Clifton Taulbert Speaks at Women In Technology Atlanta Event

Over 100 of Atlanta’s technology companies participated at the September 20th Women in Technology (WIT) meeting sponsored by Ninth House. In order to break down barriers to authentic leadership, Clifton Taulbert, Pulitzer-prize nominated author and faculty member at Ninth House, asked attendees to shed their titles by ripping their business cards.

Based upon his “Eight Habits of the Heart,” Taulbert introduced these principles as leadership tools to better understand, embrace and employ in building community within the workplace. The Eight Habits include nurturing attitude, responsibility, dependability, friendship, brotherhood, high expectations, courage and hope. He espoused that “leaders become these habits through multiple micro-acts of workplace selflessness.”

According to Taulbert, results from these acts within the workplace will emerge - Respect, Affirmation and Inclusion (R.A.I). The presence of R.A.I. empowers the team to achieve beyond expectations and builds fellowship.

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The REAL ROI of Leadership Development: American Express Case Study e-Seminar

In this September 20, 2006 Chief Learning Officer e-Seminar, American Express and Ninth House looked at the business impact of different leadership development training methods, as well as the behaviors needed from managers to make this successful.

With its primary focus on business results and return on investment, American Express spent the last two years studying how to most effectively deliver best-in-class leadership development training for its global population of people leaders - web-based, instructor-led, and a blended approach. American Express analyzed results from these three delivery options measuring behavioral change, productivity improvement and ROI from hundreds of learning experiences.

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Ninth House 2006 Leadership Development Summit

From September 13-14, 2006, over 40 learning and performance management colleagues attended the Ninth House 2006 Leadership Development Summit to share solutions for their biggest challenges of developing leaders in their organizations.

Representatives from such top organizations as the American Express, CIA, Citigroup, CompUSA, Cox Communications, National Science Foundation, Seagate Technology, and more attended this two-day, intimate forum. This intimate setting enabled all participants to react, play devil’s advocate, analyze and interpret the viability of a particular approach, and collectively discuss how to move leadership application to the next level.

A variety of leadership development topics were presented by some of today’s most forward-thinking organizations:

• Instilling a Culture of Adaptability and Learning - Mr. Jeremy Seligman, Director, IT Strategy and Organizational Development, Ford Motor Company
• Centralized Leadership Development for a Decentralized Global Organization - Ms. Katharine Nisbet, Director, Global Talent & Management, American Express
• Leadership Development is not Leadership Training: An Organizational Maturity Model for Leadership Development – Ms. Kim Lamoureux, Sr. Leadership Analyst, Bersin & Associates
• Creating a Global Culture of Shared Values and Responsibilities - Ms. Scotland King, Director of Learning & Development, Citigroup Inc.
• Customized Blended Learning Development for a Global Organization - Mr. Steve Leech, Vice President and Chief Learning Officer, Global Learning and Development, Gap Inc. and Ms. Katy Sharon, Director, Leadership and Development, IT, Gap Inc.
• Flexible Leadership for High-Growth Mid-Market Organizations - Ms. Deidrea Booher, Director of Learning & Development, Equifirst Corporation
• New Manager Trifecta: Retention, Performance, and Leadership Development - Mr. Garrett Stokes, WW Employee and Career Development, Amazon.com
• Best Practices in Blended Leadership Development Panel with Mr. Paul Leone, Ph.D, Manager of Leadership Effectiveness, American Express; Mr. Kent Barnett, CEO, Knowledge Advisors; Mr. Josh Bersin, CEO, Bersin & Associates; and Mr. Jeff Snipes, CEO and co-founder, Ninth House, Inc.
• Leadership Development for Individual Contributors: Microsoft’s Talent Management Strategy - Ms. Irada Sadykhova, Director of Learning and Performance Strategies, Engineering Excellence, Microsoft

Long after the Summit has concluded, Summit participants and our industry colleagues will have an opportunity to continue the exchanges begun at the Summit on the Ninth House blog.

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Ninth House Sponsored e-Seminar on “Amazon.com: Developing and Engaging Talent”

On June 14, 2006, Ninth House sponsored a Chief Learning Officer/Workforce Performance Solutions e-Seminar regarding how organizations can dramatically alter their views on Talent Retention and proactively foster a culture of valuing and retaining talent within their companies.

Building on the March 1st e-Seminar on “Retention and Leadership Development Strategies for Retaining Talent”, this session covered how Amazon.com integrated their retention, performance management and leadership development systems, leveraging a high-quality blended learning program to reach all managers throughout a global organization.

Speakers included:

• Garrett Stokes, WW Employee and Career Development Manager, Amazon.com
• Dr. B. Lynn Ware, President and CEO, Integral Talent Systems, Inc.
• Jeff Snipes, CEO and co-founder, Ninth House, Inc.

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Ninth House Sponsors Complimentary e-Seminar on Retention and Leadership Development Strategies for Retaining Talent

In this March 1st 2006 webinar, Jeff Snipes, CEO and founder of Ninth House, Inc. and Dr. B. Lynn Ware, Ph.D., President & CEO of Integral Talent Systems, Inc., addressed how to identify, develop, and retain key employees in their presentation titled "Key Retention and Leadership Development Strategies for Retaining Talent. "

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