Led by: Eilis Wasserman

Career success begins with self-discovery. Understanding your internal career identity is the first step to finding and thriving in a career and workplace most meaningful to you. Uncover your career personality sweet spot by reflecting upon your interests, skills and values.

Learning Outcomes:

• Assess your unique career interests, skills, and values within the workplace to discover your career focus
• Understand the importance of transferable skills as you consider your next career move

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients from Feb. – Aug. 2021.

Career and leadership workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. All sessions require active engagement and provide action-oriented steps for the participant. Career Workshops will focus on three phases of the career development process: EXPLORE, PREPARE, CONNECT.

Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.

Led by: Eilis Wasserman

What is your ideal job description and where do you thrive? Cultural fit is the most important factor for job satisfaction. Utilize and discover occupational resources that will allow you to research your best fit work environments in the 21st century.

Learning Outcomes:

• Reflect upon your ideal work environment and how to assess an organization’s culture
• Utilize local, regional, and national resources that will allow you to research your best fit work opportunities

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients from Feb. – Aug. 2021.

Career and leadership workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. All sessions require active engagement and provide action-oriented steps for the participant. Career Workshops will focus on three phases of the career development process: EXPLORE, PREPARE, CONNECT.

Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.

Led by: Eilis Wasserman

Looking to gain new vitality in an increasingly competitive workplace? What is upskilling? Learn how to set yourself apart and gain new skills and knowledge towards your career goals. There are so many small action steps and opportunities that will allow you to lean into your passions and learn new skills, especially in a remote world.

Learning Outcomes:

• Recognize the most in-demand skills sets and learn how you can fast track your skills through self-directed training and learning.
• Understand how to assess and hone your professional assets within your own organization or in the job search as companies embrace change.

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients from Feb. – Aug. 2021.

Career and leadership workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. All sessions require active engagement and provide action-oriented steps for the participant. Career Workshops will focus on three phases of the career development process: EXPLORE, PREPARE, CONNECT.

Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.

Led by: Eilis Wasserman

Lead with your strengths and show your unique value to employers. What is your professional mission and purpose? Learn to recognize and articulate your best strengths and skills and how to market them to employers as an authentic storyteller. Understand the importance of how past skills can translate to new experiences.

Learning Outcomes:

• Discover your strengths through career storytelling
• Learn how and where to showcase your unique skills and career story
• Understand the importance of transferable skills in one’s career journey

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients from Feb. – Aug. 2021.

Career and leadership workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. All sessions require active engagement and provide action-oriented steps for the participant. Career Workshops will focus on three phases of the career development process: EXPLORE, PREPARE, CONNECT.

Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.

Led by: Tisha Gierhart

Traveling on the road of life can be confusing and frustrating if you do not have your own personal roadmap. In this session, we will create your personal mission statement, identify your values, and explore your journey as you travel to your destination

Together we will answer these 3 questions:

1. Where am I headed?
2. How am I going to get there?
3. What is stopping me?

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients from Feb. – Aug. 2021.

Career and leadership workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. All sessions require active engagement and provide action-oriented steps for the participant. Career Workshops will focus on three phases of the career development process: EXPLORE, PREPARE, CONNECT.

Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.

Led by: Tisha Gierhart

Most people do not see life as a story they can write; in fact, most do not even see life as a story they live. You have the power every day to live your life by being intentional with what you choose. In this session, we will look at the story that our lives are telling us and create an outline to guide us.

Key Takeaways

• Understand the story you are telling with your life.
• To be inspired to want a better story for your life.
• Develop the outline you want for your story.

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients from Feb. – Aug. 2021.

Career and leadership workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. All sessions require active engagement and provide action-oriented steps for the participant. Career Workshops will focus on three phases of the career development process: EXPLORE, PREPARE, CONNECT.

Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.

Led by: Dr. Tim Hess

Find clarity in a busy, demanding world. Mindfulness is an ancient practice that has been shown to have benefits to health, wellness, and relationships. For thousands of years people from a variety of cultures and backgrounds have used meditation and mindfulness to manage stress and seek clarity.

Join us for this insightful session to discover practices you can immediately implement to enhance the clarity, and peacefulness, in your everyday world.

Key Takeaways

• Participants will be able to identify basic principles of mindfulness
• Participants will learn and practice mindfulness techniques

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients from Feb. – Aug. 2021.

Career and leadership workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. All sessions require active engagement and provide action-oriented steps for the participant. Career Workshops will focus on three phases of the career development process: EXPLORE, PREPARE, CONNECT.

Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.

Led by: Mitch Isaacs

Listen with your eyes. Networking is a common business experience, and while these events present a fantastic opportunity to make new connections, they can be overwhelming. Who do you talk to? What do you talk about? How do you move on from an awkward conversation? How do you know when someone is doing talking to you? You shouldn’t have to figure these things out on your own.

Join us for BodyWorking. In this session we’ll explore the nonverbal side of networking. We’ll teach you how to the read subtle nonverbal cues which will give you an advantage in these challenging social situations

BodyWorking is the art of using your body, and reading others, to improve your networking experiences.

Key Takeaways

• Increase self-awareness of nonverbal habits
• Increase the ability to read others’ nonverbal communication
• Identify signals of comfort, discomfort, fear, and strength.

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients from Feb. – Aug. 2021.

Career and leadership workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. All sessions require active engagement and provide action-oriented steps for the participant. Career Workshops will focus on three phases of the career development process: EXPLORE, PREPARE, CONNECT.

Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.

Led by: James Mitchell

Is your workforce in flux due to COVID, racial unrest, politics or the myriad of other problems that rose to the surface during 2020? Are you looking for a way forward while not knowing what the future holds exactly? How can you invest in employees in meaningful ways while implementing small (or large) changes brought on by recent circumstances?

We need a way to rise to the challenges, roll with the punches, and still move the needle on important business outcomes. The main way to do that is through our employees! Let’s spend some time together looking at the current landscape, laying out a vision for the future, and making a plan to change. We can do it – together!

Key Takeaways

• Identify their own comfortability with change
• Examine workplace issues as it relates to employees
• Set out a vision for the future – the “new normal”
• Plan for next steps

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients from Feb. – Aug. 2021.

Career and leadership workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. All sessions require active engagement and provide action-oriented steps for the participant. Career Workshops will focus on three phases of the career development process: EXPLORE, PREPARE, CONNECT.

Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.