In this world of constant change there are no longer specific hard and fast rules required to succeed in today's working world. It is up to each of us to define what success means, personally and professionally. From there we define our goals, identify unique talents we innately possess, build the skills we need to develop, and arrange all these pieces to create a multiple dimensional "MOLD" specific to our definition of success. The career benefits of a "job well done" come from being true to goals, talents and abilities. Using our heart, head and hands allow for creative "out of the box" solutions making us successful as individual contributors, as team members, as leaders and as pioneers. By shaping our own "MOLD" it becomes easier to create balance, influence your short term goals, and advance your long term career.
Succeeding at the game of poker is similar to succeeding in the game of business. It requires skill, common sense, instinct and strategy. Luck and the quality of your "real time" decision making ability determine the outcome. As a player in the game, you must keep in mind the long-term view but be able to act tactically. Sometimes the stakes are high and sometimes not. Respecting your opponents and learning from other masters are a part of your own mastery. Monitor your own play, correct the problems, capitalize on opportunity found along the way . So you must play the cards you are dealt and sometimes you influence the course of the game but in most cases, the product is based on your knowledge, skill and quality of decisions.
In this seminar you will hear Erna's personal experiences and 10 poker strategies that she has applied to her career success that could increase your odds too.
What do you think it requires to be considered great? Is it education, knowledge, charisma, or just determination? In this presentation, we will analyze some of the more common myths versus some of the less well-known realities, and several of the specific characteristics that are common among these well known great people. We will evaluate what can be learned from these people and how to apply this knowledge to our day-to-day lives. Who knows? You just might find that you are, in fact, one of those great people.
All of us personally face the dilemma of finding balance in these changing times. Not only do we want to successfully handle life's daily struggles, but we also want to have an impact and make a difference in the lives of those around us, making our world a better place. If it seems that the sea of all these factors is too vast, consider surfing: Surfers use their own energy to balance themselves while they use the energy of change to ride the waves around them. Using both and logic and natural instincts, you, too, can surf the waves of change around you and learn to succeed in the many different roles you have in your personal life, career, and community. Once you master the act of using change to propel you, you will find that you have become an agent of change yourself.
Success means many things to many people. This workshop will help you get a sense of where you want to go, and begin to develop some of the skills and the confidence needed to get you on the right course. Elements of this workshop will include charting a course based on your own values, identifying the skills required, building the confidence to utilize them, and learning to overcome the "I wish" syndrome by taking action.
Course Topics:
- Charting the course--knowing yourself.
- Navigational tools--developing the skills to build the confidence.
- Setting sail--taking action.
- Weathering the storms.
A job decision is not for life but it is a large part of your daily life. If you are entering the workforce or just making a job transition, it is important to not gamble with just a coin toss. When making this decision elements to be considered include level of volatility, level of risk taking, types of rewards, daily pace and speed of action.
In this workshop you will identify the elements of an ideal career, use a methodology
to weigh your choices against those elements, and leave with tips to make the
critical personal and professional trade-offs. You will learn several key techniques
to negotiate your next offer. We will also discuss the differences in office
politics, upward mobility and career paths in a government organization, academia,
high tech silicon valley corporation or a small start- up business.
The resume only gets you into the interviewing chair, but what really counts is what happens when you are in the hot seat. Interviewers are individuals searching for the best package of skills--intellectual, interpersonal, and motivational--which will satisfy their employer's needs. Putting your best foot forward requires you to walk in prepared by knowing yourself, fairly representing "all" of your skills, and understanding the needs of the prospective employer. In addition, learn to ask what you need to know about them.
Erna will discuss specific techniques to prepare you for your first encounter with the interviewer, follow-on site visits, and negotiating the optimal closing package. We will also review how to best interview your potential employer while he or she is interviewing you as a prospective employee. By the end of this workshop, you will know what interviewers really want to know, and you will see the hot seat as your driver's seat on the road to success.
Influencing a company's decision to hire you is only the first step along the road to success in your technical profession. In this world of constant change, you need to rock the world before it rocks you. Convert motion and change into your own kinetic signature, your personal stamp on the world. It is up to you to define your personal goals, use your unique talents and skills, and finally reap the benefits of a job when it has been well done. Each of us has natural abilities and talents that enable creative, "out of the box" solutions that make us successful as individual contributors, as team members, as leaders, and as pioneers in the technical world.
Erna will share what it takes to get your foot in the door, to have immediate impact in your first technical assignment, and to carry that impact into your long-term career. She will emphasize first-year tips, not for being a mere survivor but for being an immediate and future mover and shaker.
It has become increasingly clear that both leadership and management skills are required for organizations to survive and flourish in these turbulent and changing times. There is this "magic" balance of focusing attention on the future while successfully implementing processes that work within the current organizational culture. These two are often seen as mutually exclusive, but a great leader learns to do both. A managerial job assignment gives you the positional authority you may desire, but it is your leadership behavior that makes others follow you and earns their respect.
