The economy, like every other aspect of life, what rocked in unprecedented ways when COVID-19 hit in early 2020. The Xavier University Office of Alumni Engagement (a longtime partner of ours) decided to provide the graduating seniors and alumni community with resources for the daunting task of job searching during an economic downturn. We created this session, Confident Communications During Job Searching, to help them on their job search journeys.
Case Study: Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati
In March 2020 we began working with the Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati (FHLB Cincinnati) for two workshop sessions: Mapping Career Strategy and Building + Communicating Confidence. As we all know, March 2020 was when the country began to undergo massive shutdowns due to COVID-19, forcing many businesses to begin remote work. As our workshop approached, FHLB was managing a remote workforce for the first time, and could have decided to halt the programming but didn’t.
Case Study: Terumo Medical Corporation Mapping Career Strategy
In our second of two workshop sessions with Terumo Medical Corporation, we focused on Mapping Career Strategy with the newly-formed women’s initiative at the organization.
It is wonderful to return to clients to see how they build tools and actions over time and serve as accountability partners and networks for one another!
Case Study: Midwest Communications
Early in 2019, two members of the sales and marketing team at Midwest Communications (specifically Midwest Radio) approached us to begin a partnership. Their goal was specific: to elevate and empower the women of their local Southern Indiana community. They knew that their listeners and sponsors consisted of many small business owners and growing professionals that wanted and needed professional and personal development, and they wanted to ensure they could find it.
Together we designed a series of four workshops to take place across 2019, with the final session wrapping up in October.
Case Study: Ursuline Academy Building Confidence in Your Future
In September 2019 we were invited to create a workshop session for Ursuline Academy as a part of an event to welcome prospective 7th and 8th grade students to the institution. As a proud alumna of Ursuline myself, I (Rachel) was thrilled at the opportunity to give back as well as to work with young women at such a pivotal point in their lives.
Case Study: WE Lead Class 14
In September 2019 we had the honor of facilitating our third Women Excel, or WE Lead. WE Lead is a 10 month executive leadership program for women in the Greater Cincinnati region, presented by the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber. Participants in WE Lead are ambitious, high-achieving, passionate, and frankly, really interesting women that we always have a blast working with.
Case Study: Midwest Communications
Earlier this year we were invited to develop and facilitate a women’s leadership speaking series for Midwest Communications– specifically their Southern Indiana division of Midwest Radio. Midwest Radio owns and operates the premier radio stations of the Southern Indiana Region, and play an integral role in growing and fostering community in Evansville, Indiana and the surrounding areas. Specifically, Midwest Radio is dedicated to elevating their female community, who play a valuable role for their stations.
Case Study: UC Emergency Medicine Women's Initiative
We continued our work with the Emergency Medicine Department at the University of Cincinnati with a session for the department’s women’s initiative. Our workshop topic was Developing Solutions for Gender Issues and during the session we worked through the topics that rose to the top for participants in a pre-sessions survey. The topics we covered were on work / life balance or integration, advocating for others, and building confidence.
Case Study: AAR X Network Building Confidence Workshop
Case Study: Kao NOW
Our January workshop with Kao NOW, the women’s initiative at Kao, was a long-time coming as we had been planning with the initiative’s leaders for over a year to make the event a success. The topic selected by the group was Communicating Confidence for Achievement, which was paired with the creation of vision boards to kick off the new year.
Case Study: Barnes Dennig January 2019
In January 2019 we returned to Barnes Dennig with the intention to build on our November workshop session, “The Power of No”. For this half-day session we dove deep into the idea of confidence– why it matters, how it affects our presence in the workplace, and how to communicate it.
Case Study: Episcopal Retirement Services
In November 2018 we had the opportunity to partner with ERS’ Young Professionals group to present a Building and Communicating Confidence workshop to kick off their offsite. We assisted the participants in articulating their strengths into their “30 second commercial” that will help them communicate their contributions with people in positions of influence. Then, we worked with participants to develop and practice personal and professional assertive communication strategies that can be used in various workplace situations, increasing their confidence in daily interactions with colleagues and supervisors.