I recently received an email from Working Mother Media about two web seminars they are offering that sound like excellent educational opportunities for working women (mothers or not).
The first seminar, "Becoming an Influencer", sounds like it would be a fantastic resource for anyone who wants to affect change in any aspect of their lives, from work to home to the community at large. The second, "When Professionals Lead" is focused more on managing partners, professional managers, and folks managing private firms as well as their own billable hours, but I think it sounds useful to any small business owner, not just those in the fields specifically described in the event notice.
Read on for the full details and be sure to let me know if you attend one of the live web seminars or go back for the CD only versions. I'd love to know if these turn out to be a useful resource for you Workerettes - they sure sound interesting and useful to me!
Working Mother Media is proud to offer you the opportunity to participate in two important and timely virtual seminar events: "Becoming an Influencer: Gain the Influence Skill to Change Anything" (January 16) "When Professionals Lead: The Challenges of Managing the Professional Services Firm" (January 17) You can sign up for one or the other -- or both. Please see below for additional information and the oppportunity to register. Becoming an Influencer: Gain the Influence Skill to Change Anything Program Overview:
We all want to be influencers. And yet, despite our routine attempts to help ourselves and others change behavior, few of us know what it takes to be one.
From Soundview and the authors of Crucial Conversations and Crucial Confrontations comes “Becoming An Influencer” —an audio-Web conference based on the revolutionary concept from the authors’ latest book, Influencer: The Power to Change Anything. This concept combines the skills used by hundreds of successful change agents with five decades of the best social science research to deliver a proven model for changing behaviors—a model that nearly anyone can learn and apply.
“Becoming An Influencer” will give you powerful strategies to create rapid, dramatic, and permanent change in your business, your personal life, and your world.
Solve any problem—from the simplest to the most persistent, resistant, and profound challenges you can imagine— by applying the skills employed by the world’s best influencers.
· Identify a handful of high-leverage behaviors that lead to rapid and profound change.
· Apply strategies for changing both thoughts and actions.
· Marshal six sources of influence to make change inevitable.
Each site registering for this audio-Web conference will receive an email containing connection instructions approximately one week prior to the conference date. Included in this email are instructions for downloading the 8-page bonus summaries of “Influencer” in electronic format (PDF), for distribution to all participants at your location.
Who Should Attend:
Anyone who wants to be more successful at influencing the behavior of those around them, in work, at home and in the community.
About the Speakers:
Kerry Patterson has authored award-winning training programs and led multiple long-term change efforts. He received the prestigious 2004 BYU Marriott School of Management Dyer Award for outstanding contribution in organizational behavior. He did doctoral work in organizational behavior at Stanford University.
Joseph Grenny is an acclaimed keynote speaker and consultant who has designed and implemented major corporate change initiatives for the past 20 years. He is also a cofounder of Unitus, a nonprofit organization that helps the world’s poor achieve economic self-reliance.
Date and time of the event:
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm (Eastern)
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm (Central)
11:00 am – 12:30 pm (Mountain)
10:00 am – 11:30 pm (Pacific)
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm (GMT)
Tuition:
Live event—per registered site: $249
Live event plus audio-CD: $348
Audio-CD only (no live event): $249
CLICK HERE for more information and to register for this extraordinary event.
Not able to attend on January 16? CLICK HERE to order a recordingof the event on CD. 100% Satisfaction Guarantee: If you are not completely satisfied with this Web conference, just request a full refund of your participation fee -- no questions asked.
When Professionals Lead: The Challenges of Managing the Professional Services Firm
This interactive event features Thomas J. DeLong and is sponsored by Harvard Business and Working Mother Media.Event date and time:
Thursday, January 17, 2008
10:00 pm – 11:30 pm (Eastern)
9:00 pm – 10:30 pm (Central)
8:00 am – 9:30 pm (Mountain)
7:00 am – 8:30 pm (Pacific)
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm (GMT)
Program Overview:
More demanding clients. Tougher competitors. Associates and partners with higher expectations. Welcome to the world of today's professional services firm. Whether you are an architect, lawyer, consultant, investment banker, or engineer -- you face a daunting array of challenges.
Few roles are tougher in professional services firms than that of Managing Partner. You must bring order to what is often a decentralized environment with highly skilled individual contributors.
Thomas DeLong is a Harvard Business School professor and former Managing Director of Morgan Stanley Group, Inc. He teaches in HBS' Leadership in Professional Services Firms program. He, along with his co-authors, John Gabarro, Robert Lees, and Helen Rees, has developed an integrated leadership that helps tame the complexity in today's management environment.
This model identifies the four critical activities for effective professional service firm leadership:
1. Setting strategic direction
2. Securing commitment to this direction
3. Facilitating execution
4. Setting a personal example
In this interactive presentation, DeLong will show how this model works to: align your firm's culture and key organizational components; satisfy your clients' needs without sacrificing essential managerial responsibilities; and address matters of size, scale, and complexity while maintaining the qualities that make professional services firms unique. It will leave you with practical insights you'll be able to put to use right away.
Event participation also includes the opportunity to interact with Thomas J. DeLong in a moderated Q&A session.
Who Should Attend:
- Managing Partners and other leaders of professional service firms
- Practicinig lawyers, bankers, architects, accountants, and others who must help manage their firms as well as produce billable hours
- Professional managers who want to better understand how to create a highly effective services firm
Free to all Registrants:
Each site will receive a copy of the new hardcover book, When Professionals Have to Lead Each site will also receive a "key learnings" summary that captures the major themes and critical insights from the seminar (with permission to copy for all participants).
Tuition:
Live event—per registered site: $349
Live event plus audio-CD: $523.50
Audio-CD only (no live event): $349
CLICK HERE for more information and to register for this extraordinary event.
Not able to attend on January 17? CLICK HERE to order a recordingof the event on CD. 100% Satisfaction Guarantee: If you are not completely satisfied with this Web conference, just request a full refund of your participation fee -- no questions asked. Working Mother Media
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