How to Design the Career of Your Dreams and Achieve It

Embrace your role as a WIT always on the lookout for the cutting-edge technologies of tomorrow. As the technical landscape evolves and expands, allow yourself to ponder how and when to step into the unfolding future. This workshop is your passport to unearthing the myriad possibilities of reshaping your career – whether through advancement or daring pivots – and venturing into these new frontiers. Embark on a creative journey to map out your career trajectory.

Throughout this workshop, work towards your hand-picked specific career goal that ignites your passion, and unveil the pathways to realizing it. Engaging exercises will empower you to reimagine your narrative, unveiling routes to attaining your aspirations. More importantly, this workshop will give you a new framework that will serve you throughout your professional journey. Dive into this workshop ready to sculpt your career path like a captivating art piece. Experience a shift in the way you perceive yourself and your innate capacity to navigate transitions fearlessly and enthusiastically.

Key Takeaways:

• Direction: A reflection on where you want to go and what you need
  
• Assurance: Comfort and confidence in your path
  
• Fulfillment: Perseverance and trust for your career choice
• Endurance: Curiosity and receptiveness to move through any currents

This session is for… individuals seeking career growth but have been waiting for a clear path to emerge. It empowers participants to create their own career trajectory, regardless of their current career stage. No matter if you’re embarking on a new journey, considering a major career change, or seeking better direction for your next steps, this workshop is designed to meet your requirements!

Today, burnout is still prevalent, turnover is higher than ever, and economic constraints remain. How do we lead in this competitive, high-pressure environment when everyone is exhausted? We become facilitative leaders, employing coaching skills to engage, learn from, and bring out the best in those whom we lead.

You probably got promoted to your current role thanks to your organizational skills and technical competence. Very few people leaders actually get training on how to lead others. So how do you engage with your stakeholders in a way that brings out the best in them? Coaching skills are key and important to have in your daily leadership toolbox.

Key Takeaways:

• How to improve your leadership style to better engage your stakeholders
• A framework to support those you lead in their own development journeys
• Conversation skills to help bring out the best in others

Networking is a critical skill for personal, professional, and organizational growth, but it is easily overlooked and undervalued. As we look to a future without systemic barriers or concrete ceilings, we need to disrupt our patterns of behavior to create greater access to information, transparency, and opportunity, and affirm one another’s intersectional identities in the workplace.

Our networks are critical sources of information that lead to greater task achievement, collaboration, innovation, and they provide a sense of belonging. In this workshop participants will be guided through the business case for creating diverse and inclusive networks and learn how our networks can be powerful tools for allyship. 

Participants will engage in an activity to establish networking goals and explore the diversity of their network to be more intentional and strategic, and to identify patterns in our network composition. The program will end with strategies to foster a more diverse network to generate greater innovation and collaboration.

Key Takeaways:

• Explore the role of networks in advancing equity and inclusion
  
• Learn about the three components of your developmental network
• Gain strategies to create more diverse networks

The Why: As organizations roll back investment in DEI initiatives, the conversations turn to the investment in talent and overall sustainability. Creating a diverse network generates access to greater sources of talent, ensuring the organization is finding the best candidates for their positions.

Additionally, organizations create access to new markets, identifying new trends and opportunities, and can take advantage of those opportunities with more agile, higher performing teams who have the right access to information and the confidence needed to achieve objectives. By promoting investment in individual networks, organizations are investing in themselves and their future as a company.

This session is for…

• You if you are seeking new opportunities in your career, either within your role or in potential endeavors
  
• You if you find yourself saying “I’m too busy to network” or “My work will speak for me and then I’ll get that promotion.”
  
• You if you lead teams, manage hiring processes, and want new ways of finding talent.
  
• You if you find yourself overwhelmed in networking settings (hello, introverts!)