Part I of the webinar: “Motherhood Guilt or Job Dissatisfaction?” will…
• help you decide if your thoughts about leaving the workforce are your own, or are influenced by others.
• include a provocative discussion exploring whether motherhood “guilt” is well-founded or whether you have unrealistic expectations for balancing work and life..
• help you evaluate more deeply why you work and how you would replace your work drivers at home. And,
• give you a clear framework for deciding if it is perception or reality for you, that the grass is indeed greener on the other side.
For many women, a large factor in the “stay or go” decision is whether an alternative work structure is even possible. Part II of the webinar will help you “Exhaust Your Flexible Work Options.” Too many women assume flexibility is not an option or leave after one casual “ask.” This webinar discussion will help you determine if your job is a candidate for full or partial telecommuting, and how to make a professional case for flexibility. Looking beyond your current job, you’ll also learn where to look for other, more flexible opportunities and if an entrepreneurial venture would fit your work and broader life styles.
Presenter: Kathryn Sollmann
Kathryn Sollmann is the Managing Partner and Founder of 9 Lives for Women, a highly acclaimed, multi-channel blog site that helps women navigate work and life in nine stages from college through retirement years. Recognizing that it is too black and white to say that women are either “working” or “not working,” Kathryn’s website helps women with all the gray areas when they have one foot in or one foot out of the workforce. For more than a decade she has helped women stay in or re-enter the workforce—through coaching, recruiting, seminars, and corporate consulting, and a full library of blog posts that provide practical, no nonsense advice, inspiration and empowerment for women at every age and stage. www.9livesforwomen.com
Online Implementation of AB 705 In MathFred Feldon
Third Annual Statewide California Acceleration Project (CAP) Conference 2019. Online learning is an attractive option to an ever-increasing number of diverse students. Supporting AB 705 in the online modality is a real challenge. Coastline College, with 85% purely online enrollment in math, is meeting the challenge.
AMATYC 39th Annual Conferene Friday night Ignite Event: Twenty slides are automatically advanced every 15 seconds while the speakers have exactly five minutes to share their passion!
Reinders generations & social media (ss)Steve Drake
Generational changes impact irrigation contractors in hiring staff and marketing to customers. As millennials take over, upgraded websites and social media influence marketing decisions as contractors move forward.
Online Implementation of AB 705 In MathFred Feldon
Third Annual Statewide California Acceleration Project (CAP) Conference 2019. Online learning is an attractive option to an ever-increasing number of diverse students. Supporting AB 705 in the online modality is a real challenge. Coastline College, with 85% purely online enrollment in math, is meeting the challenge.
AMATYC 39th Annual Conferene Friday night Ignite Event: Twenty slides are automatically advanced every 15 seconds while the speakers have exactly five minutes to share their passion!
Reinders generations & social media (ss)Steve Drake
Generational changes impact irrigation contractors in hiring staff and marketing to customers. As millennials take over, upgraded websites and social media influence marketing decisions as contractors move forward.
The PPT provides you with essential tips to handle the generation gap between the generation x and generation y. For more information you can login : http://www.past-transgressions.com/
Want to be seen as a leader at the office? Learn how to identify and push back against gender bias by supporting your female colleagues at work. Read the full tips at leanin.org/tips/mvp
Active Learning: Success, Retention and Engagement Onsite and OnlineFred Feldon
The lecture environment and online homework systems fail to capture the reasoning and higher-level thinking skills students can bring to quantitative problems. Regular and substantive interaction, collaboration, productive struggle, and non-routine questions that stimulate discussion lead to deeper understanding of concepts, applicability, and support of students' affective needs.
The Ultimate Cheat Sheet in Managing MillenialsMonica Cornetti
Understanding differences between the generations is fundamental in building successful multigenerational workplace. For each generation there are particular experiences that mold specific preferences, expectations, beliefs and work style.
Understanding the Children's Book Consumer in the Digital AgeBookNet Canada
A focused look at activities, purchasing influences, and behaviours of today's book consumer.
