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Cy Wakeman - Sunday, September 15, 2013, 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm

Reality Based Leadership

We live in challenging times. This isn’t anything new. We have been in challenging times in the past and we will face challenging times again in the future. But here’s our reality check. The fact that times are challenging is not the source of our pain.  In our businesses, the pain we feel is coming from the absence of great leadership rooted in reality.  We need Reality-Based Leaders.  Reality-Based Leaders deliver results without the drama, chaos, and politicking that has become far too common in our workplaces today. They develop bulletproof people who consistently make results happen no matter how

challenging the times may be.

Cy is the founder and spiritual leader of Bulletproof Talent. She has turned her Reality-Based Leadership philosophy into a revolution through her speaking and consulting work with organizations everywhere. Cy has been helping companies build bulletproof talent for nearly two decades and it’s her track record of success that provides the foundation and inspiration for our company.  In 2010, Cy immortalized her message by publishing her grounding-breaking book, Reality Based Leadership – Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace, & Turn Excuses Into Results (Jossey-Bass, 2010).

Aman Motwane - Monday, September 16, 2013, 7:00 am – 8:45 am

The 3 Hottest Buttons in HR —and the 1 Huge Mistake

What keeps HR leaders awake at night? Surveys indicate the 3 hot buttons that continue to top the list are:… Innovate — How to make innovation an inherentpart of the organization … Imagine — How to make imagination and engagement a natural byproduct of how you run your organization … Inspire — how to cultivate leaders throughout who inspire performance to soar.

The reason these once AGAIN top the list is because of the 1 huge mistake nearly everyone continues to make: They attempt to tackle each of these objectives SEPARATELY — separate initiatives, separate training, separate project teams.  In this pioneering keynote, Aman Motwane shows how you can — and why you must — INTEGRATE all three into 1 initiative. If you don’t, success will remain elusive. If you do, you’ll ramp up your whole organization to the next level.

Aman holds degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology and a Master’s from Stanford University, which he received in 9 months. But he’s the first to point out that education and information are worth nothing if you don’t understand the right questions to ask.  Hailed by Tom Peters for bringing his company “out of the doldrums, almost overnight,” heralded by the media as the UnGuru because he is such a convention-breaker, Aman Motwane is the man behind the movement to change how the world of business learns business.

Jon Petz - Monday, September 16, 2013, 12:50 pm – 1:50 pm

Boring Meetings Suck!

Meetings, the cornerstones of collaboration, inspiration, and progress, have suffered excruciating humiliation at the hands of every day meeting organizers and attendees.  Gone are most agendas, participation, focus, and follow-up that are the lifeblood of great meetings. Instead, too many meetings drone on like some sort of soul-crushing, walking-dead zombie robbing workplaces of joy, productivity, and time. But there is good news: meetings can be saved…by you! This high energy and entertaining session delivers many “Suckification Reduction Devices” to make your next meeting more efficient and effective whether you are the host or merely an attendee.

Jon Petz, Author, Presenter, Entertainer: After graduating from Ohio University, Jon began his career as an inside sales representative in the software industry in Washington D.C. and Tulsa, Oklahoma. A move to Columbus, Ohio in 1995 brought Jon to MCI Telecommunications. As a national account executive, he became an MCI Master, which is only awarded to the top 2% of sales personnel worldwide. Jon continued to perform in his spare time and, after several years at MCI, he decided to pursue his true passion.  For the next two years, he traveled as a comedy magician and corporate entertainer while honing his skills as an entertainer and master communicator.

With the internet era booming, Jon jumped into the entrepreneurial role, starting his own online presence and shortly after joined a 15-person organization as a senior business development executive. This small organization grew to more than 1,500 people as Jon secured business and brought in more than 60% of the company’s overall revenue.

As the dot com market slowed down in 2001, Jon was presented with the opportunity to become the vice president of sales for a 250-member organization in the insurance industry. It was at this point that he began combining training messages with the entertainment component that was still occupying his spare time. After three years and having the sales team grow revenue by 60%, Jon once again decided to go back to his passion of inspiring others to take action by showing them that life is a magical endeavor that has no set path. That’s when Bore No More!™ was born.

Why you need to attend NYStateSHRM Conference

Jon Petz, one of the keynote speakers at the upcoming NYStateSHRM conference says that passion is doing your very best work and having fun doing it at the same time.  As I’m sure you know, that passion has the power to motivate you and your employees and colleagues to do great things together. But the daily grind, and all the stress that may or may not come with it, threatens to drain the passion out of us, if we let it.  To keep your passion for what you do fully charged you can make healthy eating choices, get regular rest and exercise, carve out time for fun with family and friends and even set aside some quiet time just for you. All of these are great ways to help keep you charged, for sure.  But here’s another idea: attend the NYStateSHRM conference.

 Regardless of your years of experience, the NYStateSHRM conference has something to offer you that you may not know yet.  There may be a session that sparks an idea for a new way of doing business that you can take back to work and apply.  A speaker’s message just might tap into something that sends you back excited to re-engage a colleague you have been struggling with.  And you may just meet other HR professionals sitting next to you at one of the meals who’s conference camaderie re-invigorates you sparking a new professional collaboration or friendship.

 Attending the NYStateSHRM conference is certainly a great tool for your fulfilling the requirements of your HR certification.  And the learning opportunities at the conference are plentiful. Above and beyond all that though, there is nothing quite like spending a couple of days surrounded by your peers talking, sharing, listening, commiserating, laughing, problem solving, brainstorming, and connecting.  It is for this reason that you should attend the NYStateSHRM conference. Yes, you will learn new things.  Yes, you’ll discover new resources you can use at work. But most importantly, you’re  guaranteed to return to work inspired, energized and charged up with renewed energy.  You work hard for your organization. You deserve the chance to renew your passion with like-minded people, your peers. Register for the NYStateSHRM conference: www.nysshrm.org

 We look forward to connecting with you in Buffalo!