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The Personal Branding Toolkit

Promoting yourself clearly, positively, and authentically is the key to success. Building and maintaining your personal brand to change how you present in the world - and how to transform your career, business & life.

Your passion. Your story. Your brand. Invest in yourself because your skills and expertise are your brand equity.

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Break Through the Noise

Personal branding begins with understanding, with confidence what you have to offer. Your personal brand is as valuable as you are able to present consistently to the world, from a strengths perspective.

You, as a brand, can be true to yourself, so that others may have an authentic image of you who are. We offer spaces to help you ensure that you control how you show up in all of your brilliance - all or most of the time.

Training

Online and in-person class in your conference room or ours; or a training venue near you.

Workshops

Live, interactive workshops with concrete, action-oriented purpose.

Mastermind

Social learning, collaboration, knowledge, experience, and expertise sharing.

Course Catalog (click + for courses)

Personal Mastery

Adult Learning - Mental Skills
Adult Learning - Physical Skills
Anger Management
Attention Management
Being A Likeable Boss
Critical Thinking
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence at Work
Goal Setting and Getting Things Done
Improving Mindfulness
Improving Self-Awareness
Increasing Your Happiness
Job Search Skills
Life Coaching Essentials
Managing Personal Finances
Managing Workplace Anxiety
Personal Productivity
Public Speaking
Social Intelligence
Social Learning
Stress Management
Taking Initiative
Trust Building and Resilience
Work-Life Balance

Professional Development

10 Soft Skills You Need
Assertiveness and Self-Confidence
Communication Strategies
Creative Problem Solving
Creativity: Thinking Outside the Box
Developing Creativity
Digital Citizenship
Entrepreneurship
Interpersonal Skills
mLearning Essentials
Negotiation Skills
Personal Branding
Project Management
Telework And Telecommuting
The Cloud and Business
Time Management
Women in Leadership

Managers & Supervisors

Budgets And Financial Reports
Coaching And Mentoring
Conducting Annual Employee Reviews
Developing New Managers
Employee Motivation
Facilitation Skills
Knowledge Management
Leadership And Influence
Lean Process And Six Sigma
Manager Management
Middle Manager
Office Politics For Managers
Performance Management
Self-Leadership
Supervising Others
Team Building Through Chemistry
Virtual Team Building And Management

Administrative Skills

Human Resources

Business Succession Planning
Contract Management
Crisis Management
Developing a Lunch and Learn
Diversity and Inclusion
Employee Onboarding
Employee Recruitment
Employee Termination Processes
Generation Gaps
Health and Wellness at Work
Hiring Strategies
Human Resource Management
Managing Workplace Harassment
Measuring Results From Training
Millennial Onboarding
Office Health and Safety
Sensitivity Training
Talent Management
Train-The-Trainer
Unconscious Bias
Universal Safety Practices
Workplace Bullying
Workplace Diversity
Workplace Harassment
Workplace Violence

Workplace Essentials

Appreciative Inquiry
Business Acumen
Business Ethics
Business Etiquette
Change Management
Civility In The Workplace
Conflict Resolution
Customer Service
Customer Support
Cyber Security
Delivering Constructive Criticism
Developing Corporate Behavior
Handling a Difficult Customer
Networking Outside the Company
Networking Within the Company
Respect in the Workplace
Responsibility in the Workplace
Risk Assessment and Management
Safety In The Workplace
Team Building For Managers
Teamwork And Team Building

Sales & Marketing

Body Language Basics
Call Center Training
Coaching Salespeople
Contact Center Training
Creating a Great Webinar
Employee Recognition
Event Planning
High Performance Teams Inside the Company
High Performance Teams Remote Workforce
In Person Sales
Internet Marketing Fundamentals
Marketing Basics
Media And Public Relations
Motivating Your Sales Team
Multi-Level Marketing
Overcoming Sales Objections
Presentation Skills
Proposal Writing
Prospecting and Lead Generation
Sales Fundamentals
Servant Leadership
Social Media Marketing
Telephone Etiquette
Top 10 Sales Secrets
Trade Show Staff Training

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What Makes Our Courses So Great

Training Manual

A corresponding workbook to outline and streamline the course, to help you quickly access the information you need.

