Employee Engagement, Emotional Intelligence, Diversity, and More

• You will become a HumaNext Certified Facilitator, gaining the benefits of associating with a training company that offers the most innovative training needed by organizations today. Just visit our three web sites to see the range of our capabilities, products, and services. You will be entitled - but not obligated - to use your HumaNext certification to promote your training.
• HumaNext offers other services, such as a complete online training library, a full training video service, and assessment center, and more. Having a company like HumaNext behind you to give you support is one of the powerful advantages you will gain from this certification.
• You will receive a full 20% discount on all training products and programs offered by us (except some videos) for as long as you maintain your certification status (by paying a fee – currently $295 per year, after the first two years since attending which are included in your first certification.)
• You will receive a complete workshop facilitation package for each workshop you get certified to deliver. This includes a comprehensive step-by-step Facilitator’s Guide and dramatic PowerPoint slides to enable you to deliver the workshop with ease and mastery, and a reproducible Participant’s Workbook Master. You will be able to reproduce the Workbooks for hundreds of participants in your workshops at no additional charge, unlike many other certification providers who charge you for each workbook every time you deliver a workshop.

I have weaved some of the concepts (of the training) into what I am doing here at the Army... Francois leads his 'Applying Emotional Intelligence' class with a highly effective mixture of kindness, compassion and expertise. He creates and nurtures a cooperative and cohesive classroom environment, where participants are motivated to use their collective synergy to find solutions to their unique challenges."

- Andy Kirkpatrick, CERDEC Executive Coaching Program Director Employee Resources Services US Army

Great training is an experience where participants are engaged in transformational learning that produces change in thinking and behavior. The learning is so profound and exciting that participants don’t want it to end. The impact is personal and intense. The entire experience is one that participants will remember for a long time. At the end of the training, participants write things like the following actual comments:

• Francois, Thank you so much for the wonderful class in New York, which I will never forget. It was one of the most rewarding classes that I have taken. I look forward to collaborations with the great people I met at the class and a rewarding relationship with HumanNext. - Bobbi Ball, Executive Director, Partners in Community Building, Chicago.
• Another participant wrote: “Only time will truly tell the enormous impact that you have had on my life", and "Listening to you all and learning from you has changed the way I see the world, and helped me build a vision far greater than I'd ever imagined."

But how can you create such training? You can do it by applying a number of principles we have put together in a methodology we call “Heart & Mind Learning”. People who attend our annual HumaNext events experience this methodology first hand as they learn vital skills like emotional intelligence, diversity and inclusion, and cross cultural competency. The Heart & Mind Learning methodology involves twenty Insights, some of which are:

• What people focus on becomes their reality: We invite people to shift their focus from the problems they want to fix to the bigger picture of the exciting future they want to create for themselves and the organization.
• Taking the best of the past to the future: The most confident way for people to move to the future is to carry forward the best parts of the past. We help people identify what worked best for them and take it forward to create larger accomplishments.
• Change starts with the individual: We invite participants to adopt Gandhi's principle, "We must become the change we want to see in the world." We believe that people are capable of change once they choose it themselves. Our work helps participants access the source of motivation for change.
• The best way to learn a subject is to teach it. We apply this by asking participants to facilitate a short segment of the program's content, just 45 minutes or so. We give them the content they facilitate and ask that they add their own experience with the topic. The concept became so successful we now use it in all our UnConferences and workshops.
• Engagement is self-generated: One of our key "Insights" is that everybody wants to do good work that brings them self-satisfaction and the recognition and appreciation of others. Participants learn how to inspire a desire for engagement and achievement in themselves and others. Because this desire is self-generated, it produces much better results than external incentives and rewards.
• Heart & Mind Learning delivers many more equally powerful insights, twenty in all, that work to create real change in the way people learn, think, and act.

This question lies at the heart of training, as it invites the larger question of “Does training work?” What makes this question more challenging is the prevailing view that people’s minds and personalities are formed by the age of seven, or even younger. So how can we expect them to change by attending a training workshop at the age of thirty or fifty?

In her book, “Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain” Wall Street Journal science columnist Sharon Begley states, "Yes, the brain can change, and that means we can change.”

Until recently, the reigning theory was that neurons in the brain didn't regenerate. Begley documents experiments showing that new neurons are created in the brain every day, even in people in their 70s. The book provides a convincing account of recent discoveries in brain neuroplasticity. With these discoveries, we can more confidently say that training can be part of a difficult but not impossible change process available to the learner. Yes training does work and yes people can change. But change is not magical nor does it happen at a moment notice. It is a long and difficult journey.

But you cannot change what you don’t know. So for people to truly start their change process, they must first understand their mind, their personality, and themselves. It’s suggested that a training workshop on change at work covers the following points:

1. Introduction of the latest research on brain neuroplasticity (ability to be molded) and emotional intelligence concepts.
2. Exercises to help participants discover themselves using personality type / preferences tools.
3. Activities to help participants discover their genius, or core talents, skills, competencies, and life-calling.
4. Activities to help participants turn their discoveries and insights into behavior.
5. Finally, exploration of ways to apply the learning at work, using role-plays and simulations of daily work problems.

