Keynotes

One Thing You Need to Know

Buckingham reveals The One Thing You Need to Know, the title of his newest book. One underlying element powers great management, leadership, and career success-the three most fundamental elements of professional activity.

Research, interviews with experts, and his 17-year career at the Gallup Organization studying the world's best leaders, managers, and workplaces support Buckingham's argument about what exactly that one thing is. Find out for yourself, and watch your career soar.

Buckingham's two previous books, First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently and Now, Discover Your Strengths, soared to the top of best-seller lists, and he has wowed audiences nationwide by challenging conventional wisdom and showing the link between employee opinions and productivity, profit, customer satisfaction, and the rate of turnover.

Watch a video clip of Marcus Buckingham talking about your best and worst day at work in the last three months.

Seven Irrefutable Rules of Business Growth

More than any other objective, businesses need to grow. Steven S. Little, senior consultant with Inc. magazine and former president of three fast-growth companies, gives you what you need to know to grow your business effectively and profitably.

From a business practitioner's viewpoint, Little examines the areas in which growth organizations concentrate their efforts and explores topics such as predicting organizational growth, finding and keeping the best and brightest in the industry, and the social, economic, environmental, and political macro-changes most likely to affect the staffing industry.

In his new book, The 7 Irrefutable Rules of Small Business Growth, Little skips theory and delivers practical and proven business growth solutions. His cutting-edge advice provides you with information and insight to reach new levels of business development.

Watch a video clip of Steven S. Little explaining "the potato chip rule."

Leadership: It's Not Just for CEOs

Back by popular demand—At last year's convention, tackling some of the toughest issues affecting today's workplace with honesty, insight, and solutions, was one of our highest rated speakers: Connie Podesta. Building on last year's program, Connie has developed a new super-charged session that could affect your life.

Noted for her bottom-line approach, she helps leaders motivate employees, increase productivity, and develop strong, healthy, functional teams.

Podesta is known for her blunt, no-nonsense messages, which are delivered with a healthy portion of humor and pizzazz. She has written three widely read books: Life Would Be Easy if It Weren't for Other People, Self-Esteem and the Six-Second Secret, and How to Be the Person Successful Companies Fight to Keep: The Insider's Guide to Being Number One in the Workplace.

Watch a video clip of Connie Podesta describing why life would be easy if it weren't for other people.