ENERGIZE YOUR FUTURE, YOUR CAREER AND YOUR LIFE
Welcome to your personalized high-performance club
for work and well-being.
Solutions for...
New Managers
Courses, coaching, empowerment for new managers to become great managers!
Leaders
Courses for seasoned leaders including assessments & coaching to equip leaders to be agile, confident and effective.
Promotions
Do you want a fabulous career? You need a plan, we help you get that promotion! Build skills, small group coaching & support.
Do you want to move ahead and double your influence?
Attention Impact Driven Leaders
Welcome to the Work Smart Club & Network where you will find tools to accelerate your future promotion and earn more money and respect. In the Club you have everything you need to develop your leadership including strategies to power up your influence along with the expert support to unlock your potential. If you want to maximize your income and your personal satisfaction, start your journey RIGHT NOW with our membership.
Your Network for Success
In 1976 the Beatles put out a song, “With a Little Help from My Friends.” Most successful people understand that they had help along the way to get to the top of their mountain.
We built this network and library of resources because we understand the power of connection. We have resources, great content, and a network with whom you can connect to make your life more satisfying, more productive, and more fulfilling.
What Members are Saying...
Leverage for a Full life
The Work SMart Club Difference
We built you this resource center with the tools you need to excel in your career and live a successful life. Premium content, experts, coaching, available on-demand and live – all grounded in words of faith to support your breakthrough from self-imposed ceilings to getting ahead and living your best life.
mindset
The fixed mental attitude that predetermines one’s responses. We equip you with a winning mindset and focus.
Motivation
No one is going to fix the problem or rescue you. We help you define your WHY and sustain your effort with skill building and a network of support.
Momentum
Are you consistently advancing or starting and stopping? By engaging in the network, you will stay in forward motion.
WHY YOU NEED TO JOIN THE WORK SMART NETWORK
Courses include: Goal Setting, Decision Making, Problem Solving, Lean Sigma Tools, Power Planning, journaling, Emotional Intelligence and much much more.
The way to happiness
Continued learning and growth
We are in a new era since the great disruption of 2020; normal is over and people continue to question what they want their life to look like. It is also time to change the way we think about work and leadership. After 20+ years as Executive Coach, Dr. Cynthia Howard recognizes leaders, business owners and professionals need a new mindset and perspective in order to achieve their goals and have the impact they want to have – personally and professionally.
TRUTH #1: Happy people are more successful.
TRUTH #2: Happiness doesn’t come from things but by stretching oneself beyond your comfort zone.
The way to happiness? Continued learning and growth with a little help from your friends!
Get Noticed and Get Ahead
You CAnnot Get More Time
Stop overspending on time and energy leaving you frustrated and flustered, fatigued and afraid you are missing something. There is more information today than ever before and to sort through it and find the right answers, for you, robs your time and depletes your internal resources. And it is your energy, focus and drive that keeps you in front, getting noticed and ahead.
What if you could go online and ask a question, learn from someone else’s question, consume a small bite of training, watch a live event, make new connections (and friends) and not lose one minute of sleep?
Work Smart Club
Hightlights, Benefits, and Perks
An online library of resources: Courses along with small bite resources on leadership topics like getting things done, organizing, people skills, problem solving, lean sigma, faith and more.
We provide self-directed and interactive programs to develop those leadership skills to execute confidently. You will also develop amazing people skills for trusting relationships.
Our exclusive network is an online space to ask questions, interact, learn, discuss, share wisdom and experiences.
Options for coaching including, one on one and a mastermind (small group format) are also available.
The Work SMart Club Network
Get more time & leverage from using our resources. Achieve the promotion, get the raise, breakthrough!
Your membership in the Work Smart Club Network will pay you dividends by increasing your leadership skills and building authentic confidence. This leads to greater opportunities to succeed. You will develop internal resources to manage the energy drains of stressful events and experience greater peace and satisfaction in everyday life.
FAQ
Yes there is a 3 day trial so you can try us risk free!
All the courses include workbooks, video, checklists and instructions. Consume the courses on-the-go and advance your career FASTER than your colleagues! Get the jump on your success.
Courses in Monthly Option
- The Confidence Course
- Goals Toolkit
- Delegating Toolkit (this is a template driven course so you can delegate like a pro!)
- Productivity Toolkit
- Introduction to Emotional Intelligence (4 hours of video. Workbook. This course was originally taught in college)
- The Stress Course
- 5 Levels of Resilience: High Performance Advantage
- Optimism Toolkit
- Get Promoted
- 5 Steps to a Great Retreat
- Overload
- Articles: 20+
New content is updated weekly; new courses monthly.
Courses in Lead Smart Annual Membership
Everything in the monthly option PLUS:
- Power Planning: Course and Physical journal
- Audio Meditation Library (15+ audio for meditation & guided imagery)
- Motivation Mindset
- Meeting Makeover
- The Mindful Leader
- Office Politics (Learn to network and advance your future despite the drama.)
