Workshops

College employers describe responsibility, accountability, and dependability as a crucial set of skills required for personal and professional success, but few young professionals find a system to practice this well. Instead, most use complicated calendars, apps, and systems that leave them forgetful, burnout, and disorganized. Instead of using this haphazard approach, data suggest that implementing a simple system of routines and habits is crucial to creating an organized life, lowering stress, and staying focused. Join us for this interactive session to learn how you can become "impeccably dependable," ensuring your calendar, to-do list, and daily routine can be trusted to match your priorities without fear of missed deadlines or commitments. Looking for a life of less stress and less hot mess? Join us to learn how.

Audience: High school students, college students, interns, young professionals

Join us to learn the concept of “confident humility” as an intern or or entry-level employee, where we'll explore the question: how can you develop confidence without arrogance, and coach-ability without insecurity? Research indicates that balancing these attributes as a young professional is one of the most difficult skills to master in early adulthood. How do you show up with confidence in yourself and your experience while also recognizing that you're likely the least experienced professional in the room? How do you yield to the context and authority of those who've had a longer history with your organization without apologizing for what you don't know? In this interactive workshop, you'll learn how to communicate effectively, build your genuine confidence, and develop strategies to handle the inevitable mistakes and challenges that arise when you're new to the job and the learning curve is high. Leave with an understanding of how to approach being the youngest or newest member of a professional setting with sincere confidence and the humility to be coachable.

Audience: College students, interns, young professionals

Most young professionals begin the transition to post-college life with student debt, a job search, and anxiety about their personal finances, but few are given tangible tools to address the financial overwhelm that occurs after graduation. Join us for this session to learn four budgeting strategies that build healthy financial habits in your early twenties, and learn how budgeting gives you permission to both spend and save money in a way that aligns with your personal values and priorities. Utilizing "You Need a Budget" software, students will leave this session with an actionable budget template and six habits to make it sustainable.

Our current landscape requires young adults to juggle a wide variety of responsibilities as they transition from college academics to full-time work. Research tells us that personal wellbeing is crucial to navigate this transition, but we often ignore the simple habits and skills that equip us to lead ourselves and others well. Utilizing mental health resources, academic research, and current trends, join this interactive session to learn ten evidence-based strategies that can improve your personal wellbeing and professional productivity as a student, intern, or young professional.

We often focus on building professional skills in public speaking, collaboration, strategic thinking, and organization, but how do we practice the skills it takes to navigate conflict, tension, and disagreement at work? How do we stay true to ourselves and show up in ways aligned with our values when tensions are high, feelings are hurt, or difficult emotions arise? Is productive conflict possible, and if so, how do we practice it? Join us for this session to learn more about the dynamics of conflict, identify your personal values, and build a conflict mission statement to reference in times of high stress or tension at work. In addition, we'll cover the art of apologies, and practice four steps to apologize well when you mess up, miscommunicate, or jump to conclusions as a working professional.

It's hard to make an impact when we can't communicate well. As journalist Celeste Headlee says, "Most of us learn how to talk, but we never gain training on how to listen." Celeste describes communication, in public settings and private conversation, as the single most important and under-utilized skill for personal and professional success. From work happy hours to family vacation, how do you take genuine interest in others and make people feel understood; colleagues at work, clients you serve, and people you love? How might better conversational skills improve your professional presence, emotional intelligence, and ability to accomplish your goals? Join this session to learn five strategies to become a better conversationalist, and practice three steps to speak with more confidence when the stakes feel high.