Thursday Workshops
Thursday's Leadership Institute
The 3rd Annual NAAAP Leadership Institute is a one-day, pre-convention program taking place on August 12th (Thursday). This program is ideal for individuals and community/corporation leaders, who wish to undertake more advanced leadership training in a small group setting to jump start their convention experience, and for those who cannot attend the entire Convention, but wish to expedite their skill development through a focused and interactive curriculum.
Harnessing the Power of People: 10 Ways to Invigorate Your Chapter/Venture
The Father of Management, Peter Drucker, once said “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” Managing people is an important part of leadership, but often one of the most challenging. The first half of the presentation will focus on how to engage and utilize human resources in a volunteer or professional setting. The second half of the program will highlight best practices at NAAAP chapters/ventures around the country. Learn about proven practices that have invigorated chapters/ventures and their people.
Speaker: Fabian De Rozario, Sally Wang
The Importance of a Turnaround Written Business Plan
All businesses, organizations and business owners should have a formal written business plan. 85%-95% don't have a written one. Michael will go through the reasons why, the basics of a formal written business plan and give you an outline of the business plan to take away.
Speaker: Michael C. Synn
Human Factors: How to Bring Out the Best in People
The success or failure of any organization is not dependent on strategy, objectives, processes or assets but on people and their behaviors. Human factors are the underlying elements of human behavior that impact organizational and team performance. They are your personal values, personality styles, culture, diversity, experiences, and personal emotions that “power” one’s behaviors and relationships with other people. Human factors apply to the most challenging issues facing organizational leaders today, such as motivating a diverse workforce, resolving interpersonal conflicts, creating informal power and leadership. This presentation will present seven ways in which we can use human factors to build your interpersonal skills and to bring out the best in people. This “can’t miss” presentation is a great fit for career professionals who want to strengthen their leadership skills and working relationships and is especially vital for current and future managers who lead and manage teams. Understanding human factors is the essence of leadership and personal success.
Professional development units (PDUs) offered here, courtesy of PMI San Francisco Bay Area Chapter! Detailed information on how to redeem them with your attendance will be shared during the session.
Speaker: Zachery A. Wong, Ph.D.
Express Your Confidence
Ambition combined with initiative inspires confidence. Many women and men aspire to have the comprehensive package of career success along with sophistication in style. Self-help books present generalized concepts, yet individualized or "bespoke" solutions are becoming much more in demand. In the Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management (year 2002: Volume 6: Issue: 3 Pages: 240-258) the study indicated consumers are interested in higher levels of self-awareness and want "made to measure" lifestyle which leads to the development of mass customization of apparel. While mass customization responds to the individualized apparel need, there is still the need to address the another emerging trend: personal brand.
Monique Zhang is presenting in-depth solution that addresses both needs in her seminar. Audience will learn how to develop a complete personal brand package that will lead to career success and overall enhancement of personal confidence.
Speaker: Monique Zhang
The Sun Rises in the East...Just Over the Horizon: Creating Member Value Through Innovative Association Governance and Management Concepts
For 28 years NAAAP has enlightened members, organizations, and others as to the value of leadership and diversity from Asian-American perspectives. Join speakers from the Project Management Institute (PMI) for a view of what may be “just over the horizon” as NAAAP grows as an international not-for-profit business professional association. They will share what PMI is doing to create and deliver measurable value, and why. You will also hear how, when, and where experienced “Chapter” leaders are applying business decision sciences and other good practice to run their local not-for-profit business association chapters with the same rigor as our “for profit” counterparts.
Professional development units (PDUs) offered here, courtesy of PMI San Francisco Bay Area Chapter! Detailed information on how to redeem them with your attendance will be shared during the session.
Speaker: Alan E. Yue
Emerging Global Opportunities (Business, Opportunities, Ventures in Asia, South America, EU)
RTN will facilitate an innovative and interactive workshop to uncover Emerging Global Opportunities through the application of R6s principles.
Participants will
* Learn six sigma tools (facilitation, brainstorming, etc)
* Application of six sigma principles for problem solving
* Interactive and engaged session – networking and cross-pollination
* Diversity of thoughts and ideas
* Solving real world problems
* Opportunity to take back output to their home organizations
Speakers: Thomas Tu, Patricia Summers
Strategic Negotiations
The workshop will provide a brief introduction to interest-based negotiations, including examples of sources of power and leverage, defenses to common ploys, offer-counter offer strategies, preparation methodology, and ways to fashion agreements that create value of all sides. The workshop will utilize instant audience feed-back technology (“clickers”) that will poll the audience for their responses to questions and negotiation situations.
Speaker: Timothy M. Dayonot
Brain Science, Business Success: How to Leverage Current Research for Leadership and Career Effectiveness
How can you leverage behavioral and psychological research to improve your performance at work? With the emergence of organizational effectiveness and leadership studies comes a convergence of these fields with brain and behavioral science. These studies can help shape how you work and interact with others. This session features some key research findings and how they relate to your professional advancement and effectiveness. Learn how the brain can boost your skills and success in the office. Join thousands who have benefitted from Dr. Pham's presentations and trainings!
Speaker: Dr. Vu Pham