Ready to take your professional and personal skills to the next level? Join our 4-hour training led by a seasoned industry consultant and designed to elevate your professional impact and credibility.

This training will equip you with the skills to amplify your influence, distinguish yourself from your peers, and strengthen your organization. Through interactive discussions, planning, and practice, you'll learn how to make significant contributions in your workplace, identify and achieve stretch goals, and effectively solicit and implement feedback. You'll also analyze real-world scenarios to understand the behaviors that build or diminish credibility, and you'll develop actionable steps to enhance your reputation among colleagues, stakeholders, and managers.

Why Participate:

Participating in this training will provide you with a unique opportunity to develop crucial skills and behaviors that are not only valuable but essential in the modern workplace. In today's competitive job market, distinguishing yourself from your peers and building a strong professional reputation are key to career advancement. This workshop offers practical, hands-on experience that will help you achieve these goals by learning directly from an industry expert.

You will gain insights and tools that can significantly impact your career trajectory. You will learn how to take proactive steps to increase your influence, set and achieve challenging goals, and build a solid foundation of credibility within your organization. These skills will not only enhance your immediate job prospects but will also serve as a cornerstone for your long-term professional development.

What You'll Gain:

• Amplify impact and influence: Learn strategies to make meaningful contributions in your team and organization that set you apart from your peers.
• Stretch goal planning: Identify a significant stretch goal and create a plan to achieve it, driving success for you and your organization.
• Feedback implementation: Gain experience soliciting, acknowledging, and implementing feedback to continuously improve your performance.
• Credibility building: Understand and practice actions that build credibility, thereby enhancing your reputation with colleagues, stakeholders, and managers.
• Credibility awareness: Recognize behaviors that can diminish credibility and learn how to avoid them.
• Practical application: Participate in interactive discussions, scenario analyses, and practice that provide real-world context and application of the skills learned.

Whether you're preparing for an internship, starting your first job, or looking to enhance your current role, this training program will equip you with the knowledge and confidence to excel.

About the Instructor:

Chris Blomquist has led HR teams for startups and international technology companies in the life science and media technology sectors, helping managers and executives build high-performing teams and gaining valuable insights into the workplace behaviors, attitudes, techniques, and attributes that set high performers apart from their professional colleagues. Currently, Chris is the president of Blomquist Consulting, LLC where he helps companies connect HR functions to executive goals and metrics. Chris also speaks at HR symposiums and conferences to help other HR professionals build their organizational competencies.

Training Schedule:

• Friday, October 18, 2:00–4:00 p.m. - In-person, Lillis 255
• Friday, October 25, 2:00–4:00 p.m. - In-person, Lillis 255
• Additional 2 hours of independent work anticipated outside of the training

Participants who attend both days of this program and fulfill all requirements are eligible to earn a Workplace Impact and Influence microcredential. This credential is perfect for showcasing your skills on LinkedIn and other platforms, offering tangible proof of your newly acquired competencies.

Register

Professional Edge is an industry-informed professional development program designed to help students develop cutting-edge skills essential in the modern job market. Build targeted, practical skills in an interactive and engaging format and distinguish yourself in a field of other job applicants. As a participant, you'll receive guidance from instructors informed by the latest business trends and leave with tangible tools and stories you can leverage in your career search.