The Strategy Sessions are a Members Only forum for learning, networking, sharing, and growing.

 

The goal of the Strategy Sessions is to facilitate networking and provide peer-to-peer mentoring opportunities among AWIS members via meaningful discussions in small group settings. Experiential learning methods foster professional and personal development and education among AWIS members.

 

Strategy Sessions will take place from 6:00 to 8:00pm at JONES DAY, 12265 El Camino Real, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92130.

 

Light refreshments will be served. Registration required.

 

2013 Events:

 

February 4: Enhance Your Productivity: Resolve to make the most of your time at work

 

April 1: Enhance Your Interview Success: Active preparation and follow-through

 

June 3: Enhance Your Negotiation Skills: Acquire the desired result

 

August 6: Enhance Equality: Mitigating Gender, Cultural and Generational Bias 

 

October 7: Enhance Your Presentation Impact: Constructing a masterful

 

December 2: Enhance Your Team Building: Effective collaborations and project teams  

                                      

Special Focus Session: Enhance Your Career: Succeeding in Work and Life Phase Transitions

 

 

Please join us at our next highly interactive, experiential learning environment!

 

 

Past Strategy Sessions

 

2012

 

February 6: Get Connected Networking and social media

 

April 2: Get a Job Optimize your resume and nail the interview

 

June 4: Get Noticed Increase your visibility in the workplace

 

August 6: Get Promoted Move ahead in your career

 

October 1: Get the Scoop Appropriate business conduct

 

December 3: Get a Life Escape your routine

 

Special Focus Session: Get Perspective Explore STEM career opportunities

 

 

2011

 

February 7: Develop Your Career Success

Achieve satisfaction and accomplishment in your career

 

April 4: Develop Effective Communication

Is your message getting through?

 

June 6: Develop Financial Acumen

Manage your money for the ups and downs of life

 

August 1: Develop Your Brand

Create the image you want for yourself

 

October 3: Develop Productive Teams

There is no "I" in team

 

September 12: Special Focus Session on Project Management

 

December 5: Develop Techniques for Handling Stress

Strike a balance for your mental and physical health

 

 

2010

 

February 1: Managing Your Career Development

Getting your career to where you want it to go.

 

April 5: Managing Change

Facing those high-flux situations in your career.

 

June 7: Managing and Leadership

How to turn your teams into productivity machines

 

August 2: Managing Up

Making the goals of your superiors work for you

 

October 4: Managing Your Professional Network

Getting connected without getting lost

 

2009

 

February 2: Speed Networking

How to give and get information effectively in a short amount of time.

 

April 6: Interviewing Techniques

Tips on how to make the best first impression for the job.

 

June 8: Negotiating Skills

Make those difficult conversations work in your favor.

 

August 3: Appropriate Business Conduct

Are you self-aware of your conduct in the work place?

 

October 5: Managing Your Time at Work

Increase your productivity without increasing your hours.

 

December 7: Going Green

How to be environmentally conscious everyday at work and home.