Conferences and Special Events Calendar

Distracted: Finding Focus in a Hyperkinetic World—Despite wondrous technologies and scientific advances, our attention is scattered among the beeps and pings of a push-button world. In this Webcast, Maggie Jackson explores this world of diffusion and detachment, offering a look at the workings of attention—with its three pillars of focus, awareness, and judgment—revealing how these skills can be shaped and taught.

Leading with Kindness: How Good People Consistently Get Superior Results—Contrary to what many of us have been told, research indicates that when it comes to business, nice guys often finish first. But how does one define “kindness” in business? And what is the best way to “use” this deceptively complex notion as a guiding principle to lead an organization successfully into the future? This Webcast explores how you can use sincerity, honesty, and respect to accomplish true organizational greatness.

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 provides an in-depth overview of how to successfully implement an organizational transformation using the revolutionary concept known as Visual Management.

World Business Forum—HSM’s World Business Forum is the leading international symposium for the business community, hosting the largest gathering of senior executives and featuring the most important leaders in the world. Over two days, you’ll hear the unique perspectives of world leaders and management icons such as Tony Blair, Colin Powell, Jack Welch, Narayana Murthy, Jim Collins, Marcus Buckingham, John Chambers, Rudy Giuliani, Muhammad Yunus, Bill George, and David Rubenstein. This is a great opportunity to learn from the business greats who are driving the global economy and shaping the industry of tomorrow. Special discounts are available to AMA members.

Taking Leadership to the Next Level—The corporate world is filled with executives who have worked hard to reach the upper levels of management, but only a handful of them will ever reach the pinnacle. Marshall Goldsmith explains in his book, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful, how subtle nuances make all the difference. In this Webcast, Marshall discusses the “transactional flaws” performed by one person against another (as simple as not saying “thank you” enough), which lead to negative perceptions that can stifle your career advancement.

Blended Learning: Integrating On-Demand Approaches Within Your Development Programs—It’s no longer enough to build fantastic new-hire orientation programs and a full curriculum to meet development needs—now you must create systems and environments that facilitate the networked organizational learning model. This Webcast examines trends within corporations that are successfully implementing on-demand learning approaches. And you’ll hear research-based guidance from Bersin & Associates on what you must do to successfully integrate these new approaches into your programs.

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.

Social Networking: Using the Latest Tools to Support Learning and Talent Management—LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Digg… it’s difficult not to notice the explosion in both the number and notoriety of these tools designed to support and enhance our ability to form social networks. Do these tools have any use within your company? Bersin & Associates believes that they do. Join this discussion as we explore social networking tools as a concept, outline a few corporate applications of these technologies, and offer some action-oriented advice to help you develop a strategy for implementing similar projects in your organization.

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.

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.