Conferences and Special Events Calendar

Communicating Across Generations: How to Get Your Message Understood—More generations interact in the workplace than ever before, often leading to misunderstandings and conflict in the workplace. The fact is that these diverse groups sometimes barely speak the same language (figuratively, if not literally). This Webcast examines different perspectives and motivators for each group and offers advice on engaging, motivating and communicating with them effectively.

New Trends in Learning: Talent Management, Skill-focused Simulations,
and Strategic Alliances—Four—no, five—generations in the workforce! Baby boomers retiring by the millions in the next 10 years! Pressure to slash training budgets and/or show Return on Investment and Equity for the remaining dollars! Increasing numbers of associates and managers working in a remote environment thanks to gas prices and global corporations! Come join us for the day while four experts will enlighten you on how innovative development methods can enhance your skill-building programs to address these issues.

Training Top 125 RoadShow — This Evening Cocktail Symposium features a selection of leaders from Training magazine’s 2008 Top 125 companies that excel in workforce training and development. Attend to network with learning executives and hear about best practices at these organizations in areas including leadership development, technology, onboarding, talent management, and multi-generation issues, among others.

Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic: Delivering World-Class Service—One of Mayo Clinic’s greatest strengths is “boundarylessness.” This refers to the cultural encouragement that employees step out of their organizational chart "box" to collaborate with others anywhere in the organization who can help them better serve their customers. This Webcast explores boundarylessness and other key guiding principles that help Mayo Clinic achieve exemplary levels of customer satisfaction.

Fired Up Leadership: How to Make Your Team Thrive—Scientific research has validated the powerful effect of emotional connections on human beings. When individuals feel a connection with their organization’s identity, their colleagues and their day-to-day tasks, they thrive and so does their organization. “Connection Cultures” help organizations attract, engage and retain the employees they need to meet growth opportunities. This Webcast explores how to create a Connection Culture as well as the best practices that increase connection.

Managing Globally Using the MBTI® Instrument: 6 Ways to More Effectively Communicate Across Cultures—The MBTI® instrument can be an integral leadership and management development tool when interacting with colleagues, employees, bosses, and customers from different cultures. This Webcast explores the subtle and not so subtle nuances of using type with diverse cultures and offers valuable insight into using type to increase your effectiveness when navigating the globe.

Valuation Intelligence: Insider Insights into a Company’s True Worth—Merger objective, takeover target or investment possibility—no matter what your reason, establishing a company’s true worth is critical in making better business decisions. This unique Webcast gives you an array of secrets to help you sidestep the many issues that arise when a company is valued improperly. Protect yourself: discover some of the “how-tos” insiders use to accurately value companies—before you make a costly acquisition mistake...or sell a company for too little.

Managing Government Employees: How to Motivate Them, Deal with Difficult Issues and Produce Tangible Results—Managing government employees presents unique challenges. Government managers may feel that strict and complex regulations mean they cannot accomplish their job or delegate to their staff properly so they can work more efficiently. Come join us for a day-long session with AMACOM’s author Stewart Liff as he discusses how even the most competent managers in government agencies can face overwhelming obstacles.

Visual Management Techniques to Improve Your Performance—Do you find yourself wondering what your company’s or department’s business objectives or goals are or where you can locate them? The fact is visual elements in a workplace have a tremendous impact on execution, morale, and productivity. Come join us for a half-day session with AMACOM’s author Stewart Liff as he will provide an in-depth overview of how to successfully implement an organizational transformation using the revolutionary concept known as Visual Management.

Network Your Way to Success: Tips & Techniques—We live and work in a time of rapid and unprecedented change. Up and down the corporate ladder, the challenge to cultivate strong networks confronts nearly everyone in business today, whether it's the public or private sector and regardless of industry. Beyond merely widening the circle of people you know, strong networks foster deeper learning and broaden your exposure across a range of issues. Effective investments in your networks can make you smarter, more knowledgeable, and better grounded, as well as a more agile learner and collaborator.