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Sylvia  Henderson MBA

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Sylvia Henderson (Springboard Training): Career Development Expert

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WHEN YOU NEED (for yourself or for your organization): 

- Employees / colleagues who are more professional in how they present themselves (and your organization);

- Better brand communication of who you are and what you represent;

- A stronger bottom line $$$ based on more-loyal (satisfied and paying) customers;

- Effective supervisors, new managers, and leaders without titles who know how to work with your PEOPLE;

- A sales force or trainers who present their ideas, services, or products more powerfully; and / or

- Stronger, more-positive self-esteem and self-motivation for success (for youth and adults)...

THEN YOU NEED Springboard Training and Sylvia Henderson as your partner to help you achieve what you desire.

Thoroughly examine this expert page to learn more and take action.

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     Sylvia Henderson is Chief Everything Officer (CEO) of Springboard Training—your springboard to personal and professional development. She is an author, workshop facilitator, speaker, and business woman. She provides people, tools and resources that focus on professionalism and work ethics (employability skills) and leadership.

 

     Sylvia is the author and co-author of several books. Her book “Why You Talk So White? Eliminate the Behaviors that Sabotage Your Success” is about the behaviors and skills required—regardless of demographics—for success in a diverse workplace. (Available online at WhyYouTalkSoWhite.com and Amazon.com .) Her “Success Language” programs are based on lessons within the book and supplementary 26-card deck. Two books are in the works for publication in 2008: “Lead Like a Girl: Leadership Perspectives and Practices of Women With Influence”, and “Profetiquette (Profitable Etiquette): What to Do and Say to Excel at Work and Pay”. 

 

     Sylvia’s “real-world” experiences include 30+ years as a corporate trainer, team leader, manager, and association leader practicing the leadership, communication and motivational skills she now presents in her programs. She serves on several Boards of Directors and is Past-President of two associations. Sylvia is a life member of and nationally-certified trainer for the Girl Scouts of the USA. She is a professional member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) and the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD); a Toastmasters officer and competitive speaker; a professional skills columnist for The Meeting Professional magazine (MPI), and the Community Leader for the Organization Development area of HR.com.

 

      Beyond her passion for being a springboard for learning and discovery, Sylvia rides a motorcycle (Honda Shadow VT1100TX) and roller coasters whenever possible. She is owned by two Pembroke Welsh Corgis (short legs; stout bodies; no tails) and lives in Olney, MD.

 

      Visit the Springboard Training website (www.SpringboardTraining.com) for resources you can use and implement immediately for your personal and professional development, and to contact Sylvia to bring her programs and resources to your organization.
Sylvia  Henderson Quick Facts
Main Areas: Professionalism, Work Ethics, Employability Skills, Interpersonal Skills for Leadership Success
Best Sellers: "Why You Talk So White? Eliminate the Behaviors that Sabotage Your Success" (Professionalism and employability skills for EVERYONE regardless of demographics), "Success Language" card deck.
Career Focus: Business Owner, Workshop Facilitator/Trainer, Author, Speaker, Contributing Human Being to Society
Affiliation: National Speakers Association (NSA), Toastmasters International, Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA), American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), Cheyney University Alumni, University of Pittsburgh Alumni, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.
Other Programs & Highlights
 

Programs:

  • "Success Language" Professionalism, work ethics, and leadership skills. (http://SuccessLanguage.com)
  • "Hear Me Roar! Present, With Power!" Present your message while presenting the "whole person". Special emphasis place on women presenting powerful presence.
  • "Leader of the Pack: Leadership/New Manager 'People' Skills" Interpersonal skills for new managers and supervisors.
  • "Hey! That's MY Idea" Organize and communicate your ideas so that YOURS are implemented successfully.
  • "V-Twin Values: Success Principles for the Ride called 'Life'" Pure motivational keynote for opening and after-meal sessions.
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Sylvia  Henderson
 

Quotations from the "Success Language" Card Deck.

Success Language: Card Deck. Complete deck of 26 reference cards for table-top or pocket reference. Author: Sylvia Henderson. ISBN #1-932197-04-4. Available from tools.successlanguage.com or Amazon.com.
  

(All 26 "Success Language" Cards follow!)

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Note: These are the quotations from the backs of each card. You still have to purchase the card deck for the lessons on the front of the cards.  (You didn't think I would give away the entire shop, did you?!!!)

