1995),Georgia Public Safety Training Center...(15 Executive Development Programs over 16 years)

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Presented at creativity conferences in the US since 1978:

Creative Problem Solving Institute (since 1978), Winterfest, Innovation Network Convergence, American Creativity Association Conference (since 1998), Alden B. Dow Creativity Conference (since 1998), Mind Camp

Presented at international creativity workshops, conferences and innovation fairs since 1998 in. . .

South Africa (since 1998), Turkey (since 1999), Italy (since 2001), Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Mexico, England, Scotland, France, Holland, Denmark, Austria, Ukraine, Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Maritius, Trinidad/Tobago, Canada, Holland, Australia, New Zealand.

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Leadership Development Programs

Community Leadership Development Programs (over 300 sessions since 1983),

Parks & Recreation Executive Development Program (annually since 1982)

Southeastern Credit Union School (annually since 1981).

Communications Workers Association Advanced Leadership School for over 15 years.

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Developing Cre8ng Communities

in Your Workplace

4 to 5 day program

(primary program consisting of leading, communicating, teaming, conflict resolution and creative thinking modules)

The main objective of all my programs, speeches, consulting and products is to help my clients S.P.R.E.A.D. Cr.e.8.n.g.™ and Creative Thinking throughout their entire organizations from an individual employee to teams to departments to ALL EMPLOYEES so that they can begin to deveop C.r.e.8.n.g.™ Communities in their companies and agencies.

The S.P.R.E.A.D.ng acronym stands for 6 inter-related groups of things that we can all do to develop C.r.e.8.n.g.™ Communities in our organizations.

SUPPORTng,
PROMOTEng,
RECOGNIZEng,
ENCOURAGEng,
APPLYng and
DEVELOPng

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This I do through the integration of skills of

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These represent four basic needs in all workplaces, today and tomorrow.

Cre8ng™ Progressively -- Our greatest natural talent lies in our creative thinking abilities. Too often we squelch them internally and externally daily . We need to support, promote, recognize, encourage, apply and develop the creative thinking and creativ;eness of everyone from the front door to the top floor.

Coordinating Productively -- We need people who can productively coordinate the work of others at all levels of our private, public and volunteer organizations. We need to develop coordinating skills and to help people discover their most productive coordinating style(s).

Communicating Thoroughly -- Communicating requires active and dynamic involvement of everyone. It requires that we S.T.I.R.™ things up. We need to SHOW what we mean. TELL what we want understood. INVOLVE everyone. REACH all people, whether speaking one-on-one or in front of large audiences.

Collaborating Successfully -- As Human Beings our greatest capacity is our ability to become highly successful teams when we truly need to. In today's workplace we need to learn to develop what is intrinsic to us nearly every working day and not take it for granted.

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Cre8ng™ People, Places & Possibilities Programs

Each of my Programs & Presentations are customized or specifically designed to further develop YOUR workplace into a.... Cre8ng Place.

All Programs & Presentations will increase YOUR people's skills of...

My focus since 1984 has been to help people become:

CRE8NG™ SERIES

The greatest human gift is our natural creativeness. There is no limit to the number of ideas we can produce. Yet people lose much of their natural ability or it is put asleep each day by many different blocks to creativity and creativeness.
Are you creative? YES!

PROGRAM TITLE:

"Cre8ng People, Places & Possibilities"

A program focused on teaching people many tools for Supporting, Promoting, Recognizing, Encouraging, Applying & Developing Creativeness and Creative Thinking

PROGRAM TITLE:

"BROKEN CRAYONS: Drawing Outside the Lines"

Learning to accept your creativeness.
Learning to see everyone else as creative.
Recognizing blocks and barriers to you being creative.
Adding skills to expanding and enriching your creative thinking skills.
Exploring ways to lead others to higher levels of creativeness and creative thinking.

PROGRAM TITLE:

"DON'T JUST SIT THERE! BE CREATIVE!!!"

