The Executive Coaching Program is held on Saturdays and meeting times are scheduled based on the curriculum and presentations for that day.

The Executive Coaching Program is scheduled to begin February 2008. You may let us know of your interest in the program by going to Contact Us or completing the application provided on the web site. This year's program is filled with nationally recognized leaders in their field, similar to those featured in last year's Executive Coaching Program.

Sessions

Session 1 - Exploring Your Talents

Presenters: Tricia Dempsey and David Hand Agile

Research suggests that the most effective people are those who understand themselves.  In this session, you will complete and analyze a unique assessment targeted at helping you understand your talents in three main areas: Behaviors – “how” you do the things you do Motivators – “why”  you do the things you do Attributes – “what” you are naturally gifted to do This self exploration will provide a valuable foundation as you develop your brand and learn to package and promote everything that is wonderfully unique about “you”.

Session 2 - Effective Communications: Oral & Written

Presenters: Steve Clements & Claudia Coplon Executive Speak/Write

Unlock your potential to deliver memorable and profitable conversations and presentations in any situation - be it in meetings, before an audience, or in front of TV cameras.  Instead of fearing or avoiding speaking opportunities, meet the challenge head on with proven methods for quickly building rapport, boosting confidence, fielding questions and making a winning impression in front of audiences of one or one million. For 35-plus years, Steve Clements has taught, written, conceptualized, directed, produced and even testified on all aspects of media ranging from network broadcast to video to "live" production in a glass-bowl Disney studio. In these capacities, he has managed staffs ranging from 4 to 150, handled budgets ranging from $11,000 to $1,000,000 a week, and prepared students, professionals and celebrities to talk to their various publics. You can learn more about him and his partner, Claudia Coplon, on their website at www.executivespeakwrite.com

Session 3 - Building your Personal Brand

Presenter: Shelley Hammell Sage Alliance

Self-branding is taking your education, talent and skill set and making these credentials immediately visible to the outside world.  Every email, voicemail and phone call you make creates the impressions that build your self-brand.  What is the impact of your first impression?  Are you viewed as having high potential? Do you know what you want to be known for?  After this session, participants will be able to answer these and other tough questions and will know how to convey their own personal brand.

Session 4 - Crafting, Packaging and Promoting “Your Story”

Presenter: Richard Currier Park City Marketing

In today’s highly competitive, constantly changing, and message overloaded technology marketplace, it’s not enough to be successful.  One must be known for one’s success and accomplishments.  It’s not the better mousetrap; it’s the better-known mousetrap.  Getting exposure and visibility for your company, your products and services, and you are essential to career achievement.  This one-day intense, interactive session shows you how. The course details how to define and refine a vision, how to package the story of one’s vision, and the key techniques to effectively tell a compelling tale.  Course time is split between lecture on key methodology points, industry case studies, and interactively examining and refining participants’ vision stories and messages.

Session 5 - Mastering Self Promotion

Presenter: TBD Carter-Baldwin

Once you have a message, how do you interview and position yourself to get the next position in your company?  These experts from Korn/Ferry bring their executive placement experience to share with the group and will provide you with a proven strategy for promoting yourself effortlessly within your own company.

Session 6 - Part 1 -  Making yourself print-worthy

Presenter: Eric Seidel Media Trainers

What makes up a good news story?  Why do certain people always get covered in the press?  This session will give participants an inside look into the media, what they look for in press releases/stories and what compels them to write or publish an article on you and your story.  Local media professionals from Business to Business / Catalyst magazines will join this session to offer advice and counsel on how to position your story to invite media attention and how to avoid media footfalls.

Session 6 - Part 2 - Handling yourself in front of the camera

Presenter: Richard Warner What’s Up Interactive

How well do you present yourself in front of a camera?  Do you interview well?  How do you typically handle the tough questions?  Renowned journalist, radio and television personality Richard Warner, the host and managing editor of GPTV’s “Georgia Business Report “ and President of What’s Up Interactive, will coach participants on how best to conduct a television interview and what to say and not to say when addressing tough questions. Participants will receive a videotape of the session for future reference and will receive valuable feedback.

Session 7 - Final Session: Individual Plan Presentation and Feedback

Presenters: Each Participant

Armed with the understanding of how to develop, support and promote your personal brand, this session is the opportunity for each participant to practice what they've learned over the course of this program. Participants will deliver a 20 minute presentation on "My personal brand - Who am I?" The session is meant to give the participants the opportunity to share with the panel their personal brand, how they are going to use this awareness and create the visibility needed to push their careers to the next level. Participants will be videotaped and will receive feedback from a distinguished panel of premiere executives, media and local personalities.

Executive Coaching Support Infrastructure
A unique and key benefit of the Executive Coaching Program is the addition of one-on-one sessions with a professional coach.  Shelley Hammell, Executive Coach of Sage Alliance, Inc. will work with each participant outside of the planned Friday curriculum.  There are 2 planned sessions of one hour each that should be scheduled after Session 1 and prior to Session 6.  The purpose of these one-on-one sessions is to offer additional coaching throughout the program, supporting content and deliverables.

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