Standing Workshops

Patricia is available as a speaker to present the following sessions. The topics can be presented as a 50-minute talk or 1½ hour workshop.

Get Out of Your Own Way to Get What You Want in Your Career

• Identify the often invisible barriers that get in your way
• Begin to understand how internal barriers prevent you from maximizing your strengths
• Develop creative strategies to overcome these barriers, and thereby
• Take a proactive approach to your career, and
• Design a plan of your own to “get out of your own way”

Secrets to Predicting Career Success that Only You Know

• Learn the components of self assessment that impact your career
• Recognize how to utilize self assessment information to avoid poor career decisions, resulting in regrets and wasted time
• Understand how to utilize your core strengths to make better career choices
• Begin to develop a “career roadmap” based on understanding how aptitudes, interests, values and personality traits determine a good career fit.

Creating Relationships to Empower Your Success:

• Increase your knowledge of the benefits from effective mentoring relationships
• Gain a clear understanding of how to identify “beneficial” mentors
• Learn to effectively develop and implement a personal mentoring plan
• Recognize how to match the needs of your career plan with the appropriate type of mentor
• Learn to successfully choose specific mentors who will provide a “helping hand” in your career

Winning Strategies to Enhance Your Worth at Work

• Learn effective strategies to gain an advantage at work, including but not limited to:
  • Maintain quality of work product
  • Become an expert
  • Forge effective relationships at work
  • Build strategic alliances across functional lines
  • Develop a golden reputation
  • Understand and respect your boss
• Gain a clear understanding of how these strategies create a win/win for management and employee
• Begin to build a strategic plan to improve your advancement potential