Will 2009 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 Wednesdays from 8-9PM ET (5-6PM PT), 1/7, 1/14, 1/21, 1/28
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$129 WITI Members ($159 Nonmembers) REGISTER NOW
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Four Thursdays from 8-9PM ET (5-6PM PT), 2/5, 2/12, 2/19, 2/26
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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), 1/22, 1/29 |
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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!
W E B I N A R S
Strategies For The Current Economy
The current economy demands that you build a business for primary or ancillary income - beginning now.
The economy and your job security are unpredictable. You need to:
understand the changing economic conditions and how long they will last;
be prepared to -
- start a business;
- adapt your current business to changing economic conditions; or
- create a "back-bedroom" business to increase your income, even if you have full time employment.
Join Joey Tamer, 30-year consultant to technology entrepreneurs, to explore how. She will bring the latest investment and economic news from her panel at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (1st week of January 2009).
Joey Tamer (www.joeytamer.com) consults to Fortune 500 companies and capitalized start ups to launch, build and expand technology companies, often serving as a "shadow CEO" to extend the CEO's bandwidth. She also advises consultants and service companies on their growth and profitability. She has consulted since the early days of the PC through to her Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 clients of today. She chairs venture and investment panels in technology sectors 4 times each year. She is always current on the changing economy and investment environment, to ensure the safety and success of her clients, who have included J.P. Morgan Capital, Sony, IBM, Apple, Hearst, Blockbuster, Technicolor, Harper Collins, NEC, Time-Warner, Agfa and Scitex, and many early stage ventures such as Earthweb (the first B2B IPO in 1998) and iSuppli (a market leader).
If you have a product business, you must adapt your positioning and target markets to answer current economic changes and needs in your customer base.
If you have a service or consulting business, you must re-position your offerings to support your clients' changing demands as they adapt to this new marketplace.
If you have a job, you should prepare now to build a "back-bedroom" business to increase your income, and to create momentum in that business in case of a sudden layoff, or as an alternative to doing the work of 4 people for the same pay.
Joey will
present her current view of the economy and its affect on jobs and small business;
describe what kinds of businesses can receive venture funding now;
describe how to build new businesses that do not require outside funding;
describe how to find alternative revenue sources for existing businesses;
Show you how to discover your alternative talents and skills to decide on the business you should build.
Offer strategies and tactics for beginning, building and expanding your business -
- whether you are just beginning,
- on a growth curve, or
- stuck at flat or descending revenues in your existing business.
Joey's successes have included the wife/husband team that built a single software product and sold the company in year 4 for $50M; the early Internet company with an IPO in year 5 resulting in $30M+ to each of the three founders; the current software client who raised $15M from only private sources at a $100M valuation, retaining total control of the company and the Board; and the current Web 2.0 company that sought its early investment and instead sold the company in 8 months.
Registration & Pricing
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Tuesday from 12-1:15 PM PST (3-4:15 PM EST), 1/13 |
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FREE for WITI Members ($50 Nonmembers) REGISTER NOW
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Mentoring Matters
Presenter: Sandra E. Burke, Ph.D.
With over thirty years of cardiovascular research experience, Sandra has contributed to the advancement of science and technology as a prolific author of more than 80 abstracts, book chapters and publications in scientific journals. Sandra is also a highly sought-after lecturer for the scientific community.
Sandra encourages women to follow their dreams and passions through mentoring and coaching. She has facilitated and created programs that motivate young women to choose careers in science and technology.
At Abbott, she was a founding member of the Black Business Network and served on its Executive Council. She also served as a member of Abbott Women Leaders in Action. In both roles, she served as a mentor to a number of Abbott employees who were interested in fostering their scientific careers. Named a champion for Abbott's diversity, Sandra regularly serves as a role model to students in the community by speaking at area high schools and student forums on career opportunities.
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Registration & Pricing
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Tuesday from 12-1 PM PST (3-4 PM EST), 3/10 |
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FREE for WITI Members ($50 Nonmembers) REGISTER NOW
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Building an Innovative Culture-I Wish I had a Blueprint
Presenter: Suchita R. Dadhich
Suchita R. Dadhich is a technical leader responsible for strategic innovation and organizational capability for IBM Rational, Americas. Her leadership focus is to drive greater efficiency and agility within the organization on various topics; morale, talent development and revenue attainment.
Outside of work, Suchita volunteers with a core team of IBMers to create stronger links with the local universities, colleges and the Girl Scouts of Southeastern PA to create a support network for young females exploring careers in science, math and technology. Her passion for promoting females in the IT field has been recognized by the Philadelphia community. She has been featured in the Philadelphia Business Journal as well as other local community newspapers for her breakthrough ideas and continued inspiration in the community and at work.
Presenter: John McDonald
John McDonald, Technical Sales Executive,for IBM's Rational software brand in the Americas, is in charge of revolutionizing key brand concepts such as enterprise architecture and software lifecycle management; He leverages R&D technology breakthroughs and acquisitions to define value for each product within the entire portfolio. This rapid change calls upon John's skills in innovation and growth management to lead the team to the next level.
Outside of work, John also enjoys a wide variety of interests, headlined by his wife and three children. He maintains a website of urban ruins photography at http://www.lostindiana.net, and has authored the book Lost Indianapolis for Arcadia Publishing, and he recently completed his second book project. He volunteers for the Boy Scouts of America, works as chairman of a committee for Purdue's Industrial Advisory Board, and serves as a lay minister at his Lutheran church.
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Registration & Pricing
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Tuesday from 12-1 PM PST (3-4 PM EST), 5/12 |
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FREE for WITI Members ($50 Nonmembers) REGISTER NOW
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