Employee Engagement for Change through Emotional Intelligence, Critical Conversations, and Creativity & Innovation A Totally New Seminar Experience: Three Days of Powerful Learning with Optional Certification November 15, 16 and 17, 2008 in New Jersey, 15 Minutes from Down Town New York Seats Are Limited. Register Today and Save During our Early Bird Special Learn how to ignite Employee Engagement for Change by Applying Emotional Intelligence, Critical Conversations, and Creativity & Innovation at Work. You will experience the power and excitement of these four topics most needed by every organization: Employee Engagement for Change Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Critical Conversations Creativity & Innovation PLUS: You will have the option to get Certified in any or all of these topics by attending a Post-Event Webinar at a minimal additional fee. Optional certification gives you everything you need to deliver these workshops, processes, and tools to your internal employees or external clients. No other training event delivers this bundle of today's most needed skills in one certification program at reduced fees. Read more below.. Register to receive our HumaNext Newsletter with ideas for the human side of the organization.. Get HumaNext Newsletter » REGISTER NOW

Employee Engagement for Change- The Theme of HumaNext 2008 Looking for ways to engage employees to create a different kind of workplace.. Where managers are mentors and colleagues are friends? Where communication is credible and collaboration is the norm? Where creativity is encouraged and diversity is celebrated? Where emotional intelligence is evident and enthusiasm is rampant? Looking for the tools and strategies that make this possible? You’re invited to be part of the exhilarating Employee Engagement for Change experience at HumaNext 2008 You will learn a powerful employee engagement methodology you can immediately start to apply at your workplace upon your return. This employee engagement for change methodology incorporates the competencies and tools of: Emotional Intelligence Creativity & Innovation Critical Conversations PLUS: A Post-Event Certification Opportunity: Get certified to deliver any or all of these workshop topics and tools to your internal or external clients through online webinars for a small additional fee.

You Will Learn our Powerful Model to Ignite Employee Engagement for Change Typically, change initiatives fail because they focus on complex processes and number crunching. In the process, they lose the people who make the change happens, wasting time, efforts, and resources. HumaNext's Employee Engagement for Change Model is different. You will learn: Why our engagement for change model is so exciting Why it produces dramatic results in a short period of time How to communicate the idea to generate support How to get a large number of colleagues to join How to extend this culture-change effort to support other change initiatives in the organization How to help people create and maintain the change What to watch for in the first few days and weeks What training you need to offer to support the initiative How to communicate your success inside and outside the organization

A Unique Experience: What They Said About Our Past Events "I left the training inspired and energized, and looking forward to using the tools. I appreciate each and every one of you and thank you for making the training so impactful for me." - Amy Jaffe Barzac, Co-founder, Boundless Playgrounds. "To my fellow "HumaNext" explorers: Thank you for making this learning voyage both productive and pleasant. I could not have chosen better partners in this experience." "I have begun to consider the challenge, and opportunity the training presents in my personal life, administrative roles, and consulting practice." - George Roets, Director, Public Health Services, Watkins Glen, New York. "You were all so impressive and inspiring, and the materials so interesting – I definitely felt as though I was taking part in something very special during the last three days. Thank you for sharing your spirits so freely! -Richard Hammett, Texas A&M University "Thank you so much for the wonderful class in New York, which I will never forget. It was one of the most rewarding classes that I have taken." -Bobbi Ball, Executive Director, Partners in Community Building, Chicago

