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Today's fast-paced business environment presents our graduates with personal and professional challenges. This is especially true for our alumni facing the competitive world of senior-level job searching, recruitment, and placement. We invite you to explore the McCombs Alumni career resources website to take advantage of the many tools available.
The McCombs Alumni Network is pleased to offer opportunities for alumni professional development. Career coaches share their expertise on topics like networking, branding, interviewing, and influencing through these monthly interactive webinars. These webinars show you how to strengthen your competitive advantage in the workplace. You can learn valuable tips that will increase your confidence and enhance your marketability as an employee, whether you're searching for a new job or seeking a promotion.
Presenters share slides, audio, and video through Adobe Connect during the live webinar. Attendees will have a chance to ask questions of the speaker through live chat comments during the session. If you have never attended a Connect Pro meeting, you can prepare in advance of the webinar by testing your connection.
We record presentations and post them online following each webinar. View past career webinars.
Career Summer Series #1 - "Cultivating Creativity: Business Success for the Creatively-Inclined
About Nina Pickell:
With a BBA and MBA in Marketing from The University of Texas at Austin, Nina Pickell is an advisor, speaker, and brand builder. She as decades of leadership experience in early stage venture as asll as with major global businesses like Adecco, Randstad, IBM, and Monstor.com. Along with her team in the businesses she owns, Nina specializes in growing companies and brands that she believes in, handpicked because they offer something special to the world.
You can find her on any given day, working with corporate clients, recording artists and entrepreneurs as well as HR teams in the emerging field of employment branding. She has a passion for working with innovative companies and entrepreneurs transforming the way we work and live through technology, social networks, thought leadership and the arts.
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"Living Your Inspiration: Personal Methods of Legends"
About Nina Pickell:
With a BBA and MBA in Marketing from The University of Texas at Austin, Nina Pickell is an advisor, speaker, and brand builder. She as decades of leadership experience in early stage venture as asll as with major global businesses like Adecco, Randstad, IBM, and Monstor.com. Along with her team in the businesses she owns, Nina specializes in growing companies and brands that she believes in, handpicked because they offer something special to the world.
You can find her on any given day, working with corporate clients, recording artists and entrepreneurs as well as HR teams in the emerging field of employment branding. She has a passion for working with innovative companies and entrepreneurs transforming the way we work and live through technology, social networks, thought leadership and the arts.
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"Digital Reputation"
About Erik Qualman:
Often called a Digital Dale Carnegie and The Tony Robbins of Tech, Erik Qualman is a #1 Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker that has spoken in 44 countries.
His Socialnomics work has been feature on 60 Minutes to the Wall Street Journal and used by the National Guard to NASA. He is a current Guinness Book of World Records holder and his book Digital Leader propelled him to be voted the 2nd Most Likeable Author in the world behind Harry Potter's J.K. Rowling. Qualman is a sitting professor at Harvard & MIT's edX labs.
His latest book What Happens in Vegas Stays on YouTube is a 2015 Pulitzer Prize nominee.
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"The 5 Secrets to Launching Your Side Hustle in 2018"
About Patrick McGinnis:
Patrick McGinns is the Managing Partner of Dirigo Advisors, a New York City-based investment and advisory firm focused on Latin America and other emerging markets. An avid angel investor, startup advisor, traveler, writer, and speaker, Patrick has visited more than 70 countries and writes for Forbes, the Huffington Post, and Business Insider. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard Business School. Patrick's first book The 10% Entrepreneur was published by Penguin Books.
Learn more and sign up for updates at www.the10percententrepreneur.com
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"How to Develop and Use Surveys to Improve your Organization"
The proverb, "What gets measured gets managed," has been attributed to Peter Drucker, the great management consultant and educator. Surveys are one method commonly used to measure factors important to organizations. For instance, they can be effectively utilized to gain key insights into the people who are served. Customer satisfaction surveys are often used to identify product and service strengths and weaknesses, to ultimately make improvements. Employee surveys are frequently used to determine employee engagement in order to identify ways of increasing job satisfaction and job performance. However, creating a valid survey and deploying it effectively can be challenging. This webinar will focus on the effective use of surveys to assess customer and employee satisfaction. Scientifically based techniques for survey item development will be reviewed in a straightforward manner so that participants can readily apply these approaches. The presentation will also review data visualization methods that enhance the interpretability and communication of survey results.
About James Pann:
James Pann received his BBA in Accounting from The University of Texas at Austin. He obtained his M.S.Ed. in Mental Health Counseling, and Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Miami.
Dr. Pann leads EvalNetwork, a research and evaluation consulting firm, since 2000. Dr. Pann is also faculty Nova Southeastern University in south Florida since 2002. He teaches: Quantitative Research Methods, Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Survey Research, and Statistical Methods.
Dr. Pann is interested in the use of program evaluation approaches to study and improve programs in all types of organizations. He is a licensed psychologist in Florida and an active member of the American Evaluation Association.
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"The Elevator Pitch is Dead: Enter the Era of the 30-Second Sales Hook"
In this interactive presentation, Wendy Nolin is going to teach you how to transform your tired, worn out elevator pitch into a compelling conversation starter that will have your listener asking for more. You'll learn the art of weaving a story that draws the listener in so they can see themselves in your story, and they'll want the solution you offer.
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"Executive Conversations: How to Handle Difficult Conversations with Investors, Partners, Colleagues, and More"
Executives and business owners dread having difficult conversations that address poor performance, confrontational relationships, stress-inducing, and other negative behaviors. They are a necessary, albeit undesirable part of the job. Understanding how to handle difficult conversations can turn them into opportunities to deepen trust, encourage collaboration, and stimulate learning for all parties involved.
In this interactive presentation, Wendy Nolin will address the myths and misconceptions about having difficult conversations. She will walk you through real-world situations that you encounter frequently: poor performance of a team member, fallout over a manager not being promoted, conflict over strategic company vision, negotiating with investors, etc.
Wendy will teach you specific strategies, including conversation starters to turn conflict into learning conversations between you and external stakeholders, department heads, employees, and even your CEO and clients. Coupled with the verbal and non-verbal presence skills you learned with Monique Maley last month, you'll learn the neuroscience of communication and how to move from confrontation to collaboration.
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Nina Pickell concluded our career webinar summer series by discussing opportunities and trends of the "sharing economy" and "gig economy". She began her webinar by sharing a quote by Zipcar co-Founder Robin Chase: "What the sharing economy is doing is giving the power of the corporation to the individual." Pickell built on this idea throughout her presentation by providing attendees with insights on trends in technology and the marketplace. She spoke about the flexibility that sharing economy is giving employers to find talent and the opportunity it provides people to create their own work. Learn more of Pickell's key takeaways and listen to her webinar today.
Larkin Tackett is the Executive Director of IDEA Public Schools in Austin. Tackett, a McCombs alumni, leads the organization's schools and growth in the region. His role includes managing and coaching principals at IDEA Allan as well as engaging community leaders, families, and key stakeholders in the region. He is focused on ensuring ambitious college ready results for all IDEA students in Austin.
There is glaring evidence that opportunity is geographically concentrated to the west and inequality is concentrated to the east of Austin. It is the country's most economically segregated city with only six percent of students who are low-income earning a college degree. Tackett recently led a webinar sharing with attendees what he is doing to close this education gap to ensure that all students have the opportunity to earn a college degree. Tackett provided insight with attendees as to why this issue is important and discussed techniques IDEA employs to prepare students for future success in college.
Have you been in your career for more than a decade? Are you wondering if you'll survive the next round of layoffs? Do you hear the sound of your head hitting the glass ceiling? Are you bored at work and find yourself day-dreaming of starting your own business? If you are curious about the possibilities of what's next in your career path, but find yourself paralyzed by fear of making a change, this webinar is for you. Wendy Nolin is a Status Quo Crusher who leads executives and business owners like you through the murky waters of change, reducing your sense of overwhelm and fear by shining a light on your innate strengths, talents, and skills. In this interactive webinar, Wendy will present you with a series of exercises to help you reclaim your sense of self with regard to your professional pursuits. If you are pondering a career change, from job change to industry change, to complete transformation into entrepreneurialism, there are important considerations to take into account and questions to answer about yourself before making any rash decisions.
You will discover:
Wendy Nolin is the president of Wendy Nolin Worldwide, a business and executive career coaching firm that helps people break out of the status quo. Wendy has nearly two decades of business and career development experience coaching executives to advance in their career, and business owners to double their revenue in half the time. After two very successful careers lasting a decade each, Wendy hired her own coach to discover she wanted to be a coach. In 2008, she launched her coaching practice to help people start their own business, upskill their career, expand and grow their business, succeed at work, and win at life.