To date, you have established yourself as a strong and talented technical contributor, and now you have decided to develop additional skills that prepare you for leadership opportunities. Growing into a great leader is an evolutionary process calling upon all your past experiences, your gut feeling, and class-taught skills. This workshop will help you begin to determine what your leadership track looks like, target what skills you will need, and identify how to master and begin implementing those skills.
Nearly all successful people have had a mentor at some point in their lives- a mentor that may have gone by the title of friend, teacher, coach, or boss. Even a mentor’s best of intentions do not take the place of proven principles.
This workshop will take on some of the tough questions of: What is my responsibility? What are the mentee’s responsibilities? What if my (or the mentee’s) first impression is not very good? How do I assess the needs of this person, develop a plan, implement it and evaluate our success? What happens if things go wrong? How do we get back on track? How do I know when my mentee is ready to fly solo?
You will leave with a methodology for getting started on the right track and a plan to guide your mentee while you develop your mentoring skills. You will have tips, and techniques that you can immediately apply in your daily world.
Most of us want to be successful. Even with the aid of advanced technology and tools, nothing replaces one of the oldest, most invaluable tools of success -a mentor. A mentor is someone who is successful in their own right, whose knowledge comes from experience and who is willing to help guide, coach and inspire others. Mentors help you develop career skills and life skills. The real trick is finding the magical mentor and attracting him or her to you. Typically it has depended on luck, pluck or interpersonal chemistry.
This workshop focuses on how to identify the type of mentor you are looking for, how to be a protégé that another busy and successful people want to take under their wing, and finally how to foster a successful mentoring relationship. You will learn skills to help you identify what you want from a mentor / protégé relationship, techniques to getting the relationship off to a great start, to make it a continuously learning experience for both participants, roles and responsibilities, and when to know it is time to move on.
In the age of increased information and specialization, getting your ideas noticed, your proposal supported, or your project funded can sometimes drive you crazy. Believe it or not, there is a method to the madness. In this workshop, we will focus on developing supporting data for your ideas, establishing your credibility, positioning your proposal, and organizing and presenting your information to ensure a successful outcome with your next potential sponsor. We will identify key questions that will be asked, as well as behind-the-scenes work required before your next "big" presentation or negotiation meeting. You will walk away with a specific method to the madness of successfully marketing your own ideas, yourself, and your organization.
One of the most important business skills you can have is your ability to communicate assertively and effectively with others in a variety of settings and situations. This skill can propel you along your career path to success and personal achievement by creating rapport, building trust, and establishing credibility. Assertive communication is not just about talking. Itís not dominating everyone around you. Itís your physical presence, body language, and listening ability combined with what you know.
In this workshop, you will distinguish between assertive, passive, and aggressive communication styles, and learn to project confidence through words as well as body language, even when you do not ìfeelî confident. You will also learn to think on your feet when questioned or challenged, handle "put-downs" and offer constructive feedback to others. You will learn to express your ideas in ways that gain the attention, support, and respect of others and walk away with techniques that increase your personal confidence, establish team collaboration, and garner mutual support from colleagues and managers.
You know, more like Dogbert and less like Dilbert.
Captivate your audience, great or small, while overcoming your fears of oral presentation. A persuasive presentation style is your most effective ally, whether one-on-one or before a large group. This interactive workshop will give you the skills to deliver any message with composure and self-confidence.
Course Topics:
Through lecture, discussions, case studies, and feedback sessions, this course
will improve your understanding of the requirements for highly competent oral
communication.
- Learn Erna's four C's, which apply to all speaking occasions.
- Learn your own presentation style and how to use it most effectively.
- Develop and deliver your high-impact presentation with composure--and the
right tools.
- Analyze, know, and involve your audience; immediately establish rapport.
- Learn to handle those tough questions effectively.
Have you ever been in a situation where you felt vulnerable because you were not quite sure what to say? Knowing when and how to turn a tough situation around with a question instead of being at a loss for words is a unique and admired skill required at every level of an organization. Learning to ask the right question at the right time can diffuse a potentially volatile situation, clarify what is being discussed, and make your demands known in a subtle manner. This career-building skill not only helps you defend yourself but can even turn trouble into advantage.
Erna has blended her own experience with the tenets of a popular book into a unique approach to this rare and valuable skill. She will discuss verbal techniques that can turn confusion into clarity, resistance into acceptance, and frustration into satisfaction, as well as how to best use this skill within your own organization.
No one likes working for a "bad boss", right? And no one wants to be labeled as "the bad boss", right? If you are currently making a career transition to management or just contemplating an upward career move this workshop is for you. --To date you have established yourself as a strong individual contributor and a creative team member and now it is time to begin the transition to a management role. It is time to prepare so that you do not fall into the "bad boss" category. This workshop will aid you in determining what your fast track looks like, identify new skills you will need as a manager, and determine ways to master those skills We will specifically focus on some of the more critical skills that are needed immediately in a transition like successfully delegating to your employees, motivating your team, dealing with a difficult employee and prioritizing your own work load in order to be survive and succeed. Come in with questions and leave with tips that will immediately work for you.
