People Dynamics, Inc.

Train the Virtual Trainer: Capturing Training Excellence
2022-09-02 13:00 - 2022-09-30 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai)
In this period of physical-distancing regulations, the ability to sustain valuable connections has become a vital skill for trainers, teachers, speakers, and leaders.
Facilitating learning despite the lack of visual cues from nonverbal behaviors and facial expressions has become a challenge for trainers, teachers, and speakers.
On the other hand, ensuring understanding and comprehension in collaborative online meetings has become a top priority for leaders.
The course aims to establish the use of appropriate online tools and provide effective online feedback and monitoring.
This five-session online training is designed for

trainers and teachers who wish to develop their competence in sustaining learners’ engagement,
speakers who desire to continue their advocacies through online platforms, and
leaders who aim to facilitate effective online meetings and sessions.

Session 1 (September 2)
Ruby Mañalac
Objectives
At the end of the first session, participants shall be able to

learn the principles of building rapport by establishing a climate of trust and respect in the group,
discover the latest trends and best practices in e-learning, and
develop the skills required of an emotionally intelligent facilitator.

Making Connections: What Matters Most

Trends in Online Facilitation

Researches in Relation to Online Learning Programs

How to Deliver Meaningful Sessions
The Emotionally Intelligent Facilitator

Outputs
At the end of the first session, participants shall

come up with a list of skills that they need to develop and learn to become a successful virtual facilitator and
develop resolutions based on their learnings from the session.

Session 2 (September 9)
Abegail Tongco
Objectives
At the end of the second session, participants shall be able to

understand how the principles of adult learning are applied in an online classroom,
discover the various roles and responsibilities of an online facilitator,
develop the skills required to surpass the challenges of online learning,
discover the different e-learning modalities, and
learn how to run a successful online session.

Content
Sustaining Learning: Upskilling and Reskilling

The Roles of an Online Facilitator

The Responsibilities of an Online Facilitator
Self-Assessment: Digital Literacy
Constraints in Online Learning

The Many Hats of an Online Facilitator

The Different Learning Modalities (Synchronous, Asynchronous, and Hybrid)

Online Facilitation Checklist

Conditions That Must be Present for Learning and Comprehension to Happen

Outputs
At the end of the second session, participants shall

come up with a checklist to be used in preparing for an online session and
develop their resolutions based on the results of their digital-literacy assessments and learnings from the session.

Session 3 (September 16)
Objectives
At the end of the third session, participants shall be able to

understand how the principles of sustaining learner engagement are applied in an online classroom,
discover various online-facilitation strategies to sustain learners’ attention and motivation,
develop the skills required to utilize various digital tools for online learning, and
learn how to apply learnings to enhance meetings and sessions at work.

Content
Fostering Learner Engagement: Motivating Learners

Online Facilitation Strategies

Best Practices in Running Effective Learning Sessions
Best Practices in Running Effective Online Meetings

Techniques to Foster Engagement in Discussion Forums

Technological Tools and Softwares for Collaboration and Interaction
Kahoot/Mentimeter/Pollev
Padlet
Jamboard
Shared Slide/Slide.do
Shared Sheets
Google Classroom

Outputs
At the end of the third session, participants shall

come up with a sample workshop activity utilizing the various digital tools and
develop their resolutions on how they can apply these tools in the workplace.

Session 4 (September 23)
Kier Belleza
Objectives
At the end of the fourth session, participants shall be able to

understand how the principles of learning facilitation is applied in an online classroom;
discover various skills required in facilitating a memorable, meaningful, and motivational learning program; and
develop the skills required to utilize various digital tools for preparing attractive instructional materials.

Content
Facilitating Effective Sessions: Ensuring Understanding

Techniques for Live Online Sessions
Tips for Online Facilitators
Creating Attractive Instructional Materials
Canva
PowerPoint
Pear Deck
Tips to Ensure Effective Presentations
Dos and Don’ts in Online Sessions

Outputs
At the end of the session, participants shall

come up with a sample video demonstrating the discussed online facilitation skills and
develop a sample instructional material using the tools demonstrated during the session.

Session 5 (September 30)
Donnavel Buloron
Objectives
At the end of the last session, participants shall be able to

learn the principles of analyzing training needs,
discover the latest trends and best practices in managing the learning-and-development system, and
develop the skills required to develop a competency-based training-evaluation program.

Content

Conducting Training-Needs Analysis
Best Practices in Learning and Development
Competency-Based Training Evaluation

Outputs
At the end of the last session, participants shall

come up with a training-needs analysis form and
develop a training-evaluation form.

Accreditations
People Dynamics is an accredited Learning and Development Institution by Profiles International, LLC., Wiley, Genos International, Civil Service Commission, and the Professional Regulation Commission.

