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Masters Series

The Masters Series are high-level, thought-provoking sessions designed specifically to challenge senior-level HR professionals with advanced business techniques. By attending these high-level sessions, you will gain the tools to harness innovation, discover successful practices, leverage cross cultural differences, and build a high-performance organization.
 
Our Masters Series speakers are experts, innovators, trendsetters and pioneers who will provide you with the insight and knowledge you need to build effective strategies to power your organization forward. In addition, these two-hour sessions are all approved for recertification credits, and increase your overall recertification earnings from the Annual Conference.
Teresa Amabile
06/25/2012 | 01:45 PM - 03:45 PM

What really makes people happy, motivated, productive, and creative at work?
In Teresa Amabile's latest research, she's discovered the answer. It’s the Progress Principle: Of all the things that managers can do to engage their employees, the single most important is facilitating progress in meaningful work. Yet only 5% of managers realize the power of progress. Analyzing nearly 12,000 daily diaries from over 200 knowledge workers, Amabile discovered eleven specific actions that managers can take to catalyze progress and nourish employees’ motivation. Through this presentation, you will learn how to leverage the progress principle to achieve the dual goals of supporting employee well-being and igniting organizational innovation.

Patrick Lencioni
06/26/2012 | 02:15 PM - 04:15 PM

In this age of nanosecond technology trends and ubiquitous information, by far, the biggest opportunity for practical improvement and sustainable competitive advantage in any business is organizational health. Organizational health, in spite of its power, remains untapped, and it has never been presented as an integrated, practical discipline which is what provoked Pat to write this book. Once it is properly understood and placed into the right context, organizational health will surpass all other disciplines in business as the greatest opportunity for improvement and sustainable competitive advantage. Pat will help you understand the disarming simplicity and power of organizational health and will reveal the four actionable steps that allow you to achieve it  In addition, Pat will address the role that you can play in being the catalyst for change in helping your organization’s leaders launch this effort.

Ted C. Fishman
06/27/2012 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

The Shock of Gray is a new reality that is essential for you to understand. Ted Fishman delivers a powerful lesson in how the unprecedented aging of the world’s population two lies at the heart of nearly every major social and economic trend today, driving globalization and propelling the movement of money, goods and people. Understanding this immense, unprecedented change is essential to the stewardship of companies, organizations and communities that aim to endure and thrive. Fishman has traveled our grayer future and found what's bright, what's stormy, and he is creating a map we all will need to navigate a great change.

Questions?

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