Speaker/Trainer

Are you interested in honing your speaking and facilitation skills while providing meaningful community service? Then consider presenting a two-hour seminar to the clients of Employment Connection at one of their Friday morning workshops.

For the past three years, the Community Relations committee of the Silicon Valley chapter of ASTD has been working with Santa Clara County's Employment Connection to offer a variety of work-related presentations to job-seekers. ASTD members benefit by having a “test audience” to experiment with and test new material and presentation methods. This is an excellent environment to refine your presentation and materials on an active audience. As one of our regular presenters’ states “…delivering this course takes me out of my typical training environment. Both in content development and delivery, I get to test new ideas and develop my platform skills”. Each workshop is evaluated for content and delivery by the participants for immediate review by the presenter.

Presenters are needed for workshops over the next few months. So, if you have a workshop or would like to develop one, please consider this environment to offer your talents. You can contact Don Harris, Employment Connection Account Representative, to get your workshop on the calendar (email: harrisd@ssa.co.santa-clara.ca.us; phone: (408) 999-6248). To learn more about the Employment Connection, visit the web site at www.ecstaffing.com. Or contact Kathleen Sexton, ASTD liaison to Employment Connection at ksexton@stanford.edu.