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Happy Holidays from WICT!
Include WICT in Your 2021 Professional Development Plan
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Register for April 2021 virtual program, EDS: Executive Leadership Presence
- Applications for BMLI Classes 44 & 45 now being accepted
New Additions to WICT's Online Learning Library
- Together Apart: Building Meaningful Virtual Connections
- Embracing & Driving Powerful, Positive Change
WICT Gratefully Acknowledges Our 2020 Touchstone Partners
- In these challenging times, your support and partnership means more to us than ever
- We look forward to continuing to build productive relationships in 2021 and beyond
@WICTHQ on Social Media
- Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter
- Stay up-to-date on the latest WICT news, and learn more about the business case for gender diversity, equity and inclusion
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April 6-9, 2021
1:00 - 5:00 pm (Eastern) Each Day
Virtual Program
Executive leadership presence is a critical competency for today’s leaders and is expected in order to move beyond mid-management. Executive Leadership Presence, one of two workshops in WICT’s Executive Development Series, is designed for mid-career professional women to inspire confidence, engage and influence others, and maintain productivity while increasing visibility and career mobility.
This virtual program introduces participants to a unique framework and toolkit of 21 specific attributes, skills and thought processes that work together to help them build the knowledge and skills needed to:
- Project strong executive presence.
- Create powerful, high-impact first impressions.
- Achieve a “Confident Casual®” style in both formal presentations and impromptu communications.
- Build and maintain a reputation for strong executive presence and a value-based leadership brand.
Finally, participants practice bringing all elements together to convey the “Confident Casual®” method (the ability to convey complementary messaging that is both strategic and visionary, while also engaging hearts/emotions) by recording themselves delivering a mock presentation and then receiving feedback from their peers and our professional coaches.
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Applications Are Now Being Accepted for BMLI Classes 44 and 45
HR Approval Forms Due Tuesday, February 2;
Completed Applications Due Thursday, February 18
Named in honor of Betsy Magness, an industry pioneer, BMLI serves as the gold standard in leadership development programs. Last year, WICT celebrated the program's 25th anniversary and 1000th graduate.
BMLI is produced in conjunction with renowned content leaders at the Center for Creative Leadership. Accepted participants are immersed in an educational program emphasizing core leadership skills which include driving and implementing change, communication effectiveness, navigating career challenges, creating engagement, driving results, and executing organizational vision.
Program alumnae comprise the upper echelon of women leaders in media, and they continue to be actively involved in transforming their companies and the industry at the executive level.
The Institute's Founding
Established by WICT in 1994 with a generous grant from TCI's Bob Magness and J.C. Sparkman, the Betsy Magness Leadership Institute is named in honor of one of the industry's most charismatic leaders, a cable pioneer who combined business acumen with compassion. Betsy Magness was instrumental in transforming TCI, later AT&T Broadband and Internet Services, and now Comcast NBCUniversal, into one of the nation's most prominent and influential media companies.
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WICT records all webinars and makes them available to members in our Online Learning Library. Below are two recent additions, recorded earlier this month.
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Together Apart: Building Meaningful Virtual Connections
Part of the Executive Level Distance Learning Series
Recorded December 16, 2020
During this program, Priya Parker, host of The New York Times podcast Together Apart and author of The Art of Gathering, shared exciting new approaches on how we can connect to transform the ways we spend our time together. Drawing on her expertise as a facilitator of high-powered gatherings around the world, Priya helped us reimagine our virtual meetings to deal more productively with the effects of isolation.
In her book, Priya argues that the gatherings in our lives, work-related and otherwise, are often lackluster and unproductive. We rely too much on routine and repeating the past when we should focus on the distinctiveness of the people involved. At a time when many of us are confined to our homes and crave personal connections more than ever, she sets forth a human-centered approach to gathering that will help everyone create meaningful, memorable experiences, large and small, for work and for play.
This stimulating conversation was facilitated by Johnita Due, WICT Global Board Member and SVP & Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, WarnerMedia News and Sports. Tune into the recording to take away new insights and apply them to your next work meeting, industry conference or family gathering – whether they're in-person or virtual.
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Priya Parker is a master facilitator, strategic advisor, acclaimed author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters, and executive producer and host of The New York Times podcast, Together Apart. She has spent 15 years helping leaders and communities have complicated conversations about community and identity and vision at moments of transition.
Photo of Priya Parker (c) Mackenzie Stroh
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Johnita P. Due is Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer for WarnerMedia News and Sports, the parent company of CNN. Based in CNN's headquarters in Atlanta, she reports to Jeff Zucker, Chairman, WarnerMedia News and Sports & President, CNN Worldwide. Due has presented or moderated at numerous events on media law and DEI, including the WICT Leadership Conference.
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Access to this recording is free to WICT Executive level members |
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WICT gratefully acknowledges the Walter Kaitz Foundation
as the Exclusive Sponsor of the
Executive Level Distance Learning Series
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Embracing & Driving Powerful, Positive Change
Recorded December 9, 2020
A leader’s responsibility involves not only getting people to accept that change is inevitable, but driving transformation when it is needed. In this recorded webinar, you will learn why change is so difficult for companies to initiate and when innovation does occur, it frequently falls victim to a “flavor of the month” mindset.
Join speaker Michael Levin for this informative session and add the following skills to your leadership toolkit:
- Understand how to get your team to embrace change and how you as a leader can drive that change. You will also learn about the organizational modifications that senior leadership must make to create an environment where this can occur.
- Recognize why change frequently isn’t sustainable and is dismissed as a “flash in the pan.” You will return to your work knowing the three steps that are critical to creating positive, sustainable change, and how to implement those steps.
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Michael Levin is President and CEO of Custom Solutions Inc. As a successful entrepreneur, he has launched a variety of product and service companies and built them into multi-million-dollar entities. Previously, Michael spent his corporate career at Pepsi Cola where he ran divisions in San Francisco, Oakland and Reno. He is the author of Let Them See You Sweat about his personal relationship with stress, and he has spoken on TV and radio shows around the country sharing his business and sales knowledge.
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Access to this recording is free to all WICT members |
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Connect With us Online
Follow @WICTHQ on social media (we’re active on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram) for the latest news on gender diversity in the workplace, leadership development and productivity tips, programming updates and diversity, equity and inclusion data.
Below are some sample posts from Twitter (left) and LinkedIn (right). Make sure to follow us online for more valuable tips and updates.
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