D.E.C.-Design Education Curriculum
The DeGangi Group. Phone (979) 690-8329. Fax (979) 690-7969
Interior Decorating Training—List of Individual Lesson Kits
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PPT Presentation
Lesson Text Handout (e-file)
Lesson Support Handouts (e-files)
Home Study Assignment (where applicable)
Each lesson can be personalized with your business name or school for $100.00 U.S. per lesson. Custom lessons and topics are available.
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Ready-Made Interior Decorating and Business Courses
Price List of Lessons, Electives, and Speakers Resources
Use Our Individual Lessons to Create Your Programs.
To help you plan, we have grouped the 24 individual lessons into 12 modules based on topic.
Here are 3 possible programs you can create by putting individual lessons together:
A 1-day program or 8 classroom hour program (or 8 hours spread out over a few weeks). This suggested course is instructor-led and interactive, designed for a recommended total of 8 classroom hours, plus home study assignments.
The 1-day program is a way for learners to see if they are interested in a longer, more professional program that you may also offer. The 1-day program covers the basics of the industry and of being a decorator, the basic relationship with the client, and the 12 layers of redesign or decorating that constitute the decorating plan. If a learner attends your 1-day program and decides to continue on, you could allow the fees from their 1-day program to be applied to a longer program.
The 1-day program would consist of module 1 as described below, and a total of 5 lessons. It would be possible to add a second module for a 1-day program (we recommend the module on color) depending on the speed at which some of the lessons could be taught and the expertise and experience of the instructor.
A 3-day program or 24 classroom hour program (or 24 hours spread out over several weeks) This suggested course is instructor-led and interactive, designed for a recommended total of 24 classroom hours, plus home study assignments. ***
The 3-day program would consist of the first 8 modules as described below, and a total of 17 lessons.
A 5- day programor 36 classroom hour program (or 36 hours spread out over a few weeks or months) This suggested course is instructor-led and interactive, for a total of 36-40 classroom hours, plus home study assignments. ***
The 5-day program would consist of 12 modules, and a total of 24 lessons.
*** For a 3-day or 5-day program, it is recommended that the learner allow 2-3 weeks following the course to complete all home study assignments and supplemental reading. This will ensure the best transfer of skills and knowledge.
Special offer at the end of the price list: Purchase ALL of the core lessons for substantial savings. The introduction lesson and lessons # 1 though #24 are core lessons.
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Course Introduction, Day 1Welcome to the Interior Decorating Course
Lesson # / Core Lesson Kit Name
Introduction
/ Welcome to the Interior Decorating Certification Course
Covers what to expect from the course, the industry, career paths, and the freedom and opportunities ahead. / Price: $175.00 U.S.
Module # 1, Day 1
Professional Decorating Foundations
Lesson # / Core Lesson Kit Name
1 / Industry Foundations, Part 1;
Designer and Decorator Roles and Titles
Covers the difference between the titles Interior Decorator and Interior Designer. Touches on the general roles of each. / Price: $275.00 U.S.
(includes Industry Foundations Lessons, Part 1-3)
2 / Industry Foundations, Part 2;
The Purpose of Interior Decorating
Covers the importance of beauty and function and the three necessary ingredients for creating successful spaces: The function of, the mood, and the harmony of a space.
3 / Industry Foundations, Part 3;
The Decorator and the Client
Covers the import role of the design professional in dealing with a client, why clients work with professional decorators, and what the client is seeking from the relationship and for their interior spaces.
4 / The Elements and Principles of Design
Covers the basic elements and principles involved in the professional design and decoration of interior spaces. The elements of design are: line, form, color, texture, pattern, value, and space. The principles of design are: balance, proportion, scale, emphasis and unity (harmony). / Price: $399.00 U.S.
5 / The Decorating Plan and The 12 Decorating Fundamentals of a Room
Covers broadly the 12 essential layers of a designed space. / Price: $399.00 U.S.
Module # 2, Day 1
Color, Paint, and Wall Treatments
Lesson # / Core Lesson Kit Name
6 / Color for Design Professionals
Covers the essentials of color theory, basic color psychology, common color associations and responses to colors, how to use color in interior decorating, undertones, relationships of the color wheel, and color schemes, creating a color presentation board, and solving common decorating dilemmas with color. / Price: $399.00U.S.
