Conferences and Special Events Calendar

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July
July 15	Webcast	Project Management Skills for the Accidental Project Manager—Have you recently fallen into the role of a project manager? This Webcast explores a number of critical concepts to help you successfully manage your projects. Plus you'll see how to start building your own PM toolbox that can simplify your chores and increase productivity.
July 16	Atlanta	Total Quality Talent Management: Keep Your Employees Engaged and Positively Impacting Your Bottom-line Performance—Developing a team during a thriving economy is a challenge. When you add the dynamics of the current economic challenges, it is even more important to be strategic and focused on the mission critical aspects of your business. Join us for a breakfast briefing to discuss Total Quality Talent Management and receive a Free AMACOM Book.
July 17	Webcast	Project Management Skills for the Accidental Project Manager—Have you recently fallen into the role of a project manager? This Webcast explores a number of critical concepts to help you successfully manage your projects. Plus you'll see how to start building your own PM toolbox that can simplify your chores and increase productivity.
July 22	Webcast	Who's Got Your Back: Building the Deep, Trusting Relationships That Create Success—The path to success is often achieved through creating an inner circle of “lifeline relationships” with a few trusted individuals who will offer the encouragement, feedback, and the support every one of us needs to reach our full potential. Join Keith Ferrazzi as he shows you how to build a team of advisors who can offer guidance and hold you accountable to achieving your goals.
July 28	Webinar	How to Have Focused Business Conversations That Engage, Motivate, and Get Results—People who move up the corporate ladder share the ability to have engaging conversations with everyone in the organization. This webcast provides you with step-by-step tactics for conducting productive business conversations in a variety of situations, to meet different business and career needs.
July 29	Webcast	Leaders Make the Future: Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World—Today's businesses are operating in a world characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. As a forecaster, Bob Johansen studies the future to learn about leadership in the present. This Webcast explores the skills he feels will be crucial for steering organizations through the next ten years and beyond
August
August 4	Arlington	Total Quality Talent Management: Keep Your Employees Engaged and Positively Impacting Your Bottom-line Performance—Developing a team during a thriving economy is a challenge. When you add the dynamics of the current economic challenges, it is even more important to be strategic and focused on the mission critical aspects of your business. Join us for a breakfast briefing to discuss Total Quality Talent Management and receive a Free AMACOM Book.
August 5	Webcast	From GAAP to IFRS: How to Survive the Accounting Revolution—IFRS and U.S. GAAP are converging, and new rules based on the IFRS model are being issued by the FASB. The SEC has proposed that American public companies use IFRS by 2012. Find out what this really means and how it could impact your company. Discover how different the IFRS rules are and where they will affect your reporting. In this briskly paced 60-minute Webcast, you will learn what to expect and why it is critically important.
August 6	Webinar	12 Sure-Fire Ways to Make Your Writing More Persuasive—This Webinar provides you with 12 time-tested principles for writing more persuasively and leveraging the power of words for better business results. You’ll gain techniques for engaging and inspiring your reader, using power words to grab attention, and closing the deal by prompting action.
August 16	Webcast	Destination: Work—Imagine a company where people are excited about coming to work and giving their best effort each day. Join Harry Paul as he explains ways that managers at all levels can immediately and easily increase productivity by tapping into the discretionary effort of the people who work for them.
August 18	San Francisco	Total Quality Talent Management: Keep Your Employees Engaged and Positively Impacting Your Bottom-line Performance—Developing a team during a thriving economy is a challenge. When you add the dynamics of the current economic challenges, it is even more important to be strategic and focused on the mission critical aspects of your business. Join us for a breakfast briefing to discuss Total Quality Talent Management and receive a Free AMACOM Book.
August 26	Webcast	The Simple Way to Get through to Difficult People— What do underperformers, toxic high performers, fear ridden teams, and demanding customers have in common? They all keep you stressed and unable to function productively. During this webcast, Mark Goulston will share proven methods of communicating effectively with unreachable people in a win-win way where everyone comes out ahead.
September
September 2	Webcast	Profiles of Successful Leadership—What contributes to leadership success? What traits or qualities make one leader more successful than another? How can you develop these traits in yourself? Former CNN Anchor Donald Van de Mark will share compelling profiles of successful business leaders he interviewed—Charles Schwab, Anita Roddick, Richard Branson; and Leadership experts, Dr. Kay Krohne and Rich St. Denis will examine the leadership qualities that these Leaders demonstrate and how they contributed to their success.
September 23	Webcast	The Carrot Principle: Building Employee Engagement and Recognition to Drive Business Success—A breakthrough study of 200,000 people over the last 10 years found dramatically greater business results when managers offered their staff constructive praise and meaningful rewards. Join Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton as they discuss how the best managers use recognition to engage employees, retain top talent, and stimulate growth and productivity.