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.

Complimentary Lunch & Learn Webinar: Getting Started with Office 2013 and 365

Thursday, April 4, 2013 from 12:00-12:40 PM Pacific Time

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Microsoft Office has long been a staple desktop publishing and productivity software for businesses and educational institutions. In this session, we’ll take a look at two new versions of the Office suite: Office 2013 and 365 and how new cloud-based features allow users to work more efficiently across desktop computers, tablets, and mobile phones. 

Key takeaways

• An understanding of the differences between Office 2013 and Office 365 as well as the plan types and pricing
• An introduction the new interfaces and the latest changes in both versions
• The ability to create and customize your Office 365 team workspace
• Awareness of cloud integration tools that will allow for greater file collaboration and mobility

Whether you’ve already upgraded or you’re looking for more information about these new formats, this workshop will provide a thorough overview of functionality to help you get started right away.

About the presenter

Eve Porcello is the owner of Moon Highway, a web development company based in Tahoe City, CA. She works primarily as a web project manager and has deployed interactive web projects for clients such as Microsoft, 1-800-DENTIST, and ESSP Law. In addition, Eve has implemented a variety of time and task management solutions to help client organizations track and improve productivity.

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: 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: Living in the Cloud

Thursday, August 2, 2012 12:00 PM - 12:40 PM Pacific Time

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The cloud is the hottest topic since the advent of the Internet. Drawing on his latest e-book, Cloud Surfing, Tom Koulopoulos paints a powerful picture of how the cloud will change the way we live, work, and play.

How will the cloud define your job? Social media, open models for education, the ongoing debate about classroom vs. virtual learning, mining online conversations, and identifying needs for education are just a few ways.

What is the cloud? It’s a framework for the disruption of structure. A place where we will all learn, live, work and play in the 21st century. It’s where nearly 35 million people already work. Where your kids are when they dive into online play. It’s a classroom without walls, instructors, or curriculums. It’s where companies go to find the next big idea. It’s where political campaigns are won and lost. All that may seem radical, but it doesn’t even come close to defining how disruptive the cloud will be.

In its simplest terms, the cloud is the new context for innovating business and society. However, the cloud is NOT just about technology. In fact technology is only a small part of the cloud. Just as important is the way the cloud changes how we collaborate, work, influence and are influenced, and how we experience the world.

About the Presenter:
Tom Koulopoulos is the author of nine books and founder of Delphi Group, a 20-year-old Boston-based think tank, which was named one of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. by Inc. Magazine. Tom’s articles and market insights appear frequently in national and international print and broadcast media such as BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Economist, CNBC, CNN, and NPR. Geoffrey James of CBS Interactive Media called Tom, “one of the truly deep thinkers in the arena of technology and culture,” and InformationWeek Magazine named him one of the industry’s most influential consultants. Mr. Koulopoulos’ nine books include The Innovation Zone, Corporate Instinct, and his most recent, Cloud Surfing.

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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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