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Pelorus Leadership Announces June-December Speaking Dates for Kathy Davanzo

Kathryn W. Davanzo, SPHR — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:00:47 +0000

Hear Kathy Davanzo Speak

June – December, 2010 – Speaking Dates

June 17, 2010 – The Leader’s P.O.V.: Creating Sustained Leadership Effectiveness Human Resource Association of Palm Beach County – Palm Beach Gardens, FL www.hrpbc.org

June 21, 2010 – The Leader’s P.O.V.: Creating Sustained Leadership Effectiveness Association of Fund Raising Professionals – Florida: Planet Philanthropy Boca Raton, FL www.afp-florida.org

July 15, 2010 – The Learning Professionals Role in Ensuring We Are Ready for the Rebound Suncoast ASTD, Clearwater, FL www.astdsuncoast.org

August 17, 2010 – The Leader’s P.O.V.: Creating Sustained Leadership Effectiveness Spacecoast HR Association, Cocoa Beach, FL http://spacecoasthr.shrm.org

September 22, 2010 – The Leader’s P.O.V.: Creating Sustained Leadership Effectiveness CUPA-HR, New Orleans, LA www.cupahr.org

October 27, 2010 – The Leader’s P.O.V.: Creating Sustained Leadership Effectiveness HR Collier, Naples, FL www.hrcollier.org

November 10, 2010 – Succession Planning Through the Generational Lens Suncoast Human Resources Management Association, Clearwater, FL www.suncoasthr.org

December 8, 2010 – Work is Changing. Is Leadership Ready? Is the Workforce Ready? HR Management Association of Southwest Florida, Fort Myers, FL www.hrmaswfl.shrm.org

Pelorus Leadership Announces Additional Speaking Dates For Kathy Davanzo

Kathryn W. Davanzo, SPHR — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:00:30 +0000

HR Florida Leadership Conference

January 9, 2010 – Orlando, Florida – Rosen Shingle Resort

Innovating Ideas for Diversity and Workforce Readiness Programs

Volusia-Flagler SHRM

February 17, 2010 – Daytona Beach, Florida – Daytona Beach International Airport

Work is Changing. Is the Workforce Ready? Is Leadership Ready?

HR Palm Beach County

June 17, 2010 – Palm Beach Gardens

Creating Sustained Leadership Effectiveness: The Leader’s Point of View

Florida Caucus of the Association of Fund Raising Professionals

June 21, 2010 – Boca Raton, Florida – Boca Raton Resort

Creating Sustained Leadership Effectiveness: The Leader’s Point of View

Navigating the Generations Podcast

Kathryn W. Davanzo, SPHR — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:50:15 +0000

Please join Kathy Davanzo of Pelorus Leadership Group and Michele Norris of Navigen Leadership as they discuss the importance of understanding the way generational influences impact workplace behaviors.

Episode One: NavigatingtheGenerations

Pelorus Leadership Announces 2010 Professional Speaking Topics for Kathryn Davanzo

Kathryn W. Davanzo, SPHR — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:37:23 +0000

Pelorus Leadership Group, Inc. is pleased to announce that Kathryn Davanzo, SPHR has three new programs for 2010. Each topic has a key note, workshop and break out session version. Please click on the attached link to download more details on these programs and Kathyrn’s professional speaking.

2010 Pelorus Leadership Professional Speaking Information

The Leadership ROI-Meeting Generational Challenges Head On!

The Leader’s POV-Creating Sustained Leadership Effectiveness

Leadership Through the Generational Lens – Building Cross Generational Trust, Relationships and Collaboration

Navigating The Generations

Pelorus — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:22:02 +0000

Michele Norris of Navigen Leaderships, LLC. and Kathy Davanzo of Pelorus Leadership Group, Inc. are pleased to announce

NAVIGATING THE GENERATIONS

A series of programs exploring the challenges facing leaders and workers in today’s multi-generational workplaces.

LOOKING ACROSS THE GENERATIONS

Recognize generational influences and the resulting workplace behavior of each generation.

