True Color Programs for Health Care

Employee happiness & patient satisfaction, are they related?

You bet! If employees aren’t happy, then patients don’t get the service they expect.

The collaborative effort among health care professionals to provide patient care requires a strong team effort.

How strong is your team?

Patient care demands can bring numerous opportunities for stress and frustration alone, but combine these challenges with staff conflicts, personality clashes and snarled lines of communication and it becomes virtually impossible to deliver excellence. When there is improvement in team cohesiveness through relationship-building, effective communication, respect, and fair treatment, satisfaction levels increase and so does the quality of patient care. The desired business outcomes of increased market share and profitability follow.

True Colors brings out the Best in Your Team

True Colors is an easy-to-use tool that has helped millions of people find personal success and dramatically improve their inter-personal relationships. It has a twenty year track record of success with hundreds of companies like Ford, Pfizer, Washington Mutual, ESPN, Kraft, Boeing, JC Penny, Cargill, Sabre, I.C. System, and thousands of schools, hospitals, and government agencies, who have used it to build teamwork, and to improve communications and customer relations.

What Makes True Colors Different?

The strength and power of True Colors is that it takes the elaborate method of understanding personality theory and distils it into a user-friendly, practical tool that is fun to use and easy to apply.

• It's highly interactive and engaging
• It's easy to understand *** PEOPLE GET IT!!!...at all levels of an organization (Top to Bottom)…absolutely critical for any major shift.
• It's easy to integrate into your training initiatives
• It's easy to remember

Heal Thyself

It is ironic that working in health care can so often be stressful and psychologically degrading. We seek to promote health, yet our own health can be depleted at work through chronic misunderstanding, staff conflict, and feeling disrespected.

True Colors can help you deliver optimal health care through having a well coordinated chain of communication from intake through client care and release. When everyone on your team learns to listen to others, and can speak in ways that makes themselves understood, then everyone benefits. Staff are more attentive to one another. Bedside manner improves. The level of care everywhere increases. Patients are happier and improve more quickly.

True Colors is your prescription to healthy communication. Take a dose of the medicine that your workplace needs.

Call a True Colors representative today for an intake assessment of your needs. You can also take the True Colors Test to discover your own True Colors.

True Colors for Non Profit Organizations

Serving the Public


Your Organization exists to help serve others. How can you fully give your time and attention if you are drained by the frustrations of working together? True Colors helps you understand and deal with difficult people and teaches you how to tap into the strengths of differences to work synergistically as a team.

Dealing with the Public can be rewarding and fulfilling, and yet there are times that dealing with the various personalities of those you serve can be difficult. When you can recognize the True Colors of others, you can understand how to relate to them better. You'll discover ways to motivate, encourage and communicate with even those you thought you could never connect with.

True Success with True Colors

• Discover your own True Colors personality spectrum
• Recognize the strengths, stressors and motivations of other personality styles
• Learn to communicate so people want to listen
• Appreciate the different opinions, approaches and values of others while still feeling validated for your own way of doing things.
• Finally understand WHY people behave the way they do!
• Bring out the best in yourself and others

Making the World a Better Place Starts at Home

Your social service organization exists to make the world a better place. If your workplace is stymied with communication breakdowns, lack of respect, or misunderstandings, then you are facing a double tragedy. First, your staff suffers. Secondly, your ability to accomplish your mission is degraded.

True Colors can help you make the world a better place by making your workplace a better place. With True Colors training, your staff will know how to hear one another, and respond in a way that will be understood. Investing a small portion of your donor’s funds in a True Colors seminar will leverage your effectiveness into your field of service and make you more successful at fulfilling your mission statement and attracting future funding.

Call a True Colors representative now to explore how your organization can improve your service through better communication, and take the True Colors Test to discover your own personality.

True Colors Corporate Programs

Work demands can bring numerous opportunities for stress and frustration alone, but combine these challenges with staff conflicts, personality clashes and snarled lines of communication and it becomes virtually impossible to deliver excellence.

