A diverse talentdevelopmentweb 2.0 solution PROPOSAL

for HP Diverse Talent Development

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CURRENT REALITIES

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• Traditional efficacy-based diverse talent development is no longer enough; practical business, leadership, and collaborative skills training lacking and are needed to effectively work and win in a global distributed workplace and marketplace. • Minimal “business savvy” coaching not equipping employees to navigate through corporate structure.• More and more pressure to deliver results with minimum to none coaching/mentoring on every day skills for high performance.• Leader’s not equipped to mentor and coach...no time, limited know-how• Minimum dedicated dollars for development

Care about me; Help me grow

THE NEED FOR CHANGE Diverse Talent Development Realities

Working TogetherProfessional Development Series

• Focused on building practical career skills for high achievement and flexibility, encouraging leadership growth by perpetual learning and practice; focus on practical day-to-day skills needed to work effectively throughout HP in collaboration with others, customers, and other partners; focus on “the basics”

• Learning On-the-GO with coaching and mentoring; with an enduring quality and ongoing support to work with a “corporate system” with a 21st Century reality.

• Focused on building capability to innovate, influence and win

• Authored by Debbe Kennedy with HP people in mind; strategic partner across HP since 1992; extensive leadership, diverse talent coaching, mentoring experience.

Working Together Solutionsto innovate, influence, and WIN!

a professional development podcast+ series

• Six themed 20-30 minute podcasts, includes best practice stories and practical how-tos addressing everyday issues in the workplace and marketplace

• Six themed downloadable PDF to quick reference to imprint and expand learning

• Monthly Dialogues with Debbe Kennedy, author Online at the Putting Our Differences to Work Dialogue Center

• Access to other Global Dialogue Center offerings, including Women in the Lead features and other podcasts, live events, blogs to foster thinking, questioning, learning to build knowledge and know-how.

Custom Features for HP• Custom Working Together Open House Event for Managers

– Hosted in partnership with HP at the Global Dialogue Center–1-hour Working Together introduction and dialogue– Includes VoIP to marry with HP conference bridge line for low cost international involvement

Custom HP entrance with HP messaging Custom HP shopping cart and HP volume pricing and teams

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Working Together Learning Model

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Working Togetherto innovate, influence, and WIN!

a professional development podcast+ series

• Boosting Success with Leadership Sponsors Five ways to engage leaders to sponsor your work • Simplifying Problems Overcoming the tendency to make organizational issues complex

• Collaboration: Partnerships Built to Last 10 proven ways to partner for success

• How to Get Buy-In for New Ideas It’s all in how we present! • Building a Bridge Over Troubled Waters Finding meaning and grasping the positive in tough situations • Putting Differences to Work Building a culture wherever you go

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Working Together Diverse Talent Development Solution for HP

a professional development podcast+ series

$50 for individual series purchased 6 Working Together podcast professional development programs

6 PDF Working Together Quick Reference Summaries to expand learning

Working Together Introduction Dialogue for manager/employees

Access to monthly dialogues online with author for coaching and real-issues held at the Putting Our Differences to Work Dialogue Center.

NOTE: reduced volume pricing and custom features available for guaranteed attendees

Includes...HP custom entrance and discount pricingHP custom Working Together Introduction Dialogue for managers/employees

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Working Together Diverse Talent Development Solution for HP

a professional development podcast+ series

Debbe Kennedy is a master problem solver, author, virtual speaker, and founder, president, and CEO of the Leadership Solutions Companies, an award-winning women-owned enterprise since 1990, specializing in custom leadership, organizational, and virtual communications solutions. She is a pioneer and innovator in people-focused leadership–employee communications in virtual space, including creative uses of Web 2.0 technologies, and other social media.

Debbe knows the leader’s journey. She has experienced it as a successful entrepreneur, a change-leading strategic partner for Fortune 100 executives and managers, a pioneer of working in virtual space, and in a distinguished leadership career with IBM Corporation for over twenty years, including broad experience in talent development,diversity and inclusion, employee communications, marketing, professional services, diversity and inclusion, culture, employee engagement, business ethics and policy development, women’s issues, management development, employee development, human resources, strategic planning and implementation. Her newest book is Putting Our Differences to Work: The Fastest Way to Innovation, Leadership, and High Performance; (Berrett-Koehler 2008), foreword by futurist and filmmaker, Joel A. Barker

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ABOUT Our CUSTOM PRODUCTS

The Global Dialogue Center is part of Leadership Solutions Companies, well known for its awarding winning ability to develop, plan and deliver innovative personalized custom products since 1990. We have been delivering enduring products and customized services to HP since 1992.

We offer an array of possibilities to Working Together a comprehensive, turn-key HP-focused diverse talent development solution --- one that will facilitate a fast-start-up, as well as ensuring the offering continues to be a dynamic, evolving, creative, efficient and effective as a Web 2.0 development solution.

• Our staff has a strong knowledge of HP’s culture, values, Standards of Business Conduct policies and practices, including HP’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, which we have contributed to since 1996. Additionally, we are skilled in HP messaging, HP brand, executive level communications expertise, and have a long record of delivering high level results to HP that has had an enduring influence and value. Our principals have combined HP culture and diversity experience and knowledge of nearly 50 years. We have consulted on sensitive Open Door situations related to HP’s policies at the executive level for years; and helped develop the Best Work Environment Policy, HP’s Accessibility Policy and policy updates.

• Our products are backed with critical skills, including human resource expertise, published writers, a resident artist, extensive experience and expertise in HP executive, manager-employee communications, virtual communications and capability for web based solutions, including interactive, web-based features, audio/podcasts, and other multi-media possibilities. © Global Dialogue Center ■ an operating division of Leadership Solutions Companies www.globaldialoguecenter.com

DELIVERING AN INNOVATIVE DIVERSE TALENT DEVLELOPMENT SOLUTION TO ACHIEVE YOUR STRATEGIC GOALS

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