Inside-Out Learning: A New Way To Learn, Engage, and Change At HumaNext 2008: Employee Engagement for Change, you will experience our unique “Inside-Out Learning” methodology - a different kind of learning that produces transformation in attitude and practices. This is the change-producing process you will introduce to your work culture to engage people at work. Our methodology is built on the following set of fundamental assumptions: If It Doesn’t Touch the Inside, It Doesn't Change the Outside One of the key assumptions of Inside Out Learning- applicable to the process of employee engagement as well- is that if the new concepts – or changes- you are introducing – do not touch you inside- in your mind, heart, and soul- you will not be able to truly absorb and adopt them as your own and therefore use them to change things around you in the real world. Our methodology of learning, engaging, and changing, is designed to reach participants on a more personal, deeper level in order to produce more meaningful, lasting results. Self Discovery Is The Door to Transformation We provide participants with the exhilarating opportunity for self discovery. Our engagement process, based on the Inside-Out Learning structure, concepts, and activities, enables participants to reach deeper into themselves, fully engaging their hearts and minds in the process of self discovery. Instead of leaving with just a set of skills, the learning outcome will involve a powerful new sense of self understanding and self confidence that enables participants to bring forth their unique genius and apply it to their work. Change Starts With The Individual We invite participants to adopt Gandhi's principle, "We must become the change we want to see in the world." Instead of waiting for others to change, participants discover the power and excitement of self transformation as their way for effecting change in others and the organization. Once they experience the power of personal change, participants then confidently and enthusiastically move to effect change in their work environment. • What people focus on becomes their reality: o We invite people to shift their focus from the problems they want to fix to the bigger picture of the promising future they want to create for themselves and their organization. With this shift, work ceases to be a burden to be endured, and becomes an exciting opportunity for creating ourselves through our work. Freedom Is the Essence of Achievement Our engagement methodology asserts that the higher the degree of freedom people enjoy the greater the achievements they accomplish. We explore ways to expand employee freedom and install true participation in the workplace. This different approach produces dramatic shifts in the level of employee engagement and the kind of breakthrough results they produce. Inspiring Commitment to Action One of our key assumptions is that everybody wants to do good work that brings them self-satisfaction and the recognition and appreciation of others. Participants learn how to build upon this to inspire a desire for action and achievement in themselves and others. Because this desire is self-generated, it produces much better results than external incentives and rewards.

HumaNext Has Helped Many Professionals Build and Expand Their Training Business. We Can Help You Our unique HumaNext events give you the opportunity to build or expand your training business by certifying you to deliver our powerful workshops covering today’s most vital competencies to your internal or external customers in classroom type workshops. Some of our certified affiliates in the US and abroad were able to deliver several of our workshops to clients within just a few weeks of their certification. With trainers charging between $2000 and $5000 per workshop, you will recoup your entire investment in the HumaNext certification after securing your first assignment. A Letter from one affiliate a few weeks after certification: Hi Francois and Sue: I had my first run of the Applying EQ at Work seminar with the management team of Samsung (a multinational Korean firm here in the Philippine with 4000 employees). The 2 day seminar worked really fine and they all left with so many "take home benefits" from it. This was evidenced by the evaluation they had on me as the speaker and about the design of the seminar and contents. Isn't that great! I am just so proud to share that piece of good news. Thanks for all the knowledge and I had so much fun imparting these information to my participants as well. Best regards,- Ging Igual, Philippine

A Weekend with a Priceless Value Here is what a recent attendee wrote to us in a card she left us at the end of a recent HumaNext event: “Dear Francois & Sue: I will always carry this weekend and its priceless value with me. What an amazing group of people your work has touched. This experience has so enriched my life." - Madeline

Who Should Attend Internal training / HRD/ and HR professionals in all types of organizations who want to be trained to deliver our workshops to leaders, managers, and staff in their organizations. External consultants, trainers, and coaches who want to get certified to deliver our workshops to their clients. This opportunity is great for both seasoned and new consultants who are starting their business. Organizational Communicators and change agents looking for innovative ways to stimulate employee engagement, creativity, and open communication at their organization. Leaders, managers, and key staff who want to learn emotional intelligence, creativity, communication, diversity and cross cultural skills for their own professional and personal development and for applying at work. Those with their own training practice, or want to break into the lucrative training field: There is nothing on the market today that provides you with this opportunity for certification in five powerful and popular workshops in just three days (with post-workshops webinars) at a price less than what others charge for one workshop certification! Recent graduates, recently established consultants, and professionals from small non-profit organizations who can take advantage of our scholarship / internship program (limited openings) to attend at reduced fees or no fees. See information about our Scholarships/ Internships below.

Participants come from Australia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Ukraine, England, Canada, and around the United States to attend our unique HumaNext learning experiences

You Will Experience Our Unique Learn-By-Teaching Approach It has been proven that the best way to learn a subject is by teaching it. Our Inside-Out Learning methodology (IOL) gives you the opportunity to learn a subject by teaching specially selected content. You will start the Learn-By-Teaching process even before arriving when you will collaborate with another participant to present a specially selected section of the workshops. Then Learn By Teacing will continue in the session. The Learn-By-Teaching approach to training delivers many advantages to participants: It helps each participant to present him/herself to others as both a learner and a teacher who has something useful and unique to offer. This has a tremendously positive effect on the learning process. It also helps bring a very rich diversity of view points and experiences into the materials being learned, as each participant brings his/her best ideas and experiences to integrate into the content being learned. In addition, the teaching gives people who have a limited teaching experience great confidence in their ability to teach others and in the value of their own experiences. Finally, this approach helps participants get to know each other on many levels, as learners, as teachers, and as supportive colleagues, and gradually as friends. Here is how one participant in a previous certification program said in this regard: "I never shared with you how meaningful the New York experience was for me. Listening to you all and learning from you has changed the way I see the world, and helped me to build a vision far greater than I’d ever imagined. Thank you for generously sharing your stories and yourselves. It means more to me than you know. - Holly McLemore, Training Manager .

