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 Thursdays from 8-9PM ET (5-6PM PT), 6/4, 6/11, 6/18, 6/25
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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
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
Listen to past webinars
Connectivity is the New Currency ™
Presenter: Michelle Price
Social Networking Savvy for Smart Business Women Who Want
to Increase Influence (& Profitability)...
Getting Your Voice Heard in a Noisy Online World!
Its 11 p.m.... do you know where your online audience is?
Bottom line, buyers have questions and Blogs and social networks are providing them with answers. Tens of thousands of conversations are happening online, with you or without you. If you are like most people, you've heard about social networking but you don't know how to cash in on this business-generating phenomenon.
In the new "Network Economy" your "network" is your "net worth"... savvy companies and entrepreneurs will either learn how to connect with prospects and customers using the new tools of Web 2.0 (blogs, RSS, social networks, podcasts, social video-sharing and more) or face being left out of the conversation.
On this call you will learn:
What Web 2.0 and social networking is and why it's changing the game of marketing as we know it forever
4 questions to help you think like a master connector... build your social network by design (vs. by accident)
The 5 power tools in your Web 2.0" toolbox" & why blogs are the new "little black dress"
How to maximize networking on Facebook & Twitter to grow your influence and income
5 biggest mistakes smart women make in social networking
Registration & Pricing
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Tuesday from 12-1 PM PST (3-4 PM EST), 4/14 |
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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
In the face of stiff competition, internal organizational obstacles and the ever so quickly changing environment, one must be able to withstand the challenges and succeed, nevertheless. Leadership in itself, is not an easy task, but leading a project charged with innovation, requires a different set of skills separate from typical leadership competencies. Learn how to be more agile and creative in problem solving, through exploring how an innovation leader thinks, behaves and maneuvers in areas related to people, politics, challenges and success.
Presenter: Suchita R. Dadhich
Suchita Dadhich, CEO, of Innovation Enablers, LLC, is known for her expertise in organizational design and development, strategic planning and breakthrough thinking. Her leadership focus is to drive greater efficiency and agility for clients. She has worked at the IBM Corporation as an innovation leader, and has a decade of experience in building high-performance teams, leadership and cross-organizational management, developing channels for growth.
Outside of work, Suchita volunteers at local universities, colleges and the Girl Scouts of America 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.
Description coming soon!
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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Green Business: Drivers for Environmental Improvements
Learn about the Top Green Business Drivers that will improve business operations in the following areas: Water, Packaging, Materials, Climate Change, and Food. The discussion will also include Case Studies for a variety of business sectors.
Mary Vincent runs Green Star Solution, a consulting firm advising businesses on green methodologies, strategic development, and loyalty programs. Previously, she worked at Sun Microsystems managing a variety of process improvement, CRM application, and release engineering efforts, DHL International auditing US import and export facilities, and the US Peace Corps in Hungary teaching Business English and Environmental Awareness.
Registration & Pricing
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Tuesday from 12-1 PM PST (3-4 PM EST), 6/9 |
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FREE for WITI Members ($50 Nonmembers) REGISTER NOW
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Extraordinary Team Leadership
Teamwork is the foundation of all successful leadership. Understanding how teams works and how to formulate team objectives will help maximize the potential of a good team and will turn an "impossible" task into a reality.
1. How to create a value driven vision for your team.
2. How to improve your communication to your team.
3. How to properly establish and utilize target/goals to motivate your team.
4. How to creative a positive culture of creativity with your team
5. How to use appropriate techniques to drive your team to a bigger and better future (Measuring your team's performance)
Facilitator: Valerie D. W. Rowe with Special Guest, Dr. Dwight McKinney
Registration & Pricing
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Tuesday from 12-1 PM PST (3-4 PM EST), 7/14 |
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FREE for WITI Members ($50 Nonmembers) REGISTER NOW
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Selling has Nothing to Do with Selling!
Presenter: Richard P. Farrell
The underlining theme of my presentation is that sales people should stop selling, presenting, answering objections and closing and should instead play the role of a "change agent".
Summary of what you will learn
* How the feature/benefit style of selling will marginalize your selling position and reduce you to a commodity.
* Why the mandate of sales people is to play the role of a neutral "change agent" and help clients independently discover on their own if they have a compelling reason to change and what the cost of change represents to them.
* Why selling is no longer just "what are your requirements/application needs and how can we meet them?" Now it is "what is your company's vision/mission, your critical success factors and what is preventing you from achieving them?"
* Why the value of product knowledge is being diminished in today's marketplace and being superceded by industry knowledge, the intricacies of your customer's business and knowledge of your customer's clients. Building a product superiority justification is being replaced by building a sound business case and a ROI analysis.
* Why traditional skill sets in persuading and convincing are far less important in today's marketplace. What truly differentiates one company from another is their ability to be a business resource, a strategic advisor, an objective partner and a business strategist.
* Why your value propositions and your added-value are now valueless in today's competitive marketplace.
* Why sales managers may be unwittingly sabotaging the company's sales effort.
* Why sales people should adopt a "non-selling posture". The goal of their sales call is to have prospects sell them as opposed to putting all their effort into selling prospects.
Registration & Pricing
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Tuesday from 12-1 PM PST (3-4 PM EST), 8/11 |
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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.
Description coming soon!
Registration & Pricing
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Tuesday from 12-1 PM PST (3-4 PM EST), 9/8 |
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FREE for WITI Members ($50 Nonmembers) REGISTER NOW
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