In 2015, Wendy entered the world of writing, publishing her first book The Top 10 Best Investments in Yourself, in April and her second book, Own Your Greatness, in October. Wendy writes the way she talks, her books offering actionable advice and strategies that she uses in her own business and with her clients to help them break through self-imposed limitations.
Is 2016 going to be your year to get organized? Cleaning out the pantry, garage and hall closet may already be on your list, but when resolving to be more organized, don't forget about your work life. This isn't just about cleaning off your desk and reorganizing your files, you can also declutter your processes, your calendar and even your team. In this webinar we will discuss ways to identify and eliminate the clutter that is slowing you and your team down. We will explore typical clutter such as piles of reading materials, bottomless files, pointless reports and meetings as well as the less obvious clutter such as workload and workforce capabilities. Participants will walk away with tools to assess their current state of clutter and a game plan to make 2016 one of your most efficient years yet.
About Meredith Garcia, CPDT:
After nearly 20 years of leading, coaching, and training in the public, private, and non-profit sectors Meredith Garcia founded Up a Notch Consulting, a personal and professional growth firm that specializes in coaching, training and, de-cluttering lives to maximize efficiency, maintain personal satisfaction, and achieve professional success. Up a Notch Consulting uses Take Control Coaching sessions to help individuals identify realistic and sustainable solutions to everyday obstacles, as well as training sessions, team retreats and problem-solving workshops to help organizations simplify processes, improve performance, and develop teams. Garcia offers efficiency coaching, space re-design, and hands on de-cluttering services to help her client's obtain desired levels of efficiency, personal satisfaction, and comfort with their homes, offices, work groups, and schedules.
Join the McCombs Alumni Network for an important webinar about planning and executing plans to improve and sustain the health of your "Life Wealth Portfolio." The link between Health and Wealth is real and a critical link to your financial future and of those around you. When this portion of your plan is not where you want it to be, your wealth is worth "less." According to the ancient Greek physician Herophilus, "When health is absent, wealth is useless." The Roman poet Virgil, put it an even better way: "The greatest wealth is health."
Danny Caswell, founder and owner of Integrated Wealth Strategies, and the creator of the "Life Wealth Portfolio" system will share some startling statistics and information that will motivate you to take action. More importantly, he will share some easy to implement strategies and concepts for you to implement that will create significant benefits now and over your lifetime. Much has been written and proven about the benefits of having and executing a financial plan. Integrating all dimensions of your Life Wealth Portfolio into that plan multiplies those benefits. However, failure to pay attention to some of these dimensions will not only cost your plan but the plans of others you care about dearly and may negate any financial gains made over your lifetime.
The most successful individuals in the world have a plan and have actually identified the link between their wealth and the impact their health has on that wealth. We are not just talking about physical and mental health either. We will discuss how to improve the health dimension of your Life Wealth Portfolio and the many benefits that will accrue to you and your family if you begin investing time and effort (not money) today. We will also discuss techniques that link health and wealth together making the time and effort you spend seem "less." Attend this series, not just for yourself, but for your business, employees, and family.
About Daniel C. Caswell, CPA:
Since graduating from The University of Texas in 1984 with a business degree focusing on accounting and finance, Danny has worked with and for some of the most successful companies, founders and CEOs in America. His many years of experience with Ernst & Young, Dell Computer and another Fortune 500 company as a director of Asset Management, Treasury, and Venture Capital have complimented his more recent role working with individual owners and executives as their "Personal CFO" and has led to the creation of the Life Wealth Portfolio Process, which integrates the other more important dimensions to their plans. He brings the discipline of planning and execution practiced by the most successful companies to the individual level. To keep the focus on the two, Danny has created a firm, Integrated Wealth Strategies, which has deep and wide resources to educate and train you and your team in these two disciplines only when they need it to ensure the techniques and concepts stick and contribute to long term success into the next generation.
"One Job is Not Enough - The 10% Entrepreneur"
In an ideal world, your job would provide you with
three things: stability, upside, and enjoyment. That's the Holy Grail.
There's only one problem. Like the Holy Grail, that kind of job is also
impossible to find; people have been looking for both of them for the
last 2,000 years. To solve this problem, you must move beyond the dogma
that one job is supposed to provide everything that you need. Your
professional life can consist of much more than your day job, your job
title, or the company on your business card.
In this webinar, venture capitalist, Patrick McGinnis, offers a
pragmatic new approach to entrepreneurship. Although many traditional
career paths cannot offer the autonomy and potential rewards of
entrepreneurship, full-time entrepreneurship is not for everyone.
Rather than watching full-time entrepreneurs from the sidelines, you can
join them by integrating entrepreneurship into your life without
leaving your day job. By dedicating at least 10% of your time and, if
possible, 10% of your capital to invest, advise, and start new
businesses, you will forge a path to greater autonomy and personal
satisfaction. McGinnis shows how to use entrepreneurship to build a
portfolio of investments, activities, and relationships that lessen your
reliance on your day job to build something for yourself. After all,
your life, like your investment portfolio, is best when it's
About Patrick McGinnis
Patrick McGinnis is the Managing Partner of Dirigo Advisors, a New York
City-based investment and advisory firm focused on Latin America and
other emerging markets. An avid angel investor, startup advisor,
traveler, writer, and speaker, Patrick has visited more than 70
countries and writes for Forbes, the Huffington Post, and Business
Insider. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard Business
School. Patrick's first book, The 10% Entrepreneur, will be published
by Penguin Books in early 2016. Learn more and sign up for updates at www.the10percententrepreneur.com.
"Appreciative Leadership"
An appreciative leader has the capacity to understand and acknowledge the worth and importance of those he/she leads. In this interactive webinar we will discuss why it is critical to incorporate appreciation in your leadership style, how to value people and the results that valued people return. We will briefly cover some major philosophies, methods, tools and authors in the field, including Appreciative Inquiry, the 5 Appreciation Languages in the Workplace and Strengths Based Leadership.
About Ines Meneses
Ines Meneses has worked in the Human Development field since 2005. She works at United Globe Associates, which focuses on inspiring what is best in people, groups, and organizations. Before founding United Globe, Ines worked at Motorola in the United States as a global project manager. Meneses received her MBA from McCombs in '01 and her Bachelor's Degree is in Business Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas. She is certified in Appreciative Inquiry by Case Western Reserve University, in Coaching by Integrated Coaching Institute and as PMP (Project Management Professional) by PMI (Project Management Institute).
Erik Qualman
"Digital Reputation Management"
Your Digital Reputation is Your Reputation. Privacy is dead. Reputations are dying. Don't let it happen to
you or your company. Learn the art and science behind why digital reputations are determining success for
everything and everyone.
Based on Qualman's book: What Happens in Vegas Stays on YouTube
In this webinar you'll learn:
His latest book What Happens in Vegas Stays on YouTube is a 2015 Pulitzer Prize nominee.
Nina Pickell
Reinventing Yourself: You Can Do What You Love!
Many people go through life with a dream – a career path or passion they think about but never act on. Often they're held back by a variety of fears – or they're caught up in their daily lives and making ends meet through whatever "more practical" career they have chosen. Still others make the leap quickly, pursuing their dreams without enough preparation to be truly successful. And, they don't know what they don't know about their own strengths and desires, business options, revenue models, assembling resources to bridge their gaps, and so much more. While doing what you love is an important element to success, the number of entrepreneur and small business failures is staggering because that's just not enough.
In this webinar, Nina Pickell speaks to those hoping to reinvent themselves to pursue their passions and dream careers, as well as anyone who has already made the leap that is hoping to improve long-term success. You'll learn more about...
• how to identify your strengths and put them to work for you on your path to reinvention
• how to recognize and overcome typical fears that may be holding you back
• how to bridge gaps with the right resources and team
• funding your dream career
• types of entrepreneurial ventures, income streams, and business systems
• how to set yourself up for success
About Nina Pickell:
With a BBA and MBA from The University of Texas at Austin, Nina Pickell is an entrepreneur, innovator, and executive advisor, known for her expertise as a strategist, marketer, and branding pro as well as a thought leader in the world of talent management and development. Her passions include growing companies and helping people achieve success as they define it. An entrepreneur herself since graduate school when she launched a successful consulting business to fund her MBA, she now follows her passions and shares what she's learned from entrepreneurs like George Kozmetsky and Laura Kilcrease, two well-respected names in the university's history. She's an accomplished writer; strategic consultant; advisory board member; owner of Internet franchises and music ventures; interim executive; educator; and a trainer as well as coach for executives, entrepreneurs, and music professionals. She recently began teaching her newest workshops for prospective and current entrepreneurs, including sessions for professional athletes across the country in 2013.
