Social Media: It’s Dynamic Impact on HR

Social Media: It’s Dynamic Impact on HR

More than 580 million people use social media today. In the current economic climate, it’s critical for companies to learn how to leverage this powerful media to improve visibility and more efficiently perform human resource functions.

In just 45 minutes, participants will learn how employers throughout the US are using social media to:

1. Recruit the best talent

2. Improve employee engagement

3. Build a stronger corporate brand

Don’t miss this important topic presented by our guest expert, Pattie Wagoner, CEO of CareerCurve. She’ll share strategies employers are using throughout the US accomplish these key objectives.

Click link to register for the free forum Social Media: It’s Dynamic Impact on HR

Celebrate Your Humanity at Work

Celebrate Your Humanity at Work

Without work all life goes rotten- but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. ─ Albert Camus

Business owners, leaders and CEOs everywhere are talking about the search for humanity in the workplace. These global leaders are examining the role of true meaning and purpose, both on an organizational and individual level.

Steven Covey says there is a “spiritual renaissance taking place in the business world today.” While corporate leaders are searching ways to ignite commitment and performance, for most people this means finding true significance in what they do. The rapidly changing job environment causes us to ask questions such as, “How does my humanity or significance “show up” in the workplace?”

Here are four personal questions worth asking:

1. How does my purpose thrive here?
2. How can I bring more significance to my work?
3. Is this the job I am really meant to do?
4. Is there a place for me and my true values to contribute in this workplace?

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Lead and Coach to Bring Out the Brilliance of Your Team

Lead and Coach to Bring Out the Brilliance of Your Team

Join WCI Faculty Member Pastor Al Garcia for his upcoming forum entitled Lead and Coach to Bring Out the Brilliance of Your Team.

Do you have a sense that your staff members are capable of doing more? Are you wondering if there is something more you could do as their leader to help them achieve important goals?

Could you use valuable coaching and leadership insights and approaches to use with your staff?

• Hear a case study of how coaching turned around a staff performance issue
• Understand the importance of adapting your leadership style to match the needs of your staff and situation
• Know ways to help your staff play to their strengths

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Creativity and the Brain: What Should Coaches Know and Do?

Creativity and the Brain: What Should Coaches Know and Do?

Whether or not people are creative is not the issue. Being successful at creativity is what coaches deal with—in two ways. First, our clients come to us with the classic creative question: how do I overcome limitations or barriers to my reaching greater potential? Second, we coaches ourselves face unique challenges with every client, drawing upon our own abilities to be successfully creative. Brain science provides knowledge and guides for action to help us support our clients and meet our challenges.

Attend upcoming forum on Jan 27, 2011 entitled: Creativity and the Brain: What Should Coaches Know and Do?

Presented by presented by Linda J. Page, PhD, coauthor of Coaching with the Brain in Mind: Foundations and Practice

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Glass Ceiling, Sticky Floor, Now Glass Cliff: Barriers to Women Considering & Advancing in Male-Dominated Careers

Glass Ceiling, Sticky Floor, Now Glass Cliff: Barriers to Women Considering & Advancing in Male-Dominated Careers

Recently, I read an article titled, “Workplace discrimination: Welcome to the ‘glass cliff,’ “by the Christian Science Monitor. The article reported that new research from Yale University found that “when a person has a high level job traditionally held by the opposite gender, they are judged more harshly for their mistakes.” Unlike the glass ceiling which keeps women from rising higher, the glass cliff is what women in male-dominated careers are in danger of falling from.

According to the American Heritage Dictionary, the glass ceiling is defined as, “An unacknowledged discriminatory barrier that prevents women and minorities from rising to positions of power or responsibility, as within a corporation.” Women still hold only 15.7 percent of C-level positions at Fortune 500 companies. According to a recent study by Catalyst, Inc., gender stereotypes continue to prevent women from reaching the summit.

Attend a free teleclass, Women in Male-Dominated Careers: The Top Roadblocks to Your Success and receive the Special Report on “Networking: Taking it to the Next Level.”  Also, you’ll receive a FREE WCI membership that will give you a 5% savings if you register for the upcoming training and group coaching program, Women in Non-Traditional Careers: Rising to the Top Coaching Group

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