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30 Ways to Shine as a New Employee
A Guide for Success in the Workplace

An excellent guide for Job Retention and Success written by Denise Bissonnette that can be used by the individual employee as a self-help guide or with support from supervisors or mentors.

This guide is a gold mine of practical tips, suggestions and a "daily challenge activity" for new employees to grow and shine in thirty skill areas which include:

	Dealing with the stress of change
	Responding well to feedback
	Handling negative emotions at work
	Learning the company culture
	Surviving office politics
	Dealing with difficult people
	Being a team player
	Shining in the eyes of customers
	Going the extra mile for the employer
	Balancing life and work

Free supplemental user guides: To creatively implement the use of this guide with new employees, we offer with purchase a supplemental Agency Guide with suggestions on how to use the guides as the basis for an on-going post-employment service and an Employer Guide on how to use the guide as the basis for a workplace mentorship program.

View or print the Employer Guide

View or print the Agency Guide

An excellent resource to view or print when considering using 30 Ways to Shine as a New Employee with Job Seekers.

Implementing a Business Services Program: A Planning Guide

Written by Milt Wright

	For programs that already have a business services unit in place, this guide offers ideas and steps to consider for fine-tuning your existing services.
	For programs that are just beginning to develop business services, gain valuable ideas and key steps necessary to implement a plan of action.

This guide provides the basic ingredients for implementing a Business Services Program. It is an excellent resource for Agency Directors and Program Planners, WIB Members, Business Advisory Board Members, One-Stop staff, Business Services Representatives, Senior Job Developers and Job Retention Coordinators.

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Working with PEOPLE
with Disabilities
In a Job Placement/Job Retention Environment

This is an excellent guide written by Richard Pimentel for creating opportunities for people with disabilities. It offers a practical and innovative approach for:

	Anticipating the real or imagined problems that a job seeker with a disability might face in her or her job search.
	Developing a strategy for removing or solving the real barriers and clarifying and overcoming the perceived barriers.

Learn how to effectively communicate with people with disabilities and be ADEPT....

Anticipate barriers, problems and employer concerns.

Develop solutions and strategies.

Educate participants to effectively present themselves to the employer.

Prepare the employer to effectively work with people with disabilities.

Transition the job seeker into a successful employee through retention strategies.

Return to Work for People with
Stress and Mental Illness
A Guide for the Case Manager

This is an excellent guide written by Richard Pimentel for the medical Case Manger working with employers, claims staff, medical care providers and patients in the return-to-work process for employees with stress and/or mental illness. Topics include:

	The Definition of Stress
	Causes of Stress
	Attitude about Work-Related Stress
	How to Recognize Stress
	Stress Prevention
	Workers' Compensation and Stress
	Transitional Employment Issues and Application
	The American with Disabilities impact on Stress-Related Illnesses

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Developing the New Employee -
Retaining and Enhancing a Diverse Workforce
Introducing a powerful new program enabling your agency to provide state-of-the art training to local employers!

This compelling program provides powerful attitudinal training coupled with practical management techniques designed to be particularly effective in the diverse 21st century workplace. The program, authored by renown training experts, Rich Pimentel and Denise Bissonnette, was designed to meet the following objectives:

	Change employer attitudes toward working effectively with a diverse workforce.
	Develop new employee work ethics and an attitude for success in the workplace.
	Assist employers to develop an environment in which new employees can enhance their skills in communication, responsibility, and overall job performance.
	Provide tools and ideas for on-going mentoring that requires a minimum of time and effort.
	Motivate employers to be open and receptive to working with non-profit employment agencies.

Benefits of providing this invaluable training to employers:

Increased job placement

Greater job retention

Innovative approach to gain exposure to new employers and revitalize current business relationships

Unique opportunity to strengthen your image
as a relevant resource to business

Enhanced partnerships between your agency
and the local business community

An excellent resource for all employment specialist!

