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Do you have your finger on the pulse of your message? Is it what you intend it to be? Are you connected to the nerve center of the audience...are you calling them to action? Doesn’t matter if it’s it written form or spoken word? Are you connecting to your intended audience, the way in which you want?
This webinar will explore how to make a solid connection with your intended audience, every time you address them. Whether they be front-line staff, management, clients, or prospective employers. It will examine the three key aspects of communication (both written and verbal), explore how to curtail your message for accuracy and detail without error and suggest how to solicit a professional check up as necessary.

Today’s companies are placing a much higher emphasis on the ability to be creative and innovative in order to move ahead in this economy. They are eagerly looking at ways people, tools and techniques can spark a rebound that gives them a competitive edge. Making innovation and creativity a key cultural value is a goal of any highly effective organization. HR can play a crucial leadership role in helping to get there.

In this lively session, participants will learn how to increase the creative intelligence of their organizations in order to stay ahead of the competition. Participants will come away with new insights, fresh perspectives, and actionable steps to make creativity and innovation meaningful cultural values within their own organizations.

Positive or negative, everyone has a personal reputation. It’s how you’re known, how you’re perceived by others and it influences your relationships and your career. A positive reputation is an essential tool for succeeding in today’s competitive environment. People who have a positive reputation will get better jobs, get promoted more often and get bigger bonuses.

Through this hands-on, highly engaging and interactive session, delegates will learn how to take ownership and full advantage of their personal reputation to enhance their careers and contribute to their organizations.

Not only will participants gain insight into how their personal reputation can work for them, they’ll also discover how to use their unique skills and attributes to stand out and expand their success. Creating a strong reputation allows you to be more confident and self-motivated.

Building a strong reputation is not about constructing an image of what you think you should be. It’s about understanding your own strengths, weaknesses and your impact on others.

By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

• Determine how they are currently perceived by others
• Immediately implement strategies to develop the foundation for a positive reputation
• Develop systematic ways to ensure that they continue to enjoy and build on their positive reputation

Listening is probably the most important, yet undervalued, skill for success in both our personal professional lives. Raising your awareness of what listening is, and understanding how to overcome the barriers to being good at it, can help you sharpen your own communication skills to BE A BETTER LISTENER & BE LISTENED TO! Business coach, speaker and author Alan Adler will share his years of experience with you on the best ways to become a better listener and to make a connection with your audience -- whether it's 1 person or 1,000. You can also ask Alan your questions and "listen" to his advice.

Electronic Recognition systems give a whole new set of workforce analytics and questions can be tracked, measured and answered. These new systems deliver great value to the workforce, increasing the levels of recognition, feedback and overall employee engagement. These systems are providing great value to management and offer a new level of information and insight into the organization's most valuable asset, its workforce. Learn what Electronic Recognition is, why it is proving to be so effective, and the benefits organizations are gaining from it. Electronic Recognition is becoming the keystone to understanding many of the hardest questions HR professionals have been trying to figure out for decades.

We are all leaders in some sense, even in a personal sense. In this interactive discussion of what's working and what is not, we'll discover the tried and true along with latest thinking on leadership.As leaders rise up the "ladder", their technical skills matter less and their interpersonal skills come into play for effectiveness and in building loyal, functional teams. It will be easy to take notes and add your own observations to the topic! We will look at motivators, common issues, personal traits, emotional intelligence...you name it! Hear HR Momma and her stories and personal truths.Please do share yours after each topic. The teacher learns from the student! There will also be ideas on how to improve in these areas yourself or have a frank dialogue with your leader in a non-threatening way. Join us for a lively discussion!

This curriculum takes leaders on a journey into their mind and body to discover the steps needed to make a positive changes in themselves and their organizations.  In terms anyone can understand, learn the most recent neurological and psychological secrets to uncover how to change habits in their mind, boost self-confidence, tools to lower stress and how to create a positive work-place. With Harvard University now stating emotional intelligence is more important than your IQ and technical skills combined, the EQ tips found in this seminar are more important than ever to share with your employees, managers and top leaders.

Wouldn’t it be great if every time you spoke, you got the intended response? Unfortunately, due to miscommunication and poor word choice, this is not the case. Isn’t it time to take a step forward, and journey down the path of amazing phrasing? What’s your message? Fine tune it now and make it stand out! This workshop will have participants put their message mastering skills under the microscope and refine their message. It will demonstrate the difference between jargon and amazing phrasing. It will explore the editing process, stress the importance of adequate preparation and rehearsal and excellence in delivery. It will empower participants to work towards pre-eminence within the core competency of oral communication.

Inside each one of us is an internal editor that helps us look smart and consistent to other people, but which hold us back when we're trying to come up with new ideas or solve problems that have stumped us over and over again. In the "Innovation on Demand" webinar, you'll learn a series of liberating thinking and writing techniques that will push your internal editor into the background temporarily, so you can reach a level of thinking that's more original and resourceful than can be reached through normal means. The brainstorming power of you and your team will soar.

Leaders in technology fields typically get promoted (then promoted again) because of their excellent technical skills.
They are excellent engineers, analysts, programmers, medical or technology professionals.
But then they are promoted to manage teams ... and the trouble starts.
The leader's team members complain of poor communications, a lack of engagement or understanding, unrealistic expectations and ignored or submerged conflicts. The leader's boss criticizes a "silo" approach, lack of coordination/collaboration with colleagues, resistance to teamwork, staff complaints.
What happened? Why did this brainy, capable, experienced and knowledgable professional not become the leader the organization expects and needs? How can smart people not “get it” when it comes to leadership? It turns out that technical skills and high IQ do not by themselves produce excellent leadership performance. In fact, technical brilliance may actually be a barrier to leadership development! As Daniel Goleman first pointed out in his seminal book on ‘Emotional Intelligence’, the presence of EQ (or Emotional Intelligence) is at least as important as IQ in leaders.
Emotional Intelligence and the latest EQ assessment instruments provide an excellent lens through which to examine and improve other areas of leadership skills in tech leaders.
This presentation gives practical, actionable ways in which the OD and HR professional can use EQ to assess and improve leadership in tech leaders.
OKA's Hile Rutledge is a certified master trainer in the EQ-i2.0 and EQ360 assessment instruments as well as author of The EQ Workbook. He also uses EQ in consulting projects with leaders across technical fields.