Workshops
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Summer 2009
Career Transition Workshops for Moms
Workshops to Support Career Transition
Life Success Workshop
Intentional Choices: Exploring your Values
Career Transition Workshops for Moms
Series 1: “Reinventing Your Career Self: Exploring Career Possibilities”
Over four sessions, a small group of moms seeking career transition will work through a progression of exercises to explore compelling and detailed possibilities for new career paths. Artfully facilitated to create a warm, supportive and positive atmosphere, workshop participants explore their backgrounds and potential, reach certainty and resonance about career vision, and begin to build a plan that is exciting and motivating.
Cost and Location
Cost: $200; Location: Peninsula
Series 2: “What’s Standing in My Way? Creative Strategies for Career Success”
In this four-session continuation workshop, participants identify any conflicting thoughts and beliefs that are obstacles to pursuing career goals. They develop strategies to overcome barriers to success, and take advantage of the supportive group dynamic to test their choices. Participants set detailed next steps and gain momentum for achieving career goals.
Cost and Location
Cost: $200; Location: Peninsula
Workshops to Support Career Transition
Create a powerful, more confident career package by choosing from an array of topics, presented a-la-carte in collaboration with experts in their fields, to complement the Career Transition Workshops for Moms.
R&R (Resume Revitalization)
Craft your resume with an expert in this fun and engaging workshop. Learn what’s current, how to position career re-entry, and what key words are essential to getting noticed. Critique your resume through the eyes of a veteran hiring manager. Then, take advantage of peer review in a supportive setting.
About Facilitator Nancy Nadler: Nancy is a Career and Leadership Coach and Facilitator with over 20 years of experience in Human Resources and Management and Leadership Development, as well as crisis intervention and conflict resolution. Throughout her career, Nancy has collaborated with individuals, leaders and teams to increase personal and organizational capability and success. Read more about Nancy at http://www.linkedin.com/in/nancynadler.
Cost: $50 per single session / $135 for all three (R&R (Resume Revitalization), Online Social Networking, & Organizing Strategies for Career Success)
Location: Palo Alto/Menlo Park area
Let me know when you register if you can host a session in your home and receive a $10 discount.
Online Social Networking and Your Career Search
Participants will learn to leverage LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter in their career searches. Session is appropriate for both beginners and experienced users of these social networking media.
About Facilitator Carlos Hernandez: Carlos is a Social Media Consultant & Trainer helping people be Web 2.0 savvy. In February of 2007, he elected to pursue this calling, especially identifying with fellow Baby Boomers who were intimidated by emerging social media technologies. See what other students have said by visiting his LinkedIn profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/carlosrhernandez.
Cost: $50 per single session / $135 for all three (R&R (Resume Revitalization), Online Social Networking, & Organizing Strategies for Career Success)
Location: Palo Alto/Menlo Park area
Let me know when you register if you can host a session in your home and receive a $10 discount.
Organizing Strategies for Career Success
Do you waste a significant amount of time and energy looking for things? Does your paper management system consist of piles strewn across your desk and office space? Would you like to feel more in control of your time versus time controlling you? This inspiring workshop will teach you strategies to create an office space that keeps clutter to a minimum, how to file and locate information easily, and tips for managing your time better so your “to-do’s” actually get done. Don’t let disorganization keep you from achieving the successful career you are striving for – learn the tools you need today!
About Facilitator Lori Krolik: Lori Krolik is the founder of More Time For You in Palo Alto. Her company provides professional organizing and time management consulting services. Over the last decade many of Lori’s clients have simplified their lives by adopting the organizing strategies she has taught them. Her approach is to really listen to her clients so that she can help them solve their disorganization or time management issues more quickly. Visit http://www.moretimeforyou.net to learn more about Lori.
Cost: $50 per single session / $135 for all three (R&R (Resume Revitalization), Online Social Networking, & Organizing Strategies for Career Success)
Location: Palo Alto/Menlo Park area
Let me know when you register if you can host a session in your home and receive a $10 discount.
Sign up for all three and receive a 10% discount!
Coming Soon!
The How To’s: Elevator Pitches, Networking and Informational Interviews
Learn the nuts and bolts about how to conduct success informational interviews. This includes how to locate and contact friendly resources and how to conduct an effective yet brief informational interview.
Interviewing 101
Tighten up your interviewing skills with an expert and come away with greater confidence, preparation and effectiveness.
Business Plan Basics
Approach starting your own business with a clear vision and action plan. Learn the basics of developing a business plan to light the way.
Personal Image Packaging
Work with experts in the field to align your personal image and wardrobe with your career goals.
Life Success Workshop
This four-session workshop series is designed for women who wish to examine the twelve areas that represent all aspects of their lives in order to create a plan for more intentional living. Participants will work step-by-step through insightful exercises that yield a clear view of what it takes to get to the next level and set a course for reaching it. Results are extraordinary. Participation in the Career Transition Workshops is helpful but not essential as we examine where Career fits into the rest of the life equation.
Intentional Choices: Exploring Your Values
This single session workshop gives participants clarity on how powerful decisions are made. By exploring your own unique set of values, you will be empowered to make choices in your life that result in personal motivation, fulfillment, and the ability to give more to everyone and everything around you. This workshop is currently available only through private arrangement.
Arrange for an Intentional Choices Workshop now.
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