Archive for August, 2010

Ceridian Connectax 2010 Gets Wild

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

ConnecTax 2010

Representatives for over 60 different organizations  gathered from all over the country in sunny Huntington Beach at the Hilton Waterfront Beach Resort for ConnecTax, Ceridian Tax Service’s annual knowledge exchange and tax education conference. The conference offers the latest legislation and compliance topics, in-depth product sessions, user groups, networking with peers, and motivational professional development sessions.   That’s where we come in…

We were invited to be  one of  four keynote presentations for ConnecTax 2010:

  • The Wild Idea Club: Creativity & the Workplace!
    Presented by Linda Krall and Janine McDonald
  • Health Care Reform: Compliance Tsunami For Employers?
    Presented by Jim O’Connell
  • Overcoming Obstacles
    Presented by Paul Everett
  • Saving Millions in Year-over-Year HR Costs
    Presented by Cary Griffith and Jennifer Bichsel

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Imagine

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

It was an evening of fellowship, food and fun. An essential element in the team development model we use with many of our clients is celebration. So taking our own advice, Linda Krall and I hosted a reunion event for participants of our creativity workshops to celebrate their collective genius and wild thinking.  We wanted to bring people together that had a shared experience to reconnect and share with one another their successes on creating a more creative work environment.

On a warm summer evening we gathered on outdoor patio at the Claim Jumper South Coast Plaza to eat, drink and be merry. The energy was high as was the volume of all the great conversations that were taking place. Our guests shared stories with us and each other about how they’d taken what they learned in the workshop about being creative and seeing with fresh eyes and applied it with their customers, employees and even their families.
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Brain Power

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

NeuroLeadership InstituteWhat do you get when you bring the world’s top business thinkers and neuroscientists working together? An exciting new field of study called NeuroLeadership, a term coined by David Rock in 2006.    This week I attended an event for Women in Organizational Development where, Jennifer McCusker presented on this topic. Like myself, my peers were astounded at some of the findings, many of which challenged conventional thinking about things like paying attention and reading emotions in others.
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The Leadership Academy is Raising Up Future Leaders

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

J9 Leading Solutions has once again been invited to facilitate sessions for The Leadership Academy conducted at Chapman University. The Academy is a unique and exciting way for high school students to learn, grow, and hone their leadership skills. Kim Hayashi is the visionary behind this program. She believes in engaging and empowering students to be leaders in their schools and communities.Summer 2008 051

Using a World Cafe format, Janine McDonald will lead the teens in a dialog to foster productive relationships, collaborative learning and collective insight around a real-life challenge. Students will discuss possible causes and solutions for declining involvement in on campus activities, events and clubs.
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