RECORDING -- This Webinar was recorded and is archived in the new IATF Members Only Area. Become a member for FREE and watch the video for FREE.  Membership information is HERE.

Create trust, confidence, and team unity by being real!

Authenticity is fundamental to relationships, communication, and success – for individuals, teams, and organizations. 

Now more than ever, people, leaders, and groups must utilize the power of authenticity in order to build trust, resolve conflicts, and create cohesion. 

Although it can be counter-intuitive, some fascinating research in the field of emotional intelligence is proving that being real, honest, and even vulnerable are key elements to individual and group success and engagement. 

Our special guest for this interactive Google Hangout is Mike Robbins, author of the national best seller Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken. In this live and interactive Google Hangout Mike will share how authenticity impacts relationships, trust, and productivity on teams.

Attend this event if you're interested in:

-- Improving communication, connection, and trust in a positive way

-- Enhancing your emotional intelligence (EQ)

-- Learning how to challenge people, leaders, and teams to look at, deal with, and talk about the “elephants in the room”

-- Help people effectively deal with conflicts and engage in difficult conversations successfully

-- Learning techniques for moving past fear and taking successful risks

Event Details

TITLE

The Power of Authenticity -- How to create trust, confidence, and team unity by being real!

DATE

Thursday   August 22, 2013

TIME

Starts at 1 pm Eastern (NY City time zone) and runs 60 minutes

SPEAKERS

Mike Robbins, Author of Be Yourself - Everyone Else is Already Taken

Tom Heck, President & Founder of the IATF

REGISTER

CLICK HERE to register. Free and open to the public. 

COST

This event is FREE.

RECORDING

This Webinar was recorded and is archived in the new IATF Members Only Area. Become a member for FREE and watch the video for FREE.  Membership information is HERE.

Get The Book

Mike's book is a must read for all emerging and established leaders. CLICK HERE

Preview

Watch the video below for a preview of what you'll learn in this Webinar.

View this entire video in the IATF Members Only Area HERE.  

Membership information is HERE.

If you work in (or for) a group or team you'll be more than aware of the frustrations that come when we inevitably and frequently hit gridlock.

Why is it that sometimes we enter a state of high-performing flow but that often we stutter, stall and fail?

In this informative, entertaining, and interactive Webinar (Google Hangout), Les McKeown, President and CEO of Predictable Success will explain why this happens and how to get to, and stay in, a sustained period of effective teamwork.

Les McKeown has spent a lifetime helping people achieve this state of effective teaming. As a serial entrepreneur and consultant he has worked with literally thousands of people on their team interactions and communication.

By the end of our session you will know how to:

- Consistently make and implement high quality decisions individually and as a team.

- Dramatically improve existing relationships with the people you work with every day.

- Exponentially increase the effectiveness of your interactions at client, peer, manager, and direct report level.

- Improve personal productivity to achieve more each day, every day.

- Understand your value within your organization and the impact that the work you each day has on your organization's combined success. 

Event Details

TITLE

Transcendent Leadership -- How To Lead Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime

DATE

Thursday   June 20, 2013

TIME

Starts at 1 pm Eastern (NY City time zone) and runs 60 minutes

SPEAKERS

Les McKeown, President and CEO of Predictable Success

Tom Heck, President & Founder of the IATF

REGISTER

CLICK HERE to register. Free and open to the public. [registration is now closed]

COST

This event is FREE.

RECORDING

This Webinar was recorded and is archived in the new IATF Members Only Area. Become a member for FREE and watch the video for FREE.  Membership information is HERE.

Preview

Watch the video below for a preview of what you'll learn in this Webinar.

Watch the video in the IATF Members Only Area HERE.  

CLICK  HERE to watch the video recording. The link will take you to the IATF Members Only Area. Not an IATF member? CLICK HERE to join.

Leadership is the most overanalyzed, thoroughly dissected, and utterly confused topic in business.

In Leaders Open Doors, author Bill Treasurer helps lighten the leadership load by distilling that leaders are simply creators of opportunity for others.

Please join us for this live and interactive Google Hangout (webinar) when Bill will share present the idea of open-door leadership - - that is, the responsibility that leaders have for noticing, identifying, and creating opportunities for the benefit of people, organizations, and society.

