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| “You are Your Most Immediate and Ongoing Opportunity”. |
| --Glenn Llopis, Earning Serendipity |
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As part of our continued commitment to provide affordable and accessible training, GLG offers Live Webcasts in support our growing library of relevant and timely curriculum for the new economy.
Below you will find our 2010 Featured Webcasts and Summaries. All live webcasts are 20 minutes plus a 10 minute Q&A. All live webcasts will be archived for your convenient 24-7 access and availability.
If you would like to coordinate a special webcast/webinar for your organization and / or team, please contact us and we will gladly work to accommodate your continuing education / professional development needs. |
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2010 Featured Webcast Topics:
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| A Brave New Workplace: The Quest for Sustainability |
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| More than ever, organizations have been forced to redefine their leadership roles, growth objectives, brand identities and relationships with their partners, clients and customers. These activities have impacted the workplace and have led toward a transformation in the ways we think, act and innovate. |
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As a result, there is a sense of uncertainty and people are seeking to apply new strategies for change and how to create an environment that breeds sustainability, excitement and loyalty back into the workplace. Change represents tremendous opportunities for growth and advancement. However, it will require a brave new workplace in order to best see and seize these new opportunities. Organizations must embrace new methods to unleash an empowered workforce that can share and act upon their ideas and ideals. Today’s brave new workplace must empower its workforce to innovate, contribute and succeed - whereby expanded boundaries support the entrepreneurial spirit and allow the organization and its people to flourish for the betterment of a healthy-whole. |
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| Innovation Humanity: Propel Positive Social Change through Ethical Innovation |
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| We have reached a critical time where corporations, government, academics and leaders alike - must evaluate the manner in which we create and innovate (products/services), develop and manage people (talent), build relationships (clients) and grow sustainable earnings (profitability). The past represents a history of lessons learned from the knowledge economy where ethics was a mere choice. The present defines Innovation Humanity: the beginnings of the wisdom economy where we must give birth to a new form of ethical innovation that propels positive social change to breed global prosperity. Innovation Humanity is a principle of thought that inspires us to renew the ways we must think, act and innovate for the benefit of a sustainable healthy-whole. |
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Today’s global economic crisis has affected business and society; and has called for the implementation of Innovation Humanity from Fortune 500 C-level executives, small business owners and citizens alike as we seek to create new industries and redefine old ones. Innovation Humanity must serve to provide a strategic roadmap for the ethical advancement of new products & services, industries, leaders and opportunities the world-over.
We all must now learn to embrace the core principals of Innovation Humanity - not only for the growth of the economy, but for the needs of humanity. These principals include the following:
Vision to See Innovation
Courage to Sow Innovation...Ethically
Knowledge to Grow..Innovation...Ethically...Momentously
Wisdom to Share Innovation..Ethically...Momentously...to Make the World a Better Place
Innovation Humanity serves to ignite sustainable and profitable growth as we seek to reshape the landscape of business and society. |
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| Leadership, Prosperity and the New Normal: Success to Significance |
| Leadership, prosperity and the "new normal" trends (things that are now commonplace that have evolved from innovations, societal advancements, fierce global competition, and the lessons learned from the knowledge-based economy) and their significant impact will transform businesses and society over the next 10 years. As we enter the next decade, individuals and corporations are asking themselves (move than ever before) : |
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what is the next big idea?
where is society headed?
what is the future of business?
what is my next move?
Leadership is a powerful organically-grown resource that can no longer be wasted. As the role of leadership evolves to integrate the needs of a more integrated global society, we must learn to embrace, learn from and act upon the" new normal" trends to remain relevant and in demand. Our responsibility as successful / forward-thinking leaders is to expand our focus beyond success to significance. |
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| Trust Your (Personal) Brand: Renewal, Reinvention and Relevancy |
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| The most valuable asset for a company is their employees. For employees, their most valuable asset is their personal brand. The manner in which an individual represents their personal brand in the marketplace - is the single most important factor in determining their sustainable success. |
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One's personal brand is defined by the total experience others have with you. The value that you (as an individual) bring to others will define the experience that people have with your brand, thus defining its sustainability. The performance of your personal brand lies within the momentum you create for yourself through others and the community that is built to support your personal brand. Conclusion: an individual's ability to optimize the momentum of their personal brand is based on their desire / responsibility to create a sustainable client community. In 2010, we must renew, reinvent and earn the right to be relevant.