Chuck Lamantia (Bowker) presents on reading and purchasing habits of parents and children. The findings are based on Understanding the Children’s Book Consumer in the Digital Age, Bowker’s ongoing biannual survey that tracks attitudes, drivers, and trends in the children’s book market in the US.
College Recruitment for General AudiencesMichael Hayes
A presentation about college marketing and recruitment for general audiences, including faculty, staff and administration. These processes led to over 50% increases at two northeastern small colleges in two years each. It may also be adapted and applied for general marketing and entrepreneurship. Influences include Simon Sinek and Roger Martin. Topic include where and how to find prospects, as well as how to integrate and plan implementation.
How do you know when you've done a good job caregiving? Is it moral to consider yourself a ‘successful caregiver’ even while your caree's health declines? Barbara Ivey shares a fresh perspective, by introducing a game she created to award herself 'caregiving credits' when she was curious or when she learned. This presentation introduces family caregivers to several Lean Process Improvement tools that stimulate curiosity and lead to learning.
Matt Blazek came up with a great list of projects
Students can look through the projects and select something that they want to try. The projects include Twitter at the Gettysburg address. What if there was someone with twitter ? What would be the message?
The PPT provides you with essential tips to handle the generation gap between the generation x and generation y. For more information you can login : http://www.past-transgressions.com/
Want to be seen as a leader at the office? Learn how to identify and push back against gender bias by supporting your female colleagues at work. Read the full tips at leanin.org/tips/mvp
Active Learning: Success, Retention and Engagement Onsite and OnlineFred Feldon
The lecture environment and online homework systems fail to capture the reasoning and higher-level thinking skills students can bring to quantitative problems. Regular and substantive interaction, collaboration, productive struggle, and non-routine questions that stimulate discussion lead to deeper understanding of concepts, applicability, and support of students' affective needs.
The Ultimate Cheat Sheet in Managing MillenialsMonica Cornetti
Understanding differences between the generations is fundamental in building successful multigenerational workplace. For each generation there are particular experiences that mold specific preferences, expectations, beliefs and work style.
Understanding the Children's Book Consumer in the Digital AgeBookNet Canada
A focused look at activities, purchasing influences, and behaviours of today's book consumer.
Chuck Lamantia (Bowker) presents on reading and purchasing habits of parents and children. The findings are based on Understanding the Children’s Book Consumer in the Digital Age, Bowker’s ongoing biannual survey that tracks attitudes, drivers, and trends in the children’s book market in the US.
College Recruitment for General AudiencesMichael Hayes
A presentation about college marketing and recruitment for general audiences, including faculty, staff and administration. These processes led to over 50% increases at two northeastern small colleges in two years each. It may also be adapted and applied for general marketing and entrepreneurship. Influences include Simon Sinek and Roger Martin. Topic include where and how to find prospects, as well as how to integrate and plan implementation.
How do you know when you've done a good job caregiving? Is it moral to consider yourself a ‘successful caregiver’ even while your caree's health declines? Barbara Ivey shares a fresh perspective, by introducing a game she created to award herself 'caregiving credits' when she was curious or when she learned. This presentation introduces family caregivers to several Lean Process Improvement tools that stimulate curiosity and lead to learning.
Matt Blazek came up with a great list of projects
Students can look through the projects and select something that they want to try. The projects include Twitter at the Gettysburg address. What if there was someone with twitter ? What would be the message?
One of the most valuable resources a person can have in their career is a Mentor. Sir Richard Branson, Indra Nooyi, Mark Zuckerberg, and many more have all expressed how their mentors got them where they are today.
Learn how you can meet and work with a Mentor.
ERG Guidance taken from multiple webinars and articles over the last couple of weeks to help our ERG Leaders stay connected and keep diversity and inclusion in motion. Connection is vital now more than ever. We are not going anywhere.
Who are We and What is SingleMommie.com all about?
This website was created to be used as a comprehensive resource for single mom’s everywhere. Packed with current information and upbeat articles on careers, education, grants, scholarships, help with housing, parenting tips, relationships, health, fitness, and finances, you’ll find nothing but quality and current information here.
