Complimentary "Lunch & Learn Webinar Series"
(April-July 2009)

Get your brown bag lunch (or snack) ready, and join us online every Thursday at 12:00 noon Pacific Time for 45 minutes to learn the latest and most innovative tips and techniques for individual and team productivity, and get the latest updates about important workplace and productivity issues. Join our mailing list to stay updated.



The “Lunch & Learn Webinar series at a glance
*Please note: All webinars are on Thursdays at noon Pacific Time for 45 minutes. Click on the desired date to register. Scroll down to the detailed descriptions to learn more.

April 2009	May 2009	June 2009	July 2009
4/2 Eat Well to Work Well	5/7 Virtual Worlds for Virtual Teams	6/4 Virtual Leadership and Team Effectiveness	7/2 The Geography of Bliss
4/9 Successfully Managing Your Career Transition in Any Economy	5/14 Working together effectively: Using Insights to help teams collaborate	6/11 What Losing 10% (body weight) Can Do	7/9 The Results Curve--how to manage focused versus collaborative effort
4/16 Building Trust and Accomplishment through Agreements	5/21 Virtual Law for Non-Lawyers: Justice on the New Frontier	6/18 Low Cost Solutions for Keeping Inclusion & Diversity Top of Mind	7/16 Generations in the Workplace--Gen Y in Action (details coming soon)
4/23 From Ideas to Solutions that have Great Impact		6/25 Discovering Your Strengths and Putting Them To Work	7/23 Reclaiming your power at work (details coming soon)
			7/30 Building a high-performance team (details coming soon)

--------> Below are the session descriptions

--------> All sessions start at 12:00 noon and end at 12:45 pm Pacific Time.

