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 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
How you can make an impact as a woman leader in your organization
Have More Impact in Less Time
Join Christine Duvivier as she shares wisdom from her own-- and other leaders' --experiences to address the concerns of women executives.
How do we stop riding the cycle of frenzy so that we can be happier, have more energy and get what we want from work and from life? How can we be more productive, have the greatest effect on our organizations, and meet goals without sacrificing our own well-being?
Learn the three major obstacles faced by many executive women Ð and what you can do to avoid them. Understand the limits of time management and how to get the results you want by re-thinking your business model. Christine will talk about small changes that make a big difference and she will give insights from executive women and men who have successfully increased their effectiveness. You will come away with three specific approaches you can use to achieve a greater impact.
Featured Guest Leader:
Christine Duvivier founded Impact Partners, seven years ago, to coach executive teams and individuals leading strategic change. Examples include strategy development, defining core competencies, shifting personal or organization direction, implementing the right performance measures, increasing customer loyalty and engaging employees.
Christine holds a Masters in Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA with Distinction from Cornell University, where she won the Wall Street Journal Award for Finance. She has published studies on leadership, women executives, and adolescents.
Registration & Pricing
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Tuesday from 8-9PM ET (5-6PM PT), 8/12 |
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FREE for WITI Members ($50 Nonmembers) REGISTER NOW
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