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Why Professionals are Crazy about LinkedIn

RIMS New York Chapter has invited me to speak at its monthly breakfast meeting this month. This professional development session is open to Risk Managers and students only.  Hope you can join us - especially my Mountbatten Interns.

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ASTD 2008 International Conference & Exposition

Good team work this week, representing the NY Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development at the annual, international conference, ASTD 2008, held in San Diego.  There were 10,000 participants, 2,400 were international participants with over 75 delegations, gathered to learn what's new in workplace learning and performance.   

Thanks to our team for attending and represting NYC! 

Photo - Jack Appleman, Author, Speaker and Public Relations Consultant; Sean Oberholtzer, Director of Consulting, SAP Training and Change Management; Rebecca Hacker, Consultant and Past President of ASTD NY; Vincent Seglior, Director of Professional Development, Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc.; Craig Danforth, Independent Training and Coaching professional.

2008 Working Groups and Calls

Thanks to those of you who have inquired and attended monthly Coaching SIG meetings that I chair for the American Society for Training and Development in NYC.  These are members only meetings, but visitors can attend prior to joining ASTDNY.  Every month we have a two-hour meeting, for networking and to further your knowledge and practice build, with a member or guest presentation on a spotlight topic.  Thanks to Reuters for hosting us!  You can check www.astdny.org to register for current events, if you would like to join us.

This month one of our members will present:

Spring Training - Creating a winning sales team using proven coaching methods

Past meetings covered:

• Communications strategies to build coaching awareness
• Introduction to popular assessment tools: Personality, Interests, Communication Styles, Work Relationships
• Coaching in the moment: Using improvisational comedy exercises to help you be in the moment with your clients
• Transforming corporate culture for business results
• ICF annual conference debrief and Sales Coaching - The first 5-minutes of a sales call
• Coaching for leadership development
• Strategies to be a more effective coach
• Distinctions: Coaching vs. other sometimes closely related professional practices (e.g., consulting, mentoring)
• How it's done in Australia: A successful new approach to coaching

Creative development program - well received

This quarter we launched one creative development workshop program with a New York-based associate.  Thank you to the ASTDNY and Deutsche Bank for hosting us. And, many thanks to leaders and members for the great feedback we received. 

• Wow!
• One of the best ASTD meetings I've ever been to…
• Simply beautiful … from both a design and execution standpoint
• Insightful, Brilliant and inspirational

Contact (212)372-3256 or e-mail me here, if you would like to learn more and explore how we can help you with unique business and leadership development programs.

Leaders Shift Paradigms for Success

Last month I was looking for a leader's perspective around a few key areas that some struggle with, which include holding a vision and committing to goal achievement.  This month, I had the opportunity to hear Billie Jean King convey her story, which addressed these points very well. Her perspective shed further light on the paradigm shift that leaders need for success. From an early age, on her second day in tennis practice (!), she committed to becoming the best tennis player in the world.  She pursued and achieved top tennis rankings by the mid-70's, but her legacy includes much more which makes her stand out as a truly unique champion and leader. Her legacy includes building new professional opportunities for women in tennis, and driving a level playing field for women, i.e., equality. Throughout her career and life, Billie Jean King has moved toward, and also created, new paradigms to achieve success. 

Billie Jean King continues to live her legacy and build further success.  She shared three key learnings, which she continues to apply in her life for achievements. These three learnings can help you too!

Build your Business - Sign up Now for August 14th Women's Leadership Exchange Event

If you've got a business to build and products or services to move to market, don't miss this one day event to work on doing it fast! Please join us and e-mail me if you would like to meet there in person.

In one day, the Women's Leadership Exchange Conference offers women business owners:

• Acclaimed facilitated networking sessions which allow you to connect with successful business owners, professionals and top executives that will have an impact on your business going forward.
• QVC Quick Product Review (!!!)
• Workshops from top experts
• Speed coaching 

I am pleased to again invite you to this unique one-day conference for women in business and offer you a special rate! Women's Leadership Exchange is committed to supporting the growth of women-led businesses in all sectors through the sharing of knowledge, resources and contacts.  Their conference is an investment with an invaluable return.  You have to see it to believe it!!

For details, see below or visit www.womensleadershipexchange.com. Please register for the conference at www.womensleadershipexchange.com and use my Source Code: AMBASS07 for $25 off.  Also, note if you are a member of a listed Supporting Organization, you receive an additional $25.00 off!

See you at the 5th ANNUAL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE!
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
from 7:30am–7:30pm

Long Beach Convention Center
300 East Ocean Boulevard
Long Beach, CA

Winning Business Introductions

I was the featured speaker at the annual mixer for the National Latina Business Women Association in Orange County, and we worked through a 20-30 minute exercise to get people in action creating winning business introductions, which was well received.  Great business introductions help you build business fast...

Group Coaching for Skill Building - it's fun!

Many thanks to NLBWA-OC for the opportunity to be with them this Spring.  I had fun too!

Great presentation... The speaker, Megan, was entertaining and
enlightening--the tools and techniques she presented will definitely
have a positive impact on my networking skills…

-E. Kociela, NLBWA Member

I absolutely had a wonderful time at the NLBWA Mixer on 4/19! The
speaker, Megan Tobin, was an eloquent speaker and really emphasized all
the important points of how to be a successful networker. With her
presentation, I now feel much more confident about meeting new people in
new environments…

-E. Lu, UC Irvine

Is Business Blogging for you?

Business leaders take note - an increasing number of people, from the C-level executive to staff employee, are engaging in business and personal blogging, as well as other social media activity.  This affects your business development efforts in a number of ways. It's time to plan how business blogging and social media interaction can be used for effective business development in your business. I explored this topic at the Blogher.org conference in New York this week.

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