2011 MCDA Fall Event
Winning Presence for Career Development
Presenter: Pete Machalek, co-founder of SagePresence
Date: Thursday, November 3, 2011
Registration:12:30 – 1:00 PM
Program:1:00 – 4:30 PM
Location: Ridgedale Library
12601 Ridgedale Drive, Minnetonka, MN
Room RHR
Cost: $30 (Members)
$50 (Non-Members)
Register Now for the Fall Event!
There is a common denominator in the experience of career counselors working with challenging clients, and in the experience of their clients looking to present themselves when they network and interview.
That common denominator is a sense of risk. We are presenting ourselves and our ideas to an audience we want to inspire into action. Success or failure seems entirely determined by our performance in the moment, and with that sense comes natural barriers to our performance: We feel anxious and uncomfortable, we don’t know what to say or how to say it, and it very often seems like we’re trying to sell something to someone who may not want to buy.
The presentation will directly build the skills of career development professionals to help them “sell” their advice to their clients more effectively, while at the same time showing them processes that they can pass along to their clients to help them “sell” themselves more effectively in networking and interviewing conversations.
These skills include:
• How to bring the most productive mindset to challenging interactions
• How to work with the feelings that can get in the way of successful performance
• How to design messages and lead conversations that produce the results we want
This presentation will be led by Pete Machalek and will combine group discussion, theory and participatory exercises, as well as a handout that can be used to retain lessons for ongoing reference.
About the presenter: Pete Machalek began making film and video shorts as a teenager, and in college fell in love with
the process of communication that film and television represents so well. After earning a BA in Speech & Communications from Gustavus Adolphus college, Pete designed a unique program at the University of Iowa, earning a Master’s degree in Film Production and Communication Theory. Pete wrote, produced and directed the comic film-short An Existential Ennui, and ended up with an Academy Awards semifinalist in 1991, and has led a colorful career in marketing, publishing, writing, teaching, and training. Pete is past Director of Communications for the Twin Cities Chapter of the American Society of Training and Development.