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Upcoming Seminars
Sep 12th, 2008 (Fri)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Looking to the Future: Employment, Hiring & Talent Management Trends Presenter: Joseph Daniel McCool
Sep 19th, 2008 (Fri)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Online Networking Presenters: Crompton & Sautter
Sep 26th, 2008 (Fri)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Six Secrets of Marketing Your Business Presented by: Susan Urquhart-Brown
Oct 3rd, 2008 (Fri)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Overcoming the Isolation Blues Presenter: Rob Kanzer
Oct 10th, 2008 (Fri)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Effective Web Presence Presenter: Ted Demopoulos
Oct 17th, 2008 (Fri)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Coaching the Next Generation Career Client Presented by: Sean Harvey
Seminar Details
Looking to the Future: Employment, Hiring & Talent Management Trends
Presenter:
Joseph Daniel McCool - Former Editor-in-Chief, Executive Recruiter News
Date:
September 12, 2008 3-4 PM Eastern
Description:
Joe is back for an encore after getting rave reviews for his presentation at the annual conference in Minneapolis.
Looking to the Future: Employment, Hiring & Talent Management Trends
The careers of the future are being shaped today by globalization, intense competition and shifting workforce demographics. These critical issues demand better management, the best people and a measure of organizational flexibility to effectively deploy and leverage human capital. Join recruiting market expert Joseph Daniel McCool, author of Deciding Who Leads and a contributing editor for BusinessWeek, for a revealing look at the hiring trends and talent management challenges that are redrawing the competitive business landscape and changing the course of the modern-day career.
Your Takeaway:
Insider’s Information on Future Hiring & Employment Trends to Shape Your Clients’ Future Strategies Now
Speaker Bio:
Joseph Daniel McCool is a writer, speaker and advisor on executive search and management succession best practices and the author of Deciding Who Leads: How Executive Recruiters Drive, Direct & Disrupt the Global Search for Leadership Talent (April 2008, www.DecidingWhoLeads.com), which explores the global executive search business and its impact on corporate performance, culture and management succession. He also writes as a contributing editor and online columnist for BusinessWeek and as senior contributing editor for ExecuNet, a leading business and recruiting network.
ONLINE NETWORKING AND LINKEDIN: Enhancing Job Search…Advancing Careers & Companies
Presenter:
Ellen Sautter and Diane Crompton - Right Management Consultants
Date:
September 19, 2008 3-4 PM Eastern
Description:
ONLINE NETWORKING
It’s happening all around you. People you know or people you hear about are making connections through social networking sites like LinkedIn. So, what’s in it for you?
As consultants working for a global Human Resources consulting organization, we see that online networking is a must for professionals at all levels from all industries.
Why online networking is a must for your career:
More than 20 million people in 150 industries around the world are members of LinkedIn. If you want to expand your networking reach, online networking can play a critical role in furthering your objectives. There’s no substitute for traditional, offline networking as the best way to build meaningful professional relationships. But now, with online networking, you can propel your networking efforts into a whole new dimension. Connecting with people and building relationships on the Web solves lots of the common networking and career management challenges.
As a result of this session you'll have:
Increased understanding of:
• Definition of online networking and all this includes
• Benefits of online networking including:
- Relationship to traditional networking
- Relevance to career management and career transition
- Statistics/data related to who’s networking
• Specifics of LinkedIn including:
Background information on LinkedIn
Getting started on LinkedIn:
- Setting up your profile
- Growing your network
- Searching for contacts
- The 3 “I’s” (three ways to connect)
- Searching for jobs
Advanced Tips including “do’s and don’ts”
• Action steps (summary points from presentation)
Presenters:
As Career Consultants, the presenters have followed hundreds of clients through their online networking journeys as well as experienced the process directly themselves. Ellen Sautter and Diane Crompton can offer attendees valuable insight on this topic. They have found online networking tools to be a great resource for internal and external staffing and recruiting professionals, a pertinent and important part of job search and ongoing career development and management activities, and a powerful tool for business development.
Ellen and Diane are the authors of a new book, Seven Days to Online Networking, published by JIST (released May 2008). The book is one offering in JIST’s Help in a Hurry series of career books. It is available now through the JIST website and also in bookstores and through popular online booksellers such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
Ellen Sautter
Ellen Sautter has provided career transition support to thousands of clients of all backgrounds, including professionals and executives. She has 19 years of experience in career coaching and transition.