Beyond Traditional Job Development:
The Art Of Creating Opportunity
By Denise Bissonnette

Highly readable and entertaining, this book is a goldmine of invaluable ideas and strategies to catapult job developers from scarcity to abundance and from discouragement to empowerment and career satisfaction. Beyond Traditional Job Development discusses the philosophy and practice of entrepreneurial job development and challenges conventional wisdom about the current job market.

ALSO AVAILABLE ON AUDIOCASSETTE !

Now you can benefit from the goldmine of ideas and strategies offered in the book while listening to any of the eleven chapters on tape in the convenience of your car. For example:

	When experiencing the job development blues, listen to the inspiring section on entrepreneurial methods and the abundance mentality.
	Before meeting with a new employer, benefit from the 18 ways to fine-tune your marketing presentation.
	While making cold calls to employers on the phone or in person, reinspire yourself with the motivational tips for contacting employers.
	When at your wits� end for ideas on revitalizing a relationship with an employer, review your options with the section on employer partnerships.
	When one of your newly-hired applicants "burns" your favorite employer, listen to Chapter 11 for advice on turning your worst nightmare into a golden opportunity!

30-Hour Employment Preparation

BLUEPRINT For Workplace Success:
A Guide to Employment Preparation

Excellent for youth and individuals who are about to begin the employment experience!

This highly interactive 30 to 40 hour curriculum is an excellent training resource for teachers, counselors and employment specialist. It is designed to motivate and inspire youth and individuals who are uncertain about their employment options to take responsibility toward creating a meaningful and realistic career path. The materials will make your work easer, more effective and altogether more engaging as you foster the development of skills, strategies and attitude necessary to help individuals find their way in the fast-paced world of work.

The ultimate goal of Blueprint for Workplace Success is to provide individuals with tools and resources they need to believe in themselves and their capability to find and be successful at a job. The entire curriculum integrates the development of employment skills as identified by the Secretary of Labor's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS).

The Workbook focuses on the following topics:

	Self Discovery
	Managing Your Time Effectively
	Realities of the Job Market
	Workplace Skills for Today's Employee
	Using Effective Communication
	Contacting Employers
	Preparing for the Job Interview
	Getting Hired (Workplace issues, paperwork and finances)
	Keeping Your Job

The Instructor's Guide contains easy to use directions for conducting all the activities plus additional handouts and pre/post tests to monitor progress and further enhance the concepts being taught. To make teaching easier, the contents of the workbook are also included within the Instructor's Guide (Workbook materials within the Instructor's Guide may not be duplicated). Workbooks are available for purchase at a discounted quantity price.

Excellent Job Creation training materials for the Job Seeker!

Cultivating True Livelihood:
Work in the 21^st Century

Are you using yesterday’s materials to prepare people for tomorrow’s work world?

Here is a state-of-the-art library enabling you to be on the cutting edge of employment services for the new millennium. There is no need to purchase workbooks because you can purchase a site license for your organization to create your own workbooks to match the specific needs of your program participants. Training menus are provided to enable you to create a program that is based on your program timelines. Your options are unlimited and may include a one-on-one employment counseling program, a one week course, a three week course, or semester course.

KEY BENEFITS

ENABLES YOU TO INCREASE JOB PLACEMENTS BY:

	Empowering staff with powerful and effective applicant tools
	Capitalizing on the time, energy and resources of job seekers
	Enabling staff to use time more effectively and serve more people
	Increasing the exposure and marketing of applicants to employers
	Implementing an approach to services which reinforces the agency’s mission of employment as its ultimate goal

ENABLES YOU TO INCREASE JOB RETENTION BY:

	Equipping job seekers with the skills, confidence and tools to seek and find the "right" job rather than "any" job
	Inspires job seekers to make more informed decisions based on greater understanding of their assets and strengths as well as the needs and interests of employers
	Prepares the job seeker for the changing face of the work world in the 21^st century and promotes a long-term view of livelihood beyond the immediate goal of employment

ENABLES YOU TO PUT ACTIVITY-BASED PLACEMENT
INTO IMMEDIATE EFFECT BY PROVIDING:

	Detailed, step-by-step facilitator instructions with each activity
	Planning matrices for quick and easy tailoring of the curriculum for your program’s needs
	Built-in pre-post Participant Needs Assessments for each course
	Practical planning, implementation, and evaluation tools for program administrators
	A Facilitator’s Handbook on starting, implementing and evaluating Job Clubs, Support Teams and other activity-based employment service components.

