Build your people, build your business

Developing leadership that C.A.R.E.S. through:

Communication

Attitude

Relationships & Retention

Equipping team with Emotional Intelligence

Sales Training

Using Change Management principles to create sustainable changed behavior is what Candace Mae Training and Services does best. C.A.R.E.S. are the tools that enable us to lead with love. We equip you with the skills you and your team need to lead with love.

About Training Courses Meet Your Instructor

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Cultivate culture

How to lead with love.

Through training in C.A.R E.S., Candace Mae brings her 20+ years of experience to demonstrate how love in the work place will cultivate culture, break the cycle of poor leadership, and give you a strong set of values-based principles by which you can live and lead.

Leading with Love involves

Being of one mind, one vision, and a shared mission.
Having compassion for one another.
Loving team members as brothers/sisters.
Being tenderhearted, expressing compassion.
Being courteous with each other.
Not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling.
- Do not criticize in an abusive or angrily insulting manner even to those who treat you this way.
Believe in the people you lead – see their potential.
Position the people you lead to succeed – put them in roles where they use their strengths.
Do good. Seek Peace. Pursue peace.

Inspired by 1 Peter 3:8-12

MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Candace Mae spends her days steeped in connectedness with Christ’s Spirit to allow her the Divine insight and guidance on personal and business growth. Whether she’s working with her staff, or coaching women in leadership, executives, and business owners – or serving as a Marketplace Chaplain, her sole focus is on integrating love in the workplace to better herself and her clients.

Candace Mae’s skills were honed through over 20 years working as a Project Manager with cross-functional teams and consultants from around the world to implement Enterprise Resource Planning systems that integrated management of core business processes for both corporate and higher educational institutions. CandaceMae incorporates change management principles when helping clients and businesses embrace change. With strong administrative and teaching skills, and a broad base of business industries, the expertise she brings to each client is a critical intersection of world-class training she has received as well as her own hard-fought experience, and authored material.

As a Certified Teacher, Speaker, Trainer, Coach, and an independent affiliate of The John Maxwell Team at the highest level (Executive Director), Candace Mae uses corporate-level training materials, combined with her unique experience, education, gifts/talents, and palpable direct yet warm personality. In addition to the Comprehensive Leadership Development Flagship Program, she offers in-depth training and coaching experience, augmented with consulting as needed to transform the lives, relationships, and businesses of her clients.

Clients repeatedly say, “I have found CandaceMae to be mission-driven, with a strong belief in making a positive impact in the world. She is the kind of person that believes that one small action can make great change. I have seen this belief in the way she builds tools and connects resources to leverage momentum, builds awareness and inspires positive change. CandaceMae has a caring character – she works hard to build trusting relationships with the people she works with and has a strong work ethic. I strongly recommend Candace Mae Gruber.”

Sean Gil, Career Center Director, University of California, Riverside

“Treating someone with love regardless of how you feel about that person is a very powerful principle. . .It can make us great spouses, great parents, and great friends. Great leaders too.”

– Joel Manby

Former CEO of Sea World, General Motors, Saab Automobile USA, Herschend Family Entertainment

Register yourself & your team for these powerful training courses.

Communication. Attitude. Relationships. Emotional Intelligence. Sales

Most corporate training focuses on Job Knowledge and Management Skills. We, however, target the practices and predictable behavior of great leadership. The change in daily behavior is where leaders and their companies realize their most regarding gains. Inquire about the following powerful courses and coaching services. (Click on the course for description)

A Leader's Journey

Raising the level of personal leadership effectiveness through increased understanding of key leadership principles (e.g. trust, modeling, levels & styles of leadership, navigation, respect, connection, intuition, empowerment, priorities, etc.). Over 10-sessions, participants experience greater self-leadership skills and influence with others. Certificate of completion provided.

Coaching Staff for Better Performance

Helping others exceed their existing performance levels and excel beyond what they thought they were capable of. Regardless of whether your title is Manager, Leader, or Entrepreneur, you are in the business of developing people. Learning and applying the skill of Coaching will provide your leaders with the ability to influence and empower those they lead to achieve greater results, solve problems, and increase employee engagement. Certificate of completion provided.

Skill Transition

A 6-session 360-degree interactive coaching workshop where participants will experience both observational learning and practical application. At the end of the training, participants will know how to instantly build rapport and connect, how to be present and listen with intention, and they will have experienced 2 live coaching sessions in which they will have role played coach, client, and observer. Certificate of completion provided.

Highly Productive & Collaborative Teams

Building and maintaining a successful team is no simple task. Even people who have taken their teams to the highest level in their field have difficulty recreating what accounted for their successes. Is it a strong work ethic? Is it “chemistry”? Whether you’re the coach, player, teacher or student, CEO or non-profit volunteer, come learn the principles, attitudes, and “how-to” tools that you can wrap your hands around to build – or rebuild – your team.

Living the Laws (2-Day Workshop)

Provides you with practical tools to address the leadership challenges you encounter daily within your profession. During this immersive workshop, you will:

Understand the four leadership disciplines and behaviors.
Assess your leadership strengths and weaknesses.
Develop and practice the behavior required to effectively lead yourself and others.
Identify ways to incorporate and apply the Maxwell leadership laws in your daily life.
Focus on influence, respect, the law of process & solid ground, getting buy-in, connection, momentum, priorities, equipping others, your inner circle, and so much more!

Essential Principles to Expansive Growth

Discover and apply the keys to developing yourself so that you have the best chance of becoming the person you were created to be. Catapult and expedite your personal and professional growth so you can soar to new heights faster than learning through the school of hard knocks!

Speaking with Authority, Confidence & Impact

Learn to speak and present in front of any audience, whether it’s live or virtual. As your facilitator, I will guide you through practical exercises to help you master your communication and become a better speaker:

Develop your own style of communication.
Discover the art and practice of developing stories.
How to connect with and hold your audience’s attention, with a magnetic presence.
How to overcome the fear of speaking in public.

Developing the Leader Within You

Miles beyond self-directed study, marginal video enrichment, or the large impersonal group settings you may be used to, this interactive workshop provides a chance to see what’s happening “under the hood” through a workshop designed to be a dashboard giving you feedback on your existing leadership. This surprising self-revelation will be the foundation and fulcrum for changes in your thinking, your current best practices, and your leadership behavior. You’ll create a LEADERSHIP ACTION PLAN to ensure behavioral change!

Leadership Pipeline & Staff Retention

An organization’s growth depends upon the growth of its personnel, and the more people you lead, the more leaders you need. This study will help you map out a plan of action for recognizing the potential in your team so that you can grow them into leaders who develop other leaders. It will also help you become better at identifying and hiring the right talent for your company. Successful leaders maximize the abilities of those they supervise and empower them to exercise their influence for the benefit of the organization. What you learn and implement here will save you years of time, energy, frustration, and money in hiring and developing the wrong people.

Sales Training Bootcamp Level One

Based on the leadership principles and values of Dr. John C. Maxwell, leading authority on leadership development, each lesson in this boot camp is designed to equip you and/or members of your team with the skills you need to improve your sales results. Over the course of twelve sessions, you will learn how to effectively:

Serve others through selling.
Have the right posture, mindset, and attitude throughout the sales process.
Develop relationships versus make transactions.
Master the sales conversation and present your products, services, or programs

Sales Training Bootcamp Level Two

Building upon the relationship after the sale, and how to keep your pipeline full! The sales process does not end with a transaction. This boot camp shows you how to follow up and follow through by sticking with the client after the sale. Over the course of twelve sessions, you will learn how to effectively: