NOTE: All workshops and events are held at Grace Institute (40 Rector Street, 14th Floor) unless an alternate location is stated.
Kindly RSVP to Dara Washington at dwashington@graceinstitute.org to register for/attend an event.
Jan 28th: Professional Coaching for Job Seekers – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Topic: Introduction to Professional Coaching
Facilitator: Josmerly Valerio and Dara Washington
Overview: An introduction to Professional Coaching, and what to expect. Also will engage in mock interview roles playing.
Jan 29th: Excel Workshop APP alums only- 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Topic: Excel overview and introduction
Facilitator: Carlos Guzman
Overview: Review of sorting, filtering and formatting data, introduction to pivot tables, conditional logic in functions (IF, SumIF, CountIF), and Vlookup (database search in excel)
Feb 11th: Professional Coaching for Job Seekers – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Topic: “Building Self-Esteem/Self-Confidence through Positive Affirmations and Thoughts”
Facilitator: Josmerly Valerio and Dara Washington
Overview: You will be encouraged to use Positive affirmations and thoughts to boost their motivation while job searching. In addition, you will have an open discussion about job search and job opportunities.
Feb 13th: Professional Coaching for Employed alums 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Facilitator: Inetha Smith
Topic: “Introduction to Professional Coaching & Adapting to a new job role”
Overview: Job seekers will be introduced to the Ted Talk video “How to get Back to Work after a Career Break”. The video will provide job seekers with tips and tools on how to enhance their job search, build hard and soft skills and how to market themselves after a career break
Feb 21st: Motivational workshop: Goal Setting for 2019 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm.
Topic: “How goals can help you in your job search”
Facilitator: Tanisha Williams
Overview: You will be introduced to techniques on effectively setting goals for 2019 and applying them to your job search process.
Feb 25th: Professional Coaching for Job Seekers – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Topic: How to negotiate salary and benefits.
Facilitator: Josmerly Valerio and Dara Washington
Overview: You will receive tips on how to negotiate salary and benefits during a job interview.
Feb 28th: Advance Excel 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm.
Topics: Introduction to Pivot Tables and Macros
Facilitator: Deidre Collins – LexisNexis
Overview: Introduction to Pivot tables and Marcos and their importance in the business environment.
Mar 7th: Salesforce part 1 5:30 pm – 7: 00 pm.
Topics: What is Salesforce?
Facilitator: Deanne Walters
Overview: You will be introduced to important words/phrases used in Salesforce and how to enter data.
Mar 11th: Professional Coaching for Job Seekers – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Topic: Ted Talk “How to get back to work after a career break”
Facilitator: Josmerly Valerio and Dara Washington
Overview: Job seekers will be introduced to the Ted Talk video “How to get Back to Work after a Career Break”. The video will provide job seekers with tips and tools on how to enhance their job search, build hard and soft skills and how to market themselves after a career break.
Mar 14th: Salesforce part 2 5:30 pm – 7: 00 pm
Topics: Salesforce reports
Facilitator: Deanne Walters
Overview: You will learn the components of creating and running a report in Salesforce.
All Monday Morning Meeting will be announced every Wednesday the prior week.
RSVP to Dwashington@graceinstitute.org for all events
NOTE: All events will be announced by e-mail and on the Grace Institute Alumnae Association Facebook page!
For more information please contact:
Dara Washington, Recruitment/Alumnae Coordinator
212-832-7605
dwashington@graceinstitute.org