When there is improvement in team cohesiveness through relationship-building, effective communication, respect, and fair treatment, satisfaction levels increase and so does the quality of client care. The desired business outcomes of increased market share and profitability follow.

Strengthen Your Staff with True Colors

Being able to recognize your True Colors and the True Colors of others improves the overall effectiveness and efficiency of your team by revealing the motivation behind behaviors and directing the focus and energy of team members on your mission instead of organizational conflicts, territorialism or personality conflicts.

What Makes True Colors Different?

The strength and power of True Colors is that it takes the elaborate method of understanding personality theory and distils it into a user-friendly, practical tool that is fun to use and easy to apply.

• It's highly interactive and engaging
• It's easy to understand *** PEOPLE GET IT!!!...at all levels of an organization (Top to Bottom)…absolutely critical for any major shift.
• It's easy to integrate into your training initiatives
• It's easy to remember

Want to get started? Take the True Colors Test for a sneak peak at what a world of difference True Colors can make.

True Colors Military Programs

True Colors has been successfully implemented for over 28 years by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, Reserves and National Guard. Many of these are involved with the Airmen & Family Readiness Program. In addition, True Colors International has facilitators at various USAF bases in the USA and in countries world-wide.

The True Colors Live Show has been enthusiastically embraced as a useful tool for introducing the True Colors concepts and the powerful communication benefits for indoctrination of new recruits. Furthermore, military cadet leadership programs have used True Colors as a training tool to strengthen leadership skills.

Tactical Level Programs

True Colors offers programs customized to meet military Institutional Competencies at the tactical and operational level of development.

Beginning with the Personal Success program, participants experience the foundational piece of True Colors focused on the specific needs of the participants and the organization. In addition to a thorough understanding of your personality, you will take steps in learning to build rapport with others in one or more of the following areas:

• Conflict Causing Hot Button Issues
• Change Management
• Deployment/Reunion Issues
• Communication
• Leadership Styles

Operational Development Program

True Colors operational development programs focus directly on the needs of your organization by developing programs with organizational leaders. An experienced True Colors Coach will conduct an analysis of your unit's needs through a True Colors's gap analysis and then target a specific program for your unit's developmental needs. The basic awareness program is a pre-requisite. These are stand alone programs. However, they can be combined at the same time with the Personal Success program:

• Communication
• Teambuilding

The Best Possible Intelligence

Accountability and responsibility run up and down the chain of command by means of communication. If the weakest link in that chain is the communication itself, mission effectiveness is compromised.

Despite the awesome power of our military technology, we still depend upon human intelligence to survey a scenario, interpret the data, and make decisions that others must then understand and execute. Understanding one another is crucial to the smooth operation of the military machine.

That understanding can be trained, and True Colors is your ally. In a True Colors seminar, your troops can learn how to listen, and to speak in a way that can be most effectively understood.

Call True Colors now to learn how you can do more to preserve the red, white and blue. Take the True Colors Test too while you're at it ;)

True Colors Programs Tailored for Government

True Colors has been successfully implemented for over 28 years by the Dept. of Revenue, U.S. and Federal Courts, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and numerous state, county and local agencies.

True Colors programs foster positive, healthy, productive personal development that improves communication, teambuilding, leadership, morale and conflict resolution skills both at work and at home.

By implementing a True Colors program, you will see individual performance improved, workplace and personal stress reduced, greater levels of employee satisfaction, a more harmonious work environment, and more successful leaders.

As a result of participating in True Colors Programs dramatic changes can occur through:

• Recognizing the need for self-confidence, pride, dignity, respect, and sense of worthiness in all situations.
• Providing the language skills of effective communication.
• Improving the skills and attitudes as advisor, counselor, consultant, and trouble-shooter, to achieve a greater level of success.
• Providing strategies that develop rapport and teambuilding

What Makes True Colors Different?

The strength and power of True Colors is that it takes the elaborate method of understanding personality theory and distils it into a user-friendly, practical tool that is fun to use and easy to apply to real-life situations. One of the ways True Colors communicates its messages is through "edutainment" programs that engage participants in an interactive experience that entertains, while it educates – leaving them with skills they will retain long afterwards. This "edutainment" element sets it apart from other systems by providing a fun avenue that allows participants to become absorbed in the process in a non-threatening atmosphere.

