Sharon Sarles' Seminars
and Organizational Strategies
Called to bless and build teachers and educational administrators.

CONSULTING AND TRAINING
training hours available
for Directors, Private School Principals in Texas

*Make your life easier by better organizing your office
..... and/or taming your time schedule
*Staff Evaluation, Correction, and Dismissal - Deal with Godzilla like you are St. George
*Transform your staff into a terrific team
*Make your life Possible by Managing Board and Pastoral Staff Relationships
*Basic Business, HR, and Money Managment
*What to ask your Lawyer and Accountant
*Problem Solving in Business Processes
*Basic Training in Many Common Software Packages (I can look at Quickbooks with you.) We now have someone to whom to refer if you have hardware problems.
*Basic Training in Accounting (What if it is all new to me? What if I have a family day home and really don't want to computerize or take accounting?)
*Increase Enrollment
*Make Funding Fun
*Coaching in Conflict
*Diagnosing and Intervening in Staff Conflict
*Curriculum Evaluation
*Advance in Adversity; Determine your Altitude by Your Attitude - Create a Plan Just for You!
*Making Sense of Today's Students' Special Needs
*Measuring How Well Your Team is Meeting Mission - Quantitative and Qualitative Original Research
*Finding Out What is Really Going on – Professional Pulse Gathering

Do you know anyone who will come to your office, listen to you, help you sort out your problem, and bring her years of wide experience to bear for you? Sharon will.
Get a consultant who knows early childhood and business -- and the church context if you need that too! Competitive pricing for seminars. Knock-out pricing for consulting; a fraction of the cost of corporate consulting. Make us of this NOW. Call today. Sharon will stay with you through your problem, if you desire.

SEMINARS - High Content and Plenty Fun For Any Staff:
*Conflict Reduction - be a better team Sharon wrote the book. She can tailor the seminar to corporate, non-profit, church, or education context. She has used these strategies to build a good team where there was previously disaster.
*Customer Service - A Slam Dunk to Win Every Game (Basketball theme)
*Win over Any Customer (see both conflict reduction and customer service)
*Working with Difficult People: Swimming with All the Fish in the Sea (Most popular portion of conflict reduction seminar)
*Becoming a More Valuable Employee – Get Promoted, Get the Raise
*Valuing Diversity With both formal, graduate education in sociology and real world experience working across diversity, Sharon's workshops are better than the rest.
* Managing Diversity Intermediate level workshop, applicable to corporate, non-profit, church or educational setting. Management must attend.
* How to Have Better Meetings Management must attend.
* How to Solve Problems in a Group Not subject to discount at this time.
* How to Be a Better Employee -- or we could call it -- How to Get a Promotion
* Ethics in the Workplace *Time Management: Harried or Happy?

For Educators (Texas Clock Hours available for CDC staff, and Con Ed Hours available for Texas Educators):

* Professionalization for CDC centers Finally, a seminar that makes new workers ready for the challenges of professinalism in early childhood development. Directors have no time. Young workers often have no clue. Get this for new staff!
* Ideas for special Needs The statistics on prevalance of special learning needs are truly frightening. The director and staff must become familiar with identification, referral, and curriculum planning for special needs. No one has the psychological, statistical, and educational training and personal experience as parent/teacher/director like Sharon. Avoid landmines! Help children! Save greif!
*Diversity: Making Differences Delightful not Dreadful Specifically designed for early childhood staff, with philosophy behind curriculum development and selection included.
* Managing Diversity Diversity: Managing Diversity (among staff, customers, students, and their parents) No other trainer has the formal education (Master's in Sociology) and the experience in this like Sharon does!
*Storytelling How to with Coaching
*Infant Development
*Transition Ideas
*How to Tutor for Amazing Results Pull off the same kind of "miracles" that Sharon has for years.
*Ideas for Teaching Money Management
*Conflict Reduction in the Preschool Class - ideas for curriculum planning forthcoming
*New Ideas from Time Tested Sources
..... *Montessori – Education from the Senses
..... *Montessori – Education for Practical Life
..... *Jesus – Education from Intriguing Stories - forthcoming
..... *Jesus – Education from Guided Practice- forthcoming

*Train Your Board Too!
*Basic Boardsmanship
*Basic Parliamentary Procedure
*Methods for Consensus
*Meeting the Mission through Portfolios
*Making Funding Fun
*Facilitating Visioning
*Flexible Thinking for Problem Sovling
*How to be a better team with a pastoral staff (for those boards related to churches)
*also topics from conflict reduction and how to have better meetings.
Some people do board training, but they have no idea how much harder it is to deal with church boards. And who of these know early childhood? Sharon does! She has done it.

Just For Educators in the Church (As these are just now coming out, they are not subject to discount, with one exception.)
*Contending For, Not With your Students and their Parents (This seminar IS in our summer 2009 discount plan.)
*Putting off Strife and Putting On Blessing
*Evangelism is Everything You Do
*Making a Homegrown VBS Curriculum
*Membership Recruitment
*Staff Recruitment
*Special Needs -- in Sunday School?
*Preaching and Preparing for Healing in Christian Education Administration
*Honoring All - Root and Harvest of Education

Also for Parents - Keynotes and seminars *Getting to Yes or Just Say No - Positive Discipline management for preschoolers -forthcoming
*Making Home Sweet - Conflict Reduction in the Home - Interactive ready now, otherwise forthcoming

Workshops are customizeable, tailored to your group. For additional investment, one may be constructed for your group alone. Appropriate pre- and post- work insures more change. Please inquire. Let me know what you need.

PUBLICATIONS * Peace Skills: Swim with the Dolphins, not with the Sharks
trade paperback, exclusive price direct from publisher

Also available is a self-facilitated process to dialog on conflict reduction. Please click through here , print, and dialog with others about how we can have peace.

* Swim with the Dolphins, not the Sharks. 60 minute cassette tape
* Self Instructional ECD continuing education booklets (Early Childhood Development) Four short courses with clockhours for Texas Early Childhood Educators

ABOUT SHARON

I specialize in bringing elegant strategies, making the fewest changes for the biggest change. Our client base includes Child Development Centers, small businesses, and religious orgnaizations. Work flow, staff motivation, board training are our specialities. I can do pre- and post quantitative and qualitative research, and customized training. Meeting facilitation can get your team communicating and working together well. This whole package will most surely bring the biggest change to your organization.
Sharon has been a teacher, a director of a licensed CDC in Texas, and an associate pastor over a director.
Training and speaking professionally since 1989. Facilitating since 1994. Consulting with small business owners and directors since 1998. Austin Families Fix It! Project consultant 2000-2005. Broadcasting since June 2008.Teaching at the collegiate level since 1992.

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CONTACT SHARON
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or write to Sharon Sarles Seminars, P. O. Box 971 Austin, TX 78630

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