Tailored Education and Training. Your organization's mentoring and coaching or tutoring and teaching needs may be met by topics presented on this page.

Working with private, public, volunteer, and academic organizations, I have presented or facilitated hundreds of face-to-face seminars, workshops, meetings, and distance learning webinars.

Each of the listed topics, that is, the specific content and the format in which they were presented or facilitated, was originally tailored to meet the needs of one or more organizations. Experience clearly indicates that education and training programs and facilitation efforts must be tailored to an organization -- “off the shelf” does not work.

Topics that I have presented/facilitated are listed below primarily to suggest the variety of material that is available and the various means (e.g., face-to-face or webinars) that can be used to acquire additional knowledge and skill, resolve issues, or pursue opportunities. Perhaps some of these or similar topics, with carefully customized content, would meet the needs of your organization.

Communication

Asking and Listening: Learning About Needs So We Can Fill Them
Basic Business Communications
Communication: Writing and Speaking to Make things Happen. A proposed one day hands-on, interactive workshop.
Facilitating Action-Oriented Meetings
Preparing, Presenting, and Publishing Professional Papers
Speaking to Make Good Things Happen: Preparing, Presenting, and Following Up
Writing: Producing Action-Oriented Documents
Improved Project Communication Within and Outside of the Project Team

Personal Development

Change: Can You Spare a Paradigm?
Change: What Does and What Doesn’t
Conference Attendance: More “Bang for the Buck” for You and Your Organization
Dealing with Difficult Behavior and Situations
Delegation: Why Put Off Until Tomorrow What Someone Else Can Do Today?
Engineering Your Future in Challenging Economic Times: Ten Tips
Goal Setting and Getting: The Power of Goals for You and Your Organization
How to Innovate More by Avoiding Design Fixation
Leadership: Developing the Leader Within You and Others
Managing and Leading: Lessons Learned for Engineers
Mentoring and Coaching: Guidance for the Mentor, the Protégé, and the Organization
Personal Time Management: Achieving Life Balance
Taking Talent to the Next Level: Ten Tips
Ten Tips for Achieving Success and Significance
The Thrive Five
Would Doing Art Make You an Even Better Engineer?

Professional Practice

Benchmarking: Defining Where We Are To Help Decide Where We Want To Go
Developing an Innovative Culture in Your Firm: Benefits and How To
Developing Effective Teams: Team Essentials
Ethical Behavior: The Key to Earning Trust
Ethics in the Consulting Business
Five Habits of Highly Effective Marketers
Flying Solo: How to Start an Individual Practitioner Consulting Business
Innovation for Civil and Environmental Professionals: A Whole-Brain Approach
Lessons Learned By Project Managers for Project Managers
Liability: Minimizing It Is Everyone’s Job
Marketing: What Clients Are Looking For
Marketing 101 – Sleazy Activity or Mutually-Beneficial Process? A Marketing Model
Superior Client Service: What Does Your Client Want?
Use Neuroscience to be More Productive and Innovative
Working Smarter: Using Brain Basics to Enhance Individual and Organizational Behavior

Project Management

Critical Path Method: Introduction to the Method and Software
Want to be a Project Manager? Look Before You Leap
Improved Project Communication Within and Outside of the Project Team
Monitoring Project Budgets and Schedules: Introduction to the Earned Value Method
Project Plans: The Why and How of Project Planning
Quality: What Is It? How Do We Achieve It? Quality Control and Quality Assurance
Scope Creep: Preventing and Resolving Through Project Planning

Other

Art as Part of Science and Engineering Education?
Avoiding Interpersonal and Legal Problems Through Improved Communication
Bottom Line Approach to Your Organization’s Education and Training Program
Client Roundtables
Collaboratively and Creatively Solve Problems, Pursue Opportunity, and Create Your Organization's Future: Use Both Sides of the Brain. Click here for a detailed description.
Creating A Corporate University to Support Organizational Vision-Mission-Values
Floodplain Guidelines
Fluoride Panel: To Fluoridate or Not to Fluoridate?
How to Prepare and Implement a Successful Strategic Plan
Implementation of a Consent Decree
Motivating Personnel: Hire and Grow Winners
Neuroscience 101: Might Your Teaching and Their Learning Benefit?”
Non-Point Source Pollution Indicator Study
Pipe Panel: Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) versus Ductile Iron (I)
Recruiting and Retaining “A” Personnel

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If any of the listed topics, or variations on or combinations of them, resonate with your needs, please contact me for a personal consultation (Tel: 219-242-1704 or email: stu-walesh@comcast.net). Tailored education and training can effectively address knowledge, skill, and attitude deficiencies in public, private, academic, or volunteer organizations. Challenging issues can be resolved via facilitation, mentoring and coaching, and tutoring and teaching. Also, consider what might be the most cost-effective approach, that is, face-to-face or webinars.

Maybe you want to raise the bar even higher and consider creating a corporate university or institute. I have helped organizations do just that and am confident that I could assist you. Contact me.

Finally, regardless of how you approach education and training, please make optimum use of personnel within your organization. Every public, private, academic, or volunteer entity that I have worked with has at least a few individuals who are both experts and effective presenters. You probably have such experts who can provide tutoring and teaching in areas such as goal setting, time management, ethics, writing, speaking, difficult behavior, team essentials, marketing model, project planning, scope creep, quality control, quality assurance, liability, Critical Path Method, and Earned Value Method. I can help you facilitate their active participation in your education and training program.

Stuart G. Walesh

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