Learn about the six unique "opportunity doors":

1. the proving-ground door
2. the thought-shifting door
3. the door to a second chance
4. the doors you open for others
5. the door to personal transformation
6. the door to your open heart

You'll learn that leadership isn’t a complex and abstract concept. It’s a set of practices and ideals passed from one person to another, across organizations and generations. Leadeship is a tradition that makes people’s lives better by opening doors of opportunities for them to thrive, achieve, and lead.

Event Details

TITLE

Leaders Open Doors

DATE

Friday   May 17, 2013

TIME

Starts at 1 pm  Eastern (NY City time zone)

runs for 60 minutes

PRESENTERS

Bill Treasurer, Author and Leadership Coach

Tom Heck, President & Founder of the IATF

REGISTER

CLICK  HERE to register. Free and open to the public. [registration is closed]

COST

This event is FREE.

RECORDING

This Webinar was recorded and is now archived in the new IATF Members Only Area. Become a member for FREE and watch the video for FREE.  Membership information is HERE.

Preview

Watch the video below for a preview of what you'll learn in this Webinar.

This video interview is now archived in the IATF Members Only Area

What is the best way for you to get ahead?

Answer:  Stop Communicating and Start Connecting!

Technology has transformed the way we communicate. We send and receive more and more emails every day. We text. We tweet. We have reduced our communications down to efficient sound bites—and at the same time, many of us seem to know less and less about how to connect. Deeply, profoundly connect.   

In this special IATF Google Hangout (webinar), acclaimed performance coach Achim Nowak will share his powerful 4 Levels of Connection.

1. Talk Level -- The essential skills to creating meaningful conversations

2. Power Level -- How to harness your own personal power

3. Intent Level -- How to show up alert, with purpose and full awareness of your goals

4. Energy Level -- The heart and soul level at which connections happen, personal energy makes for the depest and most lasting connections

Tested and honed through 15 years of coaching senior-level executives around the globe, Nowak’s techniques instantly transform the skills taught in traditional business communication and NLP programs.

People who connect deeply with others connect on these 4 levels: They shape conversations with effortless grace, and they play consciously with the unspoken elements of a connection—personal power, intention, and energy. The result? Infectious connections that accelerate personal success!   

Infectious offers simple language cues that deepen and shift the art of conversation. It breaks the idea of power into five tangible plugs that we can turn to—and turn on. These plugs recharge the quality of our connection with anyone we meet.

This book demystifies the experience of energy—the deepest of the four levels, and the root of any connection. It looks at how we access our energy. Remove energy blocks. Play with energy and own it.   

Join us for the live and interactive Google Hangout (webinar) and learn how to reshape the hidden forces of connection into simple, step-by-step actions. 

Event Details

TITLE

How to Connect Deeply and Unleash the Energetic Leader Within

DATE

Thursday   May 2, 2013

TIME

Starts at 1 pm  Eastern (NY City time zone)

runs for 60 minutes

PRESENTERS

Achim Nowak, Author and Performance Coach

Tom Heck, President & Founder of the IATF

REGISTER

CLICK HERE to register. Free and open to the public. Registration is closed.

COST

This event is FREE.

RECORDING

This Webinar was recorded and is archived in the new IATF Members Only Area. Become a member for FREE and watch the video for FREE.  Membership information is HERE.

Preview

Watch the video below for a preview of what you'll learn in this Webinar.

Team Roles & Team Structure

Facilitators of teams spend a lot of time dealing with issues of structure and roles.

This is true for new teams, and also for established teams where structure and roles shift over time.

In this enlightening session, Susan Gerke and David Hutchens -- creators of GO Team Resources -- will present fresh ways of thinking about structure and roles... and also present some simple, dynamic processes for engaging your team in an energizing dialogue around these critical issues.

This free webinar was developed exclusively for members of IATF. Brought to you by IATF Visiting Faculty Members  Susan Gerke and David Hutchens.

Susan Gerke is the president of Gerke Consulting & Development where she designs, customizes and implements leadership and teamwork programs.  Her clients include Bank of the West, BHK Accountancy, City of Anaheim, Human Options, Orange Coast College, Sole Technology, UC Irvine, and Warner Bros.

