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Year Up Chicago

February 5, 2019 by Dr. Gia Leave a Comment

Congratulations!!!

Congratulations Hayward Suggs & Jamaal Foulks on a successful Year Up Chicago program.

Year Up Chicago is a one-year, intensive training program that provides 18-24-year-olds hands-on skills development, coursework eligible for college credit, corporate internships, and support.

Click HERE to learn more about Year Up Chicago.

For information on how Hayward Suggs can support you and your organization, visit Hayward at www.haywardsuggs.com


Gia Suggs, MPA, MA, EdD is an Organization Development Consultant. She manages a private practice and is a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at Olivet Nazarene University located in Bourbonnais, Illinois.

Dr. Gia is also the author of Onboarding; Maximizing the Success of New Employees & Shattering the Glass Ceiling; How to Break Through Without Breaking Down (both available on Amazon.com).

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Toastmasters International Makes History

October 16, 2018 by Dr. Gia Leave a Comment

Toastmasters International Makes History

I have been a perpetual guest of Toastmasters for several years.  My “perpetual guest” status results from my husband’s active engagement yielding him championships in Speech Evaluation and Impromptu Speaking contests. In addition, he successfully competed in the 2010 and 2012 Toastmasters International Speech Contest where he finished in the top 1% of a field of 30,000 competitors from across the world.

So, I have observed contest on the local, district, regional, and international levels. I actually love the contests. The speeches are sometimes motivating, others are enduring, while some can be thought provoking.  Some of my favorites are the tall tale and humorous speech contests. Laughter can be a ray of sunshine for the soul. Those contests feel like a sunny afternoon on a California beach.

For those who are not familiar with Toastmasters, it is an organization that builds member leadership skills through effective communication coaching and training. The organization is comprised of more than 16,400 clubs with 352,000 members worldwide. Members have an opportunity to enhance their communication and leadership skills by writing, practicing, and delivering speeches.

This year, the international contest was held in Chicago.

I had an amazing time!

Each year since 1938, thousands of Toastmasters compete in the International Speech Contest. Competition begins with club contests and winners continue to the area, division, and district levels. Finalists at the district level participate in the semifinals, for the chance to win the World Championship of Public Speaking®.

For 35 years, this was a “men’s only” club. In 1973, Toastmasters opened their membership to women. Since that time, four women have won this international speech contest. That’s 4 out of 45.

This year was a little different.

Not only did a woman place in the top three positions, for the first time in Toastmasters history, there was a top-three sweep!

I would like to extend my warmest congratulations to Anita Fain Taylor (3rdplace winner) who shared with us the invaluable advice her father gave her. Zifang Su (2ndplace winner) who told us the importance of “turning around”. Ramona Smith (1stplace winner), who not only won the International Contest, but told us how she was able to win the biggest fight of all … LIFE!


Gia Suggs, MPA, MA, EdD is an Organization Development Consultant. She manages a private practice and is a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at Olivet Nazarene University located in Bourbonnais, Illinois. Dr. Gia is also the author of Onboarding; Maximizing the Success of New Employees & Shattering the Glass Ceiling; How to Break Through Without Breaking Down (both available on Amazon.com).

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Recorded Webinar – Reduce Turnover, Increase Productivity and Maximize the Success of Your New Employees

December 6, 2016 by Dr. Gia Leave a Comment

LogosThank you Training Magazine Network and SilkRoad for the opportunity to partner with you on the July 28th webinar, “Reduce Turnover, Increase Productivity and Maximize the Success of Your New Employees.”

IMG_0646New employees offer promise and potential for their employers.  In order to be successful, they must acclimate quickly to their new organization’s culture, structure, policies, procedures, and job expectations. If this does not occur, the promise of a new employee can quickly become a liability.

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It is critical for organizations to experience a return on their investment by means of increased productivity over time. If new employees do not develop personal connections both intellectually and socially, they will not experience continued growth in the organization (Chang, Ehrlich, & Millen, 2004).

Organizational socialization has a profound influence on new employee adjustment. Onboarding is an acclimation process focused on integrating new employees into a company’s culture (Dai & De Meuse, 2007) both functionally and socially.

This presentation explained the impact of utilizing a comprehensive onboarding program to improve new employee’s success. If you missed it – Don’t worry – we recorded it for you! Click <Access the Recording> below.

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Thank you!


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In-services Require More Than Subject Matter Expertise

April 5, 2016 by Dr. Gia Leave a Comment

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Effective In-sertice Education Requires More Than Subject Expertise

Journal of Healthcare Risk Management

Volume 29, Issue 3 pages 15–21, 2010

The development of a training program is not an event but rather a process. This process is driven by the business needs of the organization for a specific target audience … SMEs are somethings so good at what they do that they leave out information or performance steps that are intuitive for them (but not their students).  Krishna Lynch & Dr. Gia Suggs (p. 17)

Click the link below to download the article:

Effective in service education requires more than subject expertise


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