Concurrent Morning Sessions

A. Building Relationships for Better Results: How to Talk So Your Clients Will Listen, and Listen So Your Clients Will Talk
B. Winning Strategies for Women Leaders
C. Transition Power Tools: 5 Strategies to Help You Power Through Any Transition
D. Social Media Spaghetti: The Sequel
E. Feel the Beat: Top 10 Tips for a Healthy Heart

Concurrent Afternoon Sessions

F. Speak as Well as You Think — Confidence to Conviction to Action!
G. Power Up Your Communication: Vocal Power and Body Language Intelligence for Women
H. Breakthrough to Abundant Success: A 5-Step Plan for Your Greatest Life and Career
I. Kicking and Screaming is One Way to Get There...

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Morning Workshops

 

A. Building Relationships for Better Results: How To Talk So Your Clients Will Listen, and Listen So Your Clients Will Talk

Presenters: Hilary Pearl, Pearl Associates and Laura Daley, Insight Learning Partners

We are all selling our ideas every day, whether internally to others in our organization, externally to clients or in our own homes! In each situation the ability to demonstrate an understanding of the other person's needs is the number one predictor of success. In this workshop we will focus on the sister skills of questioning and listening as key tools for the effective person to master. This workshop involves interactive practice with peer and instructor feedback.

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B. Winning Strategies for Women Leaders
Presenters: Adrienne Milics, Executive Coach, Lyne Desormeaux, Corporate Counseling Associates, and Barbara Healy, Barbara Healy Associates

As women leaders get closer to the top of organizations we are faced with new challenges. Some of us have to work with a senior team that is composed of mostly males. Others are faced with added pressure and time constraints. This panel focuses on exploring the challenges that female leaders face, including help in finding avenues for support, decision-making, navigating the political landscape and understanding the competition. We will demonstrate how women can leverage their strengths in facing these challenges and what top management within an organization can do to nurture talented women. Learn about competency differences by gender and hear powerful case studies of women’s success in leadership.

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C. Transition Power Tools: 5 Strategies to Help You Power Through Any Transition
Presenter: Marge Piccini, Speaker, Consultant, Trainer, Coach

Involuntary transition is difficult. It’s a state that is filled with uncertainty, discomfort and fear causing the loss of clarity, confidence and courage and perpetuating feelings of sadness, self pity and scarcity. These feelings are often the result of the sudden loss of a job, position or income. To power through, you need a deluxe set of Transition Power Tools. In this workshop you will learn five strategies that will help you to get really clear about your value, where you want to go and how to get there. In addition, you’ll supercharge your belief system and gain the tools you need to sustain the state of empowerment and enthusiasm you need to create the life you want.

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D. Social Media Spaghetti: The Sequel
Presenter: Lena West, xynoMedia

Thus starts yet another year of hearing about social media. It works. It doesn't. Don't do this. Do that. Never do THAT! Always do THIS! At this point, you're not even concerned with what other people are doing; you'd like to figure out what you need to do about social media -- and more importantly, what you can safely ignore! If you were with us last year, you know we covered the basics of how to approach social media. And, if you weren't with us last year, join us anyway -- we'll get you up-to-speed quickly. This year, we’ll be talking about what’s changed, what hasn’t and the number one thing you can do now if you don’t know where to start with social media.

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E. Feel the Beat: Top 10 Tips for a Healthy Heart

Presenter: Dr. Paul Kelly, Cardiology Associates of Waterbury

Living a heart-healthy lifestyle is one of the keys to longevity. While it may seem daunting to take proper care of your heart, there are things you can do to get started and stay healthy. Join Dr. Paul Kelly for an informative and interactive session covering essential areas such as identifying your personal risk factors, making effective lifestyle choices and knowing the critical numbers that impact your cardiac health. Knowledge is power, so empower yourself with this heart smart workshop.

Robin Johnson, Director of Go Red for Women, will also be on hand with material about this important movement from the American Heart Association that “celebrates the energy, passion and power we have as women to band together to wipe out heart disease and stroke.

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Afternoon Workshops

 

F. Speak as Well as You Think — Confidence to Conviction to Action!

Presenters: Hilary Pearl and Laura Daley

When you are public speaking, do listeners see you as a woman of confidence and conviction? Since more than 90 percent of a communicated message comes from physical and tonal qualities, you need your body to add value to your presentation. Learn key techniques to harness nervous energy and strengthen your core message. This is essential for public speakers, particularly women, in order to project stature and gain the credibility needed to influence others. This session includes practice with feedback to provide you with the most powerful learning experience.

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G. Power Up Your Communication: Vocal Power and Body Language Intelligence for Women

Presenter: Kathy McAfee, America’s Marketing Motivator

To be effective communicators, professional women must not only strive to be articulate, but also to be more aware of and in control of their body language and vocal delivery. Research studies indicate that over 90 percent of what’s being communicated in face to face situations is influence by visual and vocal factors. In this workshop, you will be learn how to leverage the full range of your vocal dashboard and how simple changes in your body language can help you communicate more effectively and have greater influence at work and in the community. Create a more commanding presence for yourself by learning to put more power into how you communicate your thoughts and ideas to others.

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H. Breakthrough to Abundant Success: A 5-Step Plan for Your Greatest Life and Career

Presenters: Kathy Caprino, M.A., America's Breakthrough Coach for Women, Ellia Communications, Inc.

Are you feeling that the next level of personal and professional success is waiting for you, but you’re not sure how to achieve it? Are you experiencing work-life challenges that leave you unsure as to the next best step to take? Are you longing for ABUNDANT success in life and work, and want a roadmap to achieve it? Are you tired of the same issues you’ve been facing, and want a new way to break through them? Learn Kathy’s proven five-step model for creating inner and outer success and fulfillment, teaching you specific strategies and approaches. You’ll crack your internal success “code” - the secret of what’s been holding you back from the joy, success, and fulfillment you so richly deserve in the areas that matter most to you, including financial, health, well-being, spiritual growth, career, relationships, family and balance.

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I. Kicking and Screaming is One Way to Get There...
Presenter: Michelle Gotay, Professional Speaker, Trainer and Entertainer

These days there is an abundance of philosophies and strategies available to help us find wealth, health, happiness and success in our work and in our personal lives. But what if you’re one who struggles to make changes, is terrified of the unknown, and can’t move forward with the lead boots you’re wearing? Well… here’s a little secret… you’re not the only one!

Michelle’s humorous and interactive workshop will help you to identify several obstacles to finding success in your work and personal life, and offer suggestions for overcoming them. This fun yet practical session will leave you with the tools (or shall we say the “prescription”) for breaking down stress and negativity, often the very barriers to our best selves. Finding success and happiness isn’t always easy (or pretty), and kicking and screaming is one way to get there.

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