21st Century Leadership offers New Hampshire workplace training seminars custom designed for your company or organization. You tell us what you need, the number of attendees and convenient dates. We'll design the training and find a suitable speaker. We'll also help with securing a location and finalizing other details, if you don't have staff or time for logistical arrangements.

Whether your New Hampshire workplace training needs include communication skills, leadership training, maintaining safety in the workplace, or understanding and managing HR issues, 21st Century Leadership has the expertise to custom-design workshops and seminars for your organization. Trainings can be held at your location or offsite. Smaller trainings can be held at our facility.

Leadership Training
Dynamic leadership makes the difference in success for both public and private entities. We believe that informed and well trained managers and supervisors become better leaders. Our leadership training focuses not only on basic management and supervision skills, but also on the strategic vision and ethical decision making needed to create quality leaders.

Bernie Sparks is a member of the first cohort in the new Doctorate of Arts in Transformational Leadership at Franklin Pierce University with studies focused on creative leadership, progressive human resource techniques, ethics, and organizational planning in the 21st century. Bernie will bring this expertise to you to enhance the success of your staff and your organization.

• Leadership and Supervision
• Leadership Boot Camp
• HR: The Appreciative Inquiry
• Positive Reinforcement
• The Disciplinary System
• Managerial Communication

Safety in the Workplace
With 30 years military and police experience, including serving as the Assistant Commander of the New Hampshire State Police Narcotics Investigation Unit, Bernie Sparks is an authority on understanding and managing safety issues. Whether you're looking for New Hampshire violence prevention training or information on recognizing and preventing workplace substance use, our trainings will give you the tools and expertise you need to keep your workplace safe.

• Reasonable Suspicions for Managers (regarding drugs and alcohol in the workplace)
• Preventing Violence in the Workplace
• Preventing Drugs and Alcohol in the Workplace

HR Trainings
As founder and executive director of Sparks Employment Group, Bernie Sparks is an expert in hiring and staffing issues. With more than three decades of supervisory, management and leadership experience, he'll help your supervisors, managers and HR staff understand legal issues while sharpening their people management skills.

• The Independent Investigator (for handling workplace complaints)
• Interviewing Techniques
• The Hiring Function
• Background Checks vs. Background Investigations
• Personnel Law
• Bullying in the Workplace
• Sexual Harassment
• The Disciplinary System
• Basic and Advanced Supervisory Skills
• Dealing with Difficult People/Conflict Resolution
• Time Management
• The Disciplinary System

Public Speaking
Almost everybody fears public speaking, but with a little communications training, you can learn to be a confident and competent speaker. Whether you want to learn how to give speeches and presentations to large groups or just want to be more polished when presenting reports and proposals to those you work with, we'll teach you the skills for effective public speaking.

Public speaking and communications training can be done privately or in a classroom format. We can also customize the training to focus on those situations in which you're most likely to find yourself.