Powerful Influencing for Career Success -
Saturday 27 September 2008
Overview of Workshop
This workshop was designed to enable participants at all levels in their career to gain a deep understanding and insight into their own and others behaviours and what drives those behaviours.
Developing a powerful influencing style is career enhancing and demonstrating powerful influencing skills is often the determining factor in interview and promotion success.
Participants learnt about DiSC and the 3 most powerful techniques to significantly improve communication and influencing skills, covering theoretical concepts and pragmatic application in a work environment.
What is DiSC?
DiSC is one of the leading behavioural profiling tools in the world. DiSC is a powerful emotional intelligence tool, enabling high levels of self awareness. DiSC also creates greater awareness of others behaviour and unlocks the secrets to managing, influencing and servicing different types of people.
Major Sponsors
Sponsoring Presenter:
Vanessa Giannos, My Performance Coach
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Venue & Catering Partner
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Vanessa Giannos
Vanessa Giannos, Principal of www.myperformancecoach.com.au is a HR and Human Growth Guru, having developed a wealth of HR, people development and strategic knowledge from her local and global HR experiences over the last 22 years. With phenomenal passion, strong business acumen and strategic skills, Vanessa takes a pragmatic approach with executive teams and has delivered tremendous results building high performance cultures, strong employee engagement, increased profitability and, performance, communication, service excellence, leadership capability, knowledge management and team building.
Vanessa holds a Masters in Human Resources Management, is a senior member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (UK), holds three formal coaching qualifications and is a qualified DiSC & MBTI qualified facilitator. Vanessa is the Principal of My Performance Coach, plays an active role as a Steering Committee member of FITT and leads the Mentoring and Skill development program.
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FITT a Hit at Hudson
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| Speakers Annie Stewart and Stephanie Heasman drawing the raffle prizes |
SC Member Carolyn Shaw with Raffle Winner Jodi Steel |
FITT's October Career Management Event sponsored by Hudson was a great success. Attendees were treated to gourmet hors d'oeuvres and drinks while enjoying networking to the backdrop of panoramic harbour vistas from Hudson's spectacular venue.
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| Networking fun |
Career Management and Executive Coach Dr Annie Stewart's career sustainability insights from her latest research were well received and resonated deeply with the audience. Hudson's Stephanie Heasman provided valuable information on employment trends that provided considerable food for thought and stimulated audience discussion. Participant feedback was overwhelmingly positive! Caroline Molloy was the lucky winner of Hudson's door prize, a Tailored Career Review and Coaching Program, valued at $2,500!
FITT is gratefully acknowledges our raffle prize sponsors Candy Tympson and Robyn Henderson for their generous donations of career development books and CDs.
IT Trends 2007 – Annual FITT Lunch
- 21 August 2007, Dockside, Cockle Bay, NSW
At IT Trends 2007, FITT’s annual review of where the industry is headed, we were fortunate to hear from two of Australia’s most prominent IT leaders – Tracey Fellows, Managing Director, Microsoft Australia and Merle Singer, Director, Culture and Reputation, Dimension Data.
Tracey spoke about Microsoft’s attention to gender diversity, mentoring in the organisation and mobility enabling a more flexible work environment for staff. Merle updated the group on the Green CIO and how we can all do simple things to reduce our energy consumption and use technology to adopt more environmentally friendly practices. [Merle’s presentation can be downloaded here]
The event was a sell-out with over 225 people attending from a diverse range of organisations including Cisco, Singtel Optus, Vodafone, Network Appliance, Dell, Testpro, WebCentral, ZDNet Australia, Wacom, Dimension Data, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Westfield, UTS, TafeNSW, Thoughtworks, Telstra and many more.
There were some terrific prize giveaways including a HTC Touch donated by Microsoft, a Bamboo Graphics tablet from WACOM, a Linksys Router from Cisco and a Jurlique Spa voucher from Thoughtworks.
FITT thanks Dimension Data and Wacom the IT Trends 2007 major sponsors; Thoughtworks the educational sponsor and ZDNet.com.au, the event media partner.
Media coverage of the event -
Gender diversity at all costs: Microsoft Australia
26th June - Mentoring Workshop Evening - more...
Social
Event - held 9 May 2007
Attendees enjoyed a relaxing drink and a good social
chat with fellow FITT colleagues in the relaxed surroundings
of the American Club, overlooking the Botanical Gardens and
the Opera House.
FITT May Breakfast & Free Tour of CeBIT- held Thursday 3 May 2007
Held at The Ballroom, Citigate Central Hotel in Haymarket, Sydney, this breakfast on ICT Careers was attended by 120 people and 40 went on the CeBIT Exhibition Tour. The 4 panel speakers made a great impression with their career pathways and other 5 members who had volunteered to talk about their careers had helpful suggestions for attendees. Keynote speaker, Penny Coulter, provided an excellent overview of careers now and in the future. Please email Maggie Alexander at membership fitt.org.au to to request a copy of Penny's presentation.
FITT International Women’s Day Luncheon – Held March 8 2007
At FITT’s flagship event of the year attendees had the opportunity to hear from some of the highest-profile women
in the ICT industry including: Kate Vale, Head of Sales and
Operations, Google Australia; and Sheryle Moon, Chief Executive
Officer, AIIA.
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