Professional Development for Women and Minorities

2017 Dean's Rountable

2017 HBCU Engineering Deans' Roundtable

High Performance Collaboration

Learning Outcome: Discuss the essential skills to develop and expand your leadership repertoire 

 

Are leaders born or made? How do aspiring managers succeed in an ever-changing business environment? How do they lead different groups to action? Throughout this seminar, we will explore how great leaders assess themselves and lead collaborative teams that effectively manage negotiations and conflict. 

 

At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to: 

 

1. Discover how leaders communicate through storytelling and employ other communication strategies to influence. 
2. Explore and analyze leadership styles.
3. Identify how organizations can develop team charters to optimize their groups, and develop a game plan for effective negotiation

 

Act Like a CEO, Think Like a Leader

Learning Objective: Examine the challenges and strategies of gender barriers

 

Be strong in the work place? Wait, not too strong? Be assertive? Wait, that’s aggressive? For every piece of advice a woman leader receives, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This workshop brings leaders together to share perceptions, management challenges, and leadership strategies. Leaders speak up and share candid thoughts for getting results and overcoming stereotypes and barriers. If information is power, this workshop is your source.

 

At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:

 

1. Engage in a candid dialogue regarding the perceived challenges of managing/leading women and being managed/led by women.
2. Discuss mutually beneficial techniques to build strong professional relationships.
3. Explore the impact of race, gender, and perceptions on pay and promotion.

Corporate Governance: Increasing the Number of African American Corporate Directors

Corporate Governance: Increasing the Number of African American Corporate Directors

Life in the Zone- Women, Work, Life, and Flow

Learning Objective: Learn strategies to increase balance, clarity, and efficiency for better life and work outcomes.

Many women feel torn between competing priorities, obligations, and personal goals. Some experience a daily struggle to find the balance that reflects harmony and fulfillment. There are two zones of professional and personal fulfillment. One is lived in the comfort zone and the other is in the life zone. You can only be in one zone at a time. In the Comfort Zone, you are driven by fear and perceive life as a series of risks you rather not take. But, in the Life Zone you are tuned into actions, decisions, and ways of thinking that are in line with your success vision. This seminar will provide inspiration, motivation, strategies, and mental shifts that may change your life. Join our diverse panel as they share tips to feel good, balance your life and work, and make each day count.

At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:

1. Explore personal definitions of success
2. Examine stress management tools to relax your mind and increase clarity
3. Use organizational and motivational tools to control the calendar/schedule
4. List solutions and tips to stay motivated and inspired
5. Create a personalized strategy for weighing the costs and benefits of important decisions

Lessons in Leadership

Leaders and managers are charged with meeting diverse needs to maximize value and productivity. As a proficient leader and manager, your role is to create opportunities, to empower others, and leverage the specialized skills of employees. One continuing challenge is managing team members from various cultures, locations, and backgrounds. Communication presents numerous impediments such as how to increase quality and efficiency of knowledge sharing and how do we improve value? Collaboration and sharing of knowledge practices are essential to finding a workable solution augmenting professional relationships, increasing productivity, and cultivating work quality. This session will discuss the tools needed to transform your team’s working experience to achieve amplified results.

Act Like a CEO, Think Like a Leader: Top Men and Women Leaders Get Real About Gender, Leadership, and Perceptions

Act Like a CEO, Think Like a Leader: Top Men and Women Leaders Get Real About Gender, Leadership, and Perceptions

Be strong in the work place? Wait, not too strong? Be assertive? Wait, that's aggressive? For every piece of advice a woman leader receives, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This workshop brings men and women leaders together to share perceptions, management challenges, and leadership strategies. Men leaders speak up and share candid thoughts for getting results and overcoming stereotypes and barriers. If information is power, this workshop is your source.

Learning Objective: Examine the challenges and strategies of gender barriers

At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:

1. Engage in a candid dialogue regarding the perceived challenges of managing/leading women and being managed/led by women
2. Discuss mutually beneficial techniques to build strong professional relationships
3. Explore the impact of race, gender, and perceptions on pay and promotion

Presenter: Cheryl Moo-Young, Senior Infrastructure Manager, Accenture, LLP

Panelists:

Nicole Funk, Senior Vice President, Defense & Intelligence Group, Booz Allen Hamilton

Theresa Spralling, CEO, Women of AT&T

Business Cultural Competence and Etiquette: Understanding Culturally Sensitive Executive Manners

Business Cultural Competence and Etiquette: Understanding Culturally Sensitive Executive Manners

Learning Objective: To improve the capacity to understand and negotiate around business and cultural expectations to increase interpersonal effectiveness.

Executive manners refer to professional and corporate expectations. Cultural competence includes the capacity to apply and adapt executive manners in a wide variety of settings and cultures. We all make occasional cultural and business missteps and will likely agree that a better understanding of appropriate practices help protect and enhance our image. There are bad manners that can be avoided with awareness and education. This session is designed for both new and seasoned professionals to gain understanding of new ways to attract diverse talent, influence customers, and maximize interpersonal effectiveness.

At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:

1. Identify and explore common business etiquette mistakes.
2. Explore global cultural practices and blunders made by professionals.
3. Identify personal and professional expectations based on cultural experiences.
4. Explore opportunities to learn more about executive manners and cultural competence.

Panelists:

Beth Howell, U.S. Employment Compliance Officer, General Dynamics Land Systems

Melisa Folwer, Sr. Business Project Manager, PECO

Pamela Harris, Director, Raytheon Company

I Just Want To Be Successful

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Increase professional leadership qualities, confidence, and competence.

Are you playing the game, or is the game playing you? Great Leadership happens when you understand the game and sharpen the right tools to play effectively. Achieving greatness is no easy task. Each person has a unique path with its own set of challenges and obstacles to overcome. As emerging leaders, you must explore who you are and understand how all life experiences contribute value to your journey. On this path, most will discover that success is about embracing and using your individuality to achieve greatness. On this path, you will discover that great men make great leaders. What truly makes you great? Who do you consider great? This seminar will explore life and leadership while examining the impact of hip-hop culture and its impact on definitions and perspectives of success.

Interview Skills That Get You Hired!

Interview Skills That Get You Hired!

Do you know the benefits of establishing a positive and professional self-representation during an interview? Promotions depend on preparation and practice, but knowing what to prepare and how to practice is essential. Mastering the Interview Training Materials holds the knowledge of the qualities that employers desire. Expanding your expectations of the questions that will be asked during an interview can give you an incredible advantage over other applicants for the position. Even more, being able to demonstrate your unique skills through a well-articulated answer to interview questions will put you in the lead. Taking the initiative to prepare for an interview can create new opportunities for career development in your industry.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to answer the following questions:

1. What are the common interview questions, and how do you prepare your answers?
2. What information do I need to know for every interview?
3. How do I answer difficult questions?
4. What are good questions to ask your interviewer?
5. How do I answer the question “So tell me about yourself”?
6. What do I do after the interview?

Presenter: Talia Fox, CEO, KUSI Visions