For more details please visit:-http://www.singlemommie.com/
Who are We and What is SingleMommie.com all about?
This website was created to be used as a comprehensive resource for single mom’s everywhere. Packed with current information and upbeat articles on careers, education, grants, scholarships, help with housing, parenting tips, relationships, health, fitness, and finances, you’ll find nothing but quality and current information here.
For more details please visit:-http://www.singlemommie.com/
Empowering young mom tell their own storiesTara Jefferson
Bloggers and those fluent in social media have new opportunities to network, connect with their idols, partner with big brands and land paid opportunities that can help them make the most of their time. No longer do you have to wait to graduate from college and land a "dream job," you can use the Internet to build your dream job while you work on your degree.
The Threshold Generation, Valli Swerdlow, VALLI Associates,thres1h rnonotes9_...valli2345
The term “The Threshold Generation” describes all of us who have had to move their retirement date up due to their net worth going down. Many of us are working past the time when we dreamed of retiring. The rules that our parents and grandparents played by are gone, like the old idea of staying at one organization for your entire career.
You\'ve Got the Power is a very popular session delivered to frontline staff in schools and offices. It helps staff understand the key role they play in building and breaking school/district reputation and delivers five "power tools" to help them maximize their reputation-building influence.
Light up your network. Manage your energy, not timeIvy Exec
You know how to network. But how do you fire up that network when you have been in search a while and you are feeling stale, and stuck? During this challenging job market, it is essential to know the techniques for managing energy. Hear about some of the latest research determining that instantaneous first impression when searching for your executive job.. Participate in a self management assessment and learn what to do to "light up your network," and get them pulling for you.
Why Gen Y: Millennials outside the walls of NationwideLessing-Flynn
Gen Y and Millennials in 2014 have new challenges as they advance in the workforce along aging Baby Boomers and Gen Xers. As they move into management ranks, beating the entitlement label and growing as leaders will be crucial. Tips for managers of Gen Y included in this presentation given at the Nationwide Gen Y Associate Resource Group in November 2014.
Legacy achievers: those who have had long term success, are a great model for our professional lives. How this relates to a veterinarians' life is very pracatical
Progress in gender diversity in public relations remains painfully slow in many ways, but Time’s Up for the field. According to The Homes Report, women make up about 70% of the PR workforce, but they only hold about 30% of the top positions in the industry.
The Plank Center hosted a free webinar titled “Women and Leadership in Public Relations.”
The Center’s 2017 Leadership Report Card found that being successful in the field is still challenging for women—the pay gap is real; the opportunity gap is real; and the being-heard-and-respected-gap is real.
The webinar discusses bridging those gaps, including action items for current leaders at all organizational levels. Led by industry professionals:
Julia Hood, founder, Pop-Up Media and AgendaZoom
Jacquie McMahon, senior account executive, Ketchum
Donnalyn Pompper, public relations professor & endowed chair, University of Oregon
Brian Price, corporate communications manager, Starwood Retail Partners
And moderated by Leah Seay, assistant manager, public policy communication, General Motors.
To view the archived webinar, go to The Center's website: http://bit.ly/PlankWebinars
12 Traits of Tech Elevated Educators #ucet15Vicki Davis
There are 12 habits that can help you improve your classroom, your use of technology and life. Let's delve into those habits as we discussed at #ucet15 in Utah in April 2015.
Join us to learn actions companies and professionals need to take to keep the Millennial generation and multiple generations interested, on board and engaged.
“Finding and keeping qualified people is the biggest challenge facing Corporate America.” -HR Director
The workplace is not what it used to be. People are staying past their prime; the corporate ladder has crumbled; college grads have job titles that sound like something out of a science fiction flick; and nobody talks on the phone anymore.
The global marketplace has become a myriad of different generations. What the multiple generations want from an employer, their expectations of corporate culture and their motivation to do what is best for organizations differs from generation to generation. Your challenge is NOT figuring out how to work together but how to interface with the varied generations to achieve financial success, personal growth and enriched company morale.
Meagan tackles generational challenges head on. Unwilling to accept standard, by-the-book generalizations Meagan demonstrates, through her own in-depth research and program customization that all generations have differences and strengths that go beyond mere age and appearance.
Move beyond complaining. Learn from Meagan Johnson what you can do right now to make the most of all the generations.
Hear something different, learn something new, redefine your generational perceptions.
Similar to Look Before You Leap: A 2-Part Webinar Series For Professionals With One Foot On The Off Ramp (20)
SoFi - Financing Your Graduate School Education - SoFi and Ivy Exec WebinarIvy Exec
Still evaluating student loan options? Hear from a student loan expert with over 20 years of experience working for student lenders, credit unions, and the financial aid office.
SoFi's student loan expert Walter Balmas will:
- Explain the student loan process and timeline.
- Introduce SoFi's alumni-funded student loan solution
- Open to Q&A on SoFi's origination and servicing process
About the Presenter:
Walter Balmas has over 20 years of experience in student loan program management, having most recently created student loan programs for a dozen non-profit credit unions. Prior to this, Mr. Balmas was Senior Vice President of Origination at MRU ("MyRichUncle"). His career includes stints as the Director of Loan Operations at ALL Student Loan Corporation (ALLSLC), once the largest non-profit student loan issuer in California.
Mr. Balmas has a BA from the University of Southern California.
Must Avoid Mistakes In Financial Services Resumes - Ivy Exec Webinar - Resume...Ivy Exec
These examples are meant to compliment the video presentation of the webinar "The Must Avoid Mistakes in Financial Services Resumes"
http://blog.ivyexec.com/2012/07/31/webinar-the-must-avoid-mistakes-in-financial-services-resumes/
The Must Avoid Mistakes in Financial Services Resumes - Laura Hill and Ivy ExecIvy Exec
Learn the secrets behind a successful resume that will help you land that new job in finance. In this economy you cannot afford to have a lackluster finance resume – whether you’re just breaking into finance or have been working in the industry for years. Get practical advice from a finance resume pro who worked in banking and then recruiting and coaching for financial roles for years. This Webinar will not be a high level overview session, but an in-depth analysis of actual resumes that illustrate Best Practice for style, format and content, as well as common pitfalls.
Laura Hill’s experience includes 8 years banking with JP Morgan, executive search with Korn/Ferry International and Redwood Partners, 10 years as a career/outplacement coach, and heading client services for the boutique outplacement firm, Crenshaw Associates. Laura received an MBA in Finance from The Stern School of Business at New York University and a BBA in Marketing from the University of Texas - McCombs.
Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, JobsInTheMoney.com, and Smart Money. She frequently speaks to business groups on a wide range of career management topics and has been interviewed on CNBC, The Wall Street Journal Report With Maria Bartiromo, and MSNBC.
If Wall Street is calling your name, you won’t want to miss this webinar!
Heaven or Hype Recruiting Through Social Media Ivy Exec and Human Capital Ins...Ivy Exec
The only constant is change. In this webinar, we will briefly examine key macro trends impacting executive recruitment. Global talent shortages, increased mobility, and technological & social media advances demand new recruiting strategies for a new era.
Through new recruiting models, new technologies and social networking, there are tools available to attract, recruit and retain high quality mid through senior level executive talent. We will drill down to examine the traditional recruiting model and why the new recruiting model has now supplanted it.
Five Critical Trends Forcing The Adoption Of The New Recruiting Model:
1. Global and domestic economic influences have led to pricing pressures.
2. Multi-position demands and time urgencies have altered recruiting needs.
3. Organizations are internalizing their executive search functions.
4. The rise of social media has changed the platforms available and the very nature of recruiting.
5. Organizations of any size can succeed in the ‘war for talent’ with the new recruiting model
Create Your Elevator Pitch - Pat Drew and Ivy ExecIvy Exec
Unless you can communicate your value quickly and in a compelling way, you are letting opportunities pass you by. Would you knowingly give up an opportunity for the perfect job or fantastic assignment? That is what you are doing if you do not have at your fingertips a well-practiced, very brief statement of who you are, what you are up to and what a UNIQUE contribution you make.
