Track A:
Developing Winning Teams - Bridging the Gap from Dysfunction to High Performance
Sally Bankes, Director Talent Development, Fluor Corporation
Track B:
Mentoring and its Role in the 21st-Century Workplace
Jerry Mershon, Director Talent Development, Orion Federal Credit Union
Succession Planning Track:
The Unique Leader Project – A Humane Approach to Leadership Development
Jasmine Ferres, Global Executive Director of Talent Development, Media Arts Lab and Director of the Unique Leader Project
Gonzalo Aguirregomezcorta, Creative Director and Producer of the Unique Leader Project
Track A: Developing Winning Teams - Bridging the Gap from Dysfunction to High Performance
The new Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River, just north of New York City, began construction in early 2013. A special consortium had been assembled called Tappan Zee Constructors, LLC, specifically for the pursuit of this project, consisting of Fluor Corporation, Granite Construction, American Bridge and Traylor Brothers, each bringing their company’s experience to bear for this iconic bridge.
This presentation will tell the rest of the story from an organizational development perspective. Join our presenter as they share the take-aways from this experience so that you too can build high performing teams in your organization. Lessons to be learned include:
1. How to provide teams with a clear vision of what success looks like, in order to achieve it
2. How company culture impacts team performance
3. Why creating a high-performance team requires the right organizational structure
4. How to challenge young leaders by putting them in stretch roles
5. Why leadership engagement and alignment from the top is critical
Sally Bankes, Director Talent Development, Fluor Corporation
Track B: Mentoring and its Role in the 21st-Century Workplace
In today’s global and collaborative workplace, learning is largely crowdsourced and talent development budgets are lean. This environment is ripe for one increasingly popular informal learning method—mentoring. Mentoring is a key to many important outcomes crucial to your workforce, including sustained employee development, targeted and individualized feedback, and knowledge transfer. However, setting up an effective mentoring program requires a great deal of effort, logistics, and organizational support.
Do you know where to begin? This session examines each of the components necessary for creating and implementing an impactful mentoring program.
• Identify the key characteristics of a successful mentoring program.
• Design the structure and content of a mentoring program.
• Train internal or external mentors in providing mentoring experiences.
• List key measures for a mentoring program.
Jerry Mershon, Director Talent Development, Orion Federal Credit Union
Leadership Development Track: The Unique Leader Project – A Humane Approach to Leadership Development
Our world is saturated with leadership stories and lessons from CEOs, politicians and start-up founders. This significantly narrows our view of what it means to be a leader. Leadership is typically perceived as a position to be given, rather than a service to provide. It’s believed that certain types of people are leadership material and others are not. People are treated as ‘resources’ and when the company performance drops, we sacrifice their roles to balance the books. We believe it’s time for a contemporary narrative, to inspire a new wave of leadership that at its core is humane, sustainable and diverse.
In this presentation we will take you on a journey to meet unique leaders from around the world and understand how they engage, grow and inspire their people in surprisingly simple and powerful ways. We have discovered that when access to conventional resources for motivating, rewarding and organizing people are taken away, our focus sharpens to the aspects that are most important to realizing our full potential. We have also found leaders within corporations that are paving the way, designing original and cutting-edge approaches to typical leadership challenges.
Presenters will explore how to unlock this new mindset and transform your organization’s approach to leadership.
1. Learn how the current view of leadership is limited, broken and problematic
2. Understand the benefits of experiencing stories from diverse and non-traditional leaders
3. Identify unique ways that leaders can engage, inspire + grow their people that are ultimately more humane and sustainable.
Jasmine Ferres, Global Executive Director of Talent Development, Media Arts Lab and Director of the Unique Leader Project
Gonzalo Aguirregomezcorta, Creative Director and Producer of the Unique Leader Project