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Barnes & Conti: One of Inc. 5000's Fastest Growing Private Companies
in AmericaOn August 23, Inc. announced that Barnes & Conti Associates was ranked number 4896 on their first-ever list of the 5000 fastest-growing privately-held companies in the country.
According to Inc. 5000’s company profile, the reason Barnes & Conti is growing is because our courses to improve skills in negotiation, debate, leadership, and persuasion are “a way to retain good employees.” According the Inc. 5000, the list offers “the most comprehensive look ever at the entrepreneurial engine driving the U.S. Economy.“
View the Barnes & Conti profile
Kim
Barnes and Nelson Soken: On June 1, Kim Barnes and Nelson Soken will be presenting “Managing Innovation: A Journey to Organizational Change” at the ASTD International Conference and Expo 2008 in San Diego. This concurrent session will describe how three organizations—a Fortune 100 technology and services company, the administrative staff of a well-known business school, and the claims group of a large insurance company—have used our Managing Innovation program to address their specific concerns. Kim and Nelson will show how different applications of the program’s objectives have acted as an intervention and led to significant change within these organizations.
Kim and Nelson will be presenting at 1:45 pm on June 1. We hope you’ll attend their session and visit us at the Expo in booth #1806.
Kim
Barnes: One of the Enterprising Women of the Year for 2008Barnes & Conti President and CEO Kim Barnes was recently selected by Enterprising Women magazine as one of the 2008 Enterprising Women of the Year award winners. This award is given to women recognized as role models for other women entrepreneurs. Enterprising Women’s outreach to find these outstanding women each year is extensive. They partner with the leading organizations that serve the women’s business community, and they help us get the word out to their members and supporters. They accept nominations by mail, fax, and through their website.
Enterprising Women reflects and amplifies the voices of entrepreneurial women, sharing their stories of risk and success, chronicling their growing political, economic and social influence and power, celebrating their triumphs, providing solutions to their problems, and identifying and promoting a new generation of leaders, along with role models and mentors for tomorrow’s leaders.
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Barnes & Conti and SPM Group Ltd of Canada Announce
Partnership SPM Group of Toronto, Ontario formally announced their partnership with Barnes & Conti. SPM Group is a Canadian leader in the area of strategic initiative management. Their training and learning solutions division provides a wide range of training services to mid- and large-sized corporations, all levels of government, and not for profit health agencies. SPM’s other divisions provide management consulting services for strategy execution, and contract staffing and outsourcing services for program and project management.
SPM Group will be delivering the Barnes & Conti Leadership Programs which focus on: Strategic Thinking, Influence & Communications, Innovation and Risk-Taking, Change Management, Conflict Resolution, Negotiating & Debating, and Leadership Development.
In a press release, SPM Vice President Dan Pelletier said, “The Barnes & Conti leadership programs complement our existing curriculum for Program and Project Management... As many of our clients grow and mature in the area of Strategic Management they develop a need for persuasive leadership skills.”
The Barnes & Conti blog is for updates, photos, and articles of note that haven't quite made it into the website or the Barnes & Conti Newsletter.
Our colleague and friend Prem Kumar from the National Community Leadership Institute in Singapore has recently edited a book entitled Learning and Performance Matter. The book is a collection of essays from leading consultants, practitioners and scholars offering practical approaches and strategies for sustained organizational growth and competitive advantage. The book’s premise is that successes and failures are shaped by the way we balance learning and performance in our organizations. All too often this balance becomes an awkward “dance”; the book explains the nature of this learning and performance “dance” and its importance to organizations today.
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“Inspirational leadership: Involving Senior Leaders in Developing the Next Generation,” a paper written by our own Kim Barnes and Dr. Jack Harris, MD (Vice-President, Medical, Lilly Research Laboratories) was selected by Emerald Literati Network for a 2007 Award for Excellence. The paper first appeared in the Emerald Press’ Journal Industrial and Commercial Training (Volume 38, Numbers 4 and 5, 2006) and describes Kim and Jack’s successful efforts to create a leadership development program that recognized the valuable input of current senior leaders in training young leaders.