No matter how experienced and polished we are, most of us from time to time pass up opportunities to let others know who we are and what a unique contribution we make. We fail to get the conversation started which can lead to new positions and assignments.
In this webinar, you will actively participate and "log out" with a new statement of who you are and your value. In this session, you will learn:
- How to communicate your value in a compelling way in 20 seconds.
- Four key questions to answer, to engage anyone anywhere, anytime – in YOU!
- To craft, practice and perfect your own Elevator Pitch.
- How do to make yourself interesting, memorable and start the conversation, which will open doors for you.
Pat Drew’s areas of expertise include top-level coaching, senior team alignment and preparing executives and organizations for transitions. For over twenty years, she has coached executives in the media, pharmaceutical companies, consumer product companies, financial and professional services, real estate, communications, not-for-profit organizations and academia.
Pat’s experience in helping executives achieve strong business results was acquired as Director in Human Resources at The New York Times for 20 years, as Manager of Training at the New York Psychiatric Institute of Columbia University and, most recently, with Guttman Development Strategies, a leadership-development firm.
Case Interviews, Killer Frameworks - Nevin Kamath and Ivy ExecIvy Exec
You can ace the case interviews at all levels if you are using the right framework. In this webinar, you will learn strategy frameworks that will help you succeed in your next case interview. Our presenter, Nevin Kamath, founder of The Case Coach, and a former consultant with McKinsey, helps elite professionals, MBAs, and PhDs prepare for case interviews.
Our presenter, Nevin Kamath, is a former Senior Associate with McKinsey & Company and an alumnus of Harvard Law School. He serves as an Adjunct Professor at the USC Marshall School of Business, teaching a course on career development and professional communication to undergraduate students. Through his executive coaching firm, The Case Coach, LLC, Nevin has partnered with numerous clients who have gained offers at top consulting firms including McKinsey, BCG, Bain, and Deloitte, as well as boutique firms such as Partners in Performance.
Effective Networking Strategies for Executives - Ivy ExecIvy Exec
Networking is vital to success in an ever challenging business environment across all levels of your career. But, unlike what most think, networking is not about asking for something. It’s about building long-term, mutually beneficial relationships of give and take, with the emphasis on the give. Here are strategies for experienced executives we’ll discuss to build and strengthen your networking skills:
- Understanding the four stages of networking;
- How six degrees of separation can build a great network;
- How to build your network every day;
- How to maintain and deepen your network in the short and long term;
- How to use social media to build a stronger network;
- Networking strategies for live venues: industry mixers, business meetings, etc.
Connie Thanasoulis-Cerrachio is co-founder of SixFigureStart, a career and success coaching firm. Connie uses her 25 years of Fortune 500 recruiting experience to give you expertise in your job search. Connie & her partner Caroline Ceniza-Levine co-authored ”Six Steps To Job Search Success” 2011, Flat World Knowledge and are co-hosting the ”Next Generation Career Success Video Summit: Would You Hire Yourself?” For more information please go to www.ivyexec.com
Resume = Personal Brand - How to Get it RightIvy Exec
In the current hiring climate, even the most accomplished and experienced professional's phone isn't ringing off the hook with interview invitations. Your resume is an extension of your personal brand and often times is the first interaction you have with an employer. This webinar is for job seekers who want to learn from an expert how to take their resume to the next level. Learn the secrets to a successful resume and see examples that illustrate best practices for style, format and content. In this webinar you will learn how to:
- Ensure that your resume appeals to your target audience
- Turn job responsibilities into accomplishments
- Visually attract and keep your readers’ attention
- Avoid the most common mistakes
Laura’s career experience includes an 8-year banking career with JPM Chase; executive search with Korn/Ferry International and Redwood Partners; 10 years as a career/outplacement coach; and heading client services for boutique outplacement firm Crenshaw Associates. Laura received an MBA in Finance from New York University - Stern and a BBA in Marketing from the University of Texas - McCombs.
Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, JobsInTheMoney.com, and Smart Money. She speaks frequently to business groups on a wide range of career management topics and has been interviewed on CNBC, The Wall Street Journal Report With Maria Bartiromo, and MSNBC.
