Thanks for your interest in Way Solutions.  We are so excited about this year’s conference in Dallas, Texas on September 15-17.

We just celebrated the launch of the Nashville, Tennesee chapter where we shared a presentation called Developing a Proactive Work Style.

To continue in that spirit, we thought we’d give you a brief excerpt and tool that we shared that day.

Check out what some of your Nashville peers had to say about that event below.

photo courtesy of Anna Cates Williams

Way Solutions feels strongly about empowering women in the workforce and we’re happy to be speaking at this year’s event.  Come see us on Saturday, September 17 at 3:30pm where we’ll be discussing how to build a power resume.

photo courtesy of Anna Cates Williams

At the national conference in Dallas, I’ll be leading a workshop called Turn Your Resume Into a Job Offer.  NAWMBA members will be able to learn my secrets behind writing a powerful resume that highlights a candidate’s accomplishments, and I will share short cuts that take the pain out of writing an effective resume and cover letter. My practical tips will turn any resume into a job offer!

For my professionals at home in Nashville and beyond, we will post a downloadable recap available to all interested and my presentation will be available for purchase  right here on the website on Sept. 19^th.  Don’t forget about personalized resume reviews, one-on-one coaching, and leads weekly webinars on job search and career management topics.

This module challenges participants to evaluate the quality and power of their personal brand and  discover steps to leverage their brand for even greater results and rewards within their current position.

How You Will Benefit:

• Discuss the importance of personal marketing  and managing your image or reputation with peers, superiors, and subordinates.
• Create a plan to educate others and communicate your value with intention.
• Leverage your reputation to  gain buy in to your initiatives.
• Learn ways to elevate your visibility to position yourself to offer greater value for greater rewards within your organization.

What You Will Learn:

• Identify ways to manage our managers and our peers without overstepping our bounds.
• Explore techniques to earn more responsibility while increasing our level of influence.
• Legitimate ways to get the recognition needed to gain “credit” for our achievements.
• Brainstorm ideas for addressing challenges with managing our image within any organization.

Who Should Attend: Leaders at all levels across all disciplines who are interested in learning to make the most of the opportunities available within their current position.

Let us know you’re interested and we’ll send you the info to sign up.

• Interviewing Skills, Tips, and Techniques
• Managing the Candidate
• Recruiting with Influence and Accountability
• Time and Workload Management

Just fill out the question box below and we’ll give you the information you need to sign up.

This session is designed to empower leaders to stop avoiding conflict and start solving problems.  Provide tools managers need to identify conflict that requires resolution and the “noise” of the rest.

Learn to take the emotion out of the situation and evaluate the best approach to solve the problem.  Use these practical techniques to manage confrontations into productive, beneficial interactions and take the “dread” factor out of work relationships.

How You Will Benefit:

• Gain clarity about the types of conflict and the range of possible solutions, and how to get the most from your actions in difficult situations.
• Gain confidence in the ability to manage conflict into a productive outcome.
• Reduce uncomfortable feelings associated with conflict.
• Expand your ability to solve conflict by using both authority and personal influence.

What You Will Learn:

• Define conflict, confrontation, and conflict resolution
• Determine appropriate vs. inappropriate conflict
• Explore and exercise basic conflict resolution skills
• Leverage the team to help you reduce unnecessary conflict
• The power of turning conflict into productivity

Who Should Attend: Leaders of all disciplines will learn to use problem solving skills to reduce day to day conflict and create mutually beneficial results for all involved.

Just fill out the form at the bottom of this screen and let us know you’re interested.  We’ll reach out right away and get you set up to attend.

On May 18, 2011, TANS will host it’s annual recruiter conference in Nashville, TN.  Join us for a discussion on Hiring Trends:  The Hire Evolution.  We will be meeting at Belmont University at the Massey School of Business.  Just fill out the box below for more information.

On May 19, 2011, CareerBuilder will host an appreciation conference for their Chicago based clients.  Join us for a discussion on Attracting and Retaining a Multi-Generational Workforce.  Just fil lout the box below for more information.

This requires you understand the skills and preferences of your team.  Everyone has a personal work style.  We all have different preferences, communication styles, thinking styles and more.   As a leader, it’s important to recognize those differences and manage them in a way that uses their strengths to the fullest.

In this module, you will learn how to manage your personal preferences and expectations to recognize the capabilities and efforts of your team.  We will explore how you put your team together to gain the best blend of complementary styles.  More recognition results in greater productivity and better performance.

How You Will Benefit:

• Focus on bringing out the value of a diverse team
• Use your own personal style to lead in a way that leverages others’ strengths
• Balance personal preferences without sacrificing what is required to perform the work
• Create an environment where talented people want to work
• Establish a competitive advantage over your competition

What You Will Learn:

• Evaluate your team make up and the value of the roles within your team
• Determine the strengths and limitations of personal style and preferences
• Identify personal biases and how that affects your ability to manage
• Avoid unconscious bias and address common challenges as related to personal style

Who Should Attend: All managers who need to evaluate the specific roles within their team.  Whether they are creating a new team,  managing a local or virtual team,  inheriting a team, or hiring new team members.

For more details, please fill out the box below.  Let us know you’re interested and we’ll get you signed right up.  See you then.

Leaders are constantly being asked to do more with less.  In order to continue to meet this challenge, it is more important than ever to ensure that your team is made up of productive and engaged players.  Everyone has a different “currency” of motivation and what is important to them.  In this module you’ll learn how to tap into that motivation and begin to work with each team member as an individual in order to gain the greatest performance possible.

You’ll learn to evaluate your team on an individual basis to determine whether you are susceptible to losing key players as the economy changes.  We’ll explore measures to protect the investment you make in your people and increase retention over time.

How You Will Benefit:

• Broaden your understanding of team engagement and the impact  on productivity at a team and individual level
• Anticipate and plan for market shifts to avoid being caught off guard and losing core talent
• Use the information presented in this session to improve your succession planning and creating career paths for your team
• Clearly communicate the employee value proposition  to actively retain the talent on your team.

What You Will Learn:

• Identify your “A” players and analyze team engagement.
• Learn to evaluate the areas of strength and vulnerability with your team makeup.
• Develop and cultivate team engagement with intention
• Explore retention strategies, tips, and techniques

Who Should Attend: Managers who are focused on growing talent, succession planning, and managing their team through market shifts and changes will benefit from this session.