2015 Winter Meeting Schedule

Prior to the 2015 Winter Meeting, we encourage all attendees to take their 15 minute LIFO assessment in order to benefit most fully from all meeting sessions. Information on this assessment will be circulated to registrants via email at a later date. 

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

• Conference Registration, 9:30 AM
• Welcome, 10:00 AM
• Opening Remarks, 10:05 AM
  Presented by Terri Mottershead, Mottershead Consulting, and Elizabeth Foster-Nolan, Director of Professional Development, Goulston & Storrs
• Get the Best Ride on Your Career Journey: The Intersection of the PDC Core Competency Model and Your LIFO Behavioral Assessment, 10:15 AM
  Presented by Andy Colon, Chief Talent Officer, Thompson Hine LLP
  Regardless of where you want to go, what responsibilities you want to hold, or the degree of success you expect to attain in PD, you need good career navigation skills because you are in the driver's seat during the entire trip. At some points, the conditions will be good and the road easy to navigate. At other points, the conditions will be challenging and the road difficult to navigate, with blind spots to recognize and hazards to avoid, requiring you to negotiate hairpin turns and make split-second decisions that can impact your route, arrival time, and end point. Although the PDC Core Competency Model provides you with a road map for your career journey, having a map is not enough. To successfully navigate your professional journey, you must also understand the vehicle you are driving and its features. What kind of gas do you take - what motivates you? How does your vehicle handle - how do you handle situations such as working in teams, communicating with direct reports, and leading others? Are you more like a race car, or a motor home? A sedan or a truck? By both seeing the road and understanding how your unique work style can affect your trip, you are more likely to reach your career destination and enjoy the ride!
• LIFO - Explore Your Strengths, Personal Styles, & Impact: Understanding Your Make, Model, Engine, and Performance, 10:30 AM
  Presented by LIFO Master Coaches Katie Snyder and Mary Vargas
  How does your behavior and communication approach affect you, your team, drive your success, and/or hinder your performance? Are you aware of your behavior styles and preferences? Your actions influence your world and your teams. By understanding your behavioral preferences, you can use your strengths, adapt your excesses, and become aware of your blind spots to improve your impact, productivity, and team function. Conversation is the basis for everything we do: relationships, culture, and productive work. LIFO can help anyone understand his/her behavioral communication style. During this program you will receive an introduction to Life Orientations (LIFO) through exploring your behavioral styles report, and apply that understanding in concrete ways to understand how to improve your personal and team communication.
• Networking Lunch and Presentation of the Richard Pearson Award, 12:45 PM
• PDC Talk, 2:00 PM
  Presented by Amy Hancock, Director of Professional Development, Andrews Kurth LLP
  Who wouldn’t love a “checklist” (of sorts) - telling you exactly how to maximize your chances for success under a certain leader or as a key-player on a certain team? Amy Hancock will share how she has used her personal LIFO assessment profile in her own work place and why she has shared it with her team members and superiors since 2006 to help them better understand her work and communication styles and “drivers.” Amy believes this tool and its implications have helped her and her direct reports be more productive and effective and have also helped them solidify successful relationships within their team and their law firm generally. She will share specific ways she has used her report in the past to set proper team expectations and how she’s also referred to it in order to remind herself of her own strengths and uniqueness. . . . especially in the midst of challenging or stressful work initiatives. Her talk will also include specific data points in the form of reactions her co-workers have had about the opportunity to benefit from this information and how they try to utilize it (for their own benefits!) while striving to work together in smooth and effective manners.
• Peer Group Coaching: An Introduction (Using Peer Group Coaching as a Developmental Tool), 2:15 PM
  Presented by Jennifer Rakstad, Career Development Attorney, Mayer Brown LLP
• Catch Your Breath: A Three Minute Focusing Exercis, 2:45 PM
  Presented by Laura Rogora, Professional Development and Inclusion Manager, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
• Peer Group Coaching: Practicum, 2:50 PM
  Presented by Jennifer Rakstad, Career Development Attorney, Mayer Brown LLP
  This session is a follow up to the “Peer Group Coaching: An Introduction” session that precedes it. The practicum involves participants dividing into peer groups of at least 4 members and practicing peer group coaching around the members’ developmental goals.
• I Didn’t Think That Was Going to Happen, 4:00 PM
  Presented by Joanne Schaefer, Founder, JSchaefer Coaching
  Sometimes you get thrown a curve ball you didn’t expect. Something or someone is blocking your career path and you can’t do much about it. How do you get back on track? Joanne will share best practices to successfully work through unanticipated obstacles and challenges and will provide tools to empower you take hold of your career when the unexpected happens. 
• Developing Your Personal Career Plan, 4:15 PM
  Susan Manch, Chief of People & Development, Norton Rose Fulbright
  In this session, we will pull together all of our conference learnings and experiences and relate them to a written career plan. Attendees will be given time to draft their individual career plans.
• Wrap-Up, 5:15 PM
  Presented by Terri Mottershead, Mottershead Consulting, and Elizabeth Foster-Nolan, Director of Professional Development, Goulston & Storrs   
• Small Group Dinners, 6:15 PM