How to bring passion and purpose to your career lawler kangIvy Exec
What drives personal and professional happiness? How can I bring my ‘whole’ self to my daily pursuits, particularly looking for my “next big thing”? What might I do to augment my personal brand to optimize these efforts?
Learn how come the ‘Why’ and ‘How’ behind what you do is more important to your happiness (and productivity) than ‘What’ you do. In fact, the ‘Why’ and ‘How’ should directly impact the ‘What’.
Our presenter will start by illustrating the need, impact and benefits of bringing your passions and purposes to work. He will then walk participants through some tools designed to identify your ‘Whys’ and ‘Hows’ and will show you how to align them in your current, and future, work (and life) efforts.
After 15 years of corporate and entrepreneurial leadership, Lawler wrote Passion at Work (Pearson Prentice Hall), and founded Passion at Work Partners. Speaking/consulting clients: HP, Cisco, Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Booz Allen Hamilton, Pfizer, and most top-tier business schools. Lawler’s prior endeavors include leading successful turnarounds of three technology/biotech firms, serving as Engagement Manager, and then Managing Director of the Northeast Practice of Scient.Lawler graduated from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Vassar College.
Ivy Exec Webinar: Salary Negotiation Webinar With Sarah StamboulieIvy Exec
Job offer negotiation begins with the very first request for an introduction or an exploratory meeting. So how can you conduct yourself at each stage of the interviewing and negotiation process to maximize your remuneration? What are the common pitfalls and how can you avoid them?
Learn:
- What "pre-negotiation" discussions to avoid that could prevent or reduce your offer.
- Techniques to avoid disclosing past compensation.
- How your gender, familial background, work history and employment status may be influencing you.
- Methods to determine your market value.
- How to prepare for and practice negotiating
And much more.
Sarah Stamboulie, Ivy Exec's Senior Career Coach, formerly led Alumni Career Services at Columbia Business School and headed HR departments at Morgan Stanley, Cantor Fitzgerald, and Nortel.
To CV or not to CV: Writing Your Resume for an International MarketIvy Exec
If you're applying, or planning to apply, to positions overseas, it can be a challenge to communicate your value in a quickly evolving international marketplace. How do you know what is important to the global and/or local audience, and how do you highlight those elements in your documents?
Join us for this webinar, hosted by Kim Mohiuddin, full of strategies to propel your successful overseas job search. Kim is one of Ivy Exec's Senior Résumé Writers, specializes in international resumes and has been nominated for a TORI (Toast of the Résumé Industry) Award in the international category. Kim is a Nationally Certified Resume Writer (NCRW), and Certified Job Search Strategist (CJSS). She's had her work included in multiple publications, most recently NBC and Time Out NY.
Resumes, Cover Letters, and Applying OnlineBruce Bennett
This webinar showcases resume styles and the elements that go into building your resume. Every job application requires unique skills, and this session will show you how to improve your resume to match the jobs to which you are applying. Additionally, we will discuss cover letters and learn about ideas to include. Every job application requires unique skills so learn ways to give you the best chance of success when applying for a new position. Learn how to take advantage of all the features when uploading a job application to a company’s applicant tracking system.
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Look Before You Leap: A 2-Part Webinar Series For Professionals With One Foot On The Off Ramp
1. Look Before You Leap!
A Two-Part Webinar
Part I: Motherhood Guilt or
Job Dissatisfaction?
Presenter:
Kathryn Sollmann, 9 Lives for Women
2. About Kathryn Sollmann
• Co-founded network of 9,000
women—recruiting, career
coaching, job search and
networking services
• One of first to focus on
“returning professional” women
• Coached hundreds of women on
other side of the “leap”—
women disenchanted with
volunteering & eager to return
to work
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3. About 9 Lives for Women
• Launched 9 Lives for Women in
2012
• Multi-channel blog site and
consulting services
• Help women navigate 9 work &
life stages from college to
retirement years
• Continue to coach women who
struggle to reenter workforce
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4. What Inspired My Work with Women
• In 1980 I heard Gloria Steinem’s
famous “You Can Have it All”
speech on my women’s college
campus
• I didn’t hear her say you can
have it all because someone is
going to give it to you
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5. Flexibility Today: 1 Step Forward, 2 Steps Backward
• Most companies have still not figured out how to
institutionalize flexibility
• Pockets here & there: nearly half of Aetna’s employees
work at home
• Yahoo moved backward and ordered all employees back
to the office
• In the near term work-life balance will continue to be
mostly one-off deals with individual employees.