You have the workscope, you have the money, and you have the people. Now how do you get the project organized, achieve the delicate balance between tasks and people, and get the job done? This workshop aids you in identifying the needed skills for successfully planning your project, executing the project plan, and managing the human elements of running a team by using your unique attributes to ensure success for your team and the project.
Course Topics:
This course will tackle such topics and exercises as these:
- Planning your project.
- Getting team "buy-in" early.
- Executing the project plan.
- Managing the human elements: know when to lead vs. when to manage.
- Analyzing case studies.
Change happens! It comes in all shapes and sizes, positive and negative. Sometimes it is by choice and sometimes it is by consequence. It can be a career promotion, demotion or "right sizing". It can be a marriage, a death or becoming an elder care giver.
Irregardless of the change that occurs, it can be difficult to manage personally, professionally, for yourself and for your family….. unless you have some change management tools in your tool kit. Acknowledging and analyzing the events are the first steps to learning and growing from the change. Moving from fear, uncertainty and doubt toward problem solving and action will help you " feel" more in control and start your path to successful adapting. This workshop is focused on reaffirming your values, goals and passions, understanding the physical and physiological process associated with change, and identifying skill needed to transition. You will walk away with techniques to reduce your stress and peak your personal learning.
Wouldn't it be great if there were a magic potion that could help you live longer, handle stress better, lessen your chance of disease, manage your weight more effectively, and keep you positive and productive? Surprise! That magic potion does exist, and it is the result of a healthy lifestyle. In today's world health and wellness have four dimensions: physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual.
In this workshop, Erna explores for us ways to inspire and motivate ourselves, as well as ways to "play" as adults that stimulate us to create habits that stick. She gives pointers on how to use incremental successes to build stronger self-esteem, leading to that magic potion.
Erna describes and illustrates some of the fundamentals of keeping fit--mind, body, and soul. She can include (if requested) a segment called "The Magic of Movement" that is physically interactive and intellectually stimulating.
In today's world one thing is certain, the world changes constantly. Every one of us faces the dilemma of finding balance during these changes times. Not only do we want to successfully manage life's daily struggles, but we also want to make a difference in the lives of those around us and to make the world a better place to be in the future. Women have a unique role as change agents because we use the power from our hearts in addition to the creative intelligence from our heads to influence outcomes and develop solutions. This workshop focuses on what each one of us can do to have impact; in our personal world, the world of the workplace and the world at large. Each of us has many roles and all of them are key to being successful agents of change.
You have always heard that success is a journey and not the end destination. . Chaos is created when change occurs and we are not prepared for it or we get overwhelmed by it. This workshop is focused on how to have FUN while you are taking the journey and navigating through the chaos. We will define the key elements of fun and look at using our skills, talents and abilities that we have collected to make key decisions and move forward. You will learn tips and techniques for using your intellect, instincts and intuition to make the best decisions under stress. -- There will always be change and chaos but how we view it, how we use our resources and talents and who we ask for help along the way is what makes it FUN rather than chaos.
It is difficult to stay on the cutting edge of innovative technology, evolving market drivers and increasing customer expectations, not to mention balancing a personal life at the same time. The minute we think we have a working strategy for the competitive advantage something changes. Every one of us faces similar dilemmas of finding balance. Not only do we want to successfully manage life's daily challenges, but we also want to make a difference in the lives of those around us and to make the world a better place to be in the future.
We will explore how to Re "DESIGN" old strategies, and create
new strategies to actually have fun taking on the challenges of change. This
includes how to buy time in a fast paced environment, balancing personal and
professional lives, and keeping the competitive edge through tools, training
and periodic time-outs.
Whether you know it is coming or whether you go to work and leave surprised,
being laid off is a difficult transition to manage, personally and professionally.
There are the emotional, mental and physical phases to work through before problem
solving toward the next career move can begin. This workshop will walk you through
tips, and techniques that will help you define your next career transition, target
alternative industry sectors, and create a market plan that is "perfect"
for you. You will also leave knowing how to conduct informational interviewing,
network in a room of new people, create job leads, and negotiate the offer that
works for you.
Many women of all ages and skill levels are uncomfortable with negotiating.
While some have a more natural ability than others, no one is born a great negotiator.
Negotiating is a skill that is learned. Many women who think they aren't good
negotiators simply have never been taught how. This workshop will teach you
the fundamentals of preparing for a negotiation, the pitfalls to avoid, common
mistake frequently made, and specifics on closing the deal. This workshop is
relevant to your key buying decisions, your career, and even your personal life.
In this world of constant change there is no longer one specific road that
leads to success. This is particularly true for women in business today. The
Make Your Mark workshop will provide you with tips and techniques to achieve
the following:
define your “personalized” success
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