The Company offers a series of training programs in the areas of organizational development, leadership, teamwork, personal effectiveness and sales. These programs range from basic to advanced, and may be customized to meet the demands of most organizations. Pursuit of Excellence, Inc., is also developing web-based courses, for to top-level executives to meet the demand for flexible programs that can be completed quickly whether in the office or while on the road.

To enroll in one of our monthly workshops please contact Alison Martinez at (214) 452-7881 or

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Here is a partial list of workshops available to the general public:

Professional Employee DevelopmentPersonal Productivity ManagementEffective Time ManagementCareer TransitioningBuilding a Better BusinessEffective Selling StrategiesEffective CommunicationEffective Management DevelopmentEffective Personal LeadershipEffective Personal ProductivityHigh Performance LeadershipEffective Motivational Management

Active Training Techniques
Promoting Learning by Doing

Proactive Project Management
How to Be in Charge from Beginning to End

Making Meetings Measurable
How to Plan, Organize, and Conduct Productive Meetings

Men and Women Working Together
Beyond Gender Stereotypes

Maintaining a High Service Profile
The Key to Competitive Advantage in the 90’s

Managing Yourself and Others
Leading others while managing high-payoff activities

Conflict Management
Turning conflict into effective communication

Personal Effectiveness
Strategies for Increasing Personal Productivity

Substance Abuse in the Workplace
How Supervision Can Respond

AIDS in the Workplace
Taking Affirmative Action

Sexual Harassment
A Modern Workplace Dilemma

Creative Problem Solving
Getting Unstuck and Finding New Solutions

Ethics and Business
It’s Not an Oxymoron

Process Improvement
A Never-Ending Journey

Leading in a Total Quality Organization
Dealing with Resistance to Change

Consultative Selling
How To Build Partnership in Business Relationships

New-Employee Orientation
Becoming Acquainted with a New Company

Goal Setting
Still the Best-Kept Secret of Success

Taking Initiative
How To Be More of a Leader in Your Own Job

Presentation Skills
Manager-Led Team Building

The Time of your Life
Getting All You Want out of Life Through Time Management

Mentoring
Empowering Personal and Organizational Change

Staffing your Organization
Interviewing for Effective Selection of Candidates

Appreciating Diversity
A Window of Opportunity

Cross-Cultural Effectiveness
Obtaining Success in the Global Arena

Strategic Planning for Action-Oriented People
An Eight-Step Process to Get Results

Employee Literacy Problem
How Managers Can Help

Implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act
Unleashing Ability Through Accommodations

The New Art of Hiring Smart
Reduce Turnover & Increase Productivity By Hiring for Job Fit

The Art of Delegation
Effective Guidance for Your Direct Reports

Leadership in the Performance Review
Facilitating Employee Growth

Stress for Success
Understanding and Managing the Stress in your Life

Career Exploration and Planning
Reviewing Your Options

Productive Groups and Motivating Employees
Skills that Make a Difference

Negotiating to Win/Win
Conflict Resolution in Personal and Professional Relationships

Coaching and Counseling
Two Ways to Guide Employees

multitaskThe PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY MANAGEMENT program will help you become a leader and practitioner of the type of goal setting that produces concrete benefits in your profession, at home and in every area of your life. Developing your personal leadership potential will give you renewed direction, increase your productivity and enhance your enthusiasm to achieve your goals.

Personal Productivity Management Will Help You

  • Identify and achieve your most important goals
  • Clarify your life purpose
  • Live in harmony with your values
  • Build your self-image and develop self-confidence
  • Develop a plan of action for your life
  • Recognize your untapped potential
  • Identify attitudes needed for success
  • Increase your self-motivation

Implementation Sessions Focus On

  • Important issues in your life
  • Action-oriented exercises to help you develop your plan of action
  • Feedback for your continuous improvement

Your Key To A Balanced Life

  • Your Potential For Personal Leadership
  • Making Choices for Success
  • Motivation through Attitudes and Habits
  • Designing your personal growth
  • Developing a Personal Plan of Action
  • Goal Setting and personal leadership
  • Five leadership essentials
  • Realizing your full potential
The EFFECTIVE TIME MANAGEMENT program will help you become a leader and practitioner of the type of goal setting that produces concrete benefits in your profession, at home, and in every area of your life. Developing your personal leadership potential will give you renewed direction, increase your productivity and enhance your enthusiasm to achieve your goals.

