Ready to take your professional and personal skills to the next level? This 4-hour Professional Edge training is led by a seasoned industry consultant and designed to elevate your professional impact and credibility. It will equip you with the skills to amplify your influence, distinguish yourself from your peers, and strengthen your organization.

Through interactive discussions, planning, and practical, hands-on experience, you'll learn skills that will not only enhance your immediate job prospects, but will also serve as a cornerstone for your long-term professional development:

• Impact and influence amplification – 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.
   

Schedule

• Friday, April 17, 1:30–3:30 p.m. (in-person)
• Friday, April 24, 1:30–3:30 p.m. (in-person)
   

Earn a Microcredential

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.
 

About the Instructor

Chris Blomquist has led HR teams for startups and international technology companies in the life science and media technology sectors. Chris has helped managers and executives build high-performing teams and in doing so has gained 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, a role in which 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.