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Managing Your Career Strategically

$20-40

"Manage Your Career Strategically" by Margie Blanchard, Ph.D., co-founder,The Ken Blanchard Companies

You’ve just received an offer from your employer to transition to a new position or received a job offer. In the excitement and haste to complete the process, stop for a minute to think what issues are important to consider.

• Will the new organization be a good fit?
• Who will you be working with?
• Do they share the same values?
• Does the work match your interests?
• Will your skills be appreciated?
• Will the job make you happy?

Margie Blanchard, Ph.D., will share with you the tools and strategies for success in your career change. Evaluate job opportunities from the perspective of learning new skills, increasing your earnings, and the possibility of rising to positions with greater authority, responsibility, and prestige.

Blanchard is known worldwide as a compelling speaker, an accomplished management consultant and trainer, a best-selling author, and an entrepreneur.

Speaker of the Year 1991 by "New Woman" magazine and American Express, Blanchard is also co-author of The One Minute Manager Gets Fit and Working Well– Managing for Health and High Performance. She is a faculty member of the University of San Diego School of Business Administration.

Blanchard heads the firm’s Office of the Future—a think tank charged with shaping the future of both the training industry and the company. Blanchard received her bachelor and master degrees from Cornell University and her doctorate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

A light dinner, beer, wine and soft drinks will be provided.

$35 online, $20 student ( https://www.123signup.com/event?id=jkgpf)

$40, on sight, $25 student (http://www.pgc200.org/2010/01/margieblanchard/)