BOOST Breakdown

Nationally-recognized researcher, speaker, and best-selling author Michelle Gielan will provide practical, research-based, positive leadership strategies to increase happiness and fuel success. Michelle will train leaders how to:

• Inoculate their brain against stress and negativity,
• Cultivate a more rationally-optimistic mindset in minutes,
• Make meaningful verbal and non-verbal changes to their communication style,
• Leverage the same tools Michelle used to help a national company increase gross revenues by $300M, and
• Shift the office social script to create a talent-enhancing environment, making rational optimism contagious.

In this session, remote work and learning and development expert, Mike Gutman, guides you through key considerations and optimizations learning and development teams can put into action for remote teams. Learning objectives:

• Apply a remote-first mindset to curriculum building.
• Create an inclusive remote learning environment.
• Encourage techniques for employees to practice new skills.
• Build a culture of shared learning across the organization.
• Hold employees accountable for applying new skills.

Instructor Scott Mautz discusses how to lead up effectively (and manage a bad boss), how to lead down effectively (by helping employees address burnout), and how to lead across those leaders have no formal influence over (with the Golden Rule of Influence). Learning objectives

• Become better equipped to successfully navigate the tricky position of middle management
• Understand and apply tools for better influencing up, down, and across the organization (to the boss, direct reports, and peers).

Join Erin Pinkowski, Chief Product Officer, to discover how BizAcademy can take your leaders to the next level. Take this opportunity to get the first look at BizAcademy session offerings, as well as:

• Learn why our top trend for 2023 is leadership development and retention, what’s driving this priority, and implications for your organization’s bottom line.
• Get an inside look at BizAcademy’s leadership development tracks and see how they can help you retain and develop your most impactful leaders.
• Experience the difference of hybrid training and learn the benefits of combining live training with asynchronous learning opportunities for maximum knowledge retention and long-term results.

Join your peers in a interactive networking environment where we share common training challenges and discuss how L&D enthusiast just like you have overcome them.

Join Meridith Elliott Powell as she discusses how to build a culture that attracts today’s top talent, develops strong levels of engagement, and ensures inclusivity and ownership to increase retention and builds your leadership bench. You’ll learn:

• Why engaging today’s employees is different, and gain the leadership development strategies to understand what employees want, and how to easily and effectively deliver time and time again.
• An innovative approach to tapping into the power of diversity on economic drivers, employee retention, and leadership development.
• Proven strategies to get the best and the brightest to beat a path to your door even in the toughest environments.
• Cutting-edge strategies to creating culture the meets all three requirements for success– ownership, engagement, and diversity.
• Powerful tactics to build a team that is as passionate and committed as you are about the growth of your business.
• Your personal plan of action to turn attrition into attraction.

ThinkHuman's programs build on essential skills to create productive and high-functioning teams across organizations. Designed to set the foundational skills of EQ, personal accountability and authentic feedback dialogues - this session will strengthen your ability to understand yourself/others and be an effective leader, at any level, with a variety of people.

Thank you for tuning into day one of BOOST! Join us as we recap the first day and highlight a few things you should know before day two.

Join us for an interactive, thought provoking, and practical session where Kevin Eikenberry highlights the key needs for leaders in this new world – and how organizations can help them get there. This will be a timely, practical and inspirational look into the future of the leader’s role – and how you can prepare for it. At the end of this fast-paced and interactive session you will be able to:

• Describe how the world of work is different today – and why those differences matter,
• Outline why developing leadership skills is a critical success factor today,
• Describe the leadership competencies that are critical for success in 2023, and
• Recognize ways to build those competencies for yourself and other leaders in your organization

Join Paul Eschen, CMO at BizLibrary and Experience Design Expert, as he takes us on a journey into the human psyche – what drives us, what motivates us, what makes us feel valued – to better understand how key design principles hold the key to your ability to build a successful leadership development program (and more competent and compassionate leaders). During this session we’ll:

• Set the Intention – Your leaders are BUSY. We’ll learn how key principles like novelty, shared identity, and simplicity can hook leaders on day 1 and make them program evangelists.
• Surprise & Delight – Your leaders are SOCIAL. We’ll learn how principles like scarcity, conversations of 4, and the peak end rule can create buy-in, excitement, and connection points amongst your leadership cohort.
• Build Emotional Contagion – Your leaders are YOUR BRAND. Would your leaders proudly wear a t-shirt with your leadership program’s name on it? Why or why not? We’ll learn how to inspire leaders through image-based words and create cultural symbols that create positive emotional connections with your program.

This eye-opening presentation builds awareness around the need for strong change leadership and offers best practices for managing and leading organizational change. Learning objectives:

• Discover the eight biggest change leadership mistakes
• Identify key strategies to promote successful change
• Learn how to effectively navigate resistance to change

Why is study of resilience important, how everyone can be resilient no matter your circumstances, and strategies you can implement today to become more resilient.

Want to build a high-performing culture? Start by building up your people. Join Jackie Dube, Chief People Officer at The Predictive Index, as she shows BOOST attendees the secret strategies of leadership development. Learn how to use leadership development as a way to upskill your employees, develop winning teams, and realize your organization’s full potential.

We're chatting with BizLibrary's Director of Implementation to learn how to successfully launch a training program- the common roadblocks encountered, how to get leadership buy-in, and how to maintain momentum post-launch.

Explore the root causes of FOSU (fear of speaking up) and techniques to turn your team’s fears and frustration into innovation. You’ll leave this session with:

• A clearer understanding of what’s blocking everyday innovation in your teams.
• Easy-to-use tools and techniques to empower solutions-thinking and customer-focused problem-solving.
• Communication strategies to eliminate FOSU (Fear of Speaking Up) and encourage deeper dialogue up, down, and sideways.

During this session we'll talk both the qualitative and quantitative sides of ROI of a training program and what you need to make the case for training.

Join Brandon as he shares the leadership secret that will help you unlock your team, your time and your impact. By mastering the “Author vs. Editor” concept, you and your team can take your performance to the next level. In this session we will:

• Discuss some of the most pressing challenges facing leaders today.Define the “Author vs. Editor” concept and discuss the importance of sitting in the right seat at the right time.
• Understand how to apply the “Author vs. Editor” concept with your team, allowing you to sit in the “Editor” seat more frequently.
• Understand how to apply the “Author vs. Editor” concept with your managers, equipping you to manage up by more effectively sitting in the “Author” seat.
• Identify the traps and obstacles that get in the way of effectively utilizing the “Author vs. Editor” concept.
• Synthesize the learnings into a personalized action plan for you and your team.