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2011
Rock Your Network® Online: How to Use LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook to Make Your Network Thrive
Date: Tuesdays, Oct. 11 - Nov. 1
Time: Noon - 1:15 p.m. CST | 1 p.m. - 2:15 EST
Location: Comfort of your own chair (teleseminar)
This four-week teleseminar series includes:
- How to update and brand your LinkedIn bio - and use cool NEW tools to boost your online visibility
- How to use Twitter to demonstrate your thought leadership and create opportunities for your career and business
- How to save THOUSANDS of dollars in YP online and print ads.
- Little-known Google tools you can use to get on Page One.
- Security, privacy settings, and more!
- The wrap-up: Tools to help you Rock Your Network® Online in Just 5 Minutes a Day!
Register Now!
Rock Your Network®
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 5
Time: 7 p.m. CST
Location: 40Plus/Job Forum, Mayfair Mall
Networking is the No. 1 way people land new jobs. Learn — and use — Wendy Terwelp’s easy three-step networking system during this fun and action-packed one-hour presentation. Want to take the pain out of networking and be more confident for your next event? This program shows you how to network with ease and make new connections on the spot.
Wendy - thanks for the articles and the great presentation. I am a horrible introvert and you made it so easy, even I am willing to do it! — Noël F.
ASTD's Career Week
Dates: Sept. 19 - 23 (M-F)
Th., Sept. 22 is Wendy's webinar: Jumpstart Your Job Search!
Time: 2 - 3 p.m. CST / 3 - 4 p.m. EST
Location: American Society for Training & Development
LAUNCH Infoline: Jumpstart Your Job Search & Get Hired Faster
Sponsored by the American Society for Training & Development
Author: Wendy Terwelp
Description: Take an active role in your career search starting with this Infoline! Learn how to begin your job search, network online and off, and hone your interview and negotiation skills to get the job you really want.
Rock Your Network® Online: Use Social Networking to Grow Your Career Business
Date: Thursdays, June 9 - June 30
Time: 1 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. CST
Location: Comfort of your own chair (teleseminar)
This 4-week teleseries program covers:
- How to create additional revenue streams for your career business, including how to write branded LinkedIn bios
- How to save THOUSANDS of dollars in YP online and print ads.
- How to use social media net new clients and build ongoing, positive client relationships
- “Here’s how to get more leads, to nurture your prospects, to educate your buyers, to service your customers.”
— Chris Brogan, Social Media Expert, Entrepreneur
Rock Your Network® Online: How to Use LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook to Make Your Network Thrive
Date: Tuesdays, June 7 - June 28
Time: Noon - 1:15 p.m. CST
Location: Comfort of your own chair (teleseminar)
This four-week teleseminar series includes: Tools to help you Rock Your Network® Online in Just 5 Minutes a Day!
ASTD International
Conference & Exposition
Date: May 23-25
Time: Duration of event daily
Location: American Society of Training & Development,
Orlando, FL
Wendy Terwelp will serve as the conference's Career Coach, offering coaching services for the duration of the confererence. Special emphasis, Social Media, including LinkedIn profile reviews. Her book: "Rock Your Network® for Job Seekers" is available in the event's bookstore (and here on this website).
How to Create Amazing Alliances for Power, Profit & Possibilities
Date: Thursday, April 7
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Pacific
Location: Career Management Alliance, Las Vegas, NV
Wendy Terwelp and Kirsten Dixson show you how to leverage your alliances the right way and how to use them to support each other’s long-term business goals. By creating amazing alliances, you’ll be energized to build a business that provides you with the lifestyle you want - more time, more money, more fun!
I really enjoyed your discussion on partnerships, btw, and am now motivated to pursue a co-authoring agreement with Kathy Hansen for a book on storytelling resumes. Still in infant stage, but I wouldn't have even considered it before the conference.
