Have you ever wondered why some days at work feel productive and energizing, while others just suck the life out of you? A key technique for boosting your career satisfaction

This presentation guides you through questions to find out how to get clear on your personal value proposition and create the "brand essence" that defines your contribution.

In business, the hardest thing to market is always yourself. This presentation guides you through questions to find out how to get clear on your personal value proposition and create the "brand essence" that defines your contribution.

You will learn:

• Differentiation strategies for your career, so that you can maximize the value of your business degree.
• A process for getting clear on your individual story - what makes you unique, and why employers would want that.
• Creating your personal value proposition in a way that's authentic, clear and natural.
• Personal branding strategies that can impact your resume, your interview skills, and your personal leadership style.

Learn a roadmap for building a powerful online presence – taking advantage of all the social media tools available, including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Blogs and other social media to grow your brand and increase the value you deliver to your employer. Today, if you don’t show up in a Google search, you don’t exist. Building your personal brand on the Web is not only important to finding a job once you receive your MBA, but it’s also critical to being able to do your job, lead your team and support your company. In this presentation, William explains the social branding phenomenon and provides the roadmap for building a powerful online presence – taking advantage of all the social media tools available. Having a virtual brand that reinforces and extends your real-world brand helps you do your job better.

You will learn:

• How to use LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Blogs and other social media to grow your brand and increase the value you deliver to your employer
• Secrets for the easiest and most effective ways to build your brand in bits and bytes
• How to gain competitive advantage, grow your network, expand your leadership presence and increase your influence

Learn a roadmap for building a powerful online presence – taking advantage of all the social media tools available, including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Blogs and other social media to grow your brand and increase the value you deliver to your employer. Today, if you don’t show up in a Google search, you don’t exist. Building your personal brand on the Web is not only important to finding a job once you receive your MBA, but it’s also critical to being able to do your job, lead your team and support your company. In this presentation, William explains the social branding phenomenon and provides the roadmap for building a powerful online presence – taking advantage of all the social media tools available. Having a virtual brand that reinforces and extends your real-world brand helps you do your job better.

You will learn:

• How to use LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Blogs and other social media to grow your brand and increase the value you deliver to your employer
• Secrets for the easiest and most effective ways to build your brand in bits and bytes
• How to gain competitive advantage, grow your network, expand your leadership presence and increase your influence

here are a variety of powerful approaches for increasing your contact with and the value you provide to your network. Learn tips and tactics that will help you convert your conversations into stronger and long-lasting connections.

Have you ever had a conversation you wanted to follow up on but didn’t? Do you find yourself wishing you had a reason to get in touch with a colleague, customer, or old acquaintance? Follow-up is the foundation for building a thriving network.
At the end of the day, it is the strength of your relationships that leads to your success. Yet often we are too busy to focus on building and nurturing our relationships. Some of us may find follow-up awkward, uncomfortable, or even unwanted. Thus we find it difficult to move from one conversation to the next, to build upon the initial contact and turn it into a real relationship. And even if you do this with ease, there are a variety of powerful approaches for increasing your contact with and the value you provide to your network.
During this talk, The 11 Laws of Likability’sauthor, Michelle Tillis Lederman will take you through tips and tactics that will help you convert your conversations into stronger and long-lasting connections.

What You Will Learn:

• Learn how to move from the first conversation to a lasting connection.
• Leverage technology and social media in simple ways to increase familiarity.
• Discover specific ways to increase your value to your network.
• Understand the power of patience.
• Understand how to ask for something to increase your results.

LinkedIn is really keeping me busy with all its new changes! And that’s all I do for a living. So how can you expect to stay on top of those changes and while creating new career opportunities, supporting your family and sleeping? You can’t. This is why I’ve created this presentation to cover how both the new and traditional features of LinkedIn can be used to find, connect and engage with the individuals who can help you through the next phase of your life.

You don’t go to an interview in your pajamas (I hope). Similarly, you want to make sure you make a good impression on LinkedIn. We’ll take a quick look at some simple strategies to make sure your LinkedIn presence is stellar.

We’ll also look at the benefits of creating a proactive network by using LinkedIn’s People You May Know, Who’s Viewed Your Profile and Company Page features. Connect with people BEFORE you need to ask favors of them.

Finally, we’ll take a deep dive into The Alumni/University Pages - an excellent way to stay connected or reconnect to alumni who can help you get a job, and get you past the gatekeepers. As well as some best practices for reaching out and engaging with these prospects.

