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…three or more
perspectives engaging in the process of exchanging messages |
| SMALL GROUP/ORGANIZATIONAL PROGRAM |
The need for families, groups, and teams, to come together in a positive and productive manner is as old as socialization itself. Years of behavioral studies have presented methodologies that assist in the process of effective team building. From the processes of organizing group communication experiences to group problem solving methods, there are communication skills that can effectively enhance any team's productivity and enable families to build lasting a secure relationships. Whether your needs are personal or professional, HCI specializes in helping you organize your communications and build your communication networks. |
ALL TITLES LISTED ARE
OFFERED IN INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING SESSIONS AS WELL AS GROUP SETTINGS.
LENGTH OF PRESENTATION IS CONTINGENT UPON PERSONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL
GOALS. HCI DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE IMMEDIATE AVAILABILITY OF ALL
CLINICS. |
| SMALL GROUP / ORGANIZATIONAL CLINICS |
 Answers to Difficult Communication Issues within the Organization Business Communications for Service Providers Interviewing Strategies Clinic for both Adult and Youth Interviewing Strategies to Create and Maintain Multi-cultural Settings Organizing Your Communication Systems: The Virtual Office Organizational Communication Culture: Assessment and Profile Self Love = Healthy Love! Small Group Communication Strategies for Successful Team Building Youth Small Group/ Organizational Clinics |
Answers to Difficult
Communication Issues within the Organization - Organizational
culture is often a microcosm of the homes, communities and social
lives of the individuals that make up the office pool. As such,
many societal issues find their way into the organizational environment
and affect the workplace directly or indirectly. How do effective
managers handle the tough, sensitive issues of human lives as they
affect the workplace? Issues such as: religious observance, cultural
apparel, ethnic communication patterns, cultural nonverbal differences,
difficult discipline issues, gender concerns, etc. |
| Business Communications for Service Providers – |
| • Writing Services: Memos, Minutes, Agendas, Business Letters, Spreadsheets |
| • Meeting Facilitation |
| • Robert’s Rules of Order/Parliamentarian Procedures |
| • Telephone and Reception Etiquette |
Interviewing Strategies
to Create and Maintain Multi-cultural Settings – This
clinic is designed to bring awareness to the subtle cultural nuances
that play a role in determining a person’s perspective while
engaging in evaluative processes such as interviewing and appraisals.
Helps individuals get in touch with hidden personal biases that
affect everyone. Strengthens an institution ability to see the value
of true diversity while arming participants with much needed communication
skills within a diverse organization. |
Organizational Communication
Culture: Assessment and Profile - This clinic observes and
critiques the communication climate of the organization. It examines
the formal (management) and informal (cultural) communication systems
and how things get accomplished and information circulates. Being
aware of how both these channels operate is vital to your Organizational
health. |
| Self Love = Healthy Love! – This Small Group Communication clinic takes an in-depth look at the role family, peers, and the community-at-large play in developing an individual’s self-worth. Our “wells” of development are filled with the messages received from others. These “group” messages determine how we value ourselves in comparison to others. It is important to explore the messages in our wells and cleanse them of the debilitating messages that lower self-esteem and self-worth. Heavy emphasis is placed on peer pressure and the value of self-determination. |
| YOUTH SMALL GROUP/ORGANIZATIONAL CLINICS |
Environmental Diplomats Encouraging Nature ™ - The E.D.E.N Project exposes youth to a mentoring network of Environmental and Energy Saving Professionals conscious of the need for innovative solutions that utilize the tools of communication through active participation and cooperation with intergenerational solutions to living in global harmony with others and nature. The Small Group Step provides a variety of opportunities for environmentally conscious youth to come together as diplomats for the health of the planet, including E.D.E.N. Players Theater, EARTH VOICES Youth Magazine, Environmental Innovation Projects and E.D.E.N. Global Correspondents Bureau. |
Communicating Sportsmanship
and Positive Competition – Competition is a way of
life for most young people. They live with the stress of it everyday.
This clinic helps to put a more positive perspective on competition
and the need to have a healthy attitude towards it. It reinforces
rules of civility and emphaszes personal competition and achievement
versus comparative goals. |
| Communicating in Groups: Methods and Procedures including |
| • Parliamentarian Procedures |
| • Creating Agendas |
| • Facilitation and Leadership |
Got A New Game (G.A.N.G.) - Our Youth need a new game! They need tangible alternatives to the beautification and glorification of greed and self-centeredness. The American cultural value of Individualism is a necessary component of Capitalism and Free Enterprise, but it has also spawned the cultural backlash of "get them before they get me!" The collective qualities of a caring society have all but disappeared under the guise of competition. G ot A N ew G ame assists our youth in taking a closer look at the game called "LIFE", helping them to engage in the critical thinking, self-motivation and collective awareness vital to community health. This HCI clinic partners with community and private resources to offer tangible incentives in an effort to replace gang violence and street warfare with education and job opportunities. We must save our greatest national resource - our children. |
Mediation Counsel
Development – Assists organizations in putting together
Young Counsels to help mediate problems within the organization;
peers working with peers. |
Leadership 7000
– This clinic examines the major characteristics of leadership
in a 7-step process that examines leadership from inside out. |
Getting the Job: Interviewing
Strategies – Learn the key tools necessary to effective
interviewing including cover letters, applications, resumes, mock
interviews, and communication tips that give you the edge. |
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| TOP OF PAGE |
THE
COMMUNICATION STAIRCASE, PS Perkins 2002 |
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“Understanding
the role of perception is vital to working well in groups.” |
“Group communication
methods help focus each individual towards the common group aim.” |
“The family
is the first small group most of us encounter thus setting the stage
for future group interaction.” |