(includes lessons 6 and 7)
7 / Paint and Wall Treatments
Covers the basics of paint, wallpaper, upholstered walls, wall finishes, and decorative painting. This is a short supplement to lesson 6.
Module # 3, Day 1
Styles of Decorating
Lesson # / Core Lesson Kit Name
8
/ The 4 Common Decorating Styles
Covers the four broad decorating styles:
Formal, Traditional, Casual, and Modern.
Clarifies the difference between Modern and
Contemporary style. / Price: $399.00 U.S.
Module # 4, Day 2
Fabrics in Interior Decorating
Lesson # / Core Lesson Kit Name
9 / Identifying and Understanding Fabrics
Covers fabric considerations, natural and synthetic fibers, fabric qualities and characteristics, identifying fabrics by burning, tips for using pattern and color in fabric, and creating a fabric presentation board for a room or space. / Price: $399.00 U.S.
Module # 5, Day 2
Trimmings, Flooring, Lighting
Lesson # / Core Lesson Kit Name
10
/ Decorative Trimmings for Use in Home Fashions
Covers the identification of trims and their common uses in interior decorating. / Price: $399.00 U.S.
11
/ Flooring Basics
Covers the major types of flooring including wood, ceramic, carpet, tile, area rugs, and how to select appropriate floor treatments. / Price: $399.00 U.S.
12 / Interior Lighting Basics
Covers the basics types of lighting and their purpose and function in interior decorating. / Price: $399.00 U.S.
Module # 6, Day 3
Soft Window Coverings
Lesson # / Core Lesson Kit Name
13
/ Soft Window Treatment Foundations
Covers the reasons clients buy window coverings, drapery standards, top treatment categories, and the basics of measuring for soft window treatments. / Price: $399.00 U.S.
Module # 7, Day 3
Bedding
Lesson # / Core Lesson Kit Name
14
/ Custom Bedding Basics
Covers the identification of bedding pieces and bedding accents, standard bed sizes, and basic yardage requirements. / Price: $399.00 U.S.
Module # 8, Day 3
Redesigning an Interior Space
Lesson # / Core Lesson Kit Name
15
/ Creating Focal Points
Covers working with emphasis to create a design focus in a space, the basics of creating focal points that gain attention, and how to deal with multiple emphasis areas. / Price: $399.00 U.S.
16
/ Furniture Placement Basics
Covers how to arrange furnishings within a space, arranging rooms according to function and use, positioning, allowing for traffic patterns, creating seating groupings, furniture placements basics for living areas, multi-purpose rooms, bedrooms, and dining areas. / Price: $399.00 U.S.
17
/ Successful Accessorizing
Covers the basics of working with decorative accessories including area rugs, wall art, table pieces, greenery, and fragrance. / Price: $399.00 U.S.
Module # 9, Day 4
Getting Down to Business
Lesson # / Core Lesson Kit Name
18
/ The Quickie Business Plan
Covers the elements of building a quick business plan, and the basic components to include in drafting a simple plan that will help give your business direction and guide you towards business success. / Price: $399.00 U.S.
19
/ General Business Practices
Covers the importance looking at your decorating practice from a business perspective, the purpose and main responsibility of a business, business goals, the business organizational chart, break even analysis, cash flow, and other aspects of general business practices. / Price: $399.00 U.S.
Module # 10 Day 4
Marketing to Win
Lesson # / Core Lesson Kit Name
20
/ Your Marketing Agenda
This lesson will focus on marketing and creating awareness about you, your business, your products, and services. Includes the S.W.O.T Analysis, 5 P’s and the 10 keys of good marketing, marketing with little or no money, the 30 second commercial, networking, and gaining clients and referrals. / Price: $399.00 U.S.
21
/ Niche Marketing
Covers the benefits of niche markets, baby boomer statistics, and the common niche markets for decorating professionals. / Price: $399.00 U.S.
Module # 11, Day 4
Connecting with Your Clients
Lesson # / Core Lesson Kit Name
22
/ Successful Selling
This lesson will focus on the basic components of the sales process and strategies for successful selling. / Price: $399.00 U.S.
23
/ Effective Communication
This lesson will focus on the communication process and the DISC dimensions of behavior styles for working with clients. / Price: $399.00 U.S.