Date	Session Title	Session Description
2/19 (click to register)	Lunch & Learn:   The Levity Effect	"The Levity Effect: How some of the world’s best organizations are using fun and humor as a competitive advantage" presented by Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher.
2/26 (click to register)	Lunch & Learn: From Managers to Leaders	During this session, our speaker Leila Bulling Towne will discuss the fundamental responsibilities of managers—and why strong management is the first step towards becoming a leader. She will discuss basics of how to manage well and why, including data points and research, and also touch upon the subtle nature of leadership.
3/12 (click to register)	Lunch & Learn: Strategies for Taking Life by the Horns	If you have passion, you have moxie. If you’re ready to use that passion to triumph at work and in life, you need a moxie mindset. Call it guts, perseverance, or determination – the people who wow! us call it essential to their success. Get ready for awe-inspiring stories, kick-in-the-pants advice, and immediately implement-able ideas to motivate your fire to action. Join us to learn the indispensable 9 strategies you need to create that jump-out-of-bed life you crave!
3/19 (click to register)	Lunch & Learn: Managing Change in Challenging Times	Very few people understand just what it takes to successfully manage change. The discipline of change management is often associated with the “touchy-feely” side of organizational development. But as economic challenges affect most businesses, those who can present a clear vision, get buy-in from employees, and focus the team in productive activity will be the ones that survive. Think about the recent election. Whatever your political views may be, the betting odds on Barak Obama becoming President started at 1,600 to 1. His campaign was a study in managing change. He articulated a direction, and supported it through every communication: online, in person, and in print. This presentation sets out the elements to manage successfully in the current environment, including how to: - Formulate and present a strategy with clear, measureable goals - a campaign that supports these goals - Gain buy-in - Adjust as needed - Measure success
3/26 (click to register)	Lunch & Learn: Social Networking to Find a Job in Today's Economy	Description: In this session, our returning guest speaker Jason Alba, CEO and creator of JibberJobber.com, author of “I’m on LinkedIn – Now What???” and co-author of “I’m on Facebook – Now What???”, will start with an overview/refresher of social networking, focusing on LinkedIn and other social tools, and continues to explore their business applications, and mainly how they can help business professionals in their job search in today’s economy. Jason will also provide an overview of his JibberJobber.com platform as a career management tool. Whether you are in the job market, or whether you are curious about social media, you are likely to find Jason’s insights and live demonstrations quite compelling and applicable.
4/2 (click to register)	Lunch & Learn: Eat Well to Work Well	Did you know that what you eat could be directly related to your next performance review? In this webinar, Deanna Moncrief will discuss three ways that poor nutrition saps productivity at work as well as the simple steps for turbo-charging your performance on the job. Learn how to use Moncrief’s ‘Rule of 3’s’ to boost your energy, mood and mental capacity at work. Get through that to-do list faster and more efficiently when you make small adjustments to what – and when – you eat. Ms. Moncrief will also discuss the value of the ‘MeetWell’ model which helps teams work better together by making business meetings healthier and more productive.
4/9 (click to register)	Lunch & Learn: Successfully Managing Your Career Transition in Any Economy	Career transitions are rarely effortless, and often a challenge, in any economy – though they can be especially challenging in today’s economy. Regardless of how they occur, career coach, Jerry Pico, sees these transitions as a gift. Jerry believes that career transitions allow us to change our lives in positive ways – if we are open to viewing them that way. Most of us spend more time working than doing anything else, but surprisingly few people take the time to manage their careers so that they can enjoy their work or at the very least balance it with the other areas of their lives. Often an unplanned change, like a layoff, can offer you the opportunity to take control of your career. What makes career transitions effective and timely is the ability to manage them in a proactive, organized and structured way. In this webinar, Jerry will provide you with the overall structure of a proven methodology and Nine Step Process that will empower you to successfully manage your next career transition, and your entire career for the rest of your working life! People who use this proven methodology accelerate their successful career transitions, and are happier with the choices they make. Working with this structure gives you a competitive advantage over other jobseekers who are less prepared.
4/16 (click to register)	Lunch & Learn: Building Trust and Accomplishment through Agreements	In this session, Peter Katz, CEO and co-founder of AgreeNet, will discuss how organizations accomplish things largely as the outcome of agreements. These agreements can be made internally or externally, but either way they are between “customers” and “suppliers.” The better an organization is at negotiating and managing these agreements, the more trust it will build between both internal and external customers and suppliers. The result will be more accomplishment as individuals and collectively. Peter will talk about these concepts, why agreements are so important, and discuss solutions to help organizations manage these most important relationships. Peter will also demonstrate the AgreeNet platform and how it can help manage agreements in the workplace.
4/23 (click to register)	Lunch & Learn: From Ideas to Solutions that have Great Impact	Description: In this session, Gerald Sindell, founder of Thought Leaders Intl, a firm that guides leaders and organizations of all kinds to realize their inherent brilliance, will show us how to move from "wee niggle" to global acceptance--What it takes to develop solutions that really have an impact. His discussion will touch on a number of the 11 essential developmental steps that create robust development of new ideas and will lead to successful methodologies, products, and books. Sindell has evolved his methodology for many years with his clients, resulting in, among other things, some 75,000,000 books in print. Sindell’s new book, The Genius Machine, the 11 Steps that Transform Raw Ideas Into Brilliance will be on sale May 1. Advance praise for the book and the methodology: "The Genius Machine is passionate, provocative, powerful, and practical. Gerald Sindell weaves his experience into an essential guide for creating ideas with impact. What better gift for today's troubled world than this compelling method for finding smarter solutions and getting them working." Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School, --bestselling author of Confidence
