Best Practice Institute presents Norm Smallwood Webinar, Today, Sept. 28th at 12:30pm EST/9:30am PT
Norm Smallwood, author of Results Based Leadership On: Leadership Brand:  How to Build Customer Focused Leaders to Drive Performance and Build Lasting Value
Today, Friday, September 28, 2007 at 12:30pm EST/9:30am PT

In this webinar, Norm Smallwood, author of Results Based Leadership, Why the Bottom Line Isn't and co-author of BPI's Change Champion's Fieldguide with David Ulrich, Louis Carter, and Marshall Goldsmith will explore with you how those responsible for leadership development can build a leadership brand that delights customers, investors and employees. The logic of the leadership brand was used to identify Fortune's Top Companies for Leaders which will be published in the October 1st  issue. The Top Companies for Leaders Study was co-sponsored by Hewitt, Fortune and The RBL Group. 

In this webinar, you will learn:
  • how the first transition is from a focus on competency building for individual leaders to defining leadership as an organization capability that enables strategy execution;
  • about the next transition which is from internal to external- from leadership as an organization capability to leadership brand which connects employee actions to target customers; and
  • how leadership brand increases confidence in quality of leadership by investors and customers and is a driver of market value.

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NEXT WEEK

Aubrey Daniels, world-renown expert on Performance Management and author Bringing Out the Best in People, Bringing Out the Best in People and the Organization
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 12:00pm EST/9:00am PT
Most leaders and managers face the same question, "How do I get people to give their best efforts in their jobs and to the organization?"  Managing employee performance is the single most difficult thing to do when you don't understand behavior.  Business is behavior - every action, every decision, every change is the result of what employees say and do.  To Sign-in/Sign-up for this Online-Training,Click Here


Rayona Sharpnack, founder of The Institute for Women's Leadership, Trade Up: 5 Steps for Redesigning Your Leadership and Life from the Inside Out
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 2:00pm EST/11:00am PT
A leader's most important job is to reveal and shift the boundaries of peoples' thinking........starting with our own. These boundaries, also known as "CONTEXTS" are what determines what actions we take, where we stop in executing our responsibilities and ultimately what impact we can have. Igniting and sustaining context shifts will be the most important leadership competency of the 21st century. Governments, multi-national corporations and not-for profit agencies have all been successful in using Sharpnack's approach to achieve results that seemed impossible before they began.  To Sign-in/Sign-up for this Online Training, Click Here
Bruce Appelson, Take Charge, Recharge
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 2:00pm EST/11:00am PT
Recharging is not downtime, but a requirement to reinvest in one's personal economy that will return, generate creativity, focus, commitment and drive.  Quality of work/life and far greater productivity by the process of aligning individual competencies with an organization's mission and leadership.  Motivated and dedicated employees who believe their company values their commitment to exceeding expectations.  A working environment that rewards health, fun, innovation and collaboration.  Self-management skills that increase employees' tolerance and abilities to manage continuous stress and change.  Employees who are focused, flexible and moving forward in a changing organization.  To Sign-in/Sign-up for this Online Training,Click Here
Thomas Crane, author of the Heart of Coaching, Creating a High Performance Coaching Culture
Thursday, October 4, 2007 at 12:00pm EST/9:00am PT 
Learn from the creator of Coaching Cultures and Heart of Coaching... Tom Crane will share the development process, where coaching cultures fit in the big picture, and several of the diagnostic tools he has created to guide the transformational journey of his clients. Understand how to build a community of coaches where all members of the culture courageously engage in candid, respectful coaching conversations, unrestricted by reporting relationships, about how they can improve their working relationships and individual and collective work performance. All have learned to value and effectively use feedback as a powerful learning tool to produce higher levels of personal accountability, professional development, high-trust working relationships, continually-improving job performance, and ever-increasing customer satisfaction.    To Sign-in/Sign up for this Online Training, Click Here
 
Coming Up - October 11, 2007
 
John Sullivan - The Amazing Way Google Manages Talent
If you need to be the dominate player in your talent market, you should begin your effort by benchmarking against the world's first true "talent machine," Google. Google has, in a handful of years, become the #1 employment brand, securing on their first attempt the top spot on FORTUNE magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For" annual ranking. During the last few years they have attracted thousands of applications per week, generated a hard to match $1 million plus in revenue per employee and maintained an unbelievable 4% turnover rate.
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