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The 2010 Jobs Crossroad: The Future of Training & Development Global Forum Event
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
6:00 Dinner and networking
6:45 Program start
Location: Roosevelt University
18 S Michigan Ave.
Gage Building, second floor commons
Chicago, IL
Cost: CCASTD Members/Alliance - $39.00
Non-Members - $49.00
Students - $15
In the midst of widespread unemployment the U.S. and world economies still have a shortage of skilled talent. Increasingly complex technologies continue to set a breakneck pace of change. In industrial nations the large-baby boomer cohort is aging and moving into retirement. Succeeding generations have decidedly different views on work-life culture and overall are less literate and well-educated particularly in technical areas. In Japan, Korea, and many European nations, populations and workforces are shrinking significantly. Even India’s and China’s massive populations cannot produce enough qualified talent to meet the demands of their rapid economic development. Ed Gordon illustrates how workplace learning and development professionals can become leaders in developing programs for updating the skills and education of incumbent workers as well as assisting in crafting new education-to-employment systems for 21st century technology-based economies through community-based organizations (CBOs). These CBO partnerships of business leaders, educators, union leaders, government officials, parents, and others are “Gateways to the Future” that can make current businesses more competitive and attract new start-ups as well for regional economic growth over the next decade.
 Instructor Bio
Edward E. Gordon is an internationally recognized writer, researcher, speaker, and consultant on the future of America’s and the world’s workforce. He is president of Imperial Consulting in Chicago and Palm Desert, California. Imperial has a broad range of clients from Microsoft and the Swiss government to the Federal Reserve Bank and professional associations, workforce/economic development boards, non-profit organizations in health care, K-12 and higher education, museums, and think-tanks.
Among his many books Ed has written a broad range of business titles including Winning the Global Talent Showdown, The 2010 Meltdown: Solving the Impending Jobs Crisis, Skills Wars, and FutureWork. His research on current business issues has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post,Chicago Tribune, and Chicago Sun-Times as well as such business publications as Business Week, Management Review, Employee Benefit News, Training, T & D, and M World. He has appeared on CBS, CNN, NPR, and other substantive discussion programs.
He taught for 20 years at three Chicago universities: DePaul, Loyola, and Northwestern. Dr. Gordon serves on the board of the Better Business Bureau of Chicago and Northern Illinois. He is also a member of the Education Quality Workforce Committee of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, the Youth Council of the Chicago Workforce Board, the Executive Committee of the Chicago Manufacturing Renaissance Council, and Advisory Board of the Roosevelt University Graduate Program in Training and Development.
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| September 22, 2010 |
24th Annual Entrepreneurial Woman’s Conference
September 22, 2010
McCormick Place-West, Chicago, IL
Join over 2,000 other women at the Women's Business Development Center’s 24th Annual Entrepreneurial Woman's Conference, the oldest conference and business opportunities fair for women in business in the country, and the premier event for women business owners in the Midwest. See old friends and make new ones, get fresh ideas, and learn from industry experts! Register online through September 7, 2010 to take advantage of early bird pricing!
Visit www.wbdc.org for more information and to register online.
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September 30, 2010
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Tony Schwartz: A New Way of Working Tour
Date: Thursday, September 30, 2010
Time: 5:00 - 5:30 PM - Registration
5:30 - 6:30 PM - Presentation, Q&A
6:30 - 7:00 PM - Book Signing
Location: Cortelyou Commons
2324 N. Fremont St.
DePaul University
Lincoln Park
Cost: CCASTD Members/Alliance - $15.00
Non-Members - $25.00
Students - $5
TRANSFORMING THE WAY WE WORK
The New Rules of Engagement
Demand in our lives is increasing relentlessly. Our capacity isn’t keeping pace. The way we’re working isn’t working. Far too many organizations expect their employees to operate in the same way that computers do: continuously, at high speeds, for long periods of time, running multiple programs at the same time.
It’s a prescription for failure. Human beings are designed to pulse. We’re at our best when we move between periods of expending energy and intermittently renewing our four energy needs: sustainability (physical), security (emotional), self-expression (mental) and significance (spiritual). The better those needs are met, the more value we’re capable of creating.
The primary value exchange between employees and employers today is time for money. Each seeks to get as much of the other’s resource as possible. Rather than trying to get more out of their employees, employers are better served by meeting people’s multidimensional needs, so they’re freed, fueled and motivated to bring the best of themselves to work every day.
You’ll walk out of this talk with:
• A scientifically based paradigm for how to work (and live) in a way that is more productive and more satisfying
• A clear understanding of the four key needs you must meet in order to perform at your best
• Clarity around the characteristics of the “Performance Zone” and what pushes us into the “Survival Zone”
• Insight into the unique power of singularly absorbed attention and how to cultivate it
• The secret to regularly renewing your energy even when demand is high and time is scarce
• The opportunity to build a ritual – a highly specific behavior that addresses one of your key energy needs and becomes automatic over time
Tony Schwartz is President and CEO of The Energy Project, a company that helps individuals and organizations fuel energy, engagement, focus and productivity by harnessing the science of high performance. Tony has spent 30 years studying, writing about, teaching and coaching people in how to perform at their best. Tony’s most recent book, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy Not Time, coauthored with Jim Loehr, was a #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller, spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into 28 languages. Tony’s new book, The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working: The Four Forgotten Needs that Energize Great Performance, is due out in May 2010.
Tony has delivered keynotes to audiences around the world and has done leadership work with senior executives at dozens of companies, including Sony, Credit Suisse, Ford, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Wachovia, Gillette, Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank as well as the Cleveland Clinic, Harvard Business School, the National Security Agency, the Conference Board and the Center for Creative Leadership. He has also served as an executive coach to more than a dozen CEOs and senior leaders.
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