Dale Carnegie Houston

Dale Carnegie Houston: Course Calendar

2010-11-01T07:35:00.001-07:00

Houston, TX Course Schedule for Nov Dec Jan

Nov 2, 2010 - 9am - 11am - Networking for New BusinessHouston, TX - The class meets for for half a day.

Nov 3 & 4, 2010 - 8am - 5pm - How to Communicate with Diplomacy and TactHouston, TX - The class meets for 8 hours for 2 consecutive days.

Nov 8, 9, & 10, 2010 - 8am - 11am - How to Sell Like a ProHouston, TX - The class meets for 8 hours for 3 consecutive days.

Nov 16, 2010 - 9am - 5pm - CONFLICT RESOLUTION: Strategies & Techniques for Reducing Conflict in the WorkplaceHouston, TX - The class meets for 8 hours for 1 day.

Dec 7, 8, & 9, 2010 - 8am - 5pm - Strictly Business: The Dale Carnegie Immersion SeminarHouston, TX - The class meets for 8 hours for 3 consecutive days.

Dec 14, 2010 - 9am - 5pm - Step Up to LeadershipHouston, TX - The class meets for 8 hours for 1 day.

January 11, 2011 - 5pm - 8:30pm - Dale Carnegie Course: Effective Communications & Human Relations/Skills For SuccessHouston, TX - The class meets for once a week for 12 weeks.

January 11 & 12, 2011 - 8am - 5pm - High-Impact PresentationsHouston, TX - The class meets for 8 hours for 2 days.

January 18, 19, & 20, 2011 - 8am - 5pm - Leadership Training for ManagersHouston, TX - The class meets for 8 hours for 3 days.

Resolving Conflict & Training for Teens from Dale Carnegie Houston!

2010-06-28T09:10:00.000-07:00

Special programs to refresh for summer from Dale Carnegie Houston

Dale Carnegie Training of Houston
1880 South Dairy Ashford
Suite 620
Houston, Texas 77077
281-368-6308

Dale Carnegie Houston is proud to partner with WBEA! For special tuition discounts, please contact Sheila Garcia at: 281.368.6308

Dale Carnegie is happy to announce its continued partnership with ABC! For special discounts, please contact Sheila Garcia at: 281.368.6308

Generation Next: Training for Teens 13- 15

Generation.Next is designed to prepare young people for the real world. It gives them the skills they need to reach their goals and live up to their full potential - at school, home, and work.
At Dale Carnegie Training®, we call them "skills that will last a lifetime." The course content focuses on five key areas that are critical for future success:

Building Self-confidence
Enhancing Communication Skills
Interpersonal Skill Development
Teamwork and Leadership Skills
Effective Attitude Management
Generation.Next curriculum was developed with feedback from students. It consists of eight three-hour, highly interactive sessions that include real-life scenarios and role-playing.
Today, the world is more complex, competitive and demanding than ever before. Young people often need to balance school, work and relationships while at the same time, working and planning for their future. Generation.Next can help teens become more confident and better able to cope with the pressure and stress adolescents face.

DATES: July 20, 22, 27, & 29, 2010 8am - 5pm
(lunch will be served to the participants on all four of the training days)

TUITION: $ 899
ABC or WBEA Partners: If you are a member of ABC or WBEA then you qualify for special partnership tuition discounts! To learn more, please contact Sheila Garcia at: 281.368.6308

CONFLICT RESOLUTION: Strategies & Techniques for Resolving Conflict in the Workplace

In the pressures of today's fast-paced business environment, the ability to deal with people can be the difference between the success and failure of a team. Being able to handle conflict in a productive way is frequently mentioned as one of the most challenging skills for companies and organizations.
Creating a structured approach to conflict situations and providing methods to help resolve the conflicts can foster a more cooperative and productive environment.

