Posted by Pierre Khawand on Thu, Feb 02, 2012 @ 10:30 AM
Complimentary Lunch & Learn Webinar: Engage Your Team and Organization Using Agile
Thursday, March 1, 2012 12:00 PM - 12:40 PM Pacific Time
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Do you hear agile makes your teams deliver faster? Has someone called on you to “make us agile” and get it done? Do you hear Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean and wonder if and how you could apply those to your product development efforts? Last year was the 10th anniversary of the Agile Manifesto, a compilation of themes that communicated the framework for Agile development, and in that time the number of teams developing in an Agile has skyrocketed and it is no longer considered fringe.
In this talk, we will discuss the innate challenges in software product development and how Agile approaches them differently. We will also address how this transformation affects not only development teams but the entire organization to move towards a culture of more engagement and transparency. At the end of this talk, you will:
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Understand the foundation of the agile framework
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Recognize some of the approaches being used in different organizations
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Understand upon suggested requirements for organizational readiness
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Appreciate the potential challenges and power behind an agile transformation
About the presenter
Nicole Buckberg, Principal of Elemental Consulting, has been leading and coaching product development teams for over 15 years, with a focus on Agile for the last three years. She loves bringing order to chaos. She works across an organization, working with senior leadership and product teams to garner more efficiency and alignment around strategy and implementation. Some of her clients include MTV Networks, MySpace, macys.com, Virgin Mobile, Symantec, Linden Lab and Eventbrite. She specializes in product planning, program management and change management, while being committed to delivery, transparency and overall team happiness.
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Posted by Pierre Khawand on Thu, Dec 01, 2011 @ 02:00 PM
Complimentary Lunch & Learn Webinar: Retrain Your Brain for Success
Thursday, February 2, 2012 12:00 PM - 12:40 PM Pacific Time
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Mindset is too often overlooked as the means to live a confident and successful life. Mindset determines your level of competency to implement your skill sets. It is only by truly understanding how mindset is created by the brain/perception and how to change it at a “subconscious” level, that sustainable change can be made. Learn cutting-edge science and other strategies to help your audience to transform their thinking to reclaim their true personal power live with more zest and ease while improving productivity.
Key takeaways
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Understand why change feels so scary and why this is so important to breaking through procrastination and supporting your innovative ability
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Learn how we form our sense of identity…who do you think you are?…and how this impacts the quality of our business and personal relationships
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Recognize the 3 keys to personal power for more self-aware “co-creation” in business and life
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Discover how perception impacts your clarity, confidence and peace of mind
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Learn what stress is, how you create it, why it accounts for 90% of disease and how you can avoid it
About the presenter
Valencia Ray M.D is a dynamic keynote speaker, corporate trainer and business coach. She is the author of Empower Up! Retrain Your Brain to Reclaim Your True Personal Power. A former eye surgeon and successful entrepreneur for over 20 years, she helps entrepreneurs and corporate leaders to eliminate the "cataracts of the heart and mind" and to understand how their powerful brain can hijack their clarity, confidence and effectiveness, blocking them from the business and life they are yearning to live.
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Posted by Pierre Khawand on Thu, Nov 03, 2011 @ 08:52 PM
Complimentary Lunch & Learn Webinar: Negotiating Team Conflicts Productively
Thursday, December 1, 2011 12:00 PM - 12:40 PM Pacific Time
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This session is designed to highlight the critical tools that teams can bring to bear as they negotiate the conflicts that arise in the process of doing business. Teams that avoid conflict or become embroiled in conflict tend to stagnate resulting in poor morale, low commitment, and poor execution.
Contrary to popular belief conflict is normal and essential to developing a high functioning team. Teams that fail to learn how to negotiate conflict can get stuck in power struggles or perhaps even worse, develop a posture of compliance to each other. Both these outcomes lead to a sense of being stuck and ultimately a failure to air and address issues in a timely and effective manner.
Key takeaways
1. Be able to identify common pitfalls associated with conflict.
2. Learn about communication styles that impede or enhance alignment.
3. Learn skills for moving through conflict.
About the presenter
Eugene Dilan, Psy.D., is the founder and president of Dilan Consulting, Inc. As a bilingual licensed psychologist, organizational consultant, and coach with over 25 years combined experience, he has provided direct clinical services, led health care facilities, and worked internationally including in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan supporting senior executives in the defense, aerospace, IT, nuclear, and service industries. Eugene combines his knowledge of general and social psychology with his considerable corporate experience to help both large and small organizations negotiate a broad array of challenges.
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Posted by Pierre Khawand on Sat, Oct 15, 2011 @ 11:30 PM
Complimentary Lunch & Learn Webinar: How to Effectively Lead Virtual Team Meetings
Thursday, November 3, 2011 12:00 PM - 12:40 PM Pacific Time
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Virtual work is being embraced at an unprecedented rate. Fueled by technology, alternative practices are helping to improve job satisfaction, save costs and boost productivity. At the heart of these trends are virtual meetings, but how do you keep the human connection alive?