Data Management Using Microsoft Excel
2022-09-26 09:00 - 2022-10-12 12:00
We invite you to Data Management using Microsoft Excel—an informative, online instructor-led training program focusing on the areas of database management. Slated on September 26-28, 2022 for Batch 1 and October 10-12, 2022 for Batch 2, via Zoom Meetings, this program aims to equip participants with the competencies to be able to create, manage, and maintain simple to semicomplex databases using Microsoft Excel.
People Dynamics, Inc. (PDI) is the service arm of Profiles Asia Pacific, Inc. It serves all assessment-based talent sourcing, training, and other organization development services. PDI was established in 2002 and has since become a formidable player in the outsourced HR services industry.
Program Content
Module 1: Database Management Using Name Manager

Applying Excel Name Manager to Manage Excel Data
Using Name Manager with Number Functions
Using Name Manager with Indirect to Extend formulas in Multiple tables

Module 2: Manage Text Related Data in Excel

Concatenate Function
Format Case (UPPER, LOWER and PROPER)
Flash Fill
Using LEFT, RIGHT, MID Function
Text to Columns
Removing Duplicates

Module 3: Calculate Date and Time Related Data

Using TODAY and NOW Function
Calculate Difference on Date Using Date Difference
Using Network Days tot Calculate Number of Working Days
Using Work Days to Calculate Due Date
Calculate Time Difference

Module 4: Performing Criteria-Based Formulas

Using IF Conditional Function
Creating NESTED IF Function
Applying COUNTIF, SUMIF, AVERAGEIF
Applying CCOUNTIFS, SUMIFS, AVERAGEIFS for multiple criteria-based table

Module 5: Performing Excel Lookup Functions

The VLOOKUP Function
The HLOOKUP Function

Module 6: Perform Data Security and Validation

Create user input validation using data validation method
Create a user-friendly drop-down tool for data validation
Manage a read-only worksheet using Protect Sheet and Protect Workbook capabilities
Add security passwords to excel file using file protection method

Module 7: Enhancing Excel Report Appearance

Applying Conditional Formatting
Sort and Filter
Using Subtotal Function

Module 8: Data Analysis and Visualization Using Pivot

Describe how to merge database to PIVOT
Add available fieldnames to different data labels of Pivot Area
Manipulate and re-define PIVOT data resources
Manage and Derive Formulas in Pivot Area using value Field settings and Calculated Field
Re-create PIVOT reports with dashboards using Slicer feature

Meet Your Trainer
CHRISTOPHER GONZALES MCP, MOS, MSIT, CPE
National award-winning academic professional with 10 years of experience in training for corporate clients in different industries, esteemed leaders of the academe and corporate learning divisions. An
effective trainer and one of the most requested Information Technology (IT) Instructors; inclined to motivate and inspire professionals and students alike, giving them the chance to enhance their capabilities
and skills on a world- class levelled sense of duty.
He finished Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and is currently taking up his Master’s in Information Technology at University of San Carlos. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional and a current holder of Microsoft Office Specialist Certification for Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access. Previously, He was able to manage the Academic Department for the Corporate Learning Institutions of Informatics
Philippines in Ortigas and Makati Branch. He also handled corporate training for more than 60+ different companies, industries and Government Departments alike including Coca-Cola, Jollibee Food Corporation,
San Miguel Corporation, Filinvest Land, SM Supermalls, DILG, DepED, etc. all over the country.
Currently, he’s also one of the Industrial Partners and Academic Director of Asian Institute of Computer
Studies Cebu. Specialized in curriculum management, corporate learning and industry-based certification programs, he’s also proficient and intimately trained in the technical, conceptual and content
development of Office Productivity, Database Management and Computer Programming.
MICROSOFT Certifications

Microsoft Certified Professional (E078-0359) (MICROSOFT)
MTA 98-361 Software Development Fundamentals (MICROSOFT)
MTA 98-362 Windows Development Fundamentals (MICROSOFT)
MTA 98-375 HTML5 Application Development Fundamentals (MICROSOFT)
MTA 98 – 364 Database Fundamentals (MICROSOFT)
MTA 98 – 366 Networking Fundamentals (MICROSOFT)
MOS: Microsoft Office Excel 2010 (77-882) (MICROSOFT)
MOS: Microsoft Office Access 2010 (77-885) (MICROSOFT)

Accreditations
People Dynamics is an accredited Learning and Development Institution by Profiles International, LLC., Wiley, Genos International, Civil Service Commission, and the Professional Regulation Commission.

Project Management Training
2022-10-04 08:00 - 2022-10-06 12:00
In these times of advancements and innovations, the organization’s capability to successfully launch and complete projects spells out the competitive advantage of the company. Business sustainability requires a project management mindset and norms ready to adjust to alternative work arrangements and skeleton work shift schedules.
Objectives
This program aims to provide guidelines for managing individual projects and to define project management related concepts. Trainees will be exposed to models and tools for monitoring the project management cycle and its related processes.
Program Content
DURATION: 16 hours (4 sessions, 4 hours per session)A. Understanding the Organizational Influences on the Project Life Cycle

Characteristics of the Project Life Cycle

Organizational Culture
Organizational Communications
Organizational Structures
Organizational Process Assets
Enterprise Environmental Factors

Defining the Project Team

Composition and Roles

Appreciating the Project Management Process

Initiating
Planning
Executing
Monitoring and Controlling
Closing

Implementing Project Integration Management

Developing a Project Charter
Developing a Project Management Plan
Directing and Managing Project Work
Monitoring and Controlling Project Work
Closing a Project or Phase

Meet Your Trainer
DR. AGUSTIN D. AGOS JR

BS Biology – University of the Philippines – BS Pharmacy – Doctor of Medicine (MD)
West Visayas State University College of Medicine
5 – year PCS accredited residency training in General Surgery, CCMC – SHH Consortium
Master of Arts in Industrial & Organizational Psychology (MA Psy I/O)
Master in Pastoral Theology & Spirituality
Doctor of Organization Development & Transformation (DODT)
Doctor of Philosophy in Organization Development (PhD-OD)
Strategic Management Program, Asian Institute of Management (AIM)

He is:

an Academic Faculty In-Charge for the Public Health Sector Human Resource Management and Development Course, Master of Public Management – Health System and Development (MPM-HSD), Development Academy of the Philippines – Graduate School of Public Development Management (DAP-GSPDM), Tagaytay City, Philippines
a Faculty and member of the Course Development of the DOH Academy for the Hospital
Safe from Disasters -Executive Course
An Academic Faculty, Cebu Doctors′ University, Graduate School
Research Consultant, Department of Surgery, Cebu City Medical Center – Sacred Heart Hospital consortium
A Learning Provider in OD & Change Management for hospitals, private organizations, government & NGO′s

Accreditations
People Dynamics is an accredited Learning and Development Institution by Profiles International, LLC., Wiley, Genos International, Civil Service Commission, and the Professional Regulation Commission.