Varied Delivery

Creative activities and exercises are built into the course to help you interact with the content and deepen the learning.

Blended Learning

Live webinars, video series, email and SMS (text) support, podcast, quizzes, tests and journals to help document your journey.

Community Support

Access to a private members area to connect, mastermind, and network with others in the field or studying the same course.

Are You Ready to Invest in Your Personal Brand?

"YES! I'm Ready to Get Out Front & Take the Lead." "I do want explore ways to represent the heart and soul of my personal best."

If you are ready to take your personal brand to the next level, keep reading!

Productivity

Clarify, "what I'm doing, why I'm doing it and what's in it for me?"

Vision

Establish my brand values, purpose, vision and goals in everything that I do.

Confidence

Be true to the intrinsic bigger ideals that shape how I view & move about the world.

Experience

I work to increase my competitive advantages and points of difference to lead.

Loyalty

Improve my understanding of my awareness, attitudes and choices, and behaviors.

Fulfillment

Create experiences with others that lend to cooperation & collaboration.

What Are the Benefits of Personal Brand Training & Development?

Our personal branding is rooted in maximizing soft skills. Soft Skills are the non-technical skills that propel you to personal achievement and professional success. Critical soft-skills like how to manage time and stress open up the possibilities for success. Investing in managerial and leadership training gives you the tools needed to implement your vision and goals. Sales training, negotiation skills, and customer services workshops may help you to actively participate in reaching financial goals.

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Founder? Business Owner? Brand Leader?

If you are responsible building a brand, it is important to lead with core values, personality, skills, and strengths. What would it be like for you to have brand ambassadors who embodied your organization's vision and mission?

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A New Way to Think About Personal Branding

It's Your Brand. It's Your Life.

Get out front, take the lead with brave, bold, brilliant, self-confidence.
Soft skills training is important to success because it prepares you to help you find, attract, and obtain success.

Professional development has positive influences on your brand, as it prepares you to implement your vision/mission/goals...with excellence, in order for you to live a life of joy and fulfillment.

What happens when you develop a development plan:

Problem solve, delegate, inspire and implement change

Effectively and efficiently use technical skills and knowledge

Limit interpersonal issues, infighting, and poor public perceptions

If you are ready to break the cycle of limited opportunities and few options, please click the button below so we can craft a plan for your personal achievement, professional success, and mindful living.

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Personal Branding

The Strategy

With your core values, principles, and expertise at the center, you are aligned to create mutually-beneficial relationships that work for your highest good.

When you are well-trained, prepared, and fulfilled at work, you will perform better.

A confident personal brand is better positioned to attract, connect, and serve with excellence.

Lean in to exploring your personality, your strengths and skills to increase your brand equity.

First impressions are critical in personal branding. How you speak, write, and show up in the world will either negatively, or positively impact your professional goals.

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Body language, mannerisms, how you look and sound all contribute to how you are perceived by others. Understanding your assets and how to present them well is a game-changer.

Professional Development

The Attraction

Investing in training and development builds trust and increases your value in the marketplace.

Setting a standard that makes promoting yourself clearly and powerfully unique, in both noticeable and tangible ways; in order to get out front, and in the lead.

People with emotional intelligence are energized to listen, learn and make good decisions for both themselves & their career.

Personal Mastery

The Connection

Personal brands build confidence and credibility as they achieve the needed training and support.

When you consistently exemplify a set of traits and values that speak to other's need and desire...a winning image for your personal brand is earned.

Confident people will attract & engage decision-makers in positive and meaningful ways in order to get their needs met.

Your brand is most successful when you have the tools for efficiency, productivity and success.

It is critical to your success that you learn how to differentiate yourself from others. Learning how to stand out in the crowd will help you define a well-valued lane, that belongs to you.

If you are an administrative assistant, we have several courses that can help to further you career. If you have an admin that needs a little more support, we have training available.