While this all may appear to be "common-sense" - the execution of the following 4 skills to create and sustain personal brand performance, is "uncommonly common sense":
Seeing with Circular Vision: Broadened Observation
Sowing Entrepreneurial Seeds: Extensive Innovation
Growing the Seeds of Greatest Potential: Strategic Focus
Sharing the Harvest: Generous Purpose
Trust Your Brand is a method of teaching (created by Mr. Glenn Llopis) that personal brand empowerment is about building momentum through others for the betterment of a healthy whole. The execution of the aforementioned 4 skills empowers you with the ability to trust your brand, build a viral community with influential people and allows you to share it responsibly with others. This makes you significant at a time when the quest for talent and trust is at its highest demand. |
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| The Internet, Digital Business and Earning Serendipity |
| The internet has changed the ways we think, behave, and do business. The internet has reshaped how brands market, communicate and interact with consumers. The internet is a mega-selling machine and has created unlimited opportunities for both individuals and businesses to virally build revenue sharing communities through a multitude of free tools, content delivery systems, open-source software applications. The internet is a powerful "digital business" platform. |
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What makes the internet so powerful is that serendipity is for the taking. The internet delivers an "opportunity discovery" experience for anyone that has an idea and is willing to trust themselves enough to seize it. For individuals, it's an entrepreneurs dream. For corporations, it represents a incremental channel of trade that can (in many cases) be the most profitable one. The trick is to learn how to earn the maximum serendipity that the internet provides and utilize the multiplicity of opportunity that can be incrementally born from such knowledge. |
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| The Hispanic Professional Advantage: Making Opportunity Matter |
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| Hispanics represent the majority-minority in the United States and their growing relevancy as professionals is impacting the changing face of America's corporations. It is clear that Hispanic professionals represent tremendous talent potential that is influencing the acceleration of diversity recruitment, career advancement and market development opportunities. As companies seek to broaden their Hispanic market reach for the growth of their products and services - the necessity for Hispanic Talent and Leadership is at an all-time high. |
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Hispanic professionals are beginning to make an impact in the workplace, yet their talent and career advancement potential is still being discovered and slowly uncovered. To accelerate their potential to lead, manage and grow - Hispanic professionals must become more familiar with understanding, practicing and educating others about their inherent Hispanic Talent. The manner in which a Hispanic professional represents their Hispanic Talent both in and outside of the workplace - is the single most important factor in determining their sustainable success.
Today, Hispanic professionals provide a competitive advantage to those organizations that seek organic growth, innovation and workplace transformation. More than ever, Hispanic professionals seek mentorship and talent development tools to help them grow and prosper in today's rapidly changing workplace environment. Hispanic professionals are passionate about making a difference and thus look to enrich their lives both personally and professionally. If given the tools for advancement, Hispanic professionals will make opportunity matter for both themselves and others. In a time where companies seek to blend social responsibility with commercial viability - the Hispanic Professional provides a compelling workplace advantage. |
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| The Hispanic Manager: The Unique Characteristics that Define Hispanic Talent |
| Hispanic professionals are well positioned for management roles and responsibilities in today's changing workplace environment. When properly trained and mentored, Hispanic professionals thrive in a management setting. |
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Today, management skills require a more entrepreneurial "mindset and approach" that offers immediate "lift and leadership" to those around them. For Hispanic Managers, their ability to utilize the following (6) core characteristics that define their Hispanic Talent criteria is the key to their management success and those they lead.
1) Immigrant Perspective
2) Latin Passion
3) Entrepreneurial Power
4) Vision(We See Things That Others Don't)
5) Generous Purpose
6) Historic / Cultural Promise |
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| The Hispanic Executive: Transforming Organizational Growth While Leaving A Legacy |
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| Hispanic professionals are assuming more Executive roles than ever before in the workplace across a variety of functional areas. As the new majority-minority, Hispanic Executives have a deeper responsibility to themselves, their community and to society at-large. Moreover, companies are starting to take notice of key Hispanic trends that are demanding an increased necessity to develop Hispanic Executives. It is quite evident that Hispanics are starting to flourish and making an impact in business and society. |
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Today, Executives must represent an extension of the brand(s) and people they lead. They must represent the culture, fortitude and strength of the organization and provide a leadership style that is inspiring, socially responsible and approachable. Hispanic professionals represent these characteristics (and others) and thus allow them to transform organizational growth while leaving a legacy. |
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| As someone who has dedicated his life to the study and practice of innovation and entrepreneurship, I am reminded constantly of the power of serendipity. What Llopis points out eloquently is that we can all do things to enhance the likelihood of serendipitous events by intention, awareness and presence. |
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Dr. Robert C. Wolcott
Founder of the Kellogg Innovation Network & Professor of Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Kellogg School of Management.
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"Glenn Llopis has the commitment and
the charisma to take audiences on a
journey to successful entrepreneurship
and to bring them to their feet. Earned
serendipity is a powerful concept that will
indeed change the world, and Glenn
Llopis has the star power to make it
happen." |
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Nick Morgan,
President, Public Words Inc; Fellow,
Harvard Kennedy School; Best Selling
Author of Trust Me: Four Steps to
Authenticity and Charisma
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| " Whether you're a first time sales rep or
a Fortune 500 CEO, Earning Serendipity
is sure to make your world a much
wealthier, healthier place. How refreshing
to read practical business advice that
comes straight from the heart. " |
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Keith Ferrazi,
Wall Street Journal Best-Selling Author, Never Eat Alone |
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" Earning Serendipity offers a fascinating
set of ideas and tools you can use to
create meaningful, sustainable change in
your work and in the rest of your life." |
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Dr. Stewart Friedman,
Professor at The Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania and USA
Today Best Selling Author,
Total Leadership
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