How to be creative on demand, whether it is 8:17 in the morning or 11:23 at night.
Tricks, Tools and Techniques for sparking creative thinking and generating 1,000's of ideas for any challenge.

COORDINATING - LEADING SERIES

Coordinating Today's Employees Leading

in Today's Changing Workplace!

Today we need to do more than Boss, Manage or Lead Employees. We need to learn to Coordinate their efforts and teach them to Manage themselves and Lead others.
The following 3 programs are designed to provide and improve skills of Coordinating today's employees whether you are a Supervisor or an Executive.

PROGRAM TITLE:

"Everyone A Leader In The 21st Century"

Topics Covered:

Daily Coordinating Skills and Styles
Human Beings Hate to be Managed Yet Will Follow Leaders They Believe In
If We Do Today What We Did Yesterday, We'll Fail Tomorrow -- Dealing with Change Today
Praising & Rewarding Today's Employees to Yield Higher Results
Why Is It That Most Employees Do Not Know What They Are Supposed to Know or Need to Do?

PROGRAM TITLE:

"Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, Mother Theresa, Genghis Kahn, Which are You?"

Topics Covered:

Everyone has their own individual leading style.
Leading Styles that Work
Understanding the various styles of your people
Matching Your Style to each of your people
Adapt, Add to, Strengthen & Expand Your Style
Change, Creativity and Chaos, A Way of Life or a Curse
Even If It Ain't Broke, To Succeed You Must Break It!
Creating Your Vision and Mission
Designing Your Goals, Objectives, Tactics and Strategies from one day to 5 years
Establishing Benchmarks and Targets to Surpass
Getting Everyone Involved in the Total Plan.

COMMUNICATING

SERIES

To effectively Coordinate or Collaborate the work of others and to increase the Creativeness of others we all need to expand our Communicating Skills.
The following 3 programs are designed to add to and improve your skills.

PROGRAM TITLE:

"Is What I Believe I Said,

What They Think They Heard ?"

Most of every day communication fails because of mis-communications. We all make mistakes and cause mis-communications daily that may cost $5 to $10 each but added together could represent billions of dollars in errors throughout the business world. There are a few basic things we can do every day to cut down on mis-communication. We can begin by learning some:

Types of Mis-Communications and How to Lessen Them
Causes of Mis-Communications and How to Eliminate Them
Techniques for eliminating Mis-Communications

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"You're Up Next! Speaking to be Understood

Speaking and talking are as different as hearing and listening. Too often we talk and the other person hears, while we really ought to be speaking and listening to each other. This program combines speaking and presentation skills to help everyone become better speakers and meeting leaders.

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"Training is More Than Standing in Front & Talking"

There are many tools we all can learn to use to become effective trainers Coaches and mentors.

Verbal, Visual and Physical Tools for Training Anything
Developing Training and Learning Plans
Increasing Retention Through Increasing Attention
Improving the Impact of Training: before, during & after.

COLLABORATING - TEAMING SERIES

Collaborating - Individuals Working Together

In today's workplace we need to benefit from the interconnected efforts of all of the people both internal and external in pairs, teams and groups. These 2 Collaborating programs are designed to develop effective skills in Teamwork, Team Building & Team Coordinating or Leading.

PROGRAM TITLE:

"Collaborating: A Way of life in the Workplace"

Topics Covered:

What are the differences between Groups & Teams?
How do we capitalize on team process in our department?
How do we take our people from a mob or bunch to a team?
What are different types of teams and teamwork?
How do we individually help our team to develop?
Are we a team now?

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"We Ain't a Group! We're a T.E.A.M!"

Learning to integrate vast forms of diversity instead of differences leads to the creation to highly successful teams from virtual to on-going.

Thinking Styles -- M.I.N.D. Design
Behavioral Styles -- Behavioral Patterns and Wants & Needs
Value Systems -- Out Value Systems
How do we combine differing to contradicting people into teams?
What will varying combinations of styles produce?
How can we select the most effective/productive teams within our overall department or organization?