Nina is an expert in the art of reinvention, having held various functional leadership roles in global and early stage ventures and applying her expertise to many different industries. She has decades of leadership and operational experience in early stage and global companies. Nina left her full-time role as senior director of product development at Monster.com in 2002 and set a course to add value in a broader way -- working with aspiring entrepreneurs through global organizations to help launch new products as well as improve business performance and profitability. To learn more, contact Nina directly at email@example.com.
Laura Hill
Managing Your Career in the C-Suite
You've arrived at the top of your organization! After years of hard work, on-the-job success, and a great education, you now have a job title that starts with "chief" or "Managing Partner". Your influence and responsibilities have obviously expanded, however some other things may not be so obvious – like the importance of culture fit, executive presence, and leadership skills to your success.
At this webinar you will learn about what's different at the top and what you should be doing to manage your career. Laura Hill will provide practical information and recommendations that you can use to make better career decisions and ensure your ongoing success and fulfillment.
About Laura Hill:
Laura Hill, BBA '75, is founder and president of Careers in Motion LLC (www.careersinmotionllc.com), a career coaching firm she formed in 2005. She works with executives and professionals on career strategy and planning; personal branding; resume development; job search; interviewing and networking skills; and negotiations.
Her experience includes serving as managing director for an executive outplacement firm, 12 years as an executive recruiter, a banking career at JPM Chase, and heading the human capital function for a venture-backed technology start-up.
Laura has been a featured career expert on CNBC's The Wall Street Journal Report With Maria Bartiromo and has been quoted on career topics in Forbes.com, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. She also has an MBA in Finance from NYU Stern and is an active angel investor with 37 Angels.
Mike Bacon
Becoming A Better Nonprofit Board Member
McCombs alumni are often asked to serve on nonprofit boards. Your business experience and industry knowledge, along with your network of contacts, are very real assets to a nonprofit Board of Directors. Yet sometimes we don't know the right questions to ask before we agree to serve or we struggle with how we can be the most helpful to the nonprofit.
Mike Bacon, is a consultant with 25 years of nonprofit experience. His firm, Bacon Lee & Associates, works throughout the state of Texas, assisting nonprofits in fundraising, executive recruitment and board training. In this webinar Mike identified the questions to ask before saying "yes", as well as discussed how you can add value to your board role. He also touched upon talk legal duties, fiduciary duties and the very important role you can play in fundraising.
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Jeffrey Phillips
Innovative Traits: Identifying the Best Innovators in Your Organization
Innovation is not a nice to have but a must have, yet few firms understand who their best innovators are. Existing compensation and promotion structures reward people who are good at managing the status quo, but these individuals may not be the best at creating new products and services. Research demonstrates that good innovators share common traits like empathy, curiosity, the willingness to explore and experiment. How can you identify the people with those traits, and what difference can they make on an innovation project? Jeffrey Phillips from OVO discussed the research and the importance of identifying the best innovators, as well as introduced the InnoTraits™ Assessment in this webinar.
About Jeffrey Phillips:
Jeffrey Phillips is VP Marketing and a lead consultant for OVO Innovation. Jeffrey has led innovation projects for Fortune 500 firms, including T. Rowe Price, John Deere, GlaxoSmithKline, Hewlett-Packard, U.S. Bank, AIG, Raytheon and others, government entities within the Department of Defense, academic institutions and non-profits based on OVO Innovation's Innovate on Purpose™ methodology. The Innovate on Purpose methodology encourages organizations to consider innovation as a sustainable, repeatable business discipline, rather than a discrete project.
Jeffrey has led projects using a range of innovation methods and techniques, including scenario planning, ethnography, voice of the customer, lead user analysis, jobs to be done and the customer experience journey. He has facilitated the development of thousands of ideas, many of which have become new products and services.
Jeffrey is the author of two books about innovation: Relentless Innovation, which examines the reasons 3M, P&G, Apple and Google can sustain innovation over time while others can't and Make us more Innovative, a book that encompasses much of the OVO Innovation methodology. He has contributed to several other books about innovation, most notably the book Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing. Jeffrey's blog about innovation, Innovate On Purpose, is ranked as one of the top blogs about innovation on the web. He also contributes to other innovation-oriented websites such as Innovation Management and Innovation Excellence, and writes for management oriented sites. He is a sought after speaker and has presented to corporations, innovation oriented conferences, and at a number of universities. In 2010, 2011 and 2012 he chaired the Innovate North Carolina conference and has been a keynote speaker at Queen's University, University of the Pacific, UNC and several other colleges and conferences.
Innovation consulting, training, workshops and speaking engagements have taken Jeffrey to Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Western Europe, South Africa and Central America as well as across the US.
Jeffrey has an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and an undergraduate degree in engineering from the University of Virginia.
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The Two Key Barriers to Sustained Innovation
This webinar was based on the material in Jeffrey Phillip's book Relentless Innovation. What he found in his work and research was that the focus on efficiency using tools like Lean and Six Sigma have eliminated variance and risk taking in many corporations. When you add to that the focus on right sizing and lean staffing, there are few people to attempt innovation and little incentive to do so. Business as usual becomes the prevailing paradigm. Innovation seems risky and unusual and distracts from getting the normal work done.
If companies desire more innovation, there are several important factors to address. The first is the overriding importance of business as usual and the second are the people who sustain it middle management. If we can create a balance between the focus on business as usual and innovation, and encourage managers to allocate resources to both of these activities, innovation can flourish. Of course there are other factors to consider: gaining new skills, influencing the culture, rethinking engagement, rewards and compensation.
This presentation was a fast paced and somewhat lighthearted look at recent corporate history, and the factors that contribute to the struggles many corporations have with innovation. It highlighted the changes that are necessary to sustain innovation in an organization. Further, it recommended areas of focus and specific changes that are necessary if a corporation hopes to compete with fast paced innovative competitors.
About Jeffrey Phillips:
Jeffrey Phillips is VP Marketing and a lead consultant for OVO Innovation. Jeffrey has led innovation projects for Fortune 500 firms, including T. Rowe Price, John Deere, GlaxoSmithKline, Hewlett-Packard, U.S. Bank, AIG, Raytheon and others, government entities within the Department of Defense, academic institutions and non-profits based on OVO Innovation's Innovate on Purpose™ methodology. The Innovate on Purpose methodology encourages organizations to consider innovation as a sustainable, repeatable business discipline, rather than a discrete project.
Jeffrey has led projects using a range of innovation methods and techniques, including scenario planning, ethnography, voice of the customer, lead user analysis, jobs to be done and the customer experience journey. He has facilitated the development of thousands of ideas, many of which have become new products and services.
Jeffrey is the author of two books about innovation: Relentless Innovation, which examines the reasons 3M, P&G, Apple and Google can sustain innovation over time while others can't and Make us more Innovative, a book that encompasses much of the OVO Innovation methodology. He has contributed to several other books about innovation, most notably the book Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing. Jeffrey's blog about innovation, Innovate On Purpose, is ranked as one of the top blogs about innovation on the web. He also contributes to other innovation-oriented websites such as Innovation Management and Innovation Excellence, and writes for other management oriented sites. He is a sought after speaker and has presented to corporations, innovation oriented conferences, and at a number of universities. In 2010, 2011 and 2012 he chaired the Innovate North Carolina conference and has been a keynote speaker at Queen's University, University of the Pacific, UNC and several other colleges and conferences.
Innovation consulting, training, workshops and speaking engagements have taken Jeffrey to Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Western Europe, South Africa and Central America as well as across the US.
Jeffrey has an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and an undergraduate degree in engineering from the University of Virginia.
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Wendy Nolin
Effective Job Search Strategy
In this interactive presentation, Wendy Nolin of Change Agent Careers will guide you through various techniques employed by professional career coaches to help clients create a comprehensive job search strategy that is effective and repeatable.
Without an effective, actionable job search plan, countless hours can be wasted with little to no results, and further frustration. The more specific the plan, the more progress you can make in a shorter amount of time.
In this presentation you will learn how to:
• Define and identify your target market
• Outline specific steps and when to implement them
• Prepare for and manage schedule slippage
About Wendy Nolin:
Wendy Nolin is the President of Change Agent Careers, a career development and business coaching firm started in 2008. Wendy has nearly 2 decades of career development and management experience working with executives, entrepreneurs, and business owners to take their career to the next level.
After 2 very successful careers lasting a decade each, Wendy reached that point that many of her clients also reach: feeling like she was in the career spin cycle. Waking up each day feeling unfulfilled and lacking the motivation to go to work, but not sure what to do next or where to even start, she just kept spinning her wheels and going nowhere. After working with her own coach, Wendy founded Change Agent Careers, to help people like her who were stuck in the spin cycle find the right career for the right reasons.
