Classes, Seminars, and Certification Courses

Open to the Public and Available for Organizations and Conventions Spouse Programs

Master of Ceremonies
Certification Course

Be the MASTER of Ceremonies NOT the AMATEUR of Ceremonies

Three Component Workbook Included

This twenty four-hour course can be conducted in the following time formats to accommodate your schedule.

• One class per week for three weeks with each class being eight hours in length
• Three-day course with each class being eight hours in length

Note: All students must complete twenty four hours of Master of Ceremonies training to receive certification

The life, mood, and success of every event, begins and ends with the Master of Ceremonies.

What if:

• Your boss asks you to be the emcee for your company’s awards banquet?
• Your child has a special event and no one is willing to be the emcee?
• You are a professional speaker and you want to add streams of income to your business as a Certified Master of Ceremony?
• You are asked to perform an installation ceremony?
• You are asked to give an invocation or deliver a memorial?
• You are asked to be the Master of Ceremonies for a friend’s wedding?
• You want to create a niche market for yourself as a wedding reception emcee?

Regardless of your situation, there may come a time when being a skillful Master of Ceremonies will bring accolades from the boss, admiration from friends and family, and even extra income.

What you will learn:

Component I: The Purpose and Role of an Emcee

• The Three Essentials to Excel as an Emcee are to be:
  1. In Control
  2. Brief
  3. Entertaining
• When does your job, as emcee, begin?
• The Master of Ceremonies checklist
• Plan for the expected unexpected
• The etiquette of invocations

Component II: Introducing the Speaker

• Preparation – the interview
• Create connection between the speaker and the audience
• Where to place the title of speech and name of speaker within the introduction
• How to welcome the speaker with etiquette and enthusiasm
• Presenting awards

Component III: How to Have a Smooth-Flowing Function

• Segue the segments
• Appropriate time for announcements
• Protocol for introducing dignitaries - pyramid method
• Dignitary comments – inverted pyramid method
• How to always end on a positive note
• Perform a memorial with correctness and compassion for all
• How to perform installations with unique creativity and proper etiquette

[ top page ]

Leadership for Teens

“Teach them to lead and they’ll teach by leading.”

This nine-hour course can be conducted in the following time formats to accommodate you and your child’s schedule.

• One class per week for six weeks with each class being one and a half hours in length
• Two-day course with each class being four and a half hours in length

Note: All students must complete nine hours of leadership training to receive
certification

Confidence, self-esteem, and self-reliance are words that sound good. They are words that all good parents and teachers try their best to instill in their children. But reality is, there are hours in the day that our children are not with us. There are hours in the day that our children’s minds are exposed to negative thoughts and doubts about their own abilities. Whether negative comes from other children or adults, it’s hurtful to their present stability and harmful to their future success. These self-disapproving thoughts become the future enemy of your child’s adult life.

Unfortunately, we can’t abolish all risks of emotional wounds for our children, but we can give them armor to protect themselves. We can give them the armor of confidence, a sense of worth, and self-respect.

Give your teenager nine hours that will plant seeds of self-worth and send them into adulthood with a strong foundation of leadership qualities.

Speaking Skills

The students will learn:

• How to trust and believe in their own abilities by delivering prepared speeches
• How to evaluate their peers with honesty and tactfulness
• To Share what they’ve learned through life experiences
• How to take charge when a situation attempts to disrupt order
• To make decisions for themselves and their peers
• How to use Robert’s Rules of Order to respect ideas of their peers, to take action on productive ideas, and to elect class leaders

Handwriting Assessment for Leadership Qualities

The students will learn how to:

• Raise their self-esteem by raising the bar
• Remember more by dotting more
• Connect with brain neurons and connect with triumph
• Raise your test grades by changing the way you take notes

Listening Skills for the Young Mind

The students will learn:

• How to hear emotions
• How to hear the sounds of silence
• How to hear texting, when you really listen
• How to be a better multi-tasker by listening and focusing

Examples of youth organizations who will benefit from “Leadership for Teens:”

• Skills USA
  
• Lead-America.org
  
• Youth Service America (YSA)
  
• 4-H Youth Development Program
  
• National Organization for Youth Safety
  
• Business Professionals of America (BPA)
  
• Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA)
  
• Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD)
  
• Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA)
  
• Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA)

[ top page ]

Listening Skills for Couples Listening to Love and Loving to Listen The Journey of Love Begins with Listening

Give a Special Gift to Your Partner
Become a Certified Listener

This course can be conducted in its’ full and complete format of six hours or a more condensed format of three hours to accommodate your schedule.

Make no mistake about it, listening is for the courageous. And the benefits are worth the effort! Those who listen, create their possibility “to have and to hold” a loving and lasting relationship.

You will learn how to:

• Halt internal chatter and just listen
• Give me your pause please
• Hear unspoken emotions
• Embrace the sounds of silence
• Listen to understand
• Listen with compassion
• Listen without judgment
• Listen for the facts

Who will benefit from this course:

Any couple (or single person hoping to be a couple) desiring a loving and lasting relationship. Create an international evening and take a trip around the world with each dish served.

[ top page ]