Administrative Skills

Organization

The administrative staff are the heart-and-soul of any business. They are usually to go-to people that staff and clients seek out for help and to answer questions.

When brand leaders are in need of a gatekeeper who can both process a variety of problems, and solve them using critical thinking skills, they rely on the administrative assistants.

The administrative team are able to plan and schedule important tasks in advance. They manage schedules and develop office systems.

Workplace Essentials

The Touch-Points

Everyone in your presence must see a perfect reflection of your values, mission, purpose and goals in order to solidify your brand image.

At every turn, your actions & words must mirror your brand message with good communication - writing, speaking, and listening.

Create brand equity by performing tasks with proficiency with an understanding of how you interact and partner with others in the workplace.

Emotional intelligence and good listening skills are essential to creating cooperation and collaboration at work.

If you are a human resource professional, we have several courses that can help to further you career. We also have you covered if you need to help your HR professional become more skilled. HR practitioners are the key to hiring personal brands who resonate with your organization's values, mission and goals.

Human Resources

The Image

Loyal customers believe and trust that your offer has the right characteristics with the quality that meets their expectations because your Human Resources manager ensures quality hires.

Employee loyalty is achieved when you invest in HR prioritizes the office/store experience.

Brand equity is achieved with high value hires by a HR practitioner who implement the following priorities: strategic management, wages and salaries, analyzing benefits, safety and risk management; employee satisfaction, recruitment and onboarding, training and development, and maintaining compliance.

Supervisors & Managers

Purposeful Leadership

Well trained supervisors ensure every employee touch-point is a perfect reflection of the organization's values, mission, purpose and goals.

Help new leaders understand the initial skills and responsibilities that go with first line management responsibility. Craft a plan to elevate your career.

First line leaders succeed when they understand their own management style.

Good supervisors understand the importance of good communication, & leading from within.

Investing in your personal achievement will undoubtedly create a lane for professional success; and increased value.

As an experienced or new leader, it is an objective to be more visible, memorable, and influential - for all the right reasons.

Leadership

Mentoring

Leadership training prepares good leaders to be their best selves in order to bring out the best in others.

Inspiring and motivating a team to work as a cohesive unit rooted in the brand's goals takes effective leadership training.

A well-trained leader is organized and keeps the team on track, focused, and productive.

Leaders that are confident create an environment for employees to be creative, and submit new ideas.

Business Planning

The Touch-Points

A business plan helps brand leaders direct business decisions to achieve growth and development goals.

Investing in business planning will help founders set, guide, and reach business milestones.

Business planning will help small business owners estimate startup costs, and how much you will need to to maintain daily operations and growth.

Already established brands use business plans to examine its' technical, economic, and financial strength. Operating from a strengths perspective helps brands stay on pace to achieve desired success.

If you are an emerging business owner or one that is already in business, it would be worth the investment to have a business plan help navigate those 3:00 am BIG ideas into a viable plan of action.

Brand leaders use sales planning to help forecast a battle plan and set benchmarks. The marketing plan expresses how your brand solves problems, or otherwise met your customer's need. It also includes the strategies and tactics used position your brand as the obvious choice for those customers.

Sales & Marketing

Relationships

Holistic branding creates a customer experience that will attract your Ideal Buyer.

Social selling helps customers get to know your brand in deep and more meaningful ways.

Smart marketing begins with positioning your product as the obvious choice.

Training helps teams master the ways to maintain image and reputation in order to build happy relationships with customers.

NOTE: A sales plan includes a set of strategies designed to help sales people achieve financial goals.

NOTE: A marketing plan identifies the target market and how to get them to say yes to the offer.

OUR TEAM SERVES AS YOUR VERY OWN PERSONAL BRANDING TEAM

What Makes Our Training So Great

We help personal (and business owners) brands explore options, discover possibilities, and gain the confidence to shine in their brilliance. Personal brands collectively make the business brand flourish.

Communication

Speaking well, conveying clear messages with active listening.