Get started today by taking the True Colors Test and see for yourself what a different True Colors can really make in your life and the life of those around you.

True Colors in Education

Your School Environment

Do you work in education to be part of an established learning culture... to help students learn, develop, and become more effective in the world? Isn’t it ironic how the organizational structure supporting this educational system can be disrupted by misunderstandings, conflicts, and lack of respect?

Much of the success of an academic institution depends upon communication, not only inside the classroom between teacher and student, but throughout the entire campus and beyond. A student’s day begins with the first interaction – be it with a bus driver or school secretary and continues throughout the day and into the surrounding community.

Cooperation or Conflict?

When the staff is not getting along, the students (and their academic achievement) are affected.

The demands of providing educational opportunities for students can bring numerous opportunities for stress and frustration alone. Combine these challenges with staff conflicts, personality clashes and snarled lines of communication and it becomes virtually impossible to deliver excellence.

Introducing True Colors to Your Staff

True Colors helps everyone involved in the education process -teachers, administrators, counselors, students and support staff—become a team coordinated around the goal of learning outcomes.

An expert True Colors Facilitator introduces administrators, faculty and staff to this interactive, entertaining and easy to remember Personal Success Seminar, providing new tools to understand themselves and work with students.

True Colors has been used successfully in education for thirty years, to gain higher levels of self esteem, academic achievement and improved personal relationships in school and in families.

True Colors School Program Goals:

• Increase Attendance
• Achieve Higher Test Scores
• Motivate Positive Achievement
• Build Respect & Trust
• Improve Grades
• Promote Cooperation
• Reduce Stressors
• Enhance Self-Esteem
• Resolve Conflict
• Identify “at-risk” Behaviors
• Bond Entire Organization

Get started by taking the True Colors Test to discover your True Colors personality spectrum.

True Colors Personality Test

Are you curious about your own unique personality style?

Is there someone in your life you would like to understand or get along with better? Would you like to find out how others see you?
Take the True Colors Online Assessment!

When you complete the True Colors Online Assessment you’ll receive an in-depth 20+ page True Colors Report describing your behavioral tendencies in your interactions with others. You'll also receive powerfully effective methods for helping you succeed with people who have a different True Colors Color Spectrum.

Features of the True Colors Online Assessment

• Gain immediate access to view and print your comprehensive, personalized 20 - page True Colors Report.
• Invite an unlimited number of observers to complete an Automated Online Assessment that allows you to see how others see you. You get the unique gift of seeing yourself through the eyes of others. Do others see you the way you see yourself?
• View and print an Observer Composite Report. This is where you can view, at a glance, the observers you invited. You can tell who has completed their assessment and who has not. Then you can send a reminder with one click.
• View and print several key articles to gain an even deeper understanding of the True Colors methodology -- how it was developed and why it works. All included.
• Access your private home page for 60 days.

Take the True Colors Test today to discover your True Colors!

True Colors Live Show

Add Excitement with the True Colors Live Show!


If you are looking for a fun, exciting way to add interaction and entertainment to your meeting, conference or special event while your participants learn valuable concepts – the True Colors LIVE SHOW is your answer!

For over 28 years True Colors has performed thousands of Live Show Events for every kind of audience imaginable. A truly effective way to fully experience and understand the True Colors methodology is through a Live Show Event.

The True Colors LIVE SHOW Process

Four True Colors actors portray four specific personality types as the players act out short vignettes showing how hilarious our interactive everyday experiences can be at home and at work.

As the show opens, each attendee receives his or her own True Colors "Casting Kit" consisting of four cards with a picture depicting the activities of each personality on one side and a verbal description on the back. The cards help the participants identify their own primary color (personality style) as the True Colors actors arrive on stage. The script provides a comedy-style presentation, which immediately captivates the entire audience.