5/7 (click to register)	Lunch & Learn: Virtual Worlds for Virtual Teams	In March of 2008, our guest speaker Eilif Trondsen, Research and Program Director of the Virtual Worlds Consortium for Innovation and Learning at SRI Consulting Business Intelligence (www.sric-bi.com/vwc), talked about the definition, evolution, and applications of Virtual Words, and provided a lively demonstration of Second Life. Then in September of 2008, guest speaker Chuck Hamilton, Learning and New Media Program Manager of the IBM 3D Internet Team, talked about the IBM@PLAY program and how playful tools and projects are spreading across their workplace, and how Virtual Worlds are an important part of this effort, helping connect people globally across the organization. Eilif and Chuck will both be back to the lunch & learn webinar on May 7, 2009, not only to give us an update on the latest applications and developments in Virtual Worlds, but also insights and examples on how Virtual Worlds are helping virtual teams collaborate and their vision on how Virtual Worlds might shape the future of workplace collaboration
5/14 (click to register)	Lunch & Learn: Working together effectively: Using Insights to help teams collaborate	Have you ever wondered why you just “click” with some people? Why some clients or business partners are so easy to work with but others drive you crazy? Why some colleagues seem to read your mind, while with others you struggle with recurring “miscommunications”? Your professional success depends on your ability to develop and manage relationships with clients, colleagues, partners and others around you on a daily basis. In this session, we will look at some of the natural behavioral styles that underlie your actions and form the basis of others’ perceptions of you. Understanding these styles – and how to “flex” them when appropriate – can help you manage your relationships more effectively. You will learn to identify common “triggers” in yourself and others, as well as tips for how to improve your ability to influence and persuade those around you.
5/21 (click to register)	Lunch & Learn: Virtual Law for Non-Lawyers: Justice on the New Frontier	Virtual worlds and video games may be virtual, but the scams, disputes, and risks are very real. Pillsbury attorney and Virtual Law author Benjamin Duranske will present a fast-paced guided tour of this rapidly changing landscape touching on knockoff virtual goods, gold farming, fraud, agreements with users, avatar defamation, potential government regulation, and more.
6/4 (click to register)	Lunch & Learn: Virtual Leadership and Team Effectiveness	Many organizations are distributed across a range of locations and time zones. Managers, employees and business partners in these dispersed environments face many challenges. In this session, Barbara Miller (wwww.VirtualConnection.biz) will provide you with concrete strategies and technique to be successful as a virtual manager. - How do I lead my team whose members are located around the globe? - How do I work with business partners or key stakeholders whom I never see face to face? - What are the best practices others are using to achieve results in a virtual world? Barbara will answer these questions and more in an interactive presentation with will provide you with specific techniques you can immediately implement to make a difference in yourself and your team. Virtual Connection helps organizations improve virtual leadership and team effectiveness through web based tools and virtual and face-to-face workshops.
6/11 (click to register)	Lunch & Learn: What Losing 10% (body weight) Can Do	Improving body weight by just ten percent can have a huge impact on employee health and productivity. This webinar will explain both the health and business benefits of keeping employees within a healthy weight range and will show you how to quantify the financial gains realized by losing 10% of body weight. This webinar is brought to you by Benchmark Wellness (www.benchmarkwellness.com) and hosted by People-OnTheGo (www.people-onthego.com).
6/18 (click to register)	Lunch & Learn: Low Cost Solutions for Keeping Inclusion & Diversity Top of Mind	Keeping diversity top of mind during this economic downturn can be challenging, especially in the face of budget cuts. As diversity leaders, you may be struggling with how to advance your inclusion & diversity (I&D) initiatives in this new climate. Marilyn Nagel, Director of Global I&D for Cisco, will discuss strategies Cisco is deploying to keep this imperative at the forefront of the business agenda. She will share specific and actionable low cost solutions that yield high impact results.
6/25 (click to register)	Lunch & Learn: Discovering Your Strengths and Putting Them To Work	In this webinar, Training and Organizational Development consultant Kathleen Sexton of Kairos Learning will explore the field of strengths. We discuss why it is important to know your strengths, how you can determine yours, and be able to articulate your strengths to others. We’ll also talk about Markus Buckingham’s work on strengths to look at how you can put your strengths to more use in your work.
7/2 (click to register)	Lunch & Learn: The Geography of Bliss	Eric Weiner, a former foreign correspondent and self-confessed grump, traveled the world looking for the happiest places. He traveled to ten countries, exploring the relationship between place and happiness. He went to Bhutan, which has a policy of Gross National Happiness and to Iceland, where people are happy despite the bleak winters--or perhaps because of them. Eric shares his insights into happiness, based on his travels and his study of the "science of happiness."
7/9 (click to register)	Lunch & Learn: The Results Curve--how to manage focused versus collaborative effort	Join us in making the workplace less hectic and interrupt driven, more satisfying and results driven instead. We work and live in an era of interruptions. The very moment you begin a task, you are stopped by emails, IM’s, colleague visits, phone calls, meetings, and now, tweets and Facebook updates. The very technologies that were invented to enhance productivity have made it nearly impossible. Not only this, we are bombarded by an unprecedented information overload dominated by the Internet and globalization. This puts unreasonable demands on our work and personal lives, and as a result, we suffer, feel helpless, and our accomplishments decline. This needs to stop. We invite you to join us in this movement. Will you join us? Pierre Khawand, Founder & CEO of People-OnTheGo, the creator of the “Accomplishing-more-with-less framework, and resulting workshops and teleclasses, is revealing some of the most compelling productivity principles and setting the stage for this movement. We need you to be part of this revolutionary and imperative effort!

If you have questions, or to bring the training onsite or online to your organization, or to get more information about the Productivity Nano-Conference, please e-mail training@people-onthego.com or call 415.503.1649

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