Build the Business Acumen for Change –

An Interview with Dr John Todor by Anne Hill

Missed the live broadcast? Watch the webinar in its entirety here!

Webinar Recap:

Recorded August 17, 2011

There is a new capability in business acumen—a keenness and quickness at understanding and acting on changing business dynamics and the potential of innovation. The influence and careers of those who have it are growing. A new divide is at work.

In this webinar you will learn how to systematically and effectively build this acumen, get on the right side of the divide, and support people at all levels of the company to do so as well. Talent leaders are called upon to be innovators — taking the lead in shifting organizational priorities to provide a better environment for recruiting, developing and retaining people. Dr. Todor will offer ways to support your role as a change agent — with tools you can share with others.

Everyone is overloaded with information. Leaders need to think beyond content, and to organize their own thinking in order to influence others. A mindshift is involved¾enhancing the ability to see the implications and new possibilities, not just learning explicit material.

You will learn how to put psychological principles of accommodating to change into action. You will see how to use social software to turn information overload into new insights, how to manage new ideas and curate these ideas so they make sense and how to build and leverage a networked brain trust so you can learn quickly from others. Change is a reality! This webinar presents a system for engaging this reality, building adaptive potential and increasing ones present and future value.

Dr.Todor will be interviewed by Future of Talent’s Anne Hill, a broadcaster and writer for Huffington Post.

RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE PRESENTATION:

http://www.customerthink.com/blog/mental_nimbleness_for_executives_and_how_to_enhance_it
(Blog post overview of the methodology)

http://inmaps.linkedinlabs.com/ (Linkedin Sociograph)

http://www.google.com/alerts (Google Alerts)

http://crowdconf.com/ (CrowdConf 2011)

http://twitter.com/#!/johntodor (John Todor Twitter Account)

http://rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2010/06/launch_of_crowd.html (Ross Dawson’s Crowdsourcing Landscape Diagram)

http://www.delicious.com/ (Delicious Bookmarking Site)

http://www.pearltrees.com (to get to the site)

http://www.pearltrees.com/#/N-reveal=5&N-u=1_186106&N-fa=1931269&N-s=1_3108761&N-f=1_3108761&N-p=23045649 (this link will take you to the pearltree I build for the Future of Talent webinar)

About the Webinar Speaker

John I. Todor, Ph.D. is a business strategist, executive mentor, psychologist and the managing partner of MindShift Innovation (www.mindshifti.com). For the past two decades he has helped create desire and demand for disruptive innovation. Now he brings together his experience with innovation and background in psychology to help individuals and organizations turn the challenges of uncertainty and change into new possibilities to create and deliver value to customers.

John is the author of three books on the psychology of the customer experience and social business strategy and a director of the Social Media Academy. He owned and managed a marketing firm with clients like General Motors, Ford Motor Company and Domino’s Pizza. He has held executive positions in technology companies and worked as a CRM analyst. As a consultant, he has worked with clients range from small entrepreneurial ventures to multi-nationals like Hewlett-Packard and IBM.

John earned his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley and completed post-doctoral studies in cognitive science and clinical neuropsychology. Prior to his business career he was a professor at the University of Michigan and UC Berkeley.

 

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