Are you interested in attending Realizing Your Vision for Women of Color but you aren’t sure about how to convince your manager to send you? We provided you with a list of compelling reasons that you can use when you approach your boss.
1. Networking – Meeting other professionals becomes a very valuable resource when your organization is looking for input on a new project or has a position to fill. You don’t even need to collect business cards during the workshop! We provide you with a networking directory including contact information and biographies of your fellow participants so that you can stay in touch. You will also have the most diverse network of industry professionals. If your boss wants a go to person for new hires it could be you.
2. Inspiration = Employee Retention – Our program brings together amazing role models in our keynote speakers and panelists to inspire you and our former workshop participants have remarked that attending TechLeaders renews their commitment to their technical careers. A passionate and excited employee is the best kind of have on your team.
3. Develop New Skills – TechLeaders attendees walk away with skills and ideas from our highly rated facilitators, senior level speakers and colleagues that they can immediately put into practice after attending the workshop. Some of those skills include negotiation, ways to increase your influence and buy in to your ideas, developing your organizational savvy, finding mentors and deliberate networking. Realizing Your Vision will also help you to build a vision for your technical career. A highly skilled and trained employee is a valuable asset.
4. Take the Next Step – Realizing Your Vision helps attendees figure out the next steps that they want to take in their careers. Managers love it when their employees have detailed action plans for their projects and careers. This helps your manager to help you!
5. Highlight Organizational and Managerial Commitment to Diversity – By supporting your participation in TechLeaders: Realizing Your Vision for Women of Color your manager signals your organization’s and your manager’s commitment to workforce diversity. This will enhance your manager’s reputation internally and externally. You can casually drop “my manager sent me” or “my manager supported my attendance” into all of your networking conversations!