Psychological Test Development
2022-11-10 13:00 - 2022-11-18 17:00
This training focuses on the application of knowledge pertaining to the basics of psychological test development.
Specifically, an overview of testing, its ethics, and the five general phases of test development will be tackled through interactive lectures and case presentations.
This training will teach you

how to conceptualize a psychological test and its specific facets,
how to construct sound test items that are representative of the construct,
how to conduct the data-gathering process in test development,
how to perform reliability analysis and item analysis, and
how to examine the quality of test items and refine them based on statistical data.

Content

Overview of Testing

Importance of Testing
Characteristics of a Good test
What a Test Cannot Do
Ethical Consideration in Testing

Test Conceptualization

Preliminary Questions to Ask in Creating a Test
Review of Related Literature
How to Conduct Documentary Analysis

Test Construction

Different Test Formats
How to Write Good Test Items
Preliminary Validation of Test Items

Test Tryout

Data Gathering Process
Test Administration Guidelines
How Many Respondents are Needed

Item Analysis and Reliability Analysis

Statistical Data Analysis in Test Development
What the Indices Mean

Test Revision

What Items to Keep, Revise, or Drop
How to Do Item Inspection and Revision

Meet Your Trainers
Mary Donnavel Libron-Buloron is a licensed psychometrician with a master’s degree in guidance and counseling. She is now working on her PhD in social psychology.
Her career experience is a mix of academe and industry practice:
After graduating cum laude from the University of the Philippines–Cebu, Donnavel, who took up psychology, worked as a talent development officer at an HR consulting firm in the city.
There, she handled various training programs and organizational-development projects, honing her skills in training-outline creation, training implementation, and organizational assessment.
She went on to become the training officer of one of the city’s renowned non-government organizations.
As a training officer, she was responsible for setting up the organization’s training unit and overseeing the full training cycle, from planning to implementation and evaluation.
She was also responsible for creating the organization’s competency-based training, performance-management system, and succession planning.
Looking for opportunities outside the HR industry, she took a teaching job in one of Cebu’s prestigious colleges.
Donnavel has been teaching major subjects in psychology—such as psychological testing and assessment, social psychology, and experimental psychology—for the past nine years.
She has also been advising research projects and writing research articles for the college department’s journal.
While teaching, Donnavel ranked third in the 2015 psychometrician board examination nationwide. In the same year, she became the college’s guidance personnel.
Donnavel served as the psychology program head for the school year 2020–2021.
Aside from her academic career, she works as an associate consultant and facilitator at People Dynamics Inc.
In this role of Donnavel, she helps develop training modules and leadership assessment tools, among others.
She also manages several consulting and research projects for the clients of the said organization.

Erron Christopher “Eon” Bacalan, RPm is a research and development officer at Profiles Asia Pacific, the Philippines’ leading and premier provider of psychological assessments, who is engaged in the practice of psychological scale construction.
He is a licensed psychometrician specializing in statistical data analysis in test development and research settings.
His projects include the Abstract Reasoning Assessment, Job Match Assessment, and Profiles Competency Assessment.
Eon is one of the first top-notchers to hail from Far Eastern University, ranking eighth in the July 2015 psychometrician licensure examination.
He was the university’s quiz bee champion. He further competed and won in the PAPJA National Quiz Challenge for two consecutive years during his undergraduate.
He is currently working on his master’s degree in clinical psychology at the University of Santo Tomas. For his graduate thesis, he is developing a scale on Filipino histrionic personality.
He is a board lecturer at the Mega Minds Psychology Review Center. There, he shares his knowledge in personality theory, psychological assessment, and professional ethics. He also does consultancy work for academic research, statistics, and psychometrics.
Accreditations
People Dynamics is an accredited Learning and Development Institution by Profiles International, LLC., Wiley, Genos International, Civil Service Commission, and the Professional Regulation Commission.

Stress, Time, and Conflict Management
2023-05-11 13:00 - 2023-05-19 17:00
With the rapid advancements in technology, job requirements will constantly evolve. Automation, digital transformation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, smart technologies, Internet of Things (IoT), among many others, shall soon change the way organizations operate and eventually disrupt the way we work.
With these changing requirements, we need to develop our resilience and agility. Flexibility and readiness to embrace change and cope with challenges depend on one’s competence in stress, time, and conflict management. These are competencies essential for enhancing one’s professional and personal relationships. The ability to maintain one’s professionalism despite challenges and disruptions enables one to project maturity and demonstrate self-leadership. Thus, managing stress, time, and conflict are essential for career advancement and professional development.
This training is delivered via Zoom.
Objectives
This training aims to

empower trainees to make the right choices and adopt effective work-life practices and habits,
learn techniques on how to combat procrastination and distractions,
equip them with tactics on how to maintain grit and optimism despite work-life pressures and challenges,
enable them to deal with difficult colleagues or customers,
enhance participants’ ability to manage conflict when dealing with people coming from diverse backgrounds, and
empower them to harness synergy from diversity.

