Williams Development Group
The Williams Development Group
Services
The Williams Development Group is a full-service professional development firm that empowers upwardly mobile individuals, groups and organizations with the skills, tools, and strategies necessary to create professional career pathways and trajectories that are simultaneously rewarding for individuals and business and industry.
The Williams Development Group provides comprehensive professional development services, but also specializes in providing services to/about:
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• First Generation Professionals private school
• First Generation College Students
• First Generation Private School Students
In addition, the firm works with individuals and organizations to develop programming around:
•Career Transitions
• College to Work Transitions
• High School to College Transitions
The firm provides services to individuals, educational institutions, and organizations.
Services include but are not limited to the following:
Individuals
• Executive Coaching
​ • Career Coaching
• Dissertation/Thesis Coaching • Group Coaching/Masterminds
Groups and Organizations
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Program Development, Assessment and Evaluation
• Curriculum Development
• Training Development
• Professional Development Planning and Evaluation
• Career Development
• Leadership Development
• Keynote Addresses
Executive and Dissertation Coaching Services
Strategizing
Timeline Planning
Deliverable Brainstorming
Level Setting
Project Management Checkpoint Implementation
Needs Assessment
Problem Solving
Accountability Checkpoints
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Thought Partnering
Idea Generation
Theorizing
Conceptualizing
Source Alignment
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Draft Support
Editing
Revising
Formatting
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Presentation Support
Preparation
Delivery Practice
Q&A Preparation
Briefing and Debriefing
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Coaching services generally fall into 4 different areas/buckets: strategizing, thought partnering, draft support, presentation support. Coaching clients, based on their needs, can opt in to have one or more or all of the services.
Samples of activities included, based on client need, in each of the areas are provided below.
Sampling of Workshops and Presentations
Inspirational
• Presence is…
• Access is Average. Success is Excellent!
• Next Level Living
• Next Level Thinking
• The Upwardly Mobile Professional
Organizational
• Program Development Essentials
• Program Evaluation Essentials
• Leading for Growth
• Mentoring for Growth
• Coaching toward Professional Excellence
Educational
• Rigor: The Necessity in the 21st Century Classroom
• HOT 102: Higher Order Thinking Strategies to Increase Rigor
• Dual Enrollment+ Developmental Education= Access and Success.
• Empowering the Outsider Within: Mentoring the First Generation Female College Student
• Meet Me Where I Am: Supporting Middle School Students and Their College Quests
• A Beginner’s Guide: Best Practices in Assessment and Evaluation for Student Success/Support
• Outsiders Within: Supporting First-Generation Students
• Academic Mentoring 101: Best Practices in a Mentoring and Tutoring Blended Model
• Evaluation 101: Best Practices for Assessing Excellence in Academic Support Programs
• Meet Me Where I Am: Supporting First-Generation African American Female College Students
• Assessment for Teaching
• Assessment for Tutoring
• Assessment for Mentoring
• Techniques to Encourage Student Growth
• What are Your Students Learning and How Do You Know???
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*Workshops and presentations are ALWAYS customized to meet the needs of the clients.
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