Never before has there been a more comprehensive and practical resource for employment professionals to meet their placement goals. This library of activities puts in the hands of the job seekers the information, insight and inspiration to conduct their own intelligent and effective job search. For those who embrace the revolutionary concept of activity-based placement, this library will change the face of employment service forever.

A compilation of and revising of several publications and the addition of numerous new activities, this library represents the state-of-the-art in job search materials.

Save 25% when you purchase the Entire Cultivating True Livelihood Library!

280MD Curriculum Guide $ 60 US

271M Course 1 -
The Spirit to Work:
Fostering Hope and Shifting Perspective $200 US
One Site License

272M
Course 2 -
Knowing Thyself:
Assets, Strengths and Choices
$200 US
One Site License

273M Course 3 -
Personal Power:
Responding To Challenges $200 US
One Site License

274M Course 4 -
Work Search Planning:
Laying the Groundwork in the New Millennium $200 US
One Site License

275M Course 5 -
Tools for the Journey: Proposals, Resumes and Letters $200 US
One Site License

276M Course 6 - Researching Options and Opportunities $200 US
One Site License

277M Course 7 -
Contacting Employer:
Takin� it to the Streets $200 US
One Site License

278M Course 8 -
Interviewing with Ease:
Mastering the Art of Self Presentation $200 US
One Site License

270MD CTL Library Set
DISCOUNT PRICE
(Purchase the entire Library of 8 Courses and the Curriculum Guide as a Set and SAVE up to 25%)   One Site License
$1,250 US
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TRAINING VIDEOS

Cultivating True Livelihood:
Work In The 21^st Century

An In-Service Training Package
4 Hour Video Program

This dynamic four-hour video program is a cost-efficient way to introduce and inspire your entire staff with the concepts, ideas and strategies behind the compelling new approach to job placement, activity-based placement. Drawing from all of her previous publications, Denise Bissonnette offers numerous tools and techniques from her newest work, Cultivating True Livelihood.

With the warmth and vitality of her live training, Denise grabs her audience from the beginning and does not let go!
This lively presentation is equally powerful for new and experienced staff. Workbooks chocked full of hands-on tools are included.

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Work in the 21st Century - In-Service Training Package
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Work in the 21st Century - In-Service Training Workbooks
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Cultivating The Spirit To Work:
Enhancing Job Seeker Motivation

An In-Service Training Package
4 Hour Video Program

Denise Bissonnette presents a refreshing approach to motivation, offering penetrating insights into the inner worlds of applicants as well as our own. Coupling a powerful video presentation with hands-on applicant tools, this training package offers a cornucopia of strategies and suggestions for cultivating successful job placement and retention.

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Enhancing Job Seeker Motivation - In-Service Training Package
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A Pilgrim's Plea:
Poems for the Journey
by Denise Bissonnette

Denise's poetry has become a hallmark of her presentations. Her poems embody the aspirations, experiences and hopes of people struggling to cultivate "true" livelihoods, for themselves and others, in the 21st century.

A Pilgrim's Plea: Poems for The Journey, is moving journey through 21 poems that are delightfully woven around subtle yet profound truths of the human experience. True to the spirit of her work, Denise's poems both affirm us in our current life's journey and challenge us with new opportunities to live our lives with greater conviction and passion.

