Sun, 22 March 2009  Show 55 features an interview with Judy Bond focused on how people’s personality can affect all of your professional relationships. Almost all work boils down to people and how you relate to others therefore getting better at it is important.Direct download: SPaMCAST_55_-_Judy_Bond_Personalities_Metacast.mp3 Category: Coaching -- posted at: 5:00 PM Comments[0] |
Sun, 24 August 2008 Show Forty features an interview with Barbara Blake of Longview Associates. Barbara and I discussed executive coaching, improvement and change its myriad forms. If you are interested in your career or organizational change this is an important interview. Barbara Blake is founder of Longview Associates, LLC, an executive coaching and leadership development consulting practice. As a keen observer of organizational performance, Barbara is convinced that the key component to successful operations and objectives are the people in an organization. Barbara works with executives and entrepreneurs to take them to the next level of performance and interpersonal relations. They see results both at work and in their personal lives; they are energized, transformed and they achieve Barbara has held management positions in a consulting firm, a publishing company, and several financial services institutions. She has also been involved in the development of emerging leaders by managing training programs and teaching at the MBA level. She is a certified executive coach through the Penn State Executive Program, and a member of the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches. Contact
information: Check out
SPaMCAST’s New Facebook page!!!! The essay for this cast is titled, “Vitamins, Aspirin and Viagra”. The essay ruminates on why some changes are easier to sell and catch hold within organizations faster. We will conclude with information on a few upcoming conferences, comments from listeners and notes on upcoming casts. There are a number of ways to share your thoughts with SPaMCAST:
Future Events and the next Cast. . . I
will be speaking at IFPUG’s 3rd Annual ISMA Conference and Fall Workshops
Sunday, September 14 – Friday, September 19, 2008 at the Westin Arlington
Gateway Hotel information at www.ifpug.org. The presentation is call “Counting Facebook”
and will be on Friday September 19, 2008 at 10:25 AM - 11:25 AM. I am speaking at Quest Toronto 2008 Conference, September 22- 26, 2008, at the Hilton Hotel in Toronto, Canada. I will be presenting “Good Numbers Go Bad” on Wed Sept 24th from 1:30 - 2:30 pm and also joining in as a subject matter expert in the end of day solutions workshop. Information can be found at http://www.qaiquest.org/toronto/ Finally I will be speaking at the Northeast Quality Council 57th Conference. The conference is scheduled for October 14 – 15 , 2008 in Marlborough, Massachusetts at Best Western Royal Plaza. The presentation is titled “One Size Fits . . .Someone Other Than Me”. Information can be found at http://www.neqc.org/conference. Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next Software
Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview with Ken Schwaber, Mr
SCRUM. If you use SCRUM or are
interested in Agile this is a must listen. Direct download: SPaMCAST_40_-_Blake_Executive_Coaching_Vitamins_Aspirin_and_Viagra__.mp3 Category: Coaching -- posted at: 6:41 PM Comments[2] |
Sun, 30 December 2007 
SPaMCAST 24 -
Edelson, Coaching, Specialization ** Note – Traceability paper will be
out on the feed this week. ** Show 24 features an interview with Marilyn Edelson, a Principal at IT Decisions Coaching LLC. The interview covers project management, leadership, the similarities, differences and how coaching can make both better. This was a wide ranging interview with lots of tips and take “aways"! Marilyn Edelson, cofounder, is a Master Certified Coach, entrepreneur and certified Best Year Yet® program leader with over 25 years experience in behavioral management. She has has been coaching executives, managers and corporate teams for the past 10 years and was voted 'Top 10 Coach 2007' by Women's Business Boston (a division of The Boston Herald). She has a strong behavioral background and easily integrates the principals of emotional and social intelligence with the structured, measurable results oriented approach provided by the Best Year Yet® system and DiSC behavioral and values assessment tools. She teaches, mentors and trains professional coaches, and is the coaching consultant for the first National Institute of Health study on the efficacy of coaching in healthcare. She holds a Master of Science degree from Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.Here are the links for ITDC and Marilyn! IT Decisions Coaching - www.itdecisionscoaching.com/ ITDC email: info@itdecisionscoaching.com Marilyn’s email:
m.edelson@itdecisionscoaching.com There are a number of ways to share your thoughts . .
I
have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008. The first is “Getting Performance Improvement
Out of Your Software Process Improvement" on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM
- 11:30 AM EDT And
the second is titled “A Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software
Process Improvement" May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time More
information and registration information can be found at http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/ Next Software Process and Measurement Cast: The next
Software Process and Measurement Cast features an interview with Grady Booch chief
scientist of Rational Software (now a part of IBM). We will discuss structure, design,
architecture, agility and discipline amongst other things. This is another of those interviews where you
will want to take notes! Direct download: SPaMCAST_24_-_Edelson_Coaching_Specialization.mp3 Category: Coaching -- posted at: 5:00 PM Comments[0] |
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