Take your professional and personal skills to the next level during this four-hour, in-person Professional Edge training led by a seasoned industry consultant.

Designed to elevate your professional impact and credibility, this training will equip you with the skills, insights, and tools to amplify your influence, distinguish yourself from your peers, strengthen your organization, and significantly impact your career trajectory. 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.

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Why Participate

In today's competitive job market, distinguishing yourself from your peers and building a strong professional reputation are key to career advancement. 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.

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

Skills 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.
   

Schedule

• Friday, November 14, 1:30–3:30 p.m. (in-person in Chiles 326)
• Friday, November 21, 1:30–3:30 p.m. (in-person in Chiles 326)
• 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 digital Workplace Impact and Influence microcredential, validating your newly acquired skills. Microcredentials are portable, verifiable credentials that can be shared on platforms like LinkedIn, showcasing your expertise to potential employers and offering tangible proof of in-demand competencies.
 

About the Instructor

Chris Blomquist is the president of Blomquist Consulting, LLC, a role in which he helps companies connect HR functions to executive goals and metrics. Previously, he 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. Chris also speaks at HR symposiums and conferences to help other HR professionals build their organizational competencies.