Customized for Your Event

These interactive and lively "Edutainment" performances are customized for the organization or theme, allow participants to experience aspects about "who we all are" in a lighthearted theatrical presentation that will have everyone laughing as they recognize themselves and others. The door of understanding each other opens as everyone gains new insights into their own communication style and why others act as they do.

The True Colors LIVE SHOW can be a stand-alone performance or include small group activities in which Participants invited to join their "color group" to determine their strengths and stressors and the groups are reunited to apply the information in group interaction. You can also use the True Colors LIVE SHOW to kick off a full spectrum of other True Colors trainings for your organization that include Additional Applications such as Teambuilding, Communication, Wellness and others.

Casts

There are currently eight theatrical casts, located in California, New York, Texas, Florida, Chicago, Oregon, Puerto Rico, and Canada who perform this Live Show for:

• Keynotes
• Breakout Sessions
• Conference Entertainment Shows
• Other Special Events including corporate picnics and icebreakers.

Schedule the LIVE SHOW

If you want your group to interact better with others and leave your event wanting more, you need to schedule a True Colors Live Show Event for your next conference, seminar program, teambuilding program, holiday party, or special event. With eight casts around the world, True Colors Live Show (Edutainment) Events are presented as a three (3) hour interactive Live Show Event (an alternative to a True Colors Seminar if your group is larger than 50) or a one and one-half (1 ½) hour Keynote Show.

True Colors Learning Styles for Teachers

The Teaching & Learning Styles Certification Training will help participants understand an introduction to the True Colors concept in relationship to personality and temperament styles. Practical and useful activities apply the True Colors concepts to teaching that becomes the springboard for developing improved teaching skills, greater communication in the classroom and positive attitudes and a positive school environment.

This instructive and interactive certification training gives educators specific techniques to reach different student personality styles. Teachers gather tools that help create a classroom climate where each student has a successful learning experience. This certification training is especially helpful for alternative schools, drug abuse prevention, teaching life skills, and character development.

Certification allows you the opportunity to deliver seminars, workshops, and in‐service programs and order True Colors facilitator‐only products.

To become a certified trainer for the Teaching & Learning Styles Application, you must have completed the Personal Success certification training. The Teaching & Learning Styles certification is a very specific training that utilizes the True Colors personality temperament model as the foundation for integrating the Teaching & Learning Styles application throughout your organization.

NOTE: Personal Success (Basic Awareness) Certification is a prerequisite for the Teaching & Learning Styles Application Certification Training.

Key Benefits Include:
• Improve understanding of self and others and enhance the appreciation of differences
• Provide renewal activities for teachers through positive professional development
• Learn instructional strategies to increase student performance, support at risk learners and
address needs of all students
• Improve learning opportunities for all students and enhance communication between student,
teacher, staff and parents
• Create a more harmonious, organized classroom for each learning style

True Colors Coaching Styles

In this Certification Training, you will discover a proven design for athletic coaching for relationships, respectful communication, and achievement and improvement. Learn how to use True Colors Coaching beginning with the practice environment, and then understanding practical strategies for coaches and administrators to help meet the challenges of communicating with athletes and parents.

Certification allows you the opportunity to deliver seminars, workshops, and in‐service programs and order True Colors facilitator‐only products.

To become a certified trainer for the True Coaching Application, you must have completed the Personal Success certification training. The True Coaching certification is a very specific training that utilizes the True Colors personality temperament model as the foundation for integrating the True Coaching application throughout your organization.

NOTE: Personal Success (Basic Awareness) Certification is a prerequisite for the True Coaching Application Certification Training.

Key Benefits Include:
• Learn techniques to overcome coaching obstacles
• Look at “rules” that are commonly violated and troubleshoot problems
• Enhance self‐esteem, motivate skill development and success, and gain cooperation
• Learn to work with each athlete by understanding their True Colors spectrum

True Colors Parenting Styles

Based on Kathy Hayward’s book, “True Parenting: How to Foster Deeper Family Ties and a Harmonious Home”, participants will explore and discover the “True Colors” of each family member, gaining insights into how parents influence the behaviors of the children. Learn how to parent each child in ways to which they will naturally respond and accept according to their True Colors.