David Hutchens, a bestselling author, and organizational learning consultant. He  has worked with IBM, The Coca-Cola Company, Wal-Mart, GE, Nike, and many others.

Together, Susan and David have created GO Team, a library of 18 easy-to-deliver team-training modules that allow you to build your own team training agenda.

This Webinar will be interactive allowing you to get your questions answered live during the session. It's "just in time" training and development! 

Event Details

TITLE

New Lenses for Team Structure & Team Roles

DATE

Monday   April 8, 2013

TIME

Starts at 1 pm  Eastern (NY City time zone)
runs for 60 minutes

PRESENTERS

Susan Gerke and David Hutchens, creators of GO Team Resources

Tom Heck, President & Founder of the IATF

REGISTER

 CLICK HERE to register.  It's FREE.  Registration is closed.

WHAT TO EXPECT

We're using Google Plus Hangouts On Air for this live event. We will be broadcasting live video and taking your questions during the event. There is no charge to you. Everything is free as long as you have access to the internet.

RECORDING

This event was recorded and the recording is posted in the IATF Members Only Area. Not yet an IATF member?  Join HERE. 

Practice Perfect

Rules for developing talent with disciplined, deliberate, intelligent practice

We live in a competition loving culture.

We love the performance, the big win, the ticking seconds of the clock as the game comes down to the wire.

We watch games and cheer, sometimes to the point of obsession, but if we really wanted to see greatness—wanted to cheer for it, see it happen, understand what made it happen—we’d spend our time watching, obsessing on, and maybe even cheering the practices instead.

In this interactive Webinar we'll put practice on the front burner of all who seek to instill talent and achievement in others as well as in themselves.

This Webinar is about a journey to understand that practice, not games, makes champions.

Would you like to engage the dream of better, both in fields and endeavors where participants know they should practice and also in those where many do not yet recognize the transformative power of practice?

Deliberately engineered and designed practice can revolutionize our most important endeavors.

There are a clear set of rules that will make you and yoru team better regardless of the "game" you're playing.

In this live and interactive Webinar you will:

• Discover new ways to think about practice.
• Learn how to design successful practice.
• Learn how to apply practice across a wide range of realms, both personal and professional
• Learn activities to jump-start practice

 Erica Woolway, Doug Lemov, Katie Yezzi

authors of Practice Perfect

Event Details

TITLE

Practice Perfect -- Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better

DATE

Wednesday   March 13, 2013

TIME

Starts at 1 pm  Eastern (NY City time zone)

runs for 60 minutes

PRESENTERS

Erica Woolway, and Katie Yezzi -- authors of "Practice Perfect"

Tom Heck, President & Founder of the IATF

REGISTER

Registration closed.

COST

This event is FREE.

RECORDING

This Webinar was recorded and is archived in the new IATF Members Only Area. Become a member for FREE and watch the video for FREE.  Membership information is HERE.

Preview

Watch the video below for a preview of what you'll learn in this Webinar.

Live Interactive Webinar on Wed. Feb. 20 at 12 noon EST

CLICK HERE to register!

It's FREE!

The Early Leadership Toolkit is an easy to use Leadership Curriculum developed by the Leadership Beyond Boundaries team (LBB) at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina.

The "toolkit" is used by facilitators around the US and beyond to help young people learn how to lead.

In this live and interactive webinar you'll learn all about the toolkit and how you can use this dynamic leadership curriculum to help the community you serve learn valuable leadership skills.

Guest presenters include Lisa Prochnow in Idaho, Hiten Momaya in India, and Tom Heck in North Carolina. Guest presenters will share how they are using the toolkit with the communities they serve.

During the live broadcast you'll be able to ask questions.

The Early Leadership Toolkit Train-the-Trainer will take place in Greensboro, North Carolina on March 13-15, 2013. For more information please contact the Leadership Beyond Boundaries team here:  www.LeadBeyond.org

Event Details

TITLE

Introduction to the "Early Leadership Toolkit" Leadership Curriculum

DATE

Wednesday   February 20, 2013

TIME

Starts at 12 noon  Eastern (NY City time zone)

runs for 60 minutes

PRESENTERS

Janet Carlson, Center for Creative Leadership

Sarah Miller, Center for Creative Leadership

Tom Heck, President & Founder of the IATF

REGISTER

CLICK HERE to register.  The Webinar will be a Google Plus Hangout On Air.  There is no phone number to call. All you need is internet access.  Everything is free. We will take your questions live during the event!

