Professional Development Retreat

Strengthening Your Professional Presence

Saturday, November 2, 2019

10:30am-2:30pm

About the Retreat:

This half day retreat is a select opportunity for juniors and seniors designed to engage you in conversations, trainings, and activities to develop you both personally and professionally. This semester’s theme is “Strengthening Your Professional Presence”. The retreat will be facilitated by Diane Beliveau from Dale Carnegie. For over a century, Dale Carnegie has been improving individual and organization performance around. Over 12 million individuals worldwide have participated in Dale Carnegie training to sharpen their skills and improve their performance to build positive, steady, and measurable results. *You must attend the entire retreat to be eligible to participate in any special incentives.

Retreat Sessions:

• Build a Rapport & Strengthen Relationships
  To have a friend one must be friendly. We start by showing genuine interest and asking people about things that interest them. Next, we make sure we focus on them as individuals. To do this we must stop, look at them, listen to them and maintain our focus on them despite distractions. Third, we become good conversationalists by letting them do most of the talking. When they answer a question, we look for more information by asking questions such as Who? What? When? Where? Why? And How?As we become more proficient at building relationships, we realize that this model is not a one-time event for each person that we meet. This model provides an ongoing opportunity to know people better and understand what is important to them.
• Present Yourself Confidently: Create Your Presence
  Whether persuading colleagues, selling a client or energizing a team, the power of a person’s presentation skills can make the difference between success and failure. Image and credibility are very important factors that impact career paths. Most would like to be recognized for their professional competence. Competence is reflected in our appearance, our effectiveness in communicating and our ability to interact with and develop rapport with others.Public speaking is the #1 fear around the world. Yet, the ability to effectively public speak is a necessity as we become subject matter experts in our field or as we grow into various levels of leadership. Learning effective communication skills particularly when public speaking, will provide a solid foundation for leadership opportunities!

Registration:

The final day to register for the retreat is Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 5pm.