Wendy was previously the Interim Director of Talent Management Solutions, and Interim VP of Marketing at a startup talent management software provider, and she has served as General Manager and VP for a career development company. She was responsible for business development, revenue growth, sales & marketing, customer relations, coach training and also carried a full client roster. Prior to career and business coaching, her career spanned sales, coaching, and training leadership roles in the airline industry and luxury retail.
Wendy is a subject matter expert in the career development space, and has spoken at numerous conferences locally and nationally such as HR.com, ExecSense, St. Edward's CareerConnects, The American Library Association National Conference, The Department of Veterans Affairs, and Executive Women in Texas Government.
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Laura Gassner Otting
Transitioning to the Nonprofit and Public Sectors
This webinar introduces newcomers to the nonprofit sector, providing a wealth of information about how to find the right match. Laura Gassner Otting, who heads the Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group, explains the different types of nonprofit, trends in the field, myths and stereotypes, organizational life cycles, and more. She offers specific job search tips on topics ranging from resumes and cover letters, to networking and strategy.
Laura urges experienced professionals to jump in, noting, "Great opportunities exist for corporate career changes in these organizations, as long as you don't try to transition the organization too quickly."
This webinar highlights simple and practical ways you can start feeling proactive rather than reactive and enjoy downtime - guilt free.
About Laura Gassner Otting:
Laura Gassner Otting has spent the last twenty years working to strengthen organizations that weave our social and civic fabric. More than half of that time has been as the CEO of Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group, a firm she founded to ensure that all nonprofits, regardless of their budget size and geographic footprint, had access to the most effective methods of securing that all important resource of talent. Over the past 11 years, she and her team have placed hundreds of leaders in nonprofits with budgets from $250,000 to $450,000,000, in the United States and around the world.
Prior to founding the Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group in 2002, Laura helped build the start-up ExecSearches.com, a leading website for mid-to senior-level nonprofit job postings, and served as a vice president at Isaacson, Miller, one of the most highly respected nonprofit executive search firms in the country. Previously, Laura served as a presidential appointee for the White House Office of National Service and a program officer for the Corporation for Nationaland Community Service where she was part of the team that created AmeriCorps, and as a member of the Clinton/Gore Transition Team and 1992 Election Team. Laura holds a Master of Arts in Political Management from the George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts in Government from the University of Texas at Austin.
Laura serves on the boards of College Bound Dorchester, the Eli J. Segal Citizen Leadership Program at Brandeis University, and Newton Montessori School. She is a founding board member of SheGives, a philanthropy marketplace catalyzing support for a broad range of philanthropies around Boston. She has served as a member of the board of Camp Starfish and the Alumni Board of the Graduate School of Political Management at the George Washington University and as the founding board chair of both Strong Women, Strong Girls and the Boston Choral Ensemble. Laura is a curator for TedxBeaconStreet in Boston. New to the sport of running, but always up for a challenge, Laura recently completed the 2012 Boston and Chicago Marathons, in both cases, raising significant money for charities in the process.
Laura is the author of Change Your Career: Transitioning to the Nonprofit Sector and is widely quoted for her expertise in mission-driven work in publications like The New York Times, The Chronicle of Philanthropy and Money magazine.
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Building the Pipeline
Most people start their consulting practice with a marquis client or two. But a key benefit of working with a consultant is his or her experience with a broad range of clients. In addition, you never want to be dependent on a few clients—because if you lose one, you might not survive. To be successful, consultants need a rich pipeline of clients.
But, how do you build a pipeline?
This inspiring and practical webinar, designed specifically for MBAs, was led by Robbie Kellman Baxter. Robbie has enjoyed tremendous success as an independent consultant, and enjoys sharing her tips with her fellow alumni.
In this webinar you learn how to:
8 Steps to a Powerful Personal Brand on Social Media
Do you have a strategy for your personal brand? As Tom Peters said in Fast Company, "All of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You."
Recruiters, prospects, and customers all develop instant opinions of you through social profiles and a simple web search of your name. Empower your digital personal brand in this session with Stacey Harmon's 8 guiding principles, each designed for the socially savvy and not-so-savvy alike. Whether you've been marketing online for years or are still struggling to get started, this session is guaranteed to enrich your knowledge of personal brand building on social sites and craft a positive, professional, and likable image of you in today's digital world.
Harmon Enterprises is led by Principal Stacey Harmon, who brings over 19 years of marketing experience to her perspective. Stacey's marketing career began in 1995 when she started working in the in-house marketing department of Newport Beach's premier residential brokerage. Stacey's work history spans marketing, technology, real estate sales, operations, and entrepreneurship. Her experience, coupled with an MBA from the University of California, Irvine, has led Stacey to establish Harmon Enterprises, where she can exercise her passion for social media strategy, modern marketing, and powerful, digital workflows that transform businesses.
Stacey is an Evernote Business Certified Consultant (EBCC) and Evernote's Marketing Ambassador. Among Evernote's 100 million users, EBCC's 25 member inaugural class and approximately 60 ambassadors worldwide, she is truly one in a million. In addition to her consulting efforts, she has authored two books: "Facebook Page Marketing: Content Strategies for Real Estate" and "Untethered with Evernote: Tips and Workflows for Independent Entrepreneurs." Stacey has established herself as a nationally recognized expert who speaks on effective digital branding, social media marketing, and digital workflow management through Evernote.
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How To Create an Accountability-Based Culture That Sticks
Is lack of accountability limiting your organization's success? Do any of the following "accountability killers" exist in your team?
Beyond the Basics: Independent Consulting for the Experienced Consultant
You're already living the dream.
You've hung out your shingle as an independent consultant, are known as an expert consultant in your field, and are making six figures. What's next? How do you take your consulting practice to the next level—whether that means more money, less labor, or new markets.
Join us for an inspiring, practical webinar, designed specifically for MBAs, and led by Robbie Kellman Baxter. Robbie has enjoyed tremendous success as an independent consultant, and is willing to share her tips with her fellow alumni. You'll learn how to:
Robbie Kellman Baxter brings over twenty years of strategy consulting and marketing expertise to Peninsula Strategies. Her clients have included startups and mid-sized venture-backed companies as well as industry leaders such as Netflix, Yahoo!, Oracle, and eBay. Over the past ten plus years, Peninsula Strategies has advised nearly 100 organizations on growth strategy.
A sought-after writer and keynote speaker, Robbie has presented to alumni organizations at Stanford, Harvard, and Haas, as well as chapters of the Product Development and Management Association, the Business Marketing Round Table, and Women in Consulting. She has been quoted on business issues in the Wall Street Journal, eCommerce Times, and Tampa Bay Journal, and has been asked to write articles for American Venture, Marketing Profs, and Management Consulting News.
Robbie's expertise with companies in the emerging membership economy extends to include SaaS models, subscription models, and the implications of social mobility. She applies marketing discipline to business strategy, whether serving as a retained advisor to the leadership team, conducting market research and validation to assess new opportunities, or developing and implementing marketing programs to identify, generate, and retain new leads and customers.
A longtime resident of Menlo Park, Robbie has developed strong relationships throughout the Silicon Valley community, with investors, attorneys, and business leaders.
Robbie received her MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, graduated with honors from Harvard College, and is an active volunteer with both institutions.
Communicate Like the Leader You Are
Effective communication is one of the hallmarks of leadership, but the reality is that many leaders communicate primarily from their own comfort zone. The best leaders have a high level of self-awareness and the ability to adapt their communication style to the needs of the audience. This webinar will focus on becoming a more effective communicator by striving to understand your own communication style and the styles of others. Learn how to communicate like the leader you are!
Amber Fogarty is a partner and the chief people officer for SOS Leadership Institute, an organization committed to developing leaders that make a difference. SOS Leadership was recently honored by the Austin Young Chamber of Commerce with an award for FAVE Professional Development Source. Amber strives to empower and equip leaders to make a difference through coaching, training, and facilitation. Her primary area of focus is women's leadership development, guiding women leaders through the process of understanding and owning their unique leadership style. Amber created the SOS Gr8 Women Leaders Program, a thriving year-long leadership program designed specifically for women who are committed to personal and professional growth, goal achievement, and learning. She also founded Austin Leading Ladies, a movement of dynamic, driven women who meet monthly to bring their leadership to life.
Amber has served as an adjunct faculty member for the School of Management and Business and the New College Program at St. Edward's University, as well as the College of Business at Concordia University. She is also a specialty coach for the MBA+ Leadership Program at The University of Texas at Austin, which serves MBA students in the McCombs School of Business.
