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Unleash Your Professional
SavvySecrets to Power, Style and Grace
Saturday, October 1511:30am-12:45pmRoom 140-B, COBO
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Unleash Your Professional SavvySecrets to Power, Style and Grace
Objective: Access your competitive edge by designing a winning image, building self confidence and communicating value with style and grace.
At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:
a. Explore ways to build and express self-confidence
b. Create a winning image and leverage your circles of influence
c. Examine professional savvy and politics
d. Design a plan to increase recognition and value in the workplace
e. Explore critical style tips for today’s professional woman
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ModeratorDenise EvansVice President, Diversity MarketingIBM Corporation
Donna BellGlobal Product Development
Quality ManagerFord Motor Company
Presenting Panelist
Vannia WillisElectrical Engineer
Newport News Shipbuilding,Huntington Ingalls Industries
Panelist
Sheree JohnsonCivil Rights Director, Office of Civil Rights
United States Forest Service
Panelist
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“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to”, said the cat.
“I don’t much care where”, said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go”, said the cat.
“So long as I get somewhere”, Alice added as an explanation.
“Oh, you’re sure to do that”, said the cat, “If you only walk long enough.”
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Where is your career headed?
Bottom line: You need a Plan!
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Increase Recognition And Value In The Workplace
Create your plan
REFLECT – What do you want to achieve?
EFFORT – What actions do I need to take?
ASSISTANCE – Who might help me?
CHANGE – What is the expected outcome?
TIMELINE – When have I reached my goal?
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thomas Alva Edison
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Establish and Build Your Brand
Identify Your Personal Strengths
Establish Short And Long Term Goals
Identify And Develop Your Brand
Become Knowledgeable In Your Field
Ask For Challenging Assignments; And Deliver Beyond Expectation
EVERY TIME!
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Strategies To Express And Build Self-Confidence
Establish your career plan; review with a trusted mentor
Take on a tough assignment
Organize a mentor program
Develop your presentation skills
Dress for the role you want
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Create A Winning Image
Deliver, Deliver, Deliver!
Pat Yourself On The Back When Needed
Know An Open Door When You See One
Be Prepared When Opportunity Presents Itself
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Leverage Your Circles Of Influence
Create And Practice Your Elevator Speech
Know The Players And How They Influence Others
Figure Out How To Interface Without Being A Nuisance
Tell Key Influencers Specifically What You Want
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Professional and Political Savvy
“No leadership education is complete
until it is grounded in the political realities of organizational life.
Otherwise, leadership risks becoming hollow rhetoric.”
PETER DRUCKER
Unless People Have An Understanding Of How To Integrate Leadership And Politics, They Cannot Function As True Leaders
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Professional and Political Savvy
When You Think Of
‘ORGANIZATION POLITICS’What Words Or Phrases
Come To Mind?
Backstabbing
Brown nosing
Bootlicking
Style over substance
Manipulative
Hidden agendas
Old boy networks
Deals under the table
Turf struggles
Testosterone overload
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What Is Political Savvy?
1) ETHICALLY BUILDING A CRITICAL MASS OF
SUPPORT FOR AN IDEA YOU CARE ABOUT
2) UNDERSTAND AND UTILIZE THE DYNAMICS OF
POWER, ORGANIZATION, AND DECISION MAKING
TO ACHIEVE OBJECTIVES
HOW IS THIS DONE EFFECTIVELY?
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Professional and Political Savvy Strategies for Success
Strategic planning
• Plan to discuss your strategies with these individuals to help build their confidence in your idea
• Brainstorm the win-win linkages of those that have the most influence
Implement
• Work to identify credibility paths among relevant people and employ these paths where possible in an influence approach
• Implement your plan; adjust as needed
Awareness• Understand the organization’s interests and your
self-interests• Know and build a relationship with those that
have the greatest influence (Influence Map)
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Professional and Political Savvy Strategies for Success
Choose to become an active, positive player
Put the organization first
Believe/care in the process
Keep career as an outcome versus goal
Play above board
Legitimize the task
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Critical Style Tips for Todays’ Professional Woman
POWERFUL FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Starting off on the right foot
INGREDIENTS FOR GOOD CONVERSATION
Listening
Your role: When to speak, What to say
Knowledge is Power
PROFESSIONAL PRESENCE
Appearance counts: It pays to pay attention
What message does your appearance send?
Body language that speaks well of you
PROFESSIONAL PRESENCE, continued
Clothing that adds to your clout
COURTESY CHALLENGE - THE TRUE TEST OF DIPLOMACY
Keys to managing conflict
Strategies for politely coping with
prickly personalities
Finesse with feedback: Providing
tactful criticism
Grace under pressure
Crucial conversations
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Sheree JohnsonUnited States Forest Service
Donna BellFord Motor Company
Vannia WillisHuntington Ingalls Industries
Denise EvansIBM Corporation