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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:

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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.

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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.  

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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.

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Lunch & Learn: Virtual Worlds for Virtual Teams

In March of 2008, our guest speaker Eilif Trondsen, Research and Program Director of the Virtual Worlds Consortium for Innovation and Learning at SRI Consulting Business Intelligence (www.sric-bi.com/vwc), talked about the definition, evolution, and applications of Virtual Words, and provided a lively demonstration of Second Life.
 
Then in September of 2008, guest speaker Chuck Hamilton, Learning and New Media Program Manager of the IBM 3D Internet Team, talked about the IBM@PLAY program. He discussed how playful tools and projects are spreading across their workplace and how Virtual Worlds are an important part of this effort, helping connect people globally across the organization.
 
Last week, Eilif and Chuck both came back to our Lunch & Learn webinar to give us an update on the latest applications and developments in Virtual Worlds. They also shared further insights and examples on how Virtual Worlds are helping virtual teams collaborate and their visions on how Virtual Worlds might shape the future of workplace collaboration.

To find out more about Chuck and Eilif's work you can contact them at chamilto@ca.ibm.com and etrondsen@sric-bi.com.  

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Working together effectively: Using Insights to help teams collaborate (on Thursday, May 14th, 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.

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Lunch & Learn: Building Trust and Accomplishment through Agreements

In yesterday's Lunch and Learn session, Peter Katz discussed how organizations accomplish things largely as the outcome of agreements. These agreements can be made internally or externally, but either way they are between “customers” and “suppliers.” The better an organization is at negotiating and managing these agreements, the more trust it will build between both internal and external customers and suppliers. The result will be more accomplishment as individuals and collectively.

Peter is Co-Founder and CEO of AgreeNet, a start-up company which creates software, provided as a managed service, which allows anyone or any group of people to create, negotiate, manage, and measure requests and commitments made with each other. Peter talked about the concept of agreements, why they are so important, and discussed solutions to help organizations manage these most important relationships. Peter also demonstrated the AgreeNet platform and how it can help manage agreements in the workplace.

To learn more about Peter's agreement strategies or to find out about the Agreenet platform you can contact Peter at pkatz@agreenet.com or call him at 650-654-8900. You can also visit www.agreenet.com.

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

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From Ideas to Solutions that have Great Impact (on Thursday, April 23rd, 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.

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Lunch & Learn: Improving satisfaction and loyalty of customer and employees

Yesterday, Elliott Brown joined People-OnTheGo to provide lunch & learn participants with his insights on customer and employee satisfaction and loyalty. Elliott is the founder of Elliott Brown & Associates, which has for 20 years been helping organizations measure and improve the satisfaction and loyalty of their customers and employees. His experience and advice were especially helpful in the current economic times, which make it particularly important to build and maintain the loyalty of both customers and employees.

Elliott began his presentation by bringing participants' attention to the direct impact that employee satisfaction has on customer satisfaction and loyalty. Happy employees are more productive, creating greater customer value, which results in increased customer satisfaction and loyalty and increased profitability. Elliott went on to discuss how a company can differentiate between artificial and genuine employee and customer loyalty, suggesting correctly structured surveys as the best tool.

Elliott's advice and guidance were extremely helpful, and he concluded his presentation with an offer to speak with those who were interested in discussing his satisfaction and loyalty strategies further. Elliott can be reached by phone at (415) 552-0810 or by mail at elliott@elliottbrown.com.

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The growing risk of e-mail & blog mis-use (on Thursday, December 4th, 2008 from 12:00 noon to 12:45 pm Pacific Time)

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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.

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Lunch & Learn: Working together effectively: Using the Enneagram to help teams collaborate

After learning about the Myers-Briggs asessment tool last week, we continued our assessment tool lunch & learn webinar series this week and heard from Donna Fowler and Ben Saltzman about the Enneagram. Through their direct experiences Donna and Ben have developed the Coaching to Deep-Level Change coaching model. Together they have created a comprehensive, four-year training program where they teach coaches and therapists to use this model in conjunction with the Enneagram.

During yesterday's lunch & learn presentation Donna and Ben described the function of the Enneagram and provided their insights into its uses and benefits. They presented the nine different personality types and explained how knowledge of one's type can facilitate a decrease in anxiety and improved collaboration with others.

To find out more about Donna and Ben or their Transformational Coaching with the Enneagram (TCE) program offerings and online trainings, see their listing at: www.enneagramcoachtraining.com. You can also learn about Donna and Ben's upcoming Enneagram event.