Agenda - First Day: Employee Engagement for Change by Applying EQ At Work 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM First Day: Engagement through Emotional Intelligence (EQ) At Work Experience the power of personal change as a gateway for business-focused change. Understand the nature of emotional intelligence, how it facilitates self awareness, and how this links to engagement. Based on Daniel Goleman's model, you will learn the four dimensions of EQ and the competencies and skills associated with them. Develop Self Awareness and discover your "core self" while understanding its impact on attitude and behavior. Develop and apply Self Management skills in ways that boost leadership and accomplishment. Develop and apply Social Awareness skills in ways that build the capacity for empathy and the ability to understand and relate to others. Develop and apply Relationship Management skills in ways that enhance the ability to exercise leadership and work collaboratively with others.

Second Day: EQ + Critical Conversations: How To Talk Best When It Matters Most - 9:00 AM to 5: PM For about half the morning session of the second day we will continue to cover Emotional Intelligence and its powerful impact on employee engagement at work. We will then move to Crticial Conversations. Now leaders, trainers, communicators, and Consultants can solve the tough communication challenges people face at work by acquiring the skills offered by the Critical Conversations workshop. The vast majority of managers consistently report that communication is at the top of the list of challenges they face at work. Now there is a powerful workshop that delivers to mangers the effective conversation techniques they need to confidently and convincingly tackle some of the toughest encounters at work. This workshop gives you everything you need to facilitate the skills people need most at work: Communicating effectively to reach positive outcomes in difficult situations when the stakes are high and the challenges are great. Participants will learn to apply specific tools to a host of challenging communication encounters of particularly high stakes and sensitivity. The Talking, Persuading, and Influencing Tools participants learn and practice in this workshop will enable them to achieve decidedly positive results in working with others as they encounter some of the following difficult communication situations: Communicating organizational strategy and change initiatives Communicating to inspire employee engagement, motivation and enthusiasm. Delivering criticism without creating confrontation and conflict Conducting or participating in effective performance review sessions Asking effective questions to probe for facts and provoke for ideas. Communicating to build rapport and create trust Communicating to resolve conflict and reach agreement

Third Day: Creativity and Innovation At Work - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM A unique workshop that helps teams sharpen their creative thinking, idea generation, and problem solving skills through research-based techniques for breakthrough achievements. Participants will: Apply nuts and bolts techniques for unleashing their creative thinking abilities. Learn how to generate an abundance of new ideas at work. Apply creative problem solving techniques to solve difficult work problems. Identify the thinking language appropriate for each problem such as logical vs. creative thinking; verbal vs. arithmetical language, hence be able to solve problems more effectively. Learn how some of America’s most innovative organizations, such as Disney, Apple, Dell, Pfizer, 3M, GE, and others have successfully created a culture that stimulates employee creativity and generates innovation at work. Learn how to create an environment / work culture that fosters creativity and innovation throughout their organization. Closing the Cycle: Completing the Employee Engagement for Change Process

A Total Learning Immersion Experience From the first moment in the workshop, our “Opening Exercises” deliver mind-opening experiences that shatter participants’ comfortable “Business-As-Usual” frame of mind, and put them in touch with an exciting new possibility of learning and openness. Participants move from one dramatic experience to the next, absorbing powerful insights, sharing new thoughts and feelings, and learning to think and relate to others in new, more positive ways. Participants leave the event feeling highly committed to the learning concepts and the new attitudes and behaviors they gender. They return to work excited about the new possibilities and empowered to create them in their work environment. Register to receive our HumaNext Newsletter with ideas for the human side of the organization.. Get HumaNext Newsletter » REGISTER NOW