Time Management

Increase better productivity while maintaining work-life balance.

Critical Thinking

Thinking critically is the willingness to analyze facts for sound judgment.

Emotional Intelligence

Self-awareness helps with healthy relationships in the workplace.

Negotiation

Achieving mutually-beneficial agreements increase productivity.

Leadership

A role that promotes positive relationships to increase brand equity.

Business problems are often personal problems in disguise. Investing in training helps everyone involved in the brand work toward personal achievement and professional success; for the highest good of all concerned. A winning recipe for success.

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Training and workshops for individuals, (and brands) who choose to invest in their brilliance.

Accountability in the Workplace

Administrative Office Procedures

Administrative Support

Adult Learning: Mental Skills

Adult Learning: Physical Skills

Anger Management

Appreciative Inquiry

Archiving & Records Management

Assertiveness & Self-Confidence

Attention Management

Basic Bookkeeping

Being a Likeable Boss

Body Language Basics

Budgets & Finance Reports

Business Acumen

Business Ethics

Business Etiquette

Business Succession Planning

Business Writing

Business Management

Business Leadership

Business Planning

Call Center Training

Change Management

Civility in the Workplace

Coaching & Mentoring

Coaching Salespeople

Collaborative Business Writing

Communication Strategies

Conducting Annual Employee Reviews

Conflict Resolution

Contact Center Training

Contract Management

Creating a Great Webinar

Creative Problem Solving

Creativity: Thinking Outside the Box

Crisis Management

Critical Thinking

Customer Service

Customer Support

Cyber Security

Delivering Constructive Criticism

Developing a Launch & Learn

Developing Corporate Behavior

Developing Creativity

Developing New Managers

Digital Citizenship

Diversity & Inclusion

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence at Work

Employee Motivation

Employee Onboarding

Employee Recognition

Employee Recruitment

Employee Termination Process

Entrepreneurship

Event Planning

Executive Personal Assistants

Facilitation Skills

Generation Gaps

Goal Setting & Getting Things Done

Handling a Difficult Customer

Health & Wellness at Work

High Performance Teams Inside the Company

High Performance teams Remote Workforce

Hiring Strategies

Human Resource Management

Improving Mindfulness

Improving Self-Awareness

In-Person Sales

Increasing Your Happiness

Internet Marketing Fundamentals

Interpersonal Skills

Job Search Skills

Knowledge Management

Leadership & Influence

Lean Process & Six Sigma

Life Coaching Essentials

Manager Management

Managing Personal Finances

Managing Workplace Anxiety

Managing Workplace Harassment

Marketing Basics

Measuring Results from Training

Media & Public Relations

Meeting Management

Middle Manager

Millennial Onboarding

mLearning Essentials

Motivating Your Sales Team

Multi-Level Marketing

Negotiation Skills

Networking Outside the Company

Networking Within the Company

Office Health & Safety

Office Politics for Managers

Organizational Skills

Overcoming Sales Objections

Performance Management

Personal Branding

Personal Productivity

Presentation Skills

Project Management

Proposal Writing

Prospecting & Lead Generation

Public Speaking

Respect in the Workplace

Responsibility in the Workplace

Risk Assessment & Management

Safety in the Workplace

Sales Fundamentals

Self-Leadership

Sensitivity Training

Servant Leadership

Social Intelligence

Social Learning

Social Media in the Workplace

Social Media Marketing

Stress Management

Supervising Others

Supply Change Management

Taking Initiative

Talent Management

Team Building for Managers

Team Building Through Chemistry

Teamwork & Team Building

Telephone Etiquette

Telework & Telecommuniting

Ten Soft Skills You Need

The Cloud & Business

Time Management

Top 10 Sales Secrets

Trade Show Staff Training

Train-the-Trainer

Trust Building & Resilience

Unconscious Bias

Universal Safety Practices

Virtual Team Building & Management

Women in Leadership

Work-Life Balance

Workplace Bullying

Workplace Diversity

Workplace Harassment

Workplace Violence

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How Would Personal Branding Training Transform Your Value, Image, and Confidence?

