Performance Connect—Monday, May 4, 2009
Bring out the best in today's complex and multi-faceted workforce
| Time | Operations Management | Executive Development | Senior Executive |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm |
Know Yourself | Smashing Silos | Evolve With the Changing Shopping Experience |
| 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm |
Roundtable Discussion | Roundtable Discussion | Communicate With the New Media in the Internet Age |
| 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm |
Unleash the Power of Mentoring | Managing Up | The Future Employee |
| 3:45 pm – 4:00 pm |
Roundtable Discussion | Roundtable Discussion | Break |
| 4:00 pm – 4:15 pm |
Break | Break | Seize the Change Opportunities in Emerging Issues |
| 4:15 pm – 5:00 pm |
The Food Retailing Industry Speaks 2008 |
Operations Management Track - 1:30 pm-4:00 pm
Know Yourself
Use a penetrating assessment resource to guide enduring personal growth..
Improving performance begins with looking hard at your personal strengths and weaknesses and creating a plan to address both. Learn how to use management evaluation methods to gain a better sense of yourself and build a plan for continuous growth.
Unleash the Power of Mentoring
Mentor-protégé relationships build leaders and prepare your associates to lead.
Front-line managers face the dual-edged challenge of improving their own skills while inspiring the same of those around them. Learn how mentors can guide your own career growth as you mentor those reporting to you.
Rob Bell, President, Focus Consulting
Executive Development Track - 1:30 pm-4:00 pm
Smashing Silos
Cross-company collaboration can generate exceptional results.
Smash the organizational barriers that thwart individual and company efforts to reach their potential. This hands-on course features strategies to break through barriers in your company and with your trading partners.
Peg Neuhauser, Author, Tribal Warfare in Organizations
Managing Up
Senior Executive Track - 1:30 pm-4:15 pm
Evolve With the Changing Shopping Experience
Learn how to align new formats, new products and new services with changing consumers.
Evolving customer needs and lifestyles are changing the shopping trip and inspiring new products, store formats and services. Explore the key elements of how the industry must change to serve shoppers of the future.
Thomas Blischok, President, Global Retail, Information Resources, Inc.
Communicate With the New Media in the Internet Age
Learn how to create a positive buzz in today's new media.
Communications through blogs, YouTube and viral networks are harder than ever to coordinate and almost impossible to control. One of the foremost media experts shows how to design a successful strategy to communicate with today's fragmented and Internet-savvy marketplace.
Todd Hale, Senior Vice President, Consumer and Shopper Insights, The Nielsen Company
The Future Employee
Seize the Change Opportunities in Emerging Issues
Learn how to benefit from the issues making news today and tomorrow.
Sustainability, health and wellness, and buying local are some of the emerging issues that are reshaping consumer demands and competition. This fast-paced look at major industry concerns will suggest the change opportunities that lie within.
Closing Super Session - 4:15 pm-5:00 pm
The Food Retailing Industry Speaks 2009
Gain a broad understanding of the issues facing the industry and the benchmarks of success.
Leaders require the latest information with the context to understand how it affects companies, competitors, customers and decisions. "Speaks" presents a clear and provocative overview of key industry trends, performance benchmarks, consumer priorities, operational standards and fast-emerging issues.