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HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER

Title: Public Programs and Publications

Competency: various

Who benefits: participants in their presentations and readers of their publications

Consultant Usage: networking

What’s it about? I thought it might be fun to share with you some of the public workshops, seminars, and recent publications involving my friends.

Guess I should start with my boss, Ken Nowack.  Kissing-up has its place and he has lots of public appearances and a publication of worthiness.  He is presenting Why Women Lead Differently Than Men tomorrow and Performance Coaching: Retaining and Engaging Talent on Friday.  But unless you are already in Barcelona, Spain and speak fluent Catalan, this piece of knowledge won’t do you much good.

I am happy to report that he will be making presentations closer to home and with a little more lead time: He will be presenting Resilience: Leading Talent During Times of Stress and Uncertainty in Toronto, Canada on October 22 and Leadership Differences in Men and Women in Los Angeles, USA on November 19.

He has a article coming out entitled “Leveraging 360-Feedback to Facilitate Successful Behavioral Change” (this link will take you to a short abstract) in a new book: Consulting Psychology: Practice and Research, scheduled for release in 2010.

For our readers in the United Kingdom, my good buddy Matt Pocock and his colleagues at Consulting Tools are offering a variety of course over the next 6 months including multiple offerings of the two-day Facet5 Accreditation, which accredits users in the use of the Facet5 Psychometric Tool and its application to key areas of management development and specific human resource issues.   Available dates include Oct 14-15, Dec 09-10, Feb 16-17, Apr 14-15, all in London.

Also coming up in the London area between November and March of next year are the following courses: Audition Accreditation (an opportunity for recruiters to receive free training in Audition covering how to create best-fit role templates, using a template to predict candidate success in the role and use of Audition for interviewing); How to assess and change Emotional Intelligence; 360-degree Feedback Design & Implementation; Thinking Styles; and Using Assessment tools for team development.

For additional information on the dates and content, go to the Consulting Tools website http://www.consultingtools.co.uk/events.shtml or contact Matt by email: mpocock@consultingtools.com

Long time friend Dave Jamison is presenting Use of Self during the annual Organizational Development Network Conference from October 18 – 21 in Seattle.

Dave also has a couple of chapters in recent books: “The Practice of OD” in The Handbook of Organization Development and “Front-End Work: Effectively Engaging With the Client System” in Practicing Organization Development and Change.

Long time colleagues Lee Gardenswartz and Anita Rowe are doing Emotional Intelligence and Diversity Train-the-Trainer October 26-30, 2009, at beautiful Lake Arrowhead, CA

And as a reminder, I gave a “two-thumbs up” review of their (along with Jorge Cherbosque) new book Emotional Intelligence for Managing Results in a Diverse World. They also have a CD “Diversit Tool Kit” which provides over 100 reproducible training activities for diversity along with detailed directions for conducting and facilitating the exercises.  

For further information go to their website http://gardenswartzrowe.com/home.html or contact them at  leeanita@aol.com.   

My friend Bev Kaye is a career juggler.  I get tired just reading about what all she is doing.  It would take a whole posting to let you know all she is up to, so to keep my editors happy, let me just summarize some of the highlights:

She has presentations going at the Chief Learning Officer Symposium (Sept. 28-30) in Colorado Springs, CO ; the Human Resource Planning Society (October 25 – 27) in Chicago, IL; and, the American Society for Training and Development Chapter Leadership Conference (Oct. 30-31) in Washington, D.C..

Bev also is a prolific writer.  Two recent articles of interest are “PREVENTING PAYROLL DEFICIT: CALCULATING THE COST OF DISENGAGEMENT”  and “Whose Values? Yours or Mine”

Space does not permit, but there are several other recent articles available upon request (along with any other inquiries) through Ann Jordan, email: Ann.Jordan@careersystemsintl.com and you also might want to take a moment and visit Bev’s website: www.CareerSystemsIntl.com

Last, but absolutely not least my long, long time friend and queen of happiness and optimism, BJ Gallagher.  She writes to tell me “Just as President Obama is offering an Economic Stimulus Package to help pull America out of the recession, I am offering an ‘Inspirational Stimulus Package’ with my new books. People need financial assistance, for sure – but they also need emotional, psychological, and spiritual assistance. That’s what I give them in my books.”

So check out her six new books…published over a six month period – how do people do that? – at her website: www.bjgallagher.com.  And by the way, BJ donates 10% of the profits to non-profit support groups.

Well, that’s it for this week.  As you can see, I have a bunch of very busy friends.  They are the best of the best in their respective areas of expertise, so check them out!

Catch you later.

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Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley (mostly) retired after 35 years in organizational consulting, training and management development. During those years he worked internally with seven organizations and trained and consulted externally with more than 90 large and small businesses, government agencies, hospitals and schools.