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Monday, May 23, 8:15-8:30
Training Magazine's Top 100 Best Practice Session
Diana Bing, Director, Enterprise Learning, Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, IBM
IBM's new Hire Orientation, called YOUR IBM, covers the new employee's first year. Employees have access to an employee Web site, 48-60 hours of e-learning, a 1.5 day learning lab, and opportunities to create personal action and development plans.
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Monday, May 23, 8:30-9:30
Understanding Human Potential and Motivation
Tom Rath, Global Practice Leader at The Gallup Organization, Co-author, How Full is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life
According to extensive Gallup research, 65% of workers received no positive recognition in the workplace last year, and the same research showed that the number one reason people leave their jobs is that they don't feel appreciated. Furthermore, the U.S. economy loses an estimated $300 billion a year because over 22 million workers are "actively disengaged." Tom Rath's presentation, rooted in solid research and full of practical advice, will discuss the power of positivity in changing organizational and personal success. According to O, The Oprah Magazine, Tom Rath "drew on Gallup research and millions of interviews to argue that positive give-and-take leads to solid marriages, higher worker satisfaction and productivity, and a happier world." |
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Monday, May 23, 3:30-3:45
Training Magazine's Top 100 Best Practice Session
Robert Hathaway, Director, Leadership Education and Development, Global Leadership Effectiveness, Pfizer, Inc.
Pfizer's long-term historical success can be directly traced to its blockbuster pipeline of pharmaceuticals. Join the discovery process and examine how Pfizer Inc has reinvented its award-winning leadership learning process to build a leadership pathway producing blockbuster talent across the globe. |
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Monday, May 23, 3:45-5:00
Towards Building a New Accountability in Teams
Tim Gallwey, Author, The Inner Game of Tennis; Valerio Pascotto, Founder, Effective Organizational Systems
From a young age we are taught that success is an individual process - get better grades, do better in activities, and you'll be personally rewarded. Is it any wonder then that asking people in organizations to collaborate often ends in failure? As he worked with a tennis client years ago, Tim Gallwey realized he was more committed to his own teaching than to his student's learning. When Gallwey stepped back, and stopped trying to tell his students what, when and where to play, his stduent's tennis game improved dramatically. Ever since then, Gallway has spent his career convincing people of the benefits of collaborative work and learning. Perhaps the most general shift needed for collaboration is from that all-too-familiar individual mind-set based on disguised individual agendas to a team mind-set where the goal of the team is prioritized. Learn how this new accountability fosters excellence in team performance. |
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Tuesday, May 24, 8:00-8:15
Training Magazine's Top 100 Best Practice Session
Kevin Wilde, Vice President, Chief Learning Officer, General Mills, Inc.
General Mills requires participants in its new manager development program to bring two to three management
challenge projects to the course. Participants apply the course material to these projects all week. After 60 days, 68 percent say they're making significant progress on their projects. |
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Tuesday, May 24, 8:15-9:15
The CEO and the Monk: A Unique Relationship for Business Success
Robert Catell, Chairman/CEO and Kenneth Moore, Corporate Ombudsmen, HR Director, KeySpan Energy Delivery; Co-authors, The CEO and the Monk: One Company's Journey to Profit and Purpose
When CEO of a New York City based Fortune 500 energy company teams up with a former Catholic monk, it makes for some insightful, productive and amusing experiences. Drawing on their many years of work together, Bob Catell and Kenny Moore of KeySpan will share their approaches to creating a sustainable corporate culture. |
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Tuesday, May 24, 9:30-10:30
Assumptions, Attitudes and World-Class Training
William Strickland; CEO, Bidwell Training Center; MacArthur Genius Award Recipient
William Strickland has spent a lifetime changing assumptions. From sleeping bag on the second floor of a dilapidated building, he built one of the most extraordinary organizations in America, employing and training thousands of at-risk youth, welfare moms and unemployed steel workers. Join this Grammy Award winner and MacArthur Genius Recipient for a profound message that will inspire you to change attitudes and assumptions in training and leadership. Learn how believing in people and creating a culture of innovation can result in an environment of productivity, collaboration and success.
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Tuesday, May 24, 3:15-3:30
Training Magazine's Top 100 Best Practice Session
Ed Cohen, Senior Director, Center for Performance and Excellence, Booz Allen Hamilton
This consulting firm saves training costs by using SMEs as training facilitators. The Adjunct Instructor Program requires instructors to pass a rigorous certification process before delivering training. With 47 certified instructors, the program has a 95 percent retention rate.
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Tuesday, May 24, 3:30-4:30
At Last! Proof that Training Works
Lauri Bassi, CEO, McBassi & Company, Inc; former VP Research, ASTD
This is the holy grail evidence that you've been looking for - firms' investments in employee training are the single most powerful predictor of future financial performance. Come hear about the research that Dr. Bassi and her colleagues have been doing for the past decade, and how they are using this research to run an investment company that invests in firms that invest in their people. This is definitely "news you can use!"
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