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Lunch & Learn Webinar: Keeping Inclusion & Diversity Top of Mind

Keeping diversity top of mind during this economic downturn can be challenging, especially in the face of budget cuts. As diversity leaders, you may be struggling with how to advance your inclusion & diversity (I&D) initiatives in this new climate. Marilyn Nagel, Director of Global I&D for Cisco, discussed strategies Cisco is deploying to keep this imperative at the forefront of the business agenda. She shared specific and actionable low cost solutions that yield high impact results.

To learn more about the program at Cisco, please visit: www.cisco.com/go/diversity

Also, check out Marilyn's slides from the presentation:

Download Inclusion_and_Diversity_Slides

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"Discovering your strengths and putting them to work" (on Thursday, June 25th, 2009 from 12:00 noon to 12:45 pm Pacific Time)

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Our lunch & learn program description and registration

Get your brown bag lunch (or snack) ready, and join us online every Thursday at 12:00 noon Pacific Time for 45 minutes to learn the latest and most innovative tips and techniques for individual and team productivity, and get the latest updates about important workplace and productivity issues.

Review program and register for our lunch & learn webinars

Complimentary seats at the Excel 2007 Techniques online live workshop on 7/21 (9:30 to 11:00 am Pacific Time)

we made them available at no charge. They were given on a first-come-first-serve basis. The two participants who received the seats are:

Diana Sansoe from UCSF Medical Center

Liz Matney from Networld Alliance

Congratulations to  Diana and Liz!

To make sure you get notified about free seats as soon as they become available, join the “Accomplishing more with less” group in Facebook or LinkedIn, and/or follow me on Twitter (pierrekhawand).

For more information about the online live workshops, please visit:

http://www.people-onthego.com/public_workshops.html

Good luck and hope you will be able to join us!

Lunch & Learn: What Losing 10% (body weight) Can Do

Improving body weight by just 10% can have a huge impact on employee health and productivity. For yesterday's Lunch & Learn, Deanna Moncrief joined us again and explained both the health and business benefits of keeping employees within a healthy weight range. Deanna also showed attendees how to quantify the financial gains realized by losing 10% of body weight. 

Deanna is the founder and CEO of Benchmark Wellness, a company specializing in deeply customized, highly successful employee wellness programs. Since 2002 Benchmark Wellness has been helping employers increase profitability by reducing employee health risks through education and behavior modification. The company administers innovative, cost-effective wellness programs for small- to mid-sized companies, holds employer training workshops across the United States, and also provides employee workshops and seminars in the areas of nutrition, weight management, and healthy living. 

To learn more about Deanna's wellness strategies to enhance productivity, or learn about the additional products and services that she offers, please visit www.benchmarkwellness.com or call 877-538-5797.

Also, check out Deanna's slides from the presentation:

Download Lunch_and_Learn_Losing_10_Percent

Join us for our upcoming free lunch & learn session!

Low Cost Solutions for Keeping Inclusion & Diversity Top of Mind (on Thursday, June 18th, 2009 from 12:00 noon to 12:45 pm Pacific Time)

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Our lunch & learn program description and registration

Get your brown bag lunch (or snack) ready, and join us online every Thursday at 12:00 noon Pacific Time for 45 minutes to learn the latest and most innovative tips and techniques for individual and team productivity, and get the latest updates about important workplace and productivity issues.

Review program and register for our lunch & learn webinars

Complimentary seats at the "Advanced Excel PivotTables" workshop on June 18, 9:30 to 11:30 am (via web/phone conferencing)

Two seats opened up at the June 18 workshop and we made them available at no charge. They were given on a first-come-first-serve basis. The two participants who received the seats are:

Ruby from Wells Fargo

Jennifer Golden from Lazboy

Congratulations to  Ruby and Jennifer!

To make sure you get notified about free seats as soon as they become available, join the “Accomplishing more with less” group in Facebook or LinkedIn, and/or follow me on Twitter (pierrekhawand).

For more information about the Excel PivotTables and other public workshops, please visit:

http://www.people-onthego.com/public_workshops.html

Good luck and hope to see you at the workshop!

Lunch & Learn: Virtual Leadership and Team Effectiveness

Many organizations are distributed across a range of locations and time zones. Managers, employees, and business partners in these dispersed environments face many challenges. In today's session, Barbara Miller, president of Artemis Management Consultants and co-founder of Virtual Connection, joined us to share her insights about virtual teams and management. Drawing from her over thirty years of consulting experience, Barbara provided Lunch & Learn attendees with concrete strategies and techniques to be successful as virtual managers.

Barbara's interactive presentation provided participants with specific techniques they could immediately implement to make a difference in themselves and their teams. She addressed how to lead a team whose members are located around the globe and how to work with business partners or key stakeholders whom one never sees face to face. Barbara also shared the best practices others are currently using to achieve results in a virtual world.

For more information about Barbara and her insights on virtual leadership you can contact her at BMiller@VirtualConnection.biz or call (415) 388-9514. Also learn more about Barbara's 6 module web-based tool, Virtual@Work, which teaches managers and teams how to increase their virtual work effectiveness. Contact Virtual Connection at www.VirtualConnection.biz.

Also, check out Barbara's slides:

Download Virtual Leadership and Team Effectiveness

Join us for our upcoming free lunch & learn session!

What Losing 10% (body weight) Can Do (on Thursday, June 11th, 2009 from 12:00 noon to 12:45 pm Pacific Time)

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Our lunch & learn program description and registration

Get your brown bag lunch (or snack) ready, and join us online every Thursday at 12:00 noon Pacific Time for 45 minutes to learn the latest and most innovative tips and techniques for individual and team productivity, and get the latest updates about important workplace and productivity issues.

