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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.