Understanding, respect, motivation and self‐esteem begin in the home. In the True Parenting certification training, participants will discover their true parenting style and improve relationships, communication, motivation and discipline skills.

Certification allows you the opportunity to deliver seminars, workshops, and in‐service programs and order True Colors facilitator‐only products.

To become a certified trainer for the True Parenting Application, you must have completed the Personal Success certification training. The True Parenting certification is a very specific training that utilizes the True Colors personality temperament model as the foundation for integrating the True Parenting application throughout your organization or home.

NOTE: Personal Success (Basic Awareness) Certification is a prerequisite for the True Parenting Application Certification Training.

Key Benefits Include:
• Learn how to deepen family relationships and create a more harmonious home environment
• Enhance parenting skills in communication, motivation, discipline, and building self‐esteem
• Gain insight into the parenting relationship that you share with your “other half”
• Discover parenting your children in the right Colors‐ understand your family rainbow

True Colors Teambuilding

Each organization, whether it be a corporation, school, hospital, government agency, military or non‐profit, requires teams of people working together to accomplish their goals. Each team best utilizes the talents and resources of its participants. True Colors provides an ideal method for choosing, mixing and motivating your team members, so that they will perform at their best in an interactive, supportive, creative, and responsible manner.

In the True Colors Teambuilding Certification Training, you will learn how to work with different personality types and how to use their strengths and interests to best set up teams that efficiently handle projects, activate sales, produce products and services, interact with customers, manage and maintain their departments and the organization as a whole. Team leaders need to understand the individual talents and strengths of each team member and how to work effectively with staff. As a team leader, it is important to know who needs attention, who wants to feel appreciated, and who may prefer to be left alone. Each person often has a different idea of the way things should be done.

Certification allows you the opportunity to deliver seminars, workshops, and in‐service programs and order True Colors facilitator‐only products.

To become a certified trainer for the Teambuilding Application, you must have completed the Personal Success certification training. The Teambuilding certification is a very specific training that utilizes the True Colors personality temperament model as the foundation for integrating the Teambuilding application throughout your organization.

NOTE: Personal Success (Basic Awareness) Certification is a prerequisite for the Teambuilding Application Certification Training.

Key Benefits Include:
• Learn to choose members of a team using True Colors as your guide to different personality types, being able to recognize how they will contribute their talents and abilities
• Understand how to increase team performance
• Learn the essential traits of a successful team and learn stages of team development
• Discover the “Dream Team”

True Colors Communications

Everyone agrees that communication is a key factor for success in any environment where people interact. True Colors can be used as a guide to the choice of words and approach that will help make the communication process easier and more effective. Individuals can learn to speak and respond in ways which best fit the needs of each of the personality types being addressed. The way a person phrases a sentence, the body language, the meaning behind the words all add up to whether or not the speaker is understood.

In the True Communication Certification Training, you will learn how to improve your individual communication skills and interaction with different personality types. You will be able to strengthen rapport, boost listening skills and clearly deliver your message in a mutually beneficial way. Additionally, you will gain insights on how to help attendees to improve their personal performance through effective communication.

Certification allows you the opportunity to deliver seminars, workshops, and in‐service programs and order True Colors facilitator‐only products.+

To become a certified trainer for the True Communication Application, you must have completed the foundational Personal Success certification training. The True Communication certification is a very specific training that utilizes the True Colors personality temperament model as the foundation for integrating the True Communication application for personal and professional success.

Key Benefits Include:
• Learn practical skills to enhance communication in any situation
• Distinguish the situations that prevent open communication for each style and what elements have been a stumbling blocks individually
• Determine the communication preferences, and tips for communicating with each style
• Identify the motivations behind the actions and mode of operation for each style

The True Colors Las Vegas Adventure Awaits You

The True Colors Adventure in Las Vegas Begins...

