No hiPowerite Left Behind

Speaker: Mona Sabet

By this point, participants are often worried that they are falling behind. So this is our working session —- our chance to get caught up! Here's what to expect from this session:

First, we’ll ask everyone to share a check in on their Personal Platform.

You’ll have two minutes to state your current version of your Platform. It can be as simple as "I spend my days doing financial analysis and I like the problem-solving aspect of my job, but in the end my passion since I was in college has been journalism. I'd really love to write about how large company financial departments act as breaks instead of accelerators, but I don't know how much I have to say on the topic." 

Then, we will have five minutes to ask questions and offer suggestions.

Later in the session, you will pair up and work together to continue to refine each of your platforms. You will each have 15 minutes to completely focused on your own goals.

Before we leave, we’ll share our work! You’ll share where you are with your platform and evaluate how much progress you’ve made.

Session Goals: (1) Learn from each other and about each other. Get feedback from people who care. (2) Everyone now has a strong Personal Platform statement.

Communicating with Impact

Speaker: Bob Scirpo

Increasing your visibility requires you to make an impact in your communications. In Session 5, you’ll meet the amazing coaches from Slomoff Consulting. The founder, Danny, has a unique philosophy about communication that we’ve adopted at HiPower:

There's no such thing as public speaking. There are only conversations: one-to-one and one-to-many. The term 'presentation' is psychologically limiting because people who present, give speeches, or speak publicly tend to accidentally and unconsciously alter their behavior — becoming a fraction of their rich, conversational selves. If you want to excel at a skill, approach speaking the way great athletes and musicians approach their talent: develop a strong awareness of what you're doing when you're terrific and then use that knowledge to build consistency.

Bring your story, your platform, or a description of a topic you want to speak on. You'll get more impact from this session if you have something tangible to work with.

Session Goals: (1) Learn new strategies for communicating with impact. (2) Get a chance to practice these techniques on while communicating your unique platform.

Developing A Point of View

Speaker: Delida Costin

You have spent the year thinking about what you want to be known for outside of a job title. You have learned the importance of visibility and using personal stories to be more effective leaders. And you have heard what it takes to communicate for impact, because if you’re going to be visible you need to take the stage and communicate. What we haven’t discussed yet is how to make your platform stand out, be easily understood, and make an impression! In this final session before our HiPower Offsite, you’ll learn how to create a campaign around your platform. HiPower Board Member and strategist extraordinaire Delida Costin will help you apply what expert marketers know to do for their companies to your own platform and visibility.

Session Goal: Define what makes you different from others in the space you are interested in, and how you can use that difference to position yourself for greater visibility.

Hipower Conference

Each year, HiPower organizes a two-day conference where graduating Signature Program participants and the HiPower Alumni Network get to meet and work together to deliver value to one another, share Platforms, and continue to help the entire tribe to achieve their visions.