Monday, August 14, 2000
 
 

The days of cradle-to-grave security are over, and building relationships is your key to controlling your destiny.  Join nationally known rapport builder Lillian Bjorseth as she uses her Fortune 100 and entrepreneurial experiences to help you polish your skills ... on the spot ... and work the rest of the conference and future opportunities better than ever before. In this interactive program, Lillian will help you enhance your verbal business card, polish your presence, discover your networking style, follow her 10-Minute Rule for working a room, stay in touch and pick up myriad other relationship-building techniques.

Participants of this workshop will receive a copy of Lillian's book: Breakthrough Networking: Building Relationships That Last.

Lillian Bjorseth (B-or-seth) helps people build healthy work relationships at all levels of an organization; improve overall communication, verbally and in writing; present themselves professionally and make professional presentations; and enhance career satisfaction.  She is founder and president of Duoforce Enterprises, Inc., a speaking and training company, and its division, Better Business Contacts, a business networking organization with almost 20 chapters throughout the Chicago area.  She is the author of the Breakthrough Networking: Building Relationships That Last book and audio tape series, and the Nothing Happens Until We Communicate audio tape and workbook series.  Lillian is a member of the National Speakers Association and Vice President of Marketing for the Illinois Chapter.  She also is a member of the Chicago Chapter ASTD, and the Naperville IL Chamber of Commerce.  Lillian is a part-time faculty member of continuing education at North Central College, Naperville, and a certified distributor for Carlson Learning Company. A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Lillian has received numerous awards for her public relations work and authorships, was named an Influential Woman in Business.
 
 

Would you like to accelerate your facilitations and still get meaningful results?  Do your clients want to do things in half the needed time?  How often do you or people you know attend meetings that are not as productive as they should be?  Have you ever attended brainstorming or ideation sessions that seemed disorganized or lacked sufficient time for action planning?  If you said yes, then you will want to use SolutionPeople’s revolutionary team problem solving experience called the Diamond Solution Process.  Learn how to address your current challenges with your colleagues in a hands-on session that will allow you to apply your learning directly to real-world challenges.

Session Objectives:

• Learn facilitation processes that increase creativity, innovation and productivity
• Discover time-saving facilitation techniques that use the new KnowBrainer tool and Thinkathon Worksheet
• Know the “Four Skills of Highly Innovative Facilitators”
• Experience the KnowYourBrain Brain Game: Understand How Teams Think
• Learn to apply the Diamond Solution Process: An Easier, Better, Faster Whole-Brain Way to facilitate a wide variety of groups ranging from ten to several hundred participants.
• Understand The M Curve: How to Speed Up the Process to Breakthrough Ideas
• Use the Thinkathon Technique: How to Facilitate Marathons for Many Minds
• Learn about THINKubators: How to Create Ideal Spaces for Facilitating Creative Meetings

Gerald "Solutionman" Haman is the Founder of SolutionPeople (www.SolutionPeople.com), Developer of the THINKubator featured in FAST COMPANY (http://www.fastcompany.com/online/23/rftf.html), and a Director of the 700-member Innovation Network. He was formerly with Procter & Gamble and Arthur Andersen and a concert producer for Grammy award-winners.   Gerald invented the KnowBrainer Creativity & Innovation Tool, coauthored the New Product Development Handbook and has a Masters in Organizational Communication and Training & Development. He has given presentations to over 100,000 people from 23 countries and has facilitated sessions for hundreds of groups from 17 countries.  FAST COMPANY reported Haman helped generate over 250,000 ideas valued at more than billion dollars.
 
 

Tuesday, August 15, 2000
 
 

This highly stimulating workshop is based on research conducted with many of the world's leading industrialists by Carl Aylen.  Carl developed a Performance Profiling technique to measure the characteristics of these individuals.  This workshop will focus on these measurements and how such people achieve their successes and what traits and behaviors they all have in common.  Drawing from real life experiences, the seminar will show you how you can emulate these successes by:
 

• Recognizing the good in others
• Building effective relationships
• Taking control of your life
• Retaining a positive mental attitude in difficult circumstances
• Setting realistic goals
• Developing a strong self-image
• Becoming a positive achiever by following along the path to a worthwhile and successful life

Dr. Carl Aylen is a corporate reconstruction expert and internationally acknowledged as a leader in the measurement of human potential and motivation. He is the originator of Neurometric Performance Profiling, an innovative assessment technique that enables the performance potential of individuals to be matched to the demands of specific roles.  In the 1970’s Carl first became interested in the relationship between mathematics and the psychology of executive performance.  He developed a multiple-choice questionnaire that integrated questions used for the measurement of personality characteristics, motivational priorities and thinking styles.  Using feedback sheets in which managers rated the performance of their team members, he then developed a computer-based system, which predicted executive performance characteristics.  The resulting Performance Profiling systems Carl has developed have enabled many companies (throughout the world) to benefit from improvements in both executive motivation and performance.
 
 

Patterns in organizational behavior help the change agent understand and help organizations change. Using an organization's own energy the change facilitator can create the conditions for change which reduce or eliminate resistance.  Organizational change facilitators can help leaders and managers develop structures that help people more easily migrate toward greater efficiency and productivity.  Creating structure in human systems allows people to stop worrying about the politics and social system issues and focus on the customer.  What can facilitators do to help implement these structural elements?  What techniques and methods work best in helping people migrate from one structure to another?

In this workshop participants will:

• Learn in small groups how to identify aspects of their own endemic culture.
• Learn how to create rapid improvement in the skill level of line managers.
• Learn methods that put the system into a values bind making change possible.
• Learn how to reduce status distance between players in the organization.

Dr. Darrel Ray has consulted throughout the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom since 1978 and has directed major departments in two organizations. He specializes in Management Development, Team Building and Self-Directed Work Group implementation.  As a psychologist Dr. Ray has studied groups and group dynamics since 1976, and has worked with groups and organizations in development and change efforts throughout his career.   He specializes in Management Team Assessment and Development, helping top management teams work together more effectively and making the organizational and behavioral changes necessary for high performance at the highest levels of each organization.   He is one of the most experienced consultants in the United States on the subject of Self-Directed Work Teams and has helped companies implement all types of teams since 1976.

Darrel is a pioneer in the development of Self-Directed Work Teams in both union and non-union environments having developed the "Teaming Up" process which is now widely used across North America and the United Kingdom.  He is a graduate of George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, and holds a doctorate in counseling psychology. Dr. Ray is certified by two national organizations as a trainer and holds certifications in Neurolinguistics as well. He is a professional member of the American Psychological Association.  His published works include articles in a number of national journals including: The Journal for Quality and Participation, Manage Magazine, Working Woman and others. His video, Self-Directed Work Teams: The Inside Story was released in 1994 and is available through MCS. Dr. Ray's book, TEAMING UP: Making the Transition to a Self-Directed Team-Based Organization published by McGraw-Hill, 1995, continues to be the standard text for implementation of Self-Directed Work Teams. It is available through MCS or your local bookstore. His upcoming book, Leading the Team-Based Organization, will be published in early 2001.