The Network of ExecutiveWomen presents
October 20-22, 2008 Minneapolis Marriott City Center
Breakout sessions will be held repeated so you can attend two.
Authentic Living: Rewrite Your Tomorrow
Mike Jaffe, Jaffe Life Design
If you feel like something is missing in your life and work, attend Authentic Living with Mike Jaffe, the “human wake-up call.” Jaffe got his own wake-up call on 9/11 and used it to take control of his life and rewrite his future. You’ll learn: how to identify a key turning point – or wake-up call – in your life; how to use your life lessons to live a more meaningful and authentic life; how to achieve confidence through personal accountability; and how to reconnect with your core values every day. Jaffe has taught his methods of personal empowerment to audiences at Yahoo, Columbia University and elsewhere, sharing approaches for planning and achieving an authentic life by introducing more passion and balance into every action, every day.
Mastering the World of Accelerated Change
Bonnie Curtis, Global Oral Care Product Supply Organization, Procter & Gamble
Donna Rae Smith, Bright Side, Inc.
Take the first step toward becoming a more powerful change agent in this dynamic session, which explores how you can modify your personal behavior to expand your effectiveness. You’ll learn how to identify barriers and opportunities associated with change leadership; craft a personal behavior modification plan that will have immediate business impact; and tap into a personal change-leader model to help you accelerate and sustain change. The interactive session will mix lecture, applications and small group interaction to emphasize the critical skill of objective self-observation, allowing you to make conscious and intentional choices. By the end of the session, participants will have an expanded view of the impact they have on themselves and others and a better understanding of how to achieve their personal and organizational goals.
Cultural Intelligence, Effective Engagement
Denise Andrews and Candi Fetzer, Legacy Unlimited
This session will address how you can leverage cultural intelligence and cross-cultural engagement for business and personal success. Learn how to move into the future with the awareness and skills needed to manage your changing workforce and markets; understand why proactive management of immigration, diversity and globalization is critical to market development and talent supply; learn how effective engagement across cultures supports sustainability and business success; and develop the ability to analyze your personal cultural intelligence and engagement. You’ll leave with a model to help you understand the dimensions of culture; develop an awareness of cultural differences; gain interactive skills; and craft a personal development plan to improve your engagement across cultures.
Generations at Work: Creating a Competitive Advantage
Deb Barrett, Procter & Gamble North America
Why do workplace conflicts exist between Baby Boomers and members of Generation Y? What shapes one generation and makes it different from another? How do these generational differences create challenges at work? In this session you’ll get the answers to these questions and learn how your own generational background informs your decision-making and impacts your working relationships. You will learn to create an open mind as you mediate between superiors, colleagues and subordinates and create dialogues to bridge the generational differences in the workplace. This session will include an interactive presentation and group and individual exercises designed to make you an effective multigenerational leader. It will help you define your next steps and bring the lessons learned back to your organization.
Cross Talk: Communicating Across the Generation Gap
Laurel Kennedy, Age Lessons
Ever wonder why you can’t get your point across? Is it the message? The medium? Local interference? Something else? Chances are, you’re experiencing first-hand the growing differences between communication styles and preferences among generations. Find out the who/what/when/where/why and how of effective cross-generation communications in the workplace. Learn the skills necessary to bridge the gap in this hands-on, interactive workshop. Building on the proprietary Age Lessons Generations ACTIVE Matrix™, you’ll walk away with tools and tactics that can immediately improve your ability to manage, motivate and communicate with people of all ages.