As the convener, you can use the strategies provided in this session to fix what’s broken, jumpstart your team toward its goals, and minimize time waste. Beyond getting practical advice for eliminating common derailers, you’ll learn about an alternative system that breaks the mold of “the way we always hold meetings.”

More than 47 million Americans quit their jobs in the past year. Are you considering adding one more to the count?

It was hard deciding to leave your job, the one you worked hard to land, to become a full-time parent or caregiver. Deciding when (or if) to return to work can be even more complicated.

If 60 is the new 50, then encore careers are the new retirement. Applying design thinking and materials from the best-selling book, Designing Your Life (Burnett and Evans), we’ll build a base from your “now” and begin to “wayfind” options to, and through, this next stage of your life.

For many Bates alums a year, or two, or a few after graduation, the question comes up. Pesky at first, then more persistent, we wonder when (or if) heading back to school is a good idea. After all, most of us assumed we would pick up another degree at some point. Is now the right time? If not now, when?

Anne Shields, CEO and Career Coach, Lighthouse Career Coaching shares her tip Alumni Interview: Yes or No.

You shudder when you hear the word, but you realize that networking really does work and that you need to get out there and do it. Join us to review the basics of interviewing and walk away with more confidence, comfort, as well as several, not-too-risky strategies and tactics to use as you find and make those vital connections, on-line and in-person.