It's decision time. Ask yourself if you answer the following questions with confidence and clarity...

Am I clear about my values & my life's mission?

Yes or NO?

Do I understand my strengths & weaknesses?

yes or no?

Do I know my personality traits and understand how they impact my brand?

YES OR NO?

How does my identity relate to my image, and do they both work for my highest good?

YES OR NO?

What is my unique selling point?

YES OR NO?

Do I have a personal brand statement?

YES OR NO?

About Your Trainer

Personal branding is about understanding what you have to offer and presenting that authenticity & consistency, all the time. Learn how to stand out from the crowd with your unique selling points that become valuable in the workplace, in business, and in your life.

My 125+ catalog of training will help you gain knowledge, maximize expertise, and increase the confidence you need to thrive. I have dedicated my career to mentoring, training & being a change agent. Want to learn more about me? Click here for more details.

Andrea Callahan, author, speaker, trainer, small business owner and sister.

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PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT

PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS

JOYFUL FULFILLED LIFE

Holistic Branding: Soft Skills for Personal Growth & Business Success

Today's affirmations. I will invest in....

Optimum workplace productivity that depends on everyone performing at their best.

An environment of cooperation and collaboration so each individual may stand in their brilliance.

Increasing brand equity, by investing in the personal brands who share their talent and expertise.

Meeting realistically defined and prioritized business goals, by giving employees the tools they need to succeed.

BRAND AWARENESS. INCREASED SALES. MAXIMIZE REVENUE.

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Our Events include a wide range of relevant topics. Diverse, we offer rich, and purposeful learning for personal achievement & professional success for both Personal brands, and business owners who want to build success teams.

Got Questions? Here's Answers...

Do you offer training for different types of learners

Our intention is to find the right balance of diverse and compelling lessons through thoughtful visuals and creative graphics. Ultimately, our goal is providing consistent quality of each course, student materials, and exams.

Is this Corporate Training?

Our trainings are created specifically for individuals who are striving for personal achievement and professional success. If those personal brands happen to work within a corporate structure, then the answer is yes!

How long does it take to get started?

As soon as you complete the form, you will automatically receive a questionnaire that helps our team get to know your brand. Set aside about 15-minutes or so to complete. Once you submit the form, you will be directed to a scheduling page to meet with a brand manager who will help you create a training plan. Short answer...right away!

Can I take the training online or in person?

Either or both. It's your plan, your schedule, your choice.

It's been a long time since I've been in school, will this be hard?

At the ACI agency, we focus on adult learners. We often work with dreamers who are launching brands but may not have the soft-skills to implement the plan to achieve their goals. We understand, business owners hire adults with varied backgrounds and experiences so we custom-tailor training plans to meet people where they are and from a strengths perspective. We lend support as much or as little as needed.

What's the difference between employee training and development?

Good question! Training and development are two sides of the same coin.

Employee development is the overall process an employer provides to employees to help them gradually improve skills, acquire new knowledge, and progress in their careers.

Employee training is a program designed to develop and improve technical and soft skills and overall knowledge to do a specific job in a more efficient, successful, or safer manner.

Our employee development plan is like the architect while the employee training is like the contractor that implements the plan.

In keeping with that same analogy,

An architect will design a building and, with input from the client, decide what the overall building will look like when it is done: How many stories will it be? Will it have a foyer? Where will the stairs be? Will there be columns facing the street?

A contractor, on the other hand, is much more interested in the concrete details: What supports are needed under the flooring? What bolts are needed to secure the stairs? When do we mix the concrete for the columns? How do we guarantee that the building is built to code?

Development, then, is working with your employees to be an architect for their careers. Training provides the “concrete details” in the form of skills and knowledge needed to support each step.

What? How? Still Not Sure?

Before you decide, let us get you some additional information from an ACI brand champion. As you're making decisions for your short- and long-term goals, let us help you prepare for success. Our team is dedicated to supporting you in getting the training, knowledge and strategies needed for personal achievement and professional success. Click here to get started!