PRE-ASSESSMENT: Profiles Tenacity Assessment (PTA) to measure one’s grit, optimism, and resilience.
Contents
Ms. Mary Donnavel Libron-Buloron, RPm

Working Smart(Self-Assessment: Personal Effectiveness Worksheet)

Adopting agile work practices

Embracing effective work habits
Brushing up on one’s professional effectiveness tools

Making the most out of your time

Eliminating sneaky time bandits
Managing time effectively
Embracing digital personal productivity tools

Workshop: Resolutions-Making on Working Smart Principles
Ms. Abegail Tongco, PhD OD (Cand.)

Juggling Responsibilities(Self-Assessment: Current Stress Level Assessment)

Developing personal effectiveness

Understanding the sources of stress
Avoiding unhealthy coping styles
Adopting healthy coping strategies

Mastering the art of saying “no”

Assessing opportunities
Setting priorities

Workshop: Coping Strategies
Ms. Abegail Tongco, PhD OD (Cand.)
III. Understanding Conflict

Differentiating healthy and unhealthy conflict
Uncovering common sources of conflict

Controlling Conflict

Setting a culture of coordination and interdependence
Dealing with difficult colleagues

Resolving Conflict
Applying the conflict resolution process
Setting the agreement frame
Rapport-setting techniques
Demonstrating active listening

Ms. Ruby Mañalac

Enhancing Personal Well-Being

Mastering work-life integration

Understanding career wellness
Revisiting one’s personal missionWorkshop: Work-Life Balance Sheet

Mastering one’s emotions

Self-awareness
Self-regulation
Motivation

Wrap-Up Workshop: Personal Action Planning
Meet Your Trainers
Mary Donnavel Libron-Buloron is a licensed psychometrician with a master’s degree in guidance and counseling. She is now working on her PhD in social psychology.
Her career experience is a mix of academe and industry practice:
After graduating cum laude from the University of the Philippines–Cebu, Donnavel, who took up psychology, worked as a talent development officer at an HR consulting firm in the city.
There, she handled various training programs and organizational-development projects, honing her skills in training-outline creation, training implementation, and organizational assessment.
She went on to become the training officer of one of the city’s renowned nongovernment organizations.
As a training officer, she was responsible for setting up the organization’s training unit and overseeing the full training cycle, from planning to implementation and evaluation.
She was also responsible for creating the organization’s competency-based training, performance-management system, and succession planning.
Looking for opportunities outside the HR industry, she took a teaching job in one of Cebu’s prestigious colleges.
Donnavel has been teaching major subjects in psychology—such as psychological testing and assessment, social psychology, and experimental psychology—for the past nine years.
She has also been advising research projects and writing research articles for the college department’s journal.
While teaching, Donnavel ranked third in the 2015 psychometrician board examination nationwide. In the same year, she became the college’s guidance personnel.
Donnavel served as the psychology program head for school year 2020–2021.
Aside from her academic career, she works as an associate consultant and facilitator at People Dynamics Inc.
In this role of Donnavel, she helps develop training modules and leadership assessment tools, among others.
She also manages several consulting and research projects for the clients of the said organization.
Abegail Pulma-Tongco has been in the human resources (HR) and organization development (OD) practice for more than 15 years.
As an HR and OD consultant and trainer, she has been exposed to companies of various sizes and industries: banking and finance, BPO, KPO, energy, water utility, academe, food and beverage, manufacturing, construction and engineering, website and software development, architectural and engineering consulting, real estate development, mining, hospitality, printing, and publishing.
She has implemented numerous consulting projects for government-owned and controlled corporations and local government units.
She is the training and consulting division director and concurrently the VisMin regional director of the Profiles Group of Companies.
She is a certified team and shared leadership coach (level 2) by the International Coaching Federation.
She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of the Philippines–Tacloban College.
She earned her master’s degree in business management from the same university. She is now working on her PhD in organization development.
Ruby Mañalac is currently the COO of Emovation, Inc., the business unit of emotional intelligence and a proud affiliate of The Profiles Group of Companies. Her passion and purpose are to spread emotional intelligence with innovation as she advocates healing a currently hurting world while bringing out the best performance of people.
She is one of the pioneers of The Profiles Group of Companies during its inception in 1999 and has been with the organization for over a decade. She has served in different capacities and has risen to her current role.
Ruby, a dedicated practitioner of Emotional Intelligence, was interviewed on ANC and CNN regarding this subject matter.
Ruby has attended EI certificate courses twice in Sydney, Australia, and was one of the international speakers at the Genos Singapore International Conference last 2018 for best practices of EI. She was also part of the delegation that attended the Genos Hawaii, USA International Conference in 2019. She has had over a hundred talks and seminars about emotional intelligence with raving praises about her performance and expertise.
She espouses that her significant learnings on emotional intelligence are through practice and life, saying, “It is best to start taking the first step and progressing.”
Accreditations
People Dynamics is an accredited Learning and Development Institution by Profiles International, LLC., Wiley, Genos International, Civil Service Commission, and the Professional Regulation Commission.