Module # 12, Day 5
Time Mastery for Life and Business Success
Lesson # / Core Lesson Kit Name
24
/ Time Mastery Strategies
This lesson will focus on successful time management tips and will bring you through a powerful exercise for creating time mastery, including setting business goals, prioritizing those goals, and creating strategies to accomplish them. / Price: $399.00 U.S.
Personalize Your Lesson
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/ Each lesson can be personalized with your business name or school. First and last slide of your presentation is personalized and header of each slide contains your logo. Handouts and text show your company name. All copyrights are still reserved by D.E.C. -The DeGangi Group. / Price: $100.00 U.S.
Elective Modules
Other ElectivesModules are Available. Contact Us
Lesson # / Elective Lesson Name
EL-1
/ The Business of Interior Redesign
This elective focuses on the basics of starting a business in Redesign and One Day Styling. It covers what redesign is, why customers choose it
(what the benefits are), how to price, what services and products to offer,
how to do a redesign, how the client factors in, marketing, and more. Also touches on the design aspects of redesign including focal points, furniture placement, and accessorizing. Perfect for a 2-4 hour class. Can also be presented with some of our other modules for a full day or 2 day event. / Price: $575.00 U.S.
EL-2
/ The Baby Bedding Business
This elective focuses on the basics of starting a business in Custom Baby Bedding (and ready-mades). It covers what the baby bedding niche, who the customer really is and what they are seeking when they buy custom
products, how to market to them (what the benefits are), how to price, basic custom bedding design concepts, safety issues, other services and products to offer. Perfect for a 2-5 hour class. Can also be presented with some of
our other modules for a full day or 2 day event. / Price: $575.00 U.S
EL-3
/ The Business of Professional Organizing
This elective focuses on the basics of starting a business in Professional Home Organizing. It covers what professional organizing is, why customers choose to purchase the service (what the benefits are), how to price your services, what services and products to offer, how to group services and products into packages that sell, how to go about organizing a space, how clients factor in, marketing for home (or office) organization, business basics, and more. Touches on both beautifying and organizing interior spaces and starting and running a successful practice. Perfect for a 4-6 hour class. Can also be presented with other modules for a full day or 2 day event. / Price: $875.00 U.S.
EL-4
/ Add-On Selling for Soft Home Fashions Professionals
This elective focuses on the basics of increasing custom window treatment and bedding sales, and more importantly, profits, through the art of add-on selling. It covers how to have fun offering add-ons, why the customer needs to know about upgrades, how to approach the customer with add-ons, the best add-ons to sell and why, secret methods to almost guaranteeing hundreds
of extra dollars for every sale, how to price add-ons, which add-ons to avoid, how far to go and not go with ad-ons. Perfect for a 2-3 hour class. / Price: $399.00 U.S
Teaching Resources
Other Teaching Resources Available. Contact Us.
Item # / Product Name
TR-1
TR-1-Set
/ Train the Trainer-
Facilitated Instruction, Audio/Video Session:
This audio/video will help you to better teach the lessons as well as easily learn the content. PPT presentation with voice of an actual lesson to demonstrate how to teach the lesson. Available for all above lessons. Cannot be purchased without the purchase of the actual lesson or module.
Price is per topic. Please specify topics: If you are faxing your order, specify topics on fax. If ordering online, return the short form we send you after purchase.
Buy the entire set of audio/video train-the-trainer sessions and save over40%. Only $599.00 for the set of 24 lessons plus the introductory lesson. / Price: $49.00 U.S.
Price: $599.00 U.S.
TR-2
TR-2-Set
/ Train the Trainer-
Facilitated Instruction, Audio Session:
This audio will help you to better teach the lessons as well as easily learn the content. Voice only of an actual lesson to demonstrate how to teach the lesson. Available for all lessons. Cannot be purchased without the purchase of the actual lesson or module.
Price is per topic. Please specify topics: If you are faxing your order, specify topics on fax. If ordering online, return the short form we send you after purchase.
Buy the entire set of audio train-the-trainer sessions and save over 40%. Only $399.00 for the set of 24 lessons plus the introductory lesson. / Price: $29.00 U.S.
Price: $29.00 U.S.
