Lunch & Learn Webinar
Happiness and the Practice of Mindfulness
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 from 12:00-12:45 PM PT
In this webinar, Dr. Fred Luskin, the founder of the Stanford Forgiveness Projects and author of the best-selling book Forgive for Good, will explore the practical implementation of the science of happiness, based on research that shows the central importance of strong relationships, a motivating positive purpose and a capacity to savor the good in one's life. Underlying each is the need for mindful attention to our goals and priorities. These elements when coupled with the decision to pay attention as our life whizzes by allows us to feel both a bit happier and more in control. This webinar is also our launching pad for the Mindfulness @Work 21-Day Challenge and an opportunity for you to be part of this challenge. Join us and discover amazing insights about happiness, mindfulness, and your opportunity to make 2019 a happier and more accomplished year.
About the presenter:
Dr. Luskin is the author of the best-selling books Forgive for Good: A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness and Forgive for Love: The Missing Ingredient for a Healthy and Happy Relationship. His book Forgive for Good is the best-selling self-help book published on the topic of forgiveness. His research has shown that the Forgive for Good forgiveness methodology leads participants suffering from a wide range of concerns to improved physical and mental health.
Dr. Luskin founded and currently serves as Director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Projects. He is also Senior Consultant in Health Promotion/Wellness at the Stanford University Health Center and Department Chair in Clinical Psychology at Sofia University. At Stanford Dr. Luskin teaches classes on Positive Psychology, The Art and Science of Meditation, Forgiveness, Wellness, Flourishing and The Psychology of Storytelling to undergraduate and graduate students. He also conducts numerous workshops and staff development trainings in relationship enhancement, stress management and positive psychology through the Stanford Be Well program.
Topics:
wellness,
productivity,
Lunch & Learn Webinars,
collaboration,
team work,
leadership,
managing stress,
happiness,
accomplishment
Lunch & Learn Webinar
Leading and Facilitating Multicultural Collaboration in a New World at Work
Thursday, November 16, 2017 from 12:15-12:45 PM PT
Working in an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world provides the opportunity to learn and benefit from culturally diverse perspectives and practices. Yet this potential is not fully optimized within our organizations and communities. The challenges of time, trust, distance, and communication contribute to failed collaborations. The outcome is a lack of innovation, performance, and results. How can leaders and teams meet the new demands for multicultural collaboration and global innovation performance? Join us for an insightful webinar to learn about the multicultural collaboration drivers and findings from a new book on Leading Global Innovation.
About the presenter:
Dr. Karina Jensen, Founder and Managing Director, Global Minds Network Practice Director at Centre for Leadership and Effective Organisations and Professor of Global Innovation and Leadership, NEOMA Business School
Karina Jensen is a Practice Director at the Centre for Leadership and Effective Organisations and a Professor of Global Innovation and Leadership at NEOMA Business School in France. She is also Founder and Managing Director of Global Minds Network, a consulting and training firm. An international management consultant, change facilitator, and educator with 20 years of experience, she has launched and managed global products, services, and programs for leading multinational firms in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas. Karina Jensen has research and teaching experience in the areas of global innovation management, leadership, creativity, and multicultural collaboration. Her new book Leading Global Innovation is based on research with over 200 leaders and 45 multinational firms. Connect with Karina on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/karinarjensen ), Twitter (@DrKarinaJensen) or www.globalmindsnetwork.com
Topics:
business results,
productivity,
Lunch & Learn Webinars,
collaboration,
team work,
leadership
Lunch & Learn Webinar
Why Every Business Person Needs to Be an "Aha" Leader
Thursday, February 2, 2017 from 12:15-12:45 PM PT
With each passing day, we are continually expected to be more productive. When we don’t know the answer, we either Google it or go to the person (e.g. the thought leader) we think can give us the answer that’s contextually relevant to our situation.
Who do we turn to and why? Whether that person is inside or outside our organization, we expect a truthful answer we can internalize. We expect the person we turn to be authentic, transparent, and trustworthy. We expect our own personal thought leader. Shouldn’t you be that thought leader for someone else?
Come hear The AHA Guy Mitchell Levy, a Silicon Valley Thought Leader that’s seen and helped deploy and use technology in corporations for over a quarter of a century.
Key takeaways
Attendees will away with their own
"Aha" moments while understanding why personal branding and thought leadership are essential components of today’s workforce and your long-term success.
About the presenter
Mitchell Levy is an accomplished Entrepreneur who has created 20 businesses in Silicon Valley including 4 publishing companies that have published over 800 books. Currently, Mr. Levy is The AHA Guy at AHAthat & CEO of THiNKaha. He is a bestselling author with fifty six business books and a contributor at Entrepreneur Magazine. In addition to these accomplishments, Mr. Levy has provided strategic consulting to over one hundred companies, advised over five hundred CEOs on critical business issues, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company.
Topics:
career,
business results,
Lunch & Learn Webinars,
management,
collaboration,
team work,
leadership
Lunch & Learn Webinar
The Explanation Revolution: Why New Skills Are Needed for a Complicated World
Thursday, December 1, 2016 from 12:15-12:45 PM PT
The skill of explanation is both essential and easy to take for granted. Master explainer Lee LeFever will be your guide in discovering the true power of explanation strategy and why it represents an opportunity that professionals have ignored for too long.
