Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 27, 2011

A leader I know and much admire is Howard Behar, the former president of Starbucks North America and Starbucks International. Howard tells about the time 14 years ago this month when he received a call in the middle of the night at his home in Seattle alerting him that three Starbucks employees at the Georgetown store in Washington, D.C. had been shot and killed, including an 18-year who had just recently begun working at Starbucks, his first job.

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Learning-by-Doing Public Relations Career Workshop 373

Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 12, 2011

Dennis Nally, PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Chairman, recognized the need to connect with Millennials, in a Wall Street Journal interview entitled “ PwC Chairman Aims to Keep Millennials Happy.&# In the interview Nally states: “Connecting with your employees so they understand you can deliver the career they want is key…they want less-hierarchical structures, they want more flexibility, they want to work as hard but they want to define how they do their work.

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Career Goal Development Company 255

Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 22, 2011

Earlier this year my colleague Jason Pankau spoke at the HR Summit in Singapore. We’re delighted to announce that next year I’ll be teaching workshops on leadership, teamwork, employee engagement, productivity, innovation and Connection Cultures at the Institute for Management Studies (IMS) in Amsterdam, Brussels, Edinburgh and London. (Stateside I’ll be teaching sessions in 2011 for IMS in Atlanta, Boston, Cleveland, Detroit and San Francisco.).

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Globalization Teamwork Workshop Innovation 249

Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 22, 2011

My friend David Burkus at LeaderLab is working with the University of Oklahoma on research to assess ethics in the workplace. Please consider participating in David’s survey by clicking here.

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Ethics Survey Participative 236

Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 22, 2011

My friend Alexander Kjerulf, aka the Chief Happiness Officer, will be giving a free seminar in San Francisco on August 4 from 7-9 PM. The free seminar will be limited to the first 100 individuals who sign up. You can read about the seminar here and sign up at this link.

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Seminar 225