December 6-8, 2012

Each of us has our own style, preferences and ways of working. So how can we all work/live together? The True Colors® Personal Success Seminar helps participants explore their own and other’s distinctive personality strengths and stressors. They learn to respect and appreciate differences in the ways people function and better understand relationship building, effective communication and team effort. If you want to make a difference with others, now is the time to become a True Colors Facilitator.

As a Certified True Colors® Personal Success Facilitator, you will be able to facilitate True Colors® seminars, workshops or presentations using the True Colors® method within your organization or as a consultant with your clients. You will also be authorized to purchase True Colors® licensed materials so you can reach your audiences and impact their lives in a positive way.

Key Benefits of Becoming a True Colors® Certified Facilitator:
• Identify your True Colors® Color Spectrum of personality traits.
• Build understanding and rapport with diverse groups
• Recognize values, motivations, joys and strengths, stressors and frustrations of each personality
• Learn how to develop positive self-esteem in self and others
• Learn teambuilding techniques
• Understand a better way of communicating and relating with others
• Become licensed to purchase True Colors® materials and gain the knowledge to use them

True Colors® can be easily integrated into your organization by training your designated staff to become certified facilitators. A facilitator certification training session is a 2½ day training presented by a True Colors® Master Trainer. As a licensed facilitator, you will be able to implement True Colors® Personal Success Seminars and Workshops for employees, staff, family and others using our True Colors® books, materials and merchandise.

Personal Success Facilitator Certification Training: Length: 2½ Days

Attend this Las Vegas training, or any one of our scheduled Personal Success facilitator certification training sessions throughout the country. (See fees below and on registration form.)

Also available is On-site Personal Success facilitator certification training. A True Colors Master Trainer will come to your facility and train members of your organization on site. Pricing is per quote.

Additional Facilitator Certification Trainings: Contact Your True Colors Representative

To become a certified facilitator for an Additional Application of a True Colors product, you must have completed the Personal Success certification training. Additional Applications are customized around specific messages such as Teambuilding, Communication, Teaching/Learning Styles, Parenting, Leadership, and others. These are very specific programs and utilize the True Colors personality temperament model as the foundation for integrating the Additional Application message throughout your organization

What makes the True Colors Assessment Unique

True Colors appeals to all personality styles, not just one or two. Our on-line assessment version accesses both the right and left brain by using several methods for discovery. Your preferences are ranked from most like you to least like you instead of forcing only one choice.

People never feel "pigeon-holed" by this model because everyone possesses a Color Spectrum, from brightest to palest. This greatly enhances the ability to understand yourself and others.

True Colors Online Assessment is the only model specifically designed to reveal aspects of your entire personality spectrum that is uniquely you, according to your assessment responses, not just a general description of your dominant style.

Offers Detailed Specifics Not only do you receive information about yourself and your True Colors Spectrum. The Assessment report gives tips and methods for applying the information to improve interactions with other styles.

It makes inherent sense Everyone immediately understands and relates to colors. A majority of people think visually and after learning this model, it's easy to quickly see a person's colors without needing to remember names, formulas, or letters. Participants report that True Colors is the most user-friendly model they've ever experienced.

Includes a 360 Component Not only do you have the opportunity to find out your True Colors personality spectrum, you may invite others to assess your personality as well. This provides important information about how effectively you are coming across to others.

True Colors is Fun and Entertaining The 22+ page report you receive contains famous quotes, lively graphics, and even in some places cartoons. It is not only fun to read, it’s visually appealing.

Offers an Assortment The True Colors online assessment measures your preference and behaviors in a variety of contexts resulting in a rich, comprehensive exploration of personality characteristics. You’ll enjoy finding out about yourself and validating your unique style.

The True Colors Online Assessment is for you if you want to gain deeper insights, specific descriptions, fun facts and discover your full spectrum of True Colors traits. Find out your True Colors personality style and find out how you are coming across to others. Use this information to strengthen communication, reduce conflicts and increase your overall effectiveness.

True Colors Online Personality Assessment

Are you curious about your own unique personality style?

Is there someone in your life you would like to understand or get along with better? Would you like to find out how others see you?

 Take the True Colors Online Assessment!

