Schedule Session Track: Professional Development

Do you ever feel like you’re at a loss for solutions, time, or energy? Do you feel like so much of your energy gets spent on your list of revolving tasks and on putting out fires that you don’t have any energy left for thinking creatively when you most need to?

We have all been there.

The good news is that there are practical solutions that support your ability to thrive and be creative under pressure. Neuroscience studies have shown that somatic practices unlock our ability to be creative and resilient even in high-stress environments.

During this interactive session, you will learn how to meet your goals in high-pressure moments, find new solutions to old problems, and have ease with your team during periods of upheaval and change. Solunis Nicole Bay will share how creativity and somatics can deepen your ability to help you move through stuckness and fear to take action in stressful times.

Presenting with Impact is a group training that concentrates on developing skills in content structure, messaging, use of stories and analogies, and effective delivery style. Participants practice these skills by preparing a short spoken presentation for the group, followed by targeted and actionable feedback from the trainer and fellow participants to identify opportunities to improve their impact. Participants are encouraged to identify their pertinent real-life stories and use them to connect with audiences.

Process improvements can always be made —whether you’re building a new CRM program, joining an existing one, or finding yourself bogged down in the daily routine of a program that you’ve used for years. But how do you pinpoint the CRM processes that need review? And how do you prioritize the need-to-haves versus the nice-to-haves? This session will dig into exactly what you need to improve efficiency and decrease service-level agreements (SLAs). Discover tips and tricks for making smart process adjustments that increase or maintain your program’s output quality.

The Women, Language & Power session, led by leadership and communications coach, Susannah Baldwin, Ph.D., explores issues of gender, power, and the extraordinary role language plays in inhibiting or unleashing women’s potential to be effective and powerful in the business world. Susannah will explore the social conditioning that results in women modifying their speaking to always be collaborative, contain their bodies and voices, and put others’ needs before their own – minimizing their effectiveness in the workplace. This session focuses on how women can make new language choices that connect them to their power, themselves, and their goals.