Managing
Innovation: Avatars of Innovation Our newest program, Managing Innovation: Optimizing the Power of New Ideas™ likens the innovation management process to a five-phase journey, with an Avatar for to represent the spirit an the guiding principles of each phase of the journey. We thought it might be fun and educational to ask you—our readers—to take a quiz to find out which Avatar you most identify with.
Which Avatar of Innovation are you most like? Take the quiz to find out.
As mentioned above, David Francis is Deputy Director of CENTRIM, the University of Brighton’s Centre for Research in Innovation Management in the U.K. In this series of brief interviews, our own Kim Barnes speaks to David Francis on innovation management (part 1) and research of organizational capabilities in innovation management.
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Howard Rush, our colleague at CENTRIM (see above) sent us the news item below:
For the second year in a row, CENTRIM has been the “prize” for the Brazilian winners of their annual FINEP contest (a Brazilian innovation competition sponsored by the British Council). Five of the seven winning companies came to Britain to spend a week with CENTRIM, which included the Managing Innovation™ course, a series of company visits, and an innovation tour of the Brighton Pavilion. Howard says that the visitors from Brazil were fantastic, “All are obviously working in innovative companies... but none even realized that innovation studies and innovation management were academic fields of study. They were thrilled to find that what they were doing could be contextualized and that there were tools and techniques to assist them in sustaining their work. They also loved the (Managing Innovation) course.”
Howard also tells us that he has been invited by the Venezuelan confederation of industry to give a keynote address at their annual conference this June. The address will be based on the Managing Innovation course. In Venezuela, there is a law which says that every company has to spend one percent of their turnover on research and development, and innovation—or pay the same amount to the government in additional taxes. As little research and development is done in Venezuela, he will be having discussions whether Managing Innovation would meet the requirements of Venezuelan law.
Please check out our photo collection from many of the cities where we have done showcases, presentations, or workshops in the past year. We'll try to keep the photos updated as we trot around the globe. The photos are hosted by Flickr.
Exercising
Influence: The Book RevisedThe book, Exercising Influence: A Guide For Making Things Happen at Work, at Home, and in Your Community, by Kim Barnes has been revised and is available through Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer is also publishing a self study guide as well as a leaders’ discussion guide to go with the book. The book description is below:
Influence is a skill-set that everyone needs; yet the necessary techniques and fundamentals of exercising influence are rarely taught. In this revised edition of Exercising Influence, Kim Barnes draws on her thirty years of consulting, teaching and observation to demystify the process of influencing others. This vital resource teaches how to accomplish more with less effort. It shows readers how to create work, family, and community relationships that are more balanced and mutually rewarding, and to take charge of their lives in a powerful, ethical, and productive way.
For more information, or to order the book, visit Pfeiffer’s website.
Download an Excerpt from the book (Adobe Reader Required)
Many of our clients have been inquiring about web-based follow-up for some of our popular program and we’re happy to announce that we’ll be teaming up with CogBooks. CogBooks is a company based in the United Kingdom which specializes in offering learning content through proprietary advanced personal tutoring technologies.
To find out more about CogBooks, click here.
ASTD International Conference and Expo
June 2-4, 2008
San Diego, CA
Barnes & Conti will be an exhibitor and Kim Barnes will be presenting a workshop along with Nelson Soken, who is one of our co-trainers of the Managing Innovation program. The workshop is entitled, "Managing Innovation: A journey toward organizational change." Barnes & Conti will be at the expo at booth 1806
Did you know that Barnes & Conti has a quarterly e-Newsletter? The entire archive—from November of 2001—is available on our website. Our newsletter is not just news, but features articles about influence, negotiation, innovation, risk-taking, leadership, and team building. As a special bonus, we include at least one recipe, which, more often than not, is from one of the countries in which we have clients and/or partners.
To visit the archive—or subscribe to the newsletter—click here.
Media Contact: Grace Boone
800.835.0911 x 111
gboone at barnesconti.com
