Lunch & Learn Webinar - Effective Strategies to Manage Conflict at Work

Thursday, June 5, 2014 from 12:00-12:40 PM Pacific Time Please enjoy the recording of this past webinar.

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:

• Understanding conflict and its sources.

• Positive strategies for effective communication to resolve/avoid conflict.

• 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.

Lunch & Learn Webinar - Leadership BEYOND Gender: Transcend Limiting Mindsets to Become an Engaging Leader

Thursday, May 1, 2014 from 12:00-12:40 PM Pacific Time

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We all have blind spots we are not aware of, and if we knew how to eliminate them, we could more easily expand the vision for our lives and leadership. Leadership Beyond Gender addresses the root of our blind spots and ways to recognize how to access your brain to perform at your very best. Mindset is at the root of effective organizational change and an engaging culture. Practical neuroscience based exercises and tools will be shared for getting unstuck, raise self-awareness, and reduce stress for more health and vitality.

Key takeaways

• Learn what is at the root of ineffective leadership communication and team development

• Recognize how brain-created “self-fulfilling prophecy” limits leadership potential

• Tips and strategies to begin to understand how to “optimally operate” your amazing brain

About the presenter

VALENCIA RAY, M.D. is a consultant and executive coach for organizations that want to help their executives perform at their very best. She is also a dynamic speaker and trainer who helps to restore vision by shining the light on the core issues that get in people’s way of achieving their true potential. By eliminating these blind spots, her clients become more focused on a daily basis, experience more confidence in themselves and their talents, build more momentum toward their dreams and goals and feel more passion for their work, career and life.

Lunch & Learn Webinar - Speak Like a Pro: Practical Tips to Propel Your Confidence, Delivery, and Impact

Thursday, April 3, 2014 from 12:00-12:40 PM Pacific Time

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We all get nervous before major speaking opportunities — our body is going into a predictable fight or flight response from being isolated on an open plane, with dozens of eyeballs staring at us. The question is, do you know the insider tips and tricks to harness those nerves and use them to your advantage to positively influence audiences and build your business?

In this webinar, based on years of international speaking experience and over five years on the Training & Development team at Google, Jenny will share practical tips to improve your confidence, delivery, and impact while speaking in front of others.

These skills will help with everything from internal presentations to client meetings to larger speaking engagements, and ensure that your audiences walk away feeling inspired and motivated to action.

Key takeaways

• How to structure a presentation effectively to enact positive behavior change

• The brain science behind how to practice your delivery to nail your content without notes

• Physiological tips for calming nerves

• Pointers for delivering your speech in an engaging, concise manner

About the presenter

Jenny Blake is an author, blogger, life coach, Googler and yoga teacher. She has worked at Google for over five years in training, coaching & career development. Prior to Google and halfway through her junior year at UCLA, Jenny took a leave of absence to help launch a political polling start-up company with her college professor and mentor. She returned to finish at UCLA in the spring of 2005. The experience of leaving school before her friends inspired her to start a blog, LifeAfterCollege.org, which she has now translated into a book. Life After College: The Complete Guide to Getting What You Want is a portable life coach for 20-somethings, filled with tips, quotes and coaching exercises to help people focus on the BIG picture of their lives…not just the details.

Lunch & Learn Webinar - How to Use Design Thinking to Create an Innovation Company Culture

Thursday, February 6, 2014 from 12:00-12:40 PM Pacific Time

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Need to find innovative solutions for your everyday challenges, or develop new opportunities that really meet the needs of your users and customers? Want to create and nurture an innovative culture in your group or in your organization?

More than ever before, innovation is necessary in every aspect of business. That is the key sentiment shared by CEOs from all major companies and organizations.

Accelerated by the spectacular rise of Apple and IDEO, Design Thinking has emerged as one of the key approaches better suited for dealing with the increasing pressures for innovation faced by so many firms and their managers than business’ traditional analytic methods. Design Thinking is a human-centered, prototype-driven process for innovation that can be applied to products, services, experiences, and business models.

The webinar will give participants a glimpse into design thinking and offer this methodology as a unique approach that will enhance their ability to drive innovation across their teams and organization.

Key takeaways

• An overview of Design Thinking as an innovation strategy

• Examples that demonstrate the power of human-centered innovation

• Eight concrete steps that participants can implement to improve innovation in their work

• Recommended resources and events

About the presenters

Reinhold Steinbeck is a design innovation consultant, educator and researcher impacting the business, education, public and social enterprise sectors via design thinking. He has worked in Silicon Valley in leading positions in the field of technology, education, and design for over 20 years, including the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning and the Advanced Technology Group at Apple Computer. Most recently, Reinhold was a Visiting Professor at the University of São Paulo where he started and directed the Laboratório de Design, Inovação e Criatividade (d-USPLeste). Reinhold is Co-Founder and Partner of IntoActions, a Design Innovation Consultancy.

Edgard Stuber is an innovation specialist. He has over 30 years of experience working as senior executive in the areas of research and development, marketing, sales, strategic planning and innovation with multinational companies in the automotive parts industry and machinery sector. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and frequently lectures on innovation and design thinking. He is trained as an engineer and holds an MBA as well as a Master in Design. Edgard is Co-Founder and Partner of IntoActions, a Design Innovation Consultancy.