Technical Writing Boot Camp
2023-06-15 08:00 - 2023-06-23 12:00
Communicating technical information to a nontechnical audience can be challenging.
Oftentimes, technical people are so passionate and close to their subjects that they lose sight of who will read what they have written and what their level of knowledge is.
This boot camp aims to bridge this communication gap.
The boot camp consists of four four-hour sessions, two per week, over a period of two weeks. Sessions are delivered via Zoom.
A pretest and posttest will be given at the beginning and end of this camp to measure growth in the participants’ technical-writing skills.
Objectives
At the end of this training, you should be able to

learn the techniques for writing professional and easy-to-understand technical documents,
make complex data and detailed information meaningful to nontechnical readers, and
apply effective editing techniques to polish technical writing.

Contents
PRE-ASSESSMENT: Grammar Skils Test

The Principles of Technical Writing

Clarity
Conciseness
Accessibility
Readability
Neutrality

Styles in Technical Correspondence

Paragraphs
Compartmentalization
Topic Indicators

Message Patterns

Direct Approach
Indirect Approach
AIDA Approach

Punctuation

Period
Comma
Colon
Question Mark
Exclamation Point
Hyphen and Dashes

Lists

Run-In List
Unordered Vertical List
Ordered Vertical List
Vertical List Punctuated as a Sentence
Vertical List with Subdivided Items

Capitalization

Acronyms
First Mention
Proper Nouns
Points of the Compass
References to Numbered or Lettered Items
Civil, Military, Religious, and Professional Titles
Kinship Names

Numerals vs. Words

General Rule
Ordinals
Large Numbers (in the Millions or More)
Scientific Contexts
The Day of the Month (Cardinals)
Time of Day
Percentages

Meet Your Trainers
Kier Edison C. Belleza got his career start as a journalist at the Manila Bulletin in 2017. He was only in college at the time.
Writing for the Philippines’ leading national newspaper allowed him to learn the ins and outs of the media industry.
It also made him experienced in the Associated Press style, the go-to style for news writing.
Despite juggling school and work, Kier graduated cum laude with a communication degree from Cebu Normal University.
After working as a journalist, he redirected his career to publishing.
Initially, he worked as a correction editor at an outsourcing company in Cebu City that services publishers across the United States and the United Kingdom.
He then became a copy editor professionally trained in the Chicago Manual of Style, the most widely adopted style manual for publishing across all disciplines.
At present, Kier works as the learning and development supervisor for People Dynamics Inc.
He is a highly regarded trainer with a reputation for delivering content in ways that are practical, relevant, and “sticky.”
He has trained over 1,000 professionals from different government agencies, educational institutions, and business organizations nationwide.
He delivers workshops in writing, editing, verbal skills, public relations, training and development, among others. His classes consistently generate great feedback.
At the same time, he also works as the communications officer for Profiles Asia Pacific Inc., the country’s leading and premier provider of psychological assessments.
In keeping with his dedication to continuous learning, Kier is now working on his master’s degree in communication at the same university where he obtained his bachelor’s degree.
He is certified in the DISC model of human behavior, which enables him to use DISC for training, coaching, and facilitating at all levels of an organization.
He is also a qualified emotional intelligence practitioner with Genos International. This capacitates him to offer valuable insight into professional and personal well-being.
Finally, Kier is a Google-certified educator who has the skills and knowledge to work at the forefront of educational technology.
Accreditations
People Dynamics is an accredited Learning and Development Institution by Profiles International, LLC., Wiley, Genos International, Civil Service Commission, and the Professional Regulation Commission.

Free Webinar: Time and Stress Management
2024-04-19 13:00 - 16:30
Course Description
Managing stress, time, and conflict is essential for career advancement and professional development. Join this free webinar to learn how!
This intensive training aims to equip participants with the tools they need to maximize their working hours by managing their energy and efforts effectively.
Program Description
This program aims to create an awareness of the fact that effective time management is the key to effective stress management through avoiding unnecessary sources of anxiety.
Learning Objectives
A. Time Management Fundamentals

Identifying Priorities
Bad Habits in Utilizing Work Hours
Best Practices in Managing Time

B. Understanding the Nature of Stress

Theories in Relation to Stress
Symptoms of Stress

C. Stress-coping Responses

Coping Emotion-Focused Coping
Problem Focus Coping

Meet Your Trainers
Abegail Pulma Tongco, PhD has been in the HR and OD practice for more than 15 years. As an HR and OD consultant and trainer; she has been exposed to companies in the banking and finance, BPO, KPO, energy, water utility, academe, food and beverage, manufacturing, construction and engineering, website and software development, architectural and engineering consulting, real estate development, mining, hospitality, printing and publishing industries.
She has implemented consulting projects for GOCCs, government agencies and local government units, as well. She is the Training and Consulting Division Director and concurrently also the VisMin Regional Director of the Profiles Group of Companies.
She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Philippine Society for Talent Development (PSTD) National as the Research Committee Chairman. She is a certified Shared Leadership Coach and Team Coach, PxT, DISC and Genos EI practitioner.
She is likewise a certified Kahoot content creator. She graduated with a college degree in Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences – Psychology.
She earned her graduate degrees of Masters in Business Management and PhD in Organization Development.