— Karen Siwak, Executive Director, Resume Confidential
It’s Not A Sale, It’s An Experience:
How to Create Powerful Client Relationships that Produce Profits
Date: Tuesday, March 15
Time: 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Eastern
Location: 2011 Career Thought Leaders
Conference & Symposium, Baltimore, MD
Hold on to your seats … Here comes Wendy Terwelp with not just a presentation, but an experience!
Your Takeaways:
- Ability to create the ultimate client experience and close more sales
- Easy-to-implement methods to convert prospects to your clients
- Sales insights that boost your confidence in selling premium-priced services
- Appreciation for the critical importance of managing customer expectations and building lifelong customer relationships
Wendy really "rocked" her presentation at the 2011 Career Thought Leaders Conference and Symposium! She promised a high-energy, informative, immediately useful session ... and she delivered. Wendy is an excellent speaker and really engages her audience. As the meeting planner, I was impressed with her attention to deadlines and deliverables. I highly recommend Wendy to other groups needing a speaker who will educate her audience and enliven the meeting.
—Louise Kursmark, Career Thought Leaders Consortium
Personal Branding: Stand Out; Get Hired Faster!™ - Half-day Workshop
Date: Friday, March 4
Time: 12:30 - 3:30 Central
Location: Blackhawk Technical College, Janesville, WI
Get ready to rock during this half-day workshop! Students, inlcuding a non-traditional population, will learn how to handle tough interview questions, including role playing responses; what not to wear - and what TO wear on interviews; how to write a compelling resume that reflects their transitional skills; and last, but certainly not least, how to rock their networks!
Personal Branding: Stand Out;
Get Hired Faster!™
Date: Thursday, Feb. 24
Time: Noon - 1 p.m. Central
Location: Blackhawk Technical College, Janesville, WI
Nike, Starbucks, and Trump: These companies know that branding is critical — it's what makes them stand apart from their competition. But branding isn't just for big companies with big advertising budgets. To win in today's competitive job market, personal branding is an essential part of the game.
During this highly interactive, jam-packed program, Wendy Terwelp will share tips, tricks, and strategies to help job seekers stand out from the crowd to get hired faster and emerge as rock stars at work.
ASTD TechKnowledge 2011
Conference & Exposition
Date: Feb. 2-4
Time: Duration of event daily
Location: American Society of Training & Development,
San Jose, CA
Wendy Terwelp will serve as the conference's Career Coach, offering coaching services for the duration of the confererence. Special emphasis, Social Media, including LinkedIn profile reviews. Additionally, Wendy will conduct an author's session on her book: "Rock Your Network® for Job Seekers" available in the event's bookstore (and here on this website).
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WISN Channel 12 (ABC)
Date: Monday, Nov. 1
Time: 10 p.m. CDT
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Wendy Terwelp was quoted during the Paycheck Fairness Act special report news segement. Tune in!
Note: Not in Milwaukee? Click here to watch.
Today's TMJ4 (NBC)
Date: Saturday, Oct. 23
Time: 9 a.m. Central (Appearing at 9:20)
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Wendy Terwelp was a guest on Today's TMJ4 News Live at Daybreak Saturday, which will feature her book, "Rock Your Network® for Job Seekers," in the news segement. Tune in!
Networking & Online Social Media
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 12 & Thursday, Oct. 21
Time: Noon - 1:30 p.m. Eastern
Location: BlueSteps Webinar
Despite common knowledge that networking is the very best strategy for successful career transition, many job seekers are vague about how to network effectively. For others, their idea of networking (asking people you know for a job) is off-putting, nerve-wracking, and unpleasant. In this program, networking guru Wendy Terwelp will dispel these negative notions and teach participants to embrace networking by learning:
- Why and how to network both online and off - with confidence and ease
- How to use LinkedIn and other social media for purposeful networking
- How to create an online bio/profile that generates interest, is on brand, and communicates YOU
- Tips to determine who to invite to your socila networks, who to avoid, and what to do when you receive invitations from people you don't know
- The ONE SECRET to getting recommendations - and why recommendations are mission-critical to your career success
- A blueprint for effective networking in just 5 minutes a day
How to Rebuild Your Network in 5 Minutes a Day
Date: Thursday, Oct. 7
Time: 10 a.m. Central, Table Talk: 11 a.m. Central
Location: Milwaukee JobCamp4, Potawatomi Conference Center
1721 W. Canal Street, Milwaukee, WI 53223
In this jam-packed program you will learn:
- Who's in your network and who needs to be
- Fast and easy ways to follow up and make your network thrive using just five minutes a day
- Five-minute social networking tips to crank your connections
- The ONE SECRET that ensures your network is there for your when you need it.