Ellen coaches individual candidates who are exploring both re-employment and self-employment options and facilitates group workshops on a wide variety of career management topics. Ellen is an experienced presenter and facilitator and is a frequent speaker at numerous professional association meetings, conferences, and job search support groups. She is recognized as an expert on developing job search strategies, identifying career research resources, and effectively using technology in a job search campaign.
Throughout her career, Ellen has been an early adopter of technology to facilitate employment processes. In the 1980s, she established and managed a resume database for a national recruiter network. In the 1990s, she researched and spoke on the topic of electronic job search. And currently, she has taken on a thought leader role regarding the use of online networks in a job search. Ellen has amassed a large network of her own on LinkedIn.
Ellen’s experience in career coaching is complemented by many years in staffing and executive search, including holding an officer role in a recruiting firm. In addition, Ellen has developed and implemented marketing strategies for a regional human resource consulting and training company and managed a recruiter network.
Ellen received her BS with honors in Education (Business and English) from the University of Toledo in Ohio. She is active in SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management), ACPI (Association of Career Professionals International) and CMA (Career Management Alliance).
Diane Crompton
Diane Crompton brings more than 15 years of experience in career transition services, recruiting, education, and consulting. She has coached professionals at all levels from a wide range of functional and industry backgrounds and with varying career objectives, including self-employment.
As an experienced career consultant, Diane has provided job search training and coaching to individual clients and groups across the United States. She has worked for major outplacement companies and also contributed locally to the development of an Occupational Training Center with the City of Refuge, a non-profit organization in Atlanta.
Diane is considered to be a “guru” on online networking. She uses online networking tools including LinkedIn to develop networking contacts for her clients going through career transition and is actively growing her own online networks.
Previously Diane gained experience in job lead generation and job placement as a recruiter for several national contingency and retained search firms. Diane’s background also includes experience as a teacher, where she developed expertise in curriculum design, training and communication.
Diane holds a B.S. degree in Education from Springfield College in Massachusetts, combined with graduate studies in Instructional Design. She is active in ASTD (American Society for Training and Development), ACPI (Association of Career Professionals International) and CMA (Career Management Alliance).
You may have gone into business accidentally or on purpose, but now you’re 2 to 5 years into your business and you feel stuck. Do you need a shot of motivation? Practical ways to bring in new customers and keep the ones you have? Tune into this teleseminar with Susan Urquhart-Brown, author of The Accidental Entrepreneur: 50 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Starting a Business, as she shares streetwise marketing tips that have helped her and hundreds of clients build a successful small business.
You will learn:
--How to write and work your marketing plan so that your techniques are fresh and more importantly work for your business. Ask: What seems like it would be most effective with your target market? What do you already know how to do? What do you have the time and money to do well? Then, choose a mix of 1-3 techniques and do them consistently.
--The 6 secrets of marketing a business that are the foundation for any successful business. How to leverage your uniqueness and create marketing goals that propel your business forward almost magically!
--How to give up being a lone wolf . A “lone wolf” has to do everything herself or himself. This wastes time and money. Learn the essentials of asking for help, monitoring growth and access to advice at critical stages. An SBA study showed that businesses that are successful after 10 years have one thing in common—the owners ask for help when they need it.
Susan Urquhart-Brown is a Business Success Coach in Oakland, CA and author of the new book from www.amacombooks.org, a division of the American Management Association, The Accidental Entrepreneur: 50 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Starting A Business (www.careersteps123.com She is also a former columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and contributor to 3 other books on career and life success.
Rob Kanzer - Cambridge & Portsmouth Coaching Collaboratives
Date:
October 3, 2008 3-4 PM Eastern
Description:
With an avalanche of ever changing business environments how can we, as sole proprietors, feel a sense of connectedness and optimism even when times are bad? This presentation will help you see how "goal buddies" can leverage your talent and the talent of others to create happier and more productive results.
