John Goldberg Resume

May 10, 2012

JOHN GOLDBERG, MBA
(916) 444-3353
johngoldberg@hotmail.com

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

High energy trainer with over 20 years of corporate, government and nonprofit experience focusing on meeting organizational goals through attracting, training and retaining talent. Specialties include leadership, communication and teamwork.

EMPLOYMENT

Training Officer 2008 – Present
State of California, Sacramento
• Successfully designed, developed, delivered and evaluated training for over 500 employees in 5 departments. Managers estimated $1.5 million net savings from increased efficiencies.
• Chaired a statewide taskforce to standardize training resources and evaluation resulting in increased efficiency and removal of redundant efforts.

Diversity Training Officer 2004 – 2008
City of Sacramento, California
• Managed the City of Sacramento’s diversity training program
• Recruited, trained and supervised team of 18 diversity training facilitators
• Increased management and employee enrollment in diversity classes by 77%
• Designed and developed curriculum and delivered and evaluated training for managers and front-line employees

Manager, Organization Development 1996 – 2004
Chiquita Brands International, Santa Ana, Costa Rica
• Facilitated corporate responsibility implementation process for management teams
• Trained managers in five countries in corporate responsibility and supervision
• Provided train-the-trainer workshops for field trainers in five countries to facilitate corporate responsibility initiative to 20,000 employees
• Reduced strikes and job actions from over 400 per year to zero through training of labor-management facilitators

EDUCATION

MBA (Organizational Behavior), Weatherhead Enrichment Scholar
Case Western Reserve University, Weatherhead School of Management, Cleveland, Ohio

BA Social Science (Psychology), Dean’s Honor List, California State University, Sacramento, California

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Certificates
• Train-the-Trainer Certificate, California State University, Sacramento, California
• Leadership, Manager and Supervisor Training Certificate, City University, City of Sacramento, California

Presentations
• How to Develop Effective Community Relations, Ethical Corporation, 2003, Washington, DC
• Calculating the Basic Needs Wage, Business for Social Responsibility, 2000, New York, New York
• Education, Forum on Business and Social Responsibility in the Americas, 1999, São Paulo, Brazil

Coursework
• Measuring Return on Investment, Los Rios Community College District, 2010, Sacramento, California
• Tools for Tolerance for Professionals, Museum of Tolerance, 2005, Los Angeles, California
• Strategic Planning, Center for Corporate Citizenship, 2002, Miami, Florida
• Técnicas de Empowerment, Development Dimensions International, 1996, Monterrey, Mexico

Languages
Fluent in English and Spanish


We help organizations save money:

November 9, 2010

RETURN ON INVESTMENT

One-day meeting skills training class for 15 employees:
Benefit: $12,300 by reducing unnecessary staff time in meetings
Total cost (including your employees’ time in training): $3,900
Return on investment: 215%.

Five-day supervision class for 15 supervisors:
Benefit: $55,000 by reducing the employee turnover rate
Total cost (including your employees’ time in training): $19,500
Return on investment: 185%.


Issues from Improving Team Performance training in Sacramento

June 16, 2010

Positive behaviors the team needs to increase to improve performance:
· Assist each other
· Communicate
· Connect to community
· Evaluation of work
· Follow through
· Give recognition
· Implement clearer directions on workload
· Make clearer policies
· More meetings as a whole team vs. programs
· Problems of organization brought to the forefront for all staff
· Provide feedback
· Respect others’ time
· Smile
· Support the organization’s events and activities outside of work
· Trust building/team building exercises
· Utilize members and resources

Negative behaviors the team needs to decrease to improve performance:
· Behind door complaining
· Being redundant
· Complaining
· Fewer meetings
· Frowning
· Negativity
· Separation between programs
· Separation between work sites


