Judi Adams is an acclaimed coach and trainer. She specializes in individual strategic planning using the Shift-It coaching model; she provides a series of team buillding, personnel training, and management skill modules through The Big Girl Club Workshops; and she is a Mentor Trainer for the Techniques of Participation Group Facilitation Methods. On occasion, she accepts an intern from the field of psychology. counseling, organizational development, and/or community development. This is a six month one-on-one in-office and in-field training internship; very rigorous and extremely rewarding.

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Shift-It Coaching
"The world turns aside to let any person pass who knows where they are going."  Epictetus
Strategic planning isn't only for organizations and groups. Judi Adams uses the Shift-it coaching model, a creative interactive coaching journey, to help clarify dreams, goals, and ambitions - and turn them into a personal plan of action. This is not your typical coaching approach. Highly personalized and definitely effective, Shift-it will shift your world.  
Cost: Free hour for first consult. $250 per 60 minute session; $900 for half day session (4 hours); $1200 for all day session

The Big Girls Club: Little Girl Rules for The Big Girl Workplace
This workshop series is light hearted, fun, but profoundly effective and is designed specifically for women who work with other women as peers, employees, or bosses. The Big Girls Club model offers alternatives to traditional hierarchical, competitive, power and control models for the workplace. We offer workshops based on the intuitive rules of childhood that helped us succeed on playgrounds, within in groups and among friends. Modules include...

Cross My Heart and Hope to Die
•  Building two-way accountability and communication
•  Promoting team work and cooperation
•  Inspiring confidence and trust

Share and Share Alike
•  Succeeding without competing
•  Sharing the limelight
•  Defining success 

Be Nice - Play Fair
•  Supervising beyond power and control
•  Developing by-in and good will
•  Setting the stage for fair play

Cost: Workshops are custom designed to meet specific personnel needs.  Costs are determined by the number of participants and the length of time; sessions can range from half to full days. Excellent for staff retreats, HR in-service training, new employee orientation and more! 
Participants receive a copy of The Big Girls Club and The Big Girls Club Workbook.

Next course: December 15, 2009 Arkansas State Program Coordinators; HIPPY Program - Home instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters

ToP(tm) Group Facilitation Methods
Learn three proven processes for activating group participation in this two day group training. Gain hands-on experience practicing methods and explore ways to apply them to your specific situation.

The Focused Conversation Method
This process heightens your effectiveness in facilitating virtually every form of group communication.

• Conduct purposeful, productive meetings and discussions
• Quickly capture a group's best thinking and surface new ideas and solutions
• Ask questions that stimulate candid feedback and discussion

The Consensus Workshop Method
Energize problem-solving with a process that builds active participation and teamwork.

• Tap both rational and intuitive thought processes
• Integrate diverse ideas
• Generate practical and creative solutions and develop group consensus

The Action Planning Method
Master this powerful implementation planning process which enables you to help a group rapidly pull together an effective plan, organize needed resources and mobilize individuals' energy into action.

• Visualize a successful result and analyze the current reality
• Create a practical plan
• Maximize group commitment and involvement

Cost per person: $545.00 ($495 if you register three weeks prior to the course)

** Three day course; add $80 per person.

Participatory Strategic Planning
Prerequisite: Group Facilitation Methods (GFM)
This course is for folks who are looking for a broad based long Strategic Planning process that will generate a long term vision, identify blocks and barriers, create strategies and produce detailed actions plans, year by year and quarter by quarter. This process is collaborative and uses the consensus building methods learned in the GFM course:

• Enhance your capacity for creative strategy building
• Enable a group to come to a common vision and create a "participant-owned" plan that deals with the realities blocking the group
• Experience and practice the complete strategic planning process of vision, contradictions, strategic directions, and implementation
• Discover how to weave together the basic tools into longer formats and retreat settings

Cost: $545.00 ($495 if you register three weeks prior to the course)

Applications Lab
Prerequisite: Group Facilitation Methods (GFM)
The ToP Application Design Lab was created for those who have been introduced to the ToP methods and would like to refine their use of them "on-the-job". This one day course focuses on creating a design for a participatory event you will facilitate. You can work individually or in small teams to design facilitation solutions to real concerns.

• Learn to apply ToP facilitation methods to your actual cases
• Explore the stages of a facilitator's journey and practice the method for your next facilitation
• Increase your confidence and your personal capacities and have an opportunity to share experiences with others
• Uncover new applications of the methods

Cost: $250 per person.