You’ll takeaway an understanding of:
* What a goal buddy is
* The five essential qualities to all successful goal buddy supports
* The three ways to use goal buddies
* How to find the best goal buddy for you
* How to bring the upbeat energy of this hour to taking powerful next steps in your life
For 25 years, Rob Kanzer, Life Coach, Certified Mediator, Crisis Intervention Counselor, and President of Rob Kanzer Seminars! has helped others be happy and successful through mediation, negotiation, conflict resolution, and personal coaching. In groups and in one-to-one coaching sessions, Rob teaches people to clarify their purpose and move toward action with skills that can be used effectively right away.
Trained and Certified in Crisis Intervention Counseling and Mediation, Rob holds a Master's Certificate in Dispute Resolution from the University of Massachusetts and has studied with Roger Fisher, Getting to Yes, at The Harvard Negotiation Project. As President of New England's Rob Kanzer Seminars! Rob coaches global executives and individual clients, facilitates difficult meetings, co-hosts retreats, and trains people in government.
Rob Kanzer Seminars! provides presentations to facilitate dialogue and encourage powerful conversation. Through exercises custom-designed to create a working culture that utilizes everyone's special talents, participants in groups and private sessions practice honest, empathetic speaking and listening. The benefits of communicating in this clear and direct way include improved relationships and mental wellness, increased energy and motivation, and achievement of personal and professional goals.
Rob has achieved great results in helping people get what they want in life. In his dynamic, interactive Five Steps for Success: A Dialogue Model that Works! Rob demonstrates how to change your thinking and speaking to unleash the energy and wisdom to create the changes you seek at home, at work, and in the world.
Sure, you probably have a Web site, but does it work, and what else do people see when they look you up online? Do you present an appropriate and consistent image, and what can you do if something less than desirable shows up? What other online activities are you using to promote yourself?
Everyone’s online presence can be improved, but we all have limited time. In this teleseminar we’ll concentrate on simple yet effective techniques that will help position you as an expert online. The great news -- there are so many choices that you are bound to enjoy some of them.
Topics include:
• Positioning: why you're not a commodity with resultant commodity pay.
• Simple yet effective Web sites (it’s NOT about technology)
• Email signatures, lists, announcements, and newsletters (email is not dead!)
• Articles
• Guerilla Bio Tricks
• Blogs and other social media
• Getting and using press online
• Online press releases
• Book reviews on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and others
• Books and other credibility boosting products
• Video on video sharing sites like YouTube
• Going Viral – when things spread like wildfire
• Putting it all together – a simple plan for success.
Ted Demopoulos’ professional background includes over 25 years of experience in Information Technology and Business, including 15 years as an independent consultant. Ted helped start a successful information security company, was the CTO at a "textbook failure" of a software startup, and has advised several other startups. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, conventions, and other business events, author of What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting: Real-Life Advice from 101 People Who Successfully Leverage the Power of the Blogosphere, and coauthor of Blogging for Business. Ted conducts Leadership and Information Security Bootcamps for The SANS Institute, and is the principal of Demopoulos Associates, a consulting organization specializing in information security and new media.
One of the hot topics lately has been the impact of Gen Y on the workplace. Recruiters, HR professionals and managers/executives often question how to manage and engage this group of young professionals. As career coaches, we are starting to see more 20-somethings seeking out career coaching for advice and support. They bring with them unique challenges, questions, and expectations to the career coaching process.
As a career coach who works exclusively with Gen X and Gen Y career clients, I’ll share my insights as well as some of the key research in the field on the opportunities, challenges, and realities of working with the Gen Y professional. We will explore strategies to help young professionals create an empowered mindset for long-term career management. I will also provide tips on how to connect to the 20-somethings given the ever-prevalent consumer mindset that dictates that we as coaches tailor our value proposition in attracting these folks as clients and realistically managing their expectations.
In this seminar, you’ll gain:
--A realistic overview of the impact Gen Y is having in the workplace and the career coaching process
--An understanding of the motivations, expectations, and career mindset of the 20 something professional
--Strategies for effectively engaging the Gen Y career client
--Tips and ideas for modifying your value proposition to this emerging group of career coaching consumers
Sean Harvey, MSOD, MSEd, is Principal and Founder of Boerum Consulting, a full service career management and leadership development consulting firm. Sean caters his practice to the gen X and gen Y professional who aspires to make a real difference and impact in their organizations and beyond. He brings over twelve years of career and performance coaching, organizational change management and human capital consulting experience to his practice. He is passionate about serving as a catalyst to help his clients who are committed to making a difference professionally.