New John Goldberg & Assoc. Class List

June 14, 2010

Leadership, Management Development & Supervision Training
• 360 Feedback: Developing an Effective System
• Art of Delegation: Effective Guidance for Your Direct Reports
• Challenge of Change: Helping Others to Confront It
• Coaching and Counseling: Two Ways to Guide Employees
• Coaching Skills: Supporting Employee Development
• Conducting a Performance Review: Facilitating Employee Growth
• Creative Problem Solving: Getting Unstuck and Finding New Solutions
• Ethics and Business: It’s Not an Oxymoron
• Goal Setting: Still the Best-Kept Secret of Success
• Making Meetings Work: How to Plan, Organize, and Conduct Productive Meetings
• Mentoring: Empowering Personal and Organizational Change
• Motivating Employees: Carrots Over Sticks
• On-the-Job Training: A Structured Approach
• Performance Management: Leading People to High Performance
• Proactive Project Management: How to Be In Charge From Beginning to End
• Process Improvement: A Never-Ending Journey
• Staffing Your Organization: Interviewing for Effective Selection of Candidates
• Strategic Planning for Action-Oriented People: An Eight Step Process to Get Results
• Succession Planning: The Manager’s Role
• Taking Initiative: How to Be More of a Leader in Your Own Job

Communication Training
· Active Training Techniques: Promoting Learning by Doing
· Business Writing: Organizing, Writing, and Editing the wRITE Way
· Consultative Selling: How to Build Partnership in Business Relationships
· Effective Communication: Getting Your Message Across
· Effective Listening: Better Relationships and Improved Results
· Improvisational Skills: Achieving Workplace Success
· Presentation Skills with Visual Aids: Ways to Sell Yourself
· Satisfaction Guaranteed: Delivering High-Caliber Customer Service

Teamwork Training
· Communicating in Teams: Skills That Make a Difference
· Developing a Vision: It Takes a Team
· Enhancing Established Teams: Strategies for Team Development
· Facilitating Teams: From Forming to Storming
· Process Improvement: Using Process Maps for Analysis and Design
· Productive Groups: Skills That Make a Difference

Career Development Training
· Career Exploration and Planning: Reviewing Your Options
· Developing Career Resilience: New Career-Management Strategies
· Informational Interviewing: Obtaining Important Information
· New-Employee Orientation: Becoming Acquainted With a New Company
· Righting Resumes: Putting Your Best Foot Forward

Personal Development Training
· Balancing Work and Family: How to Promote a Family-Friendly Workplace
· Breakthrough Learning: Learning to Learn in a Changing World
· Interpersonal Effectiveness: Developing Core People Skills
· Personal Effectiveness: Strategies for Effective Living
· Stress for Success: Understanding and Managing The Stress In Your Life
· The Time of Your Life: Getting All You Want Out of Life Through Time Management

Diversity Training
· Appreciating Diversity: A Window of Opportunity
· Cross-Cultural Effectiveness: Obtaining Success in the Global Arena
· Managing a Diverse Workforce: How to Make It Work
· Sexual Harassment: A Modern Workplace Dilemma

Conflict Management Training
· Negotiating to Win/Win: Conflict Resolution in Personal and Professional Relationships


Participant comments regarding recent decision-making class in Sacramento

June 4, 2010

The style of teaching let us go on our own and jumped in when needed
I liked the interaction as a group
The handouts were clear and helpful
I liked the PowerPoint presentation


Expectations met in recent decision-making class in Sacramento

June 4, 2010

Learn strategies for decision making
Learn a framework for decision making
Learn a defined set of rules for decision making
Make best decision regarding cost and other factors


Training & development event in Sacramento

June 1, 2010

ASTD Sacramento Chapter
From Trainer/Coach to Infopreneur
Stephanie Chandler
June 15, 2010
5:30pm – 7:30 pm
Rancho Cordova City Hall
2729 Prospect Park Dr.


