AiA Classic Employee Training Professional Development System

WHAT AIA CLIENTS ARE SAYING:

In the 50 years of internal use, the following comments echo those of Metropolitan Life, 3M, YoungLife, West Point Pepperell, General Mills, St Cloud Hospital, Abbott Laboratories, Society for the Blind, US Dept of Housing and Urban Development, Chrysler Corporation, United States Steel Corporation, IBM, Honeywell, Department of State International Development, McDonalds, Whirlpool, Minneapolis Star and Tribune, Raleigh Public Schools, Farm Bureau Insurance, Northern States Power Company, Sisters of St Joseph, St Catherine Hospital, AAA, Northwestern Mutual, Amfac, Adolph Coors Company, Denver Health and Hospitals, and THOUSANDS of others.

"Unbelievable is the only expression I can use as to the metamorphoses in our students."
Professor, Lansing College Management and Marketing Department

"This has been good for everyone in the 10-week Leadership Program for teamwork between food service, retail, and hospitality."  Training Coordinator, Regional Hotel Franchise

"Our employees are now impressed with our commitment to them as people." HR Director, Radisson Resort

"...Revolutionary teaching approach to attitudes, business and personal relationships, and learning about the most complex issue today--ourselves. The 20-week program changed lives."  Personnel Coordinator, Toro

"Imagine participants looking forward to training, feeling they want to be there!" Green Tree Financial

"We have always talked about improving interpersonal and problem solving skills, but it took this 10-week class and its attention to developing these these skills." Manager, Northwest Natural Gas

"Recommended for supervisors, office personnel, up to and including all upper management. It is a semester program at our corporate university." VP, Technology manufacturing company in PA

"We used a schedule of 1/2 day per week and the facilitator's manual is well designed and easy to use. We took the pilot results and have now made it available to our entire company. "Staff Development, Corporate Transfer

"The combination of teaching, a proven course, interaction with others during lessons and activities provided an ideal way to get maximum benefit. The participant manual is still helpful to all." Brent and Leanney

"AiA provides comprehensive, non-threatening information and exercises in our school for pregnant teens." Clinical Social Worker, Catholic Family Service

The results of Adventures in Attitudes were spectacular! The plant efficiency rose from 59% to 69% the following week and remained at that level well into the next year. Departments have learned to work together and many other benefits were noticed. The plant's on-time delivery percent rose from 65% to 97% in 1 1/2 years. Problems were solved and relationships with internal and external vendors improved. We improved from last to best of the plants.  Focused Factory Manager, Snyder General Corporation

"Through this program we have noticed a remarkable change within the organization. Morale, teamwork, and productivity have increased as a result of this training." OD Administrator, Dannon Company

"AiA is the most powerful part of our Leadership Series." HR Director, Kelowna, BC

"AiA helped our employees at both home and work. It helped with the inter-shift conflicts that we were experiencing and opened up communications. We are still seeing the benefits. The program requires top down commitment if it is to be truly successful. Plant Manager, Rosenberger Cold Storage

"..A must for every business, especially those dealing with the public. We made our mediocre company into a stellar performer...and I became a Stellar performer myself." Administrator, Wyndham Resorts

"We all agreed AiA was the most worthwhile in-service 10-week program in memory." Mt Sinai Hospital

 I highly recommend this approach for teams who are serious about quality improvement." Center for Commerce & Economic Development - Dean, Community College

"The evaluations consistently identified the professional skills development brought to the learning experience." Director of Training - NASA - Aeronautics and Space Industry

"..Dramatic changes in the abilities of our supervisors and improved employee relations and productivity. We continue to facilitate the 6 week series on an ongoing basis." Production Manager National Newspaper

Participants Acquire Important Answers because AiA asks Important Universal Questions. A profound strength of the AiA System is the universality of the topics of the projects and the conversations those topics evoke. AiA causes the participant to focus on the “Important Questions”. Some of the Project titles evoke these questions:

• Who am I?  Where am I going?

• What are my positive and negative attitudes? Can I change?

• What is my direction? What are my choices and options?

• What are my strengths? My weaknesses? Can I fill the gap?

• Can I improve my self image, self-esteem, and self confidence?

• Can I be a good leader and manager?

• How do I develop leadership skills?  Can people count on me?

• How do I synthesize and report my findings, orally and in writing?

• Can I learn to speak to meet the demands of my workplace?

• How can I get along with people better? How do I come across?

• How do I handle people problems at home, work, in my life?

• How can I develop honesty, integrity, trust and empathy?

• What are my emotions? How do I handle them? How can I better handle the emotions of others?

• How can I be liked by others? How do I get along with people who bug me?

• What are good relationships? How do I develop better interpersonal relationships?

• How do I solve my problems? Make decisions?

• How do groups make decisions? Get a task done or choose a leader? How do groups of people work?

• How can I overcome fear, anxiety, worry, and doubt? Am I standing in my own way?

• What is my work and what are my attitudes toward work? Do they need changed? How?

• How do I move forward? Setting goals and taking action? Better choices?

• What is the meaning of life? What’s it all about? What is love all about?

• Do I need to take personal responsibility? In what areas?

• What about my day to day living? Time management? My goals? Dreams, expectations, opportunities?

AiA is strongly founded on the best of learning and group theory models, its roots going solidly back to 1926 and 1927.  It was written in 1957 and entitled Dynamic Man and later named Adventures in Attitudes^® by a businessman, Robert "Bob" Conklin. AiA began with a poem and a businessman's frustrated struggle to develop more effective and productive employees and workers.

AiA is designed using small group interaction with individual and group exercises called Projects. We see these "projects" on a larger scale in the popular "survivor" or "apprentice" reality TV shows. AiA is facilitator guided in Units and Modules, but no one gets "voted off the island." Participants start where they are and finish changed--often quite dramatically. AiA begins the journey which the individual continues life-long to the benefit of themselves and to the workplace or organizations in which they live and work.

	Attitudes, the ways we think, underlie personality and behavior. Personality and behavior are Attitudes in Action. Choices of attitudes, behavior and personality bring about results--either positive or negative. Positive choices create positive behaviors, actions, results and positive outcomes.
These charts form the foundation of the AiA conceptual model.  Seeking ideas for his first program in 1957, Bob Conklin had an inspired moment and sketched these Positive and Negative Attitudes Charts while riding a train from Minneapolis to St Louis. They are little changed from the original models of attitude development. AiA Classic reinvented and reengineered--A quantum leap into the 21st Century to meet today's needs

Q: Is Certification needed to use DISC Profile tests?    A: No, you do not need to be certified.