Your focus is on building and leading a team, developing each member’s skills so that your group will collaborate to reach or exceed your company’s objectives and meet the personal goals of all participants. You manage up; you manage down. But, who is leading you? This session challenges you to look beyond your work life, daring you to become self-aware and to build your own confidence and courage to take risks. It demands you adjust how you motivate and incentivize yourself and identify how you currently lead yourself, consciously or unconsciously. This session also focuses on how your implicit bias shifts your view of yourself and others. Learning to lead yourself reveals your interests and values. Choose the direction that elevates you and use your discovery to amplify and grow your team.
Learner Outcomes:
- Explore the inner processes related to self-awareness around your leadership objectives
- Develop a personal vision of leadership
- Recognize that leadership development is a lifelong learning process
- Examine your intrinsic motivation as a leader
- Determine how your implicit biases impact your views about yourself and others
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Vulnerability often has a negative connotation. No one wants to reveal the "ooey-gooey" side of themselves—especially in the workplace. But vulnerability actually is a key ingredient to success at work. It promotes curiosity, creativity, innovation and authentic connections with others. This session will explore the different shapes vulnerability can take and will provide ways that employees and managers alike can create environments where people can bring their whole selves to work.
Learner Outcomes:
- Embrace vulnerability as a crucial leadership skill to promote a learning environment
- Identify what you can do to contribute to a risk taking organizational culture
- Resist simply maintaining the status quo and open the door to an innovative mindset
What is all the talk about implicit bias? Do you wonder how to make your organization more just and welcoming? Implicit biases or subconscious biases influence how we respond to others. To create equitable work environments, event organizers must acknowledge their own biases and take steps to confront them. Through a mixture of presentation and interactive discussion, participants will explore the sources and impacts of unconscious biases as well as some concrete steps for reducing them.
Learner Outcomes:
- Discuss what implicit bias means and how it may influence our decisions
- Explain that being implicitly biased does not necessarily mean we act in explicitly biased ways
- Recognize some behaviors that may suggest bias or differential treatment
- Apply techniques that help remove biased perceptions and improve interactions
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Stories move people—not only to feel an emotion but to take action. When you use a well-crafted story in your presentations and pitches, you sell more effectively, get more commitment, cultivate greater camaraderie, inspire deeply and have more fun. Finding the "glory in the story” means finding the golden nugget of compelling content and structuring it to deliver the greatest impact so you will move your audience in ways that data and facts alone cannot.
Learner Outcomes:
- Identify how to catalog your experiences so you can develop a list of stories to enchant any audience in any setting
- Recognize the litmus test needed to determine if a story has the potential to change listeners’ perspectives and behavior
- Develop your story to create a mesmerizing and compelling message to your audience
- Prepare steps to help encourage your audience to take action after being inspired by your story and its message
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Professionals often have difficulty finding the next step in their careers, but LinkedIn is THE tool to help position yourself for advancement while still being truthful about your current work experience. It’s all in how you present your value. This session will take a deep dive into techniques to get the most out of this important networking platform. You’ll learn to showcase your strengths and get yourself on the radar for higher-level roles within or outside your organization.
Learner Outcomes:
- Discover how to position yourself using specific language that catches employer attention
- Recognize ways to attract potential employers, headhunters and recruiters to your profile and set the tone for what they learn about you
- Identify ways to discuss lower-level jobs that don’t really convey the higher-level at which you really operate without “uptitling” yourself
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