Upcoming Training: Free Webinars and Webcasts
February 2012
Leadership Presence: How to Build Personal Influence in Your Organization
Date of Event: February 22, 2012
Time: 12:00 -1:00 PM EST
Fee: Complimentary
Meeting Number: 17494-00001
Leadership Presence: How to Build Personal Influence in Your Organization – click here to register
Overview
Presence is the corporate “it” factor. It’s directly linked to your ability to get noticed, forge trusting relationships, and get others on board with your agenda. In increasingly distributed companies, managers are often left alone to translate a vision and galvanize cross-functional teams.
Influence is the primary means for getting work done.
The Wall Street Journal recently weighed in, stating that “presence plays an increasingly important role as companies grapple with a weak recovery and fewer management layers.”
Presence is an amorphous concept with a defined impact in our success. We’re experts at reading others’ presence, but it’s remarkably hard to understand and shape our own without the right approach.
The good news is that anyone can strengthen their presence in a way that’s authentic, natural, and influential whether they’re an introvert, extrovert, aspiring or seasoned leader.
What You Will Learn
In this webcast, you’ll discover what skills are needed to inspire and motivate by focusing on the three core aspects of presence:
- Intentional: Determine the type of presence you want and the values you want to convey, and how they match up with the way people currently perceive you.
- Individual: Understand how to build relationships that foster trust, and that drive business, loyalty, and career success.
- Inspirational: Learn what the master communicators do to inspire others, including using powerful language, motivating through change, and presenting to audiences effectively.
While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.
Offering More Than a Good Job
Date of Event: February 28, 2012
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM EST
Fee: Complimentary
Offering More Than a Good Job – click here to register
Overview
The results of a recent Employee Engagement survey, conducted by a third party on behalf of SilkRoad, are the topic of this webinar. The findings from this survey will offer insights into organizational trends, challenges and possible solutions.
Attendees will learn:
- How to measure the success of their Employee Engagement program
- Best Practices on fostering Employee Engagement
- Advantages of an engaged workforce
- The benefits of using social technology
Register today to learn how to help your organization offer more than just a good job.
While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.
March 2012
Finding the ‘Diamonds in the Rough’ in your Organization
Date of Event: March 6, 2012
Time: 12:30 PM EST
Fee: Complimentary
Finding the ‘Diamonds in the Rough’ in your Organization – click here to register
Overview
Last year, three out of four organizations lost high-performing employees that they did not want to lose; and the ability to sustain top talent is a challenge facing all organizations worldwide. Organization development and human resource professionals feel the pressure to recruit, retain and develop their talent, no matter how large or small their organization.
In this complimentary webinar we will discuss talent acquisition strategies that will help build a framework for finding those “diamonds in the rough.”
Participants will:
- Differentiate between talent management and talent acquisition
- Develop a blueprint for evaluating internal and external talent which will help them to uncover those diamonds in the rough
While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.
Coaching For Results: Making Good Teams Great
Date of Event: March 9, 2012
Time: 1:00 PM EST
Fee: Complimentary
Coaching For Results: Making Good Teams Great – click here to register
Overview
Well-integrated, high-performing teams—those that ‘click’—never lose sight of their goals and are largely self-sustaining. In fact, they seem to take on a life of their own. The degree to which members of an organization can effectively collaborate and work in teams is a determining factor for success.
Is your team equipped for success? Do you want a proven approach to generating results in 2012? If so, you won’t want to miss this practical, how-to session.
Join us for a complimentary webinar and you will learn how to:
- communicate a clear vision and inspire team members to make the vision a reality
- create blueprints for action to achieve those goals
- use language to build trust, encourage forward thinking, and create energy within the team
- get the right people involved
While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.
The Progress Principle: Sparking Employee Engagement and Performance
Date of Event: March 14, 2012
Time: 12:00 -1:00 PM EST
Fee: Complimentary
Meeting Number: 17780-00001
The Progress Principle: Sparking Employee Engagement and Performance – click here to register
Overview
Everyday Actions That Drive Employee Engagement and Performance
Leaders face a formidable challenge in keeping employees engaged in their work—deeply involved and fully committed. Traditional motivators, like incentive systems, can get people to show up and do the work. But it takes something more to spark the passion that leads to the highest levels of creative productivity.
Recent research discovered that “something more”—progress in meaningful work, even “small wins.”
This webcast unravels the secrets of inner work life—the usually hidden emotions, perceptions, and motivations that arise as people react to events in their work day. You’ll discover how what you say and do every day can drive positive inner work life throughout your organization and fuel great performance for the long term. In addition, you find out ways to avoid the traps that can undermine inner work life and performance.
What You Will Learn
- What inner work life is and why it matters to people and their organizations
- How inner work life drives performance on four dimensions:
—Creativity
—Productivity
—Commitment to the work
—Commitment to colleagues - How even incremental progress in meaningful work can lead to great inner work life
- What you can do at the start of each project to make the work meaningful
- How you can boost consistent progress by strategic use of “catalysts”—such as learning-oriented reactions to setbacks
- How you can support healthy inner work life through “nourishers”—such as building camaraderie
- How you can avoid the negativity traps of meaningless work, inhibitors to progress, and toxins that poison inner work life
Join us as we delve into the real-life diaries of people doing innovative work, to explore how small steps can lead to superior long-term performance.