Effective Time Management Will Help You

  • Identify and achieve your most important goals
  • Clarify your life purpose
  • Increase personal productivity by 15-20%
  • Develop a plan of action for your life
  • Recognize your untapped potential
  • Manage commitments and promises
  • Get out of crises management
  • Improve communication skills
  • Become more proactive and less reactive

Implementation Sessions Focus On

  • Important issues in your life
  • Action-oriented exercises to help you develop your plan of action
  • Feedback for your continuous improvement

Your Key To A Balanced Life

  • Your potential for personal leadership
  • Making choices for success
  • Motivation through attitudes and habits
  • Designing your personal growth
  • Developing a personal plan of action
  • Goal setting and personal leadership
  • Use My Tyme Organizer
  • Realizing your full potential
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betterbusinessIn business today while creating measurable results is important, it also remains challenging. The Building A Better Business Success Workshop will help you become an effective leader and practitioner of the type of goal setting that produces concrete benefits in your profession, at home, and in every area of you life. Developing a Business Success Strategy is critical in today’s market place. Attend the Build A Better Business and renew your personal leadership potential that will give you renewed direction, increase your productivity and enhance your enthusiasm to achieve your goals.

Building A Better Business will help you

Day 1

  • Identify and achieve your most important business goals
  • Clarify your mission purpose and vision
  • Create personal characteristics of high performance
  • Develop a plan of action for your life
  • Recognize your untapped potential

Day 2

  • Your potential for personal leadership
  • Making choices for success
  • Increasing productivity
  • Identify attitudes needed for success
  • Increase your self-motivation
  • Designing and forecasting your personal success

Implementation Sessions Focus On

  • Action-oriented exercises to produce results
  • Innovative ideas which can be put into action immediately
  • Measurable results through behavioral change
  • Tracking methods to help you achieve your goals
80-20-RuleEffective Selling Strategies Will Help You

  • Get results from every sales person regardless of experience level
  • Combine the fundamentals of selling with some of the most advanced sales techniques
  • Offer innovative, thought-stimulating ideas which can be put into action immediately
  • Reinforce ideas through action steps in each lesson
  • Provide measurable results through behavior change

Implementation Sessions Focus On

  • Action-oriented exercises to produce results
  • Innovative ideas which can be put into action immediately
  • Measurable results through behavioral change
  • Tracking methods to help you achieve your goals

Your Key to Increased Productivity

  • Selling Your Way to Success
  • Success Through Prospecting
  • The Approach
  • Time and Territory Management
  • Presentations That Sell
  • Discovering Prime Buying Motives
  • Closing Sales
  • Overcoming Stalls and Objections
effective-communicationThe EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION program is a skill-building program that helps you understand why people act as they do and develops a plan for communicating more effectively with them. This program assists in solving communication problems and overcoming barriers to cooperation and teamwork in the workplace and in your personal life.

Effective Communication Will Help You

  • Learn new communication skills to help you set and achieve your goals
  • Understand how to overcome the barriers to effective communication
  • Improve two-way communicating by putting your listening skills to work
  • Understand how to read body language
  • Develop the skills to improve your writing skills
  • Solve communication problems and learn how to use communication as a coaching tool
  • Communicate effectively in groups and add to your success and that of your group
  • Put it all together to record your new skills and habits and celebrate your success

Implementation Sessions Focus On Specific Action-Oriented Exercises to Help You Apply the Communication-Improving Ideas

  • Provides action-oriented exercises to produce results
  • Offers innovative ideas which can be put into action immediately
  • Provides measurable results through behavioral change
  • Provides tracking methods to help you achieve your goals

Your Key To Effective Communication

  • Communicating For Results
  • Understanding Human Behavior
  • Listening – The Key to Understanding
  • Nonverbal Communication -The Silent But Powerful Language
  • Communicating by the Written Word
  • Problem Solving Through Communicating
  • Communicating Effectively in Groups
  • Communication – Putting It All Together
effective_managementThe EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT program is designed to enhance the performance of every manager, from the recently promoted to the most experienced. The program’s unique methods are a valuable resource for developing skills and reinforcing productive attitudes. Through the goal setting process, even veteran managers will give new enthusiasm to their efforts and in the process, become even more effective.

Effective Management Development Will Help You

  • Increase productivity
  • Enhance employee attitudes
  • Improve teamwork
  • Reduce operating costs
  • Clarify Personal and Organizational goals
  • Increase sales and profits
  • Expand leadership capabilities
  • Improve delegation
  • Enhance effective communication

Implementation Sessions Focus On

  • Action-oriented exercises to produce results
  • Innovative ideas which can be put into action immediately
  • Measurable results through behavioral change
  • Tracking methods to help you achieve your goals

Your Key To Increased Productivity

  • Becoming an Effective Manager
  • Achieving Success Through Goal Setting
  • Getting Results Through Time Management
  • Maximizing Personal Productivity
  • Empowering Other People
  • Balancing Authority and Power Productively
  • Improving Communication Skills
  • Coping Constructively with Change and Stress
  • Developing A Dynamic Decision-Making Strategy
  • Commitment to the Management Challenges
leaderThe EFFECTIVE PERSONAL LEADERSHIP program will help you become a leader and practitioner of the type of goal setting that produces concrete benefits in your profession, at home, and in every area of you life. Developing your personal leadership potential will give you renewed direction, increase your productivity and enhance your enthusiasm to achieve your goals.

