2003 Annual Training Conference Keynote Lineup!

Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 9:00 am   Understand Your Differences! Richard Milner, Advisor Team   �We understand that people differ from each other in fundamental ways, including their thoughts and feelings, their wants and beliefs, their words, their values, and their talents. In short, we understand that people are born with different personalities, and that these differences are central to nearly every aspect of their lives.� David Keirsey, �Please Understand Me II�  Richard Milner is co-founder and CEO of AdvisorTeam.com, the official online provider of the Keirsey Temperament Sorter� II�the most popular personality inventory in the world.  Tens of millions from over 125 countries have used the Keirsey Temperament Sorter� II to better understand themselves and how they differ from others. Knowing yourself and with whom you�re dealing has become more important than ever in today�s competitive and cost cutting workplace�whether it�s your boss, a customer, a fellow team member, or someone who reports to you.  Obtaining a better understanding of how to hear what others are really saying and how best to articulate your own message so other personality types �get it� is the take away of this presentation.   When you register for the conference you will be given instructions to complete the Keirsey Temperament Sorter� II at the AdvisorTeam.com web site and will receive your results and interpretive report distributed back to your desktop. Bring the results with you to the conference to use in connection with this presentation.  Mr. Milner promises to bring you an entertaining, informative and hands on program that will unlock some of the mysteries in dealing with people in your organization.  He will get you all prepared for a number of exercises, based on your profile, which will take place after the am break on Wednesday. am break on Wednesday.

Thursday, September 18, 2003; 9:00 - 11:30 am

Wake Up Your Creative Genius! Learn How to Laugh in Eight Easy Steps Bill Boon, Iowa State University   This fast-paced, interactive presentation is devoted to humor.  Edward De Bono declares that humor and creativity are the same thing, because they both stimulate the same part of the brain.  The audience is challenged to come up with more than one right answer in solving problems. Bill Boon insists that humor is the Ben Gay of the soul, because it takes away the pain.  Therefore, humor is good for you and will keep you healthy.  If you can't learn to laugh at yourself, then it is up to the rest of us to do it for you!  Boon is known for his class projects on creativity with enough fun and personality to make the nightly news.  There have been contraptions that changed form as they rolled down a hill.  There have been machines that shot water balloons at the professor. There have been cardboard boats that floated across Lake LaVerne. This presenter has been a professor at Iowa State University for over 20 years and his sessions on Creativity will be one like EIA has never experienced before in the history of the EIA Conference.

Friday, September 19, 2003: 9:00 - 11:30 am Zip, Zap, and Zowie! Using Employee Involvement Programs to Energize, Retain and Motivate the Workforce Greg Smith, Chart Your Course International   The winners of today's business economy must engage the creative abilities, talents, and potential of the entire workforce from the bottom to the top.  Survival depends on innovators, change, and continuous improvement leading to bottom-line results.   Learn how to create programs that capture ideas and transform traditional businesses into innovative enterprises.  Gain new knowledge on how to initiate innovative and continuous improvement programs such as Idea Campaigns, Idea Olympics, and Vampire Extermination Expeditions - programs making work efficient, fun, and productive.  Learn how these programs can improve revenues, cut costs, reduce turnover, and have a major impact on job satisfaction and employee retention.   One client organization has said, "Your seminar has resulted in a 51% improvement of our revenues during the first quarter.  Our teams work smart as well as hard and each member is having a lot more fun working together."