Workshop Descriptions
Perfecting Your Resume to Ace Your Behavioral Based Interviews, A Three Part Series
Part 1: Identifying Your Strengths, Writing Your Marketable Definition, and Presenting Your Skills - Attendees will build on their Career Alignment Profile Assessment results by defining their marketable strengths, creating a marketable definition that sells, and assembling a concise version of the skills acquired during their career as part of the resume writing and interview preparation process. Attendees will learn how to compare their skills and strengths to job opportunities in order to expand their future career choices. Part 2: Communicating Your Accomplishments - Participants will identify and write a series of achievement stories and develop them into professional and personal accomplishments. Additionally, participants will learn how to select the best accomplishments as the basis for answers to specific questions in a variety of behavioral based interviews. Part 3: Putting It All Together - Using the materials developed in parts one and two of the series, participants will complete their accomplishment based resume and learn how to use it as their roadmap for behavioral based interviews in a variety of different career areas.Achieving Life Balance
All too often, our lives feel “out of balance.” Because we focus so much energy on only one or two elements of our lives, we often neglect other crucial elements without even realizing it. In this workshop, participants will learn to incorporate all six major elements for a full and balanced life:- One. A Healthy Lifestyle
- Two. Strong Relationships with Family and Friends
- Three. Ongoing Career Development
- Four. Effective Time Management
- Five. Positive Communications
- Six. Everything Else - The "Details of Life"
Coping with Stress: Professionally & Personally
This recently updated and improved workshop uses self-assessments to help participants understand stress and how it affects their personal and professional lives. Participants learn to:- Discover their own personal stress triggers
- Minimize or eliminate common stress
- Empty their "stress buckets" regularly
- Improve their coping methods
- Gain greater life satisfaction
- Identify stress in others to improve relationships
Eliminating Barriers to Success
This session teaches participants how to recognize negative behaviors in themselves and others. Participants learn how to deal with these "barriers to success" and the predictable results. This workshop assists participants to:- Identify the barriers to success in their lives
- Recognize the warning signs that precede these barriers
- Learn how to deal with others who "Hit Your Hot Buttons"
- Create a plan of action to eliminate or reduce the barriers to success
- Practice the skills to avoid the barriers to success in their future careers
Skills to Building Workplace Rapport
This workshop enables participants to learn how their good manners can reflect in increased workplace harmony and positive rapport, even in difficult circumstances. In this workshop, participants will:- Discuss the positive and negative results from good and bad workplace rapport
- Discover the answer to "Can You Work With All Kinds of People?"
- Learn how to positively disengage from negative rapport
- Discover "When to Hold 'Em, and When to Fold 'Em"
Communicating Your Accomplishments and Performance
Effectively communicating your accomplishments in the workplace is vital to progression within an organization. In this workshop, participants learn to:- Understand the importance of two-way communication
- Construct clear, concise messages in the interest of the receiver
- Use nonverbal factors to reinforce their message
- Listen actively to improve communication, and use feedback to overcome barriers to communication
Developing Your Career Path
Understanding focus, motivation, and personal strengths enables participants to appreciate their strengths in the workplace and the importance of effective career planning and efficient job search. This session helps participants to:- Define and articulate their top three marketable strengths
- Understand the path and process to successful career planning and development
- Learn to use tools and resources for professional growth and development
Improving Individual Job Performance
This interactive workshop focuses on understanding the competencies for successful job performance. By the end of this session, participants will be able to:- Recognize the qualities and learn the skills that make an employee more professional on the job
- Be aware of the standards and attributes required for professional job performance
- Understand behavior related to interpersonal communication and job competencies for success in the workplace
- Promote cooperation and teamwork through better communication with peers, managers, and other coworkers
- Create their Individual Career Plan
Knowing Success by Knowing Yourself and Others
This workshop uses CMI's proprietary self-assessment to help participants understand themselves and others in a specific environment. This workshop enables participants to:- Appreciate individual differences
- Develop effective strategies for working with each other
- Identify their personal behavioral style
- Learn about the importance of accepting and respecting individual differences in behavior and needs in the workplace
- Develop communication and behavioral strategies to accommodate differing behavioral styles
- Learn to calibrate their communication style to that of an interviewer
Managing Time and Resources
Effective time management is critical to success in today's fast moving, multi-tasking workplace. In this workshop, participants learn to:
- Identify the different factors affecting time mastery
- Assess their personal mastery of each factor
- Develop detailed action plans on improving their management of time and priorities
Seeing Opportunities with a Positive Attitude
Understanding the focus, motivation, and the behavior of others enables participants to appreciate individual differences, and to develop effective strategies for working with each other. Participants will learn to:- Identify their work expectations
- Discover which expectations they consider most important and get feedback on how to communicate their expectations to others
- Take steps to get their expectations met, and adjust their expectations when appropriate to improve their outlook and enhance their attitude toward work