Theres is Taking On Texas

This week, Theres Stiefer, director of Executive Education, will be in Austin, Texas for the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Management Leadership Institute for Career Services Professionals. This workshop is designed for career services professional from higher education institutions from across the nation, particularly new directors or mid-career professionals with two to seven years of experience in career services. The content is tailored to practitioners without extensive management training.

Management Leadership Institute (MLI) is a five-day, professionally intensive workshop led by faculty or experienced career services practitioners. MLI offers practical information and opportunities to network with peers and learn from experienced colleagues who have successfully met the challenges of career center management. The participant will:

• Learn leadership skills usefull for peer management and managing traditional direct reports
• Discover how one can add value and balance to a career center's mission and goals
• Get new methods of increasing the visibility of a career center within the university setting
• Develop a financial management plan and manage a budget under pressure
• Build a valuable network of colleagues in the career services profession

Theres will facilitate two sessions: The Manager's Toolbox and Career Development for the Career Developer.

The Manager's Toolbox will help participants develop their skills and confidence in their managerial roles. With the increasing complexity of work, continually changing expectations, and the need for higher levels of productivity and commitment, managers are required to perform in a more effective manner. This program has been designed to build skills in the basic competencies that managers need most in supervising and leading employees to greater individual, team, and organizational performance. Topics include the following:

• Employee Motivation - Energize or Polarize
• Performance Development and Growth
• Managing and Encouraging Differences
• What Keeps You Up at Night?

Career Development for Career Developers focuses on learning how to develop your own self. With the participants, Theres will discuss communicating one's talents and skills to perpetuate one's professional future; how to balance work and other function of one's life; setting and achieving goals personally and professionally; learning to enjoy oneself and one's accomplishments; and realizing that one's career is a journey, not a destination. Topics include the following:

• It All Begins With You
• Discover Your Purpose
• Emotional Intelligence
• What Give You Hope?

The institute is being held at Austin's Hilton Garden Inn and Executive Conference Center from July 12 through July 17.