Finalist Benefit Additional Workshops! Optional Opportunities for Everybody!

The Tribeless Team is with us for not 1, not 2, but four Empathy Circles this summer!

What are Empathy Circles? They are a space for you to share stories, practice your empathy skills, and connect with Rise Finalists from all over the world. We will learn two core empathy skills (Showing Love and Asking Questions), and have conversations in smaller groups of 4–5. Watch this 2-min video to learn more

You should only sign up for 1 workshop (they are all the same) and limited spots available for each workshop, so sign up now!!

Link to sign up: bit.ly/RiseEC2022

On Sundays across July and August, PGLF convenes a cross-section of their alumni and mentors for fast-paced and lively networking sessions.

A Sunday session may include a brief masterclass on resilience by the newly-minted "Top Executive Coach in the World For Startups," to a seminar with a "Fortune Under 40" winning music executive who has advised Heads of State on finding our vocations, followed by private zoom breakout rooms for candid Q/A sessions with presidential and prime ministerial advisers in Namibia and Serbia, Rhodes Scholars, award-winning athletic coaches, standout University students, startup founders, NGO activists and business executives.

Speakers lined up for July and August include the Environmental, Social and Governance lead for the world's largest women's health company, one of the world's best forecasters, a private equity baron, a top EU official, a former Oxford University valedictorian will riff on learning secrets, an award-winning New York Times reporter and the world's top speech coach.

Register in advance for these meetings and Sam Potolicchio will update you throughout July and August on the speakers and the sessions.

Link to sign up: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckf-GppzwvHdXg-xNABcXfBxjcvK3V5UGF

Kaleidoscope is offering eight different workshops to help you with a number of professional and academic skills. The workshops will be interactive, practical and you should walk away from each workshop with tangible outcomes! You can sign up to as many workshops as you want using the individual workshop links under each workshop description.

a. Learn Anything Effectively: 6th July

Kaleidoscope will introduce a basic model of cognition and use it to share eight of the most powerful learning strategies, along with three common myths about learning. At each stage, we pause for participants to engage with the material in some way—for example, by voting on what they think experimental outcomes are, by retrieving what they’ve learned so far, and by considering concrete ways they’ll apply what they’ve learned.

Link to sign up: How to Learn Anything Effectively

b. Design a Winning Resume: 13th July

Kaleidoscope will walk through example student resumes pointing out what works (or not), identifying best practices, and uncovering what makes them seem more or less compelling. They will provide a resume template for students to start working on their own resumes, then answer questions they generated through independent work.

Link to sign up: How to Design a Winning Resume

c. Find Your Stories: 20th July

Through a set of guided reflections, Kaleidoscope will help participants uncover their stories and begin to write them into a series of vignettes. These vignettes can be flexibly used in college applications, interviews, and cover letters.

Link to sign up: Find Your Stories

d. Discover Your Strengths: 27th July

While there are a great number of strength and personality assessments, very few are psychologically valid. Kaleidoscope will have students take two that are, and discuss the research behind them. Then they will use their personal results as a jumping off point for generating a second set of vignettes that students can flexibly use in college applications, interviews, and cover letters.

Link to sign up: Discover Your Strengths

e. Write a Cover Letter that Stands Out: 3rd August

Kaleidoscope will walk through example cover letters pointing out what works (or not), identifying best practices, and uncovering what makes candidates seem more or less compelling. Participants will then have the opportunity to leverage a template to begin writing their own cover letters. Then they will bring the group back together to answer questions generated during the independent work time.

Link to sign up: Write a Cover Letter that Stands Out

f. Create a LinkedIn profile that Gets Noticed: 10th August

Applicants with strong LinkedIn profiles are more likely to get interviews and more likely to get the job than those without LinkedIn profiles or with weak ones. Kaleidoscope will walk through example LinkedIn profiles pointing out what works (or not), identifying best practices, and uncovering what makes them seem more or less compelling. Participants will be asked to engage in multiple ways including through polling and reflective application.

Link to sign up: Create a LinkedIn Profile that Gets Noticed

g. Network to Learn & Land an Internship: 17th August

Networking is a space of norms: norms for how you introduce yourself, norms for how you stay in touch, norms for how you conduct an informational interview. Kaleidoscope will expose and make explicit these norms and cadences, showing examples of effective (and ineffective) networking email sequences, as well as sharing the general structure of an informational interview, including a live demonstration.

Link to sign up: Network to Learn & Land an Internship

h. How to Stop Procrastinating: 24th August

Participants will learn about how and why procrastination arises, as well as research-backed strategies to address it. Participants will reflect on their own procrastination tendencies and start taking action on something they’ve been procrastinating on before reconvening to discuss how it felt. Kaleidoscope likes ending with this workshop to send students off into the world ready not just to take action but to have tools to use when they are stuck in inaction.

Link to sign up: How to Stop Procrastinating