APLS Group
Nanci Appleman-Vassil
APLS Group is a training and consulting firm that specializes in facilitating individuals, groups, and organizations toward better solutions for increased effectiveness. Through corporate training opportunities, leadership development, and team building, our team of business coaching consultants are committed to providing strategies for development that are relevant, engaging, and productive.
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Most Human Resources professionals would agree that clear communication is one of the key components to an engaged, productive work environment. Yet oftentimes our conversations lead to misunderstanding or confusion, resulting in unmotivated and ineffective employees. Business leaders equipped with the skills necessary to communicate effectively in today’s workplace are critical to the overall growth of an organization.
In this highly interactive two-hour workshop, you will be introduced to tools, tips and techniques that will allow you have the kinds of conversations that drive employees to perform at their best, creating a positive impact on the performance of your organization.
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THE FIVE BEHAVIORS OF A COHESIVE TEAM is an assessment-based learning experience that helps individuals and organizations reveal what it takes to build a truly cohesive and effective team in the most approachable, competent and effective way possible. Powered by Everything DiSC®, the profiles help participants understand their own DiSC® styles and how those contribute to the team’s success.
Bringing together everyone’s personalities and preferences to form a cohesive, productive team takes work, but the payoff can be huge—for individuals, the team, and the organization.
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APLS Group can help your company create a Team Building and Development training event that is engaging, stimulating, provides learning and fun. We can design a customized team development training events around a theme. Some examples include:
March Madness Basketball
Olympic Day
Kick-off of Self-Directed Work Team “train pulling out of the station”
Build a Bike
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Our expertise is people development. One of the ways we accomplish this is by offering a full range of corporate training opportunites and career development services. Our team of business coaching consultants can analyze your organization’s current needs, design “best fit” program modules and deliver programs for implementation. Training can take the form of “train the trainer” or direct to the people in team building.
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OD interventions help organizations function, survive and continue to grow. This requires individuals and individual organizations needing to be more innovative, customer driven, flexible and effective. Some of these activities that we facilitate include:
Team building
Business effectiveness climate surveys
Process improvements
Group facilitation
Needs assessments
Human resource management
Strategic planning
Conflict resolution
Job descriptions and core competencies
Succession planning
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With this in mind, the career architects who administer The Career Roadmap combine metric assessments and one-on-one career coaching to provide clients with immediate feedback about how and why they make the choices they do in their professional lives.
It is a combination of 9 self-assessments, that, when combined with 2 hours of individualized career counseling, provides clients with a working knowledge of their key working competencies and values. This tool can then be translated into a specific decision-making plan and suitable career path so that individuals may discover their true professional passions.
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A MANAGER'S GUIDE TO OSHA is designed to help managers and human resource professionals become familiar with this important law, and offers guidance and helpful advice on what to expect during OSHA inspections, what citations or penalties can be proposed, and how to appeal if necessary. This revised edition contains the most recent information related to OSHA, and comes complete with forms and other helpful resources in the Appendix.
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It is hard enough to retain highly trained and technical workers but facing the challenge of keeping hourly workers, getting new people off on the right foot, and training people to become good trainers are major challenges today. The second of two books providing 50 Tips for recruiting and retaining employees that are just that--handy quick ideas for employers to start their thinking on a topic.
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APLS Group can provide a wide range of HR Solutions that can be customized to meet your unique business needs. Whether you need assistance managing your current HR function, ensuring compliance with state and federal standards, completing HR projects or helping you resolve an HR issue you are facing, APLS group can provide solutions and services that are right for your business.
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APLS Group believes in the whole person approach to individual health and well-being. With that in mind, APLS Group will work with you to design workplace wellness programs that support the health of individual employees. The following offerings can be customized for your organization:
- One-on-one health coaching
- Mindful Meditation Classes
- Group Coaching
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Mindfulness is a way of learning to live more fully in the present. With mindfulness practice, participants learn to release worries about the future, release regrets about the past and focus with a sense of calm acceptance on the present moment. There is clinical evidence that shows that Mindful Meditation stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system or calming center of the brain and decreases the level of stress hormones that ignite the ‘fight or flight’ response. This four-week course is designed to help participants learn how to meditate to reduce stress, improve sleep, enhance their immune response, and bring more focus to their day-to-day activities.
