Complimentary Lunch & Learn Webinar: Leveraging Mobile Work to Engage Your Employees

Thursday, March 7, 2013 from 12:00-12:40 PM Pacific Time

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This session is for anyone who manages Gen Y workers and remote workers, IT professionals who are involved with mobile technology, and knowledge workers who work on-the-go. Past research on mobile workforce has focused on either the technology needs of mobile workers or the challenges of managing a virtual workforce. This Mobile Workforce Survey is the first ever to take an integrated look at both the hardware needs of mobile workers (e.g., mobile devices) and the factors that impact their engagement and personal views about mobile or remote work.

Join Dr. Pi Wen Looi, Founder and Principal of Novacrea Research Consulting and Dr. James Ware, Director of The Future of Work… unlimited, as they present their latest Mobile Workforce Survey findings and share ideas on how you could use these insights to engage your mobile workers.

Key takeaways

• How and where knowledge workers are getting their work done today

• What tools they use to be productive

• How their mobility is affecting their work and their professional and personal relationships

• Tips for managing and engaging remote workers.

About the presenters

Pi Wen Looi, Ph.D., is the founder and principal of Novacrea Research Consulting. Novacrea helps busy HR leaders and executives increase employee engagement and improve business results. With Novacrea's end-to-end employee survey solution, you get valid employee feedback, in-depth analysis, and organized survey results. Our survey reports enable you to see subgroup performance at a glance, spot trends immediately, and quickly identify areas of strength. Let us worry about your employee survey while you focus your energy on improving your employee performance, operations, and business results. For more information, please visit www.NovacreaResearch.com.

James A. Ware, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of The Future of Work… unlimited, a research and advisory firm with a single mission: bringing the future to work. We offer guidance in creating compelling pictures of the future and designing pathways for getting there. We bring decades of experience in strategic thinking, business case analysis, and change leadership to organizations seeking to make a difference for customers, employees, shareholders, and the community at large. We track and translate the changing nature of work so senior executives can build organizations that leverage people, attract talent, and save money. For more information, please visit www.thefutureofwork.net.

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Complimentary Lunch & Learn Webinar: Negotiating Team Conflicts Productively

Thursday, February 7, 2013 from 12:00-12:40 PM Pacific Time

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This session highlights the critical tools that teams can utilize as they negotiate 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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Complimentary Lunch & Learn Webinar: Visual Leaders—Capitalizing on the Visualization Revolution

Thursday, January 31, 2013 from 12:00-12:40 PM Pacific Time

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Take our survey and enter to win a copy of presenter David Sibbet's new book, Visual Leaders, & much more!

This webinar will show how leaders and managers can use visual meetings, visual teams, and new technologies to get better results. These tools are unparalleled for getting engagement, "big picture" thinking, and acheiving follow-through on projects. You don't have to be able to draw, but do need to know what's possible. 

Key takeaways

• Appreciate a map to the whole territory of visualization.
• Learn some practices that will raise your own visual IQ.
• Review some of the best practices that work with different kinds of organizations.
• Address the wide range of new technology tools that support visualization.

About the presenter  

President and Founder of The Grove Consultants International, David Sibbet has been an organizational consultant and information designer since 1977. He is the author of John Wiley & Sons three-volume Visual Leadership series plus many of The Grove’s leading-edge group-process tools and models for facilitation, team leadership, and organizational transformation. His latest book, Visual Leaders: New Tools for Visioning, Management, & Organization Change, describes visual best practices for leaders and managers of organizations.

David is a master facilitator of large-scale group processes, strategic visioning, and creative, future-oriented symposia. He frequently lends his coaching and design expertise to Grove project teams. His practice is informed by eight years of public affairs leadership development through the Coro Northern California Center for Civic Leadership.

Sibbet holds a master’s degree from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a B.A. in Literature from Occidental College in Los Angeles.

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Complimentary Lunch & Learn Webinar: Creativity and Innovation—How to Experience the Lightning Bolt Every Day

Thursday, November 1, 2012 12:00 PM - 12:40 PM Pacific Time

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Most leaders, managers, and staff utilize less than 50% of their creative and intuitive ability. This is not because of inherent limitations, but because of unawareness of how to incorporate these relatively simple practices utilizing visualization, the sleep state, subliminal perception, the integrated model of the brain, and other leading-edge creativity concepts into their daily job performance.

This presentation shares a wide variety of techniques, methods, and experiential processes for the participants to choose from in order to harness the amazing power of creativity and innovation in the workplace. It also provides the opportunity for participants to go beyond linear business and managerial problem-solving and to master this skill in a way that it becomes a regular part of their day-to-day operation. We will also discuss how participants can promote a more creative work environment among their co-workers.

Daniel Guillory, CEO of Innovations International, is a recognized expert on creativity and innovation, leadership and collaboration. Many different corporations and non-profits including Toyota Financial Services, Ronald McDonald House Foundation, Merck & Co., and Anheuser-Busch have turned to Daniel for his guidance on how to strategically approach these areas, and for assistance in implementing tactical solutions in learning and development. Prior to working with Innovations, Mr. Guillory was an attorney with Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP and remains a member of the California Bar. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and his B.A. in International Relations from Stanford University.

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Date: Thursday, April 29th & Time: 12:00pm to 12:45pm

Ypulse founder and author Anastasia Goodstein shares insights from her book Totally Wired: What Teens & Tweens Are Really Doing Online as well as new data from Ypulse Research on how teens and collegians are using technology.

Anastasia is an award-winning blogger and often-quoted expert on American tweens, teens and early twenty-somethings. She has worked in media for the past 15 years and has helped launch youth oriented web and television properties for brands including Oxygen, AOL and Current TV. She will never forget her roots having begun her career in the non-profit youth media space at Teen Voices. Anastasia was one of the first graduates of the Medill School of Journalism's new media program at Northwestern University, where she earned an MSJ in 1999. Her first book about teens and technology, Totally Wired: What Teens & Tweens Are Really Doing Online was published by St. Martin's Press.

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