Kandice Hammond Taylor-Sherwood

Current Job Title: 
Principal Human Resources Specialist
Los Angeles Unified School District, Los Angeles, CA

Work phone: 213.353.4311

Email address:

kandice.sherwood@lausd.net     kndsss@aol.com

Additional Work Experience:

¨        Sherwood Consulting, Long Beach CA

¨        PACIFIC FLEXIBLE METAL HOSE, Alhambra CA

¨        California Sate University Long Beach, Long Beach CA

Master’s Thesis Entitled:
Learning Styles, Self Efficacy, and Training Delivery: Investigating Factors that Enhance Learning

Professional Memberships:

¨        PTC

¨        ASTD

¨        SHRM

Project Areas Include:

¨        Needs Assessment

¨        Organization Development Activities:

-        Quality Circles

-        Role Analysis

-        Appreciative Inquiry

-        Focus Groups

-        Strategic Planning

-        Measurement Builders

-        Scoreboards

-        Values Identification

-         Process Mapping/Improvement

-        Work Flow

¨        Instructional Design

-        Online Learning

-        Competency Development

-        Supervisory Skills

-        Leadership/Management Development

-        Compliance (ADA/Sexual Harassment/FMLA/EEO)

¨        Platform Presentation/Facilitation

¨        Survey Development

-       Customer Service

-       Change Readiness

-       Climate

-       Employee Opinion

-       Program Evaluation

Certifications:

¨        Franklin Covey: Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Project Management, FOCUS

¨        Achieve Global: Leadership Training Certification

¨        Leadership Strategies: Process Facilitation

¨        ASTD: Train the Trainer

¨        Jeanne Hartley Consulting: Train the Trainer Certification

Additional Professional Development

¨     Franklin Covey: The Four Disciplines of Execution, The Seven Habits of Highly  

      Effective Managers, Presentation Advantage

¨     ASTD: Interactive E-learning, Selling Techniques for the Internal Consultant,

      and Donald Kirkpatrick: The Four Levels of Training Evaluation.

¨     Skill Path: Designing Flyers and Documents

¨     IMPA HR: Skill Based Pay

Volunteer Work:

¨        Parent Teacher Association

¨        CSULB Carpenter Theater Benefactor

¨        La Mirada Theater Center for the Performing Arts Benefactor