COST

This event is FREE.

RECORDING

This Webinar will be recorded and posted for free in the new IATF Members Only Area. Become a member for FREE and watch the video for FREE.  Membership information is HERE.

What do the Broadway musical Spider-Man, the Indiana Colts, and Domino’s Pizza have in common?

They all used the same process to turnaround a losing team from the bottom to the top.

In the new book Team Turnarounds, Joe Frontiera and Daniel Leidl share five years of research of business, sports and government teams to explore what it takes to get a failing team back on track—especially in today’s tight times when teams are asked to do more with less.

Frontiera & Leidl spoke with CEOs, frontline managers, governors, and owners and general managers and coaches in the National Football League, Major League Baseball, and the National Basketball Association.  All of the teams across every sector consistently reversed their fortunes and did a 180 from failure to success with six common stages of development:

1. Lead Past Losing. Evaluate your current state of affairs, accept the reasons for failure and identify root causes of problems.

2. Commit to Growth. Communicate the vision and values of a better future.

3. Change Behaviors.  Introduce and reinforce new behaviors and best practices.

4. Embrace Adversity. Fend off obstacles to test your team and become stronger.

5. Achieve Success.  Achieve your team’s goals and decide what’s next?

6. Nurture a Culture of Excellence. Turn attention to keeping your team’s success sustainable with continual learning, innovation, and maintenance of your culture.

Joe Frontiera, PhD

coauthor of Team Turnarounds

In this live an interactive Webinar our guest will be Joe Frontiera, PhD who will help us explore each of these stages and he will share some entertaining first-hand accounts of turnarounds.

Team Turnarounds include:

• legendary worst-to-first story of Bill Polian and the Indianapolis Colts
• Jeffrey Lurie’s efforts to transform the Philadelphia Eagles
• government turnarounds including Michigan’s current efforts to fix its ailing economy
• business turnarounds at Domino’s Pizza, Juniper Networks, iContact
• broadway musical SpiderMan

No matter how bad the circumstances, how awful the performance, or how far shares have plummeted, Team Turnarounds shows how any team can climb back up to the top.

Event Details

TITLE

Team Turnarounds -- How To Transform Underperforming Teams

DATE

Tuesday   February 19, 2013

TIME

Starts at 1 pm  Eastern (NY City time zone)

runs for 60 minutes

PRESENTERS

Joe Frontiera, coauthor of Team Turnarounds

Tom Heck, President & Founder of the IATF

COST

This event is FREE.

RECORDING

This Webinar was recorded and is available in the new IATF Members Only Area. Become a member for FREE and watch the video for FREE.  Membership information is HERE.

In 2010 Katie Spotz rowed a tiny boat 3,038 miles across the Atlantic Ocean all by herself. Katie was 22 years old then and she set the new world record for such a feat!

Throughout her row, Katie wasn’t just seeking to make history. She was also raising money, for the Blue Planet Network, a San Francisco-based non-profit funding safe drinking water projects around the world. As interest grew in Katie’s amazing exploits, donations came flooding in and, at the moment, the total stands at over $150,000.

I had the pleasure of meeting Katie at the November 2012 TEDx Asheville event where she was a presenter. Katie's amazing story thrilled the audience and her inspirational message was one I thought everyone in the IATF community would benefit from.

Katie describes herself as having been the “benchwarmer” throughout her life. However, there came a time when she made a discovery:

You don’t have to be extraordinary to achieve incredible things.

In this live an interactive Webinar Katie will share her story and the leadership lessons her incredible journey provided her.

Have you been thinking about how 2012 went for you?

Have you been thinking about setting big (even scary) goals for 2013?

