Posted by Pierre Khawand on Thu, Apr 26, 2012 @ 02:15 PM
Complimentary Lunch & Learn Webinar: Communicate in a more brain-friendly way
Thursday, May 3, 2012 12:00 PM - 12:40 PM Pacific Time
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The way we communicate is often in direct conflict with what science now knows about the brain. For example, recent neuroscience research shows that the brain is less rational than we believed, tires much faster than we ever dreamed, and loves to make connections with other people and other information. Rather than fight how the brain works, switch how you communicate. Adopt these seven tips to make it easier for people to understand what you’re saying and asking. Plus, you’ll be able to improve your own creativity and productivity by taking actions that help, rather than hinder, your own brain.
About the presenter
Liz Guthridge is the managing director of Connect Consulting Group, a Bay Area based firm focused on helping leaders implement clear and credible change that sticks. Recent clients include Avery Dennison, Bayer Healthcare, Central Garden & Pet, The Clorox Company, Hewlett-Packard, Juniper Networks and salesforce.com. Before Liz founded Connect in 2004, she was a principal with Mercer Delta, Mercer HR and Towers Perrin (now Towers Watson). She also is a NeuroLeadership Group-trained coach.
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Posted by Pierre Khawand on Thu, Apr 05, 2012 @ 02:00 PM
Complimentary Lunch & Learn Webinar: Make smart food choices to increase your productivity!
Thursday, April 26, 2012 12:00 PM - 12:40 PM Pacific Time
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In her webinar, holistic health coach and author Marika Blossfeldt will reveal which foods can support your professional performance by boosting your brainpower and providing you with grounding energy and assertiveness as well as sustained energy throughout the day. She will explain how to balance your blood sugar level so that you can avoid energy dips, brain fog and mood swings. You will find out how you can use natural nutrient dense foods to boost your motivation and clarity of mind.
By learning to choose food consciously and purposefully you will be equipped to take excellent care of your personal and professional needs, By working with your body and its bio-rhythms you can harness its natural power to support you in all your activities. With smart food choices you can feed your body wisely and provide it with all the nutrients needed for the manifold tasks of keeping you alive and well. You will notice how working with your body makes your efficiency soar.
Key takeaways:
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The top foods that provide excellent nourishment for body and mind
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The top foods that sabotage your best intentions and should be avoided as much as possible
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How to work with your body’s daily bio-rhythms
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Essentials of blood sugar balance
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Lifestyle suggestions to boost productivity
About the presenter: Marika Blossfeldt was born in Estonia, grew up in Germany and currently divides her time between Beacon (NY) and Estonia. She was a featured soloist in the New York dance scene during the 80's and 90's. Today, she is a renowned kundalini yoga teacher, holistic health coach and writer. During the summer she conducts yoga, cooking and wellness retreats at her farm in Estonia. Her book Essential Nourishment, Recipes from My Estonian Farm just won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Paris.
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Posted by Pierre Khawand on Thu, Mar 01, 2012 @ 04:43 PM
Complimentary Lunch & Learn Webinar: Start a Work Revolution in Your Job, Now
Thursday, April 5, 2012 12:00 PM - 12:40 PM Pacific Time
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Research shows that employee engagement is highly correlated with business success, individual achievement, and better health, but only about 30% of employees are truly engaged. Companies like Google provide organizational models that demonstrate how broader engagement is not only possible, but leads to company-wide success. But why can't we all be engaged?
By making simple changes to improve our relationships with work and each other, we can systematically ignite a work revolution everywhere. But each of us plays a role in this revolution, and it starts now.
This session will cover the guiding principles that can change your relationship with work, as well as concrete actions you can take today to gain freedom and be excellent in your job, regardless of where you work.
Participants will be able to:
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Identify opportunities to create larger impact in their current roles
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Apply strategies to better understand the meaning and purpose behind their work
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Pay greater attention to their personal energy, and how to apply it for greater productivity
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Mobilize to kickstart grassroots initiatives that make a difference in their work lives
About the presenter
Julie Clow earned her Ph.D. at the age of 25 in Psychology at Auburn University in 2000. She started her career as an independent consultant, and subsequently joined a small woman-owned business, Carley Corporation, in Orlando, FL to produce custom training solutions for large-scale clients. She quickly rose to become the Chief Learning Officer and won and managed several multi-million dollar contracts for the company. Julie joined Google in 2006 and spent five years there focusing on team effectiveness, leadership and management, and organizational culture, primarily for engineers. During her tenure, she discovered the power of freedom and autonomy for creating a thriving workplace, which she "translated" into her book The Work Revolution: Freedom and Excellence for All, due out April 10th 2012.
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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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