March 2011
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Updates from OneSmartWorld
WELCOME TO OUR NEW OSW CERTIFIED TRAINERS
We are delighted to welcome Meghan Barnett from RIM, Michael Ferrabee of the Canada School of Public Service, Arlene Herman consultant , Joan Giannone – President of the Mentor Group Training Inc, Nick Kenyeres – President, The Technology Coach Inc and Lisa Wiley from Georgian College – as newly certified OSW trainers. They were joined by Jay Lundy,...
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11 Things I learned from the Coaches Conference
I had the privilege to be with over 250 sport coaches and both participate and speak at the 2011 Coaches Conference in London Ontario. Sport coaches are highly motivated, deeply committed and skilful people who are in the business of developing high performance athletes while developing them into great people through sport. It was a delight to ,see my old friend, Peter Jensen, in good form and...
February 2011
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Smart Groups and Smart People
A recent article in Organization Science magazine has highlighted the importance of group social skills as a key success factor in high performing teams. Susan Pinker’s article in the February 21 Globe and Mail- Why Smart People Don’t Necessarily Make Smart Groups - highlighted the finding from the research. The smartest groups were composed of people who were smart in different ways from the...
Executive Education at UBC Sauder School of...
On March 8-9, 2011, Debora Rothermel, OneSmartWorld master trainer and President of ideaworks in Calgary, is leading a two day Smart Thinking executive development program at the Sauder School of Business in Vancouver. The program is based on the use of the 4D-i to develop thinking skills in the four dimensions of total intelligence – creativity, understanding, decision-making and personal...
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Welcome to OSW Certified Professionals
In Edmonton, February 16-17, 2011 we welcomed the following people into the ranks of OSW certified associates:
Karen Carleton, President, Kaizen Instructional and Performance Consulting
Pam Clarke, Faculty Professional Development Animateur Red Deer College
Jay Lundy, CEO, Spark Innovation
Victoria Neary, Assistant Manager, Business Operations, Defence Construction Canada
Shelby Primmett,...
THE TRANSFORMATION IN EYGPT – A TRIUMPH OF...
Being a witness to the historical transformative change going on the Arab world, I want to pay tribute to the human spirit and dignity shown by the Egyptian people over the past three weeks of wrenching drama. Through their sheer belief in themselves and the rightness of their cause, they ousted a tyrannical dictator who had terrorized them and patronized his people for 30 years. It has been a...
November 2010
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The White Board Parable: A Chemical Approach.
Permanent markers are not supposed to be used on white boards. Among other things they contain nasty sounding compounds like xylene and toluene that make them particularly adhesive and tough to remove. When used on surfaces like cardboard boxes or cd’s they’re great for labeling. If used on whiteboards they’re a particularly big problem. In preparation for a meeting yesterday I went to erase the...
Too Much Harmony? A Radical Approach to Meetings.
I recently read an article about meetings and the importance of “dissent” and disagreement within them (http://www.thestrategyweb.com/meetings-and-the-importance-of-dissent) for the overall success and productivity of the meeting. One of the points the article’s author made was that meetings are often unsuccessful and unproductive because they seem to create a dynamic that is perfectly...
October 2010
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The Meeting Room Challenge.
In preparation for a number of training sessions OneSmartWorld will be delivering in December, I found myself assigned the task of booking a meeting room for the two day event. The brief was simple: find and secure a meeting room at an appropriate venue that would be within budget and could accommodate ten to fifteen people on a specific date. Booking meeting rooms is a pretty routine task and is...
Generational Collide? Let's Talk it Out!
The field of study into the so called “Generational Collide” happening in the modern workplace is expanding by the day. A quick Google search shows that there is a growing interest and concern about the outcome of having employees from four different generations working together in many workplaces. Its a relatively recent phenomenon and it is not fully understood and indeed many...
10 Tips to NOT Energize Your Next Meeting by Ed...
If you are a business professional you more than likely have attended a wide variety of business related meetings and events and I expect you will have many of the same observances that I have listed below, so please feel free to share.
If you want to bore your audiences and ensure a minimum retention of program content at your next meeting please consider the following…
1.) Cram as much content...
Building a Smarter, Better World: News and Notes
OneSmartWorld Launches Smarter Meetings.com! We are delighted to announce that after 2 years of research and development, we have launched SmarterMeetings.com, our complete online meeting productivity solution for progressive team leaders and project managers everywhere (www.smartermeetings.com). This is the program WestJet used to achieve a 558% ROI/return on investment. SmarterMeetings.com gives...
September 2010
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SmarterMeetings.com launches!!
SMARTERMEETINGS.COM LAUNCHES
On September 1, 2010, we launched www.SmarterMeetings.com, the world’s best, team meetings management system. We are really proud to bring this system to you. We believe the Smarter Meetings will be the breakthrough cure for unproductive, time wasting, expensive, soul-destroying meetings! Teamwork, productive meetings, cooperation and collaboration have all just got a...
August 2010
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Meetings and the Impact of Collaboration on...
Collaboration is the secret sauce that drives business productivity, growth and profitability. People collaborate when they work together and pool their intelligence to solve complex problems. In these situations, solutions emerge from the process of collaboration. The better the quality of the process and the higher the engagement of the participants and in most cases, the better the...
April 2010
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Make Meetings Your Happy Place
Chief Happiness Officer Alexander Kjerulf is attempting to change the work world one week at a time with his Monday Tips, which are geared towards making every work place happier and more productive with the use of some fast, simple, fun strategies designed to deliver results.
When we think about happiness in the workplace, meetings don’t typically come to mind. Meetings should be the most...
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Igniting the Creative Fire in Your Meetings
Creativity has become a fashionable subject for managers. Many companies call it innovation, ingenuity or imagination but whatever the term used, it is companies like Cirque du Soleil, Google, 3M and Apple that are often associated with this type of culture. They have successfully created a culture that is particularly good at encouraging new ideas and always manage to stay ahead of the curve.
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http://lifehacker.com/ - Great site. →
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February 2010
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'Google Style Meetings' →
How to Run a Meeting Like Google
By Carmine Gallo
BusinessWeek.com
No one wastes time searching for a purpose at Marissa Mayer’s meetings—even five-minute gatherings must have a clear agenda.
“Meetings get a bad rap in business today and for good reason—very little gets accomplished in them. I can recall a Dilbert cartoon in which several people sat around a table while the...
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