Learn How To:

Understand reactions to conflict in order to better manage attitudes
Analyze conflict situations to determine the best approach to achieving desired outcomes
Develop conflict resolution strategies that foster teamwork

DATE: August 17, 2010 9am - 5pm

TUITION: $ 299

ABC or WBEA Partners: If you are a member of ABC or WBEA then you qualify for special partnership tuition discounts! To learn more, please contact Sheila Garcia at: 281.368.6308

Upcoming Calendar: We are a performance improvement company helping organizations and individuals achieve their goals. Dale Carnegie Houston provides innovative solutions creating and achieving significant breakthroughs in professional and personal performance. We specialize in increasing sales performance, developing leaders, enhancing management skills, advancing teamwork and improving customer relations. We accomplish these results through the application of fundamental principles over time with strong coaching, accountability, and follow up, achieving bottom-line results.
Our client list ranges from International companies to leading organizations of all sizes in the Houston Metropolitan Area. Our clients have high-potential people and believe the key to a brighter future is the growth and development of their people. Results are available on request. In addition to our schedule of open enrollment programs, our Corporate Initiatives Division tailors training to help achieve your strategic objectives. Our team provides needs analysis, senior management consultation and coaching.

For more information on our upcoming programs, courses & events, please visit www.houston.dalecarnegie.com or call 281.368.6308 for more details

Dale Carnegie Houston | 1880 South Dairy Ashford | Suite 620 | Houston | TX | 77077

Fortune 500 Story on Dale Carnegie (and how Warren Buffet still swears by it!)

2010-04-29T06:22:00.000-07:00

The best salesman in business
By Daniel Okrent, contributorApril 29, 2010: 4:46 AM ET

(Fortune) -- Twenty-five years ago, when he was asked to assemble a list of the "Ten Books That Shaped the American Character," critic Jonathan Yardley summoned the works of the great ones: Thoreau and Whitman, Twain and Hemingway, Thorstein Veblen and W.E.B. Du Bois. And standing next to them in this pantheon of the nation's literary giants, he also placed the man who once told America to read his work "with a crayon, pencil, pen, magic marker, or highlighter in your hand. When you come across a suggestion that you feel you can use, draw a line beside it."

Since then, more than 30 million people worldwide have been embellishing, bedecking, and otherwise disfiguring their copies of How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie. Upon its release in February, an iPhone app loaded with videos, charts, and homilies immediately became the top-selling paid business app in the iTunes store (it just landed on the iPad as well), and a new edition of the book -- only the second since its original publication -- may be arriving in stores next year. Not that Dale's heirs need the money; HTWF is already the most successful business advice book in the history of the solar system. Originally published in 1936, it has been translated into 47 languages, including Hindi, Nepalese, and Telugu. Last year alone, the very fortunate Simon & Schuster, which has controlled the rights to HTWF since its birth, sold 300,000 copies -- hardcover, paperback, and audio -- just in the U.S. By comparison, Malcolm Gladwell is a parvenu.

Like all great successes, HTWF has inspired backlash too, including at least four books and one movie all titled How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. But the book is also the foundation stone of a self-improvement empire, now called Dale Carnegie Training, that has franchises in 80 countries and claims 8 million graduates, including Warren Buffett, Frank Perdue, Lee Iacocca, and at least two generations of Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.

Dale Carnegie clearly knew a hell of a lot about business.

Except he didn't. Born in 1888, the phenomenally successful dispenser of business advice had virtually no business background. Raised on a pig farm in Missouri, he first stumbled trying to sell correspondence courses, and then for a while he peddled bacon and lard in western South Dakota.

He was reasonably successful at that, but gave it up to move east in his early twenties, hoping to make it as an actor. That didn't work, and neither did selling trucks or writing western novels. What did work was the class in effective public speaking that he began to teach to a handful of students at a Harlem YMCA in 1912 -- a class that would form the basis of his philosophy, his methodology, and his mighty self-improvement empire. One of the smartest decisions he made was changing his name in 1919 from Carnagey to Carnegie, at a time when "Carnegie" carried the same aura that "Gates" does today.

But the real key to his eventual triumph, and probably the reason HTWF still holds up today, was the innate connection he sensed between public speaking and professional success. Warren Buffett says he was motivated to take the Carnegie course as a 20-year-old, when the prospect of public speaking would cause him to vomit. Iacocca tells a similar story: "For the first few years of my life I was an introvert, a shrinking violet," he wrote. Post-Carnegie, he was on the path to becoming the unshrunken, Carnegie-ized Iacocca who was the most visible American businessman of the 1980s.

