Will 2008 be the year that you finally begin to live the life of your dreams? Are you ready to transform your life and your career, but you need help figuring out "what next?" Do you know that there must be "more to life" but you aren't sure how to go about finding it? Do you need help putting a plan together to accomplish your goals?
If you answered YES to any of these questions, please join us for a WITI Teleclass. Participants in these teleclasses have made major changes in their lives, after just the first class!
Teleclasses are classes held over the phone, similar to a conference call. All you need to participate is a telephone (long distance charges will apply). You can call in from anywhere! Details of our current offerings follow:
Kathy Hill is a professional coach who specializes in helping people through career and life transitions. With over twenty years of coaching, career counseling, recruiting, sales, and marketing experience, which includes owning her own executive search firm, she brings a wealth of knowledge to her clients.
She works with individuals in one-on-one and group settings, in addition to leading workshops and teaching teleclasses. Her current teleclass offerings follow:
Exploring Your Life Mission
This series will help you to gain a clear understanding of your unique gifts, passions, needs, and values, so that you can discover what you want to do with the rest of your life. It will help you to answer the questions "What do I want my life to be about? What is my life purpose?" Through a series of four one-hour teleclasses, you will work on creating a "Mission Statement" for your life. This can be used to help you make clear decisions about your life and career choices - decisions that will honor your life purpose. We will discuss the important qualities of a mission statement and how they can be used as a tool to help you live an extraordinary life.
A brief summary of the class follows:
Week 1: Look at your entire life - social, career, financial, spiritual, health, and family. How balanced is it, what areas of your life need work, how would you define a "10" in each area? We will work on defining what you want and why you "really" want it?
Week 2: Clarify your Needs, Values, Natural Gifts, Talents, and Passions. If you don't get your core "needs" met first, you won't be able to focus on your passions and explore your life mission. Most of us operate on autopilot, not even realizing that we are doing this. Understanding who you are and what makes you tick, gives you the freedom to explore new areas in your life.
Week 3: Understand your "empowering" and "limiting" beliefs, how they play out in your life, and how to change the ones that don't serve you anymore. Explore what to do when you "get stuck." How do you quiet that "Board of Directors" in your head that tells you when you "shouldn't or can't" do certain things?
Week 4: Create your Mission Statement, discuss how to use it, and how to set up support systems to help you in life.
Registration & Pricing
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Four Tuesdays from 8-9PM ET (5-6PM PT), 7/8, 7/15, 7/22, 7/29
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$129 WITI Members ($159 Nonmembers) REGISTER NOW
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Four Wednesdays from 8-9PM ET (5-6PM PT), 9/10, 9/17, 9/24, 10/1
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$129 WITI Members ($159 Nonmembers) REGISTER NOW
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Four Thursdays from 8-9PM ET (5-6PM PT), 10/23, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13
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$129 WITI Members ($159 Nonmembers) REGISTER NOW
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Success Strategies for Life & Career
This series of two one-hour teleclasses is for those who already have a specific goal and want to learn the strategies and tools that successful achievers use to achieve their goals.
Successful achievers know that they have to take 100% responsibility for achieving the lifestyle, relationships, financial freedom, and career opportunities that they want to experience in life. During this class we will explore their secrets and you will leave the class with the knowledge of how to put a successful plan together that you can implement immediately. Your goals can be about anything - career, health, relationships, finances, career, etc.
Topics we will cover include:
Getting very clear about what you want and why you want it.
What will you gain by achieving your goal - what will you lose by not going for it?
The importance of being able to visualize your goal.
What is your biggest fear and how can you manage it?
Setting boundaries and making sure how you spend your time honors your goals.
Putting a plan together with specific action steps and benchmarks.
Building a support system.
Registration & Pricing
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Two Thursdays from 8-9PM ET (5-6PM PT), 9/18, 9/25 |
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$79 WITI Members ($95 Nonmembers) REGISTER NOW
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Two Mondays from 8-9PM ET (5-6PM PT), 11/3, 11/10 |
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$79 WITI Members ($95 Nonmembers) REGISTER NOW
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Are you interested in this teleclass series but find these dates and times inconvenient? Please let us know!
Improve Your Job Search Success with Project Planning
You may wonder, what does project management have to do with my job search? The fact is project management is not just for professional Project Managers anymore. Like a good business and financial plan are critical to attaining critical corporate goals, so too is a project plan for your job search. And just as a corporate firm relies on its leaders in order to attain its critical goals, so too does your family rely on you to quickly find a fulfilling new opportunity. If you don't have the ability to know and manage to your career objectives, focus on the right opportunities, and promote your skills and accomplishments in a timely and market effective manner, then you may be missing out on, or worse, passed over for the best opportunities.
In this tele-course series Mark Cummuta and April M. Williams will share from their experience proven job hunting techniques that you can put to immediate use in your own job search. Here is a sample of what will be discussed, so pay attention - you won't want to miss this one.
Week 1 - Why Planning Your Job Search Literally Pays Off, Planning Your Job Search as a Project
Week 2 - Resumes, Career Diaries, Handbills, and Professional Work Portfolios, and Branding
Week 3 - Networking, Keeping Your "Pipeline" Full, Interviewing, and What to Say to Who and How
Each week's session will include practical applications and time for personalized Q&A with Mark and April.
About Your Instructors:
April M. Williams, PMP brings broad business, technology and project management experience to her work leveraging roles in Fortune 50 companies across multiple industries.
An avid networker, April is an active member on the Executive committee of Chicago Women in Technology International (WITI) and maintains a broad Web 2.0 presence. April is the owner/moderator of several professional networking groups including a 350 member group created to help former coworkers find new employment. April is often sought after by others to share her knowledge of networking and career management, as she will do in this WITI-sponsored tele-course.
Mark Cummuta is an accomplished IT Executive of 25 years in international technology and corporate development. After serving our country as a US Marine, he specialized in enterprise applications, BPM, CRM, BI, data warehousing and web collaboration across a broad range of industries. For the past nearly 15 years he has helped found several organizations in CIO, CTO, executive and Board roles.
He writes on executive job search tactics for CIO Magazine (http://advice.cio.com/user/mark_cummuta/track), has been quoted in Aberdeen Research, Crain's Chicago Business, WorkForce Magazine, and others, and was one of this year's 2008 WITI "Excellence in Corporate IT Leadership" awards judges.
Finally, as parents of teenage triplets, Mark and his wife use time management techniques in their daily survival.
Registration & Pricing
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Saturdays from 12PM ET (9AM PT), 8/02, 8/09 & 8/16 |
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$129 WITI Members ($159 Nonmembers) REGISTER NOW
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W E B I N A R S
The Balancing Act: Managing Work & Life
Does your work (and life) feel out of control? Do you feel burdened with too many responsibilities and not have enough time for yourself?
This insightful program will present strategies and practical tips on how to bring more balance into your life by determining your priorities and developing a personal action plan for success.
Learn how to:
* Identify and focus on your most important priorities
* Say "no" to the unimportant
* Take care of yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually
By applying these principles, you will become more productive, less stressed, and gain a greater sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.
Featured Guest Leader:
Kathleen Barton, MBA, is a professional speaker, workshop presenter, and coach who specializes in work-life issues, including life purpose, life balance, time management and stress management
Hosted by internet radio host Ardice Farrow, the tele-seminars will be conducted as interviews providing ample time for questions and in depth exchanges between the guest leaders and participants.
Registration & Pricing
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Tuesday from 8-9PM ET (5-6PM PT), 7/08 |
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FREE for WITI Members ($50 Nonmembers) REGISTER NOW
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