We are learning more and more that it is who you know (That can help you get a job, change careers, bring you business) Fortunately, you can use LinkedIn not only to discover who you know but create new powerful relationships as well.

On every list of the most important skills required for organizational success, presentations are almost always in the top three. Unfortunately, the same is true for every list of most common fears, as well. This program will cover the most important aspects of how to prepare a successful presentation – audience analysis, design, and delivery techniques.

You will learn to:

• How to get past the fear.
• How to read your audience and adjust your presentation accordingly;
• How to put the presentation together WITHOUT scripting; and
• How to deliver your points in a diverse and compelling fashion.

Executive Career Coach and the author of The 20 Minute Networking Meeting, Nathan Perez, summarizes the basics of the “networking meeting covering:

• What is a networking meeting?
• Why is it important?
• Who should we network with?
• Why don’t we network?

The five steps are:
1. The Great Fist Impression;
2. The Great Overview;
3. The Great Discussion;
4. The Great Ending;
5. The Great Follow-Up.

This video of a sample meeting will give you a sense of how fluid and effective such a meeting can be. Following the five-step structure.

Have you ever wondered why some days at work feel productive and energizing, while others just suck the life out of you? A key technique for boosting your career satisfaction and productivity is to discover your natural talents and put them to work. In fact, people who invest in their strengths are 6x more engaged at work and report 3x better quality of life (source: Gallup). Watch this presentation and learn to use your talents to become more of who you already are, while improving performance at work. This can all happen when you activate one simple mantra at work: using your strengths every day makes you stronger, and using your weaknesses makes you weaker.

You will learn to:

• Discover where you're applying wasted energy toward weaknesses; learn when to temper and when to sharpen your talents.
• Use strengths to explore your personal brand and whether your intentions show through your actions.
• Look at the past, present, and future to identify your fuels and drains. Avoid "not it" career plans by getting clear on work that feels enjoyable and energizing.
• Make agreements that honor your strengths, maximize outputs, and improve influence.
• Use Job Crafting exercises to tweak work tasks and customize interactions with your colleagues.
• Leverage Boss Shopping techniques to improve your most important relationship at work.

Time is our most valuable non-renewable resource; once it is spent it is gone. In order to get the most out every day, you need to invest your time wisely. In this presentation, the concepts of how to get more time on your side will be revealed. Managing your time isn’t just about keeping an eye on the clock or the calendar. There’s a lot more to it than that, and if you don’t understand the correlation between the time you have on hand and the accomplishments you’d like to achieve then you will have a much harder time realizing what you ultimately want to have in work and in life.

You will learn:

• Why energy management is a key component to getting more out of every day
• How to make your calendar as a guide rather than a ruling regime
• Why routine is so critical to leveraging the time you have in a day – and beyond.

This presentation will focus on tactics, tips, and tricks that you can use to manage your tasks in a way that plays to your strengths. Task management is one of the building blocks of overall productivity, and by learning how to attack your to-do list with multiple avenues at your disposal – by project, by mode, or by priority – you’ll be able to boost your effectiveness at what you do and the speed at which you do it over time. In this session, you will learn a simple, flexible, and durable approach to you to-do list that will allow you to deal with what you need to deal with, decide on what you ought (and ought not) to do, and ultimately do more of what you want to do every single day.

You will learn:

• Why working by mode is a far more effective way to work than by project or action
• How to prioritize in a way that doesn’t handcuff you or overwhelm you in the process
• How to capture the ideas and thoughts in your head so that they become actionable in a more effective and efficient way

We live in a world where we are bombarded with information constantly. The noise from our various information inputs (email inboxes, social media platforms, instant messages, etc.) is getting louder and louder and our ability to filter the noise out is getting more challenging. In this presentation, you will learn how to segment out your inputs in a way that allows you to deal with your own agenda first and deal with any and all information that comes your way in an effective and efficient manner. Whether you are facing email inbox overwhelm or any manner of information overload, this session will teach you how to process all of your inputs so that you can deliver quality output time and time again.

You will learn:

• How to set up your email in a way that works for you rather than disrupts you
• How to set boundaries for dealing with information from any and all sources (digital and analog)
• How to capture information in a more sensible and searchable manner so that you know where your ‘stuff’ is regardless of what it is