To this day, Buffett keeps his Dale Carnegie diploma close at hand in his office. "It changed my life," he has said.

Effective public speaking, still the core of the Carnegie philosophy, is a matter of self-confidence -- which, tethered to the 30 principles that are the backbone of HTWF, can presumably produce a very effective person. It's as if Carnegie were saying, "If you can get up in front of a crowd and hold its attention, you can accomplish almost anything."

Those 30 principles are somewhat less complicated than particle physics. Or long division. The essential one is No. 3: "Arouse in the other person an eager want." Others could have come from a stern but kindly grade school teacher: "The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it" or "Let the other person do a great deal of the talking."

Before you scoff at those chestnuts, bear in mind that the best advice is usually obvious, and rarely followed (don't have that second martini, wear a sweater or you'll catch cold). One would like to think that what the Carnegie method advocated in 1937 still applies in 2010: The traits that make all human interaction possible --manners, decency, generosity of spirit -- matter as much in business as they do in private life.

Carnegie himself once told a skeptical audience, "I've never claimed to have a new idea. Of course I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told." Even more obvious: People are willing to listen.

Increase Self-Confidence - Increase Sales!

2010-04-06T06:03:00.001-07:00

"My customer service folks and outside sales representatives are required to go through Dale Carnegie. One of the reasons we believe in Dale Carnegie is that it helps self-confidence. The course teaches you how to put yourself in front of a client and feel secure about what you are saying."
– Human Resources & Safety, Quality Building Products & Services Company

How do I cushion objections and make them see a need for my product??

2010-03-31T06:55:00.000-07:00

In just three days, you'll cover the whole sales process. From prospecting, getting appointments, establishing rapport, crafting solutions, overcoming objections, closing the deal, time and territory management, to creating your personal success plan.

Who Should Attend
Sales people who have always wanted to take our famous Sales Advantage course but could not commit to the eight-week time frame.

Learn How To

Connect with decision makers
Display confidence in yourself and your company
Leverage referrals
Build credibility
Ask the right questions
Use 6 tactics to win commitment
Influence the conversation so that it reaches a mutually beneficial conclusion
Follow up in a way that creates additional sales opportunities

Schedule

Houston, TX
April 20, 21, & 22, 2010, Tues/Wed/Thurs
8:15am - 5:00pm
1,895.00 USD

3-Day Sales Advantage: How to Sell like a Pro

2010-03-30T06:13:00.001-07:00

Want to learn how to prospect effectively and get the appointment in these tough times? Register for the 3-Day Sales Advantage: How to Sell like a Pro! April 20, 21, & 22, 2010, 8am - 5pm.

Call Sheila Garcia at: 281-368-6308 or register at our website: www.houston.dalecarnegie.com

Season's Greetings from Dale Carnegie Houston!

2009-12-21T09:11:00.001-08:00

Happy Holidays!

As the holidays are fast approaching, we at Dale Carnegie Houston want to take time from the hustle and bustle to say how valuable you are to us.

We hope you have a wonderful, peaceful & safe holiday season!

Sincerely,

The Dale Carnegie Houston Team

Sheila M.Garcia
Performance Consultant
Dale Carnegie Houston
Tel: 281-368-6308
Fax: 877-353-5728
www.houston.dalecarnegie.com
Visit Our Website!

Save! Holiday Discounts! Interested in taking programs in the NewYear? We offer many personal and professional public programs in the areas of Effective Communicationd & Human Relations, Sales & Customer Service, Leadership & Management, as well as Customized Corporate Solutions for departments & organizations. Give yourself or your employees the gift of training & developement for the holidays!!

To receive your holiday discount, please contact Sheila Garcia at: 281.368.6308, or email: sheila.garcia@dalecarnegiehouston.com .

Offer Expires: 12/31/2009

Dale Carnegie Houston | 1880 S. Dairy Ashford | Suite 620 | Houston | TX | 77077

HUGE Holiday Savings from Dale Carnegie Houston!