The Powerful Advantages of HumaNext Learning: What You Will Gain From Attending 1- You will learn and live our simple yet powerful methodology of Employee Engagement for Change. From the moment of your arrival, you will get involved in the exhilarating process of engagement and change. You will experience personal change as a gateway for embracing organizational change. You will receive the Employee Engagement for Change Participant Workbook. 2- You will experience the core competencies of “Applying Emotional Intelligence at Work” and its powerful impact on the corporate culture. You will receive the Emotional Intelligence Participant Workbook. 3- You will experience the core competencies of “Critical Conversations” as a vital resource to facilitate engagement, communication, and collaboration. You will receive the Critical Conversations Participant Workbook. 4 - You will experience the core competencies of “Creativity & Innovation at Work” and learn how to use them to effect cultural change. You will receive the Creativity and Innovation Participant Workbook. 5- You will not sit back and get lectured to as a passive attendee. You will be part of an action learning team and will be engaged in continuous activities, discussion, exploration, and transformation. 6- You will have the opportunity to get certified to deliver our workshops and methodologies yourself as a HumaNext Certified Facilitator by taking our optional online webinars (at $95 each). 7- The location of our event has no equal: The capital of the world, New York City Metropolitan area with all of what it offers of rich and exciting attractions.

Additional Benefits of Optional Certification When You Choose the Optional Post-Workshop Webinar Certifications, You Will Gain the Following Additional Benefits: 8- You will become a HumaNext Certified Facilitator / Affiliate, gaining all the benefits of associating with a training company that offers the most innovative training needed by organizations today. Just take a look at our web sites to get an idea of the range of our capabilities, products, and services. You will be entitled - but not obligated - to use your HumaNext certification to promote your training workshops. 9- HumaNext offers other services, such as a complete online training library at a separate website, and a full training video service at another website. Having a company like HumaNext behind you to give you support is one of the powerful advantages you will gain from this certification. This support is very valuable to you whether you are an internal trainer or a consultant. 10- You will receive a full 20% discount on all training products, programs, and services offered by us (except videos) for as long as you maintain your certification status. If you are an active consultant or an internal trainer with an average annual training expenditure of, say, $10000, our discount will save you $2000 right there. (You maintain certification by paying a fee of $295 per year after the first two years since attending.) 11- You will receive complete workshop facilitation package for each workshop you get certified to deliver. This includes a comprehensive step-by-step Facilitator’s Guide and high quality dramatic PowerPoint slides to enable you to deliver the workshop with ease and mastery in classroom type workshops. 12- You will also receive reproducible Participant’s Workbook Master for each workshop you get certified to deliver. These reproducible Workbook Masters are simply priceless, as you will be able to reproduce them for hundreds of participants in your workshops at no additional charge, unlike many other certification providers who charge you for each workbook every time you deliver a workshop. The materials for the three workshops with their complete packages in addition to the assessments, profiles, and other materials are worth more than $1500  - It’s a value you cannot find anywhere else.

Certification Option: Here Is How It Works: After attending HumaNext 2008 and experiencing the three workshops: Applying Emotional Intelligence At Work Creativity & Innovation At Work Critical Conversations You can choose to become a HumaNext Certified Facilitator and get certified to deliver any or all of these workshops to your internal or external clients. Certification will enable you to deliver the workshops by giving you: Additional resources, contents and assessments by email.  Additional 2 hours of webinar  training (online seminars using the web which you access from your home or office) for each workshop. A comprehensive, step-by-step Facilitator’s Guide, covering background information for the content and instructions on processing every learning point and activity. Dramatic PowerPoint slides to accompany all major points of the workshop. Reproducible Participant Workbook to print and distribute to an unlimited number of participants. The online Certification process will usually take place during the two months following the month of the HumaNext event. The additional fee of certification for each workshop is just $95 Select the number of workshops you want to be certified for, from the three workshops described above, and pay $95 for each

You Get Access to Profiles for Self Discovery HumaNext certification gives you access to our online profiling center to start the process of “discovering yourself” by taking inventories of your awareness, attitudes, and competencies in a number of key areas. As part of this HumaNext certification, you will expand the process of self discovery through a number of powerful activities and tools that will give you access to the source of your self awareness, your core strengths, your creativity, and your view of yourself. We use a number of profiles to achieve self discovery. We search for and use the latest and most relevant profiles and assessments in the areas covered by our workshops. We strive to choose what we think will work best with our materials. In the past we have used : PeopleIndex - which is based on the most widely accepted model of Emotional Intelligence and assesses the following areas: Self Awareness Social Awareness Self Management Relationship Management PeopleIndex was developed by Kenneth M. Nowack, Ph.D., a licensed psychologist and researcher in the area of 360-degree feedback, emotional intelligence and occupational health. Dr. Nowack is a member in Daniel Goleman's Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organisations. Post-Event Certification: If you choose to get certified in one or more of these workshops by taking post-event online webinars you will learn how to use these profiling tools to help your internal or external clients get an insight of themselves in these critical areas of performance.

