Event Details
May Chapter Meeting & Topic: "How to Build Your Credibility, Establish Strategic Relationships & Influence Organizational Decision Making"
| Date: | May 10, 2018, 7:30am |
| Location: | Merchants & Marine Bank - Main Branch 3118 Pascagoula St. Pascagoula, MS 39567 |
| Price: | No cost for GCHRA Members; $15.00 for non-members |
| Event Type: | Meeting |
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In order to become influential, you first have to understand the factors that lead to being viewed as a person with influence and commit to cultivating traits and skills within yourself that will position you as an influential professional who can have strategic impact.
Cultivating influence is essential to a being viewed as an effective leader – formal or informal – and is an important key to getting opportunities to have a strategic impact within your organization. Influence begins with establishing credibility and building effective relationships. People who are able to influence others – even without formal authority – are in a unique position to distinguish themselves as strategic-minded professionals, and they can have a real impact on organizational decision making.
Mary Gormandy White, M.A., SPHR, SHRM-SCP is a founding partner of MTI Business Solutions/Mobile Technical Institute. As the firm's Director of Corporate Training & Talent Development, Mary teaches a variety of HR topics throughout the U.S.
Mary has more than 25 years of professional experience working with adult learners in corporate, career college and higher education settings, as well as significant experience in operations and human resource management.
She holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in Communication, (from Auburn University and Spring Hill College, respectively). She is a certified Everything DiSC trainer and PXT Select Certified Professional, and also holds senior-level HR certifications from SHRM and HRCI.
