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The Pfeiffer Online Conference 2010 features five top experts who are authors, practitioners and thought leaders in the field of training and development. A complete program for the online conference — which takes place February 25th, 2010 — is listed below. All live online sessions will be archived and posted after they take place to allow you to review any sessions you miss for up to a year! (Schedule is subject to change.)
Pfeiffer Online Conference 2010:
Karen Hyder
Opening remarks: welcome & orientation
11:30 am to 11:45 am ET
Bruce Tulgan
Back to Basics Management: It’s Okay to Be the Boss
11:45 am to 12:35 pm ET
Do you feel you don't have enough time to manage your people? Do you avoid interacting with some employees because you hate the dreaded confrontations that often follow? Do you have some great employees you really cannot afford to lose?
Managing people is harder and more high-pressure today than ever before: There's no room for down time, waste, or inefficiency. You have to do more with less. Bruce puts his finger on one of the biggest problems in today’s workplace—an undermanagement epidemic affecting managers at all levels of organizations in every industry—and helps explain why so many managers are so hands-off nowadays.
Break
12:35 pm to 12:45 pm ET
Patrick Lencioni
Building Cohesive Teams
12:45 pm to 1:35 pm ET
Teamwork is critical in positioning a company to succeed in this market. Yet so many leaders and practitioners struggle to make teamwork a reality in their organizations. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team model addresses this issue by making teamwork both actionable and attainable. This session is designed for team leaders and facilitators who are interested in expanding their knowledge of the Five Dysfunctions content and related products.
Pat will kick off the session with comments on teamwork, focusing on his experience implementing the Five Dysfunctions content over the last eight years. Additionally, he will open up the line, answer your burning questions on teamwork, and provide advice on your specific situation.
Teamwork is as important as ever and this webinar will help you launch or reignite your teambuilding efforts.
Key Take-aways:
- A deeper understanding of the five root causes for team dysfunction.
- Interesting anecdotes about real organizations that have struggled with teamwork.
- Specific advice and practical tools on how to begin the process of building a functional, lasting team.
Break
1:35 pm to 1:45 pm ET
Steven Stein
Emotionally Intelligent Leadership
1:45 pm to 2:35 pm ET
You’ve already heard about the importance of emotional intelligence for successful leadership from Jack Welch, Warren Bennis, Jim Kouzes and other leadership experts. You’ve probably read one of the popular books on emotional intelligence and learned about how it can apply to almost all human interactions. But do you feel confident enough about the case for emotional intelligence that you can really commit to it, both personally and organizationally? Are you aware of some of the best practices in implementing programs that apply emotional intelligence in the workplace?
Lunch
2:35 pm to 3:30 pm ET
Kerry Bunker, CCL
Leading with Authenticity in Times of Great Change
3:30 pm to 4:20 pm ET
 Ambiguity, change, and uncertainty are the emerging constants of contemporary organizational life. The constant turbulence can have dramatic impact on the well-being and performance of organizational systems and their constituents. Providing effective leadership in such times requires emotional intelligence skills in addition to the more traditional business and management competencies. One’s credibility as an authentic and capable leader often hangs in the balance of navigating the dynamic tension between the reality of accepting and driving organizational change on the one hand; and understanding and supporting the human side of individual transition on the other.
In this session Dr. Kerry Bunker will present a framework for understanding, assessing and adjusting the balances that underlie authentic change leadership.
Participants will learn:
- Critical attributes of authentic leadership and how they interact to enhance or undermine leadership in times of transition.
- Will explore how their behavioral tendencies can impact both their image and effectiveness as a leader.
- Will develop an understanding of how their current organizational culture might be operating to shape and/or reinforce leadership behaviors that support or undermine trust, learning and organizational resiliency.
Break
4:20 pm to 4:30 pm ET
Jim Kouzes
Extraordinary Leadership through Extraordinary Times
4:30 pm to 5:20 pm ET
In these challenging times the world is likely to see some of the most extraordinary leadership we've experienced in decades. That's because exemplary leaders do their very best when faced with adversity, crisis, setbacks, and great difficulty. Challenge is the crucible of greatness. While the context of leadership is changing constantly, the content of leadership shows amazing durability.
Jim Kouzes will discuss five of these enduring truths about leadership practice and leadership development. This discussion is based on his and Barry Posner's recent analyses of global data from over one million respondents to their Leadership Practices Inventory, as well as their work on a new book to be released in late 2010.
Participants will learn:
- What you have to do in order to fully commit yourself to an organization, and what you have to do as a leader to get others committed.
- Why, in these challenging and difficult times, we are likely to see some of the best leadership we've seen in the last decade.
- What it takes to become the best leader you can be, and why it isn’t talent.
Pfeiffer Online Conference Wrap Up
5:20 pm to 5:30 pm ET
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