Do you do this to your employees?
Sadly, I see and hear from associates often around this topic. I often see more people being hired into one position but when they start, Day 1, they begin a job with a completely different title and role. With all the hype around corporate culture emulating who they are and how they treat employees and engagement this is severely unfortunate. No wonder engagement and retention is so hard to maintain.
What steps would you take to remedy this?
I love music. I especially like having music run in the background before meetings, training, and during breaks. It dislodges the silence, shifts the awkwardness of introductions and has the potential to remove the space we feel between each other when first meeting. But what is the right music for you?
Last week I had the pleasure of presenting at the Greater Cincinnati ASTD. The subject, an adjusted and tweaked version of my Building Leadership Development from Scratch.
From what I was told it was the highest and best attended monthly meeting they had for the year… I think that is pretty cool. Without further adieu here are the slides from that session. If you would like to have a downloaded version please subscribe to the blog and then contact me and I would be happy to send you the notes!
Beginning Video from the DDI Study (Development Dimensions International)
Now how do you approach and build your own Leadership and Training efforts?
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:
