Facilitation & Training
Chipara has extensive experience leading & facilitating workshop trainings and meetings. Our facilitators provide full-service support to any situation they manage. We handle curriculum development for custom workshops or coordinate agenda planning, pre-event planning and research as well as delivery our standard offerings if they meet a client’s existing need.
Since 2003, we have worked in several areas: non-profit team building and leadership sessions; business leadership training; change management workshops; and small to medium business owners support programs. Additionally, we have designed and hosted events to help local and state agencies expand technology-based workforce development and training and pursue their economic development goals.
We have led groups and trainings as small three attendees to large scale groups of over 300. The larger the group, the greater the complexities, but the goal is always the same: create an atmosphere where people come together, share ideas, and learn. Our facilitators are adept at overseeing discussions of complex issues while maintaining a sense of civility, encouraging collaborative approaches to solving any issues that our clients need to resolve.
How we are different:
Psychographics and Emotionality Data
We use Psychographic and Emotionality data to improve community engagement and responsiveness. This approach allows us to improve meeting and workshop activities. Plus we can identify and engage with individuals who would want to participate.
Personality traits influence opinions and behaviors. The use of these traits is called Psychographics. Marketing professionals use Psychographics like demographics when creating target messaging to their customers. To learn more how this works, please go to Psychographics and Emotionality Explained.
Technology-based Economic & Workforce Development Experience
Technology Business has a huge impact on a local economy. It also allows for the development of work/live communities while lowering a community’s carbon footprint. In order to have successful tech-based economy, communities must also focus on attracting a workforce that companies will need.
Group & Individual Workshops
We have created and delivered a variety of organizational and individual development workshops. To review our current list or get ideas to create a custom workshop please see our Topics page.
Our Trainers & Facilitators
Carrie West
Carrie has over twenty years’ experience working facilitating events, working with groups and leading sessions from three to three hundred participants. She has worked with public commissions, non-profits and private businesses. Each has its own unique needs and Carrie excels at supporting needs of the group in all instances.
Areas of experience:
- Public Commission on Homelessness and Homeless Housing
- Affordable Housing
- Workforce planning
- Business and community transformation
- Assessing organizational readiness
- Adoption of new processes or systems
- Preparing for success
- Preparing for business changes or transformation
- Understanding current business processes to identify areas of improvement
- Team Building & Training
Thelma Alane
Thelma is a proven team leader and facilitator guiding a diverse mix of groups to thrive. As Chair of the State of Hawaii’s annual civic coding challenge, she led the multi-month event to successful results and collaborated on expanding the event to be a key starting point for technology-based economic development and workforce training.
Additional experience includes facilitation of Zoom, Teams & Google Meet based virtual meetings as well as developing workshops, coordinating speakers and managing the invitation process via Eventbrite.
Workshop Topics
Strategic Planning
Traditional planning has lost some of its effectiveness. We use the latest data analysis skills to bring innovation to a new and improved strategic planning process. We can include data specific to your business with a three-month advance commitment.
Stakeholder Engagement
We will review the best way to engage with stakeholders, including psychographic analysis of your key associates.
Change Management
As organizations work through process improvement and readiness for new initiatives, supporting efforts to cope with change is essential to success. Our experts have helped hundreds of organizations prepare for system and change adoption while retaining important legacy knowledge.
Sales Planning / Business Development
Innovative approaches to building your business while achieving strong ROI. Including using the latest NextGen Technology to improve marketing and sales closing results.
Dealing with Conflict
Learn best practices in how to resolve different opinions and approaches to an issue. Using productive debating techniques to improve outcomes. Some examples include:
- Connecting with team members and staff to solve or prevent problems at the office.
- One of my colleagues tends to be toxic. Our boss tells me to figure it out. I’ve tried everything.
- Two team members have strong and differing ideas on how to achieve department goals.
Dealing with Ambiguity and Chaos
There don’t seem to be any guidelines for what to do at work, even going to the office is chaotic! Some managers and supervisors don’t seem to have a clue. What gives?
The Importance of Great Communications
Communication planning brings a roadmap for businesses to help them mitigate issues and prioritize the needs of the organization while keeping employees informed. Using newsletters, social media and portals, strong engagement assures employee satisfaction and longevity when needed.
Listen to be Heard
People often feel they aren’t heard in meetings or in conversation. We will focus on how to feel heard after any interaction.
Leadership Skills
Whether you are a natural or looking to the learn the skills, you’ll discover what it takes to lead a team or a business.
- How can I motivate my team – they seem so uninspired.
Digital Literacy
We will look at how to present yourself and how to conduct yourself in online conferences. You’ll also learn way to use the internet in your work.
Cyber Security Training
With Cybercrime and scams on the rise it is important to be informed on how to be proactive in keeping your business, your family and yourself safe. Learn what you can do to protect your devices and how scammers work so they can’t manipulate you into falling for their schemes.
How to be an Anti-Scammer Workshop
Entrepreneurship: Pitching your Idea
Learn the Pro Tips & Tricks to communicate your startup ideas to friends, family, collaborators and ultimately investors!
Custom Curriculum Development
Based on the goals and objectives that you have for the workshop, we will customize the topic, event and activities.
Personal Development / One-on-One Sessions
First Job Out of College
How do you navigate the workplace after living in a structured supportive environment such as college? Can also be used for people returning to the workforce after raising a family or taking time off.
Having it All
I want a career and I want a life. Is that possible?
Confidence Boosters
Feeling strong and empowered is an internal attribute. How do you gain confidence in yourself and what you bring to the table?
Am I Good at Anything?
Woman have a tougher time owning their talents. This workshop will help you see the fabulous gift that you are. Men also need to know that they have talents that can be unlocked and used to great advantage.
Find Your Voice
Do you sometimes find expressing yourself with writing or speaking a challenge? In this workshop we’ll help you find your voice and gain confidence in using it.