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The Look for Success: Working a Room
When: Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Time: 5:45 pm - Student and HR Professional Networking and PD Dinner Event
Place: Weston Golf and Country Club
50 St. Phillips Road, Toronto M9P 2N6
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
5:45 pm - Student and HR Professional Networking and PD Dinner Event
Weston Golf and Country Club
50 St. Phillips Road, Toronto M9P 2N6
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Studies have reported that as many as 70% of people experience symptoms of social anxiety when they enter a room to join a business or social gathering.
Diane Craig, Founder and President of Corporate Class Inc., will demonstrate how to work a room with confidence and poise. Diane has developed specific and detailed approaches to help you prepare, connect, shine and impress at any event you attend.

You will learn strategies to:

  1. Help you prepare for the event
  2. Make your entrance
  3. Execute the perfect handshake
  4. Master the art of introduction
  5. Use body language to build rapport and convey self-assurance
  6. Become an expert at small talk
  7. Remember names
  8. Exchange business cards effectively
  9. Exit gracefully
  10. Follow-up

Join us for this fun and interactive professional development networking session where students and Human Resource professionals mix and mingle, while enjoying Pizza and refreshments. Price includes 1 free drink ticket!

About the Speaker

Diane CraigAs President and founder of Corporate Class Inc., Diane Craig has been on a 30-year journey as an impression management expert. She has designed, created and implemented a comprehensive series of programs to polish the professional presence of today’s business leaders.

Diane has garnered international acclaim working with the who’s who in the business world. She has consulted with political leaders and celebrities, prepped guests of Royal families and prepared attendees of the G20 summit. Her expertise is sought by Fortune 500 companies, universities, media and North America’s top business schools. Diane’s programs provide the tools for executives and corporations to set themselves apart from the competition. Clients are taught how to present themselves in the best possible light, projecting credibility.

Diane studied Haute Couture at the Richard Robinson Academy of Fashion Design. She refined her skills at the Protocol School of Washington and completed certificates in Intercultural Studies at UBC and the Pacific University. She has travelled extensively and brings hands-on, world-class experience on cultural diversities to the North American boardroom.

Diane is a sought after speaker at national business meetings and presents all-inclusive workshops to corporate groups. She regularly appears on TV and radio, and is a favorite newspaper and magazine contributor. Diane is a faculty member of the Canadian Management Centre, and is on LifeSpeak’s national roster of speakers.

Diane Craig is committed to community service. She serves on the Premier’s Advisory Board for Organ Donation and Transplantation, the Canadian Council on Donation and Transplantation, and the Board of Trillium Gift of Life Network. She chaired her own not-for-profit organization, Sandrine’s Gift of Life, and she sits on multiple committees with Toronto missions and shelters. In 2003, Diane Craig was presented the governor General of Canada Meritorious Service Medal.

Cost:    
Members: $15
Guests: $15
Students: $15

Registration includes Pizza dinner, one free drink ticket, presentation,
interactive networking and parking.

Register HERE by 5:00 pm, Monday, January 16, 2012.

 
 
     
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
   
     
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