When you complete the True Colors Online Assessment you’ll receive an in-depth 20+ page True Colors Report describing your behavioral tendencies in your interactions with others. You'll also receive powerfully effective methods for helping you succeed with people who have a different True Colors Color Spectrum.

 Features of the True Colors Online Assessment

• Gain immediate access to view and print your comprehensive, personalized 20 - page True Colors Report. 
• Invite an unlimited number of observers to complete an Automated Online Assessment that allows you to see how others see you. You get the unique gift of seeing yourself through the eyes of others. Do others see you the way you see yourself? 
• View and print an Observer Composite Report. This is where you can view, at a glance, the observers you invited. You can tell who has completed their assessment and who has not. Then you can send a reminder with one click. 
• View and print several key articles to gain an even deeper understanding of the True Colors methodology -- how it was developed and why it works. All included. 
• Access your private home page for 60 days.

Discover your True Colors today when you take our online personality test.

True Colors For Your Dog?

Introduction to Canine Colors

Each individual has a distinct personality that sets us apart from all the rest. It’s that distinct personality that makes people who they are. Identifying their strengths by using the True Colors model makes them shine like the brightest star in the sky.

Did you know that this same theory can be applied to dogs, too? Like people, each individual dog has a distinct personality. Use this booklet to discover your strengths and learn more about yourself and the colorful personalities that make up the Canine World.

This groundbreaking book will introduce you to yourself and your pet in a way you never imagined. Canine colors gives a compelling view of how we can find our perfect canine companion. A must read for every, or soon-to-be, dog owner.

What Are People Saying About Canine Colors?

I recently had the pleasure of attending the International True Colors Association Annual Conference, held this year in Spokane, Washington. All sessions were of interest to me, and I thoroughly enjoyed my time there.

One of the sessions was led by Freddie Dogterom, and she introduced the group to Canine Colors. My initial reaction to the topic was skepticism - in the midst of all the "meaty" subject-matter, what was this stuff about dogs? It sounded pretty "fluffy" to me.

But throughout the session, I found myself thinking back to dogs I had known. Their personalities fit with the general breed characteristics listed, and helped explain and put into context their behavior. I found myself examining my "dog behavior preferences," and came to the conclusion I had not adequately understood the basic needs and values of various "kinds" of dogs.

When I returned home to Edmonton, I went over to a friend's place. He has a Jack Russell Terrier - chronically "misbehaved." But this was my judgment - I had not taken into account the dog's needs for play, engagement and strategic thinking. "Roxie's" needs were not being met. As I integrated this, I began to relax, and found myself enjoying a new level of engagement with "Roxie" - we played "fetch" and "tug of war" for almost two hours while my friend and I talked. The interesting thing that occurred was that after the games, "Roxie" actually calmed down, laid down, contented. She hadn't ever done this before. She was tired, yes, but also very much at peace. Her needs had been met; she could relax. It was wonderful to see.

This experience, in addition to the wonderful session at the conference, gave impetus for this message. Thank you for putting this material together. It is eye-catching, simple, applicable, and "valid." It has already made a significant difference for me, if only with one dog, and I hope to register for the upcoming Canine Colors Certification Training, schedule permitting. If products like this can continue to be produced, within a variety of diverse applications, True Colors International will continue to gain popularity and acceptance. Please continue your good work. Thank you,

Tyler Orn
True Colors Advanced Facilitator

True Colors Live Shows & Keynotes

Add Excitement with the True Colors Live Show!

If you are looking for a fun, exciting way to add interaction and entertainment to your meeting, conference or special event while your participants learn valuable concepts – the True Colors LIVE SHOW is your answer!

For over 28 years True Colors has performed thousands of Live Show Events for every kind of audience imaginable. A truly effective way to fully experience and understand the True Colors methodology is through a Live Show Event.

The True Colors LIVE SHOW Process

Four True Colors actors portray four specific personality types as the players act out short vignettes showing how hilarious our interactive everyday experiences can be at home and at work.

