Main Meeting Presentation Archive

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Marketing Plan Workshop

Presentation Date: April 17, 2018


Presenter Website: N/A
Presentation Material: N/A
Description: In the hills, you need a map and a compass. Up a creek, you need a boat and a paddle. When you are looking for a job and managing your career, you need to network. To network, you need a marketing plan.

A marketing plan is an essential tool for conducting a job search and for managing a career. This week, Glenn Burchard will show us how to put a marketing plan together, and how to use it as a guide to networking.

Glenn spearheads the delivery of leadership consulting and career management services in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonio (and in Oklahoma) for outplacement firm Lee Hecht Harrison.

Before joining LHH, Glenn enjoyed a twenty year, varied career within AT&T. He was the organization’s “go-to” person for career management advice and performance management coaching, and served as an internal consultant, facilitating organizational development programs and partnering with key leaders to enhance individual and team performance. He has effectively delivered Team Learning, Systems Thinking, and Mind/Body/Team Building programs.

“A Crash Course in Positivity” Workshop

Presentation Date: April 10, 2018


Presenter Website: Steve H Lawton
Presentation Material: N/A
Description: When calamity strikes, or when something worse than we can imagine happens, what can we do? How do we find our way back to assess, engage, find resources, and put our lives back together?

Steve Lawton has been there and done that. He survived a severe trauma in 2014 that could have killed him or left him severely disabled. Steve shares how the lessons he learned throughout his life, including his time at Texas A&M, as a NASA engineer, and as an executive at Dell, set him up to not only survive, but to nearly completely recover. You will hear his inspiring story along with practical advice on how you can create a more positive mindset and overcome any obstacle you encounter.

Steve is the author of “Head First! A Crash Course in Positivity,” an inspirational story about how his attitude literally saved his life from a near fatal skiing accident. He is a TEDx speaker and has helped thousands of people with his inspirational speaking at Dell, Accenture, Starbucks, VMWare, EMC and others. He has been featured on multiple media outlets and podcasts such as LittleThingsUSA, Eternal Leadership, BizJournals.com and as a guest lecturer at Texas A&M University and the University of Texas.

“My Next Move” Workshop

Presentation Date: April 3, 2018


Presenter Website: N/A
Presentation Material: N/A
Description: Is it time to decide and commit on a job track? Do you know what your transferable skills are? Have you decided what industries are best for you? Do you know the key words and phrases to include in your scannable and online resume? Is it time to create, refresh or update your marketing plan?

Did you answer the first or last question with “Yes”? Or answer any question, “I don’t know” or “I’m not sure”? Then Patti Boyle can help. Come hear this outplacement expert as she demonstrates how to integrate “My Next Move” into your job search or career change.

“My Next Move” (also called the O*Net Interest Profiler) is a free, easy-to-use online tool. It quickly assesses the kinds of work you enjoy. It allows you to explore jobs you might like and to identify your transferable skills. It highlights occupations that may appeal to you. It lists current job openings, the outlook for the future, average national and local salaries, apprenticeships, and related education and training programs.

Communication and Goal Setting Workshop

Presentation Date: March 27, 2018


Presenter Website: Dale Carnegie Training Central Texas
Presentation Material: N/A
Description: Do you stay focused on your job search?

Only 3% of people write down what they hope to attain in the future. When we put our goals in writing, and take the next step of verbalizing them, studies show that we are 42% more likely to reach them.

When was the last time you sat down, thought through your goals, and wrote them down?

Dale Carnegie found that there are 5 key drivers to success. Join this workshop to discuss what those drivers are and do a self-assessment of where we are in those areas. We will build an action plan on what area we need to focus on to get us to our destination. We will also look at a tool that will enable us to hold a genuine, friendly conversation with anyone we meet!

Conversational Networking

Presentation Date: March 20, 2018


Ripple Website: Ripple Central
Presentation Material: N/A
Description: Your goal in networking is to initiate and significantly enhance relationships. That happens when two or more people step outside the box and connect as individuals. This fun-filled, interaction-heavy workshop teaches you to do that.

Use conversational networking to learn about another person, connect with them, and lay a foundation upon which a larger, longer-term relationship can be built. You’ll walk away with greater insight about yourself and the art of connecting. You’ll be surprised to see how a few well-placed questions open up a world full of potential: rapport with the people you speak with, information about your target market and your field, new possibilities you never expected, and introductions to others on your path to your next job.

How to Show Up Powerfully

Presentation Date: March 13, 2018


Presenter Website: Sandra Dee Robinson
Presentation Material: N/A
Description: Charisma Coach, Sandra Dee Robinson, started life extremely shy, growing up in a steel town in western Pennsylvania. From these humble beginnings, she grew a successful Hollywood career, with such accolades as playing Amanda Cory on Another World, and starring in many major tv roles on Sunset Beach, The Bold and the Beautiful, General Hospital, Days of Our Lives and The Bay. She is the founder of Charisma On Camera LLC and Charismatic Cowgirl Leadership Training.

She has taken the skills she learned on her path to success to create courses to help people increase their charisma and impact. She inspires people to naturally step into their most powerful selves, and shares with us tools to be able to do this on our job search.