2009-12-14T11:21:00.000-08:00

HUGE Savings from Dale Carnegie Houston!!
Invest in Yourself & Your People & $ave!!
for the Holiday Season
GIVE THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING!

Contact Sheila at: 281-368-6308
or email at: sheila.garcia@dalecarnegiehouston.com
to find out more about our Holiday Discount Savings Incentive

Holiday Greetings!

Our client list ranges from international companies to leading organizations of all sizes in the Houston Metro Area. Our clients have high-potential people and believe the key to a brighter future is the growth and development of their people.

In addition to our schedule of open enrollment public programs, our Corporate Initiatives Division tailors training to help achieve your strategic objectives for the upcoming New Year. Our team provides needs analysis, senior management consultation and coaching.

We are offering holiday discounts and savings on all tuition for all programs to help you meet those training and development needs! Please contact me at the information listed in my signature below to find out more about how you can invest in your organization's greatest asset - it's people - and still save!

Sincerely,

Sheila M. Garcia
Performance Consultant
Dale Carnegie Houston
Tel: 281-368-6308
Fax: 877-353-5728
www.houston.dalecarnegie.com

Calendar

Dale Carnegie Effective Communications & Human Relations-
This course will help you master the capabilities demanded in today's tough business environment. You'll learn to strengthen interpersonal relationships, manage stress and handle fast-changing workplace conditions. You'll be better equipped to perform as a persuasive communicator, problem-solver and focused leader. And you'll develop a take-charge attitude initiated with confidence and enthusiasm. Jan 26, 2010 5pm - 8:30pm

The People Side of Process Improvement-
This program on the most consistent challenge of process improvement programs - involving, engaging, and maintaining enthusiastic employee participation across all levels of the organization. Feb 17 & 18, 2010 8am - 5pm

How to Sell like a Pro-
In just three days, you'll cover the whole sales process. From prospecting, getting appointments, establishing rapport, crafting solutions, overcoming objections, closing the deal, time and territory management, to creating your personal success plan. Feb 9, 10, & 11, 2010 8am - 5pm

Leadership Training for Managers-
This management leadership training course empowers you to practice the skills you need to stop pushing and start pulling. Developing the skill set of the modern leader will help your team to thrive within the company and it will help you to achieve your career goals. Mar 9, 10, & 11, 2010 8am - 5pm

Strictly Business Immersion Program-
For busy people like you, we've taken the essential business skills taught in the 12 -week program and compressed them into an action-packed three day seminar. Don't miss this opportunity to experience the power of the Dale Carnegie Course in a format designed for your business schedule. Feb 23, 24, & 25, 2010 8am - 5pm

High Impact Presentations-
The experience in this presentations skills training seminar is as close as you can get to having a personal, public speaking coach. You present at least seven times over the course of two days. Your presentations are videotaped and evaluated. And you get expert one-on-one coaching the end of each presentation. Mar 24 & 25, 2010 8am - 5pm

How to Communicate with Diplomacy & Tact-
You'll gain dexterity and grace in dealing with new or trying situations; recognize how you come across to others; speak honestly and confidently; become conscious of body language; master your emotions; give and receive criticism constructively; present yourself as powerful - not intimidating; and say what you need to say without offending or creating conflict. Jan 26 & 27, 2010 8am - 5pm

Sales Management Excellence-
The best Sales Managers have a responsibility to build successful sales people that will create profitable results. This program will provide the tools for you to develop your sales team to excellence. Mar 3 & 4, 2010 8am - 5pm

Conflict Resolution Strategies & Techniques for Reducing Conflict in the Workplace-
In the pressures of today's fast-paced business environment, the ability to deal with people can be the difference between the success and failure of a team. Being able to handle conflict in a productive way is frequently mentioned as one of the most challenging skills for companies and organizations. Creating a structured approach to conflict situations and providing methods to help resolve the conflicts can foster a more cooperative and productive environment. Mar 2, 2010 9am - 5pm

Dale Carnegie Houston Training Facility -
1880 South Dairy Ashford
Suite 600
Houston, Texas 77077

To sign up online, please visit us at our website: www.houston.dalecarnegie.com
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Save!! If you are interested in finding out what holiday investment savings you can make for your training and development needs and initiatives for the New Year, please contact Sheila and let her know you got this Holiday Savings Email and would like more information! 281-368-6308
Offer Expires: December 31, 2009

Dale Carnegie Houston | 1880 S. Dairy Ashford | Suite 620 | Houston | TX | 77077

Spotlight Promotion Program from Dale Carnegie Houston!