Training & development event in Sacramento

May 27, 2010

Sacramento Area Organization Development Network presents
Coaching for Non-Coaches: Coaching for Personal, Professional, & Organizational Change
Pat Ferris, Principal at The Ferris & Associates
11:30am – 1:30pm, Friday, June 18th
UC Davis Extension
Sutter Square Galleria, 2nd Floor
2901 K Street, Sacramento
For more information, email programs@SAODN.org


Participant comments about a recent analytical skills class in Sacramento

May 14, 2010

· It was a very good growth experience for me in that it helped me to realize my own potential
· Very good.
· The group activities are valuable for team building and ice breaking.
· The class was very informational with some of the exercises very relevant to my job.
· Positive.
· I enjoyed the ‘pretest” and “post-test” emails so that I could be aware (on my own) what I knew, if I had listened, etc.
· It helped reinforce the concepts of presenting and developing ideas and overall understanding of the issue
· The thinking exercises were very entertaining. Overall, I thought the exercises were a fun way to present the course materials.
· The instructor was excellent
· wonderful presenter and very good with diverse learning group
· John is a great instructor – very patient and has a clear idea of the content he is teaching.
· John’s calm demeanor, ability to read the class and willingness to speed up or slow down instruction as necessary made for an effective and comfortable environment
· Delightful, flexible yet structured which was pivotal in keeping in step with the amount of material that was to be presented.
· Well done
· Liked the way you kept checking with us after every section to allow for questions/concerns.


New, interactive presentations free to Sacramento area organizations

May 7, 2010

Leadership
· Going Outside Comfort Zones: Brief Exercises in Change
· Window Shade: Depicting Different Approaches to Decision Making

Communication
· Communication Tokens: An Awareness Exercise
· Direct Communication: You Write the Scripts
· Explaining Something Complicated: Avoiding Information Dumps

Facilitating Teams
· Card Exchange: A Unique Way to Stimulate Discussion
· Changing the Rules: Altering Group Process
· Multi-Voting: A Constructive Way to Make Decisions
· Problem with Majority Voting: A Double Whammy

Team-Building
· Are You a Team Player? Things Team Players Do
· Creative House Building: An Exercise in Teamwork
· Making Paper Cups: Simulating a Learning Organization
· Paper Airplanes: The Power of Collaboration
· Stages of Team Development: A Card Sorting Activity

Influencing Others
· Influencing Others: Four Role-Play Scenarios
· Question First: The Best Way to Overcome Resistance

Teaching and Coaching Employees
· Building Skills Through Role Plays: You Have Options
· Components of Effective Coaching: Observing the Process
· Show But Not Tell: Upping the Stakes

Conflict and Negotiation
· Breaking a Stalemate: Steps to Move Forward
· Rating Methods to Deal with Conflict: Yours and Theirs
· Ten-Thousand-Dollar Challenge: Working Through a Conflict
· Views of Conflict: A Word Association Game

Creativity and Problem Solving
· Brainwriting: An Alternative to Generating Ideas Verbally
· Inspired Cut-Outs: Freeing the Mind
· Making Decisions After Brainstorming: Narrowing the Options
· Part Changing: Demonstrating a Technique to Increase Creativity
· Wearing Someone Else’s Shoes: Taking a Different Perspective

Diversity
· I’ve Been Curious: Questions I Have Been Afraid to Ask
· Setting the Record Straight: Things About Me and Others Like Me

Sales and Customer Service
· Your Company’s Sales Philosophy: How Do You Treat Customers?

Getting Acquainted
· Predictions: Making Guesses About Co-Participants
· Things We Have in Common: Getting to Know You
· What’s in a Name? My Story

Understanding Others
· Be Curious, Not Furious: Five Ways to Understand Others
· Comparing Yourself to Others: Looking for Differences and Similarities
· Three C’s: What Makes People Difficult

Exchanging Feedback
· Animal Metaphors: An Exercise in Obtaining Honest Feedback
· Giving Effective Feedback: Wheaties Over Donuts
· Judging the Impact of Words: Applications to Giving Feedback

Assertive Behavior
· Assertive Starters: Ways to Begin an Assertive Message
· Concerns About Confronting Employees: Overcoming the Anxiety
· Non-Verbal Persuasion: Assessing Its Impact
· Stating Complaints and Requesting Change: Skill Practice

Train the Trainer
· Active Vacations: Topics versus Objectives
· Has This Ever Happened to You? Making Team Learning Work
· Training Styles: Three Continua
· You Have Many Options: Increasing Your Training Repertoire


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