Webinar
How to Leverage Your Strengths for Career Advancement
Embark on a transformative journey to chart your career path with clarity and confidence. This session is designed to help participants identify the pivotal steps in their professional development, harness their unique strengths, and utilize essential tools needed for advancement. As annual review season approaches, you will be equipped with strategies to effectively pitch your value and career aspirations to leadership, ensuring your goals are both recognized and supported.
Participants will then break into groups to discuss their career challenges with peers and a coach. This session is designed to help you develop a concrete career plan, strategize for annual reviews, or solve specific career-related problems. By engaging with others who share similar experiences, you'll gain valuable insights and personalized guidance to navigate your professional journey.
To maximize the benefits of this session, attendees will be sent the CliftonStrengths Assessment to complete beforehand. This will enrich the attendees’ experience and enable deeper, more meaningful career conversations during the program. This session is curated for rising professionals with less than 10 years of industry experience, but all career levels are welcome.
Webinar
Your Brand In Action - Amplifying Your Influence on LinkedIn
In today’s world, it’s imperative for event and hospitality professionals to establish and cultivate their own personal brands. It’s time to come out of the shadows, into the spotlight and create a bigger impact in your career, and we’re going to use the powerful platform, LinkedIn, to get you there! Join Leanne Calderwood, CMP, as she dives into strategies to amplify your influence on LinkedIn.
Learning Objectives:
• Determine why we should all build our own personal brands, separate from our organization's branding and how you can integrate your company’s brand and values into your own personal branding messaging
• Discover 5 Ways you can grow your brand, without social media
• Dive into the 3 activities on LinkedIn that when used together will help you amplify your brand, and increase your leads and opportunities.
• Understand 3 LinkedIn Profile accelerators that will help set you apart from the competition
Conference Recording
Speaker Showcase - Courtney Clark, Hamza Khan, Sylvie di Giusto
ReVisionary Thinking: The Science and Strategy of Succeeding No Matter What - Courtney Clark, Resilience and ReVisionary Thinking Expert. Represented by SpeakInc Speakers Bureau
Brave New Work: The Change-Friendly Playbook for Navigating Non-Stop Transformation - Hamza Khan, Future of Work and People-First Leadership Expert. Represented by Speakers Spotlight
You Have 7 Seconds. Make Them Count! Sylvie di Giusto, Personal Branding and Customer Experience Expert. Represented by Gotham Artists
FICP Chat
FICP Chats: Maintaining Resiliency in the Meetings and Events Industry
Everyone in the meetings and events industry has been challenged to stay resilient this year as we all head back to in-person events. Join Jennifer Squeglia, CMP, FICP Board Chair, as she brings together our Meetings Professionals members and Hospitality Partners to moderate a discussion about staying resilient during these changing times.
Topics include:
• Maintaining resilience during challenging times
• Stress management
• Managing staff and responding to staffing turnover
• Resetting for the new year
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FICP Chat
FICP Chats: Supporting Each Other Through Challenging Times
The past 18 months have been so disruptive to our lives, both professionally and personally. The last 2 months coping with the Delta variant, in particular, have been disheartening and stressful. Enough already! The silver lining has been how our community has united and truly cared about each other. In this FICP Chats we came together to continue to help each other by sharing tips on how we can lift each other up.
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FICP Chat
FICP Chats: Navigating Through Transition
In this FICP Chats discussion, Jen Squeglia, CMP, will moderate a conversation about the tough decisions and obstacles we're navigating through the pandemic and discovering new ways to be agile and make connections with colleagues and stakeholders. Discussion topics include:
- Self-care/well-being
- Professional development
- Return to the office
- Staffing transitions
- Hotel management
- Incorporating health security plans into our events and venues
- And more
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Webinar
How About Networking?
Did you know it matters which eye to look into while talking to someone to come across as likeable versus authoritative and that there is a formula that can help you have an amazing conversation with just about anyone? Zoom networking has become a part of our new routines and one-on-one video conversations are happening daily, are you maximizing the online time you have with your customers, clients or partners?
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Webinar
Business Communications: Managing Difficult Conversations and Expectations
Navigating difficult conversations with peers, partners, and team members can be, well… difficult! In this FICP webinar, we will dive into how handle various ways of communication and expectations while going through scenarios that meetings professionals and hospitality partners face on a regular basis. This workshop will teach you how to successfully navigate difficult conversations that will result in better outcomes for you and the person you are talking to.
Attendees will:
• Learn what needs to happen before, during, and after the conversation
• Examine common reactions and how to handle them with confidence
• Discover ten tips for handling difficult conversations
• Review strategies for calming your nerves and/or keeping your cool
• Reflect on how these conversations, although unpleasant, help to build trust and respect
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