- Decision Making Toolkit
- Assertiveness Toolkit
- 4 Steps to Apologizing Effectively
- C.A.R.E.: 4 Step Model for Communication
- High Performing Teams (this includes 14 team activities.)
- Momentum: 100 Days to a High Performance Culture
- Resilience Toolkit
- 52 Checklists (Helpful checklists you can use right now to assist in 4 main areas: Manage Self, Manage Others, Manage Change, Manage Work)
- The Kanban Toolkit
- 5S: Organize Work. Make it Visual (This is a power tool used in lean sigma)
- The Kaizen Toolkit (Kaizen means good change and is a continuous improvement process. You have the full description to hold Kaizen events)
- 21 Ei Exercises
Both the Lead Smart option include our exclusive network with live Coaching Clinics and Q&A.
Get the jump on your success. We provide on-demand training PLUS small group coaching, live Coaching Clinics and Q&A.
What's Included in The New Manager Training
Foundational courses for new managers:
- Goals Toolkit: Setting Goals That Stick
8 modules & Workbook. Learn 3 major goal setting methods to help you consistently hit your targets. - Delegating Toolkit
11 modules, workbook & 2 self-quizzes. Learn a step by step approach to delegating. - The Confidence Course
10 modules, workbook & 1 self-assessment. Learn to build an authentic confidence. - Assertiveness Toolkit
6 modules, workbook & 1 self-assessment. Learn the art of assertiveness communication and the barriers to getting there. - Productivity Toolkit
11 modules, workbook & 2 self-assessments. Get the tools to plan and prioritize. - Decision Making Toolkit
10 modules & workbook. When you develop your decision-making, you also enhance skills like flexibility, time management and strategic thinking. - 4 Steps To Apologizing Effectively
7 modules. Learn the 4 steps to give an effective apology. - Meeting Checklists
Access agendas, meeting follow up and other helpful resources to hold meetings that matter. - 5 Levels Of Resilience Pyramid
Resilience is the antidote to burnout and a set of skills you can learn. The Resilience Pyramid was developed by Dr. Howard having worked with scores of leaders. Learn strategies for each level. - Introduction To Emotional Intelligence
14 modules & workbook. 4 hours of video introducing various dimensions of emotional intelligence (Ei) giving you insight into what to develop to strengthen your Ei. - Overload
3 modules. Quick course teaching you 3 simple strategies to unhook from stressful feelings. - 5 Steps to a Successful Retreat
This is a great roadmap outlining the steps to take to plan and manage a retreat.
Additional checklists and resources.
- Individualized feedback in the courses; feel free to ask questions with our 1:1 private coaching in the courses.
- Notes function on each course to organize your thoughts and revelations.
Access for the entire year to our exclusive network with live events, Coaching Clinics and small group coaching. You have the opportunity to discuss your specific challenges.
Bonuses
- Power Planning Course (Value $195): Learn to construct your purpose, set priorities and plan like a pro to get it done! includes the physical copy of the planner.
- WSC journal (Value $15): beautiful leather like journal with pen to capture your brilliance and insights!
We update new content monthly and have many exciting courses in the que. You will be very happy with our plan to add in new courses. We also want to hear from you about what you need or would like to see and will put our course creators to work on building new courses.
Yes, many of the courses are available 'ala carte.' When you visit the course description, you can access the sales page for that course. Most of them range from $129 to $295 so the best value is a membership.
Our professional life has been in the leadership development area and understand that leadership is a responsibility that requires ongoing growth. The Lead Smart membership is a great value and provides many many courses you can take over the year. Learning comes from not just ingesting knowledge but from the discussion and conversation around which is why we provide the online platform for that live coaching.
Plan your entire year of professional development.
The reason we built this library is to provide on demand courses along with coaching at a price point that is affordable.
We have an exclusive and private online space to hold live coaching, events and provide a platform for discussion. Questions come up in real time and this space allows you to go in, ask your questions, post a comment and then come back when it is convenient and get your answer!
We hold groups, masterminds, live Coaching Clinics, and webinars in the Network. We also post new resources, as questions arise from members, not found in the Work Smart Library.
The space is organized so resources are easily found and tracked. You have access to replays, downloads and feeds 24/7.
This is YOUR space to interact with other members as well as with Work Smart Hosts and Coaches.
Yes. We have plans for groups to have a private space with prescribed set of resources and certainly have corporate memberships to the library.
We know that training in this digital age with hybrid work teams in different time zones is challenging and the Work Smart Network fills in this gap.
We can set up your team, your content and provide moderation and administration of learning requirements, onboarding etc.
Schedule a complimentary consultation with Dr. Howard to discuss.
Happy Members...
