| Tuesday | 2:00pm-5:00pm | Team Leadership - Developing Effective Teams
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| Wednesday | 8:00am-11:30am or 12:30pm-4:00pm | Mentoring: How to Get It, How to Use It,
How to Do It For Others | |
| 12:30pm-4:00pm | Show Them You Mean Business
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| 1:00pm-4:00pm | Conflict Resolution in the Workplace | ||
| Thursday | 9:00am-12:00pm | Polish, Power, Politics, Planning
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| Friday | 9:00am-11:30am | Perform At Your Peak
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| 1:00pm-4:30pm | Ideas to Results: A New Approach to Project Management |
TEAM LEADERSHIP—DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE TEAMS
Mary Pape
$25 • class size: 50
Tuesday, 2:00–5:30pm
This workshop provides participants with a hands-on experience of working collaboratively to accomplish goals. Participants will review and reinforce basic skills that contribute to teamwork as they tackle "real" projects and learn practical, proven and effective team-building skills to enhance participation of employees on teams and in day-to-day interaction. Interactive experiences will focus on hands-on techniques and activities to build team leadership skills.
Mary Pape is Chief Executive Officer of Performance Dynamics Group, an
organizational development and management consulting firm specializing
in innovative, experiential training courses. Ms. Pape has broad
experience in facilitating problem-solving teams emphasizing trust,
leadership, communication, teamwork and decision making.
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MENTORING: HOW TO GET IT, HOW TO USE IT, HOW TO
DO IT FOR OTHERS
Eileen Crowley-Reed
$35 • class size: 20 each
Wednesday, 8:00–11:30am
Wednesday, 12:30–4:00pm
A mentor can have a significant impact on your career—but do you have a mentor? This fun, informative and interactive workshop will help each participant identify possible mentors and develop an understanding of the roles and responsibilities of each person in a coaching relationship. Go away with your individual assessment and action plan to enhance your career with a mentoring relationship. Both sessions will focus on engineers with less than ten years of experience.
Eileen Crowley-Reed, Eileen Crowley-Reed & Associates, assists
corporations and other organizations in developing skills that improve
team performance. Her services help clients establish direction and
acquire and apply skills required for success. Ms. Crowley-Reed was
formerly President and CEO of the Greater Houston Partnership's
Chamber of Commerce Division.
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SHOW THEM YOU MEAN BUSINESS
Parrish Hirasaki
$25 • class size: 50
Wednesday, 12:30–4:00pm
While corporations have softened and changed as women have made inroads into management, most technical companies are still very "male." Much tradition remains and women need to know the navigation skills in order to sail smoothly. Learn the ropes by examining the customs, the language, the costumes and the taboos of the corporate world.
Parrish Hirasaki
has "been there and done that." She played a key
engineering role in the Apollo 13 rescue, became General Manager of a
Fortune 100 company and founded a technical business with annual sales
over $5 million. As president of Nelson Communications, she uses her
experience to help women succeed in the corporate world.
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CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN THE WORKPLACE
E. Wendy Trachte-Huber and Georgette Michko
$25 • class size: 100
Wednesday, 1:00–4:00pm
Learn what causes conflicts and how to deal with them from actual case studies. Methods to short circuit conflicts arising from gender and cultural differences will be presented. Learn a range of approaches to resolving conflicts, effective communications skills and strategies needed to resolve conflicts in today's engineering workplace.
Dr. E. Wendy Trachte-Huber, Director of the A.A. White Dispute
Resolution Institute and Georgette Michko, SWE.
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POLISH, POWER, POLITICS, PLANNING
Parrish Hirasaki
$25 • class size: 50
Thursday, 9:00am–12:00noon
You've come a long way in your career. Attend this seminar and take time to fine tune your performance, improve your interactions, increase your influence, enhance your image and steer your career. The result will be a personal action plan looking specifically at the areas you need to and want to address.
Parrish Hirasaki,
president of Nelson Communications, currently
devotes her experience to helping women succeed in the corporate world.
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PERFORM AT YOUR PEAK
Lynn Marks
$25 • class size: 50
Friday, 9:00–11:30am
What does it mean to be a peak performer? How can you maintain a high level of performance? Learn the keys to achieving and maintaining your performance and restoring integrity in all aspects of your life. In this workshop you will define peak performance, examine what it takes to achieve peak performance and learn the key laws to perform at your peak—effortlessly!
Lynn Marks, The Success Edge, is a success coach who works with
entrepreneurs, executives and professionals empowering them to be all
they are meant to be. She is also a motivational speaker who speaks
professionally on achieving personal and professional success and
communicating powerfully. Ms. Marks' trademark is "Your Success Is MY
Business."
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IDEAS TO RESULTS: A NEW APPROACH TO PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Marianne Smith
$25 • class size: 50
Friday, 1:00–4:30pm
Effective project management requires an alignment with business strategy, a well-defined management strategy, an effective method for tracking progress and the ability to direct a diverse team. Learn a new model for laying out the framework for effectively-managed projects. Be prepared to work with your own project to illustrate this new process and design an action and evaluation plan.
Marianne Smith, Creative Resource Seminars.
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