This program is one of the most useful things you can do with your time. Crank up your network and join us!
Rock Your Network® in the New Economy
Date: Begins August 12
Time: Noon - 1:15 p.m. Central / 1 - 2:15 p.m. Eastern
Location: Comfort of your own chair
Are you ready to step up to the next level in your career, business or job search, but every time you attend a networking event, you come home with loads of business cards and no real connections? Are you ready to love what you do and build successful business relationships that help propel you forward in your career? Are you tired of watching extroverts network with ease and confidence, while you hang out by the buffet table?
Would you like to learn the personal networking secrets of a proven networking coach who regularly lands raving fans?
Would you like to land these kinds of fans too -- not just any fans — the kind that lobby for your success, pay you with a smile, and refer their friends, neighbors, relatives, and colleagues until you're so busy you get a promotion, raise your prices, and start actually going on those vacations you've always wanted?
Yes? Then Rock Your Network® in the
New Economy is for you!
Read on to learn more and join me for this powerful telecourse beginning Thursday, August 12, 2010.
Social Networking: Get Personal; Get Hired!™
Date: June 16
Time: 7 - 9 p.m. CDT
Location: 40Plus / Job Forum
Borders Café, lower level west side,
8705 N. Port Washington Rd., Fox Point, WI 53217
It’s not about having one million friends. The goal is to establish real and helpful connections. In this session, Wendy Terwelp, The Networking Coach, shows you how to network the right way online for maximum results.
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How to Rebuild Your Network in Just
5 Minutes a Day™
Date: Sept. 24
Time: 11 a.m. - 12:15 EST
Location: NRWA National Conference, Annapolis, MD
During this session, career professionals learned how to rebuild their networks in only five minutes a day using online and offline tips, tricks, and strategies including 15 ways to make your network thrive, 7 fast and easy follow up tools, and more!
NRWA Pre-Conference Call
Date: July 22
Time: 3 - 4 p.m. EST
Location: National Resume Writers Association (NRWA)
During this pre-conference call, Wendy Terwelp, along with fellow NRWA conference presenters Wendy Gelberg, Phyllis Shabad, Sam Horn, and others previewed their presentations for the upcoming national conference.
Personal Branding: Stand Out; Get Hired Faster!™
Date: July 9
Time: 11 a.m. - Noon (general session); Noon - 1 p.m.; and 2 - 3 p.m. (table talks) CST
Location: JobCamp2, Milwaukee, WI
Nike, Starbucks, and Trump: These companies know that branding is critical — it's what makes them stand apart from their competition. But branding isn't just for big companies with big advertising budgets. To win in today's competitive job market, personal branding is an essential part of the game.
During this interactive, jam-packed, standing-room-only general session, Wendy Terwelp shared tips, tricks, and strategies to help job seekers stand out from the crowd to get hired faster and emerge as rock stars at work.
In the after-event survey, 120 attendees rated this presentation as "most helpful, interesting, and relevant" to their job search needs.
Click to view a photo of the packed room during this presentation. Photo permission: Milwaukee Job Camp.
Personal Branding: Introductory Presentation
Date: June 7
Time: 6 - 7 p.m. CST
Location: Professional Connections, Milwaukee, WI
During this presentation, Wendy covered personal branding basics and shared stories from her clients.