Lunch & Learn Webinar - Publishing Your eBook for Greater Business Impact

Thursday, December 5, 2013 from 12:00-12:40 PM Pacific Time

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Looking for a new way to attract and engage prospective customers? Today’s audiences bypass much of the hype of traditional advertising. Instead, they want relevant and useful content that they can act on right away. Are you offering them that?

Earn their business and loyalty by offering them a content-rich “free-mium”: an ebook (or two). You can use ebooks to showcase your expertise while building your brand’s credibility and market reach. An ebook is an excellent way to deliver content directly to your target audience. Not only will you build visibility, but you will also carve out a niche as an ‘author’-ity in your field.

A vital component of your overall marketing stategy, ebook marketing is about creating content that knows no bounds and can be recycled across all of your communication channels (online and offline).

Key takeaways

• Top 3 myths about today’s book and ebook publishing

• Advice on how to write your ebook for the most impact

• Introduction to independent publishing (what to expect and how to get started

• Recommended resources and free checklists for taking the next

About the presenter

Dalya Massachi is the award-winning author of the 2011 independently published book, “Writing to Make a Difference: 25 Powerful Techniques to Boost Your Community Impact.” This rich resource gives change agents the license to engage their readers with authority, clarity, and values. Dalya now serves as the project manager and editor for several other independently published books and ebooks. Check out her free newsletter and conference call series at: WritingToMakeADifference.com.

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

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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

• Agile at a high level

• Agile values and principles with lessons beyond software and work

• The difference between wishful thinking and planning for the unknown

• Accountability that supports continuous learning

• 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.

Lunch and Learn Webinar - Lean in Action: Streamline your processes and achieve results!

Thursday, October 3, 2013 from 12:00-12:40 PM Pacific Time

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Lean’s origins started in manufacturing and the automotive industry, but Lean has also found success in other lines of business. With a focus on value from the customer’s perspective, operational waste is reduced and processes are streamlined. Employees are empowered to provide improvement solutions and metrics show the fruit of the organizational labor.  Take a look at how UCSF Medical Center is using Lean to improve IT services.

Key takeaways

• You will understand the high level concepts of Lean.

• You will see how customer focus actually reduces cost.

• You will be able to define and identify operational waste.

• And… you will know that you want to learn more!

About the presenter

Pierre Brickey has over twenty years of experience in the technology industry spanning the defense, telecom, and healthcare sectors. As Director of IT Quality at UCSF Medical Center, he is focused on enterprise IT value, process improvement, and service quality. In his spare time, he is the IT Program Director for the Mission Bay Hospitals construction effort, due to open in February 2015.

Lunch and Learn Webinar: Unleash Your Inner Storyteller for Business Writing

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

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 “Let me tell you a story.” That’s how the late Steve Jobs often started his presentations. He understood the power of story and used it to capture attention—even before he told the first story! You can grab your audience with stories in your newsletters, blogs, books, meetings, and presentations.

Who should attend

All business professionals who write and/or make presentations, especially those in marketing and communications, PR, sales, human resources, and executive levels.

Key takeaways

• Hook your audience with stories

• Tell stories that activate memories and trigger emotions—where we buy and buy in

• Create a template for telling stories using the six stages of successful storytelling

• Develop a story inventory to capture stories for easy reference

• Use your copy of my Tell Successful Stories Checklist

About the presenter

Lynda McDaniel, “Your Write with Confidence Coach,” and a member of the People-OnTheGo faculty, brings more than 25 years of writing, teaching, and learning to her webinars. Lynda has written 1,000 feature articles for major publications, and she is the author of a dozen books, including her award-winning Words at Work, (which took top honors from the National Best Books Awards). About 10 years ago, Lynda began coaching on business writing and book writing. She has trained executives and staff at organizations such as Microsoft, Visa, The Boeing Company, Del Monte, Citibank, T-Mobile, City of Seattle, U.S. Small Business Administration, and the University of Washington.

Special Lunch and Learn Webinar - Time for Leadership: Finding an Hour to Lead

Thursday, August 1, 2013 from 12:00-12:50 PM Pacific Time

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So many attendees enjoyed this special webinar on 7/17 that we decided to offer a second session!

Leaders today are challenged with finding time to lead! Based on one of our surveys, 3.27 hours are spent on e-mail every day, not to mention the never-ending to-do lists, back-to-back meetings, changing priorities, and the increasingly complex work environment and virtual workforce—all leaving not much time for leading. This translates to an inability to coach and develop people, difficulty staying strategic, and struggling with creative problem-solving and innovation. Not having time to lead isn't just a side effect; it is a core threat to leadership.  

What could you do in your workweek to find an hour to lead? How about an hour a day? Or several hours a day? In this inspiring and innovative session, based on his revolutionary Accomplishing More Leadership Program, Pierre Khawand, Founder & CEO of People-OnTheGo, demonstrates exactly how you can find that hour to lead -- by focusing on results, strategic thinking, emotional acumen, self- and team-awareness, and even more time-saving techniques.

Key takeaways:

• New insights into time, the perception of time, and the multi-dimensional aspects of working effectively to speed up progress and win the war against the clock.

• Practical techniques that can lead to behavioral changes, then develop into practices, enabling you to rewire your brain and augment your leadership potential.

• Redefining "play time" and adopting innovative ways to get rejuvenated, which will help you discover whole new levels of creativity, happiness, and fulfillment.

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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

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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

• What are the top 3 challenges for people juggling multiple projects

• How virtual whiteboards help you prioritize your work and scope out your projects

• The benefits of a visual approach to managing your workload

• 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.