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6. Work-Life FIT is Up to You
“Whether you have a supportive workplace culture or you
don’t, the responsibility for making it work comes down to
each of us,” says Brad Harrington, exec. director of Boston
College Center for Work & Family. “You can only blame your
employer for so long. Assuming you have marketable skills &
you have the courage of your convictions, at some point you
have to say, ‘it comes down to me to fix the situation.’”
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7. This webinar will help you decide…
• If you’re thinking of leaving the
workforce for the right reasons
• If you’ve considered not only the
positive side positives—but also
how leaving could negatively
impact your career, family and
life
• If complete work/life “balance”
is actually attainable in or out of
the workforce
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8. Who or What is Driving You Out of the Workforce?
Do you have a bad case of motherhood guilt?
• Pressure from family & friends
• Overblown news stories
• Recent study: daycare does not cause
behavior problems
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9. Why Are You Considering a Hiatus?
• Fueled by emotions?
• Short-term fix for longer-term issues?
• Problems that could be solved now?
POLL:
What’s your top reason?
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10. The Majority of Mothers Work at All Economic Levels
As of 2012, the Pew Research Study found that 7
out of 10 women work
• All these women are not raising
troubled kids
• Kryptonite can’t destroy mother-
child bond
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11. Myth that Working Moms Spend No Time with their Children
“Studies have shown that working moms spend 86% as much
time home with their children as employed Moms do. Working
parents, too, are part of their children’s educational, social &
emotional development.”
--From “Opt Out or Pushed Out: How the Press Covers Work/Family Conflicts” by Center for Worklife Law,
University of California
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12. Let Kids Be the Judge
Question posed to Mary Quigley, NYU Professor & author of blog on mothering adult
children (www.mothering21.com):
Women who leave the workforce often do so out of fear that
not being home will have a long-term negative effect on their
children. You teach a lot of young people—do you see a lot of
damage caused by working mothers? Have most working
women been positive or negative role models?
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13. Answer from Mary Quigley on Impact of Working Moms
“Most of the young people I teach have mothers who always
worked or returned to work at some point. I don’t hear
resentment about the fact that their mothers worked—in fact I
think they’re proud and appreciative that their mothers’
earnings helped the family with things like expensive college
tuitions.”
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14. Working to be A Role Model
• Both boys and girls benefit from working mother role model
• Girls need to see that women can take care of themselves
• Boys need to see that women can support a family, too
• Story of young boy who believes men are most powerful
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15. Work and Your Other Key Relationship
Will it be 1950 or 2013 in your partnership if you
don’t work?
• Power of money in a marriage
• How will your partnership
change?
• How will you define equality?
• How will you & your partner
define your role at home?
• Story: “What have you done all
day?”
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16. Face Your Honest Feelings About Your Current Work
• Lack of overall professional
ambition?
• More interested in “job” than
“career”?
• Industry wrong fit?
• Job function wrong fit?
FACT: Few women leave the workforce because
they hate their jobs.
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17. The Crux of the Matter: Why Do You Work?
POLL:
What’s the Main Reason
that You Leave the
House Each Day?
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18. Can You Afford Not to Work?
• Current comfort vs. future needs
• Can big expenses—e.g., desired home
renovations or college educations be
covered by one income?
• Retirement savings—need 20X final
household income before retirement
• Care of family members with limited
resources
• The “you never knows”—spouse job loss,
death, divorce
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19. Elder Care Cost for You & Your Parents
• National average hourly rate for home
health aides: $21 per hour
• National average monthly base rate in
assisted living community: $3,550
• National average daily rate for nursing
home: $222 - $228.