This 5-star presentation received cool comments from these participants:
Wendy had a great, positive attitude and useful information for all to take home. Well done!
–Paul Parsons
Excellent speaker, informative and a good exchange of ideas...Wendy is great and I look forward to going to the ICC with her and the others!
–Andy Cicero
Wendy was amazing and really covered what personal branding was all about! It was a good turnout, with great people and a beautiful sunset.
–Ally Blackburn
How to Rebuild Your Network in Just
5 Minutes a Day™
Date: June 17
Time: 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. CST
Location: 40Plus / Job Forum, Brown Deer, WI
During this seminar job seekers learned how to rebuild their networks in only five minutes a day using online and offline tips, tricks, and strategies including 15 ways to make your network thrive, 7 fast and easy follow up tools, and more!
Attendee Ellie Mixter-Keller tweeted, "Thanks 4 being such an inspiring speaker at 40+ Job Forum last night. Our best gig is in sight! YOU rock!"
Personal Branding: Stand Out; Get Hired Faster!™
Date: May 12
Time: 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. CST
Location: Institute for Supply Management (ISM), Milw., WI
During this interactive session, Wendy Terwelp shared tips, tricks, and strategies to help job seekers stand out from the crowd to get hired faster and emerge as rock stars at work.
Fabulous prizes were awarded throughout the program.
Rock Your Career® - The Fastest Way to Your Next Big Gig
Dates: Thursdays, April 23 - May 14
Time: Noon - 1 p.m. CST
Location: Teleseminar
In this four-week program, coach Wendy Terwelp provided the following:
- Resumes that Rock: Tips, tricks, and strategies to build a resume that grabs attention, communicates your value, and helps you land interviews.
- Invincible InterviewsTM: Tools to help you combat the grilling with ease and confidence.
- Rock Your Network®: The proven three-step process that helps you network effectively — without sounding like a beggar.
- Online ID: How to build a bio that rocks and tools to help you manage your online reputation.
Participants were able to apply what they learned immediately.
Learn How Branding Yourself and Your Business Will Make You Untold Riches
Date: March 30
Time: 10 - 11 a.m. CST
Location: Radio interview with Chuck Choate & Jim Gherke
During this show, Chuck and Jim interview branding expert Wendy Terwelp about how to make grocery and salon businesses thrive by having a strong brand, identifying a niche, attracting their ideal client, and charging top fees for top service.
Personal Branding: How to Use Your Brand to Get What You Want
Date: March 10
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. CST
Location: Association of Women in Communications, Milwaukee, WI
During this workshop style program, Wendy Terwelp, certified personal branding strategist, shared her tips, tricks, and strategies to help members and guests stand out from the crowd the right way to get what they wanted.
She says, "Whether it's a promotion, new job or more business, knowing — and taking control — of your brand is the first step."
Fabulous door prizes were awarded.
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Cool Comments from Event Participants
I not only enjoyed, but profited from the Rock Your Network® events sponsored by Wendy. I learned how to "do the networking" thing and really make it work. It has paid off immensely.
—Lisa Stanek, human resources professional
You rocked our conference! Your remarks were very well received and appreciated. Thank you for an excellent job.
—Steven Babitsky, Esq. President, SEAK Inc.
I have to express how glad I am that I attended this [Rock Your Network®] event. It was short yet, packed with very helpful information; I can see how networking builds on itself and I am glad I am learning from an authority such as yourself. Also, the professionals I met and connected with directly were friendly, welcoming and supportive. It was a very positive and pleasant experience.
—Gayle Gray
You excel at presenting on career topics such as networking, resume building, interview strategies, and job search strategies, which is why I keep asking you to speak at our Wednesday evening Job Forum meetings, and there is no way for you to measure how much I personally, as well as the rest of your audience, appreciate and gain from your presentations. You have a way about you that helps people.
—Lance Westen, Executive Director, Job Forum
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