How I’d Find A Great Job

Presentation Date: March 6, 2018


Presenter Website: N/A
Presentation Material: N/A
Description: Gary O’Neal switches to our side of the hiring table to tell us exactly how he’d manage his own job search, identify a great job, and then get hired to do it.

Hear Gary discuss how he’d tailor his resume, update his LinkedIn profile, plan his go-to-market strategy, hunt for and handle interviews, and more. You can follow him, step by step, though the whole job search process. You can listen to what goes on in his head at each step.

Stop Wrecking Your Life: Simple Brain Hacks To Make Better Organizational Decisions

Presentation Date: February 27, 2018


Presenter Website: Dynamic Coaching, LLC
Presentation Material: N/A
Description: Do you get down on yourself? Discouraged with your job search? Is your inner critic taking you off course? Let Dr. Jack M. Allen teach you to rewire your brain for success.

Learn to:

• Identify negative, limiting beliefs.
• Practice simple brain hacks to adopt truthful beliefs and shut up your inner critic.
• Develop a memorable understanding of your customer (e.g. a hiring manager).
• Research your customer’s six deal killers and most important filters.
• Align your actions with your customer’s needs and organizational goals.

The presentation focuses on actionable steps, proven by ethics, motivational theory, and neuroscience that make it easier for people to do the right thing and build an unshakeable, success-oriented mindset. It also provides opportunities for participants to discover something new about themselves.

What Does Your Headshot Say About You?

Presentation Date: February 20, 2018


Presenter Website: N/A
Presentation Material: N/A
Description: Bill Freeman will teach us what the ingredients of a good headshot are. You will learn to see how well a photograph helps make the case for connecting with you, recommending you, and hiring you.

5 Networking Hacks

Presentation Date: February 13, 2018


Presenter Website: Career Passion Coach
Presentation Material: 5 Networking Hacks
Description: Everyone says you have to network. If you are looking for a job upgrade, you’re missing 80% of the market if you only apply online. As a Career Coach, Catherine Jewell’s number one job is teaching people like you how to work their network.

Great networking produces job leads – leads that are on target for the position, industry and even the company you would like to work for. Come to this presentation if you want to know how to turn an ordinary conversation into a gold mine of career ideas.

The Employment Puzzle

Presentation Date: February 6, 2018


Presenter Website: Chip Sampson, Personal Website
Presentation Material: Employment Puzzle (Abbreviated)
Description: The Employment Puzzle is designed to help job seekers effectively reach their desired employment goals through a systematic approach with networking as a central principle. Learn more about how this program can help you in your job search strategy. (Note: The abbreviated presentation removes duplicate pages from Chip’s original presentation. No content was removed.)

Unemployment Insurance 101

Presentation Date: January 30, 2018


Presenter Website: Texas Workforce Commission Unemployment Benefits
Presenter Handouts: Unemployment Benefits Handbook
Presentation Material: N/A – Verbal Presentation
Description: If you’re collecting unemployment there are requirements you need to meet. And plenty of conflicting information on how to do that. John is an Unemployment Insurance Field Specialist with TWC, and he has answers to your questions about how it all works.

Navigating the Recruiting Process

Presentation Date: January 23, 2018


Presenter Website: Bulls Eye Recruiting
Presentation Material: Navigating the Recruiting Process
Description: Will will provide guidelines for how you can effectively search for a new role and how to identify positions that are a good fit for you. This presentation is both motivational and informational for all job seekers. Topics discussed include cover letters, networking, using social media and personal branding.

Will started Bulls Eye Recruiting as a blog in 2012 and this morphed into a full blown sales and executive recruiting agency in 2015. Will’s blog has won 19 global awards for career advice. He helps organizations fill very niche roles within their verticals. He started recruiting in 1995 and has been a corporate and agency recruiter.

Improv for Job Search Success Networking

Presentation Date: January 9, 2018


Presenter Website: STEMprov Facebook Page
Presentation Material: N/A – Interactive Session
Description: Improv requires you to understand group dynamics, tell stories, and say yes in the face of the unknown. In many ways, improv draws upon the very same skills cultivated by teaching professionals. This beginner-friendly improv workshop will use the tools of the trade to help you become a better collaborator, increase your storytelling skills, and become more relaxed with all of the unknowns of interviewing.

Nichole Bennett, a regular improv teacher and performer around Austin, leads this fun-filled workshop, geared to enhance your job search skills.

Lean Coffee Discussion – Improve Your New Year

Presentation Date: January 2, 2018


Presenter Website: N/A
Presentation Material: N/A
Description: In 2018, what things will you keep doing, what will you start doing, and what things from 2017 will you stop doing? Write down your 3 goals and bring them to the meeting to get feedback and ideas on how to improve in 2018.

With this information, Bruce Campney, User Experience Consultant and HIREDTexas Peer Volunteer, will moderate a Lean Coffee style discussion based on our collective best intentions.

Lean Coffee gathers topics from everyone, prioritizes them, and then, using time boxing, gets the most value out of the limited time for discussion. The concepts of lean processes will be applied to our group conversation.