WICT New England Proudly Presents:

Women, Power and Influence: Negotiating Your Way to Success

Thursday September 17, 2009
The Sturbridge Host Hotel & Conference Center
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Do you have the urge to surge?

Power up your confidence
Power up your negotiation skills
Power up your energy state

9:00am - 11:30am

Women, Power & Influence: Leadership Essentials with L. Kay Wilson, JD

9:00am - 9:30am

Kay Wilson leads Kickoff with motivational elements to elevate and open to possibilities

  • The fate of the world depends on women
  • Women's values are the right values for what needs to happen next
  • Women must close the confidence gap and step into their power
  • Drop competition and move toward collaboration

9:30am - 11:30am

Workshop and exercises

  • Closing the confidence gap, one step at a time Stepmasterplan
  • Journey to selfhood, true north exercise
  • Converting the Inner Critic
  • Full tilt boogie, manifestation

11:45am - 1:30pm

Lunch Panel: Media Power and Influence: Shaping the Future featuring:

  • Lori LeBas - Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Operations for ESPN
  • Luanne Proko - Assistant Professor - Business Communication, Nichols College
  • Alison Connell - Director of Media, North Central Division for Comcast Cable

Kay Wilson will moderate panel, with open discussion and questions at the end.

1:30pm - 3:30pm

How to Ask For What You Want (And Get It!) -- Negotiation and Business Communication Skills for Women with Lori Rittman Clark

  • Why women don't ask
  • Recognizing opportunities for negotiation
  • Finding your negotiating style
  • Keys to negotiating success
  • Projecting a confident communication style
  • How you may be inadvertently sabotaging yourself in business

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Close out - Group exercise

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Networking facilitators will make introductions between attendees.


2009 Women in Cable Telecommunications
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