2010 Leadership and Management Wave
Emotional Intelligence For Leaders: Filmmaker and Spy Trainer Reveals Simple Secrets to Read People, Inspire Followers, and Communication Under Any Pressure
8:15 - 9:45
Dean Hyers, SagePresence
Session Level: 200–Intermediate
Audience: Someone who leads or manages, who needs to read people, communicate under pressure, inspire others or who wishes to grasp how to effectively balance intellect and emotional for better leadership.
Emotional Intelligence (E.I.) is not as complicated as managers and leaders fear. They know they’re supposed to have it, but how do they harness the power of that buzz-word?
Dean Hyers, a film director, professional speaker and Undercover-Agent trainer from SagePresence specializes in leveraging E.I. to read between the lines, communicate with more influence, handle any pressure and ensure that words and body-language communicate only what you intend.
This session applies movie set and Undercover School techniques to build E.I. to:
- Read people
- Communicate better
- Lead and inspire under any pressure
- Integrate E.I skill-building into your daily routine
Managing a Multigenerational Workforce 10:00 - 11:15
Kathy Northamer, Robert Half Technology/The Creative Group
Session Level: 100–Beginner
Audience: Anyone with the responsibility of managing a team.
Has the Great Recession changed the perceptions of multiple generations in the workplace? Has it rearranged their priorities and goals for their professional lives? This session will address the most notable changes in the workplace in the wake of the recession and lessons learned by both employees and hiring managers. It will also explore generational behaviors and gaps in the workplace, myths vs. reality, and provides timely advice to help managers retain talented employee teams of all generations, both now and in the future.
Putting the “Fun” in Functional Teams 1:30 - 2:45
Jon Buck, Benchmark Learning
Session Level: 100-Beginner +
Audience: Anyone with the responsibility of managing a team.
Managers and team leads should always be looking for ways to engage and motivate their teams. Failure to do this can cause inefficient work practices, complacency and a disconnect from the mission and goal of the team. This session will provide managers and leaders some examples of how to develop a collaborative team environment, where members work together, rather than beside each other.
You will walk away knowing:
- How to engage team members by creating a collaborative work environment
- How to develop team building activities with benefit the team's progress towards goals
- How to overcome team objections by using creative strategies
Managing Your Team with SharePoint
3:00 - 4:15
Nick Stillings, Microsoft
Session Level: 100-Beginner +
In this session, we’ll focus on the out-of-the box collaboration features in SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010, and how they can enable teams to coordinate work on projects. We’ll look at customizing lists to track status and information, performing simple modifications to the basic Team Site to make information more consumable, and the basic content management features that ensure your team is working from one version of the truth.