While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.
Avoiding Wrong Turns on Your Leadership Journey
Date of Event: March 15, 2012
Time: 12:00 -1:00 PM EST
Fee: Complimentary
Meeting Number: 17782-00001
Avoiding Wrong Turns on Your Leadership Journey – click here to register
Overview
Research conducted by Marshall Goldsmith and Associates over a period of 10 years has identified a list of 20 attitudes and behaviors that are surefire career killers.
- Are you holding yourself back by engaging in these counterproductive behaviors…like the excessive use of sarcasm or the need to win… all the time?
- Have you hit a point where you are stuck, frustrated at why you’re not moving ahead?
What You Will Learn
In this insightful discussion, Marshall Goldsmith delves deeper into some of the worst offenders on this list and suggest ways that you can stop sabotaging yourself and your career and instead, get where you want and deserve to be in your organization.
While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.
Mind Matters! Getting Results Through Psychology
Date of Event: March 21, 2012
Time: 12:00 -1:00 PM EST
Fee: Complimentary
Meeting Number: 17781-000011
Mind Matters! Getting Results Through Psychology – click here to register
Overview
Setting expectations, directing, delegating, enforcing policy.
If you’ve been doing the same thing and not getting anywhere, listen to this webcast for new techniques that tap into the human psyche. Because understanding the root reasons of human behavior allows you to make different choices about how you manage and what kind of results you get.
Thought, behavior, personality — all three affect everything from having a preference for a particular employee to how often you voice your opinions in a group.
In this webcast, Dr. Boyce will give you a quick overview of three major schools of psychology—behavioral, cognitive and social — and give you insights into each one. So you can heighten your self-awareness and increase your effectiveness as a manager.
What You Will Learn
- Behavioral Psychology: what truly motivates human behavior— including four universal needs that are at the core of all human decisions
- Cognitive Psychology: why people perceive different things from the same physical reality and how to get everyone on the right page
- Social Psychology: individual performance within the group and how to use this to your advantage
- How to use psychology to be a better motivator
While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.
Identity: Your Passport to Success
Date of Event: March 28, 2012
Time: 12:00 -1:00 PM EST
Fee: Complimentary
Meeting Number: 17489-00001
Identity: Your Passport to Success - click here to register
Overview
Is it smart to put lace curtains on the windows of a house that has no foundation?
Can you really strive to succeed when you’re not comfortable in your own skin and don’t know who you are at your very core?
Many of us spend years trying to find out who we are and sadly, never really do.
The truth is, if YOU fail to define yourself, others will jump in and do it for you and may easily focus on the most basic common denominators like gender, race and/or your socioeconomic background.
When this happens, we end up buying into the labels other have bestowed upon us we may become prisoners of them.
The result is that many of us never realize our greatest potential.
What You Will Learn
In this insightful program, Stedman Graham discusses his own journey around identity and how he learned to take control of his life by breaking down the self-limiting barriers he had allowed others to erect.
You’ll learn about the nine-step success process including stepping into outer limits, building your dream team and committing to your vision.
You will also come to understand that the answer to who you are most certainly lies within you.
While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.
April 2012
Identity: Cultivating Leadership in Today’s Students
Date of Event: April 4, 2012
Time: 12:00 -1:00 PM EST
Fee: Complimentary
Meeting Number: 17492-00001
Identity: Cultivating Leadership in Today’s Students – click here to register
Overview
Are you properly preparing students to lead the future?
How can students know who they want to become without a strong sense of who they really are?
Never has it been as crucial for parents, educators and mentors to find in themselves and instill in every student a strong positive identity.
Only by increasing self-awareness and self-esteem can they be helped to transcend real and perceived barriers to success.
Without this, our students may find themselves defined and limited by labels others bestow upon them and unable to meet the demands of the 21st century.
What You Will Learn
You’ll learn about the nine-step success process that you can be used to help you and your students step into the outer limits, build a dream team and commit to a collective vision. Stedman Graham will offer insights from his own journey to understand his identity and overcome the self-limiting barriers he had allowed others to erect around him.
By attending you’ll discover how to communicate the process and guide your students to understanding themselves and their place in life’s journey.
While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.
How the Best Managers Create a Culture of Belief
Date of Event: April 15, 2012
Time: 12:00 -1:00 PM EST
Fee: Complimentary
Meeting Number: 17492-00001
How the Best Managers Create a Culture of Belief – click here to register
Overview
Are Your Employees “All In?”
Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton teamed up with Towers Watson to analyze an unprecedented 300,000-person study revealing that high-performance organizations possess a distinctive kind of culture.
In these environments, employees believe in their leaders and the company’s mission,
values, and goals.
And employees are not only engaged, but also enabled and energized, which leads to astonishing results—average annual operating revenues of 27.4 percent, three times higher than companies lacking such a positive culture.
What You Will Learn
Join us as Gostick and Elton explore a simple 7-step roadmap for creating a high-achieving culture: defining a burning platform, creating rigorous customer focus, making sure team members root for one another, and establishing clear accountability. Attend and you’ll hear:
- Specific how-tos for inspiring belief in your mission and goals
- Fascinating stories depicting the power of culture in action
- Advice for getting your employees “all in”
While attending this program is FREE, reservations are required.