I Dedicate This Day (2:42) Enriching our life experience through attention to intention.
Unlived Dreams And Rising Bread (3:09) Harnessing the power to craft our dreams and shape our lives.
Arriving (3:24) Welcoming the new opportunities that "change" introduces to our lives.
Nurture Your Nature (2:48) Celebrating ourselves and our unique talents and gifts.
Rekindle The Flame (4:09) Living our lives, and our work, with purpose.
The Masquerade (1:43) Authenticity and the quest to be true to ourselves.
New Wings (1:55) Responding to life by of taking risks and finding our courage.
Lessons From The Apple Tree (5:53) Reflections on growth and transition.
Meadowlarks (2:01) The joy of generosity.
The Puppeteer: An Ode To Work (3:23) Taking control of the way our work influences our lives.
The Beauty Of Today (2:53) The awesome gift of each day - and the need to live fully within it.
The Journey To Belong (3:52) A reminder that, perhaps more important than our destinations, our lives are a journey to be savored.
On Second Thought (2:45) Enhancing the quality of our lives through the power of our perspectives.
At The Feet Of The World (4:23) Becoming willing students to the lessons of life.
A Heart Contained (3:27) Unleashing the power of joy and gratitude.
Hands (2:23) Keeping "spirit" at the core of our being.
I Want To Live In Color (1:47) Living with wholeheartedness.
Not One Alike (4:22) The joy of our uniqueness and the blessing of our connectedness.
Rhythm (3:58) Reflections on the pursuit of balance in our lives.
Veil Of Wonder (2:58) Flavoring our lives with mystery and wonderment.
A Pilgrim�s Plea (3:30) Preserving personal sanctity amidst the chaos of our lives.

"What a treat to hear such inspirational poetry -
filled with the love of life in every line!"

GIFT PACKS (5 Copies) Also available!

Buy five copies and save! Perfect personal gifts or professional development tools. These CD's are:

	Excellent career-oriented tools for staff/employees.
	Unique and memorable gifts for friends and family members.
	Great resources for seminars on job search and career development.

Wholehearted Journey:
Bridging Qualities of Soul to Everyday Life and Work
by Denise Bissonnette

The Wholehearted Journey is a book of insights gleaned and distilled from a remarkably eclectic array of sources, drawing from the world's great wisdom traditions and culminating in a rich and illuminating guide for living a spirited and wholehearted life.

Simply put, this is a personal retreat in a book. Each chapter focuses on a particular quality of soulful living and offers a self-contained tutorial for applying it to everyday life and work.

Generously sprinkled with poetry, parables, penetrating questions and practical suggestions, The Wholehearted Journey equips us for a life of greater joy and authenticity. Perspectives on the themes of the The Wholehearted Journey are enriched through the inclusion of quotations from over 400 writers, philosophers, teachers, poets, politicians, spiritual leaders and other sages.

Whether this book simply affirms and encourages you in your present journey or inspires you to head out in new and bold directions, you are sure to be delighted and inspired.

Just in time for the Holiday Season, The Wholehearted Journey, is a uniquely memorable gift for friends, coworkers, family and yes... even yourself!

For years, many participants in Denise's seminars have reported that, beyond the valuable technical skills and knowledge that they have received, their perspectives on their own lives have shifted dramatically. Comments like "you have had just as big an impact on me personally as you have professionally" have been commonplace. (Just today, a participant in one of Denise's Job Development seminars spontaneously reported that he was leaving a "changed man" - going home with purpose to be a better father, husband, employee and human being.) With The Wholehearted Journey Denise has brought to the fore, those basic philosophical and spiritual underpinnings that have made her work so uniquely inspirational.

This is a book worthy of your time.

Totally engaging, disarmingly honest and entirely delightful, The Wholehearted Journey is nevertheless an urgent call to each of us - to be mindful of our common humanity and to embrace, honor and celebrate this unique gift that is our life.