This session focuses on solutions to the unique issues you face in the virtual workspace, whether it be multi-site, multi-country, multi-time zone, or all of the above.
What You Will Learn?
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Conducting successful virtual meetings require that you expand your current skill set allowing you to balance new social skills with a technology interface. For example, by attending this Webinar, you’ll discover tactics and approaches for:
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Building rapport with virtual team members, even if you have never met face-to-face
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Conducting a virtual team meeting using an efficient 4-step process
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Tips for using common technology and communication tools
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Tips on recognizing and stopping meeting dysfunction before it causes problems
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Helpful suggestions for ensuring that all members contribute to their full potential
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Tips and guidelines for leading successful conference calls and team meetings
About the presenter: Yael Zofi is an international speaker, trainer, virtual teams coach, and CEO of AIM Strategies®, Applied Innovative Management®, a human capital consulting firm focused on developing global leaders, managing virtual teams and facilitating cross cultural interactions. With 20+ years of consulting experience, she works with global leaders and virtual teams on transformational initiatives that improve their bottom line and enable stronger human connection in the workplace. Her clients include AT&T, Credit Suisse, JP Morgan Chase, CIGNA, General Electric, Nokia, Pfizer, Philips and Viacom. Her latest book, A Manager's Guide to Virtual Teams, was just released August 2011.
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Posted by Pierre Khawand on Sun, Oct 02, 2011 @ 08:28 PM
Complimentary Lunch & Learn Webinar: Visual Teams--Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, and High Performance
Thursday, October 6, 2011 12:00 PM - 12:40 PM Pacific Time
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David Sibbet will treat everyone to an overview of his new book, Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment Innovation, & High Performance. He’ll be working visually on a tablet again, and providing an overview of how teams can use visual meetings methods across the entire arc of their work. He’s also introducing a graphical user interface to teamwork in the now well established Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Model. In this webinar he’ll....
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Provide ideas of how teams can work more like designers and performers, using visual language and visual meetings fluidly in both face-to-face and virtual settings.
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Explain the thinking behind the Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Model’s graphical user interface and why visualizing mental models is so helpful in having them become common language in organizations.
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Demonstrate his own visual thinking on a tablet during the webinar.
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Touch on some of the best practices of visual teams that people can use right away to get results.
The book is just now being shipped at Amazon, and is in the stores next week at Barnes & Noble and Books a Million. Visual methods are very popular right now, as evidenced by David’s first book, Visual Meetings, staying in the top 5% of all business books during 2010.
About the presenter: David Sibbet is president and founder of The Grove Consultants International (www.grove.com), a San-Francisco based firm that supports organizations, teams and individuals to envision their futures and deal with change. He was involved with the growth of Apple Computer in the 1980s, worked at HP and Agilent for many years, leading strategic visioning sessions for groups and divisions and developing leadership programs and change projects.
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Posted by Pierre Khawand on Thu, Jun 23, 2011 @ 02:00 PM
Complimentary Lunch & Learn Webinar: Social Media Time Saving Tips and Tools
Thursday, July 14, 2011 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Pacific Time
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Social Media and technology has fundamentally changed the way individuals communicate and businesses engage with consumers to create new relationships and business exposure. With only so much time in a day to devote to marketing and social media, we need to know how to manage our time best to reach our business goals and what tools are already available to help us improve time management for social media. This presentation will address the time challenge that comes with social media and will provide the audience with most necessary tips and tools for time management, such as aggregators, automation, time management apps and insight into the recommended amount of time a good social media strategy requires.
Key Takeaways:
- How much time should I be spending on social media to see positive results?
- How is my time best managed on social media - useful tips and tools
- Time management apps worth checking out!
- How do I know my time investment is paying off?
About the presenter:
Milena Regos is the Founder and CEO of Out & About Marketing, an interactive consultancy focusing on digital, word-of-mouth and social media marketing for brands that provide a remarkable product or service. Milena is passionately committed to legendary marketing, exceptional customer service that makes people talk, and utilizing web technologies to create long-lasting relationships.
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Posted by Pierre Khawand on Thu, Jun 16, 2011 @ 02:00 PM
Complimentary Lunch & Learn Webinar: SharePoint 2010 in Action
Thursday, June 23, 2011 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Pacific Time
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SharePoint 2010 has evolved from its roots as a document collaboration platform to an integrated suite of Enterprise services. Some of those platform services now include Web Content Management, Records Management, Enterprise Search, Web 2.0 Social Collaboration tools, a rich Business Intelligence suite of tools, and great integration with the Office suite to enable your organization to quickly respond to changing business needs. Also, for Enterprise Architects, SharePoint can become a powerful tool to build applications on the platform to further solve the requirements of your business users.