You Can Enjoy the Capital of the World: New York City New York has been called the Capital of the World, and the list of its credentials is almost limitless. You will be able to enjoy the world’s most important center of business, finance, media, culture, arts, theatre, architecture, diplomacy, entrepreneurship, advertising, fashion, shopping, tourism, and, just about everything else. You may want to give yourself time to explore the many exciting things that are available only in New York; from the UN building, the Metropolitan Museum, the Empire States, the Statue of Liberty, Wall Street, Madison Avenue, Fifth Avenue, Rockefeller Center, Madison Square Garden, Central Park, Lincoln Center, Museum of Modern Art, Broadway, Radio City Music Hall, Tiffany, Sacks, the Hudson River, China Town, Little Italy, The Village, Soho, and so many other places we can’t even remember them all.

Register Now We are offering this event only twice a year in the spring and fall. In previous events we had to apologize to those who wanted to register after we filled the limited seats. The full fee is $1595. Save $300 by registering now as an Early Bird for $1295 The second person to attend from the same organization gets 15% off. You may pay with a Purchase Order or pay by check payable to HumaNext LLC, at 8 Brownstone Terrace, Hawthorne, NJ 07506 USA PLUS: Optional Certification Webinar – Register for Post-Event Online Webinar to Get Certified to Deliver the Workshop of Your Choice, with Leader’s Guide, PP Slides, and Reproducible Participant Manual for $95 You may also order your optional online certifications after attending the HumaNext event. Cancellation policy: Refund of amount paid (minus 10% processing) when canceled 45 days or more prior to event, 50% refund 30 to 44 days notice, no refund for less than 30 days. If workshop is given again in the future, forfeited amount (minus 15%) may be applied toward future fees.) For questions email us at info@humanext.com   Or Call 1-973-427-3004

The Hotel Where HumaNext Events Will Be Held The Embassy Suites Hotel Harmon Meadows, Secaucus, New Jersey - 15 Minute Ride to New York Down Town - We also provide below information on other hotels in the area, including some low-budget hotels a few miles away if needed. The training will be held at: The Embassy Suites Hotel Harmon Meadows,455 Plaza Drive, Secaucus, New Jersey, USA 07094 Tel: +1-201-864-7300  The closest airport is Newark Liberty International Airport, which is 12 miles away We don’t have a block of rooms reserved, so you may register for any room at the best rate you can get at this hotel or at one of the four other hotels listed below. "Enjoy the excitement and adventure of New York City in the comfort and convenience of New Jersey’s Meadowlands, where the event will be held" The Embassy Suites Hotel Harmon Meadows, and several other hotels in the same surrounding area, are just 4 miles from New York’s exciting Times Square and other New York City attractions. It's just 12 miles from Newark Liberty International Airport. It’s nestled within a beautiful courtyard mall with full service restaurants, movie theatres, Atlantis Fitness Center and many shops. Just outside the front door, there is quick, easy, and comfortable transportation to New York City (Bus #320) so you can enjoy a night on Broadway, Madison Square Garden, and many more delights of the "city that never sleeps. Bus No. 320 to New York is right there with a short ride to New York. You can reserve your room online: http://embassysuites.hilton.com/en/es/hotels/index.jhtml;jsessionid=4TVL4OXKSGEGCCSGBIY2VCQ?ctyhocn=MEANJES   Other Hotel Options in the Same Area: If you cannot find rooms at the Embassy Suites where HumaNext training will be held, there are four other hotels on a walking distance in the same Harmon Meadow Plaza entertainment and business complex. You might choose to stay at one of them. These hotels are: Holiday Inn HARMON MEADOW SECAUCUS: (Room rates starting at $170 per night):  http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/hi/1/en/hotel/hmnnj;jsessionid=BBMS1PF1BI32UCTGWAKCJ0QKM0YDKIY4?_requestid=227582 Courtyard Secaucus Meadowlands: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/ewrse-courtyard-secaucus-meadowlands/ Hampton Inn Secaucus (Meadowlands Area): http://www.hamptoninn.com/en/hp/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=SCMNJHX Amerisuites Secaucus Meadows, Secaucus(NJ): http://amerisuites.com/?src=aj_google_brand_branded&s_kwcid=amerisuites|593804890   Low Budget Hotels You Might Want to Explore: If you need low-budget hotels under $100 a night (some for $59 per night) that are a few miles away, try to search through www.hotwire.com site for deals in the Secaucus, New Jersey area. Hotels like Doubletree, Radisson, and Holiday Inn work with hotwire.com to fill their rooms. But you will need to take a taxi (a few miles) to the Embassy Suites Hotel, Harmon Meadows where the training takes place. Ask the hotel about how much is the taxi fare to decide.