Prior to joining SOS Leadership, Amber spent eleven years as a marketing communications professional for both the nonprofit community and for-profit organizations. She currently serves as the board secretary for Mobile Loaves and Fishes, as well as a volunteer for the Outreach and Education Work Group for the Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO). She is a proud alumna of the Leadership Austin Emerge Program and has served as a mentor for the Austin Young Chamber's Apprentice Austin Program.
Amber received a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication and an MBA with a specialization in marketing from St. Edward's University and a Master of Arts in philanthropy and development from St. Mary's University of Minnesota.
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A Conference Call in Real Life YouTube Video
Communication self-assessment resources:
Career Services for MBA Alumni
Join the MBA Career Services team as they will be giving MBA alumni an update on recruiting and resources at McCombs as well as on recruiting trends, networking opportunities, and ways to stay engaged with the MBA program. The webinar will also review the many McCombs and general university resources available to MBA alumni. The team wants to ensure MBA alumni are taking advantage of both recruiting opportunities and the value of the Texas MBA Network for professional advancement.
The agenda includes: introductions, McCombs and university resources available to MBA alumni, trends in MBA recruiting (salary, industry, and function), and MBA career events and alumni engagement.
Your webinar presenters are:
Michelle Hardy is the senior associate director of Employer Relations for MBA Career Management. She joined McCombs in 2007 as an assistant director in MBA Career Advising after eight years of service in the United States Air Force. Michelle has a Master of Arts in advertising from The University of Texas at Austin, a Master of Public Administration from the University of Washington, and a Bachelor of Science in business administration from Trinity University.
Stacey Rudnick has been director for MBA Career Services at McCombs since 2004. Prior to working at McCombs, Stacey worked as the senior associate director in the MBA Career Management Center for Goizueta Business School at Emory University. Stacey received her MBA from Goizueta Business School at Emory University and graduated from Duke University with a bachelor's degree in art history. Stacey's post graduate work experience includes brand management at Eastman-Kodak and marketing consulting at Viant. Her pre-MBA work experience was in retail management and buying with Nordstrom and Sears.
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Fierce Conversations: Transforming Your Results through Candor And Collaboration
Based on Susan Scott's national best seller, Fierce Conversations is an award-winning methodology used by organizations worldwide. Fierce skills transform the conversations central to your individual and collective success. What gets talked about and how it gets talked about determines what will or won't happen in your work, relationships, and life. Learn what it takes to improve the quality and effectiveness of your relationships and results long-term.
Join us to get a taste of Fierce Conversations with an overview of effective, immediately actionable models which structure high levels of engagement, collaboration, and deep-seated accountability from all stakeholders. Gain ideas and models that will shift your basic understanding of conversations and the power they hold in leadership, achieving results, and building collective responsibility.
Your webinar presenters are:
Janet Irving - Janet has worked with Fierce in the Schools for two years as director of education partnerships. Previously, she worked at Committee for Children, a Seattle-based nonprofit dedicated to developing social and emotional curricula for ages preschool through grade eight, as well as anti-bullying programs. She helped districts with implementation and sustainability strategies – similar to what she does at Fierce in the Schools.
Janet attended Washington State University as well as the University of Washington, studying education. She taught in the Seattle area for several years starting out in early childhood, and eventually "graduated" into elementary schools to work with non-proficient readers and writers. Teaching has always been a part of her core.
Deli Moussavi-Bock - Deli comes to Fierce with over 13 years of corporate experience in marketing, branding, and business development. Prior to joining Fierce, Deli spent seven years at RealNetworks—at the time a pioneer developing the streaming media market—fulfilling key roles in strategic marketing, branding, and business development both domestically and internationally.
In 2002, Deli helped launch Fierce, Inc. with Susan Scott following the publication of Susan's national best seller, "Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and at Home, One Conversation at a Time."
Having successfully run Fierce, Inc.'s marketing, business development, and client relations during the company's early and critical stages of growth, Deli's passion for education and communication has led her to dedicate a large portion of her time developing a division within Fierce, Inc.: Fierce in the Schools. Fierce now works globally with schools, equipping administrators, school leaders, staff, teachers, parents,and students with the skills to transform the conversations, and therefore the relationships and measurable results, central to their success.
Deli is a Fierce Facilitator and conducts keynotes, Fierce Conversations Workshops and Train-the-Trainer sessions for corporate, education, and nonprofit audiences.
Deli graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in English Literature. She enjoys writing and spending time with her family outdoors. Raised in a cross-cultural family of educators and entrepreneurs, she is passionate about building community as a powerful means to drive results.
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Mastering the Art of Self-Promotion
Gain valuable information, practical skills, and best practices for effective self-promotion techniques useful in both your professional and personal lives.
Effective Delegation
Learning how to enable those around you to increase your organization's productivity
Telling someone to do something is easy, but your results may be less than spectacular. Delegating effectively is just as easy when you have the right tools, and your results will be dramatically better.
In his presentation, David Blocker covered the 11 Principles of Effective Delegation, including:
David Blocker, MBA '07, is a Certified Business Coach, public speaker, owner of Driven Business Solutions, and a partner in FocalPoint Coaching of Greater Houston. He believes that every business owner has the unique ability to surpass the expectations of their customers in all ways, the capability to work more efficiently while doing it, and has the desire and know-how within them to juggle the conflicting demands of work and personal life. He enjoys helping them uncover and cultivate those intrinsic talents and change their lives forever.
David has a Bachelor's degree of Electrical Engineering from Florida State University, Master's degree in Engineering Management from Southern Methodist University, and a MBA from the McCombs School of Business' Executive MBA Program in Houston. He is PMI Certified in Project Management. Also, David served in the United States Air Force for nearly six years, and worked in product development for over 12 years in the functional areas of engineering, marketing, finance, accounting, legal, and manufacturing.
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How To Build Wealth Via Franchising
This webinar will teach participants how to build wealth by investing in a franchise that is a great potential fit to what they seek. Key topics of discussion include: Longhorn alumni success stories, an overview of franchising, how to navigate through a Franchise Disclosure Document, alternatives to finding a franchise, the four keys to success, service vs. retail franchises, financing, and the primary advantages of franchising (versus opening a business yourself).
Stephen Maeker, franchise consultant for FranChoice, and former vice president of franchise sales for Papa Murphy's Take-N-Bake Pizza, helps people investigate franchising via his free service. He represents 75 of the 3,000 franchisors, saving his clients an enormous amount of time. Stephen has built his career on being able to help people realize their professional dreams. He earned his BBA in 1990 and MBA in 1996 from The University of Texas at Austin and has also been an accomplished professor at the McCombs School of Business. He has spoken to numerous professional organizations and is recognized as a leading national franchise consultant by the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Business Journal, and International Franchise Association.
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DISC - The Universal Language
Communication has three components – content, tone and body language. By looking beyond the words you are hearing and how they are being said, you can gain great insight into the individual. Without doing so, you risk missing your mark on the message with up to 75 percent of your audience. The same holds true for written communication with the message that you convey being more effective by the way that you communicate the message.
In his presentation on DISC - The Universal Language, David covered:
Personal Career Management and Development Strategies
Gain valuable information about how to maximize your personal career management and development strategies. Amber Travis-Ballinas covered:
The "real" goals of personal career management
How to understand the five stages of career development
How to create a strategic plan to maximize your potential during each stage
How to develop personal and practical career management initiatives
How to create a strategic plan to maximize each initiative
Additional resources for personal development
New hire best practices
Basic checklist for career success and common mistakes to avoid
Amber Travis-Ballinas, BBA '91, is a career and image consultant, college lecturer and small business owner. She is available to McCombs alumni through her company, Career Creators, an innovative consulting firm specializing in career and image consulting. Amber uses her expertise and real world experience to provide her clients with practical and relevant information and guides them in developing the strategies, actions and behaviors necessary for success in the hyper-competitive job market. Customized training and coaching services are tailored to the client's individual strengths and challenges and focus on improvements that produce tangible outcomes.
Amber holds a bachelor's degree in management from The University of Texas at Austin and a master's degree specializing in international business management from The University of Saint Thomas in Houston (2004). She has almost 25 years of work experience in sales, marketing, business strategy and human resources management.
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Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
Organizations are finding that their managers need to complement solid technical skills with enhanced soft skills which are often ignored by traditional development programs. Organizational leaders' ability to make informed decisions, effectively handle stress and ignite innovation rely on our capacity to be highly focused and self-aware.
In this session Nina focuses on improving productivity by using self-awareness techniques customized for busy professionals. You will discover ways to proactively manage your thoughts and feelings rather than getting overwhelmed by them. Benefits include:
Nina Godiwalla is the CEO of MindWorks, and the bestselling author of "Suits: A Woman on Wall Street," an insider's perspective on her experience at Morgan Stanley from the outsider's point of view of a second-generation Indian woman. The New York Times describes her internationally acclaimed book as "The Devil Wears Prada" of investment banking.
