Training & Consulting Solutions
What it means to work is undergoing a dramatic shift. From learning to work from home, to pivoting the work you do to meet emergent demands, the one thing that remains the same is the need for workplace-driven results through soft skills.
According to industry experts, this need for soft skills is continuing to grow:
- 92% of executives say soft skills matter as much or more than technical skills - Wall Street Journal
- 94% of employees would stay at an organization that invested in their career - LinkedIn
- 85% of an individual's career success will be determined by their people skills - Harvard University
To address the pressing needs facing businesses, employers, community organizations and individuals, Civiconnect offers the following solutions:
Training Services:
- Workshops
- Mentorship Programs
- Curriculum Development
- Custom Training Solutions
Consulting Services:
- Research & Assessment
- Skills Workshop & Program Design
- Youth Engagement & Attraction
- Social Impact & Entrepreneurship
- Turning leads into sales
- Improving impact
Training Solutions
Does your organization need workplace skills training for employees or clients? Civiconnect offers a myriad of high-impact experiential training services that suit your organization’s needs including workshops, mentorship opportunities, curriculum development and custom-built training solutions.
Civiconnect provides training options for topics including:
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Productivity & wellbeing
- Leadership development
- Career planning
Civiconnect’s training services work for clients of all sizes, including businesses, community organizations, and individuals. All training is group-based, interactive, hands-on, and reflective to allow for maximum learning. Training can be delivered virtually, in-person or both!
Civiconnect's experienced trainers can also create custom workshops or training solutions personalized to your organization to help you achieve your specific goals. Based on research and experience, Civiconnect will build a curated training experience made just for you. All custom training is experiential, feedback-driven, and comes with Facilitator Guides and supplementary educational materials. Interested in custom training solutions? Contact us today!
Is your organization looking to offer professional development opportunities to your staff? Our mentorship team of experienced industry experts can aid your team in:
- Career and professional skills mentoring
- Skill needs assessments and development plan mentoring
- Teamwork and conflict management mentoring
- Career development mentoring
100% of past mentees said that they gained valuable knowledge and experience from our mentorship program!
Is your organization looking to establish its own mentorship program for employees? We can help with that too!
- Mentorship program design
- Train-the-mentor
- Mentorship session activities and guides
- Resources
- Ongoing support
- Monitoring, tracking and evaluation resources
Consulting Solutions
Civiconnect also offers a host of consulting services for businesses and community organizations to empower your organization to maximize its impact and realize its goals.
- Needs assessments
- Impact assessments
- M&E design
- Program assessments
- Program design
- Program assessment
- Custom curriculum development
- Train-the-trainer
- Mentorship programs
- Engaging youth through digital technology
- Youth stakeholder consultations
- Becoming a youth-friendly employer
- Researching youth issues
- Change management
- Sustainable development
- Government relations & advocacy
- Community development
- Intra-preneurship
Why Choose Us?
Kailene Jackson
Kailene is the co-founder and Director of Programming at Civiconnect, where she oversees all of the organization’s internal and community-facing programming and skills training initiatives. At the Youth Skills Studio, Kailene develops the program’s innovative work integrated learning model and has been highly involved in designing as well as implementing and evaluating its soft skills training curriculum.
As a lifelong resident of Niagara, Kailene is familiar with the challenges facing youth, small businesses and community organizations in the region. Kailene is passionate about supporting youth and the community through education and innovative opportunities. Kailene has expertise in adult education and community development, with relevant experience in higher education from working at Brock University as well as professional experience in the entrepreneurship and the non-profit sectors.
Kailene holds a Master of Arts in Political Science with a specialization in International Relations and a combined Honours Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Sociology from Brock University.
Nico Gadea
Nico is the Manager of Experiential Learning at Civiconnect, where he works closely with the Programming Department in the development and facilitation of the soft skills training curriculum.
Nico loves to spend time in nature and is an avid supporter of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Nico loves to teach (pretty much anything) and loves to trade on the stock market. In his free time, Nico can be found making music, scuba diving, playing tabletop games, and spending time with his dog Tesla. Nico is proud to have recently purchased his first home, ensuring Niagara will remain his permanent residence.
Nico has attended several universities in the past decade including the University of New England, University of Toronto, and Brock University where he has completed his Bachelor of Science in Medical Science and Master of Science in Applied Health Science. Further, Nico is a current Ph.D. student at Brock in the department of Psychology where he specializes in the field of cognitive behavioural neuroscience and brain neuroplasticity.
All of Civiconnect’s trainers are Personality Dimensions® Level 1 Certified Facilitators.
Personality Dimensions® is the next step in the evolution of temperament and personality theory. Based on a foundation of solid research, it gives you a better understanding of yourself, your strengths, values, needs, and how you perceive the world.
By choosing Civiconnect training services, you will have access to the exclusive Personality Dimensions® assessments and toolkits!
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