Event Details

TITLE

Rowing Solo Across the Ocean -- Lessons on leadership and perserverence with Katie Spotz

DATE

Wednesday   December 5, 2012

TIME

Starts at 11 am  Eastern (NY City time zone)
runs for 60 minutes

PRESENTERS

Katie Spotz, world record holder for youngest woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean

Tom Heck, President & Founder of the IATF

REGISTER

Registration is not necessary.  The Webinar will take place on this same web page.  Be here on Wednesday December 5, 2012 at 11 am EST (NY City time zone) and you'll see a LIVE broadcast which includes chat.  There is no phone number to call.  Everything is free.

COST

This event is FREE.

RECORDING

This Webinar was recorded and is available for free in the new IATF Members Only Area. Become a member for FREE and watch the video for FREE.  Membership information is HERE.

Watch the recording of the Webinar now in the IATF Members Only Area

BASIC Membership is FREE

More than 90% of women of different social strata claim that envy and jealousy toward other women colors their lives.

90% of women in diverse jobs also report that competition in the workplace is primarily  between other women, rather than between women and men.

With women comprising over 50% of the workforce, a new dynamic has emerged. Women find themselves working with each other in large numbers on all levels of the corporate structure for the first time. While one would think this would create harmony and a supportive workplace atmosphere, it often fosters power struggles.

Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster have written an enlightening new book entitled "Mean Girls At Work: How to Stay Professional When Things Get Personal".  This is a women's guide to the new frontier of professional development - - making the best of the worst situations with other women in the workplace.

Katherine and Kathi say women-to-women relationships are naturally intense. When they are good they're very good, when they're bad, they can be horrible. 

The challenge for today's professional woman is to develop skills and strategies that enable her to thrive in the workplace - - even among covertly competitive colleagues.

Common "mean girls at work" behavior includes:

• Excluding you from important emails.
• Gossiping about anyone and everyone.
• Making you look bad by failing to meet deadlines.
• Needing too much personal attention.
• Communicating in an unprofessional manner - or maybe choosing not to interact with you at all.

Learning goals for this Webinar:

In this free live Webinar Katherine and Kathi will share office-tested solutions for dealing with "Mean Girls at Work".  They will provide a 3-step plan that will empower women to support each other in succeeding at work and help them troubleshoot any stressful situation involving a female boss, colleague, employee or client.

This will be an interactive Webinar.  Our guests will be taking your questions.

About Our Special Guests

Katherine Crowley is a Harvard trained psychotherapist, and Kathi Elster is a management consultant and executive coach. Together they create the yin and yang of their company, K Squared Enterprises. They use an "inside-out approach" which transforms the way businesses uncover and resolve their greatest interpersonal dilemmas.

Previous books by Crowley and Elster include "Working For You Isn't Working For Me -- How To Get Ahead When Your Boss Holds You Back" and "Working With You Is Killing Me -- Freeing Yourself From Emotional Traps at Work"

Event Details

TITLE

"Mean Girls at Work" -- How To Stay Professional when Things Get Personal

DATE

Wednesday   November 14, 2012

TIME

Starts at 1 pm  Eastern (NY City time zone)
runs for 60 minutes

PRESENTERS

Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster, authors of Mean Girls At Work

Tom Heck, President & Founder of the IATF

REGISTER

Registration is not necessary.  The Webinar will take place on this same web page.  Be here on Wednesday November 14, 2012 at 1 pm EST (NY City time zone) and you'll see a LIVE broadcast which includes chat.  There is no phone number to call.  Everything is free.

COST

This event is FREE.

RECORDING

This Webinar was recorded and posted in the IATF Members Only Area. Become a member for FREE and watch the video for FREE.  Membership information is HERE.

Watch this video of Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster describing their book Mean Girls At Work

The recording of this leadership webinar is available for free in the IATF Members Only Area.

==> Download the free article from Mark Collard entitled "What Is An Ice Breaker?" in the IATF Members Only Area.

Do you design and lead team building events?

Have you ever wondered how to sequence your activities in a way that creates the most powerful learning opportunities?

In this free and interactive webinar, we will explore the critical importance of appropriately sequencing experiential learning activities so you can create the most powerful and rewarding outcomes possible for your group.

Learning goals for this webinar:

1. Discover a simple three-step, universally-applicable model for preparing groups for their 'peak' experience.
2. Understand what makes an ice-breaker an ice-breaker as distinct from any other experience.
3. Learn why having fun is the most potent tool available to facilitators to engage people and invite participation.