Effective Personal Leadership Will Help You

  • Identify and achieve your most important goals
  • Clarify your life purpose
  • Live in harmony with your values
  • Build your self-image and develop self-confidence
  • Develop a plan of action for your life
  • Recognize your untapped potential
  • Identify attitudes needed for success
  • Increase your self-motivation

EPL Implementation Sessions Focus On

  • Important issues in your life
  • Action-oriented exercises to help you develop your plan of action
  • Feedback for your continuous improvement

Your Key To A Balanced Life

  • Your potential for Personal Leadership
  • Making Choices for Success
  • Motivation through Attitudes and Habits
  • Designing Your Personal Growth
  • Developing a Personal Plan of Action
  • Goal Setting and Personal Leadership
  • Five Leadership Essentials
  • Realizing Your Full Potential
being-productive-quoteThe EFFECTIVE PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY program is a program designed to help increase your personal productivity, achieve your goals, and enjoy greater success. The program’s unique methods are a valuable resource for developing skills and reinforcing productive attitudes. Through the goal setting process, business leaders also learn how to improve communication, empower their team and increase the productivity of their team.

Effective Personal Productivity Will Help You

  • Increase productivity
  • Identify high payoff activities
  • Set priorities in all areas of your life
  • Deal with interruptions
  • Handle paper flow
  • Develop team players through delegation
  • Enhance employee attitudes
  • Develop and coach self-directed work teams
  • Enhance effective communication
  • Find time for planning and goal setting

Implementation Sessions Focus On

  • Action-oriented exercises to produce results
  • Innovative ideas which can be put into action immediately
  • Measurable results through behavioral change
  • Tracking methods to help you achieve your goals
LeadershipIt is becoming more and more difficult for organizations to survive in today’s world: 40% of all new businesses fail by the end of the first year; only 12% survive five years; and 2 to 3 % survive 10 years.

Unfortunately, most of the responses to the challenges companies face today are ineffective. They attack symptoms while leaving intact the root causes of organizational ineffectiveness.

As a business owner or manager you face two challenges

      1. Meeting your short-term business and financial goals;

 

    2. Building an organization that will sustain you for the long run.

The purpose of this program is to accomplish objective #2. You and other members of your organization will attend two modules, which will teach you how to design your organization to

  • Take control of your organization’s future
  • Achieve outstanding results
  • Gain total commitment from your employees
  • Exceed your customers expectations

Now, by attending this program, you can learn principles and methodologies that will enable you to achieve outstanding and sustainable results within your organization.

High Performance Leadership Will Help You

  • Know the difference between traditional and High performance
  • Understand the basic building blocks of high Performance
  • Identify your organizational current progress
  • Appropriate first steps on the road to High Performance
  • The leadership role shift required for High Performance
  • Recognize your untapped potential
  • Identify attitudes needed for success
  • Build trust in your organization

Implementation Sessions Focus On

  • Maintaining Characteristics Of High Performance teams
  • Action-oriented exercises to help you develop your plan of action
  • Feedback for your continuous improvement
  • Motivation through Attitudes and Habits
Management-motivatingThe EFFECTIVE MOTIVATIONAL MANAGEMENT program is designed to enhance the performance of every manager, from the recently promoted to the most experienced. The program’s unique methods are a valuable resource for developing skills and reinforcing productive attitudes. Through the goal setting process, even veteran managers will give new enthusiasm to their efforts and in the process, become even more effective.

Effective Motivational Management Will Help You

  • Increase productivity
  • Enhance employee attitudes
  • Improve teamwork
  • Reduce operating costs
  • Clarify Personal and Organizational goals
  • Increase sales and profits
  • Expand leadership capabilities
  • Improve delegation
  • Enhance effective communication

Implementation Sessions Focus On

  • Action-oriented exercises to produce results
  • Innovative ideas which can be put into action immediately
  • Measurable results through behavioral change
  • Tracking methods to help you achieve your goals

Your Key To Increased Productivity

  • Becoming an Effective Manager
  • Achieving Success Through Goal Setting
  • Developing a Positive Self-Image
  • Understanding Human Behavior
  • Understanding Motivation
  • Maximizing Personal Productivity
  • The Management Challenge
  • Minimizing Stress
  • Achieving Results Through Communication and Persuasion
  • Exercising Power and Authority Productively
  • Decision Making and Problem Solving
  • Handling and Preventing People Problems