The FLY-Professional program is offered both on-line (via Zoom) and in-person (regulations permitting). Both styles are structured as follows: - Thirteen (13) 2-hour sessions, generally held in accordance with a mutually developed schedule for each class, e.g. 1 pm to 3 pm every weekday, or 11 am to 1 pm alternate weekdays, etc. - Off-class assignments, exercises and team projects are assigned during and after these sessions. Post-session projects are generally to be completed within 2-3 weeks of assignment.

FLY programs are designed to minimize interference with your work schedules and loads. Other than attendance of the in-class sessions, we estimate the program requires approximately 10 hours of additional time for assignments and projects. These 10 hours are generally spread over several weeks. The time you take may vary depending on various factors, including the nature of the projects you undertake.

FLY-Professional programs are 'Dedicated' programs scheduled exclusively for your organization. Class schedules are mutually determined by you and CMI - based on your convenience, availability of your participants, CMI facilitator schedules, etc. For example, classes (which are 2 hours each) can be scheduled late mornings every alternate weekday, or two classes can be held back-to-back weekend mornings, etc.

FLY-Professional training is broadly designed for any employees who work with others (both inside the organization (e.g. with team members) as well as outside (e.g. with prospects, customer teams, vendors, etc.). Employees from any organizational department - e.g. manufacturing, sales and marketing, engineering, administration - can benefit. Because the program is designed promote the practice of the non-cognitive skills it teaches, employees from entry level up to middle management would directly benefit from the program.

FLY training is the only program available that offers the set of specific non-cognitive kills that it offers - specifically, Conscientiousness, Taking Initiative, Innovativeness, Perseverance and Problem Solving. These specific skills are identified by research to be the most important for competitiveness and also most lacking in the average professional. Targeted non-cognitive skills training is also realtively 'low-hanging fruit' for increasing competitiveness, effectiveness and productivity of employees - because it amplifies the hard skills your employees may already possess, and enables teams to strongly improve their effectiveness. FLY training has been developed by CMI, a non-profit dedicated to improving the competitiveness of professionals. Content is based on substantial research and is designed to promote changes in professional practices to improve competitiveness.

Even though we are a not-for-profit, we charge for our training programs in order to cover our costs to deliver our courses, pay our staff, maintain organizational and administrative infrastructure, develop and update course material, provide customer support, etc. We also use the fees (along with donations we receive) we charge to those who can afford them to subsidize our youth programs (FLY-Scholar and FLY-Junior) for those who can not (see CMI Scholarships).

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