Other Resources include:
MindWorks Resources
Harvard Business Review: How to Defuse Difficult People (video)
Repurpose Your Career: 5 Steps to Your Next Career Pivot
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Your Striver Quotient: The Key to Thriving in the Uncomfort Zone
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What Makes Real Estate Eligible for SBA Government-Backed Financing?
Double Your Online Marketing ROI: Integrated Online Secrets from the Frontlines
(Stuff Your *Experts* Either Don't Know or Didn't Tell You)
Leadership: BE THE ONE
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Digital Leaders are Made, Not Born
Learn new leadership skills for the digital age to lead your best life, attract followers and leave a digital legacy that matters.
Called a Digital Dale Carnegie, Erik Qualman is the author of "Socialnomics: How social media transforms the way we live and do business." He is an MBA professor at the Hult International Business School. For the past 18 years Qualman has helped grow the digital capabilities of many companies including Cadillac, EarthLink, EF Education, Yahoo, Travelzoo and AT&T. He is the founder and owner of socialnomics.com, which PC Magazine ranks as a top 10 social media blog. He sits on the boards of Manumatix, Bazaarvoice Inc. and WannaBeeSocial. Qualman holds a BA from Michigan State University and an MBA from The University of Texas at Austin.
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Effective Networking
Gain valuable information, practical skills and insider knowledge regarding effective networking techniques! Discussion includes: discover the real goal of networking, learn the "Golden Rules" of networking, master the most effective methods to develop and nurture your network, realize that image does matter and develop an "elevator speech" that will differentiate your from the competition.
Is Franchising Right for Me?
This course will teach participants how to investigate getting into franchising and whether or not franchising is a good potential fit for them. Key topics of discussion include: the primary advantages of franchising (vs. opening a business yourself), types of franchises that exist, process for making a decision, defining what the perfect franchise looks like, candidate motivations and attractions, investment and economics, financing options and how to maneuver through the Franchise Disclosure Document.
Tips and Tricks in PowerPoint 2010: Part 2
Back by popular demand, this is a continuation of Ben Bond's webinar in March. Bond talks about creating flowcharts, using SmartArt for different purposes and inserting animations to make objects appear one at a time on a slide.
Note: Ben Bond will post answers to the questions he had to do a bit more research on the McCombs Office Solutions and Tips blog The MOST.
LinkedIn: Best Practices for Today's Professional
Over 135 million professionals have LinkedIn profiles. Your customers, colleagues, competitors and your boss are probably on it, and perhaps your future employer. Your presence on LinkedIn is a key component of a personal branding strategy and managing your career. At the same time, you represent your employer and must respect their brand. At this session you will get tips on using LinkedIn and learn best practices for etiquette and branding. The session will be interactive with live examples.
Tips and Tricks in PowerPoint 2010
We'll learn some design and presentation tips in PowerPoint 2010. In particular, we'll talk about slide design, inserting videos and YouTube clips, and keyboard shortcuts to use when making your presentation. Bring your questions, because we'll end with a Q&A session.
Ben Bond is the technology training manager of the McCombs IT group. He received his BBA in MIS from the McCombs School in 1999. Since 2006, he has worked in the McCombs IT training group, improving the tech skills of the college's students, faculty and staff. He holds several certifications, including Certified Office Specialist and Office Certified Trainer certifications from Microsoft.
Advice on Changing Your Career from Corporate to Non-profit
Adam Lubin joined Junior Achievement of Southern California in January 2009 as a director of development. During his first two years Lubin focused on broadening JASoCal's corporate donor base into entertainment, real estate, financial services and aerospace. In addition, he manages relationships with twenty members of the board of directors. In July 2011, Lubin was promoted to senior director of development. In his new role he has added to his portfolio three fund raising committees of the board of directors focused on real estate, JA Finance Park™ and new business development.
Darrell Gurney, BBA '84
"10 New Year Command-Your-Career Resolutions"
What will make this year different from last in terms of your career movement and potential? If you keep thinking and doing things the same way, chances are you'll get more of the same in your career. Let's shake it up! Based on his soon-to-be-released book Never Apply for a Job Again: Break the Rules, Cut the Line, Beat the Rest, Darrell W. Gurney will share with McCombs Alumni 10 resolutions you'll want to take on to take your career to the next level.
Meredith Garcia,
Up a Notch Consulting
Preparing for 2012: Is Your Team Where You Want Them to Be?
Are any of your team members on autopilot, doing the same thing day in and day out? Is there something keeping them from taking initiative and being the best they can be? It's common to fall into a rut of complacency in the workplace when everything is going smoothly, but it can be the kiss of death when you have to prove your value to the organization. This webinar will introduce a "Team Needs Analysis" process you can use to complete a needs analysis of your workgroup and embrace the possibilities of what can be accomplished if you set proper expectations and hold all team members accountable.
Emotional Intelligence: Strengthening Leadership with Skills
The connection between successful leaders and strong emotional intelligence skills is documented through research. Effective leaders have an awareness of where they are going and a repertoire of skills to get there. They are also confident and approachable under the most stressful of circumstances. In this webinar, we will present aspects of successful leaders, as well as fundamental and common challenges of leaders. Through identification and practice, developing emotional intelligence skills will strengthen your leadership and success.
Your Leadership Brand
In this webinar, leadership and branding expert Sara Canaday will discuss these "intangible skills" (professional demeanor, emotional intelligence and non-verbal communications) that consistently determine your "leadership brand." Canaday will share her insights on developing a powerful leadership presence and present her unique approach for strategic personal branding to help you stand out among the sea of qualified professionals.
The Power of Clarity: Creating Goals that Move You
Most often we hold ideas for achieving goals in our minds until we have so many of them we feel overwhelmed and plagued with inaction. Creating a clear outcome for any goal can be achieved using the right set of questions and frame of mind. Once we harness the power of clarity, the "how" becomes less of an issue. This webinar teaches a clarity technique that will move you into positive and inspired action so you can play "in the zone" rather than staying stuck in the mud!
Turning job loss into long-term happiness, better health and a more fulfilling career
Many people lose their job at least once during their 40+ years of working life. Many are unprepared, panic and make decisions that they might regret. Don't be one of them! Learn how to deal with today's lack of job security. Understand the limits of career advice broadcasted daily by the "Job Seeker Industrial Complex." Discover "time" as the most valuable and rarely talked about asset that you can use strategically to your advantage when facing job loss (and when employed).
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Holly Green,
Training Specialist
Intro to Formulas and Functions in Excel
This webinar will introduce you to using formulas and functions in Excel. We will cover: using cell references, copying formulas and functions, using functions like SUM and CONCATENATE and learning more functions.
Holly Green graduated from The University of Texas in 2002 with a degree in studio art, concentrating in ceramics. Naturally, this led to a career in computers. She has been a member of the Technology Training Team in the McCombs School since July 2004. Green has earned a Microsoft Office Master certification.
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Backdoor Job Search: Break the Rules, Cut the Line, Beat the Rest
Many folks have learned the hard way that job search is a different animal in this new economy. The old days of relying on a headhunter to find your next gig or practicing elementary "let-me-know-if-you-hear-of-anything" networking are gone. Applying online is not even worth mentioning.
What can you do to ensure your own job security for life? Take the management of it firmly into your own hands! Rather than resist career transition, become a master of it by learning backdoor methods of relationship building.
Amber Travis-Ballinas, BBA '91
Navigating the Job Search Process
Learn valuable skills and efficient techniques to successfully navigate the job search process, such as: how to properly prepare for the job search; creating "the package"; efficient methods for sourcing the perfect job; techniques to manage the job search process; effectively utilizing references and recommendations; and discovering the magic formula for securing the position you desire.
Laura Hill
Get Paid What You Are Worth: Negotiating Job Offers and Asking for Raises
Think you might be underpaid? Don't know how to respond when asked the dreaded question about your salary requirements on an interview? Every professional and aspiring executive can benefit from learning basic techniques for negotiating compensation when taking a new job or asking for a raise.
Laura Hill, BBA '75, is founder of Careers in Motion LLC, a career coaching firm that works with business professionals and executives. Her expertise includes career strategy, personal branding, resume development, job search, interviewing skills and negotiations. She has been a featured expert on career topics for The Wall Street Journal, Forbes.com and CNBC.
