Alumni Professional Development – OLD
with Lighthouse Career Associates
Bates has partnered with alumna-owned Lighthouse Career Associates to offer alumni learning opportunities to enhance their professional development at any stage of their careers. Bates graduate and parent Anne Keenan Shields ’80, P’18 has 30+ years of career coaching experience, primarily with liberal arts graduates and students. Anne has worked at several of the top-tier liberal arts colleges and has consulted at or worked closely with dozens more.
The Bates Office of Alumni Engagement has worked with Anne to shape a slate of custom, virtual program offerings. We hope you find a subject (or several!) that will benefit you, whatever stage of your professional life you are in at this time.
Virtual Professional Development Program Series Schedule:
NEW DATE! Alumni Professional Development: Can this job be saved?
The pressure of doing more with less, the frustration of being unappreciated, and the empty space where “meaning” might have previously lived, all contribute to the question “stay or leave?”
Past Sessions & Recordings
Results-Driven Teamwork
In the modern workplace, team members must navigate an environment that is in constant flux. Participants will walk away with practical tips that they can employ immediately to improve their teamwork skills and help their teams become more effective.
Extinguishing Burnout
Caring for others can drain our own physical and emotional strength. This presentation will give an overview of the symptoms of compassion fatigue, how to recognize it in workers and how to measure its severity, and research-based techniques to address it.
[WATCH THE RECORDING] Alumni Professional Development: Grad School: now, later, or never?
For many Bates alums a year, or two, or a few after graduation, the question comes up. Niggling at first, then more persistent, we wonder when (or if) heading back to school is a good idea. After all, most of us assumed we would pick up another degree at some point. Is now the right time? If not now, when?
[WATCH RECORDING] Alumni Professional Development: Designing an Encore Career
Bates College + Lighthouse Career Associates Present a New Virtual Professional Development Program Series! Designing an Encore Career So, what are you going to do…
WATCH THE RECORDING: Relaunch Your Career
Bates College + Lighthouse Career Associates Present a New Virtual Professional Development Program Series! Relaunch Your Career It was hard deciding to leave your job,…