Leadership Training

This past week, Neilson Business Media hosted their 2nd annual Training Leadership Summit in San Diego, and I attended on behalf of 451 Press. This four day event (adeptly hosted by Training Magazine Group publisher Joyceann Cooney-Carippa), was filled with insightful presentations, interactive workshops, and provided a unique networking opportunity for all of the attendees.

Here are some of the moments as captured by yours truly. Based on some of my conversations with keynote presenters, we should have additional profiles and follow-up discussions posted on the site within the next couple of weeks.

The summit was held at the beautiful Rancho Bernardo Inn, a golf resort and spa located just north of downtown San Diego. Unfortunately, I was not allowed to golf on the grounds; the staff felt that my handicap of 50 could be a danger to some of the participants.

Jim Ehinger (left) and Joshua Campbell enjoy lunch at the Aragon Lawn courtyard. Jim and Joshua both serve as Training Consultants for Cornerstone Information Systems, a technology company that produces applications for the travel industry.

Amy Shoemaker is the Director of Talent Development for the accounting firm Kennedy and Coe. Patrick Barrett works for United Rentals, and is the Director of Training and Development. They both agreed that (1) the summit was a great opportunity to learn from other learning and development professionals, and (2) the chocolate raspberry souffle was one of the best desserts they’d ever had!

I devoured mine in 8.5 seconds. Chocolate stimulates the mind, right?

During the summit, Training Magazine honored 40 organizational development professionals under the age of 40 with their first annual Top Young Trainer Awards. Bill Gauthier, the Director of Training Technology at CCA Global Partners, was one of the recipients.

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Critical to the success of any good leader (or writer, for that matter) is the ability to stay organized. In order to practice what I preach, I’ve finally gotten around to tidying things up a bit here at Leadership Training Skills!

On the right side of the site, you will now find multiple categories to help you find the article or blog posting that you may be interested in. It’s fairly straight forward, but since I’m so proud that I finally got around to doing this only 14 months after launching site, let’s go through them together!

- Announcements: This is simply for website announcements, such as my past (and ongoing request) for interview candidates, and this post regarding new categories. Hopefully I’ll have some promotions and contests here in the near future.

- Business Topics with Links: Any posting that pertains to a business topic such as Cold Calls or Networking and also provides a link to at least one other website or resource can be found here. Honestly, I could use a different name for this one (you know - one that doesn’t stink?). Any ideas? Let me know!

- Interviews: All of the interviews that I’ve held with CEO’s, top Human Resources personnel and Learning Officers are listed here in chronological order. Without question, this has been the most fun part of writing this blog, and I’m looking forward to profiling many more leaders to come! Do you know someone that would be a good candidate for a Leadership Training interview? Let me know!

- Original Articles: This is my original take on topics like Customer Service and Bad Employees. The latter article happens to be my personal favorite (for now)…

- Quote of the Day: Self explanatory, and the easiest posts for me to write!

- Reading to Lead: Here you’ll find my version of the Book of the Month Club, with suggested business reading material such as Let My People Go Surfing.

- Workshops, Conferences, Expos: This is a category I hope to expand on quite a bit in the near future. There are so many great business events to attend and network at, and I’m going to highlight (and attend) as many as possible! Since I live in Los Angeles, there will no doubt be a tendency for me to concentrate on events held in the Southwest region of the U.S.. However, if you have an event or organization that you’d like to promote, please let me know!

So hope this helps when you’re surfing around LTS. If you have any suggestions, comments, or just want to say hello, let me know either in the comments section, or by email. Thanks for reading!