Mary Donnavel Libron-Buloron, PhD (Cand.), RPm
Mary Donnavel A. Libron-Buloron is a licensed Psychometrician and has a Master’s degree in Guidance and Counseling. She is also currently working towards her Ph.D in Social Psychology. She is a Certified Learning and Development Professional and a DISC Flow Emotional Intelligence Certified Practitioner. Her career experience is a mix of academe and industry practice geared towards training, learning, and development.
After graduating cum laude with a degree in Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of the Philippines Cebu, she worked in a local HR consulting firm as Talent Development Officer. She also worked as the Training Officer of a non-government organization in Cebu where she set-up the training unit in one of their focus areas. She was responsible for overseeing and implementing the training processes from Training Needs Analysis, Module Development, Program Implementation, and Post Program evaluation.
Aside from these, she created the competency-based training and performance management system, and the competency-based succession planning for the employees of the organization. Her corporate HR experience also helped her in her stint as Training Evaluation System consultant for a Competency-based training program.
Looking for other opportunities outside of the HR industry, she went on to becoming a college professor in one of the prestigious local college in Cebu. In her 10 years academic, she taught major subjects in Psychology. Aside from teaching, she also functioned as the college department’s guidance personnel and the Psychology Program head for the year 2020-2021.
Currently, she is the Learning and Development Manager of People Dynamics, Inc. In her role she develops modules for various training programs. She also developed a leadership assessment tool and assessed employees for a Leadership Development Program. She is also managing several consulting and research projects with the private and public sector clients of the organization.

Accreditations
People Dynamics is an accredited Learning and Development Institution by Profiles International, LLC., Wiley, Genos International, Civil Service Commission, and the Professional Regulation Commission.

Leadership Boot Camp: A Training Series for Public Servants
2024-06-06 13:30 - 2024-06-28 16:30
This intensive training aims to equip participants with the tools they need to manage productivity effectively while instilling positivity and inspiring commitment from team members.
The contents, tools, and techniques that will be tackled in this training series have been customized to address current challenges brought about by the pandemic and its impact on the manner that agencies fulfilled their mandates, as well as the opportunities ushered in by technological advancements and digital transformation. The program aims to focus on best practices in sustaining public service continuity.
Taught completely online, this 24-hour training is delivered over four weeks, with two modules covered per week. Each module is three hours long.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, the participants shall be able to

define the inherent role of leaders and reflect on their current leadership and management style as leaders in the public sector in the new-normal context;
enumerate the current new-normal challenges and disruptions requiring effective change leadership initiatives to be able to identify the steps on effectively leading change within the team and throughout the organization;
explain the strategies on empowering others to excel and thrive in the new normal and enumerate the critical phases in managing performance;
identify initiatives to promote continuous learning as a way to cope effectively with innovations and disruptions;
discuss ways to create an enabling environment which will nurture and sustain performance despite the challenges of the pandemic;
define communication strategies to cascade performance goals and expectations;
describe the steps in helping underperformers;
discuss how to hone team members with high potential to excel; and
define the initiatives required in building collaborative and inclusive working relationships within the team especially in flexible work arrangements.

Performance Objectives
Participants shall be able to perform their leadership and management roles using the tools and techniques presented in the context of the new-normal challenges and disruptions while managing generational diversity.
Day 1: Embracing the Leadership Role
June 6

Dr. Jocelyn Pick
This session will focus on the adjustments and preparations required of leaders as they transition to leadership roles.
This is especially relevant to leaders who are still trying to cope with leading colleagues who are working from home or in a skeleton workforce arrangement.

Roles and Responsibilities of Supervisors and Managers

Self-Assessment: Leadership Styles
Inherent Accountabilities of Leaders
Levels of Leadership

Individual Contributor
Leading Others
Leading Leaders
Leading with a Vision
Transformational Leadership

The Five Levels of Leadership

Transitioning to the Leadership Role
The Stages of Leadership

Inherent Functions of Leaders

Planning for Effective Execution
Organizing Scarce Resources
Leading Others to Excel
Controlling Productivity Standards

Day 2: Upskilling for the New Normal in Effectively Leading Change
June 7
Abegail Tongco, PhD
This session will focus on the adjustments and preparations required of leaders as they begin to adopt best practices in managing work with business sustainability in mind.
This will require embracing new mind-sets and attitudes toward digital tools and technologies.
Navigating the new normal would likewise require effectively managing generational diversity.

Adapting Agile Work Practices

Best Practices in Managing Multiple Projects and Priorities
Productivity-Monitoring Tools
Executing Plans in Virtual Teams

Required New Normal Competencies

Agility and Flexibility
Problem-Solving and Decision-Making
Fostering Creativity
Results-Orientation
Digital Literacy

Managing Diversity

Differentiating Various Generational Cohorts
Appreciating Millennials’ Shared Experiences
Uncovering Gen Zs’ Prevailing Attitudes and Values
Harnessing Synergy from Diversity

Managing Change

Helping Team Members Embrace Change
Managing Resistance to Change

Day 3: Empowering Others to Excel and Thrive in the New Normal
June 13
Mary Donnavel Libron-Buloron, PhD (Cand.), RPm

This session will focus on the adjustments and preparations required of leaders as they hone and develop the skills and competencies of their staff.
This session also includes the leadership competencies leaders need to help team members excel in their roles.
Participants shall be introduced to the best practices for developing others to become future leaders.

Delegating Responsibilities

Levels of Delegation
Delegation Checklist
Monitoring Progress
Responsibility vs. Accountability

Managing Performance

Performance Planning
Performance Review and Feedback
Development Intervention
Rewards and Recognition

Upskilling Workers

Identifying Training Needs
Reskilling and Upskilling Requirements
Trends in Sustaining Learning and Development
Encouraging Self-Paced Learning

Day 4: Sustaining Motivation and Engagement While Managing Performance
June 14
Mary Donnavel Libron-Buloron, PhD (Cand.), RPm

This session will focus on the adjustments and preparations required of leaders as they strive to sustain the positivity and enthusiasm of team members despite the current challenges.
Since many employees now are working from home, the need to sustain their commitment to the tasks is essential for productivity.
Additionally, employees who are required to report to the office experience high levels of stress and anxiety with their fear of being exposed to getting sick.
This session will focus on equipping leaders with the tools to support employees through these tough times.

