Professional Mastery Program

Take the anxiety out of your professional development needs!

Instead, get excited again about developing your professional skills and aptitude. Evolving and refining your expertise, either alongside with your organization or through one-on-one coaching, will greatly help you and your organization succeed and prosper in your chosen field.

“I learned more about my nonprofit roles and responsibilities listening to Gabriel Najera for 20 minutes than I have in the last seven years of reading and attending business seminars!”

Diane Latiker, Executive Director, Kids Off The Block

Our Professional Mastery program is highly effective for leaders and teams who are committed to achieving transformational change in their own and their organization’s performance. Professional Mastery provides customized workshops and seminars and confidential one-on-one executive development coaching. With our workshops and seminars, we work closely with you and your entire team to evaluate the learning and management development gaps that exist and help you create, implement, manage and facilitate management education. With our one-on-one executive development coaching, we work closely with you to strengthen your leadership and strategic skills and help you overcome the mental models that may be hindering your path to personal happiness and business success.

If you’re like most professionals, you understand that the need for ongoing professional development is not a workplace luxury anymore. Employees and businesses alike continue to invest in management training programs in the hope of learning leadership skills to help them survive in today’s challenging competitive environment. Corporations and non-profits alike are encouraging and expecting their employees to take the lead in their professional development.

The Top Three Roadblocks to Professional Development:

1. Most Management Training Initiatives Don’t Work

A critical factor leading to the success of any professional organization is to understand the link between learning and job performance. Although this may seem obvious, our research has shown that 90% of what is presented in management training programs is never applied in the workplace.

What often results is that day-to-day organizational and leadership effectiveness suffers. We work with clients to help them develop learning programs to support the professional growth of their staff and enhance organizational productivity.

2. Not Having Access to Cost Effective Resources and Expertise

Overpriced programs with under-qualified educators are counterproductive.

3. The Fear of Becoming More

Professional development is beneficial to the individual and for organizations alike. However, businesses fear that if they develop their staff then they will be encouraged to seek better opportunities elsewhere.

“You are the first product, so positioning yourself in the market as an individual is extremely important.”

Portia Isaacson, Founder Future Computing, Inc.

On the other hand individuals can be their own worst enemies by not thinking strategically enough about their long-term goals and not following through on pursuing their business aspirations. A person can tend to get comfortable and content.

What You Want Instead:

• To be educated and not trained. People are educated, training is for animals!

• To develop the strategic and tactical capabilities required for long term business success

• To develop effective leadership skills

• To maintain mutual accountability and responsibility on the part of individuals, supervisors, managers and the organization

• To embrace a philosophy to grow yourself while you grow your business

• To maintain a dynamic balance between the organization, business groups, work teams and individual needs in a changing environment

• To make an investment with both short and long-term returns that is evaluated, assessed and held to appropriate academic standards

• To have a partner and confidant

• To translate leadership skills into a competitive business and career strategy

• To understand how organizations are evolving and what they may look like in the next century

“You are the first product, so positioning yourself in the market as an individual is extremely important.”

Portia Iaacson, Founder, Future Computing, Inc.

The Professional Mastery Program addresses specific problems, challenges, breakthroughs experienced by you or your industry, organization and people by the following processes:

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The Process for Organizational Workshops & Seminars:

Determining your Organization’s “Current Reality”

• Through an internal and external environmental scan, key issues and trends will be discovered, as well as their implications in the environment that are likely to affect the professional development of your staff

• Leadership, management and professional development learning needs assessment

• Given your “Current Reality” what are the significant challenges, barriers and issues impacting your staff’s professional development?

Curriculum design

• Curriculum will be consistent with the client’s learning philosophy, strategy and business plan key performance indicators and will highlight critical success factors identified in the learning needs assessment.

Training delivery and facilitation

• The Najera Consulting Group will provide professional trainers who are readily available to meet the program’s training needs.

Evaluation of training program

• Measuring how participants perceive the program and measuring changes in participant’s skill, attitude or knowledge base.

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The Process For Confidential One-On-One Executive Development:

 Determining your “Current Reality”

• Discovering where you are and where you want to go, uncovering key issues and trends that are hindering you, as well as their implications your environment that are likely to affect your professional development

Professional development learning needs assessment

• Given your “Current Reality” what are the significant challenges, barriers and issues impacting your professional development?

Personal Coach Program

• Your personal coach program will be structured and consistent with your learning philosophy.

Training delivery and facilitation

• The Najera Consulting Group will provide professional trainers who are readily available to meet the program’s training needs.

If you are interested in taking the next step in committing to achieving transformational change in your own and your organization’s performance, we invite you to contact us for a complimentary session where we will explore the challenges you may be facing, what kind of results you would like to see instead, and if the Professional Progress program may be of help to you or not.

Whatever the outcome, you’ll leave the conversation clear about the issues you are facing and enthusiastic about what’s possible. The conversation will take about an hour and can be done in person or by phone. Click here to book a Strategies for Success session, and we will also send you our free article “Title to be determined” We’d love to speak with you!

Warm Regards,

The Najera Consulting Group Team
[email protected]

Najera Consulting Group is located outside of Chicago, Illinois. Other services include: Strategies for Success (Business & Non-Profit), Meetings With Ease!, and Speaking Services.