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  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #1
    “When two people do not communicate clearly with each other, then what is in their brains and in their hearts might as well stay inside.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #2
    “When we see or hear a message repeated frequently enough, we eventually remember and believe the message.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #3
    “You cannot allow language skills to languish if you are to communicate successfully.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #4
    “Words should be a continual source of learning.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #5
    “Reject the norms and behaviors of people who keep you from succeeding, and rise above your current mental, emotional, and physical comfort levels.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #6
    “You can choose to allow those closest to you to keep you from achieving your success, or to help you achieve it.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #7
    “If there is an ‘us’ to be like, be like the people who have achieved or are working to achieve the success you want.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #8
    “It is in how you interpret your wins and losses that contributes to your interpretation of success.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #9
    “Work at discovering your own personal truths, and create your life to achieve the success you seek while being authentic to yourself in the process.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #10
    “The road to success is not limited to or bound by an identity.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #11
    “When you succeed at maintaining an attitude that is positive and success-oriented, you create change that ultimately leads to achieving the success you work to achieve.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #12
    “Work constantly at shutting out the negativity you see, hear, and absorb.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #13
    “Say an affirmation out loud to yourself frequently and regularly. Doing so helps you take action, adjust your attitude, and eventually achieve what you set out to achieve.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #14
    “Initiative. Thoroughness. Caring. Diligence. Commitment. Passion. These words describe the concept typically considered to be a strong, positive work ethic.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #15
    “I have determined that the lower the level of self-esteem and the less powerful one feels, the more a person needs to publicly prove themselves to distract from their own insecure truths.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #16
    “Your attitude is contagious. People tend to respond in kind to the way they are approached.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #17
    “The respect you give others is a reflection of the respect that you deserve.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #18
    “The person who is viewed as the one who goes the extra mile will most likely be the one who gets to go farther and climb higher to succeed.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #19
    “Little of what you do is in a vacuum in which the results you achieve are based solely on what you alone do.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #20
    “You will be surprised how many situations you can neutralize by maintaining your own even temperament.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #21
    “A label is something other people—usually jealous, frustrated, angry people—give you. If you reject the label, it does not become yours.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #22
    “However you choose to give back to others, it must be and feel right for you. Let no one else determine for you how you will help others.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #23
    “Ask yourself if you would cross the street, clutch your wallet, follow yourself in a store, or roll your eyes and whisper about yourself behind your back if you were a stranger looking at you for the first time.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #24
    “The ‘stuff’ you carry with you tells on you.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #25
    “Dine like a successful person with successful people, and you start to feed off of their success.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
  • Sylvia's Quotation on "Success Language" Card #26
    "Establish a reputation for respecting time and being prompt, which will encourage those who know your reputation to be on time themselves.”
    - Sylvia Henderson
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    All of these quotations - plus the content that supports them - are in:

    Success Language: Card Deck. Complete deck of 26 reference cards for table-top or pocket reference. Author: Sylvia Henderson. ISBN #1-932197-04-4. Available from tools.successlanguage.com or Amazon.com.

    Getting Started With Sylvia  Henderson
     

    To get started with Sylvia...

    1. Take advantage of the opportunities available on this "Expert" page for "no-charge" personal and professional development.

    2. Go to Sylvia's listed websites for content-rich resources you can use right away (especially articles, PDF and MP3 downloads, and archived columns).

    3. CALL or E-MAIL Sylvia (see "Contact Info") immediately to have her speak or facilitate workshops for your organization at your site or your conference. Sylvia travels throughout the USA, its territories, and anywhere else where an organization meeting her fee structure is located (within reason).

     

    Sylvia believes - and practices - that people retain knowledge, learn skills, and shape attidudes when exposed to an experiential learning environment. The basic tenents of her beliefs center around how adults learn, and adult education is her passion. This includes teens. Sylvia can actively involve participants in their own learning and discovery (and in their own self-motivation) through general session keynotes to thousands or seminars/workshops to twelve (people).

     

    To best get started with Sylvia ... TAKE ACTION NOW! Call. E-mail. Engage.

    Contacting Sylvia  Henderson
     

    MAIL ADDRESS: PO Box 588, Olney, MD 20830-0588

    BUSINESS PHONE: 301-260-1538

    E-MAIL: Sylvia@SpringboardTraining.com

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