PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS
Personal & Professional Development Solutions
“The only person You are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The K.N.E.W. Solutions provides a dynamic service that facilitates Professional and Personal Development Programs for individuals, organizations, businesses, and schools. Programs can be implemented through intense self-awareness workshops in group settings, seminars, trainings, or through one-on-one coaching sessions. Personal development is the catalyst to a productive, healthy, and well-rounded life-personally and professionally. The K.N.E.W. Solutions encourages clients to consider one or more personal development activities to enhance the quality of their personal and/or professional lives.
What is Personal Development?
Personal development is the intentional quest of individual growth, knowledge, and improvement of personal skills. This is accomplished by expanding and improving self- awareness; understanding your identity; developing talents and potential; building human capital and facilitating employability; enhancing your quality of life; and contributing to the realization of dreams and aspirations.
Personal development is essentially growing and becoming a better version of yourself. Your Personal Development should always be evolving.
What Is Personal Development?
Personal development is the intentional quest of individual growth, knowledge, and improvement of personal skills. This is accomplished by expanding and improving self- awareness; understanding your identity; developing talents and potential; building human capital and facilitating employability; enhancing your quality of life; and contributing to the realization of dreams and aspirations.
Personal development is essentially growing and becoming a better version of yourself. Your Personal Development should always be evolving.
- Identifying and Walking in Your Purpose
- Identifying and Developing Strengths and Gifts
- Improving Self-Awareness
- Developing Interpersonal and Communication Skills
- Improving Self-Knowledge
- Building or Restoring Self-Esteem
- Understanding Your Identity
- Improving Financial Literacy and Wealth
- Spiritual Development
- Identifying and Improving Potential
- Enhancing Lifestyle or the Quality of Life
- Improving Overall Health (Physical, Emotional, Social)
- Achieving Aspirations
- Defining and Executing Personal Development/Life Plans
- Improving Social Skills and Abilities
- Building Employability
Personal and Professional Development in the Context of Business
When personal development takes place in the context business or institutions, it refers to the methods, programs, tools, techniques, and assessment systems that support human development at the individual level in organizations. Personal and professional development are essential holistic success.
The K.N.E.W. Solutions facilitates the following personal and professional development modules for workshops and training courses:
- Career Skills
- Conflict Resolution
- Coping Skills
- Creating a Life Management Plan (Short-Term)
- Creating a Life Plan (Long Term)
- Etiquette
- Social Etiquette
- Dining Etiquette
- Workplace Etiquette
- Financial Education
- Health and Wellness
- Organization Skills
- Personal Development Planning
- Time Management Skills
- Work/Life Balance
- Effective Communication
- Emotional Intelligence
- Conflict Resolution
- Finding Internal Motivation
- Developing a Customer Service Mindset
Why Personal Development?
From elementary school through high school, we learn valuable tools to build the foundation for a future career. We attend college or trade school to receive an education for the career of our choice.
While there is some focus on soft skills, social, emotional, and physical development, oftentimes it’s not enough to provide a solid foundation. We believe there should be an equal balance of professional AND personal development throughout a person’s lifetime. This includes development of soft skills that are essential for working in any environment.
Companies provide an array of professional services and trainings to assist employees with job related skills and performance; however, Personal Development is the catalyst for developing productive employees and work environment.
WORKSHOP
Our workshops are interactive events where knowledge, skills and information are shared through intensive discussion and activities on a particular subject. Workshops can be used to build on previously learned information. They can last from a couple of hours to perhaps a few days, depending on the subject matter and related activities.
Workshops have small audiences, or are broken up into smaller groups, because of the hands-on activities that are a part of learning in the workshop experience. Workshops may have several different activities that the attendees participate in.
SEMINAR: Information, Education, and Questions Only
The seminar is structured like a lecture or classroom style of learning. In this respect, the lecturer, speaker or instructor will give a speech and share information with the audience about the chosen topic(s). Seminars are usually for much larger audiences because it simply consists of one of our expert sharing information with the audience on a specific topic.
A seminar format may only have the main lecture and there is no further follow-up activities or ways for the attendees to apply the knowledge they have learned during the seminar. Seminars tend to have a one-way street of communication.
One-on-One Coaching:
One-on-one coaching/training sessions are a personalized approach that can often be the most valuable to individuals who need a personal touch or who learn at a slower pace. There is a great need for this type of coaching and not many consulting or training companies offer this service.
The effectiveness of one-on-one training sessions will allow the facilitator/coach to present very interactive sessions with the learner. Consequently, the facilitator will be able to concentrate on the individual’s specific needs pertaining to the subject matter.
The individual’s goals will be more paramount. The coach/trainer can then slightly tailor the training examples or training method, to suit the individual’s needs. This will result in spending more time on processes that will be more relevant to the individual’s job, while spending only a short time on other, less-relevant areas.
TRAININGS:
Our trainings provide information, instruction, and hands-on activities to trainees. Essentially, we teach, develop skills, and knowledge during our training courses. The purpose of training is to improve one’s capability, capacity, productivity and performance for the subject area(s).
Training with our corporate partners, focuses on soft skills for the career field and work-related situations that will enhance job performance. This means providing participants will all the relevant information, skills, and resources to support job related functions in the workplace.