Source: MetLife Mature Market Institute, 2012
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20. What You Need for Retirement Security
Example: If your household income is $100K at
retirement, you need $2 million saved beyond
Social Security
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21. Alarming U.S. Retirement Savings Shortfalls
• 75% nearing retirement in 2010 had less
than $30K in their retirement accounts
• Almost half of middle class workers will
be poor or near poor in retirement,
living on food budget of about $5/day
• 32% of retired women have pensions vs.
55% of men—and women’s benefits
amount to about half of men’s
Source: “Our Ridiculous Approach to
Retirement”, New York Times, July 21, 2012
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22. We All Make Sacrifices for Our Children…
…but sacrificing long-term financial security may be one sacrifice too many.
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23. Why Do You Work? Career Goals
What do you want to achieve
before final retirement?
• Title or level
• Compensation
• Specific accomplishments for you or
others
• Industry recognition
• Fame
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24. How Would A Hiatus Set You Back?
• 93% of women want to return to work; only 74% succeed (source: prominent
demographer Sylvia Ann Hewlett)
• Women who stay out of workforce 3 or more years lose 37% of earning
power (source: www.momsrising.com)
• How could you keep a hand in your career?
• What resources would help you resume your career?
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25. Why Do You Work? Sense of Self
Confidence is the first thing that falls
through a gap in a resume…“I used to be
someone”
What drives your sense of self?
• Intellectual capability?
• Career success?
• Ability to help others?
Assess professional vs. personal factors
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26. What Would Your Stay-At-Home Elevator Speech Be?
I’m just at home taking care of the kids
vs
I’ve taken a five-year hiatus from the
workforce until my kids are in middle
school. In the meantime I’m
continuing to use my accounting
skills on the finance committee of my
town.
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27. Know Your Professional Persona
You can take a woman out of
professional work, but you
can’t always take the
professional work out of a
woman.
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28. Why Do You Work? Intellectual Fulfillment
Where will you find intellectual
stimulation at home?
• Type A vs. Type B stay-at-home Moms
• Board members vs. room mothers
• Intellectual outlets: educational courses,
freelance work, etc.
Thrill of no commute and neglected house
projects wears off
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29. Do What Makes YOU Happy
• When Mommy is happy, baby is happy
• “Feel guilty” time vs. “me time”
• Personal needs vs. family needs
Where will you be happiest in the short
and long-term—work or home?
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30. Don’t Leave Without It… A Solid Stay-At-Home Plan
How you will take care of
yourself…not just your family?
• Continued household help/child care to free
up “me time”?
• Intellectual pursuits
• Volunteer work special to you
• Freelance work to stay current
• Continuing education
• How to keep professional relationships alive
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31. The Myth of Work-Life Balance…In or Out of the Workforce
• Seesaws are always
uneven
• Workaholics vs.
volunteeraholics
• Manage expectations—
your current form of
“work” or home at high
end of seesaw at different
times
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32. A Professional Hiatus May Be the Right Decision for You If…
• You’re leaving on your own volition—not the pressure of
others
• You are truly unhappy with your job or career and you
need to regroup
• You will not jeopardize current or future financial
security
• You’ve made a professional case for flexibility in your
current job (Part II of webinar!) to no avail…and…
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33. A Professional Hiatus May Be the Right Decision for You If…
• You’ve exhausted flexible work options at other
companies
• Entrepreneurial ventures are not for you
• You have a solid “stay at home” plan for intellectual
stimulation, self-fulfillment and life partner equality.
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34. Part II of Look Before You Leap Webinar on April 30th, Noon EST
This “Exhaust Your Flexible Work Options” discussion will
help you:
• Determine first if flexibility is possible in your current job
• Research successful flexibility case studies
• Make a professional, business case for flexibility
• Write a compelling flexibility proposal
• Consider flexible alternatives beyond your current company,
including entrepreneurial ventures.
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35. Let’s Stay in Touch
Email me at ksollmann@9livesforwomen.com
or tweet at @9livesforwomen with additional
questions, comments and topics you would like
me to cover in Part II.
Many thanks for your participation!
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