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Improving satisfaction and loyalty of customer and employees (on Thursday, November 20, 2008 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.

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Upcoming Working Together Effectively Using Enneagram Lunch & Learn Webinar

This week's lunch & learn webinar will be the second of our webinar series looking at the three popular assessment tools Myers-Briggs, the Enneagram and DiSC. Last week, Jerry Pico gave an interactive presentation about Myers-Briggs which will be followed by this week's look at the Enneagram. The series will conclude with a webinar on December 11th about DiSC.

This Thursday, November 13th, Donna Fowler and Ben Saltzman will share their Enneagram expertise with us. They will explore how, when individuals and teams better understand each other’s styles, preferences and personality types, they are likely to build on each other’s strengths, better manage differences and work together more effectively. Donna and Ben will examine how the Enneagram works and discuss how it can improve team collaboration.

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Working together effectively: Using Enneagram to help teams collaborate (Thursday November 13th, 2008 from 12:00 noon to 12:45 pm Pacific Time)

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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.

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Lunch & Learn: Working together effectively: Using Myers-Briggs to help teams collaborate

During today's Lunch & Learn webinar session Jerry Pico, an experienced Human Resources Development Consultant qualified by the Association of Psychological Type to administer and interpret the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), provided our audience with an engaging and insightful presentation about using the MBTI to help teams better collaborate. Jerry drew from his over twelve years of experience using Myers-Briggs to help individuals and groups enhance their self-understanding, relationships and performance. He began the session by explaining that the MBTI is the most widely used personality assessment tool in the world and can be affirming, empowering and liberating for those who use it.

Jerry went on to walk lunch & learn participants through the four preferences that determine one's Myers-Briggs personality type. He then showed a type chart that displayed the breakdown of type distribution in the United States and discussed how one can use the knowledge of theirs and others' types to be most successful in team settings.

To learn more about the Myers-Briggs assessment and Jerry's work with organizational effectiveness, coaching, leader development, talent acquisition, human resources and business management visit www.pkwconsulting.com or contact Jerry at jerry@pkwconsulting.com.

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

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Working together effectively: Using the Enneagram to help teams collaborate (on Thursday November 13, 2008 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.

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Upcoming Working Together Effectively Using Myers-Briggs Lunch & Learn Webinar

When individuals and teams better understand each other’s styles, preferences and personality types, they are likely to build on each other’s strengths, better manage differences and work together more effectively. This Thursday, November 6th, our lunch & learn webinar will discuss and help participants learn to utilize the Myers-Briggs assessment tool to achieve this more effective collaboration.

This lunch & learn session will be the first of our webinar series looking at the three popular assessment tools Myers-Briggs, the Enneagram and DiSC. We will examine how they work and discuss how they can enable individuals and teams to work together more effectively. The series begins this week with Jerry Pico and will continue with Donna Fowler and Ben Saltzman on 11/13, and Janet Fitzgerald on 12/11. All our presenters are expert coaches, trainers and thought leaders in this area, and will share with us their expertise and provide valuable insights about Myers-Briggs, the Enneagram and DiSC, respectively.

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Working together effectively: Using Myers-Briggs to help teams collaborate (Thursday November 6th, 2008 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.

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Lunch & Learn: Microsoft Groove--working and collaboration from anywhere

For this week's lunch & learn webinar session Rick Colosimo and Mike Princi, managing directors of ThoughtStorm Strategic Capital (TSC), gave participants insight into their experiences with Microsoft Groove. TSC is a boutique strategic advisory firm which works solely in a distributed fashion that recently included people in three U.S. states and two Persian Gulf countries. Having had to handle these long distance relationships, TSC built a system of interrelated tools that allow for a wide level of collaboration. They have used Groove since well before the Microsoft acquisition both internally and externally, and their presentation and advice were extremely valuable.

Rick and Mike discussed the primary features of MS Groove, how it facilitates internal work and collaboration and how the internal/external, knowledge management/project management features relate to one another. They explained that, despite Microsoft ownership, Groove and Sharepoint remain very different applications, and one of Groove's greatest advantages is its offline access.

Rick also presented various business scenarios in which TSC has used MS Groove, allowing the audience to better understand the application in an applied context and explained the advantages of MS Groove's additional encryption benefits. Ultimately, Rick conveyed to the audience how MS Groove has allowed TSC and their customers to safely collaborate and share much more effectively than ever before.

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Harness the Power of Referrals to Increase Productivity (on Thursday October 16, 2008 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.

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