College Speaker Clint Cora Enhances Campus Diversity Program

College speaker Clint Cora enhanced his college campus diversity program to reflect the current needs of the audience. This is something that all speakers should keep in mind when creating or updating their speeches or speaking programs. The fact in the college scene is that many students worry about finding their first big career jobs after graduation. So Clint added a job hunting component in his college diversity program to help students with great tips on resumes, job interviews and networking given this new world of diversity. This is making diversity skills practical. See the new description of his college speaking programs.

Use Diversity Success Stories In Job Interviews

I spoke at an executive networking meeting this morning at the Metro Toronto Convention Ctr and did my 'Kick Down Diversity Barriers For Success' presentation. Again, one of the tips I gave them was to be proactive and use diversity success stories in job interviews. Many companies want people who can work well with many types of people, ie., have great diversity skills. To talk about your past successes with diversity will really make you stand above the rest of the job market crowd since most of your competitors wouldn't even be thinking about talking about diversity during a job interview or an interview for a promotion to a more senior position. For more details on this area, see Diversity In Job Interviews.

Using Diversity In Job Interviews

Recently when I presented 'Kick Down Diversity Barriers For Success' for an executive networking group, I suggested to them that one of the most powerful strategies that can be used during job interviews either externally (for new positions) or internally (for job promotions) involves diversity skills. The group thought that was the most important learning point for them. So I decided to write a new article based on this strategy of using diversity skills in job interviews. College and university grads will be able to use this strategy as well.

Executive Networking Group On Diversity

Here's what Frances McKenzie, Speaker Coordinator for the Happen executive networking group in Oakville says about diversity speaker Clint Cora's recent presentation 'Kick Down Diversity Barriers For Success'.

"Your presentation 'Kick Down Diversity Barriers For Success' was extremely well received by our members. It presented a new aspect in both work and life that had not been spoken about before. Exceeding expectations, it gave several members something to think about and something that they had not thought of adding or emphasizing."

Many of the members of Happen are seasoned business and other professional executives. The fact that they were impressed with Clint Cora suggests that he is certainly a diversity speaker that will be received with great enthusiasm in the business world.

Another Benefit With Toastmasters

I was able to utilize yet another benefit of Toastmasters this past week.  I'm currently working on a 60 minute keynote that will be intended for audiences outside of Toastmasters due to its length.  Since Toastmasters is a great networking venue, even though most members in my observation do not take advantage of this, I had help from two awesome, experienced TM members this week.  Joe Vanderkooi, a long time member of Mississauga Valley TM club helped me for about five hours on Thursday and our own Susan Lamb-Robinson took her lunch hour on Friday also helped on the review for my keynote.

I have a good feeling about this keynote as it is definitely moving in the right direction with Joe and Susan's help.  It will be a keynote speech that I'm going to be quite proud of and will likely be my signature speech for some time.

So do take advantage of the experience that Toastmasters members have here.  But you have to network to find out who's who among the different local clubs.