Workshop Facilitation
Leave with the tools you need to take action! Contact Beth to discuss fun and effective workshop facilitation that meets the specific needs of your group. The following are examples of recent workshop topics.
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Building on The Strengths You’re Already Living
Focussing on strength is a difficult exercise for many of us – and it limits our ability to create success. In this workshop, you’ll learn:
- WHY recognizing and building on your strengths is the critical first step in your personal success – and why the majority of us find it easier to list our short-comings. You’ll be surprised to realize how often we minimize our own strengths and passions – as well as those of people around us.
- HOW to start to identify your strengths and passions. No more will you have to utter the phrase: ‘I’d follow my dreams if only I knew what they were.’ It’s easier than you might think (so why don’t we do it….?)
- WHAT contributing from your own personal strengths looks like in your everyday life – and some tips on how to incorporate more of your strengths and passions into your life without having to make radical changes.
Create Career-Fair Success
Are you making the most of the career-fair and other networking events that you’re attending? This workshop provides participants with concrete actions to take before, during and after a career fair to increase their visibility with potential employers and to make the most of these events.
Career Fair’s Over: Now What?
A career fair is just the beginning! Learn how to make the few hours you’ve spent at a career fair work for you. In this workshop we cover the importance of networking and follow-up, and review participants’ overall personal marketing strategies. Even if you arrived at the career fair feeling unprepared, you’ll leave with a plan and more enthusiasm for your job hunt!
Writing a Compelling Skills-Based Resume
The resume is a key document in your personal marketing tool-box – and not always for the reasons that people think! Whether you’re currently looking for work or focussed on your own career development, keeping your resume honed has a number of benefits. The real ‘gold’ in your resume lies in the background work you carry out in order to write it. When you create a compelling skills-based resume, you’re also collecting a bank of stories that together illustrate your work history and personal strengths. Write your resume right – and you’re well-prepared to present your strengths and skills on paper and in person!
Marketing Yourself Online To Find Work You LOVE
Tips and tricks for job hunters at all comfort levels with social media to begin to incorporate online tools into their personal marketing strategy. Marketting yourself effectively is critical if you hope to break into the 85% of jobs in the ‘hidden job market’ that never make it to the job boards. It is expected that participants in this workshop have already created a skills-based (functional) or combination resume.
Secrets to Finding or Creating Work You LOVE
Finding or creating work we love is easier than most people think. In this workshop, Beth covers:
- The most common barriers to an effective personal marketing strategy,
- Three ‘quick-start’ actions each person can implement immediately that will make a difference, and
- How to integrate social media into an effective personal marketing strategy – while keeping it under control.
Despite all of the seemingly new-fangled online tools and changing expectations, there are fundamentals that haven’t changed. While we often focus on the ‘media’ aspect of the phrase ‘social media’, it’s important to remember that the ‘social’ component means that we’re dealing with people. Just like we’ve been doing for centuries. Don’t Panic!
Using WordPress To Find Work You LOVE
If you’re looking for an effective, inexpensive and relatively easy way to propel your search for work you LOVE onto another level completely, then it’s time to take advantage of WordPress.
With a few ‘tweaks’ to your existing personal marketing plan, you can effectively integrate your online marketing with the in-person marketing strategies you’re already using.
In this workshop we discuss:
- Basic offline marketing materials and networking strategies most job hunters currently use.
- Why WordPress is an excellent choice for the novice website creator.
- How to determine what information you want on your website and how best to display it.
- WordPress integration with current marketing materials and networking strategies.
- Integrating WordPress into new-to-you social media platforms.
- How to use your website planning and creation to help you focus your message.
When you’re looking for work you LOVE, your job search is your full-time job. Using all of the free and low-cost marketing tools available to you helps you expand your reach and create more ‘buzz’ about yourself than you could using off-line tools only. Having a central online hub that you control is critical to simplifying your online networking. Find out why WordPress fits the bill – and how easy it can be to get yourself started with WordPress.
Engaging Youth Using Social Media
Not only that we should be teaching teens how to use social media effectively, but we have a responsibility to do it. TODAY! The best way to accomplish this is by being positive online role models ourselves, and that means understanding and using social media applications and incorporating their use into the classroom. This ‘Werd OUT’ Personal Branding Basics overview/workshop/Q&A is designed for adults who may still harbor qualms about the use of social media by teens, especially its use as an educational communications vehicle. For more information about the ‘Werd OUT’ program in schools, please see the website: WerdOUT.ca.
