School Administrators and Residential Life Staff
Below is a partial list of our offerings based on your responses. Each Esteem program is customized to meet your life communication needs. Please tell us more about your group.
Stepping Forward: Leadership Training
- Learn the hallmarks of collaborative leadership
- Understand the roles of emotional intelligence and technical knowledge
- Understand one’s talents and skills and learn how to apply them in the real world
Setting Professional Boundaries
- Define professional boundaries that enhance harmonious and appropriate working conditions
- Develop clear, effective workplace communication skills
- Learn to speak to coworkers in appropriate and non-confrontational language
Conflict Transformation
- Learn the five conflict styles and recognize when each is most effective
- Master the building blocks to assertive communication
- Understand the impact of nonverbal communication
Differentiated Instruction in the Classroom
- Understand different abilities and learning styles
- Maximize each student’s growth and individual success
- Explore grade-level appropriate exercises, strategies, and successes
Instructional Communication: Maximizing Learning in the Classroom
- Understand the communication dynamic in the classroom
- Recognize classroom communication processes that enhance learning
- Optimize student learning and classroom management
Classroom Management
- Learn to minimize behavioral distractions
- Find out how to develop an environment of mutual respect
- Develop a plan to create a feeling of comradeship and shared vision
Sexual Harassment Prevention
- Informative, entertaining, AB1825-compliant sessions for all levels of personnel (Executives, Managers, Supervisors, Employees)
- Interactive role-plays tailored to address the needs of each unique workplace
- Focus on defining and exploring “gray areas” of sexual harassment
Taking the Lead: Leadership Styles for Millennials
- Engage in self reflection about personal experiences with the leadership paradigm
- Understand cultural and generational perspectives that factor into leadership choices
- Develop a leadership style that reflects individual values and honors the values and needs of others
Bullies in the Workplace
- Understand the definition of workplace bullying and how hostile environment laws pertain
- Identify environments that foster workplace bullying
- Empower individuals with skills to transform workplace communication environments
Not in Our School: Creating and Maintaining a Bully-Resistant Environment
- Identify and support participants in the bullying triad (bully, target, and bystander)
- Understand communication dynamics that perpetuate the bullying cycle versus those that foster positive communication
- Enhance established academic curricula to incorporate anti-bullying pedagogy and foster empathy and collaboration
About Last Night … What Everyone Thinks Happened at the Party: How Miscommunication Impacts Student Life
- Learn about the relationship between alcohol consumption and sexual assault and other aggressive behaviors
- Understand how alcohol impacts the ability to assess and react to risk
- Identify peer environments that encourage heavy drinking and sexual assault
- Gain skills to set and enforce appropriate boundaries and limits in social situations
Personal Safety Seminar
- Gain skills for avoidance, deterrence, and resistance of physical and verbal assault
- Learn to assess the potential danger in a situation
- Participate in an interactive question-and-answer style format addressing individual concerns about assertiveness, safety, and self-defense
Self-Defense for Women
- Master easy to learn hands-on physical self-defense techniques
- Participate in verbal role-plays
- Learn body language and voice control
- Move beyond the freeze response
- Deliver full-force debilitating blows to equipment or a padded “assailant” in a variety of simulated attack scenarios
- Advanced courses may include opportunity to practice skills in role play scenarios involving weapons and multiple attackers
Self Defense for Men
- Learn about boundary setting, including the importance of distance, ego control, and de-escalation techniques
- Master easy to learn hands-on physical self-defense techniques
- Practice defensive counter-attacks, blocks, and strikes to equipment or a padded “assailant” in a variety of simulated attack scenarios
- Gain proficiency in verbal and nonverbal communication
- Advanced courses may include opportunity to practice skills in role play scenarios involving weapons and multiple attackers