Contact Information:
Ned Parks
New Directions Learning & Development
330-328-8309
ned@nedparks.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Akron Business Achieves Sales Honor
February 24, 2012, Akron, Ohio – Local business New Directions Learning & Development has been honored as an Inscape Publishing Opal Award Winner.
“New Directions brings insight and practical tools to help individuals be more effective in the workplace. To be successful in workplace relationships, people need to have a memorable framework to understand themselves and others,” says Jeffrey Sugerman president and CEO of Inscape Publishing.
New Directions Learning & Development is a global provider of business consulting, staff development, and executive leadership coaching services that help organizations improve management competencies enhance processes and improve employee engagement efforts. New Directions is located in Bath, Ohio and can be found on the web at www.nedparks.com
“New Directions’ work is helping people learn to be better leaders, managers, and individual contributors,” Sugerman says. “Organizations are becoming stronger and more efficient as a result. We are proud to have New Directions as a partner.”
About Inscape Publishing
Inscape Publishing, Inc. is a leading developer of DiSC®-based corporate training and assessment solutions. Inscape recently launched Everything DiSC®, its third-generation applications that combine online assessment, classroom facilitation, and post-training follow-up reports to create powerful, personalized workplace development experiences. With a global network of nearly 1800 independent distributors, Inscape’s solution-focused products are used in thousands of organizations, including major government agencies and Fortune 500 companies. Every year, more than a million people worldwide participate in programs that use an Inscape assessment. Inscape products have been translated into 30 different languages and are used in 70 countries. For more information about Inscape Publishing and Everything DiSC products, visit www.everythingdisc.com.
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For Immediate Release
January 20, 2012
WABC Names Ned Parks of Bath, Ohio New Registered Corporate Coach
Victoria, Canada — The Worldwide Association of Business Coaches (WABC) has recognized Ned Parks of Akron, Ohio with the Registered Corporate Coach (RCC) designation. This intermediate credential is awarded to business coaches who have learned key principles, skills and techniques for coaching effectively in businesses and organizations.
Registered Corporate Coaches are trained in both internal and external coaching. As internal coaches, they work with executives and managers to strengthen the organization’s corporate culture. As external coaches, they work with businesspeople at all levels to help them succeed personally and professionally.
Wendy Johnson, WABC president and chief executive officer, comments, “The Registered Corporate Coach designation has been obtained by nearly a thousand practitioners worldwide. Coaches who have earned this designation are committed to our emerging profession. They’ve invested serious time and effort in developing specialized skills to bring out the best in others.”
Ned Parks is the founder of New Directions Learning & Development a global provider of business consulting, staff development, and business leadership coaching services that help organizations improve management competencies enhance processes and increase employee engagement efforts, since 2000. New Directions is located in Bath, Ohio.
Clients have included, Dealer Tire, Kent State Office of Professional Development, Fortune 500 companies and many government agencies. Mr. Parks notes, “Business and executive coaching is part advisor, part sounding board, part cheerleader, part manager and part strategist and even modest improvements show large returns based on the investment.”
Business coaching, which includes niches such as corporate and executive coaching, is one of the fastest-growing professional services in the world. WABC has represented business coaches and their clients since 1997, and is the first international association dedicated exclusively to the industry. Says Ms. Johnson, “Our goals at WABC are to set the highest international standards for business coaches, to create a lifelong ladder of learning for our members, and to build and maintain public trust in our industry. Offering rigorous professional designations for business coaches satisfies all of these goals.”
About WABC
The Worldwide Association of Business Coaches (WABC) is the first international professional association dedicated exclusively to business coaching and the only association of its kind to require advanced qualifications for membership. WABC’s mandate is to develop, advance and promote the emerging profession of business coaching worldwide.
Since it was founded in 1997, WABC has seen its membership grow steadily. The hundreds of internal and external coaches who belong to WABC work with entrepreneurs, managers, CEOs, presidents and business professionals from all industries in the public, private and non-profit sectors. WABC members come from over 30 countries, including Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, the Republic of Korea, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Contact Ned Parks:
Email: ned@nedaparks.com
Phone: 330-328-8309
Web: www.nedparks.com
Contact WABC:
Email: info@wabccoaches.com
Phone: +1.250.656.8732
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ned Parks
Owner
1864 Revere Rd.
Akron, Ohio
330-328-8309
Ned@nedparks.com
Ned Parks becomes Authorized Distributor for International Training
Company
Akron, Ohio May 9, 2011 – Ned Parks of New Directions Learning & Development in Akron,
Ohio announced today that they have successfully completed the application and
training process with Inscape Publishing, Inc. to become an Inscape Authorized
Distributor.
New Directions is now among more than 2,500 independent coaches
and consultants in North America authorized to use Inscape’s industry-leading DiSC®
learning instrument along with a host of assessments dealing with leadership,
teamwork, communication and more, to augment their training, consulting, and
development solutions.
Inscape Publishing, Inc., headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is the leading
provider of instrument-based learning systems that transform individuals, teams
and organizations by helping people develop a deeper understanding of
themselves and their relationships. This, in turn, helps organizations realize
greater success. Inscape’s flagship product, the DiSC® learning instrument, was pioneered
over three decades ago.
New Directions Learning & Development is a global provider of business consulting and staff development services that help organizations improve management competencies enhance
customer service and improve employee engagement efforts. Parks notes, “Integrating
the Inscape family of products in my consulting practice will help my clients
in a positive way.”
“We’re thrilled to welcome Ned to our network of Authorized Distributors,” said Jeffrey Sugerman, President of Inscape Publishing. “The successful implementation of our learning instruments in organizations throughout North America is dependent upon the highly skilled
network of independent coaches and consultants who use our resources with their
clients’ workforces to help them achieve desired results.”
Inscape Publishing, Inc., the leading provider of instrument-based learning systems, pioneered the original DiSC® learning instrument over three decades ago. Today, Inscape continues to create innovative products and services that engage, inspire and empower individuals and organizations. Available in 24 languages in more than 50 countries, Inscape’s learning resources have helped more than 45 million people gain insight into their attitudes, behaviors and potential in the workplace.
For more information,
please contact New Directions Learning & Development at 330-328-8309 or
ned@nedparks.com
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