2009-11-02T14:07:00.000-08:00

Greetings!

Supervisors and managers who understand this simple truth and know how to implement it are the ones who create impact in today's organizations. They develop high-performance teams that get results because they know how to lead a team, not just manage it. Learn the tools and techniques of successful supervisory leadership at Dale Carnegie Training's intensive one-day seminar, Step Up to Leadership.

This program will smooth your transition from worker to supervisor to leader. And, of course, you'll get the basics like delegation and performance appraisal techniques, but Step Up to Leadership will show you so much more.

Step up to Leadership

Learn How To

*Resolve conflicts quickly before they affect the whole group
*Listen effectively
*Delegate responsibility, authority and accountability
*Create stretch goals for yourself and your team members
*Bring out the leadership potential in others
*Give difficult feedback without creating resentment
*Use the Dale Carnegie 5 drivers of success
*Incorporate the 12 qualities of outstanding leaders into your style
*Use RAVE as a performance improvement tool

Regular Tuition: $299
Spotlight Special Tution: $199 (see promo code in coupon below)
(Call for other special discounts on tuition!)

Who Should Attend:
Any supervisor or manager who wants to increase productivity, lift morale and improve quality. Helps new supervisors and managers get off on the right foot. Helps veterans make the difficult but necessary transition from managing to exercising effective leadership.

Module 1
Outstanding Leadership

Module 2
Outstanding Communication

Module 3
Outstanding Coaching

Module 4
Outstanding Performance Management.

Format:
Step Up to Leadership is a one-day seminar running from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Schedule:
November 9, 2009 (Monday) Houston, TX

Should you find you have any questions whatsoever, of if you feel you would like to discuss the program (or any other Dale Carnegie program) in further detail, or if you would simply like assistance getting the registration process started, please feel free to contact me at the information listed in my signature below.

Sincerely,

Sheila M. Garcia
Performance Consultant
Dale Carnegie Houston
Tel: 281-368-6308
Fax: 877-353-5728
www.houston.dalecarnegie.com

Save $100!! To receive the $100 discount on the Step up to Leadership program being held on November 9th in Houston, please refer to promo code SUL1109 in the following ways:
Call Sheila at: 281-368-6308, email Sheila at: sheila.garcia@dalecarnegiehouston.com and request a registration form, or visit our website at www.houston.dalecarnegie.com to register for this program, using this specific promo code.

Offer Expires: November 9th, 2009

3-Day Effective Communications & Human Relations Program

2009-09-09T06:28:00.001-07:00

Dale Carnegie Houston
3-Day Effective Communications & Human Relations Program!

Greetings!

If you've always wanted to take the world-famous Dale Carnegie Course but could not free up the time to do it, here is great news.
For busy people like you, we've taken the essential business skills taught in the 12 -week program and compressed them into an action-packed three day seminar. Don't miss this opportunity to experience the power of the Dale Carnegie Course in a format designed for your business schedule. Take that important first step toward joining the ranks of the world's most successful business leaders.

Strictly Business Dale Carnegie Immersion
This unique three-day seminar will help you master the skills you need to excel in today's competitive workplace. You'll learn to handle people more professionally and keep pace with fast-changing workplace conditions. After you complete the seminar you'll be equipped to perform as a persuasive communicator, creative problem solver and intelligent risk-taker. And you'll develop a take charge attitude that will help you get recognized as a confident, enthusiastic leader. Your seminar experience will power you beyond your comfort zone and help you stretch for and attain ambitious new goals. The program emphasizes the principles of success and shows you how to put them into action every day.

Who Should Attend:
Business professionals who want to accelerate their career velocity but don't have time to take the 12-week Dale Carnegie Course.