Key takeaways
- Take a step back and start to see explanation from a new and fascinating perspective
- Understand why revolutions large and small depend on explainers
- Learn why so many experts struggle with clear communication and what's needed for improvement
- Learn a memorable and unique approach to explaining nearly any idea effectively
- Discover the essential elements of many explanations and why they matter
About the presenter
Lee LeFever has been a professional explainer for over a decade. He is the co-founder of Common Craft, author of The Art of Explanation (Wiley, 2012) and host of the Explainer Academy. Since 2007, Common Craft has won numerous awards, created explanations for the world's most respected brands and created explainer videos that have earned over 50 million online video views. Today, Common Craft produces educational guides, ready-made videos and visuals that are used by educators and explainers in over 50 countries. Lee lives in Seattle with his wife and business parter, Sachi.
Topics:
career,
business results,
Lunch & Learn Webinars,
management,
collaboration,
team work,
leadership
Lunch & Learn Webinar
Human First: How Mobile is Becoming an Extension of Ourselves
We all strive to be better human beings. We want an attractive body, a meaningful life and to become more intelligent about the things that count. And the more connected we become to our mobile products, the more we expect the same from those. Mobile products are essentially the new extension of ourselves. Mobile guru and Silicon Valley veteran SC Moatti shares the “human first” principles that are the foundation behind mobile success.
Key takeaways
• Proven approaches to become mobile-first
• The three all-encompassing rules all great mobile products follow
• Case studies of companies leading the way in mobile
About the presenter
SC Moatti dedicates her time and energy helping companies succeed with mobile. She is the author of mobilized, an insider’s guide to the business and future of connected technology, and has been called “a genius at making mobile products people love.” While serving as an executive at mobile pioneers like Facebook, Trulia and Nokia, SC launched and monetized mobile products that are now used by billions of people and have received prestigious awards, including an Emmy nomination.
Today, she runs Products That Count, an organization that advises businesses on how to leverage mobile technology and produces some the largest product events in the world, including the Manifesto conference. She also serves on boards of both public and private companies, including mobile technology giant Opera Software (OPERA:Oslo). SC speaks frequently at conferences, has been featured in Forbes and is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review and the Huffington Post. She lectures on mobile and innovation at Stanford University, where she earned her MBA and has a Master of Science in electrical engineering. For more information, visit scmoatti.com.
Topics:
emerging technology,
giveaway,
Technology,
business results,
productivity,
Lunch & Learn Webinars,
collaboration
Lunch & Learn Webinar - Unleashing the Power of Play with Emmy award winner Gwen Gordon
Most of us have been raised to think of play as a frivolous distraction from the serious business of living. But what if we got it backwards? What if play is the essential ingredient for our individual and collective well-being?
Join Gwen as she turns the work ethic on its head and connects some surprising dots to show how a play movement is emerging in every area of life, and why our future as a species depends on it.
Key takeaways
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The evolutionary context for the play movement
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Why play? The costs when we don't, the benefits when we do
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A bird's eye view of the play movement... everywhere!
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How the future of work is play
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Tips for turning proving grounds and battlefields into playgrounds
About the presenter
Gwen Gordon, MA is an Emmy award winning writer and creative director who began a life of play building Muppets for Sesame Street. She left the “Street” to join an Apple research group at the MIT Media Lab where she built playstations for children. Gwen has been an artist-in-residence in settings ranging from Xerox PARC to San Quentin Prison. She earned her masters degree in philosophy and is a pioneer in the field of adult developmental play, publishing and teaching widely on the subject.
Gwen has applied her insights to the design of programs for companies including IDEO and PepsiCo, groups ranging from life coaches to TSA security officers, and for popular films including “What the Bleep Do We Know?!,” and “The Story of Stuff.” Gwen currently blogs for Huffington Post and is producing a PBS special about play called NOW Playing.
Topics:
wellness,
business results,
productivity,
Lunch & Learn Webinars,
collaboration
Lunch & Learn Webinar - Effective Strategies to Manage Conflict at Work
Unresolved conflict can affect productivity and satisfaction at work. While it is human to have disagreements, effective communication skills can turn these into opportunities to deepen mutual understanding, solve problems creatively, and co-exist peacefully. Lorraine will introduce some essential conflict management skills, including:
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Understanding conflict and its sources.
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Positive strategies for effective communication to resolve/avoid conflict.
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A 15-second technique to cool down conflict which you can use at any time.
About the presenter
Lorraine Segal is a communication and forgiveness specialist, a certified conflict management coach, and trainer through her business, ConflictRemedy.com. She teaches these skills at Sonoma State University and St. Joseph Health LifeLearning Center. For more information about Lorraine’s coaching, mediation, and training services, please visit her website/blog at www.ConflictRemedy.com, e-mail her at lorraine@conflictremedy.com or call her at (707) 236-8079.
