1. "What Do You Do When the Devil Wears Prada? - Tips to Navigate Any Workplace."
A hands-on guide to the unwritten rules of the workplace with practical tips on what you need to do, how you need to act and the strategies you need to adopt to survive in a team-playing, competitive, and often hostile work place.
2. "Dining Etiquette: A Dollars and Sense Issue."
Employers judge you by your lack of manners. It is imperative that you learn the written and unwritten rules of business lunches, dinners and cocktail receptions to avoid career disasters at interviews and off-site meetings.
3. "The Power of Networking: Making Connections That Count."
Networking is one of life’s most important skills. Everyone has networks. Successful net workers extend themselves by helping others and in the process helping themselves. Learn the do’s and don’ts of networking and start harnessing the connections that can help you jump start or rewire your careers.
4. "Surviving Career Catastrophes: Getting Over Getting Fired, Downsized, Merged or Outsourced."
Globalization guarantees that every person working today will at some point be fired, downsized, merged or outsourced. How you handle these disasters is critical if you are to move forward and lead an emotionally satisfying and economically rewarding life.
5. "Can You Have A Life? – Career, Marriage and Children."
A thought provoking discussion of the dynamics involved in combining career, marriage and children – with an analysis of what it takes to survive both emotionally and financially.
6. "Women and Corporate Leadership."
Has the glass ceiling finally been broken? A look at how women are represented at the highest levels of corporate life today, their styles of management and what it takes to reach these ranks.
7. "Dating Abuse: Every Student's Issue."
Dating violence is pandemic on American college campuses: The Justice Department reports that nearly 25% of women are assaulted by a current or former partner and that 16-24 year olds are the most likely victims. This discussion describes the warning signs of battering and stalking and the steps students and faculty can take to keep themselves and their campuses safer.
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8. "Customized Lectures for Your Students."
Often, university faculty will ask Dede to develop lectures to meet the specific career and work/life needs of their students. Some of the lectures described above were created in response to queries from university presidents, faculty and career officers. Please contact Dede directly to discuss how she can develop and market specific lectures for your students.