JHTC, RWiT Event: Developing Influencing Skills

Session Description:

JHTC and RWiT are thrilled to present a workshop on Developing Influencing skills.

As you grow in your career, the need to influence others grows as well. In this session Executive Coach and Consultant Linda Lubin Thompson provides tools to expand your ability to positively connect, persuade and convince others.

You will learn how to:

1. Understand key work relationships and change even adversaries into allies;

2. Develop organizational savvy to get things done beyond your own workgroup;

3. Build support across departments/functions to achieve organizational objectives;

4. Leverage the power of storytelling to get support for your ideas.

Speaker:

Linda Thompson founded an executive coaching and leadership consultancy, L2T Leadership Development to unlock companies’ best kept secrets–their high-potential leaders below the executive level. Linda draws on more than 20 years of experience as a corporate vice president and director of human resources responsible for multiple areas of talent management and leadership/organizational development. Linda holds a Bachelor’s degree from Skidmore College and a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed the Human Resource Executive Program at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business as well as the OD/HR Management program at Columbia University.

Light dinner and refreshments served