N.E.W.S.™ Comes to Barnes & Conti
by B. Kim Barnes

Some of you have heard that Aviad Goz and I have recently published a book entitled, Self-Navigation: A Compass for Guiding Your Life and Career. Aviad is the Chief Visionary Officer of N.E.W.S.™ Consulting and Training, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, one of our global partner companies. We are pleased to announce that Barnes & Conti will also be offering coaching and facilitated workshops based on the N.E.W.S.™ Model.

The N.E.W.S.™ Navigation Model (see below) is extremely effective at the individual, team, or organizational level. It is both simple to learn and deep and profound to practice and apply. Many Fortune 500 companies around the globe are using it to great effect. The model is represented by a compass, where North shows your direction, East, your motivations, South, your barriers to success, and West, your plan.

I have personally used this model as a way to think about my own next act, to coach others who are thinking about their careers, to plan and conduct a team meeting, and to do some strategic thinking about our organization. As those of you who have known me for some time are aware, I don’t often have the opportunity to bring the work of other authors and developers to our clients in a serious way as we have so much intellectual property ourselves, but when I first saw this model I knew it would resonate with many of you.

I have known and admired Aviad’s work for many years (his other company, Momentum, has been our partner in Israel for a long time) and we are all very happy to bring the following programs to our shores:

• Self-Navigation: The N.E.W.S.™ Experience is a facilitated peer coaching workshop, offering participants the opportunity to consider their own career direction and to learn some ways to help others think through their next steps.
• Team Navigation is a workshop for team leaders or intact teams that offers a template for planning and decision-making at the team level.

Please let us know if you’re interested in discussing a pilot session of Self-Navigation or Team Navigation for your organization.

Kim Barnes at HR West: The Organizational Detective

We are excited to announce that Kim Barnes will be presenting at HR West. If you’re on the West Coast, please join her at the Oakland Convention Center on April 24, 2013 from 11am - 1pm for her talk and book signing. She will be discussing “The Organizational Detective: Using Internal Consultant Skills to Solve Mysteries of the Workplace.” She will be signing copies of her fiction novel, Murder on the 33rd Floor: A Corporate Mystery, along with Exercising Influence.

Here’s a brief description of the session:

Among the many roles internal HR business partners play—change catalyst, trusted advisor, performance consultant—add another: organizational detective. Internal consultants often have information nobody else is privy to. Learn how to best use your special skills, knowledge, and relationships to help clients solve problems and manage change. Read between the lines, ask thought-provoking and provocative questions, and connect disparate information to develop insightful conclusions and recommendations.

Those of you on the West Coast won’t want to miss this enjoyable and educational opportunity.

For more details, please visit the HR West Website.

Barnes & Conti Global Partner Showcase:
Julia Li, our Chinese global partner published on Huffington Post

As most of you know, Barnes & Conti has a growing network of global partners who are certified to deliver many of our programs in Latin America, Canada, Europe and the Middle East, Asia and India. In fact, more than one third of our business is global with multinational clients supported through our extensive network of worldwide trainers. While all of our partners are bilingual, we have also translated many of our programs into several languages including British English, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Thai.

If Barnes & Conti can help your global organization move ideas into action, don’t hesitate to call us. Please visit our newly-updated partners page for details on who and where our global partners are located.

To briefly introduce you to one of our partners, this past March, Julia Li of HCD Global, our partner company based in Shanghai, wrote an article entitled “The Rebirth of Learning Starts With Mindset.” The article was inspired by a TED talk on student driven learning given by Professor Sugata Mitra, and was published on The Huffington Post. Here’s a brief excerpt:

I deeply admire Dr. Sugata's work, his structured approach to SOLE (self-organized learning environment), and his willingness to turn research into results with the support of TED. We have enough academic dissertations about the future of learning when action is what is most needed. Hopefully now child-driven, self-guided learning will gain serious attention from the general public and resources to begin the learning system revolution in earnest—one that will prepare a new generation of minds to collaborate, problem-solve and succeed in the fast moving New Machine age.

We’re fortunate at Barnes & Conti to have partners like Julia Li and HCD Global, who think deeply about learning, not just for children, but for adults and the issues we face and the skills we need in the workplace.

Read the entire article on The Huffington Post.

Barnes & Conti at ASTD 2013

At this year’s ASTD International Conference and Expo, Barnes & Conti will be featuring the N.E.W.S.™ series of organizational, team, and self-navigation. The Expo is May 19-22 in Dallas, Texas. Please stop by booth 815 for more information and/or just to say “hello.”

For more information on the N.E.W.S.™ series, visit our website.

To register for ASTD, please visit the ASTD website.

If you plan on attending ASTD, please drop us an email so we can be sure to connect.

In this Bulletin:

• N.E.W.S.™ Comes to Barnes & Conti
• Kim Barnes at HR West: The Organizational Detective
• Barnes & Conti Global Partner Showcase: Julia Li Published in Huffington Post
• Barnes & Conti at ASTD 2013

Barnes & Conti Reaches Over 300 Followers on LinkedIn!

Barnes & Conti set a goal to reach 300 LinkedIn Followers by the end of February; thanks to all of you, we exceeded our goal. We hope all of you were able to use our posts for generating new ideas and information. Thank you again for the support, and if you have not already started to follow us, we hope you will! Our new goal is to reach 500 followers by April 30. Spread the word.

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Open Enrollment Offerings in 2013

Exercising Influence: Building Relationships & Getting Results

 

 

• June 3-4, 2013
  Philadelphia, PA
  
  

Self Navigation: The N.E.W.S.™ Experience

• June 13, 2013
  Berkeley, CA

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Self-Navigation:
A Compass for Guiding
Your Life and Career

by Kim Barnes and Aviad Goz

More information

Readers are saying:

“This is so different from the new age books that try to tackle the same dilemma—how to find your way in your own life... The book states that your choices are your path to greatness, and then does not make them for you; it shows you a clear path through questions and strategies that help you find your own way and develop your own reusable system...”

Excerpt from the Book:

If you or people you know are ready to make a change, refer them to the following strategy—it’s a great way to begin guiding yourself or others to the life they have always wanted but never understood how to attain.

One: Define your direction by asking yourself questions like:

• What am I passionate about?
• What are my talents and core competencies?
• What could I do that would make me happy and excited to get to work every day?

Two: If these questions are difficult to answer, think back to an earlier time in your life when you were excited about the future and happy to be in the present. Now, look at where your responses intersect with one another. Choose the direction that you are happy about and have the capability to achieve.

Three: Write a sentence that expresses the intersection clearly. This sentence is your “direction of greatness.”

Here is an example of a “direction of greatness:” To coach people to become outstanding leaders.

Check back soon for a strategy that will move you in the direction you discover you want to go.

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