Leading Change: The Keys to Expediting Business Results

Join us on October 5th with Dr. Nancy MacKay for our dinner member event.

Dr. Nancy MacKay will use her experience in coaching hundreds of executives and leaders in larger organizations, and working with a myriad of small firms to provide advice on how to expedite business results. Learn how to include leading change as a competency in your current role, and/or how to get better at it if you already have it.

Join us and:

• Learn the four key steps to getting buy-in
• Develop specific techniques to overcome resistance
• Invest your time efficiently and effectively
• Create a positive impact on the people around you
• Focus on what's working well
• Achieve greater success with less effort

Dr. Nancy MacKay is a consultant, coach, speaker, professor and author. Her consulting firm, Inspire Action International, Inc. has attracted clients such as the Provincial Health Services Authority, UBC, Pacific Blue Cross, QLT, Envision Financial, ICBC, BCIT, and Methanex. Nancy is a certified executive coach, Myers-Briggs Type facilitator, and organizational change consultant. She serves on the board of the Vancouver Chapter of the Canadian Association of Management Consultants and she is the e-seminar facilitator for the CIO Association of Canada.

Her speaking includes keynotes and workshops for large organizations and major conferences. Nancy is a professor in the Business Faculty at Simon Fraser University where she teaches courses on Leading Organizational Change and Information Technology Strategy. Her Ph.D. is in Information Technology and she is the author of numerous scholarly articles that have been published in international research journals.

We are working on bringing you a Special Event with Marc Prensky on Tuesday, October 26. This will be a ½-day morning workshop.

Who's Marc? Marc Prensky is an internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant, and designer in the critical areas of education and learning. He is the author of Digital Game-Based Learning (McGraw-Hill, 2001), the founder and CEO of Games2train. Visit www.marcprensky.com to learn more.

For more information and registration details, click here. Reserve your seat today!

701 e-Learning Tips - by Elliott Masie * FREE BOOK *
How about a whole book? For free? Thanks to The MASIE Center’s TRENDS readers and e-Learning Consortium Members, more than 1,000 e-Learning tips were received, analyzed, and categorized. From the information, the MASIE Center edited and compiled a book containing 141 pages and 14 chapters of tips covering the ABC’s of getting started to global implementation strategies. To download the entire book (13 megabytes) for FREE, click here. You can print it out, share it with colleagues, or read the PDF file on your computer screen.

The Septemter 2004 issue of Performance Express is available - click here. Articles include:
- A Potpourri form A to Z on Just About Any Topic
by Harold D. Stolovitch, PhD, CPT
- Trendspotters: Future Watch, Featuring Marc Rosenberg
by Carol Haig, CPT and Roger Addison, EdD, CPT
- Lessons Learned from Victoria’s Secret: Ensuring the “Pull” in Performance-based e-Learning
by Deborah L. Stone, CPT and Steven W. Villachica, PhD, CPT
- Measurement Counts! The Dangers of Percent: An Example
by Carl Binder, PhD, CPT

Reminder: The ISPI International Conference is coming to Vancouver in April 2005. Visit our new Conference 2005 Information Centre for updates. Plus, the ISPI Conference 2005 Sneak Peek flyer has just been released - click here to download and print (PDF).

The ISPI Membership drive, that is!

October 1 is the time to renew your ISPI Vancouver membership. Click here for the 2004-05 renewal form. Not an ISPI Vancouver member? Click here to learn about becoming a member.

Are you organized and do you like to meet others? If so, ISPI Vancouver needs you! Our VP Logistics, Stacey Mitchell, still needs volunteers to join the ISPI Vancouver Logistics Team. Stacey needs volunteers to both assist with on-site logistics (such as hosting the registration desk), as well as people to assist with event logistics planning. If you would like to get involved, please contact Stacey directly at: smitc@shaw.ca