 Managing Challenging Clients Did you know on June 5th Roberta is presenting a webinar for NBCDAG on Managing Challenging Clients. Some clients are simply more challenging for us than others - and, ironically, sometimes our colleagues' most challenging clients are easy for us to understand and connect with. Why is that? In this webinar, explore what makes some clients particularly challenging . . . for you. Leave with tips and strategies for strengthening your working relationships, overcoming resistance, avoiding power struggles, navigating conflict, defusing angry clients, assessing employment readiness, learning more about diverse client issues, supporting clients in crisis, screening for suicide risk and mental health concerns, and making appropriate referrals. Learn more at http://www.nbcdag-gadcnb.ca/ or register at http://nbcdag.webex.com. Life Strategies May 2012 newsletter is now available. This month's topic is: 10 Tips for Projects That Never End. In Memoriam On Monday, April 16th, the Life Strategies family suffered a tragic loss when Gerry, Roberta’s husband and Life Strategies’ VP, passed away. This unexpected loss has shocked family, friends, and professional colleagues. Gerry was an integral member of our team and a dear friend; he will be greatly missed. We’d like to thank all those who sent along kind words and prayers and appreciate your patience during this time as we work through our grief. In lieu of flowers, donations can be sent to Mount of Olives Children’s Village, Missions Network International PO Box 75300, White Rock, BC V4B 5L4. In the memo line, cheques can state “In memory of Gerry Neault.” Learn more about Mount of Olives at www.missions-network.org #HireCAN Friday is a great day for chatting for career development practitioners, especially in Canada. Every Friday at 11am PST, career management professionals and recruiters come together on Twitter to chat through the hashtag #HireCAN about relevant topics. On Friday, April 13th, Miranda Van de Kuyt hosted the topic “Talking To Clients About Self-Employment.” She posed a series of questions and different people weighed in with their perspectives – click here to read some of the highlights.  Upcoming Courses CMPP: 05-Sep-12 - Researching Workplace Trends, Career Information and Employment Possibilities 19-Sep-12 - Group Facilitation Strategies for Career Programs 26-Sep-12 - Career Development Foundations, Emerging Theories, and Models Certificate Programs: 12-Sep-12 - CPE 510: Fundamentals of Psychometric Assessments 19-Sep-12 - Foundations for Practice in Educational and Vocational Guidance 26-Sep-12 - Job Developer Short Courses 12-Sep-12 - Managing Diversity at Work 26-Sep-12 - e-Coaching To view our full course schedule, please click here.  To register for any of our courses, please go to our online store. Register for 3 or more courses at one time, and receive a 10% discount. Are you a new student? Please fill out the one-time application form. | Welcome to Life Strategies
Welcome to the Life Strategies LearnOnline site, home of the internationally recognized Career Management Professional Program, Canada’s only e-learning option for Personality Dimensions certification training, and a host of other programs and courses. This site utilizes Moodle, an online learning management system, to allow students to learn and connect online, anytime, anywhere. Click on login, in the upper right corner, to get started.  In 2004, Life Strategies launched the Career Management Professional Program (CMPP) with the goal of bringing high quality education to career practitioners, career/employment counsellors, and other professionals. The success of CMPP led to the development of other courses and programs; overall, LearnOnline offers over 50 courses and has welcomed students from around the world. We are thrilled to announce that Life Strategies LearnOnline has trained over 1,000 students since 2004; 42% of them were in British Columbia. We also want to take a moment to congratulate our 1000th student – Shelly McDonald from Whitehorse, Yukon. Please check out our websites: Life Strategies Life Strategies Online Store Managing Diversity Look Before You Leap For General Inquiries: 604.856.2386 For Technical Support: techsupport@lifestrategies.ca    Follow Dr. Roberta Neault:  Follow Deirdre Pickerell: Course categories
| Student of the Month  The Life Strategies team would like to acknowledge some of our exceptional students; May's Student of the Month is Joseph Gillett. He’s been a student with us since April 2011 and is very close to completing his CMPP certificate; Joseph is a pleasure to work with and has demonstrated continued growth and development throughout his studies. Read more about Joseph in our May newsletter. Navigating to Your Course Taking courses through Life Strategies has been such an invaluable experience; the instructors are fantastic, the course content excellent and on-line learning environment allows isolated communities to keep up-to date and take courses. There are so many courses that I still want to take so I this is definitely not the end. Janice Adams, CCDP, B.ED. Career Practitioner/Manager Fort Nelson Employment Services CMPP Grad - March 2011   Join our LearnOnline Reconnect LinkedIn group to keep in touch with other students, course instructors, and student advisors; stay up to date on the latest program news, share success stories, and access new resources. Also, check out our Reconnect Resource Library for student tip sheets. |