Singing in the Classroom: How To Introduce Yourself With a Song Carol Hovey, one of the participants in last year's HumaNext 2007 event in New Jersey, introduced herself by singing in a dramatic voice the words: “Who Am I?” She sang the “I” with a high note that reverberated throughout the training facility and sent a message of excited anticipation to all attendees. Carol did this in response to my request of participants to prepare a 3 minute creative introduction of themselves to the group. After all, the event was about creativity, communication, diversity, and emotional intelligence. The 3 minute presentation was a small part of what attendees were asked to do. They were also asked to collaborate, before arriving, on preparing and presenting portions of the workshops. This is part of the Learning-By-Teaching / Inside-Out-Learning methodology we use at HumaNext. Each learner becomes a teacher too. Each participant becomes a presenter. It provides learners with an active role to play in the learning process. It makes learning more diversified, more collaborative, and embracing of “user-generated content.” Attendees didn’t just present the content we provided them, but brought their own experiences, stories, and learning tools with them. The photo shows one of the many activities that took place in HumaNext 2007 You might want to ask attendees of your next training session or team meeting to prepare a short presentation on the subject of the meeting. This makes them part-owners of the meeting. It adds to the level of involvement and ownership. It makes the meeting’s objectives easier to achieve. Register to receive our HumaNext Newsletter with ideas for the human side of the organization. Get HumaNext Newsletter » REGISTER NOW

Discovering Your Genius: What’s the Job You’d Do for Free? EQ and Self-Awareness Is there a job you’d do for free? A print advertisement by the New York Times and Monster recruitment said: “Find a job you’d do for free. Then let them pay you. When you do what you love to do, it’s not really work at all.” I totally agree. I believe that for every person there is a job that person would do for no pay. That unique job is the one that brings forth the person's "genius". Now ask yourself: What is the job you’d do for free? It’s important to first ask then answer this question because your happiness depends on it. In our HumaNext events attendees of our Applying Emotional Intelligence at Work session learn a way to discover their life’s work, or their calling – or their “genius”. But why do people find it thrilling to increase their self-awareness and discover their genius? Because such discovery does provide you with several benefits: You gain a stronger, more affirming sense of personal identity. You acquire a positive perception of yourself at a deeper, more meaningful level. Discovering your genius suddenly brings your life to a sharp focus. It infuses you with the power of purpose and makes it OK to do what you do. It clarifies for you the reason for the direction you’ve chosen for your life and work. You develop increased confidence in yourself and in what you do. You acquire the language to communicate the value you can add to the opportunities you pursue. How To Discover Your Genius  Increasing your self-awareness, or discovering your genius, does not happen with just one exercise. It’s a long process, or a journey, with many pleasures along the way, culminating in a thrilling moment of discovery in which your genius finally comes to focus. The process involves a number of insights, concepts, and exercises. Here is one of them: Exercise: Discovering Your Genius From Your Past Successes List many successes you’ve achieved in your life. These should be successes that provided you with great joy and elation, and in which things just seemed to flow naturally.  Create a list of action verbs describing the various actions you took to achieve success in each case. (For example: I planned a strategy. I organized an event. I negotiated a deal. The action verbs are: Plan. Organize. Negotiate. ) Identify the few (one to three) common verbs that are repeated more often in the list above. These action verbs are your starting clues to the basic drives that move and motivate you. They reveal the action-traits that come to you most naturally and bring you the most joy as they lead you toward achieving success. With this first exercise, and the resulting descriptive action words, you are on the road toward increasing your self awareness and discovering your genius. In HumaNext 2008, you will learn more about increasing self-awareness and applying emotional intelligence at work. You may also order Applying EQ At Work training workshop: http://www.humanext.com/emotional-intelligence.html

