Two NEW Classes for Winter 2008

I'm excited to announce two brand new classes for our Winter 2008 calendar:

1. SEO for Everyone - In order to achieve high rankings on search engines, you need to know and use search engine optimization (SEO) techniques. Join us for this teleclass where we cover some of the most important things you can do to improve your search rankings.

2. Marketing To Women - In order to grow your business, you must understand women's lifestyles and what are their specific wants, needs and desires. In this teleclass you will learn to re-define your marketing strategy and re-design your marketing copy to speak directly to women.

Check out our Calendar of Events for dates and times!

Designing Effective Workshops and Teleclasses

Teleclass begins October 25

Increase your income teaching what you know.

A good workshop design allows students to learn with ease, and offers a holistic approach to learning by using students' intellect, their bodies and their heart in an integrative experience. It allows us, the presenter and facilitator, to speak with comfort and centeredness.

It also gives us an opportunity to build a trusting relationship between ourselves and our students, who may be current or future clients.

For many years, I was the International Director of Education for a software company and creating new educational class was what my team did, day in and day out. I have studied the structure, process, and psychology of good adult educational design and am happy to share my knowledge with you and to help you create an outstanding class for your own students!

What You'll Learn

In this 5-week teleclass, you'll learn:

• the psychology of how adults learn


• how to design a structured, multidimensional workshop or teleclass


• how to construct lessons, lesson plans and exercises for optimum student learning


• how to analyze the needs of your students


• how to conduct post-class evaluations to give you feedback


• how to price and market your workshop or teleclass

Come with your ideas and questions, and walk out with a class design of your own, ready to teach and ready for students to learn!

A copy of my 86-page book, Designing Effective Workshops and Teleclasses: 7 Proven Steps to Creating Classes Students Will Love, is included with this class as your student guide.

To learn more about this class, and to register:
http://www.passionforbusinesslearning.com/calendar.html

*** What Students Say ***

Thanks for presenting a fantastic class. You shared all of the pieces required for creating a class or workshop, and you role-modeled by giving us such a valuable and well-designed class. I feel I now have the tools and greater confidence to complete the classes I've been wanting to offer to my network. Thanks also for being so available to support us during the class. It was great to have your personal inputwith our homework!
--Julie Cohen, PCCCareer & Personal Coach

Karyn, this is one of the best tele-classes I have taken. Your material is extremely well organized and presented. I found the needs assessment very helpful and appreciated the resources that can simplify the process. Conducting an assessment is a great pre-marketing tool, as well as making sure the workshop is targeted to a need. I also benefited from the easy-to-use format for putting together a lesson plan.
--DiAnne ArbourThe Leaders Studio

After taking a few free teleclasses with Karyn, I took her Designing Effective Workshop and Teleclasses course. What an outstanding course! The time flew by and Karyn was a great role model, a teacher who gave constant feedback, guidance, resources and support. Our class was at varying levels of familiarity with Instructional Design. Karyn was able to create a positive learning environment, and her own dynamic, energetic sense of humor made the learning feel effortless and fun! I'd recommend this course to anyone serious about effective teaching where your students are receptive and truly value your knowledge!
--Marcia MerrillCareer Coach

When and Where and How Much

Begins October 25, 2007 and runs for five weeks. There is no class the week of Thanksgiving Holiday.

Oct. 25

Nov. 1

Nov. 8

Nov. 15

Nov. 29

All teleclasses are 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM eastern

Fee: $159

Instructor: Karyn Greenstreet

A copy of my book, Designing Effective Workshops and Teleclasses, is included in the class fee, and will be shipped to you a week beforeclass begins.

Can't make these sessions?

We record each class, then put it up on a students-only website the next day for you to download and listen to. You can listen to it either on your computer, or an MP3 player (if you have one). You can either choose to listen each week and follow along with us, or simply keep the MP3 files and use them for self-study whenever you're ready.

To learn more about this class, and to register:
http://www.passionforbusinesslearning.com/calendar.html

Autumn Classes Now Available

Our autumn class schedule has just been posted:

• Increase Your Income With a Powerful Marketing Plan, begins Sept 17



• Sounding Authentic: Proven Voice Strategies, begins Oct 9



• Designing Effective Workshops and Teleclasses, begins Oct 25



• How to Create and Run a Mastermind Group, begins Nov 26

To learn more about these classes, visit our Learning Center:

http://www.passionforbusinesslearning.com/calendar.html

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What To Look For in a Digital Recorder

Many people have asked me how I record my teleclasses. I use a digital recorder, connected to my telephone line. Some teleconference companies will allow you to record your call through their service. However, since I also record all my live speeches and workshops, a digital recorder was the way to go for me.

As for digital recorders, I have an Olympus DS-40. Here's what to look for when buying a digital recorder:

1. That the recorder can be connected to your PC for downloading files easily. I'm not sure if they work with a Mac, so if you have a Mac, you'll have to research the options available here.