Motivating Individuals

Needs and Expectations of Employees
Identifying the Drivers for Employee Motivation
Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation

Understanding Employee Engagement

Employee Engagement vs. Job Satisfaction
Designing Jobs for Engagement
Recognizing the Drivers of Disengagement
Leaders’ Role in Sustaining Employee Engagement

Sustaining Tenacity, Grit, and Optimism

Maintaining Mental Health and Well-Being
Essential Self-Care Practices and Habits

Honing One’s Emotional Intelligence as a Leader

Self-Awareness
Emotion Regulation
Empathy
Relationship Management

Day 5: Fostering Effective Communicating in Managing Performance and Nurturing a High-Performing Organization
June 20
Kier Edison Belleza, MA (Cand.)

This session will focus on the adjustments and preparations required of leaders to connect and communicate with a team effectively.
Since the quality of the leader-member relationship is defined by the quality of communications within the team, leaders need to know what, when, how, and why they should communicate with their teams.

Effective Key Messaging

What Leaders Need to Communicate
Appropriate Modes of Communications
Dos and Don’ts in Effective Communications

Understanding Effective Means to Communicate

Ways to Communicate Plans
Cascading Goals and Targets
Communicating a Vision

Encouraging Healthy Conflict

Sustaining Open Communications
Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions to Encourage Openness
Facilitating Dialogues to Manage Conflict

Managing Meetings Effectively

Preparing for a Meeting
Facilitating the Meeting
Closing the Meeting

Day 6: Dealing with Underperformers by Coaching for Results
June 21
John Kliatchko, PhD, RPsy

This session will focus on the tools and techniques that leaders need to learn and utilize to help employees who are failing to meet the performance standards.
It is the leader’s role to understand the causes of the underperformance and to address the barriers for effective performance.
This is crucial in sustaining the productivity of the team and in establishing a supportive relationship with direct reports.

Diagnosing Performance Gaps

Common Causes of Performance Gaps
Applying the Root-Cause Analysis Model

Facilitating Performance Discussions

Addressing the Unproductive Work Behavior
Describing the Impact of the Behavior
Soliciting the Need for Change
Planning to Adapt to Change

Embracing a Coaching Mind-Set

Working on the Individual Development Plan (IDP)

Helping Others to Cope

The Coaching Mind-Set
Basic Counseling Principles

Day 7: Grooming High Potentials
June 27
Abegail Pulma-Tongco, PhD

This session will focus on equipping participants with the right skills, attitudes, and competencies required to groom individuals who have the high potential to excel.
This is especially relevant in managing individuals who are aspiring for growth and development and staff members who desire for positions of higher accountability and responsibility.
Leaders must be equipped with the skills to unlock others’ potentials and to inspire them to become their best self.

Succession Planning

Identifying Critical Positions
Defining the Success Profile
Identifying Key Talents for Critical Positions
Planning on How to Groom Identified Talents

Career Planning

Facilitating the Career-Planning Discussion
Crafting the Individual-Development Plan
Monitoring Progress

Upskilling

Coaching
Job Exposure
Self-Paced Learning
Online Learning Modalities

Day 8: Building a Winning Team
June 28
Abegail Pulma-Tongco, PhD
This session will focus on the adjustments and preparations required of leaders to sustain collaboration within the team effectively.
It is the leader’s role to sustain healthy group dynamics to ensure that team members are effectively communicating and supporting each other to accomplish team goals.
When other employees work from home, it does not mean that collaboration stop. In fact, members need to exert more energy into communicating and connecting with each other to ensure alignment and focus.

Managing a Strong Team

Team Development
Managing Differences in Working and Communication Styles
Leader’s Role in Sustaining Collaboration

Sustaining Team Productivity

Four Dysfunctions of Teams
Techniques in Addressing Dysfunctional Interactions
Components Leading to Team Effectiveness

Managing the Group Norms

Aligning the team to the Core Values of the Organization
Norm-Setting
Establishing Discipline within the Team

Methodologies
The training is carried out through

self-assessments,
online quiz games,
group processing,
interactive discussions,
engagement checks,
breakout sessions,
daily integration of learnings,
structured learning exercises,
oral recap review,
diagnostic games,
video presentations,
live demonstrations, and
guided planning.

Accreditations
People Dynamics is an accredited Learning and Development Institution by Profiles International, LLC., Wiley, Genos International, Civil Service Commission, and the Professional Regulation Commission.

Psychological Test Development
2024-09-06 13:00 - 2024-09-20 17:00
This workshop focuses on the application of knowledge pertaining to the basics of psychological test development. Specifically, an overview of testing, its ethics, and the five phases of test development will be tackled through interactive lecture and hands-on experience. By the end of this workshop, participants are expected to demonstrate skills in documentary analysis, item construction, item analysis, and item revision.
At the end of the workshop, the participants are expected to:

develop their synthesizing skills in conceptualizing a psychological construct and its specific facets;
develop their creativity in constructing sound test items that are representative of the construct, are free from gender and culture bias, and are clear and comprehensible;
develop their analytical skills in examining the quality of test items based on established standards in test development;
develop their ethical sensitivity in the practice of test development and test usage; and
develop their multi-cultural responsiveness in understanding and appreciating the influence of personal beliefs, emotions, and cultural differences in writing test items and developing an entire test.

