February 2024 WNO Meeting

Join us February 26th for our monthly WNO meeting! This month's topic: Strengths In Transition Program​ featuring Heather Kay.

Please register by 02/26/2024 - 2:00 PM EDT to ensure receipt of the meeting link.

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The Strengths-based philosophy focuses on what you naturally do well so that you can continue to perform at your best. Who doesn’t want to do their best work?

When you are in transition, it can be hard to showcase your strengths. For one, you may not be aware of them, or you may not be able to describe them in a way that fully demonstrates how you have utilized them. Typically, it is simply hard to find a way to work them into conversation.

This 30-45 minute overview provides the background on why Strengths-based development is a key component to being successful and how you can begin to think about describing your Strengths during an interview.

The program covers these topics:

1. What drives performance
2. Strength’s statistics and philosophy
3. Definition of Strengths
4. Activities involving Strengths (exercise)
5. Examples of Themes
6. Example of how to answer interview questions with the HOW of your strengths.

The 3 Key Leading Take Aways are:

1. Understanding that we all have behaviors that we naturally do well
2. These behaviors differentiate us from others
3. Viewing ways to answer interview questions based on one’s strengths

If interested, coaching opportunities will be offered at a discounted rate for those in the session.

Heather Kay has been working with the Strengths philosophy for more than 10 years and has been a certified Gallup Strengths Coach since 2015. She has worked for numerous industries such as security, healthcare, insurance, and education, focused on Learning & Development and Talent Management roles. One of her greatest accomplishments was creating a Strengths-based organization where more than 1000 employees went through her program; Gallup asked her to present her outcomes and approach at its International Conference.

As a facilitator, Heather is centered on ensuring that her programs create a change in behavior which is why she focuses on specific workshops. She has helped people recognize and leverage their strengths, and leaders become more effective.

Heather is also certified in Ken Blanchard’s SL2 program – a Situational Approach to Leadership, and administers the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

Heather received her BA from Lehigh University, an M.Ed. from the University of South Carolina and a certificate in Training and Organizational Dynamics from Temple University. She lives outside of Philadelphia with her husband and two children. She is also a huge University of Wisconsin fan as her husband graduated from there, her daughter is currently there (’25) and her son will attend in the fall (’28).

​Register today!