COMMUNICATING IN A MULTI-GENERATIONAL WORKPLACE

Learn how to deliver important company information and supervisory direction in ways that reach and resonate for each generational cohort.

LEADING THROUGH THE GENERATIONAL LENS

Consider how generational experiences influence the way we lead and what we want from our leaders.

ENSURING SUCCESSFUL MILLENNIALS

Learn to mentor and ensure their success in your workplace. Consider and practice actions most likely to encourage this newest workplace generation to come, stay, and contribute their best to your organization.

Navigen Leadership and Pelorus Leadership Group look forward to helping you navigate a workplace in which find ourselves re-thinking how work will get done, how information will be communicated and how employee engagement will be secured. Discover how each generation’s experiences and influences have shaped how they can and will best contribute to today’s organizations.

Beloit University – Generations Mindset List – NBC Video

Kathryn W. Davanzo, SPHR — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:53:13 +0000

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Effective Leaders – Do They All Share A Generic Set of Qualities

Kathryn W. Davanzo, SPHR — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:41:36 +0000

This weekend I found myself re-reading Morgan W. McCall Jr.’s book High Flyers: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders.

In the preface he states that “…there is apparantly a widespread and fundamental need to believe that a single (and usually short) list of generic qualities can be used to describe all effective leaders and that these qualities are relatively stable over the course of a person’s career. “ McCall states that this is inconsistent with what he has learned about how executives develop.

What do you think? Is there a generic list? If so what are some of the qualities you think are on that list?

Navigating in a Multi-Generational Workplace

Pelorus — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:00:00 +0000

Pelorus Leadership Group, Inc. and Navigen Leadership, LLC are working together to create the series: Navigating in a Multi-Generational Workplace. The twelve three hour programs in this series will cover such topics as an overview of generational influences and workplace behavior, ways to reconcile generational clash points, how to communicate so each generation gets the message, how to co-mentor so all learn from each other and how to lead effectively in a multi- generational workplace.

Courses will also address each generation’s unique expectations, desires and challenges as they relate to onboarding, motivation and engagement, securing peak performance, career advancement and retention.

There will also be courses specifically for Millennials to help them understand why others have misconceptions about them and how they can be successful in a multi-generational workplace where others may not fully understand or accept their views on work.

For more information or to schedule a program for your organization email Mark@Peloruslead.com or call us at 727.302.9170.

How Are Skill Shortages Changing the Way Work is Done and Who We Hire?

Kathryn W. Davanzo, SPHR — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:14:17 +0000

During a recent presentation to a group of HR professional I shared Harriet Hankin’s statement from her book The New Workforce. She wrote: “There will be a shortage of 40,000 principals by 2005. Schools are hiring MBAs rather than MAs in Education.”

My question to the group and my question to you is how might a principal with an MBA differ from a principal with an MA in Education? How might this different perspective change how the work of education gets done?

Several members of the audience shared that they too are looking at nontraditional applicants for a variety of jobs. The way work gets done is changing as a result of this. On the other hand the changes in the way work gets done also allow us to look at nontraditional applicants as the skill sets we require are shifting. A classic chicken or the egg.

Organizations are working hard to find people who have transferable experiences if not the experiences they traditionally seek.

Is your workplace being effected by nontraditional hires? How and why?

Kathryn Davanzo to Speak at 2009 HR Florida Conference

Kathryn W. Davanzo, SPHR — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:51:35 +0000

Kathryn Davanzo, SPHR, who was named one of the top 20 speakers at the 2008 HR Florida Conference, will return to Orlando on August 18, 2009 for two break out sessions at the 2009 HR Florida Conference.

Session One: Workforce Readiness: Should the Economy Influence Our Efforts? [10:30 a.m. August 18]

Are we making decisions in a down economy that recognize both current realities and future prospects? Are we using our influence skills to inform, educate and advise leadership in ways that keep them focused on short and long term workforce requirements?

Session Two: Leadership Through the Generational Lens [4:15 p.m. August 18]

A look at how generational influences are shaping what is expected of leaders and how leaders behave.