2. Removable storage. This means the recordings are stored on a flash card. By having removable storage you can always buy more flash cards to store more audio if you're going to record a one- or two-day live workshop (where you can't get back to your PC to download the recording then remove it off the flash card).

3. That it can store files in MP3 format. This way, you don't have to do a lot of fiddling with file conversions: MP3 can be uploaded "as is" to your website.

4. That it has both a SP (standard play) and an LP (long play) mode. SP modes give you higher quality audio recording, but reduced the length of available recording because the file size is larger.

5. Long record times: If you're teaching a full day, 8-hour live workshop, you need to know that your recorder can record the whole day in SP mode.

6. It must have a microphone jack so that you can plug it into your telephone.

Good luck in your search!

Designing Effective Workshops - begins January 16

Designing Effective Workshops and Teleclasses

Begins January 16

A good workshop design allows students to learn with ease, and offers a holistic approach to learning by using students' intellect, their bodies and their heart in an integrative experience. It allows us, the presenter and facilitator, to speak with comfort and centeredness.

It also gives us an opportunity to build a trusting relationship between ourselves and our students, who may be current or future clients.

For many years, I was the International Director of Education for a software company and creating new educational class was what my team did, day in and day out. I have studied the structure, process, and psychology of good adult educational design and am happy to share my knowledge with you and to help you create an outstanding class for your own students!

*** What You'll Learn ***

In this 5-week teleclass, you'll learn:

• the psychology of how adults learn
• how to design a structured, multidimensional workshop or teleclass
• how to construct lessons, lesson plans and exercises for optimum student learning
• how to analyze the needs of your students
• how to conduct post-class evaluations to give you feedback
• how to price and market your workshop or teleclass

Come with your ideas and questions, and walk out with a class design of your own, ready to teach and ready for students to learn!

A copy of my 86-page book, Designing Effective Workshops and Teleclasses: 7 Proven Steps to Creating Classes Students Will Love, is included with this class as your student guide.

To learn more about this class, and to register:

http://www.passionforbusiness.com/designing-effective-workshops.htm

*** What Students Say ***

Thanks for presenting a fantastic class. You shared all of the pieces required for creating a class or workshop, and you role-modeled by giving us such a valuable and well-designed class. I feel I now have the tools and greater confidence to complete the classes I've been wanting to offer to my network. Thanks also for being so available to support us during the class. It was great to have your personal input with our homework!

--Julie Cohen, PCCCareer & Personal Coach



Karyn, this is one of the best tele-classes I have taken. Your material is extremely well organized and presented. I found the needs assessment very helpful and appreciated the resources that can simplify the process. Conducting an assessment is a great pre-marketing tool, as well as making sure the workshop is targeted to a need. I also benefited from the easy-to-use format for putting together a lesson plan.

--DiAnne ArbourThe Leaders Studio



After taking a few free teleclasses with Karyn, I took her Designing Effective Workshop and Teleclasses course. What an outstanding course! The time flew by and Karyn was a great role model, a teacher who gave constant feedback, guidance, resources and support. Our class was at varying levels of familiarity with Instructional Design. Karyn was able to create a positive learning environment, and her own dynamic, energetic sense of humor made the learning feel effortless and fun! I'd recommend this course to anyone serious about effective teaching where your students are receptive and truly value your knowledge!

--Marcia MerrillCareer Coach



*** When and Where and How Much ***

This teleclass begins January 16, 2007 and runs for five weeks:

Session 1: January 16
Session 2: January 23
Session 3: January 30
Session 4: February 6
Session 5: February 13

All teleclasses are 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM eastern

Fee: $149

Instructor: Karyn Greenstreet

A copy of the book, Designing Effective Workshops and Teleclasses, is included in the class fee, and will be shipped to you a week before class begins.

*** Can't make these sessions? ***

We record each class, then put it up on a students-only website the next day for you to download and listen to. You can listen to it either on your computer, or an MP3 player (if you have one). You can either choose to listen each week and follow along with us, or simply keep the MP3 files and use them for self-study whenever you’re ready.

To learn more about this class, and to register:

http://www.passionforbusiness.com/designing-effective-workshops.htm

My First Book!

We all say, "I should write a book on that subject." I said it, too -- for 10 years! And now I'm proud to announce my first book: Designing Effective Workshops and Teleclasses: 7 Proven Steps to Creating Classes Students Will Love.

After teaching the Designing Effective Workshops class to hundreds of students, I finally took everything I knew, plus the comments and suggestions from my students, and put it together in a book.

And what a great book it is! It's a straight-forward, practical, step-by-step system for designing and marketing classes, workshops and teleclasses.

• Have you wanted to create workshops and teleclasses but didn't know how to get started?
• Do you want to re-design existing classes to make them shine?
• Are you interested in learning how to market and administer your teleclass for best results?

Then read on and I'll tell you more about what's in this fabulous book:

http://www.designingeffectiveworkshops.com/

And thank you to everyone who was so kind as to send along their congratulations on my first book. It IS like giving birth to a baby! :)