Dick Brass, a former vice president at Redmond-based, global software giant Microsoft, recently issued a grim forecast about the company's future on the New York Times op-ed pages:

"... while the company has had a truly amazing past and an enviably prosperous present, unless it regains its creative spark, it’s an open question whether it has much of a future."

If you have been in the WLP profession for any length of time, you are likely to have encountered one of those lists about what motivates workers. The lists are particularly important in leadership development work to help managers and supervisors overcome the all-too-prevalent, simplistic and naive notion that money is the prime motivator at work.

In a time of tremendous change and economic turbulence, there is no greater or more important need than to help our organizations become more innovative, to develop the capacity to come up with new solutions to today’s challenges.  Register Now!

Plan ahead for upcoming Career Exploration Special Interest Group sessions.  Registration is now open for all the sessions through June, 2010. Check out our Upcoming Events Calendar and click through to register.

Held on the second Monday of each month, the goal of this SIG is to provide a supportive venue in which people who are in the midst of or contemplating a career transition can exchange information, ideas, and contacts as well as take advantage of the specialized knowledge of each other and of guest speakers.

I learned this week that Bud Wurtz, our very own VP of Research and Learning Sciences, has made a significant commitment to pursuing the Certified Professional in Learning & Performance (CPLP). Go Bud! He is enrolled in the UW E-learning Certificate Program. I told him that we have a ning group setup to support topics around the CPLP. He has some terrific ideas and experience to kick-off our CPLP Study Group.