TR-3
/ How to Market Your Classes and Seminars, E-Book
Learn how to successfully market your classes to get attendees. Discover the best days and times for events, why and how to offer incentives for signups, how long to hold events, how to fashion your website, how to take orders online, and much more.
Limited Time Free Bonus, Report:How to Put on a SuccessfulLocal Seminar Series, One Topic at a Time (instructions from start to finish- a great way for new teachers to get started with short events). $19.00value. / Price: $59.00 U.S.
TR-4
/ Business Forms Kit
for Instructors and Seminar Leaders
A collection of all of the most important forms used in your seminar business. Offered in both PDF as well as Word so you can add your logo and customize and modify them to suit your business. Forms included in the kit are:
Confidential Student Application
Student Registration Form
Class Roster Sheet
12 Monthly Sales Logs
12 Monthly Expense Logs
Monthly Income Statement Form
2 Different Class Evaluation Forms
Class Interest Questionnaire
Program Schedule (Agenda) for 1, 2, and 3 Day Programs
Limited Time Free Bonus, Special Report: 5 Ways to Market your Local Seminars.$8.95 value. / Price: $59.00 U.S
TR-5
/ Marketing and AD Copy Kit for Seminars and Classes
A collection of 20 powerful marketing tools for getting the word out about your seminars. Offered in both PDF as well as Word so you can add your logo and customize and modify them to suit your business. Each beautiful photo included in the marketing materials is owned by The DeGangi Group and can be used by those who purchase this kit to promote their seminars (photos are not transferable to others please).Cannot be purchased without the purchase of 6 of the actual lessons or module.
The Kit samples include:
Invitation e-mail to announce your event
Reminder email about your upcoming event
Thank you email for those who have registered
Business card layout
Postcard for advertising your seminar business
Flyer for advertising your seminar business
Flyer for advertising an upcoming decorating seminar
Flyer for advertising an upcoming business seminar
Flyer for advertising an upcoming one-day event
Flyer for advertising an upcoming multiple-day event
Sample ad copy for web site program descriptions
Sample ad-copy for 6 course descriptions
Sample Gift Certificate for Local Silent Auctions and Community Events
Classified ad for newspaper for a single topic event (ex. Color seminar)
Classified ad for newspaper for a professional program event (ex. Train to be a Decorating Consultant) / Price: $119.00 U.S
TR-6 / The Best Kept, Top Secrets for Presenting Great Design, Decorating, and Businesses Classes and Seminars!
3-Part Audio Series
This 3-part audio series, 1 hour each, covers everything you need to know to ensure great 1 classes and seminars that will have attendees coming back again. Each audio session is power-packed with solid advice for making your design and business training sessions great. In these 3 sessions you will:
- Find out what it means to be “F.I.T.” in the classroom—the 3 key components absolutely necessary for every successful seminar, no matter how long or short.
- Learn how to gain and keep the learner’s attention, even in long sessions. Uncover the powerful motivators of the adult student. Understand what every adult MUST have in order to learn.
- Discover how you can be taken seriously as an instructor, but still keep it lively and fun.
- Know the importance of L.R., or, Learning Results, such as behavior change and the transferring of usable skills to the learner.
- Discover how to successfully use classroom props, visuals, and interactivities for increased motivation, learning and retention, and the major visuals to have for “show and tell”.
- Find out the easy way to “pre-sell” more courses as you go.
- Learn how to use your voice for effect and how to successfully use your body language and mannerisms.
- Get the scoop on when to take breaks, how to keep your classes on course, and how to best deal with occasional “show offs” and “know-it-alls” in the classroom.
- Learn the most influential role of the instructor, and why and how this route leads to more sales and better relationships.
Limited Time Free Bonuses:
Free Bonus #1
E-Book: 7 Red Hot Ice Breakers to Warm up Your Seminars. $19.95 value
Free Bonus #2
DeGangi Instructional Design Visual Model: A Research-Based (and EASY to comprehend) Visual Illustration to Better Understand Your Audience and Your Role as Instructor and Facilitator. $9.95 value.
Free Bonus #3
Audio Session: Instructional Design Principles that REALLY Work— How to Create Rich, Dynamic, and Memorable Seminars, Classes, and Lessons.
This also comes with an additional BONUS item, a Companion E-Book:
$89.00 value audio session. $29.00 value companion e-book / Price: $179.00 U.S.
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