More Summer Strengths Seminar Sizzle

Say that title six or seven times and not get tongue-tied!

Have you noticed? Learning and ELearning is sizzling hot this summer. That’s the good news, for you know how we feel about learning around here!

What comes with this passion for learning are more choices, so the only downside to the news is that you have to devote the time to deciding what, and who, gets your attention (the everyday learner’s dilemma).

You could also choose to just take the summer off and relax, however some of the offerings are pretty hard to resist.

For instance, I recently told you about “Summer of Development” the freebie that Marcus Buckingham is offering all strengths movement groupies (and as you know, I quite freely admit to being one of them), and so in the interest of giving equal time to both of the authors whose books we are profiling in our Learn to Lead with Your Strengths project, this was the announcement I just received in my email today from the Gallup Management Journal, which features StrengthsFinder 2.0 author Tom Rath.

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with the Gallup Management Journal Web Seminar Series

• For more information on or to register for individual events, click the event name in the list below:
  
  
  • Leadership by Design (July 18)
  • Unlocking Organizational Potential (Aug. 3)
  • Accelerating Sales Performance (Sept. 19)
  • What's Wrong With Your Brand? (Oct. 23)
  • Optimizing for Exponential Growth (Nov. 7)
  • Great Management Without the Guesswork (Dec. 12)

They don't seem to have a slick poster for it like MB, so I'll put all the details in the extended section of this posting for you - I'm sure they won't mind the free press!

As you'll see, this one is not free, but as the saying goes, you generally get what you pay for.

I've been a big fan of The Gallup Organization and the details of this series sounds great. I'd try to fit it in myself, except that I've already committed to supporting the Great Manager Program that Gallup will be bringing to Hawai'i for the first time - hurrah!

If you'll be in the islands during the on-site training in October you may want to consider that one, sponsored by the YWCA of O'ahu.

See, told you there are choices!

The Gallup Management Journal Web Seminar Series

Get access to the latest management research, straight from the experts who are breaking new ground in management science and organizational development.

The Gallup Management Journal Web Seminar Series features six monthly sessions with top Gallup scientists, researchers, consultants, and clients. You’ll hear how they’re using the latest research to deliver unprecedented business results in leading organizations around the world.

Each one-hour Web seminar will focus on a different area of organizational performance. You’ll get Gallup’s best research and thinking, plus practical recommendations on implementing these powerful concepts in your organization.

This special series includes:

July 18
Leadership by Design
Concerned about your next generation of leaders? You should be -- smart companies are working now to recruit, identify, and develop the leaders who will direct the future of their organizations. Executive Consultant Anne Harbison, Ph.D., shares strategies and best practices for building leadership development programs that produce true leaders.

August 3
Unlocking Organizational Potential
Stuck with employee development programs that don't deliver increased performance? Tom Rath, best-selling author of StrengthsFinder 2.0, and Brian Brim, Principal, Global Client Education, present a comprehensive platform for strengths-based development that will increase employee retention and produce significant gains in business performance.

September 19
Accelerating Sales Performance
What if every new sales hire produced 20% to 30% more than your average performers? Roy West, Vice President, Customer Acquisition & Talent Development at Marriott^® Vacation Club International, shares some of MVCI’s best practices in sales force selection, including how his organization increased overall sales performance by using research-based talent assessment as part of the recruiting process.

October 23
What’s Wrong With Your Brand?
Is your company connecting with your customers? Unfortunately, most companies aren’t. Their brand promises are crafted in conference rooms -- with too much attention paid to clever phrasing and too little emphasis placed on building emotional bonds. William J. McEwen, Ph.D., Global Practice Leader for Brand Management and author of Married to the Brand, explains why emotional brand commitment is vital to your success, and how to create powerful, lasting connections between your brand and your customers that stop margin erosion, differentiate you from the competition, and create greater demand.

November 7
Optimizing for Exponential Growth
Despite the viral growth of networks and communication capabilities, most companies are stuck in information gridlock and don’t know it -- because employee and customer data are housed and managed in “information silos.” Combining these data can unleash new and powerful insights into your organization. John Fleming, Ph.D., Principal and coauthor of Human Sigma: Creating Value at the Employee-Customer Encounter, shows how to link employee and customer data to optimize organizational performance and create exponential growth.

December 12
Great Management Without the Guesswork
Sometimes it seems as if management is guesswork -- without engaged employees, it’s only hit or miss. Help every manager in your organization become a better manager by applying 12 principles of successful management based on more than a decade of research and more than 10 million interviews. The best-selling authors of 12: The Elements of Great Managing, Rodd Wagner and James Harter, Ph.D., share how managers can improve the productivity and performance of their teams.

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Each session is only $195 per registration site, and multiple people from your organization may connect from a conference room at your location.

Or save $375 and get the six-session series for just $795. With every series registration, you’ll receive a complimentary copy of StrengthsFinder 2.0, autographed by best-selling author Tom Rath.

Don’t get left behind! Space is limited -- register today to get access to the valuable research and information that leaders in organizations around the globe are using to create a competitive advantage.

Each event will take place at 1:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time. To register for individual events or the series, go to the Gallup Management Journal Web Seminar page, then follow the instructions to register online. If you have any questions about this Web seminar series or Gallup Consulting, please call 800-874-6912 or e-mail gmjwebinar@gallup.com for more information.