General Motors' Chief Advocate for Advanced Technology Policy, Jonathan Weinberger, presents "Strategies & Techniques to Encourage Employee Creativity and Innovation."  [2 Business Credits]

Jonathan Weinberger is the first Chief Advocate for Global Transportation Technology for General Motors (GM).

In this role, Weinberger advocates for domestic and international policies to advance GM’s vision of a world with zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion. This profound transformation requires world-class technology solutions, like autonomous driving and innovations in battery technology, to change the way people and goods move across the globe.

To achieve these goals, Weinberger relies on lessons learned throughout a career defined by championing breakthrough solutions and innovations to tackle some of the world’s most pressing transportation challenges. Some of these include:

• Passion is 100% required for success: If you find work that is not only rewarding but also personally satisfying, then success will be in sight.
• Trust your intuition: The voice in our head is often the most important one. Listen to it and don’t let other people's opinions drown out the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
• Time is not always on your side: If you want to become more productive, try cutting your delivery deadlines in half—chances are you will get what needs to be done and be surprised at how well you did it.

Learning Outcomes:

• Explore lessons learned throughout a career defined by championing breakthrough solutions and innovations to tackle some of the world’s most pressing transportation challenges.
• Learn how to channel passion for the job to reach success, and explore the importance of including the passion factor in your organization’s vision, mission, and culture.
• Discuss the importance of trusting personal intuition (to create and innovate) and incorporating that in organizational strategy and planning, namely in vision and mission.
• Identify the importance of efficiently managing time and deadlines to enhance performance and productivity.

Gender Fair Executives Johanna Zeilstra and Joan Toth present "Developing and Practicing Inclusive Leadership to Build More Effective and Resilient Businesses, Organizations and Teams."  [2 Business Credits]

During this interactive webinar, participants will learn strategies and practical skills that will help them become more inclusive leaders and unlock inclusion in their teams.

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify the “What & Why” of unconscious bias and its impact on the work environment.
• Model inclusive behavior through examples and case studies.
• Explore solutions designed for action and behavior change.
• Recognize how to leverage bias “interrupters."
• Explain the importance of being an “upstander,” not a “bystander."

United Earth's President/Executive Director, Marcus Nobel, presents "How to Apply Earth Ethics in Today's Work Environment."  [2 HR Credits]

Earth Ethics embraces the totality of all human ethical behavior. It relates to the behavior an individual demonstrates on all levels.

It is about how we interact and relate to our colleagues. It is about respect, right behavior and right relationship to other cultures, religions, races, nations and minority groups.

"Right Thoughts – Right Words – Right Actions" --Claes Nobel

Learning Outcomes:

• Incorporate Earth Ethics practices in Human resource Management to build cultures of environmental responsibility on an individual, societal and corporate level.
• Understand the importance of Earth Ethics in the Age of Globalization.
• Learn how to Implement a culture of Earth Ethics through HRM.
• Learn how Ethical Leadership begins with the Human Resource Manager.

Hon. David Schenker, Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, presents "Work Ethics: How to Lead with Integrity & Improve Morale."  [2 HR Credits]

Lessons from: Overseeing a Large US Department of State Bureau. Managing large organizations is a challenging task.  Managing a State Department Bureau with 9000 employees, a $7 billion budget, a Byzantine bureaucratic structure, and more than two dozen overseas posts is especially complex. 

This webinar will discuss how to successfully supervise and motivate personnel, oversee processes, and make timely, humane, and ethical decisions, drawing lessons from serving at the highest level of the US Government.

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify ways to ethically and effectively manage complex bureaucracies.
• Learn how to gain the confidence of skeptical employees, lead with integrity, and improve low morale.
• Explore strategies for dealing effectively with thorny personnel issues, ambiguous chains of authority, and colleagues with flexible morals.