Has this happened to you? You put your time and effort into getting people and leaders what they need to be more effective and they don’t give the common courtesy to recognize it.
Management is preperation, time and effort. Leadership is putting good people in good situations for them to be more effective. Often, those who are in roles as managers and often looked to as leaders, are just giving in to pure laziness.
Don’t be lazy!
So in less than 12 hours I will be heading out to Orlando, FL for the ASTD International Conference. I am looking forward to all the sessions as well as being a Press Blogger for the event. With my press pass I will actually have a lot of options as well as VIP access to speakers and behind the scenes conversations. I will actually be interviewing a few of the main headliners as well. So as long as I get a good connection and I feel like getting everything down, be looking out here for day by day opinions and information about and around the conference and its events.
Be sure to head on out to the ASTD Tweetup that will also be held on Monday, May 23 at Bahama Breeze and is a come as you are, BYOB (Buy your own beer) event 
– This event is sponsored by Interactyx Limited and we will be raffling off an iPad2. So if you haven’t done so already RSVP here and follow the #ASTDtweetup and #ASTD2011
In order to help manage the conference with it’s huge number of sessions I have taken the liberty to choose from all the sessions and dwiddle them down to the potential sessions I will be attending. See the list below:
I am a thinker
Now this by no set of circumstance means that my thoughts are valid, cutting edge, ignorant, intelligent or leading. This only means that in moments I have with people and my environment I think… Think about my actions. The actions of others. The inactions of us all.
#HRevolution
I believe the biggest impact we make is in the relationships we have with those immediately around us. Whether that be family, friends or colleagues. At HRevolution this weekend I met up with past colleagues and friends. I met a lot of new ones. We shared time and space. It is ridiculous to say that we will all talk or connect on a regular basis. But we can say that what we learned from each other, good and bad, can possibly help us be better and transition our actions for the future.
In the final session I attended with Paul Smith & China Gorman we had a discussion around the idea of influence. Now those attending and present in the session you heard my thoughts. I am big on action. Writing things down to commit to memory. Committing not only to others but to yourself. Creating a contract to and for yourself and then being accountable.
So when I came across the following TEDx talk today it just fit with what I believe.
3 Things we learn about ourselves
This past week I wrote about Apollo 13: INNOVATION through CHAOS. There I talked about how sometimes, something dramatic and drastic needs to happen in order to move us forward. The following TEDx video was appropriate coming home from HRevolution.
The story: Ric Elias, a front-row passenger aboard US Airways Flight 1549, gives a TED talk about the three things he learned while his plane was crashing.
Lessons from a traumatic event
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtkUt9zuBxk&feature=player_embedded#at=126
Here are the 3 things he learned and took away from his face-off with death:
A Takeaway
Too often we wait. Wait for the right time. The right moment. The right person. The perfect set of circumstances to somehow tell us that we should move! That we should act. A sudden shift to move us forward. To take a chance and step from fear to confidence.
At HRevolution many of us mentioned the business impact. I think we subconsciously realized that the personal impact of how we interact with people also holds a strong correlation to what impacts the business! The two are never mutually exclusive!
3 Things for you…
To tie it back to this weekend at HRevolution… I would just ask the following:
Being someone who has specialized in the field of Learning and Development much of my career I have always tried to be aware of various approaches, techniques, and technologies to help enhance and advance the learning experience. When “E-Learning” became the big trend to go towards in training and development I was leery. Over the years my suspicions have been proven when most people, practitioners and companies turned the big craze of E-Learning into an overblown PowerPoint or conference call.
But the advance in technologies and the idea of “Digital Natives” (being anyone born after 1990 and most of the life has been immersed in mobile technologies) there is true potential in the power of these technologies for actual learning. I tend to see that my colleagues, associations, and consultants are going to be in for a rude awakening when the audience that has traditionally attended ILTs (instructor lead training ‘s) begin to disappear and the demand for new and more dynamic ways of learning are… well… demanded!
I just hope that I can help others, as well as myself keep up! What do you think? I will be press at the ASTD International Conference in Orlando so feel free to connect on twitter: @BenjaminMcCall, Subscribe to this blog or talk while you are there!
So are you ready for the transition? Let’s
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