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Through a self-assessment, customer service employees and managers respond to 79 statements about customer service behavior and practices. The Employee Guide focuses on your employees' perceptions of their abilities — and those of the organization — to deliver KYSOS. The Manager Guide pinpoints developmental areas and helps customer service managers plan for improvement. Used together, there isn't a more powerful tool to diagnose your organization's readiness to deliver KYSOS.
Can be customized based on organizations needs.
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The workshop is packed with tips and strategies for giving feedback, using impact words, coaching for change, writing performance objectives, identifying and dealing with personality types, identifying performance gaps, using the correct language and formats for documentation, documenting expectations of employees, and much more.
Trainers can easily customize the workshop to fit your organizational culture and environment. An appendix section includes 12 reproducible forms for helping participants evaluate their coaching skills, detail development plans, create a Performance Enhancement Plan (PEP), and more.
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Competency-based interviewing techniques will give your company a strategic focus by allowing hiring managers to integrate job-specific, future-oriented competencies into their interviews. This workshop teaches participants to identify key competencies (characteristics that differentiate outstanding performers from average performers in a given job) and build those competencies into their hiring and selection process in order to attain this strategic focus.
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This program, based on William Bridges best-selling book, teaches participants how to more effectively manage organizational changes. As a result of this workshop participants will be able to explain the importance of effectively managing change, learn William Bridges’ three phase Transition Model and develop change strategies using this Transition Model.
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Trainers sometimes need refreshers and opportunities to learn about new tools they can add to their too toolbox. This program offers support to trainers who want to gain new ideas around facilitation, communication, delivering material, giving feedback, listening, skills building, and action planning.
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The DiSC Personality System is the universal language of behavior. Research has
shown that behavioral characteristics can be grouped together in four major divisions
called personality styles: Drive, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance. APLS Group is
a licensed distributor for Everything DiSC.
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he Work of Leaders presents a simple structure that neatly captures the complexity of
contemporary leadership. The goal of this book is to make this wealth of leadership
insight accessible to anyone who wants better results as a leader.
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Whether you are a Pioneering, Energizing, Affirming, Inclusive, Humble, Deliberate,
Resolute, or Commanding leader, the authors help you understand the psychological
drivers, motivations, and “blind spots” characteristic of your style.
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Nanci is an international speaker and author who has been sharing her expertise for over 18 years to a wide variety of audiences across North America and abroad. She’s highly regarded as an industry leader in helping individuals, groups and organizations optimize performance. Her appealing style is appreciated and sought after by organizations of all sizes and shapes and industries. She is known for touching hearts, stirring the soul within and engaging minds.
Nanci has been designated as a Certified Speaking Professional™ and is a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) and Association for Talent Development (ATD)
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These one-on- one and group sessions help individuals and teams gain clarity, remove self-imposed limitations, gain valuable insights and confidence so they can leverage their strengths and help others achieve their higher potential. Suitable candidates for this service are:
Executives
Leaders
Managers
Team leaders or leads
Identified High potential employees
Educators
Individuals in Career Transition
Parents
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Our expertise is people development. One of the ways we accomplish this is by offering a full range of corporate training opportunites and career development services. Our team of business coaching consultants can analyze your organization’s current needs, design “best fit” program modules and deliver programs for implementation. Training can take the form of “train the trainer” or direct to the people in team building.
Can be customized to your specific situations. We work with your Subject Matter Experts to create realistic scenarios that reflect your real life workplace challenges.
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Our expertise is people development. One of the ways we accomplish this is by offering a full range of corporate training opportunites and career development services. Our team of business coaching consultants can analyze your organization’s current needs, design “best fit” program modules and deliver programs for implementation. Training can take the form of “train the trainer” or direct to the people in team building.
Can be customized to your specific situations. We work with your Subject Matter Experts to create realistic scenarios that reflect your real life workplace challenges.
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Find your true career passion. Every person traces his or her career path according to professional ambition, lifestyle choices, and personal interests. APLS Group is excited to introduce the “Career Roadmap” which provides clients with an understanding of their core competencies and what is important to them. Please click on “more information” to learn about this exciting tool for Career Development!