If you own a small business but don’t have the internal resources to train your executive, supervisory and front line staff, this is your solution. In this highly competitive world, discover how investing in your team with trainings designed to fit your company’s unique needs will differentiate you from the masses.

So, what is professional development?

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (noun): opportunities to develop skills, knowledge and competencies needed to grow within a position, organization or field.

Sara Craig Co. offers personalized professional development training programs that fit your needs, not ours. We may take one of the programs that we know will work for your team and tweak it a bit in order to optimize the impact. Or we may decide together that you need an entirely customized program. We will do that too. Sara has created custom trainings for financial firms, fire departments, safety organizations, etc. She relies on her background in psychology coupled with her experience in Human Resources to understand her clients needs, create innovative programs and follow the progress of your team.

Some trainings that we have offered successfully to other companies and organizations are:

• Career Advancement: Building Soft Skills
• Sexual Harassment and Discrimination (CA AB1825 training)
• Diversity Training: Religious Tolerance
• Leadership for Safety Managers
• Engaging Employees in a Culture of Safety
• Management Training: Coaching and Mentoring
• Hiring, Disciplinary Action and Termination

Sara is also sought after as a keynote speaker. She has a unique ability to craft her keynotes with humor, pack them with applicable information and personally engage her audiences. Some of her favorite keynotes are:

• Success Starts Here: 9 Ways to Recenter Your Life
• Leaders Road Trip: Rules of the Road
• Leaders Road Trip: Keys to Success
• 7 Steps to Less Stress this Holiday Season
• Stealth Networking Over Egg Nog: How to Shine at Holiday Parties
• Stop Making Resolutions and Start Making Changes

Visit Sara Craig Co. for more information about how you can connect with coaching and training that will move your business forward.

Workshops are the perfect way to introduce new ways of thinking and doing, refine skills you already have and practice living more purposefully and effectively. Workshops are not lectures where someone stands in front of the room and speaks at you. Workshops are meant to include you in the work: working on yourself, working on your goals, working on your skills. They are also fun and engaging. Learning in a supportive environment with like-minded people is an amazing way to explore what you want and how you want to get there. Having focused interactive conversations and investing in active learning experiences opens opportunities to create real change.

People typically leave workshops really motivated. But the key is to also leave with a plan. Because, the truth is, it’s the next day when the real work starts. That’s when motivation meets discipline. Motivation is why you are doing something. Discipline is actually doing it. As you probably agree, that’s a lot easier said than done. The key to change isn’t just wanting it, it’s wanting it enough to make it happen.

Workshops can range from 1 hour to a full day. Some of my favorite workshops that I have created are:

• Recenter Your Life
• JobGoals
• CollegeGoals
• Leaders Road Trip: Keys to Success
• Leaders Road Trip: Rules of the Road
• Leaders Lunch

I have also designed signature courses such as:

• Find Your Voice: Building Confidence Through Public Speaking
• Mindfulness: The Key to Your Future is Being Present in the Present
• Career Development: Getting Ahead with Soft Skills

Visit Sara Craig Co. for more information about how you can connect with workshops that will move you towards reaching your goals today.

Coaching is not a magical fix for creating a perfect life. Nothing is. Creating a life that you love, feel connected to and are excited about takes time, commitment and motivation. Finding the right people to support you in this journey is essential to your success. You don’t need to go it alone. Coaching will start you on your path to creating strategies to reach your goals today.

You are ultimately responsible for every choice you make, every emotion you feel and every experience you have. There are occasions in our lives, however, when going it alone is not as effective as asking someone to travel alongside you. A coach is your guide, your mentor, your champion. Coaching is foreseeing obstacles, paving the way, and adding value to your journey. Coaching focuses on the present and the future, with the past serving only as a backdrop. A coach holds you accountable when you feel like giving up, helps you refocus when you lose perspective and doesn’t hold back when you need to hear hard truths. Your coach will become an invaluable asset in your journey towards living a fulfilling, authentic, balanced life.

Life is about choices. You can do nothing different and stay where you are. If you’re truly ready to stop living on the edge of your life contact me now to explore coaching and start creating a life that reaches beyond average to extraordinary.

Categories of Coaching

• Individual – one on one private and confidential coaching

• Group – small setting onsite or via webinar

• Business/Organization – group or individual coaching designed to develop your staff and create strategies that match your vision

• Solopreneur – the support you need to take your business where you want to go, and beyond

The goal of coaching is the goal of good management – to make the most of an organization’s valuable resources.
~ Harvard Business Review

Between 25% to 40% of Fortune 500 companies use executive coaches.
~ The HayGroup (USA) 1999

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School

Visit Sara Craig Co. for more information about how you can connect with coaching to start identifying your goals and creating strategies to reach them.