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and Linda LaPointe, MRA

TOOLS for direct support professionals and their supervisors

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                              Thank you New Jersey, Iowa, Utah and Texas, for such a warm welcome!  "Linda, It was great to finally meet you in person. I just wanted to send my personal thanks for your gracious and easy going attitude throughout the process. You're a delight to work with and we're so pleased with your presentation. . . . Thanks again for your cooperative nature and professionalism. You did a great job."

 

"I will be forwarding this website to our trainers and all the supervisors...everything is so good I can't read it fast enough!"
Christi McPhail


THE TOOLBOX BRINGS YOU...

Games  "Staff can attend 38 hours of seminars, meet 24 competencies, read 8 books, watch 11 videos, and maybe after 2 - 7 years of experience they might get it. . .  or they can play a game!"    

 The In My Shoes games by Linda create an experiential opportunity in which people can learn more through simulation and emotion than from the facts. Get all 4:  At Work, FriendMaking, Services & Supports, Growing Old. And the Train the Trainer video is now available for facilitators of the games.

This Book will  help you reduce supervisory stress, increase supervisory skills, increase worker stability!  Learn the ABC's of developing self-managed staff; A = Act, B = Believe, C = Coach:

with 112 specific actions, 7 back to basic beliefs and the 3 roles of a coach.   Written especially for the frontline leader who was promoted from direct service work, it is "A WORK OF HEART"   Buy it!  Try it!

Seminars  Invite Linda to present at your next conference or retreat. Find out about the seminars she offers and see testimonials from participants. Her knowledge and wisdom comes from many years of experience and education, as a direct support professional, as an administrator of programs and services, as an author and a staff trainer, and now as a nationally respected disability and aging specialist.

 Curriculum Design especially for your organization. Original, unusual, attention getting, training materials.

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