To experience some of these concepts, attend one of HumaNext events. Read more about them on this page.

Our UnConferences deliver the most innovative, most meaningful in-class learning experiences:

• Learning that transcends traditional training.
• Intelligence that goes beyond intellect.
• Conversations that elevate the communication.
• Innovation that expands our creativity.
• Relationships that affirm diversity, inclusion, and collaboration.

HumaNext Un-Conference: A Different Learning Experience. Transformation, not information.  

• The learning events offered by HumaNext are best described as Un-Conferences. They are very different from your typical conferences.
• The UnConference comes out of a unique way of designing and delivering great learning events, which you will experience by attending any of our 2011 events in New Jersey or Los Angeles.
• With your certification, you also receive the Leaders’ Guide, PowerPoint slides, and reproducible participant workbook that enable you to create similarly powerful learning events - or UnConferences- using our Heart & Mind Learning methodology.
• Learn how our UnConference is different and why you should attend one in 2011. Read the full article toward the bottom of this page.

Boot camps are valuable when you want to become skilled in a limited number of topics, usually one to three, on a much deeper level. The number of attendees is usually small to give ample opportunities for participation, discussions, activities, and shared learning.

“Learning by Teaching” is part of the innovative "Heart & Mind Learning" approach to learning we use in our Un-Conference. There are many other innovations that together deliver a uniquly powerful learning experience for participants. Suffices here to give you some examples of the kind of evaluation comments participants write at the end of the Un-Conference:

• "I never shared with you how meaningful the New York experience was for me. Listening to you all and learning from you has changed the way I see the world, and helped me to build a vision far greater than I'd ever imagined. - Holly McLemore, Training Manager
• I left the training inspired and energized, and looking forward to using the tools. I appreciate each and every one of you and thank you for making the training so impactful for me. - Amy Jaffe Barzac, Co-founder, Boundless Playgrounds.
• Thank you for making this learning voyage both productive and pleasant. I have begun to consider the challenge, and opportunity the training presents in my personal life, administrative roles, and consulting practice. - George Roets, Director, Public Health Services, Watkins Glen, New York.
• You were all so impressive and inspiring, and the materials so interesting - I definitely felt as though I was taking part in something very special during the last three days. Thank you for sharing your spirits so freely! - Your Admiring Alumnus, Rick Richard Hammett, Full Time Doctoral Student & Graduate Assistant, Texas A&M University.)
• Francois, Thank you so much for the wonderful class is New York, which I will never forget. It was one of the most rewarding classes that I have taken. - Bobbi Ball, Executive Director, Partners in Community Building, Chicago.

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Experience the magic of transformational learning

You don’t just receive information. You get inspiration. You don’t learn by listening. You learn by teaching. You don’t attend an event. You participate in a unique collaborative experience of shared learning and growing. The difference is significant. The results are dramatic. That’s why participants say things like: “Listening to you all and learning from you has changed the way I see the world, and helped me to build a vision far greater than I'd ever imagined”. - Holly McLemore, Training Manager.

Specific Advantages of HumaNext Learning and Certification

• It is the only certification that enables you to certify in more than one topic / workshop in the same process. No other certification program on the market today offers this. This way, you can start or expand your own training business by offering a number of powerful workshops to your clients the day after you complete your certification.
• It is the only program that offers you complete materials, tools, and delivery documents to help you design and deliver great training on any topic, using our “Heart & Mind Learning” methodology. You will experience the magic of Heart & Mind Learning during the sessions, then get the complete program with your certification.
• Our Emotional Intelligence certification is not based on or revolves around an assessment tool, as are most other EQ certifications, where you basically get trained to use their assessment instrument. We do offer two assessment options, but we also offer a very rich content on Emotional Intelligence and a complete workshop you can deliver without using any assessments if you so choose.
• We don’t require you to buy any of our other materials or products, nor do we take commission or fees from you every time you deliver our programs, as some other certification providers do.
• Some of the world’s best organizations have sent their people to attend HumaNext events and got certified to deliver our workshops, from the Mayo Clinic and the US Army in the United States, to organizations and consultants in Canada, Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Europe.
• We keep our fees significantly lower than others, as some charge more than double what we charge, and offer only one topic certification for it.

Read this entire page to learn more about HumaNext events, our exciting certification options, the many benefits you get with it, and what participants who come from around the world say about it.

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We experimented with a number of non-traditional approaches to training and learning, including concepts like “Learning by Teaching”; “Social Learning”; “Pre-and-Post Event Communication”; “Discovery Design”; “Past-to-Present”; “Remarkable Openers”; “Energy-Generating Moments”, and others. The results astonished us: We received comments like these: “Only time will truly tell the enormous impact that you have had on my life", and “I definitely felt as though I was taking part in something very special during the last three days. I left the training inspired and energized, and looking forward to using the tools. Thank you for making the training so impactful for me. - Amy Jaffe Barzac, Co-founder, Boundless Playgrounds.