CONTENTS

The twenty chapters of The Wholehearted Journey include:

1. I Dedicate This Day: Bringing the Sacred into the Everyday

2. Unlived Dreams and Rising Bread: Shaping Fresh Hope from New Dreams

3. Arriving: Embracing the Unknown

4. Nurture Your Nature: Celebrating Your Gifts

5. Rekindle the Flame: Restoring Purpose and Passion

6. The Masquerade: Befriending Yourself and Others

7. New Wings: Moving Through Fear

8. Lessons from the Apple Tree: Accepting Change

9. Meadowlarks: Renewing the Joy of Giving

10. The Puppeteer: Pulling Your Own Strings

11. The Beauty of Today: Seizing the Day

12. The Journey to Belong: Employing Your Inner Compass

13. On Second Thought: Harnessing Perspective

14. At the Feet of the World: Becoming More Teachable

15. A Heart Contained: Choosing Joy

16. I want to Live in Color: Living Wholeheartedly

17. Not One Alike: Valuing your Part in the Whole

18. Rhythm: Cultivating Balance in Life and Work

19. Veil of Wonder: Seeing through New Eyes

20. A Pilgrim's Plea: Remaining True to the Soul

For those who long to put a new song in their step while traversing the unknown of each new day, in and outside the workplace, welcome to The Wholehearted Journey!

Follow Your True Colors
To The Work You Love

The Popular Method for
Matching Your Personality to Your Career
Written by Carolyn Kalil

"What an exciting book to discover meaningful work that satisfies your soul."
JACK CANFIELD
Chicken Soup for the Soul

Listed as #7 of the top 30 best selling career books in America on Vocational Biographies website.

Placement and retention tools for Job Club Leaders, Career Counselors and Employment Specialist at an incredibly reduced price!

Includes set of True Color Cards!

Table of Contents
1. Who Am I?
2. Your True Colors
3. Your Hidden Talents
4. Self-Esteem Comes in Four Colors
5. The Blue Personality - To Love & Be Loved
6. The Green Personality - Knowledge is Power
7. The Gold Personality - Plan It
8. The Orange Personality - Where's the Action
9. Four Paths to a Successful Life's Work
10. Dream Buster - Facing Fear
11. How To Create Your Ideal Life's Work
12. The Harmony of Colors

Carolyn Kalil, M.A., takes the mystery and misery out of your search for satisfying work. This book helps you to discover your natural strengths and talents. With the help of the True Colors method, you'll learn quickly how to reclaim your true self and find your own path to success. In a few simple steps, the author leads you to the work you love.
Follow Your True Colors to the Work You Love is also Carolyn's personal success story. It is enriched throughout by anecdotes and first hand reports from people whom she has helped in their search for self-expression and fulfilling careers.

Follow Your True Colors to the Work You Love is so much more than just another career book about how to find a job. The author demonstrates how she dealt with self-esteem issues and reclaimed her own true self, discovering her life's work in the process. From her twenty-nine years of experience as a career counselor, she shares stories of people she has helped to find the work they love.

About the Author
Carolyn Kalil has been inspiring students and organizations for more than 30 years as an educator, counselor, author, speaker and corporate trainer. Her popular book and its companion workbook continue to be successful training tools for students and a number of major corporations, including Warner Brothers and Cisco Systems. And her work is receiving high praise from colleges, prisons, Welfare-to-Work and other programs that strive to help people.

Follow Your True Colors
To The Work You Love
Adult Workbook

This fun and practical workbook can be used as a stand alone or, better yet, as a great companion to the text book in groups or classes. Students love this innovative course filled with exercises in self-discovery and career planning.

True Success: An interactive guide for achieving career, academic and personal goals
High School Workbook
Written by Carolyn Kalil

Introduces students to the True Colors process and guides them toward a career pathway that fits with who they are. A journey in self-discovery, it is sure to help students gain a better understanding of their natural strengths and talents. As they do, they become well equipped to select the college major or trade that�s right for them and identify careers in which they will thrive and find true satisfaction.

Employment & Training Services

A Pilgrim's Plea: Poems for the Journey by Denise Bissonnette

Wholehearted Journey: Bridging Qualities of Soul to Everyday Life and Work by Denise Bissonnette

Employment
& Training Services

A Pilgrim's Plea:
Poems for the Journey
by Denise Bissonnette

Wholehearted Journey:
Bridging Qualities of Soul to Everyday Life and Work
by Denise Bissonnette