Heather Krasna
Transitioning to the Nonprofit and Public Sectors
The nonprofit and public sectors have increasingly become a place where business thinking and innovation are sought. Professionals looking to shift careers, reenter the workforce or reprioritize rather than just retire should consider the challenge, inspiration and commitment that a nonprofit sector career might allow. This presentation will help you assess if you should consider a transition into the nonprofit or public sectors.
Laura Gassner Otting founded the Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group in 2002. Prior to forming the group, she help build the start-up ExecSearches.com, a leading website for mid- to senior-level nonprofit job postings.
Heather Krasna, MS, is director of candidate services for the Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group and the author of "Jobs That Matter: Find a Stable, Fulfilling Career in Public Service" (Jist Publishers, 2010).
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Ben Bond, BBA '99,
Technology Training Manager, McCombs
Tips and Tricks in Outlook 2007
How much time do you spend using Outlook 2007? Learn helpful tips and tricks to leverage the features in Outlook 2007, manage your mailbox more effectively and reduce the amount of time spent processing your email.
Ben Bond is the technology training manager for the McCombs School. He is a certified Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007 specialist master and Microsoft Office instructor. He holds a BBA from the McCombs School.
How to be a Leader ... BEFORE You Become the CEO
Leadership outside the c-suite is critical to a company's success--and to the development of your career. Learn the five key steps you can take now to develop as a leader. This fast-paced webinar will give you "homework" you can use to step up and make the most of 2011!
How Can I Have a Stress Free Holiday Season?
Join Mike Rinehart, BBA '77, JD '80, and his coaching partner Carolyn Marsalis to learn how to forgive anyone for anything, be grateful, grieve, complete the old year and create the new year.
Rinehart, founder of Your Beyond, has over 12 years of experience as a life coach. He coaches for the love of helping you get from where you are to where you want to be--your beyond. Rinehart's strengths are his complete belief in you, his diverse background and his ability to see both inside and outside of the box.
The Keys to Happiness and Success: A Mathematical Equation
Is it possible to be on top of your game regardless of what might be going on around you or happening to you--even when everyone else is panicked, worried or stressed out? Highly successful people have the ability to be focused, creative and effective even in the face of chaos, crisis and drama all around them. In this webinar, Mike Rinehart, BBA '77, JD '80, will share with you their secret and, more importantly, train you to be a master as well.
Rinehart, founder of Your Beyond, has over 12 years of experience as a life coach. He coaches for the love of helping you get from where you are to where you want to be--your beyond. Rinehart's strengths are his complete belief in you, his diverse background and his ability to see both inside and outside of the box.
Keeping Your Career Sizzling Without a Flame-Out
Today's rapidly evolving workplace, where change is certain and often, creates demands unheard of even just a few years ago. We are expected to do more with less, and rapidly adapt to changing technology and business environments. How can we stoke the fires of career success while preventing dramatic flame-outs? This webinar teaches a five step process to identify the obstacles and challenges you face and how to overcome them. You will learn strategies for balancing your high energy output with energy renewal techniques that will create and maintain your sizzling career.
Career Shifting
Learning to shift your career effectively is critical for survival in today's job market. In this webinar by Tim Tow, MBA '04, you will learn the key skills to cultivate, the best ways to position your existing experience and the essential traits that successful career shifters possess. Shifting careers has actually become the new norm, so whether you are looking to try something different, transition into a new industry, enter or re-enter the job market or change your discipline, this webinar will put you on the right track to successfully shift your career.
The Power of Persuasion: Secrets of Influencing and Motivating People
Sprinkles Back by popular demand, award-winning professional speaker and author Jonathan Sprinkles, BBA '99, once again shares his top secrets of motivating and persuading people so you get what you want, when you need it most. Using strategies that have gotten him featured on TV, radio and in magazines, Jonathan teaches you how you can immediately move people to action. He shows you how to thoroughly impress and win over an audience during your next presentation or one-on-one negotiation. If your career is dependent upon your ability to influence your coworkers, clients or customers, you don't want to miss out on this exclusive event.
How To Get The Visibility You Want
This webinar will teach you how to tastefully promote yourself and highlight your contributions to your company. Specifically, you will learn how you might be getting in your own way and how to reframe the concept of self-promotion. Lastly, Neena shares actionable self-promotion strategies to help you get the visibility you want, in a way that works for you.
Tips & Tactics for Career Success
As a follow-up to the "Acing the Employment Interview Process" and "Win-Win Negotiations" webinars held in April and May, Amber shares valuable information about best practices and effective strategies for success in the work place. Discover how to be a "24 hours a day, 7 days per week professional" and understand the formula for becoming a "star employee." Also learn strategies and tactics for career advancement on the "fast track" and master the game of office politics.
Win-Win Negotiations
Discover how to utilize power and influence people in the process of negotiation and acquire skills and techniques to negotiate successfully. Learn effective strategies for negotiating a higher compensation and benefits package and realize the common mistakes to avoid in negotiating. The "golden rules" and tips shared in this webinar will leave you feeling prepared and confident when it comes time to negotiate compensation and benefits after you ace that employment interview (also see webinar below).
Acing the Interviewing Process
Gain valuable information, practical skills and insider knowledge through this career webinar led by career coach Amber Travis-Ballinas, BBA '91. You will 1) discover how to "wow" the interviewer and differentiate yourself from the competition, 2) acquire skills and techniques to manage the four steps of the interviewing process, 3) learn how to master the 10 most frequently asked interview questions, and 4) understand the top 10 "Dos and Don'ts" of interviewing and practical techniques to successfully navigate the employment interview process.
Beyond the Business Card: A Networking Approach
What is your networking goal? Do you feel your networking efforts are effective and adequate? Does networking feel insincere at times? View a webinar from March 16 with career coach and McCombs alumna Amy Wittmayer, MBA '04, to challenge your overall view of networking and offer tactics to make your networking efforts more sincere and effective.
Developing Your Personal Brand
The most successful professionals and executives have distinctive brands–they are known to others for certain things that matter in their field. Whatever your career goals or job status, you can benefit from being proactive in shaping your reputation and building your brand. Through this webinar you will learn about personal branding and why it matters. Specific topics will include: defining your personal brand, conveying your brand in words, making visual impact and your online presence and social networking tools.
The Power of Persuasion: Secrets of Influencing and Motivating People
Award-winning professional speaker and author Jonathan Sprinkles, BBA '99, shares with alumni his top secrets of motivating and persuading people. Listen to this webinar to learn how to immediately move others to action and how to thoroughly impress an audience during presentations or one-on-one negotiations. Sprinkles also shares seven subtle words that persuade people without them knowing it and discusses tactics of arranging words so people assume you're right.
Genuine Networking
On May 19 Amy Wittmayer, MBA '04, led the networking workshop "Genuine Networking" at the UT Club. Wittmayer challenges the notion that networking is a "fake exercise" and illustrates that it provides the opportunity for mutual benefit among involved parties.
Job Search Techniques: Best Practices for Today's Market
On April 14 Career Coach Laura Hill, BBA '75, held the teleseminar "Job Search Techniques: Best Practices for Today's Market" for over 75 alumni. View this presentation to learn how to improve the effectiveness of your resume and develop a personal elevator pitch. She also touches on the power of using examples in interviews and some basic principles of salary negotiation. "Listening to the seminar was time well spent. Laura Hill speaks like a coach—not like a recruiter—and gives valuable advice for this super-competitive job market," said teleseminar attendee, John Brownrigg, MBA '84.
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Surefire Ways to Recession-Proof Your Career
On March 3, Darrell Gurney, BBA '84, certified career management coach and founder of CareerGuy.com hosted more than 130 McCombs alumni in his "Surefire Ways to Recession-Proof Your Career" teleseminar. Download this study guide and learn how to get out and meet people, present yourself in a memorable fashion to become top of mind with those you network with and to maintain the relationships after the networking event is over. "It's not who you know, it's who you actually talk to," advises Darrell, regarding relationships and networking.
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Darrell W. Gurney, BBA '84 (summa cum laude), supports forward-thinking leaders to know themselves in new ways and to transform that knowledge into personal branding that opens doors. He promotes a proven system of relationship management which has people create backdoor connections offering a world of new possibilities—for industry growth, entrepreneurial venturing, or complete career change. Recognized as an Outstanding Business School Student at McCombs, he brings that same outstanding commitment to every individual he supports. He offers McCombs BBA alumni the first 30 minutes free and additional services at a 10 percent discount. Contact him via email at email@example.com.
Amber Travis-Ballinas, MBA '91, is a managing director/consultant with Career Creators Consulting. Career Creators specializes in career consulting, providing career-related services, and one-on-one career and business coaching. Their consulting services are tailored to their client's individual strengths and challenges. Their consultants are subject matter experts with real world experience who provide clients with practical and relevant information, tools, strategies, and tactics to successfully navigate each step in the selection process, regardless of where they are in their career life cycle. McCombs alumni receive a 20 percent discount off of the listed prices. For further details, visit Career Creators or email email@example.com.
