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  • The Power of Your Story: How to Interview with Confidence

    Tim Reynolds, Co-Founder, Clover Lane Partners, LLC

    Interviewing can be nerve racking. You can worry about what questions you'll be asked or fret over whether you have sufficient experience for the position. MORE >

    This presentation/workshop will change your perspective from what you are going to be asked to what you get to share about yourself and why you are what they are looking for.

    We do this by first by getting you comfortable with the process by training you how to interview others.Then we will identify your core unchangeable adjectives that a company, organization or school will get on day one. Then we practice the first question you most likely will be asked that will set the tone for the entire interview.

    Here is where you where you will come to understand the power of your story.

    This presentation/workshop also helps those who want to become better interviewers.

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  • The Power of Networking

    Bette Lawrence-Water, Founder and Principal Consultant, Spectrum Strategic Solutions

    According to Merriam Webster networking is “the exchange of information or services among individuals, groups, or institutions; specifically: the cultivation of productive relationships for employment or business”. These and other events can become more easily managed with this great workshop. During this lively, and interactive Power of Networking (Outside the organization) discussion, participants will begin to see how important it is to develop a core set of networking skills to get things done. By managing and looking at the way people interact and seeing things in a new light, participants can improve on almost every aspect of their networking strategy.
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  • Get (and Stay) Organized

    Erin J. Kelly, Professional Organizer, Arranged By Erin

    Learn how to live a simple and organized life. Whether it’s your home or office, Erin explains the tools to help you be more productive and save time. Erin has given speeches all over Chicago including corporations, ADD support groups, and libraries.

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  • Understand their soul’s purpose in life.

    Adam Johnson, Dynamic Life Strategist, Asjohnson Agency

    I help people understand their soul's purpose in life. By aliening them with their true natural gifts, they begin living their best life in practice and purpose. Couple that with adjusting your mindset and behavior patterns - Now creates a life that not only gives you fulfillment - It's a life that has positive expectancy. MORE >

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  • Interpersonal Skills

    Bette Lawrence-Water, Founder and Principal Consultant, Spectrum Strategic Solutions

    We've all met that dynamic, charismatic person that just has a way with others, and has a way of being remembered. Participants will identify ways of creating a powerful introduction, remembering names, and managing situations when you’ve forgotten someone’s name.
    The Interpersonal Skills discussion will help participants work towards being that unforgettable person by providing communication skills, negotiation techniques, tips on making an impact, and advice on networking and starting conversations. Bette will help audience to identify skills needed in starting a conversation, moving a conversation along, and progressing to higher levels of conversation. MORE >

    Discussion Objectives:
    • Understand the difference between hearing and listening
    • Know some ways to improve the verbal skills of asking questions and communicating with power.
    • Understand what is ‘non-verbal communication’ and how it can enhance interpersonal relationships.
    • Identify the skills needed in starting a conversation.
    • Identify ways of creating a powerful introduction, remembering names, and managing situations when you’ve forgotten someone’s name.
    • Understand how seeing the other side can improve skills in influencing other people.
    • Understand how the use of facts and emotions can help bring people to your side.
    • Identify ways of sharing one’s opinions constructively.
    • Learn tips in preparing for a negotiation, opening a negotiation, bargaining, and closing a negotiation.
    • Learn tips in making an impact through powerful first impressions.
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  • Love on Trial: When Relationship Therapy Feels Like a Courtroom

    Susan Close, LCPC, LMHC, Owner | Psychotherapist, Susan Close Psychotherapy & Wellness

    Many couples come into conflict believing they are arguing about the same issue—but often they are trying to solve entirely different problems. One person is fighting for reassurance. The other is fighting for fairness. One wants understanding. The other wants the argument to end. In this witty, eye-opening presentation, psychotherapist Susan Close shares what she has learned from years in the therapy room, where conflict can sound less like connection and more like cross-examination. MORE >

    With humor, relatable stories, and practical tools, Susan helps audiences recognize common traps like mindreading, defensiveness, scorekeeping, assumption-making, and trying to win instead of understand.

    Attendees leave with strategies to slow conflict down, communicate more effectively, and move from opposition to partnership.

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