Art Shirk Consulting - Learning & Organizational Events

LEARNING AND ORGANIZATIONAL EVENTS

Workshops

We provide a range of learning experiences and workshops customized and delivered on site.

Leadership & Growth
Leadership	Programs ranging from the mild to the wild, delivered in partnership with affiliated vendors.
Coaching Skills	Like the proverb says: Teach a man to fish rather than give a man a fish.
Leveraging Change	Embracing and cultivating change as productive growth.
Creativity Burst	Using humor as an avenue for creative innovation, delivered in partnership with affiliated vendors.
A Hero's Journey	Experiential program for adventurers in life transition — transformative, delicious and powerful.

Professional Development
Adult Learning	Knowledge-building experiences of how adults learn.
Assessment	Hands-on workshops on performance consulting, training needs assessment, and program evaluation.
Instructional Design	Hands-on workshops in task analysis, instructional objectives, experiential learning, and designing job aids.

Conference and Offsite Facilitation and Speaking

Using a professional facilitator can dramatically boost the effectiveness of both large and small meetings. We use a range of facilitation processes — both traditional and creatively unusual depending on your needs.

Recent conference speaking and teaching engagements include:

Diving Into Diversity (Massachusetts Council of Adult Educators 2002, Marlborough Massachusetts)

Global Team Effectiveness (RAPS 2001, Baltimore Maryland)

Leading with Inspiration & Creativity (Massachusetts Health & Human Service Providers 2001, Boston Massachusetts; Massachusetts Council of Adult Educators, 2004 )

Collaborative Learning: Technology and Human Factors (University of Massachusetts)

Learning in the Workplace (University of Massachusetts)

Maximizing Informal Learning Across the Enterprise: Emerging Practices and Tools (Human Resources Technology 2000, Long Beach California)

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

— Brian Tracy

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