Our Services
Learning/Training and Development for Large and Small Businesses, Government Agencies, Hospitality Sector and Municipal Employees
Plan, train, direct and coordinate programs to enhance the knowledge, skills and performance of an organization’s employees and support staff. Employing an Andragogy (learner structured) approach that encourages divergent thinking and focuses on reflecting and doing.
Executive Coaching for Top Managers and High Potential Employees
Assist professionals in the workplace to facilitate improvements in their productivity; aid organizational changes which involves a recently promoted executive, manager or employee to help them adapt to their newly assigned roles effectively.
Career/Job Coaching, Planning and Counseling for Women
Counsel and guide clients (divorcees, widows, housewives entering the workforce, career transition and "re-entry candidates;" to include 1st time ex-offenders) by skillfully using a series of activities, processes and career assessment tools intended to realistically manage one’s career goals and aspirations.
Professional Development for Teachers (Teacher Trainer)
Instruction on the policies, procedures, and provisions designed to equip teachers with the knowledge, attitudes, behaviors and skills required to perform expected tasks constructively in the classroom. Design standard-based training material that observes the “Standards for Professional Learning” as a reference guide – these standards serve as indicators that guide the learning, facilitation, implementation and evaluation of effective professional learning.
Curriculum Developer for Academic Institutions of Learning, Extended Education Programs, and Homeschooling
Highly trained educational consultant devoted to creating instructional materials that teachers or instructors can use in the classroom, or home, to facilitate student learning (from early childhood to adolescent to adult). State and National Standards are converged with 30 years of experience, to develop and construct innovative curricula that applies a student-centered, teacher/educator facilitated approach to learning and assimilation of keen information. The curriculum is designed to be content-based and experiential in nature, which integrates practical real-life scenarios as a bases for acquiring knowledge more readily.
Youth Leadership and Transition
Produce purposeful youth programs that support social-emotional factors governing positive youth development and achievement. The program’s intention is to help these young scholars gain the 8 important skills that are valuable in leadership, which in turn will have a lasting and useful impact on their lives: decision making, goal setting, problem solving, relationship-building, communicating, listening, and self-awareness. Okonta Solutions fuses Positive Youth Development’s (PYD) 8 Key Factors and Experiences into the learning process. Our “transition” focused module includes youths coming out of the juvenile and criminal justice system.
Family, School and Community Engagement
Design strategies and implementation methods for family and community initiatives that include direct family outreach programming, support for school-based family outreach, coordination of community partnerships, and parent/caregiver leadership and advocacies; to include Parent Engagement, Workshops and Committees.
Specialize English Language Coaching for International and ESOL Clients
English for Business and English for Specific Purposes (EFB and ESP) - a specialization within English language learning and teaching or international English. EFB - designed for non-native English speakers who wish to study the subject with the goal of doing business with English-speaking countries, or with companies located outside the English-speaking world but uses English as a shared language (lingua franca). The objective is to reach a mutual agreement. In such cases, the aim of this training is efficient and functional communication. ESP - Okonta Solutions also provides training in Hotel Industry English for Housekeeping employees to better serve its guests. This training includes essential English vocabulary for hotel housekeeping and hotel English housekeeping conversation/dialogue.
Parent Alliance
Statistics have found that students whose parents are involved in their education are most likely to earn higher grades and test scores, better attendance, healthier social skills, and higher graduation rates. Okonta Solutions’ Parent Alliance workshops are tailored towards providing parents with current and resourceful information such as “Planning and Paying for College,” “Home Schooling,” “Know Your Rights as Parents in the Schools,” and more.