Does Training Work? Can People Change? Here Is the Scientific Proof When a leader uses an aggressive or negative communication style that alienates and demoralizes his staff, can training help him? Can he learn to change his communication style, even when communication is connected to such mental traits like thinking and attitude? This question lies at the heart of training, as it invites the larger question of “Does training work?” What makes this question more challenging is the prevailing view that people’s minds and personalities are formed by the age of seven, or even younger. So how can we expect them to change by attending a training workshop at the age of thirty or fifty? In her book, “Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain” Wall Street Journal science columnist Sharon Begley states, "Yes, the brain can change, and that means we can change.” Until recently, the reigning theory was that neurons in the brain didn't regenerate. Begley documents experiments showing that new neurons are created in the brain every day, even in people in their 70s. The book provides a convincing account of recent discoveries in brain neuroplasticity. With these discoveries, we can more confidently say that training can be part of a difficult but not impossible change process available to the learner. Yes training does work and yes people can change. But change is not magical nor does it happen at a moment notice. It is a long and difficult journey. But you cannot change what you don’t know. So for people to truly start their change process, they must first understand their mind, their personality, and themselves. It’s suggested that a training workshop on personal change at work covers the following points: Introduction of the latest research on brain neuroplasticity (ability to be molded) and emotional intelligence concepts. Exercises to help participants discover themselves using personality type / preferences tools. Activities to help participants discover their genius, or core talents, skills, competencies, and life-calling. Activities to help participants turn their discoveries and insights into behavior. Finally, exploration of ways to apply the learning at work, using role-plays and simulations of daily work problems. What makes this type of training work even more effectively is when it’s part of a large culture change process that engulfs the entire organization. To experience some of these concepts, attend HumaNext 2008 event. Read more about it below. (c) 2008 HumaNext LLC

How Jack Welch Built a Culture of Innovation at GE How can you build a culture of creativity and innovation at work? You can adopt some of the ways used by GE's former CEO the legendary Jack Welch (part of our Creativity and Innovation Workshop and Certification.) Over the past decade, GE has been registering close to 1000 US patents annually, ranking in the top ten of all companies in the world. The GE success story proves that a company can be very old (founded in 1878), and very big (almost quarter of a million employees and over $70 billion annual sales) and still be nimble enough to be on the forefront of innovation in so many fields. One of the methods Jack Welch used to create a culture of innovation and creativity at GE is the Work-Out Sessions: Freewheeling discussion groups with no fear to speak up. People who are afraid cannot innovate. They cannot generate radical ideas or risk proposing them to their superiors. To become innovative, the organization must create a Have No Fear culture. Research has shown that two beliefs are essential preconditions for a “Have No Fear” culture: first, the belief that one is not putting oneself at significant risk of personal harm ( loss of job, embarrassment, loss of material resources) and second, the belief that one is not wasting one's time in speaking up. In short, proposing new risky ideas must be seen as both safe and worthwhile. Our Creativity and Innovation At Work workshop and certification (HumaNext 2008) provides a segment on how to create a culture of innovation at your organization, with examples from leading American organizations like GE, 3M, Dell, Disney, and others. Read more about it here.

How to Sharpen Your Social Intelligence? You probably have seen how some people can connect with others in a deep and direct way- perhaps a presenter revving a crowd, a doctor healing a patient or a leader inspiring a large number of people to follow his vision. To achieve this, a person must have a deeper understanding of others’ emotions, must sense and stimulate the reactions and mood of others. In 1995 Daniel Goleman, a Harvard University–trained psychologist and science-writer for the New York Times, published Emotional Intelligence, in which he discussed the human ability "to manage our own emotions and inner potential for positive relationships." Now he goes a step further. In Social Intelligence, he enlarges his scope to encompass our human abilities to connect with one another. "We are wired to connect," Goleman says. "Neuroscience has discovered that our brain’s very design makes it sociable, inexorably drawn into an intimate brain-to-brain linkup whenever we engage with another person. That neural bridge lets us affect the brain—and so the body—of everyone we interact with, just as they do us." This neuroscience discovery has important implications. Enhancing our social intelligence enables us to learn how to more effectively express ourselves so that we feel understood, and how to better "read" other people so that we can better understand. This helps to improve our interactions and ultimately strengthen our relationships.