Review program and register for our lunch & learn webinars

Complimentary seats at the "Managing Successfully: How to become an effective manager" half-day workshop on 6/5 in Menlo Park

Two seats opened up at the June 5th half-day workshop and we made them available at no charge. They were given on a first-come-first-serve basis. The two participants who received the seats are:

- Kathy Camin from HP

- Marc Kleinmaier from Nokia

Congratulations to Kathy and Marc!

To make sure you get notified about free seats as soon as they become available, join the “Accomplishing more with less” group in Facebook or LinkedIn, and/or follow me on Twitter (pierrekhawand).

For more information about the "Managing successfully: How to become an effective manager" workshop, here is the workshop flyer:

Download People-OnTheGo_ManageSuccessfully_WorkshopHalfDay

Good luck and hope to see you at the workshop!

Complimentary seats at the Accomplishing-more-with-less workshop on 6/10 in San Francisco

Two seats opened up at the 6/10 workshop and we made them available at no charge. They were given on a first-come-first-serve basis. The two participants who received the seats are:

Anne Capitolo and Bonnie Brooke

Congratulations to  Anne and Bonnie!

To make sure you get notified about free seats as soon as they become available, join the “Accomplishing more with less” group in Facebook or LinkedIn, and/or follow me on Twitter (pierrekhawand).

For more information about the Accomplishing-more-with-less workshop, please visit:

http://www.people-onthego.com/accomplishing_more.html

Lunch & Learn: Virtual Law for Non-Lawyers - Justice on the New Frontier

Virtual worlds and video games may be virtual, but the scams, disputes, and risks are very real.  Pillsbury attorney and Virtual Law author Benjamin Duranske joined us today to present a fast-paced guided tour of this rapidly changing landscape. Benjamin touched on knockoff virtual goods, gold farming, fraud, agreements with users, avatar defamation, potential government regulation, and more.

Benjamin focuses his practice on the emerging field of virtual law, intellectual property law, Internet law, and litigation. As the author of Virtual Law: Navigating the Legal Landscape of Virtual Worlds, the first book on this emerging field, as well as numerous online and print articles on the subject, Benjamin has helped define virtual law. He currently co-chairs the Committee on Virtual Worlds and Multiuser Online Games of the American Bar Association's Section of Science & Technology Law, which he helped establish. He is a frequent speaker on the subject of legal issues facing virtual world and game providers, software developers, content creators, and users. Benjamin co-chaired the first Virtual Law Conference, and founded the SL (Second Life®) Bar Association, an informal professional organization of attorneys and other legal professionals with an interest in virtual worlds.

To find out more about virtual law from Benjamin you can contact him at 650-233-4565 or e-mail benjamin.duranske@pillsburylaw.com.

Also, check out Banjamin's presentation slides:

Download Virtual Law for Non-Lawyers

Join us for our upcoming free lunch & learn session!

Virtual Leadership and Team Effectiveness (on Thursday, June 4th, 2009 from 12:00 noon to 12:45 pm Pacific Time)

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Our lunch & learn program description and registration

Get your brown bag lunch (or snack) ready, and join us online every Thursday at 12:00 noon Pacific Time for 45 minutes to learn the latest and most innovative tips and techniques for individual and team productivity, and get the latest updates about important workplace and productivity issues.

Review program and register for our lunch & learn webinars

Lunch & Learn: Using Insights to Help Teams Collaborate

Have you ever wondered why you just “click” with some people? Why some clients or business partners are so easy to work with but others drive you crazy? Why some colleagues seem to read your mind, while with others you struggle with recurring “miscommunications”?

Your professional success depends on your ability to develop and manage relationships with clients, colleagues, partners and others around you on a daily basis. In this Lunch & Learn session, Jennifer Winn helped participants look at some of the natural behavioral styles that underlie their actions and form the basis of others’ perceptions of them. Understanding these styles – and how to “flex” them when appropriate – can help you manage your relationships more effectively. Attendees learned to identify common “triggers” in themselves and others, and Jennifer gave them tips for how to improve their ability to influence and persuade those around them.

Jennifer is the founder of principal of Winn Performance Partners, an executive development and communication training firm. She specializes in helping executives and teams maximize their ability to achieve their goals by improving interpersonal dynamics and communication. To find out more about Jennifer's work and her use of Insights to improve communication and collaboration you can contact her at 925-314-9660 or e-mail jennifer@winnperformance.com.  

Join us for our upcoming free lunch & learn session!

Virtual Law for Non-Lawyers: Justice on the New Frontier (on Thursday, May 21st, 2009 from 12:00 noon to 12:45 pm Pacific Time)

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Our lunch & learn program description and registration

Get your brown bag lunch (or snack) ready, and join us online every Thursday at 12:00 noon Pacific Time for 45 minutes to learn the latest and most innovative tips and techniques for individual and team productivity, and get the latest updates about important workplace and productivity issues.

Review program and register for our lunch & learn webinars

Complimentary seats at the "Accomplishing more together: Using Myers-Briggs to help teams collaborate" workshop on 5/20 in Menlo Park

 

Two seats were made available at the 5/20 workshop at no charge. These were given on a first-come-first-serve basis. The two participants who received the seats are:

- Fawn Joy Davis

- Carol Somer

Here is more information about the "Accomplishing more together: Using Myers-Briggs to help teams collaborate" workshop:

Download People-OnTheGo_WorkingTogetherMBTI_Workshop

Good luck and hope to see you in future workshops!