Webinars

Continue the journey with What If!, the world’s largest independent innovation consultancy, for fresh perspective and stimulus around how to build and sustain creativity and innovation.

Developing an innovation culture involves experimenting and trying things out. You could see it as the opposite of strategy; it’s more a life science with a hard commercial edge.

Most of our clients are very good at instigating innovation processes and methodologies. Nonetheless, we still hear them lament, “We’ve got all the innovation systems but we don’t have any innovation.”

Innovation Energy is the key that unlocks these systems. It’s the fuel that drives the engine, the software that powers the machine. It’s the confluence of three forces, when unleashed in the right way will drive enormous value into your business:

1. Right innovation attitude
2. Enabling creative behaviors
3. Supportive organization

From our own experience working with entrepreneurs and executives, they will come back to these three themes time and time again.

During your project meetings, are the participants reading email, surfing the web, or doing instant messaging while they “half-listen” to the meeting?
Research shows that 90% of people participating in virtual meetings are “multitasking”: doing at least one other thing that is not related to the meeting. Wouldn’t it be better for your project outcome if team members and stakeholders paid full attention for the whole meeting? You may be surprised at the answer.

This entertaining and information-packed talk examines the challenge of multitasking and teaches coping skills, techniques, and tools to manage the attention of meeting participants. Created and delivered by a master presenter who is a veteran of both project management and executive management, this course shows you how to manage participants’ attention, get your issues resolved, and adjourn the meeting with time to spare.

After this presentation, you will be able to

• Take a rational, systematic approach to managing attention
• Get more done in less time
• Apply techniques that reduce everyone’s frustration level

Why attend?

• You sense that meeting participants are not paying enough attention.
• You have trouble getting informed decisions from busy stakeholders.
• Your meetings run too long and still do not achieve their goals.
• You experience mounting frustration and multitasking.

Join Great Place to Work Institute Co-Founder and Director of Corporate Research Amy Lyman, PhD as she shares lessons and insights from the 2009 FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For. How have they performed over the past year, what tools and techniques are they using to keep employees informed during these challenging times, and how are employees responding—has there been a shift in the level of trust?

Let the policies, practices and lessons learned from this stellar group of companies provide useful guidance for your own organization.

Great Place to Work Institute, Inc. has been identifying the 100 Best Companies to Work For® since 1998. Amy will answer questions and explain why workplace culture continues to shift in a positive direction. Here’s what to expect:

• Gain insight into the steps leaders are taking to respond to economic challenges
• Learn about this year’s #1 and #100 company and why they are both great!
• Hear about how the 100 Best differ from the Lower 100 companies—what makes the Best so Great?
• Review benchmark data that provides insight into the performance of companies by size and industry
• Understand the key elements of what makes a Great Place to Work and how to create one
• Understand why great workplaces experience lower turnover, and are more profitable than their peers
• Learn about how your organization can become a Best Companies list participant and benefit from this community of great workplace.

Let’s face it, bigger is better when it comes to webinars and web events.

How can you get more registrants and leads from your next event? What are some proven strategies that can increase your attendance by up to 500% at your next event?

Join Bob Hanson, president of Quantum Leap Marketing, Inc, and author of numerous reports on webinars for this interactive discussion to help you obtain a significant increase of registrants and attendees from every event.

In this his presentation, Bob will reveal his time-tested strategies for getting a more results your webinar marketing plan and avoiding the common mistakes most marketers make. Here is what you can expect to take away:

• The common sense strategy for webinar promotion that almost everyone forgets, and how to use it for more registrants at all of your events
• The 5 keys to supercharge your email invitation for better response
• How Bob’s clients have gotten as many as 1,050 attendees at a single webinar without spending a dime on marketing.

All attendees will be eligible to receive Bob’s new checklist, “21 Winning Ways of Promoting Your Webinars for More Leads and Sales.”