About the presenter:
Barry has been a SharePoint Technology Specialist with Microsoft for the last several years, but has been working with SharePoint since 2000. In his current role, he is tasked with guiding some of our largest enterprise customers in the use, deployment and development of applications on the SharePoint platform. He has worked for Microsoft for the last 10 years in a number of roles, from Microsoft Consulting Services to Technology Strategist for one of our largest global customers. Barry has a B.S. and an M.S. in Computer Science and is also a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) and Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS), specializing in .NET development and business process automation.
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Posted by Pierre Khawand on Wed, Jun 15, 2011 @ 09:58 PM
Complimentary Lunch & Learn Live Discussion: Managing Focused and Collaborative Time!
Thursday, June 16, 2011 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Pacific Time
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Join us at this live discussion about one of today’s most critical productivity issues and that is “constant interruptions.” The very moment you begin a task, you are stopped by emails, IMs, colleague visits, phone calls, meetings, and now, tweets and Facebook updates. The very technologies that were invented to enhance productivity have made it nearly impossible to get work done. Not only this, we are bombarded by an unprecedented information overload dominated by the Internet and globalization. This puts unreasonable demands on our work and personal lives, and as a result, we suffer, feel helpless, and our accomplishments decline. This needs to stop!
In this session, which includes a live discussion, we will address what we can do about group inflicted interruptions. You will walk away with specific steps on you can initiate some concrete effort in help yourself and your team more effectively collaborate and keep interruptions under control!
Pre-work (come prepared!)
About the presenter/moderator: Pierre Khawand has more than twenty years of experience in the software industry. He has led several technology ventures and completed successful mergers and acquisitions and founded People-OnTheGo in 2001 to enable business professionals to communicate and collaborate more effectively using leading edge technologies. Pierre is the author of the less-is-more blog (www.people-onthego.com/blog), The Accomplishing More With Less Workbook, The Accomplishing More With Google Apps, The Results Curve: How to manage focused and collaborative time!, The New New Inbox: How Email and Social Media Changed Our Lives, and previously The Smartphone Experiment book—how to select your smartphone in 5 easy steps. All can be found at Pierre's page at Amazon.com
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Posted by Pierre Khawand on Thu, Jun 02, 2011 @ 02:00 PM
Complimentary Lunch & Learn Webinar: The Cyber Threat--No Boundaries
Thursday, June 9, 2011 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Pacific Time
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The Cyber Threat knows no boundaries. Unlike other threats, neither landmasses nor seas can protect us from this enemy. It includes cyber crime, cyber terrorism, and even cyber warfare. It also includes events in which no malice is intended, but much damage is done. The perpetrators come in many forms and have many very different motivations. The threat is growing at an astronomical rate and endangers individuals, businesses, agencies, and even entire governments.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has made it a priority to promote cyber threat awareness. In 2009, DHS and the Regional Partnership Council (RPCfirst) asked the Bay Area Response Coalition (BARCfirst) to pilot a Cyber Forum in San Francisco for the financial sector. The event was so popular that a version of it was repeated in 2010 for other areas of the private sector. This presentation includes cyber threat awareness materials from those events and also information about a DHS-produced cyber exercise that you can take back and use in your own companies, agencies, and communities.
Key Takeaways
- The nature and varieties of the threat.
- The types of perpetrators and their motivations.
- Why the threat is increasing at a dramatic rate.
- The potential impact on individuals, companies, and even our country’s critical infrastructure.
About the presenter: Barry Cardoza, Principal of Barry Cardoza, LLC. Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) specializing in business continuity program development, enhancement and analytics, and with over 40 years of experience in business management, business process analysis, and continuous process improvement. Much of that time was spent designing and developing technologies to automate and improve processes. This experience has been within many different industries and includes over 20 years within the banking industry.
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Posted by Pierre Khawand on Thu, May 26, 2011 @ 02:00 PM
Complimentary Lunch & Learn Webinar: What You Need to Know to Move from Classroom to Online Learning
Thursday, June 2, 2011 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Pacific Time
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The internet continues to shape our lives: from work to play, from shopping to traveling, from socializing to learning, and more. Online learning therefore is gaining in popularity. Online learning can be a cost-effective and time saving alternative to traditional, physical classrooms. It offers organizations whether large or small the ability to deliver high-quality learning experiences right to the desktop of learners, more efficiently and potentially even more effectively. However, moving from the classroom to online learning is not simply a matter of creating a presentation slide deck, loading an application and putting on a pair of headphones. In this webinar we will review the basic components of the technology required, look at online learning benefits and effectiveness, compare the key elements of classroom and online learning, and look in depth at the five critical success factors.
About the presenter: Lance Dublin is an independent management consultant, author and speaker based in San Francisco, California and serving clients worldwide. He applies his expertise in strategy development, program design, change management and organizational development to revitalizing organizational learning through the application of new technologies and approaches, implementing large-scale change and transforming learning organizations.
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