Learn How To:
Use Dale Carnegie's 5 drivers of success
Apply nine human relations principles that are guaranteed to make you more effective
Communicate clearly and concisely
Project an executive image
Turn adversaries into colleagues
Gain cooperation with an appeal that works every time
Sell yourself and your ideas

Format:
Strictly Business: The Dale Carnegie Immersion Seminar runs three consecutive weekdays, and includes a 12-month email coaching follow-up, designed to reinforce what is learned over the course of the program.

September 21, 22, & 23, 2009
8am - 5pm
Tuition: $1,795 (call for special end-of-summer discounts on tuition)

Sincerely,

Sheila M. Garcia
Performance Consultant

Dale Carnegie Houston

281-368-6308
www.houston.dalecarnegie.com

Don't Miss the Leadership Advantage Program from Dale Carnegie Houston!

2009-08-03T13:29:00.000-07:00

The Leadership Advantage
Leadership Training for Managers

"I can't say enough about what this process has done for our company... We gained
the ability to ensure that we were all pursuing common goals. To have the entire
organization aligned behind our chairman's vision is powerful and results in
outstanding rewards for our employees and our shareholders."
Tony Giordano
Senior Vice President for Material Services
Fred Weber, Inc.

LEADERSHIP TRAINING FOR MANAGERS
REGISTER TODAY - www.houston.dalecarnegie.com

Now that you are in charge, are you shocked to learn that all the rules have
changed? Command and Control has been replaced by Contradiction and Chaos..
Employees are not told what to do anymore. Now, you influence their choices and
assist them in reaching goals. You do not direct; you win the team over to your
point of view. You do not dictate; you inspire!

The business world has changed! Management was about pushing people to succeed.
Leadership is about pulling people along to succeed. You require a new skill set to
make it to the top in a "pull" environment.

This course teaches how to stop managing and start leading, making you a vital part
or your organization's future.

The days of assuming that a good manager was also a good leader are gone. Clear
distinctions are being made between the two. Learn the differences between managing
and leading and then begin gravitating toward a more direct leadership style and
away from a management-based style. Stop pushing and start pulling.

YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:

Create a vision - a common ground
Develop strategies that make things happen
Take intelligent risks
Influence people to follow you
Gain cooperation at every level
Lead a winning team, department or organization
Empower others to deliver results

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

Anyone who interacts with internal or external customers, project team leaders,
employees who serve on teams, or managers who want to enhance their leadership
skills development in order to achieve outstanding results.

FORMAT

The Leadership Advantage Training for Managers is a three-day management leadership
training course running 8 hours per session. It is followed up with a once-a-week
coaching email for one year, which is designed to reinforce what is learned over the
course of the initial three days of intensive training. This proven learning
methodology allows you to retain and apply these principles so that they become
part of your skill set.

DATE: August 11, 12, & 13, 2009
TIME: 8:15am - 5pm
LOCATION: 1880 South Dairy Ashford, Suite 600, Houston, TX 77077
TUITION: $1,795 (Register three, get fourth registration free!)
Call for other special tuition pricing

REGISTER ONLINE - www.houston.dalecarnegie.com
OR CALL 281-368-6308

Dale Carnegie partners with middle market and large corporations, as well as
organizations, to produce measurable business results by improving the performance
of employees with emphasis on leadership, sales, team member engagement, customer
service, presentations, process management and other essential management skills.
Recently identified by The Wall Street Journal as one of the top 25 high-performing
franchises, the Dale Carnegie Training® programs are available in more than 25
languages throughout the United States and in more than 75 countries. Dale Carnegie
includes as its clients 400 of the Fortune 500 companies. Approximately 7 million
people have experienced Dale Carnegie Training®.

Dale Carnegie's corporate specialists work with individuals, groups and
organizations to design solutions that unleash your employees' potential, enabling
your organization to reach the next level of performance. Dale Carnegie Training
offers public courses, seminars and workshops, as well as in-house customized
training, corporate assessments, online reinforcement and one-on-one coaching. For
more information, please visit www.houston.dalecarnegie.com.

Dale Carnegie Houston | 1880 S. Dairy Ashford | Suite 620 | Houston | TX | 77077