Michael A. Froehls, MBA '90 (Dean's List), Ph.D. (University of Trier), is an independent management consultant, book author (www.thegiftofjobloss.com), university guest lecturer, and former global executive who has worked, lived, and traveled to over 50 countries. He is not your traditional career coach. Michael offers personalized one-on-one strategic consultation sessions to those who are facing important decisions affecting both their professional and personal life. His specialty is brainstorming, analyzing, and structuring available strategic options based on expected benefits and risks, holistically taking all relevant factors into account (e.g., your personal goals, financial situation, health, family, age, state of the economy). Sample topics are: leveraging upcoming or recent job loss; using sabbaticals to rejuvenate and recreate your life; exploring relocation, further education or alternative careers; optimizing the trade-off between work and relationships/family. UT alumni receive a 20 percent discount. Contact him via email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Neena Newberry, MBA '92, works with motivated senior leaders and managers to improve their effectiveness. As an executive coach, she serves as a "thought partner" with her clients to clarify their priorities or goals, better leverage their strengths, keep their developmental areas from becoming barriers to their success, work through specific business challenges and take action. Neena also specializes in working with women in dual career families. She offers McCombs MBA alumni the first 30 minutes free and additional services at a 10 percent discount. Visit her at Newberry Executive Solutions or contact her via email at email@example.com.
Solu Nwanze, MBA 2012, is an executive coach and a business operations leader in tech. She has vast experience in building products, designing processes and transforming people. As a trained coach, Solu works with emerging and established leaders to clarify their inner wisdom, vision and goals while driving clients to action through accountability, support and challenging. If you want to create something new or you feel stuck and need a way out, or you are down a path and want to make a detour, Solu can help. McCombs alumni receive a free informational chat plus 20% discount off subsequent coaching sessions. Contact her at email@example.com or visit www.signpostcoach.com to book an informational chat.
David Radzinsky, MBA '05, is a small business owner, entrepreneur, certified life coach and yoga teacher. His coaching practice is focused on life transitions, work/life balance, and wellness. David uses a humanistic approach to help clients integrate their physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual capabilities to achieve their goals. David is bilingual (English and Spanish); he offers face-to-face sessions in New York City and Skype sessions to clients outside the NYC area. David also offers corporate wellness programs including Yoga and Meditation. McCombs Alumni receive a free 45 minute consultation and 20% off all subsequent consultations. You can contact him via email at firstname.lastname@example.com or at http://www.davidradzinsky.com/.
Wolfgang Career Coaching is a full-service career transition and career development firm that works with clients across the country to find fulfillment in their careers. Their services include career exploration, branding, resumes, interview preparation, job search strategy and career development. Contact Wolfgang Career Coaching with your UT EID.
The Alumni Directory allows you to reach out to more than 97,000 alumni in your network. Use your UT EID to access the directory and search by alumni name, graduation year, location, employer, position, industry, and more. Remember to update your profile to ensure you stay connected!
The McCombs Alumni Network has local chapters worldwide to facilitate opportunities for social and business interaction after graduation. View our full event calendar to find out about upcoming events in your area. Learn more about the types of chapter events we offer.
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Connect to alumni with similar interests by joining our industry-based Affinity Groups for Energy, Innovation, Leadership, Marketing, Private Equity, Real Estate and Technology.
Join Texas Exes to network, socialize, watch Longhorn sporting events, and support the university. Membership benefits include opportunities for networking, career development, member discounts, and university resources. Privileges include access to online UT Libraries, discounts on continuing education courses, the award-winning Alcalde alumni magazine, vendor discounts, and an invitation to the biggest tailgate in Texas before each home football game. Learn more.
Being a part of the Business Honors community is a legacy that extends well beyond graduation day. Learn more about the unique opportunities available to BHP alumni through the Business Honors Program Office.
Texas Executive Education provides solutions for the challenges and changes you face as both a business professional and an individual. Whether you're adapting to changes in your business environment, or want to spur a change in your career, we work with you to establish your goals and then craft a plan to best help you achieve them. From two- and five-day Open Enrollment classes to months-long Custom Programs, for small business start-ups to the largest companies in the world, we have the capability to scale your experience to best suit your needs with the same rigorous coursework and quality McCombs and UT faculty that you knew and loved when you were here getting your degree.
We can develop a curriculum based on the real problems you are trying to solve or a concrete objective you are aiming to accomplish. Most of our classes are held in the brand-new Rowling Hall, and McCombs alumni receive a 10% discount on all Open Enrollment classes (15% if you are also a member of the Texas Exes).
Visit Texas Executive Education to learn more about all that we have to offer, and come back for a class soon!
MBA-Exchange connects MBAs to employers worldwide. It includes filtered MBA jobs, corporate profiles, and peer-to-peer knowledge sharing.
The Texas Exes offers career resources to students, alumni, and Texas Exes members. There are options for job seekers, employers, those considering a career transition, or those seeking ways to positively develop their careers.
HireUTexas is an online job posting system. Postings are accessible to the entire alumni and student community of The University of Texas at Austin. Search by location, job type, and experience level.
Alumni are welcome to use the Perry-Castañeda Library for research or the physical resources in the career services office.
Texas Recruitment + Interview Services (TRIS) is a campus-wide resource supporting companies and organizations recruiting at UT by providing interview space, career center connections and one-stop recruiting access. Our employer connections benefit UT Austin students and alumni with the increased number and diversity of opportunities we facilitate and make accessible via our career center partners.
The Sanger Learning & Career Center offers library access and counseling services to alumni who graduated within the last 12 months. They offer assistance for recent graduates who are unsure about what career direction to pursue.
Blue Steps is a leading executive career management service operated by The Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC) and provides executive talent a wealth of career management resources, including absolute confidentiality and ethical connections with AESC members. Memberships may be purchased by McCombs alumni at a 30 percent discount.
The Business Development Academy runs many seminars on disciplines of interest to the business development community. These disciplines include leadership lessons, financial projections, behavioral economics, intellectual property, competitive intelligence, mergers and acquisitions, business valuation, game theory, strategic planning, and much more. McCombs School Alumni receive a $75 discount.
Forté Foundation is a consortium of 27 leading multinational corporations, 37 top business schools in the U.S. and abroad, and the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC). Forté has become a powerful change agent directing women toward leadership roles in business and enabling corporations to more effectively reach and retain top female talent. It is the only organization that provides a national infrastructure for women at all stages of the career continuum to access the information, scholarship support, and networking connections they need to succeed in business careers.
The Gerson Lehrman Group unites industry experts from accounting and financial analysis, consumer goods and services, and financial and business services for paid consulting interactions and speaking engagements. If you are a current or retired executive who is interested in consulting with the world's top investment firms, consultancies, and corporations, please visit the Gerson Lehrman Group to learn more or contact Stephanie McNeill.
MBA-Exchange connects MBAs to employers worldwide. It includes filtered MBA jobs, corporate profiles, and peer-to-peer knowledge sharing.
RiseSmart makes online $100k+ job search more efficient by delivering prescreened job opportunities through technology that acts as a human account manager—the RiseSmart Concierge. RiseSmart offers special pricing for McCombs students and alumni. Learn more.
TheLadders.com provides online job search resources and content for the $100k+ job seeker. The basic service comes with the opportunity to browse through job listings and apply.
With Vault, you can research companies, industries of interest, and more. Search the Vault Job Board and interact with others of same interest on message boards. Some access is limited to subscription only.
Visit Wall Street Journal Careers for articles, salary comparisons, a job listings search, and career advice.
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Thursday, September 14, 2017
Erectile Dysfunction (ED)
Penis is Shrinking - Medication Related?
I am a 57 yr old man and I have noticed for a few months that my penis has been shrinking and seems to be getting thinner in width. I am not active in sex with my wife. The reason is is that I take medications such as percocet and morphine. I take heart medicine for my leaky valve also. It really bothers me and I`m wondering is this is normal? Thank you for your time.
Change in size of the male genitalia is related to reduce flow of blood. That being said, it is imperative to use your genitalia as natural as you can. Foreshortening of the penis also is observed when abdominal fat pad hangs over the genitalia and make it less exposed. If you use drugs to enhance blood flow to your penis, such as prostaglandin injection, then you will notice the size is the same as it had been. You would not be able to shrink an organ in your body but expandable organs such as penis may show reduction in size and should be reversible when used naturally. If you are not using your sexual and urinary organ for sexual use then urinary usage becomes more important and size does not matter for this function.
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College of Medicine
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