WIP is seeking volunteers to assist with the implementation of the Ready, Willing, and Able course. Overseen by WIP's grantee, Homeless No More, the Ready, Willing, and Able Program is a six week series of one hour classes on personal and professional development for a career foundation of self awareness, self confidence and life skills for employment and life. Participants keep a portfolio of strengths, areas for improvement and goals.
Volunteers will help to facilitate small group discussions and act as team leaders/facilitators. No specific experience or training is required.
Volunteers do not need to commit to six weeks. If someone can give time and direct service to one week, it works really well. For WIP investors who want to interact and directly help women, this is a great place to serve!
This six-week course will run once a week at Saint Lawrence Place from 6:30-7:30 pm, on Monday nights beginning April 15 and ending May 20.
READY, WILLING AND ABLE:
SKILLS FOR THE WORKPLACE AND BEYOND
READY:
Confidence and self awareness to be effective in the workplace and beyond
My leadership promise: identify your natural talents. Complete a self assessment inventory and identify leadership strengths, opportunities to improve, and improvement goals for the next week.
My leadership look: self assessment workshop to develop a personal leadership brand with emphasis on using body language and dress to control how people see and evaluate you.
WILLING
Motivation and drive to achieve at peak performance in the workplace and beyond
Communicate with empathy: Active listening to hear what the other person is saying verbally and non-verbally. Practice active listening techniques in work setting case studies.
Customer service heart: Workshop on developing and demonstrating a customer service orientation. Learn how to handle difficult customers and difficult co-workers.
ABLE
Build skills for success in any workplace and beyond
Interview skills: Workshop on interviewing skills. Learn how to answer difficult interview questions so that leadership strengths come through to the interviewer.
Deliver excellence: Graduation from Ready, Willing and Able Workplace Leadership.