As the show opens, each attendee receives his or her own True Colors "Casting Kit" consisting of four cards with a picture depicting the activities of each personality on one side and a verbal description on the back. The cards help the participants identify their own primary color (personality style) as the True Colors actors arrive on stage. The script provides a comedy-style presentation, which immediately captivates the entire audience.

Customized for Your Event

These interactive and lively "Edutainment" performances are customized for the organization or theme, allow participants to experience aspects about "who we all are" in a lighthearted theatrical presentation that will have everyone laughing as they recognize themselves and others. The door of understanding each other opens as everyone gains new insights into their own communication style and why others act as they do.

The True Colors LIVE SHOW can be a stand-alone performance or include small group activities in which Participants invited to join their "color group" to determine their strengths and stressors and the groups are reunited to apply the information in group interaction. You can also use the True Colors LIVE SHOW to kick off a full spectrum of other True Colors trainings for your organization that include Additional Applications such as Teambuilding, Communication, Wellness and others.

Casts

There are currently eight theatrical casts, located in California, New York, Texas, Florida, Chicago, Oregon, Puerto Rico, and Canada who perform this Live Show for:

Keynotes
Breakout Sessions
Conference Entertainment Shows
Other Special Events including corporate picnics and icebreakers.

Schedule the True Colors LIVE SHOW

If you want your group to interact better with others and leave your event wanting more, you need to schedule a True Colors Live Show Event for your next conference, seminar program, teambuilding program, holiday party, or special event. With eight casts around the world, True Colors Live Show (Edutainment) Events are presented as a three (3) hour interactive Live Show Event (an alternative to a True Colors Seminar if your group is larger than 50) or a one and one-half (1 ½) hour Keynote Show.

Contact Letitia Fox at letitia@true-colors.com for more information or call (800) 422-4686 ext. 235.

True Colors Additional Applications Certification Courses

True Communication

 Understanding the distinctive ways in which different personalities approach communication is key to success. Promote open, honest conduct by understanding and appreciating different communication contributions and approaches.







True Teambuilding

Whether existing or newly formed, team members learn how to bring out the best in each other, how each member’s primary color – and a representation of all colors – is important to the team’s success, and how to bring up your paler colors for the benefit of the team’s goals.






True Parenting

Based on Kathy Hayward’s book “True Parenting”, participants explore “True Colors” of each family member, gaining insights into how parents influence the behaviors of the children. Learn how to parent each child in ways to which they will naturally respond and accept according to their True Colors.






True Coaching

 This hands-on, interactive workshop teaches practical and useful activities that apply True Colors concepts to the difficult job of sports coaching. Discover how each team member contributes and influences the others and how to coach your athletes in ways to which they will naturally respond and accept according to their True Colors.





True Learning Styles

 This instructional and interactive seminar gives educators specific techniques to reach all student personality styles. Teachers gather tools that help to create a classroom climate where each student has a successful learning experience. This seminar is especially helpful for alternative schools, schools wanting to change, and connect with students who are not achieving.

True Colors Additional Application Certification - ADVANCED

Personal Success Certification to: Foundational Success Certification

Whether you are a seasoned trainer of True Colors, or a facilitator just starting out, there will come a time when you will ask yourself, “What’s next?”

How do I help my participants build upon the True Colors information they’ve learned?

How do I offer my participants a wider range of True Colors workshops? 

How do I advance my True Colors expertise?

Your Next Step with True Colors – Advanced Certification

If you’ve ever struggled to find more True Colors training strategies, specific activities that are fun – yet effective, and resources to answer the questions and meet the needs  your participants, clients, or growing business for MORE True Colors applications, these certification trainings will provide the avenue.

If you are a certified True Colors facilitator or trainer who wants to offer MORE programs, gain MORE True Colors expertise and generate MORE income from your seminars… these applications were created with you and your needs in mind.

The methods you’re going to learn at these trainings will work for a certified True Colors facilitator at any level – whether you’re a beginning True Colors facilitator trying to break out of the pack, or an experienced trainer who wants to give your participants more applications or your career new life.

For more information, visit www.true-colors.com.