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Power Up – Your Personal Guide to Professional Growth
August 27, 2020 @ 1:00 pm– 5:00 pm EDT
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Q3 Spark: Power Up – Your Personal Guide to Professional Growth
In light of the COVID-19 Pandemic, we as an industry have focused on our professional development to keep moving forward. With seasoned professionals looking for new employment, emerging professionals trying to find their place and constant changes to the new norm, we are exploring impactful ways to emerge as industry leaders. Join us for PCMA Capital Chapter’s August Spark event: Power Up – Your Personal Guide to Professional Growth, a half day program designed to give members the tools they need to be their best selves.
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The phrase “never give up” means something completely different in today’s world of global interdependence and rapidly shifting 21st century technologies. Drawing on her personal experiences and extensive research, Bonnie St. John illustrates examples of useful tips and techniques that professionals can use to adapt their performance when the only thing constant is change. “We need to update Einstein’s famous quote,” Bonnie quips: “In today’s world, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the same results!” As an amputee living in San Diego with no money (or snow!) for training, Bonnie needed to apply extraordinary tenacity and flexibility to become the first African-American to win Olympic medals in ski racing. In every stimulating presentation, Bonnie encourages education professionals to persist and adapt at the same time so they can become virtually unstoppable through the ups and downs of funding changes, new review requirements and scarce resources.
If you’re looking to enhance your professional credibility, visibility, and recruit-ability, there’s no better place to start than on LinkedIn—a platform with 260 million active monthly users. Whether you’ve already tried some profile enhancement strategies and are ready for a deeper dive, or are a LinkedIn novice looking to get started, this presentation will provide you with the tools to help you stand out from the digital crowd in a challenging and competitive job market.
COVID-19 has presented some unique challenges for careers in hospitality. Join Jasmine O. Dyson, of The Brand Xperience Lounge as she moderates a panel discussion with hospitality professionals recently impacted by the global pandemic. They’ll discuss tools and resources to adjust to this new transition, ways to reinvent yourself in new industries, and how to future-proof your career plan.
ELEVATING YOUR VALUE
A power map can be a useful visual tool to help you and your understand power, and see possibilities for advocacy. This tool is mostly used in public policy but can also be used for a person’s professional development. Participants will learn how to use this tool to aid them.
Carrie will use the principles of the science of well-being to talk attendees through what happiness really is and how they can achieve it in their daily lives! She also ties in how to translate JOY through your virtual meetings to your attendees for a more successful event.
No two people are alike however, in our interactions, we may fall into the habit of auto piloting how we communicate and connect with others, not considering individual differences and backgrounds. The workspace is typically the most diverse spaces we are in and we tend to still function separately versus together. The best way to engage with team members is to modify our “scripts” to fit the audience. This will require understanding the complexities of diversity to prepare us of the future makeup of the workforce. Through interactive exercises and guided processes, you will be equipped with the skills and tools to reap results from this new approach to connecting with others and improving recruitment, retention and engagement.
Deedre Daniel founded The Interesting Conversations Company® to help people think creatively, LAUGH, and build stronger bonds with others. Before starting this business, she spent nearly two decades at GEICO, where she rose through the ranks from call center sales associate to head the Affinity Marketing division where she managed a $50 million budget. Her team was responsible for the marketing strategy for members of over 800 organizations. She noticed most people struggled to make lasting connections with others at networking events. This increasing inability for people to connect inspired her to write a training class and a book called How to be More Interesting Than a Cell Phone®. She invented The Very Interesting Game™ (which is five games) to go with her signature talk. It is a card game for sale on Amazon and a virtual experience for team building and other events. CMP credit pending |
COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT
Art with a Heart’s mission is to enhance the lives of people in need through visual art. We are teaming up with Art With A Heart to provide students with their own box of starter art supplies. Let’s help them reach their goal of creating 3,500 starter art kits! Items needed: watercolor sets, Elmer’s glue bottle, scissors, and washable markers. Wish List
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All Access Passholders: this event is included in your pass. Your registration code will be sent once online registration opens. Contact [email protected] if you have not received your discount code.
Scholarships available, email [email protected] for details.
Thank You Program Sponsors
EventEQ, Washington Speakers Bureau, Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center and Visit Detroit
Chair Yoga sponsored by Visit Phoenix and Experience Scottsdale