June13th Event + AGM
REMINDER!

On June 13th, our speaker will be Eli Mina, who will speak on Building Better Decision Making Teams.

Members: we need your support! Please plan to attend on June 13th and stay for the Annual General Meeting (AGM), which will follow Eli's presentation.

For more information and registration - click here.

June 29th Special Event

REMINDER!

ISPI Vancouver is planning a Special Event for Thursday, June 29th, from 8:30am-12:30pm at the Hilton Metrotown.

Our featured speaker for this half-day morning workshop, Leveraging Energy to Improve Performance, will be Dr. Brian Fraser.

**NOTE: NEW HOTEL LOCATION**
Hilton Metrotown, 6083 McKay Avenue, Burnaby
For a map, driving directions and parking info: click here
Or take the Skytrain to Metrotown station!

Registration is now open! For more information and registration - click here.

AGM 2006 Page

2006 AGM

Click here to read the latest on our AGM upcoming on June 13.

On the AGM 2006 page you will now find:

• AGM Order of Business (Amendment to the By-laws)
• Executive Nominees

Reminder: Our AGM will be held in conjunction with our June 13th event.

June 13th AGM Update

Dear ISPI Vancouver Members:

We have had an excellent year of programs and fun with our ISPI-Vancouver Chapter. The volunteers that keep this organization hopping are key to our success - Thank you all!

Our current membership is at 122 people. It is a healthy size and continues to attract from a cross section of professionals in all areas of performance improvement and management. I am very pleased with the strength of the executive nominees for the coming year. They are motivated to continue the work that keeps us engaged.

Last year we increased dues to $95 for regular members and $65 for dual international & local. The increase has allowed us to keep pace with our needs to automate our environment and increase our use of technology to manage, take on-line registrations and make payments with credit cards. This has been a great success.

We now face increasing catering costs for our hotel venue. In 2004 and 2005 we very carefully managed the venue to keep costs low, although we still use those strategies the costs are rising. To counter this, we are changing our by-laws to allow us to be more flexible in meeting numbers. The executive plans to continue to have 6 - 8 events per year and we will be open to other opportunities and locations.

The executive voted in January to discontinue a long practice of granting life-long membership to Past Presidents. From this presidency onward only as president and president-elect are you given complementary membership. So with those cost control measures in place we will continue to be the best deal in town - and that is not a secret!

I am looking forward to the next half of my term as president!

Margy Hayden

Margy Hayden
President
ISPI Vancouver
604 661 6514
604 990 9015 (evenings)

margy.hayden@icbc.com

Click here to read Margy's previous messages.

Bruce Fern Event on June 27 & 28

Leading For Engagement - Bruce Fern

Bruce Fern of PCI, New York, will be visiting Vancouver again on June 27th and 28th to present his two day workshop on employee engagement. Click here for a pdf provideing details on Bruce's successful approach, that is being implemented worldwide by National Semiconductors.

To register, or request information, contact Rob Gilfoyle: 604 684-8041, robert_gilfoyle@telus.net

Download the Leading For Engagement flyer (PDF 56 K)

Podcasting for Learning

Podcasting for Learning
by Leigh Anne McIntyre

Are any of you out there finding it harder to keep up with all the new technologies used these days for learning? When I heard someone mention podcasting when discussing e-learning options, my internal alarms went off. My ego was frantically saying, "There is a whole new medium out there I know nothing about? How can I be an effective solutions designer if I do not know about this?". I immediately set out to find out about using podcasting for learning. This turned out to be more difficult than I initially thought. Apparently, not many people are using podcasts for learning…yet. For news releases, entertainment, and blogs-yes. But for e-learning?

http://www.performancexpress.org/may06printercopy.html

Wikis & Performance Improvement

Using a Wiki for Performance Improvement
By Timothy W. Spannaus, Ph.D.

Why are wikis gaining in popularity, with articles appearing in mainstream business press such as Business Week and general information technology magazines? How can a wiki help a performance technologist?

http://www.ispimi.org/~ispimi7/newsletter/2005_10/wiki.php

Virtual Teamwork & Networking Across Cultures

Virtual teamwork & networking accross the cultures: tools and experiences
By Mariano Bernardez

The 90's could be easily defined as the cradle of Drucker's "knowlege society": the booming growth of the Internet and intranets, the globalization of communications and trade, the change in the traditional "assemby line" or " pyramidal" models of organization to flatter, speedier and virtual ones; the new tools and channels for on line communications, and so on. Human performance will never be the same; neither the "workplaces" or the processes of work.

The transition to a team-based organization, well defined by Daniels and Mathers, Mohrman, and others is on its way, and many new companies are getting into the market with the new concepts of teamworking and networking (the first thing you receive as a new employee of Microsoft is a device to plug your PC to the intranet and the Internet where the companies expect their members to collaborate). Sun Systems issued a policy of not using phones but e-mail to force the transition to virtual work, and so on. But the new mindset requires still some time to be reached, and there is and will be resistance to the changes, fears and pitfalls. The incremental use of Internet, teleconferencing and other virtual devices is not a guarantee of having a "virtual organization" or virtual teamwork.

http://www.pignc-ispi.com/articles/cbt-epss/virtualteam.htm

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Send your submissions to info@ispi-van.org, subject: ISPI e-Spectrum Content.