Stress Management for the HR Professional - March 22, 2007

Training & Wellness: An Open Dialogue & Breakfast - February 8, 2007

Coaching Revealed: Optimizing Value From Your Coaching Investment - December 5, 2006

Stress Management for the HR Professional - October 5, 2006

The Knowledgeable Manager: Investing in the People Skills of your Front Line Leaders - July 27, 2006

Great to Better; Exploring the Value of Coaching in the Workplace - June 14, 2006

Strategic HR Communications: How HR Plays a Key Role in Communicating Strategy and Change to Employees - December 8, 2005

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CCA developed its Innovation and Productivity Series to help leaders and managers meet new contacts, share perspectives and best practices, discuss trends and take away practical skills to advance their organization's performance and challenge their colleagues to realize their full potential.

Stress Management for the HR Professional

March 22, 2007

MAXIMIZING HR’S POTENTIAL SERIES

Our “Stress Management for the HR Professional” workshop that took place on March 22, 2007 in The New York Helmsley Hotel, kicked off the brand new “Maximizing HR Potential” series.

This event provided a wonderful opportunity for HR Professionals from various industries to come together as a profession and brainstorm ways to better strategically manage HR stress, making it work FOR them, rather than against them.

The presenters were CCA trainers, Kalpana Parekh, LCSW and Mark Falango, LCSW. “We have delivered this training to many HR professionals in various industries and what we have found is that even though there are differences between industries, there are common denominators that all HR professionals face as challenges,” said Kalpana Parekh. Kalpana and Mark engaged the audience by facilitating a lively and informative group discussion, as well as a series of exercises and peer coaching that addressed current HR-specific challenges.

This training focused on the following:

• Major stressors unique to HR
• Four tools and strategies to manage HR stress
• Common resistances to change
• Developing a personal and departmental stress management action plan for change

The following workshops are part of the “Maximizing HR Potential Series” and will cover some of the top issues HR professionals face today:

• Navigating Through Change
• Managing Difficult Employees
• Retention and Engagement

The date and time for the next workshop will be announced soon, so please keep checking the website for more information.

To learn more about Stress Management for the HR Professional, please contact CCA at (212) 686 6827 or email us at info@corporatecounseling.com.

Training & Wellness: An Open Dialogue & Breakfast

On February 8th, CCA held an Open Dialogue & Breakfast seminar for our valued training and wellness providers, each of whom have expertise in a variety of specialized content areas. These experts are an important part of CCA’s Training and Wellness program, which has been highly successful in promoting professional learning and the wellbeing of our clients.

This event provided a wonderful opportunity for our providers to learn about CCA’s new initiatives, CCA Training and Consultative Wellness, each designed to provide our clients with a comprehensive and cutting-edge approach to training and a customized approach to wellness. Kalpana Parekh, CCA Manager of Training and Wellness, facilitated a lively discussion in which providers shared their ideas, recommendations and observations on current marketplace trends in training and wellness. “This meeting was an initiation of a strategic partnership between CCA and our training and wellness providers, in an effort to provide organizational solutions that align with our clients’ most pressing needs,” said Parekh.

Coaching Revealed: Optimizing Value From Your Coaching Investment

Our most recent event, “Coaching Revealed: Optimizing Value From Your Coaching Investment,” was held on December 5, 2006 at The New York Helmsley Hotel.

HR Professionals from various industries gathered to learn more about coaching tools and its value as a leadership vehicle. The presenters, Consuelo Murtagh, LCSW and Michael Portz, Psy.D. helped participants evaluate their organization’s coaching needs, identify ideal coaching candidates, as well as outcomes that would result from this learning tool. Recognizing that witnessing live coaching would best highlight ways this development opportunity can achieve results, CCA invited Executive Coach, Jeremy Robinson from Robinson Capital Corp. to provide live coaching for the American Foundation for the Blinds’ HR Director, Sonya Shiflet.

CCA will be presenting future workshop on topics such as:

• Executive coaching
• Manager-level coaching
• Specific skill building
• Feedback
• Collateral (360º) interviews
• Development Planning

To learn more about any of those topics at your firm, please contact CCA at (212) 686 6827 or email us at info@corporatecounseling.com.

Stress Management for the HR Professional

Our most recent event, “Stress Management for the Human Resources Professional,” held on October 5 at the New York Helmsley Hotel, was a great success.

Attended by over 40 HR professionals from various industries including finance, legal, apparel, not-for-profit, publishing and advertising, the event provided a wonderful opportunity to come together as a profession and brainstorm ways to better manage HR stress, making it work FOR them, rather than against them.

The presenters were CCA trainers, Kalpana Parekh, L.C.S.W. and Mark Falango, L.C.S.W. They both engaged the audience by facilitating a lively and informative group discussion, as well as a series of exercises and peer coaching that addressed current HR- specific challenges.

The training focused on the following:

• Major stressors unique to HR
• Four tools and strategies to manage HR stress
• Common resistance's to change
• Developing a personal stress management action plan for change

To learn more about Stress Management for the HR Professional, please contact CCA at (212) 686 6827 or email us at info@corporatecounseling.com.

The Knowledgeable Manager: Investing in the People Skills of Your Front Line Leaders

Quite often employees get promoted into management positions because of their performance or technical skill, not because of their demonstrated ability to lead teams, motivate colleagues, mediate conflicts and effectively communicate to the employees they support, skills we defined as people skills.

This seminar, held on July 27th, discussed strategies for how to support the development of strong people skills among management staff. Unlike most talent development strategies, which typically target only the top tier of an organization, CCA is offering services specifically focused on front line and middle level managers through our Active Skills Builders and Active Management Development.

The seminar also focused on the three core competencies of the Knowledgeable Manager:

• The technical skills to perform their job.
• The people skills to manage their teams effectively.
• The understanding of how their work contributes to the greater objectives/mission of the organization.

To learn more about Active Skills Builders or Active Management Development, please contact CCA at (212) 686 6827 or email us at info@corporatecounseling.com.

Great to Better; Exploring the Value of Coaching in the Workplace

Our June 14 seminar – Great to Better, the Value of Executive Coaching – was designed to help human resource professionals recognize distinctions between coaching and the Work/Life manager referral process, and when managers would benefit from additional leadership skills.

The seminar presented what leadership skills development services are available to managers, including a range of Coaching and Work/Life Program services. The seminar also provided clarity on the .

This presentation also focused on:

To learn more about Executive Coaching, and how it can supplement your Work/Life Program, please contact CCA at (212) 686 6827 or email us at info@corporatecounseling.com.

Strategic HR Communications: How HR Plays a Key Role in Communicating Strategy and Change to Employees

This December 8, 2005 breakfast panel featured HR and communications experts discussing how to translate corporate strategies and organizational changes into powerful messages that resonate with employees.

One of the panelists, Mitch Baranowski, Co-Founder Bemporad Baranowski Marketing Group, shared his valuable points for launching effective HR/internal communications initiatives. They are:

• Commitment from senior management
• Core values: transparency, honesty, accountability
• Campaign approach: dedicated, ongoing, consistent, multiple channels (from hotlines to discussion groups, road shows to portals)
• Close coordination between the HR and Corporate Communication departments
• Sufficient resources to make it a creative, compelling, ongoing effort

To learn more about Strategic HR Communications, please contact CCA at (212) 686 6827 or email us at info@corporatecounseling.com.