Kelly L. Kozar, CDFI, BE.d.

Career Development Practitioner / Training Consultant


Free Introductory Workshop

Uncovering the Genius in Your Client and Within Yourself

Dates: To Be Announced (TBA)
10:00 - 11:30 am

In today's competitive job market, powerful thinking skills are needed to make decisions that are effective and innovative. These skills allow us to be successful in creating new ideas and approaches to everyday situations. "Uncovering The Genius" will challenge participants to:

  • Learn innovative approaches
    to thinking about career and personal life

  • Explore and identify thinking styles

  • Enhance problem-solving skills

    Learn techniques and methods that have shown to improve coping ability, effective thinking skills, effective conflict resolution skills and enhance creativity and goal setting form this "sampler' workshop of techniques drawn from a 12-hour program. You can practice these methods yourself, and they are also excellent self-help tools you can teach to your clients

    Cost: Free

    Location: Country Hill Community Centre, 100 Rittenhouse Rd. Kitchener, Ont. N2G 4G7


    Improved Facilitation Skills

    Date: TBA
    9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

    Filled with practical ideas, techniques and strategies, this program will develop your skills to facilitate insight, change and growth in group settings. Learn how to inspire and motivate people, get them involved, and make learning more productive, satisfying and fun. Experience a variety of exercises, games, and techniques, which you can put to use immediately. Focus is on career development and job search topics including assessment, attitudes and perceptions, interviewing, networking and review.

    Cost: $145.00

    Location: Kitchener


    Using Formal and Informal Assessments in Career Development

    Date: TBA
    9:00 a.m. to 4:00 pm.

    This workshop will provide information and experiences that will help individuals select and appropriately use a variety of assessment instruments that will enhance the quality of career development programs. Topics will include: the role of assessment instruments in comprehensive programs, types of assessments available, criteria for selection, and interpretations of results.

    Cost: $145.00

    Location: Kitchener


    Career Training Techniques: Innovative Instructional strategies

    Date: TBA
    9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

    Career Practitioners will learn and apply tools and techniques that have been developed and refined in the field for those facing career challenges. Tools will include: Lifeline, a simple, but rich tool for exploring personal resources, life experience, achievement patterns, values and personal vision development; What is Your Mission In Life, a tool to assist individuals in the development of our personal mission statement, the integration of our vision of the world we want to live in, values, gifts and talents. Several additional techniques will be review and shared.

    Cost: $85.00

    Location: Kitchener


    New Developments on the Electronic Horizon

    Date: TBA
    9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

    It's getting harder and harder to attract the attention of hiring managers, HR Personnel, and decision-makers. Products such as resumes-on-CD, electronic resume distribution and posting services, webfolios and other technology initiatives promise to help get your client's resume in the hands of the people who can grant them an interview. In this session, you will learn about the products available in each category, including the six types of E-resumes.

    Cost: $85.00

    Location: Kitchener


    Ethics in Action for Career Practitioners

    Date: TBA
    9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

    This session will incorporate small and large group work, role-play and case studies as a means of increasing participants' awareness and ability to respond effectively to ethical dilemmas. The focus will be on helping practitioners understand what functions ethical standards serve and how protective guidelines can differ from restrictive rules. The 3-hour session will provide attendees the opportunity to explore a rational/intuitive model of ethical decision-making and to examine how their own personal values and identities influence their ethical perspectives.

    Cost: $85.00

    Location: Kitchener


    Putting The Pizzaz Into Your Workshops

    Date: TBA
    9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

    This practical workshop will provide participants with simple, but effective tools, techniques and strategies to put "pizzazz" into their employment groups. Techniques, tips and tactics will be introduced that will facilitate instructor-led, participant-centred training and aid facilitators in being more creative and effective to achieve better results in their workshops.

    Cost: $85.00

    Location: Kitchener


    Personality Dimensions Training - Qualified Facilitator (Level I)

    Date: TBA
    9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

    Researched and developed in Canada over the past five years, Personality Dimensions™ represents the next level of development in implementing temperament personality theory and is based on the work of Linda Berens, David Keirsey and Don Lowry. This new, dynamic tool is a culmination of the research and validation work and development that has been done in Canada to support the use of temperament theory. Based on leading-edge research into human motivation and behaviour, this communications tool explains what motivates positive behaviour in different personalities/temperaments. This new, interactive human relations and communications model/process enhances the basic values of self-esteem, dignity and self-worth. Extensive resource material and registration is included in workshop fee.

    Cost: $745.00

    Location: TBA


    Trainer-the-Trainer

    Date: TBA
    9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

    If all or part of your job requires you to present training programs, this 3-day workshop will improve your delivery of the content and build your rapport and confidence with your learners. Whether you are a human resources officer, training department manager, trainer, or coordinator this is the workshop for you. . Frequent participants include those who have been training without the benefit of a formal train-the-trainer workshop.

    Cost: $840.00

    Location: TBA


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