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Conference: "Earning while learning", Cartagena, Colombia, March , 31-April 4, 1998

  • 1.  Conference: "Earning while learning", Cartagena, Colombia, March , 31-April 4, 1998

    Posted 11-01-1997 14:54
    LIM (Leadership in International Management, USA) and the MiL Institute
    (Sweden) are proud to invite yo to attend LIM International Conference
    "EARNING WHILE LEARNING: REFRAMING THE CHALLENGE OF DEVELOPING GLOBAL
    BUSINESS LEADERS - AN EXAMINATION OF THE APPLICATION OF ACTION REFLECTION
    LEARNING AND OTHER EXPERIENTIAL APPROACHES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF GLOBAL
    BUSINESS LEADERS"

    LIM-USA, its partners in Argentina, Colombia, and Brazil, and its sister
    company, the MiL Institute from Sweden bring together 130 global
    consultants, 20 years' experience with over 100 international companies,
    and work experience in the US, Western and Eastern Europe, South America
    and Asia.

    The focus of this conference is to address the following questions:
    - How can our company learn to manage the complexity and contradictions
    involved in becoming a global organization?
    - How can we learn how to work effectively in multi-cultural teams?
    - How can we develop proactive change leaders across our company?
    - How can we develop our global business strategy while maintaining
    sensitivity to regional and cultural issues?
    - How can we simultaneously learn and solve strategic business problems?
    - How can our organization reinforce its competitive position?

    We are pleased to have world-class keynote speakers to share their
    experience in global leadership development:

    - Pat Canavan, Senior Vicepresident for Human Resources worldwide at
    Motorola
    - Victoria Marsick, professor at Teachers' College, Columbia University,
    and co-author of "Sculpting the Learning Organization"
    - Robert Ollivier, Director of the Human Resource Management Graduate
    Program at Los Andes University in Colombia
    - Stephen Rhinesmith, author of "A Manager's Guide to Globalization", and
    former president of ASTD

    There are 14 concurrent workshops already scheduled with presenters coming
    from business, the consulting world, and academia from North America,
    South America, and Europe. All of them will focus on actual
    business experiences involving multinational corporations, and gruped in
    the fields of leadership development, team development, and learning
    coach development.

    There are two parts to the Conference, both designed to maximize your
    exposure to fresh approaches to development of high potential leaders in
    the global arena. The workshops, between March 31st and April 2nd, and
    an outdoor learning experience, between April 3rd and 4th, 1998. The
    Conference site will be the Santa Clara Hotel in Cartagena, Colombia,
    South America, and the outdoor learning experience will take place in the
    Rosary Islands off Cartagena's shore.

    Both parts are designed for persons responsible for the professional
    development of high-potential staff, human resource and organizational
    development professionals, and line managers.

    For information, please contact Brenda Marotta, LIM Ltd., e-mail:
    bjtypist@aol.com, fax: 1-609-466-8105, 1743 Linvale Harb Rd, Lambertville
    NJ 08530 USA, Phone: 1-609-737-9160. In South America, please contact
    Mauricio Cardenas, LIM Andina, e-mail: macarden@uniandes.edu.co, fax:
    571-637-3424, Tr 12 118A-44 Bogota, Colombia, Phone: 571-612-1648 or
    571-612-2192.