Contents

Overview of Testing

Importance of Testing
Characteristics of a Good test
What a Test Cannot Do
Ethical Consideration in Testing

Test Conceptualization

Preliminary Questions to Ask in Creating a Test
Review of Related Literature
How to Conduct Documentary Analysis

Reliability and Validity Coefficients

Reliability Estimates
Types of Validity

Test Construction

Different Test Formats
How to Write Good Test Items
Preliminary Validation of Test Items

Test Usage, Test Development, and Common Issues in Testing
Test Tryout

Data Gathering Process
Test Administration Guidelines
How Many Respondents are Needed

Item Analysis and Reliability Analysis

Statistical Data Analysis in Test Development
What the Indices Mean

Test Revision

What Items to Keep, Revise, or Drop
How to Do Item Inspection and Revision

What to do next after arriving at the Final Form?
Case Presentations

Abstract Reasoning Assessment
Profiles Ethics Oriented Personality Assessment
Counterproductive Work Behavior

Post-Assessment

Methodologies
The training is carried out through

interactive lectures,
activities,
guided demonstration,
return demonstration, and
presentation of actual assessments.

Meet Your Trainers
Mary Donnavel Libron-Buloron, PhD (Cand.), RPm a licensed psychometrician with a master’s degree in guidance and counseling. She is now working on her PhD in social psychology.
Her career experience is a mix of academe and industry practice:
After graduating cum laude from the University of the Philippines–Cebu, Donnavel, who took up psychology, worked as a talent development officer at an HR consulting firm in the city.
There, she handled various training programs and organizational-development projects, honing her skills in training-outline creation, training implementation, and organizational assessment.
She went on to become the training officer of one of the city’s renowned non-government organizations.
As a training officer, she was responsible for setting up the organization’s training unit and overseeing the full training cycle, from planning to implementation and evaluation.
She was also responsible for creating the organization’s competency-based training, performance-management system, and succession planning.
Looking for opportunities outside the HR industry, she took a teaching job in one of Cebu’s prestigious colleges.
Donnavel has been teaching major subjects in psychology—such as psychological testing and assessment, social psychology, and experimental psychology—for the past nine years.
She has also been advising research projects and writing research articles for the college department’s journal.
While teaching, Donnavel ranked third in the 2015 psychometrician board examination nationwide. In the same year, she became the college’s guidance personnel.
Donnavel served as the psychology program head for the school year 2020–2021.
Aside from her academic career, she works as an associate consultant and facilitator at People Dynamics Inc.
In this role of Donnavel, she helps develop training modules and leadership assessment tools, among others.
She also manages several consulting and research projects for the clients of the said organization.

Avon Pearl S. Amores, MP, RPsy, CSCOP, CSIOP, is a licensed psychologist with a Masters and PhD in Psychology. She currently works as an Assistant Clinical Psychologist at Profiles Asia Pacific, where she utilizes her expertise in developing and constructing psychological tests, conducting behavioral interviews, and creating intervention programs.
She also has knowledge of Industrial Psychology, where she is well-versed in different facets of organizational psychology and other human resources-related aspects of the organization.
Avon brings a wealth of experience from various roles, including providing psychological services at MindHealth Psychological Services Clinic, managing mental health programs for the Philippine National Police, and serving as a psychologist at the National Center for Mental Health. She has also held training positions in the Teleperformance Recruitment Department at Collabera and Nezda Philippines, and has extensive experience teaching psychology at the university level.
Her extensive background in recruitment and her passion for teaching further demonstrate her well-roundedness in the field of psychology.

Dr. Mariel Kristine Rubia, PhD, RPsy, is a licensed psychologist with 14 years of clinical experience using different treatment modalities such as solutions-focused therapy, rational emotive behavior therapy, hypnosis and hypnotherapy, and eclectic therapy. For organizational needs, Dr. Rubia calls on her expertise in test development and practical application of psychological principles to develop, validate, and standardize industry tests. In recent years, she has worked for an HMO provider catering mostly to BPO clients, delivering much-needed mental health services to employees. Her leadership, work ethic, reliability, and knowledge have contributed to her team’s successful programs.
For private practice, Dr. Rubia serves as a clinical psychologist at the ME Rubia Psychological Assessment Center and is a practicing Forensic Psychologist with a specialization in annulment and violence against women and children cases. Dr. Rubia completed her Master of Arts major in Industrial Psychology (cum laude) and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (magna cum laude) at the University of Santo Tomas. Her research on the “Development of a Crime-Related Shame and Guilt Scale for Prisoners in the Philippine Context” was published in the Journal of Forensic Psychology.
She regularly participates in seminar workshops and conferences on testing and scale development abroad, with her latest as an online poster presenter at the International Congress of Psychology Convention in the Czech Republic. As an educator, Dr. Rubia currently teaches at the De La Salle-College of St. Benilde’s Human Resource Management Program, sharing her extensive experience in recruitment, labor relations, and training.

Accreditations
People Dynamics is an accredited Learning and Development Institution by Profiles International, LLC., Wiley, Genos International, Civil Service Commission, and the Professional Regulation Commission.

Cancellation of Registration
PLEASE NOTE:
Cancellations may be made two (2) weeks before the event. Otherwise, if cancellation is made less than two (2) weeks before the event, the participant will be charged 20% of the regular rate. Cancellations made a day before or no-show during the training/seminar will be charged 100% of the regular rate. No refunds, but substitutions may be made at any time before the learning event, or the participant can opt to attend other future events of the same amount.
