Participants are asked to choose one workshop for each session
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10:10 - 11:10 AM - Session 1 |
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| PSS | DISC I: Behavior Assessment |
Never look at your team mates the same way again. This interactive session uses hands on behavior assessment methods to evaluate your leadership personality and understand how it relate to others. Learn the pros and cons that each personality brings to a team environment and learn how to maximize it's productivity. 2-Session Block Covers Interpersonal Communication and Values & Decision Making |
| LO |
Cutural Communication |
Professional speaker and trainer, Dion Jordan, leads this lively workshop. Learn to identify different cultural communication skills and strategies to practice them effectively. |
| RW | Benefits Packages Overview |
Job offers are much more than money. Find out how to get the most out of your benefits before you accept the job. Vacation time, Healthcare and Retirement Accounts, FSA, PPO, 401K. What's does it all mean? What's negotiable and what's not? Learn to evaluate the pros and cons of various benefits employees offer to make the most out of your new job. |
| BNS |
Strategies for Success |
Technical skills might get you into the interview, but they don't guarantee lifelong success. Whether your entering a technical or non-technical field, employers expect more from their new hires. Join Asst VP and Chief CIO, Jeanne Cesares, for a chat about what it takes to get ahead and stay ahead in your career. |
| CLB |
Presentation Skills |
Make your point without putting your audience to sleep! Learn how to give an engaging and effective presentation. |
| SVC | Fighting Poverty
through Leadership |
What does it really take to lead the fight against poverty? Poverty doesn't just bring monetary challenges but social, medical, educational, ethic challenges and more. Discuss methods of making effective change. What steps can leaders do to achieve the most effective change? |
11:20 AM - 12:20 PM - Session 2 |
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| PSS | DISC II: Behavior Assessment |
Covers Interpersonal Communication and Values & Decision Making. Interactive session evaluating your leadership personality and how to relate to others, particularly in team-based environments. |
| LO | Leadership Roles and Styles |
Learn to identify individual leadership styles and roles and the strengths and weaknesses of each. How do leadership styles differ? |
| RW | Transition to the Real World |
A panel of young professionals discuss topics their transition from college into the real world. Discuss the challenges they faced and how they dealt. Questions encouraged! |
| BNS | Kiss My Tiara!: Women in Leadership |
Kiss My Tiara is smart rules for smart women of all cultures, sexualities, and sizes! Workshop focuses on developing assertiveness for women, based on the book "Kiss My Tiara," by Susan Jane Gilman. "Because women should not only rule the world, but have a blast doing it." Men and Women welcome |
| CLB | Event Planning & Marketing Ryan Giglia Assistant Director RIT Center for Campus Life RIT College Activities Board |
Learn how to plan, implement, and market your great ideas for events-tools that can be brought back to your clubs and carried into your job as well. Geared for current RIT students. |
| SVC | Leading for Environmental Change |
Yes you can change the world! Find out what leaders can and must do to sustain our world. The Go Green initiative has already swept much of the world into action yet many regions lag behind even here in the US. Come discuss how to make change happen. |
12:30 - 1:00 PM - Lunch |
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1:10 - 2:10 PM - Session 3 |
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| PSS | Leadership as a Lifestyle |
Think you're a leader? Think you want to be? Whether you’re the shepherd or the sheep, come and learn ways to improve one's leadership skills. Debunk leadership myths, find your leadership style and learn what effective leadership and success really mean. |
| LO | Ethical Decision Making |
Your office isn't on Sesame Street and the issues you'll face at work aren't simple either. Learn how ethics and morals play a role in leadership. Is what's right for you really right for everyone else? Study different decision making models and learn how one's values can positively or negatively impact his/her decision making ability. |
| RW | Grad School Planning |
Considering Grad School? Come find out what it takes to get further ahead with a graduate degree program. This workshop provides an overview of Graduate School application processes, exams, research, and more! |
| BNS | Networking for Success |
"Hi.. Nice to meet you..Have a Good Day." Learn how to turn an introduction into a connection. This interactive workshop explores proven networking techniques and helps you build and maintain your networks. |
| CLB | Fun and Exciting Meetings |
Meetings are inevitable, but boredom is NOT. Join Dave Kelly, national leadership trainer and our 2009 Connectology keynote speaker, as he offers expert advise on how to run an effective, productive and timely meeting. Learn key concepts to make any meeting you lead enjoyable for all attendees |
| SVC | Poverty, Privilege and Human Rights |
Today's economic climate has raised shed light on privilege in America. Beyond the economy, what impact does one person's wealth and privilege have on the poverty and human rights of others. Discuss and explore how leadership can impact society at the most basic level. Learn about creating a vision, building communities, working for change, and courage. This session is an experiential workshop where some basic foundational concepts that support authentic leadership and social justice will be identified and explored. |
2:20 - 3:20 PM - Session 4 |
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| PSS | Emotional Intelligence |
Great leaders often use emotions to help manage situations to their advantage. Learn how to go beyond interpersonal communication to manage your relationships effectively. This workshop explores emotional intelligence and its components. Explore your own individual strength and weaknesses and develop strategies to improve. |
| LO | Teamwork and Group Dynamics |
Working in a group can be a challenging and unpredicatable and challenging or fun and interactive. But why do some groups succeed while others falters? This workshop identifies aspects of group dynamics. It explores the stages of group development, and potential roles within a group. Finally, it explores areas where one can improve in group interactions. |
| RW | Financial Planning After Graduation |
"I'm making money. Now what?" Geared for upcoming or recent college graduates, this workshop teaches tips for prioritizing debt repayment, budgeting after graduation and financial planning for the long term. |
| BNS | The Global Workplace |
International Students Today, Global Workplace Tomorrow. This interactive workshop explores stereotypes and assumptions that international students and employees encounter each day. Listen as international students discuss their experiences and add your perspective on the issues. How does language, culture or nationality affect perception? Audience and Panel Discussion Encouraged. |
| CLB | Club Motivation |
Keep students involved in your organization! Groups find a lot of enthusiasm and excitement at the beginning of the school year, but it diminishes as time goes by. This workshop will show how clubs and organizations on campus can retain more of their members, resulting in greater student involvement. |
| SVC | Leadership in the Community |
"Local government is the thread that runs through the vast majority of our problems -- and the potential solutions." Join former Mayor of Rochester, William Johnson, as he discusses leadership in the community. Learn how leadership at school, work, and in organizations can help benefit the community you live in. |
3:30 - 5:00 PM - Closing Keynote Speaker & Student Reception |
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