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Ask a question from your peers to help you in your professional work. Seek different points of view on a topic that interests you. Start a thought-provoking conversation about a hot, current topic. Encourage your peers to join you in the discussion, and feel free to facilitate the discussion. As a community of educators, all members of the Career Ed Lounge are empowered to act as a discussion facilitator to help us all learn from each other.

Building Your Brainstorm Room

What items would you place in a brainstorm room and why?

Sharing Success

What events has your school organized and why were they successful?

Making a Bad Experience Better

What was one or your worst event experiences and how did you remedy it?

Cutting Costs

How have you been able to keep costs down for your events?

Crafting Your PR Pitch

How might you craft a PR pitch to encourage a reporter to cover a presentation at your school?

Benchmarking Your Campaign

What are some other benchmarks you could use to determine the success of your PR campaign?

Using e-Marketing Tools

How might your school make use of an e-marketing tool for prospective students?

Seeking Out PR "Peeps"

Which PR "peeps" could you seek out to help develop news stories at your school and why?

Building Your Media Kit

What information would you include in your media kit and why?

Your Online Content

How could you improve the content of your online media bureau?

Effective Teams

Think about a group you are currently working with. Which characteristics for effective teams are present? What is lacking?

Your Team Role

What type of team member are you most like? How would you like to improve your team role?

Addressing Team Challenges

How might you address any challenges in the teams you work with using this information?

Collaboration at Your School

Which of the collaborative principles do you believe are being used effectively at your organization? How so?

Integrating Collaboration

How will you begin to incorporate collaboration with your team? At your school?

Making a Positive Impact

How do you think working in collaboration will make a positive impact on your connections?

Your Communication Preference

What communication preferences do you have that might not be part of "your generation"?

Overlapping Styles

How do you think overlapping styles of communication assist you in connecting with your students and colleagues? Hinder you?

Interpreting Others' Communication Preference

What might you do when interacting with a student or colleague if you are unsure about their communication preferences?

What's Your Generational Style

Which generational style resonates most with you and how do you think that came to be?