Four Skills to Build Professional Mindsets with Students 2017

Four Skills to Build Professional Mindsets with Students 2017 is an event dedicated to learning how you can embed key skills into more interactions with students to build professional mindsets.

Topics

• Networking: This skill is critical for entrepreneurial activities. We will discuss how social media can help or hurt your network as well as strategies to help students build professional networks.
• Empathy: This skill is critical for client/customer relationships, successful teamwork, innovation, and design-thinking in the workplace.
• Resilience and Agility: This skill is critical for staying relevant in a rapidly changing economy. We will discuss how to coach to talk about failure in a way that leads to proactive decisions with students.
• Project Management: This section focuses on building a portfolio of work that has been executed from start to finish and demonstrates follow-through, initiative, accountability, and problem-solving.

Who should Attend

• Academic advisors
• Career services
• Coaches for student success
• Faculty
• Peer mentors