Heidi Dasinger from Marietta Power & Water has been a long time supporter of YELLS. We want to give her a big shoutout for volunteering to bring a truly unique and valuable experience to our YELLS teens. Heidi knew that our YELLS Community Action Cafe teens work hard to develop their professional and leadership skills through the operation of their Community Action Cafe, and she thought of a way to help them develop these skills even further.
Heidi invited the Leadership Cobb Class of 2019 to join our YELLS students for a Professionalism Panel. During the panel, each Leadership Cobb Professional shared valuable insight and experience about their professional lives. They kept the atmosphere light-hearted and engaging for our high-school students, sharing their most embarrassing professional moments, and then giving crucial advice for our students about how to deal with professional faux-pas.
They also shared messages about the importance of displaying a professional image and the key to developing and maintaining professional relationships, before opening up the discussion to our teens for questions. By the end of the event, our teens were eager to continue networking with our guests. It is evident that our teens learned a lot during this experience and frequently ask when Heidi and her group can come back for a visit! Thank you, Heidi, for always thinking of us, and being dedicated to providing such valuable experiences for our youth!