Topics:
generations in the workplace,
human resources,
Lunch & Learn Webinar,
Lunch & Learn Webinars,
management,
collaboration,
team work,
leadership
Thursday, December 12, 2013 from 12:00-12:50 PM Pacific Time
Space is limited.
In this session, you will listen and participate in this conversation with Pierre Khawand in which he will reveal some of the breakthrough concepts in his new book (Time for Leadership: The Accomplishing More in Less Time, Less Effort, and Less Stress Leadership Journey) while at the same time, guest interviewer David Sibbet (bestselling author of Visual Meetings, Visual Teams, and Visual Leaders) illustrates the conversation graphically.
Join us in this one-of-a-kind “visual interview” and this imperative discussion. It “is” time for leadership. This means that it is time to step up and broaden the reach of leadership to all levels within the organization and create a leading organization. Time for leadership also means making “time” for leading. Leaders who don’t have time aren’t leading. Time for leadership is an awakening in modern leadership.
Chances to win books and more
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During this lunch & learn we will be awarding 5 copies of Pierre Khawand’s Time for Leadership and 5 copies of David Sibbet’s Visual Leaders.
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In addition, if you get Time for Leadership at Amazon and submit a review by the end of December 2013, you will receive an 80% scholarship on our upcoming leadership program, and a chance to win an Amazon kindle. Details are at: http://www.people-onthego.com/specials
About Pierre Khawand
Pierre Khawand has led several technology ventures and completed successful mergers and acquisitions. He founded People-OnTheGo in 2001 to enable business professionals to communicate and collaborate more effectively using leading-edge technologies. His bestselling “Accomplishing More With Less Workshop” and "The Accomplishing More In Less Time, Less Effort, and Less Stress Leadership Program" enable business professionals to better cope with information overload and competing priorities. He has published Time for Leadership, The Accomplishing More With Less Workbook, Accomplishing More With Google Apps, The Results Curve, and The New New Inbox.
About David Sibbet
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.David Sibbet is the best selling author of Visual Meetings, Visual Teams, and Visual Leaders.
Topics:
productivity,
collaboration,
leadership
Lunch & Learn Webinar - An 'Agile' State of Mind: How Agile software development & values power productivity (in business and beyond)
Thursday, November 7, 2013 from 12:00-12:40 PM Pacific Time
Space is limited.
Agile software development is moving from a fringe phenomenon to a mainstream idea that corporate America is taking seriously. With more companies willing to change the way they work, the stories and case studies vary from productivity miracles to complete disasters.
What is Agile? Why should you care even if you are not developing software? How is it relevant to your personal life? Join us for a complimentary presentation by Volker Frank, an executive coach, trainer, and "Agilist". He will provide us with a high-level overview about new ways of organizing work and collaboration that is designed to deal with the ambiguities and complexities of our time. Beyond specific software engineering practices, Agile is a state of mind, a different way of thinking about planning, and an approach that deliberately focuses learning in situations where we can't know and can't control future outcomes.
Key takeaways
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Agile at a high level
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Agile values and principles with lessons beyond software and work
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The difference between wishful thinking and planning for the unknown
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Accountability that supports continuous learning
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And how the scientific method can inform our everyday lives
About the presenter
Volker Frank supports technology driven businesses improve their ability to deliver high quality products, quickly respond to changing customer demands and market conditions, and drive innovation. The center of effort is the ability to make business and product decisions based on generating customer value and build high-performance teams through cultural change and great leadership.
Volker brings a unique blend of experiences in technology, leadership development and coaching to his work with clients. He has 12 years of experience in software consulting, UX design, business analysis and product strategy. His involvement in technology driven change initiatives gives him a deep sense for organizational change and organizational development. He provides leadership and agile transformation trainings in combination with team and executive coaching for corporations, medium sized companies and start-ups.
Volker is a Fulbright Scholar and holds a Master of Design from the University of Cincinnati. He has 10 years of experience in organizational systems work (Systemic Constellations) and is a certified NLP Master Practitioner.
Topics:
Technology,
business results,
productivity,
Lunch & Learn Webinar,
Lunch & Learn Webinars,
collaboration
Lunch and Learn Webinar: How to Use Visual Project Management for Greater Productivity
Thursday, July 11, 2013 from 12:00-12:40 PM Pacific Time
Space is limited.
Visual project management lets you quickly see what you’re working on, determine how much time and resources you’ll need, and ultimately, execute your projects. Managing your work visually allows you to work more productively and efficiently. It helps you spot patterns more quickly and make better decisions. In this webinar, you will learn how to use visualization to organize your projects, manage your workload, and collaborate more effectively with team members.
Key takeaways
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What are the top 3 challenges for people juggling multiple projects
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How virtual whiteboards help you prioritize your work and scope out your projects
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The benefits of a visual approach to managing your workload
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What tools you can use to organize your work visually
About the presenter
Andy Wibbels is Director of Solutions and Partner Marketing at Mindjet, a collaborative tools and work management software company based in San Francisco. He's the author of Blogwild: A Guide for Small Business Blogging and contributing author to Business: The Ultimate Resource.
Topics:
virtual teams,
document collaboration,
productivity,
Lunch & Learn Webinar,
Lunch & Learn Webinars,
management,
collaboration,
team work
