Portland Program
July 26, 2006

HPI in Cross Cultural Teams:
Adding Value through Diverse Partnering
Dr. Todd Conklin

What is Human Performance Improvement (HPI) in Cross-Cultural teams?

It is “Adding Value Through Diverse Partnering” – making sure that the cross-organizational, cross-cultural, and cross-functional teams we create are set up to succeed . . . as opposed to failing miserably.

“It is rare to find a T&D professional who is brilliantly insightful, engaging…and a laugh riot; Todd Conklin is not to be missed!”
-----Chris Cartwright, MPA; Manager of the T&D Program, PSU

Who Should Attend
Trainers, managers, consultants, facilitators, HPI, OD, and HR professionals and anyone involved with or interested in acquiring new knowledge and skills for developing high-performing, multicultural teams.

Synergy + Diversity = Powerful Results!
How do you create a multicultural team that flourishes and thrives? Learn to identify barriers and develop environments for teams of diverse and busy people to be successful. Dr. Todd Conklin has facilitated the formation of successful diverse teams in settings like the White House cabinet, the staff and scientists at the Los Alamos Nuclear Research lab, and a Community Service Agency serving Latino and Native American populations to name a few. Let him guide you in finding the tools that will best fit your organizational challenges.

Workshop Objectives

• Learn the basics of Human Performance
• Discuss human behavior and performance in a diverse atmosphere
• Learn how to leverage differences into multi-dimensional layers
• Use Appreciative Inquiry to create Partnering Success Factors
• Experiment with our ideas in an interactive group setting
• Finally, create a list of suggestions that we can use to build teams and add value using organizational systems and process that are created to make these teams successful
• Have a couple of laughs!

Speaker

Todd Conklin, PhD
Los Alamos National Laboratory
bigtodd@lanl.gov

Dr. Todd Conklin is an expert trainer and nationally recognized speaker, well-known for his creative and humorous approach to sensitive and difficult topics. He has a wealth of diverse training experience himself, serving in the Human Resource and Reliability Management and Training arena for the last 15 years. Conklin is a Deputy Group Leader with Nuclear Material Information Management with an emphasis in Organizational Development and Human Reliability at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Conklin has a bachelor’s degree in Communication from Southwestern College in Kansas and his master’s degree in Interpersonal Communication from Fort Hays State University. Conklin received his PH.D in Organizational Communication at the University of New Mexico.

Book

Simple Revolutionary Acts: Ideas to Revitalize Yourself and Your Workplace
Todd Conklin, PhD

"My job is boring and my boss is an idiot."

Stop thinking that way! You have the power to be more passionate about work. Never be satisfied with anything less then what you want from your career.

"Simple Revolutionary Acts: Ideas to revitalize yourself and your workplace is a valuable resource to anyone who feels some of the passion has gone away from work. Why accept the fact that you work in a less than satisfying way? Change your workplace. Why not lead a revolution? Every good workplace revolution needs a list of ideas to begin re-energizing the core of workplace happiness and satisfaction: Your relationships with customers, clients, and co-workers. "Simple Revolutionary Acts: Ideas to revitalize yourself and your workplace provides that list! Author Dr. Todd Conklin brings over 20 years experience working with organizations that want to be more passionate. His creative and direct approach to changing the way people interact with each other comes from years of trial and error.

"Simple Revolutionary Acts: Ideas to revitalize yourself and your workplace provides valuable insight and suggestions to: Change the way you think Address how you communicate Try new ideas to make work more meaningful "Simple Revolutionary Acts: Ideas to revitalize yourself and your workplace is a resource for all workers and managers.

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