This Webinar will be interactive - - you'll be able to chat with our guest speaker and ask him your questions directly.  It's "just in time" training and development! 

About Our Special Guest

Mark Collard is one of Australia's most experienced and qualified adventure educators, and one of a very small number of international facilitators working with Project Adventure Inc – a global non-profit organisation that trains others in the use of group-based activities and facilitation.

Mark is the author of the top-selling activity publications 'No Props: Great Games with No Equipment' and ‘Count Me In: Large Group Activities That Work.’ He worked as a Senior Trainer for Project Adventure when the business was first established in Australia during the 1990s. He now works as an independent facilitator throughout Australia, USA and south-east Asia.

Mark has recently launched a comprehensive online resource of play and adventure-based activities called playmeo.com, featuring activity descriptions, videos, illustrations & leadership tips for 100s of activities.

Mark has been struck by lightning twice, can’t back-up a car towing a trailer to save himself and has camped on the lawns of Australia’s Parliament House for three days (as part of a logging protest). He lives in Melbourne with his gorgeous wife Gilly and son Devon.

Event Details

TITLE

How to Sequence Activities for Powerful and Rewarding Outcomes

DATE

Wednesday   October 17, 2012

TIME

Starts at 9 pm  Eastern (NY City time zone)
runs for 60 minutes

NOTE:  The late (for East Coast US) start time is required because our special guest lives in Australia - - 14 hours ahead!

PRESENTERS

Mark Collard, author, adventure educator, founder of InspireYourGroup.com and Playmeo.com

Tom Heck, President & Founder of the IATF

REGISTER

Registration is not necessary.  The webinar will take place on this same web page.  Be here on Wednesday October 17, 2012 at 9 pm EST (NY City time zone) and you'll see a LIVE broadcast which includes chat.  There is no phone number to call.  Everything is free.

COST

This event is FREE.

RECORDING

This call will be recorded and posted in the IATF Members Only Area.

Watch this video of Mark Collard describing a team building activity that requires creative problem solving.

How can you lead your community in a transformative way?

ANSWER:  Become a "life entrepreneur".

Christopher Gergen is the coauthor of Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives. Gergen says life entrepreneurs are ordinary people who integrate their life, work, and purpose through distinctively entrepreneurial behavior—and, in so doing, create extraordinary lives of significance.

In this interactive webinar Christopher Gergen will share strategies for identifying your core identity, awakening to opportunity, and leading with others to drive positive change in the world around you.

Christopher Gergen is passionate about unleashing the potential of people who have bold ideas for positive social change.  Through this passion, he helped found Bull City Forward – a community development organization focused on incubating and scaling high-impact social enterprises in Durham, NC. This work complements Christopher’s role as a fellow at the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business as well as his position as “Innovator in Residence” at the Center for Creative Leadership. 

This Webinar will be interactive - - you'll be able to chat with our guest speaker and ask him your questions directly.  It's "just in time" training and development! 

"The real question is not how to just make a living, but how to make a life. Life Entrepreneurs helps all who are struggling to integrate money and meaning in their careers to do just that."  --  Dr. Mark S. Albion, New York Times best-selling author, Making a Life, Making a Living®, and True to Yourself

Life Entrepreneurs -- Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives

Amazon rating:  4.5/5

Event Details

TITLE

Life Entrepreneurs -- How to Lead in a Complex World

DATE

Thursday   September 13, 2012

TIME

Starts at 1 pm  Eastern (NY City time zone)
runs for 60 minutes

PRESENTERS

Christopher Gergen, coauthor of Life Entrepreneurs

Tom Heck, President & Founder of the IATF

REGISTER

Registration is not necessary.  The webinar will take place on this same web page.  Be here on Thursday September 13, 2012 at 1 pm EST (NY City time zone) and you'll see a LIVE broadcast which includes chat.  There is no phone number to call.  Everything is free.

COST

This event is FREE.

RECORDING

This call was recorded and can be viewed on YouTube above.

Who is Christopher Gergen?  What is a "life entrepreneur"?  Watch the short video below to learn more.