June News
Feedback on Phil’s latest speaking session at the IHG Asia Australasia 2010 Leaders Meeting, Singapore, June 2010:
"I wanted to thank you for joining our first AA Leaders’ Meeting and agreeing to be our guest speaker. I’ve heard some fantastic feedback on your lunch session. Part of the Growing to Great key message was about growth and development, and your session on Learning Agility will play a big part in helping our leaders going forward." - Jan Smits, MD, Asia Australasia, IHG.
"You are fast moving from ‘The Coach’ to ‘The Legend’ if the chat around the business was anything to go by. I’ve just now managed to go through your deck and I must say it’s great – no wonder you were getting such good press." - IHG senior manager
May 2010 – IHG Leaders Lounge wins third award
May 2010 - IHG Leaders Lounge wins third award
Last week, the IHG Leaders Lounge – built and run for the world’s largest hotel company by Phil Dourado Business Communications Ltd – won its third award. At the American Society for Training & Development’s Workplace Learning & Performance award ceremony, held in Chicago on Monday evening, IHG received a citation for excellence in practice for The Leaders Lounge. The pic is of IHG folk receiving the award, including Randy Lummus in the middle and Cheryl Ross to his left. We get two plaques, one for IHG and the one on the right, held by Renee Stevens, IHG’s VP, Global Talent Development, is for our office wall here at PDBC Ltd. Last year the Leaders Lounge helped IHG win a BEST award from the ASTD. The Leaders Lounge also recently won the UK’s Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) annual award for Excellence Through Technology (see below).
CIPD/People Management Excellence Through Technology Award 2009
Pictured are InterContinental Hotels Group’s EVP for HR, Tracy Robbins, and Phil Dourado, receiving the 2009 CIPD / People Management Award for Excellence Through Technology at the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development’s annual conference and awards dinner.
The award was for the IHG Leaders Lounge, an online leadership development community built and run for the world’s largest hotel group by Phil Dourado Business Communications Ltd. IHG also won in 2009 an American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) BEST Award, ranking them as one of the best companies in the world at people development. The IHG Leaders Lounge formed 50% of the submission that won this award, the other half being Holiday Inn Stay Real training.
FREE BOOK The Little Book of Leadership
The Little Book of Leadership is now available as a free Powerpoint download. Click the image to download it from Slideshare and, if you like it, pass it on as a gift to anyone else you think may like it, too.
The Leadership Hub for Corporates
The Leadership Hub, the world’s first collaborative leadership development platform, is now available as a closed, in-house corporate leadership development platform.
The in-house version of The Leadership Hub is designed in particular for large organizations that have a globally dispersed leadership group whom the organization wants to bring together virtually to build a leadership culture.
The Leadership Hub for Corporates lets you disseminate best practice leadership from ‘hotspots’ of good practice out to the rest of the leadership community.
The Leadership Hub
The Leadership Hub, the world’s first online collaborative leadership development community, is now live. Think MySpace or Facebook for Leaders and you’re in the right kind of territory – a leadership collaboration and development site that uses social networking principles and tools. To join The Leadership Hub click here. The Hub is a Community of Practice, where leaders share their best practice, experiences and insights and learn from each other, so you need to be willing to contribute.
If you have read The 60 Second Leader book, this is the online leadership community mentioned in that book that you are now eligible to join.
As far as we know, it’s the first online community for leadership that is based on Web 2.0 tools (with members writing their own leadership diaries, blogs, messaging each other, emailing within the platform, uploading your own video clips, documents and other useful tools to share with the rest of the community) so that leadership experts and practitioners from all over the world can collaborate with each other.
I’ve written a paper on Open Source Leadership which explains how this kind of collaborative leadership development works and how an in-house version can be built for large organizations who want one sitting on their intranet to grow and develop their leadership community. You can download it from the link at the top of this page.
60 Second Leader to be translated into Italian, Polish, Chinese, Turkish and Vietnamese
The 60 Second Leader, which was published in the spring in the UK and in the summer in the US, has just been licensed for translation into Turkish. Last month it was licensed for translation into Italian, the month before into Chinese and Polish, and back in May the publisher approved a request to translate the book into Vietnamese.
There are some free extracts from the book for you on the link at the top of the page, drawn from a three-page article on the book that is in the current issue of The Marketer, the UK Chartered Institute of Marketing’s (CIM) journal.
The book is a distillation of what great leaders do, broken down into 60 second reads, for busy leaders, would-be leaders and should-be leaders who don’t have time to read books.
The book is available on Amazon and in all good book stores.
Sample extracts from The 60 Second Leader
Richard Branson has endorsed our family book
Our family book on learning to live with Huntington’s Disease, with Sandy as lead author, has been published by Jessica Kingsley Publishing and is now available on Amazon.co.uk in the UK or Amazon.com in the US. It can also be ordered online from the publisher’s website www.jkp.com
We asked Richard Branson, because of his interest in stem cell research, to take a look at the manuscript for the book. He did so and then kindly gave it the following endorsement:
“This is a moving true story of how people can find the inner strength to rise above it when their world is turned upside down.”
– Sir Richard Branson.
We feel this book is of use to anyone who has had to adapt to and absorb a life-change that people outside see as impossible to cope with – showing that you can learn to not just cope with but rise above an ongoing ‘catastrophe’ like a terminal hereditary illness (or alcoholism or anorexia or other ongoing family traumas – we think our experience is applicable to families in other situations, too).
