Senior Seminar Bullets

• Don’t compromise your professionalism

• Problems can’t be solved with the same awareness that created them

• 24hr rule: Give yourself time to gain perspective on a issue heavy on the mind

• Come up with solution before you present the problem

• Exit gracefully

• Be strict about deadlines

• Build and show off your strengths

• You’ll never lead people who don’t respect you

• Let people learn for themselves

• Share the spotlight

• Volunteer

• Seriously grow your network

• Debrief after meetings (PMR)

• Keep budget simple (no à la carte)

• Create a timeline and stick to the timeline

• Create work plan (list of tasks for project) arranged by priority

• Don’t be afraid to speak up

• Engage your audience

• Expect to be backstabbed

• Plan ahead to take care of future overload

• Be polite to coworkers

• Embrace adversity

• Expose yourself to new concepts, methods, perspectives

• Realistic deadlines

• It’s all in the presentation

• Don’t put all your trust into technology

• Polish and project your image

• Keep the workplace as platonic as possible

• Watch your social media post

• Do more than your paid for, your best work all the time

• Don’t be afraid to say “I don’t know”

• Poised, positive, polite, productive

• Take notes

• Prepare a list of questions for meetings

• Exude confidence and walk tall