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Driving Pursuits and Catalyst Development announce partnership

Leave a Comment / News / By Emma Blankenship

Driving Pursuits, a Kansas City-area organization that encourages members to learn and play the game of golf while growing new business opportunities, has announced a new initiative to offer professional development to women in business. The group has partnered with the KC startup Catalyst Development, a woman-owned leadership development company. Catalyst Development will provide 12 …

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What is L.E.A.D.E.R.s and why?

Leave a Comment / Programs / By Katie Ervin

L.E.A.D.E.R.s is a research-backed leadership skills training program for professionals at all stages and levels. It is our flagship program here at Catalyst Development. When I talk about it, people often ask how the program came about and why we recommend it for just about everyone we meet. Early in my HR career, I learned …

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How to Convince Your Boss to Send you to LEADERs

Leave a Comment / Career Advice / By Emma Blankenship

All right, so you’ve been watching our videos on LinkedIn, reading up on our Career and Power Skills, and you’ve decided you want to go to LEADERs. So how do you convince your boss to pay for you to go? As an enthusiast for all things personal and professional development, I’ve been in your position …

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What are Career and Power Skills (CAPs)?

Leave a Comment / Career Advice / By Katie Ervin

At Catalyst Development, when we teach career skills, we base all of our trainings around intentional skill building in several important areas. Soft skills. Power skills. People skills. Career skills. All just different words to say the same things. These are skills that are critical no matter where we are in our careers. At Catalyst …

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