JobEQ Conference: 21-23 August 2009

An overview

1/ The conference itself

• Friday, August 21^th: Training Day: “More EQ for better results” . 
  This training will be based on recent development Patrick Merlevede made for jobEQ and on his newest book “Living your emotions” (written in French, published on March 26^th 2009)
• Saturday, August 22^nd: case study day:
  presentations of successfully applying jobEQ’s tools around the world, followed by jobEQ BBQ evening
• Sunday, August 23^th: exchange day:
  one day with sessions about new developments, an overview of validation data, Q&A, and a learning exchange about marketing between the people present

2/ pre-conference training

• Monday, August 17^th - Thursday 20^th: iWAM trainers certification process
• Tuesday, August 18^th - Thursday 20^th: iWAM certification course: professional & associate level
• Thursday, August 20^th: iWAM coaching day (an update for certified professionals)

3/post-conference training

After the conference, you have the opportunity to attend accellerated certification workshops, allowing you to use additional jobEQ product lines:

• Monday, August 24^th: 1-day COMET certification training
• Tuesday, August 25^th: 1-day VSQ certification training
• Wednesday, August 26^th: Model of Excellence Training
  (additional modeling certification for iWAM or VSQ professionals

Venue

The conference will be hosted jobEQ's headquarters in Belgium - in the convent in Eeklo. We will be using our completely renovated choir, which now became a library and training room
The library can seat up to 38 people, which should be enough if the conference stays at the same scale as the last 2 times, when we had mainly partners attending.  Since the conference will now be promoted to all certified users, it’s possible we’ll have more people who would attend.  In that case we’ll move the conference to the chapel next door, which can seat 110 persons.

There is hotel accommodation in the neighborhood (see http://jobeq.com/where_to_stay).
This year, we are also able to offer rudimentary “bed & breakfast” accommodation for up to 8 people in the convent.

For more information about the venue and accommodation, see the following pages:

• Pinehurst website: Locations Page
• jobEQ website: Directions Page

Conference Pricing

• Case Study Day Only: 150 Euro - 100 Euro when paid in full by July 1st
• Case Study  + Exchange Day: 200 Euro – 150 Euro when paid in full by July 1st
• Training Day on Emotional Intelligence: 300 Euro – 250 Euro when paid in full by July 1st
• pre & post conference workshops: 250 Euro/day - 200 Euro/day when paid in full by July 1st)

Prices for all training days include coffee breaks and a meal at lunch time – depending on the number of attendants or a particular day (and the catering logistics) , this will be a full lunch or a sandwich lunch.

More details

jobEQ Conference 2009 – Training Day
“More EQ for better results”

In 1996, after reading Goleman's book on Emotional Intelligence, Patrick Merlevede knew he had the answers to many of the issues raised by Daniel Goleman. He decide to write the book "7 Steps to Emotional Intelligence", demonstrating how best practices from cognitive science and NLP help to increase one's emotional intelligence. The book became a tremendous success, and was translated in 10 languages. Meanwhile Patrick hasn't stopped working. He wrote a book on enhancing approaches to Mentoring and Coaching with Emotional Intelligence and books on Knowledge Management and more efficient process management. For his 5^th book, published on 26 March 2009, he decided to revisit the topic of emotional intelligence, based on 10 more years of experience in researching and teaching on this topic. Unfortunately, this new book was written in french and at this time no translations are being prepared.

This one day program will bring you a practical summary of the book, organized around the "MANTRA":

1. M: Message: Do I listen to my emotions?
2. A: Analysis: Do I capture the meaning of my emotions?
3. N: Norm: What is there to learn from my emotions?
4. T: Totality: What about others? Taking into account that I'm not alone in this world.
5. R: Result: What do I really want?
6. A: Action: Moving into action wih all the resources I have.

Given this training day is included in the programme for the jobEQ conference, links will be made to the jobEQ tools and methods. We will discuss how Attitude and Motivation, Value Systems and competencies fit in this picture.

jobEQ Conference 2009 – Case Study Day

jobEQ Partners from 5 different countries present a series of succesful cases and research findings they have been working on since the last jobEQ conference. At the end of the day, jobQ hosts a BBQ to celebrate our success around the world.

9AM	Opening	Welcome Message from Patrick Merlevede
9h10	Session 1	News from Down Under Marilyn Powell –  Using iWAM for PhD-level research Learn what happens when one lets the iWAM loose on a Medical School, searching whether one could predict which students would become great doctors.  We discover which attitude and motivation characteristics make a difference as well as the loopholes encountered while bringing her PhD to a good end.
10h10	Session 2	iWAM takes a Great Leap Forward along the Great Wall Wendy Wu – Finding the Secret of Success. What can we learn about leadership in China, based on lessons learned from a external talent selection project for a Oil &Gas industry leader, from an internal Talent Selection Project for a large public company and from an internal Talent Development Project The top medical equipment company and on a large scale research project in collaboration with Fortune Magazine China.
11h10	BREAK
11h40	Session 3	Conquering Eastern Europe: iWAM in Poland Alina Tyl –  Experiences with an iWAM based Development Centre The session will discuss all stages of a building Assessment/Development Centre for an international corporation; showing how a job description can be converted into competence matrix and competence assessment results and pointing out the advantages of using iWAM and how it compares to the traditional assessment tools.
12h40	BREAK	LUNCH
14h00	Session 4	News from the New World Chuck Appleby, PhD – Do Baldrige Award winners have an attitude? Starting from a research project based on CEO’s of ward winning organizations, this session explores the link between attitudes/motivation and transformational leadership and how development of transformational leaders can be accelerated and how iWAM can be used as a coaching tool for senior leaders.
14h50	Session 5	Carl Harshman, PhD. – Using iWAM to energize leadership. In this project for a publicly-traded, 3-billion dollar global energy company, iWAM helped to assess leadership effectiveness and to develop models for identifying highly effective leaders in the future. Carl will discuss interventions he designed related to strategy, culture and leadership.
15h40	BREAK
16h10	Session 6/7	iWAM for Chocolate lovers Christophe Geerkens & Wim Thielemans Going where the team culture takes us. Based on projects for a Mobile Phone Operator, a Call Center and a Facility Company, the speakers will demonstrate how they get most of iWAM cultural models using a combination of team workshops, individual feedback, action plans and coaching sessions.
17h50	Closing	Wrapping up the formal part of the day (Patrick Merlevede)

The case study day is followed by a BBQ offered to jobEQ to all people attending the conference.
 

jobEQ Conference 2009 – Exchange Day

This day allows partners to get to know each other better, share experiences, learn the current state of affairs and tell jobEQ where you want us to go next. Sessions will include:

9AM	Opening	Welcome Message from Patrick Merlevede
9h10	Session 1	iWAM Research (Carl Harshman i& Patrick Merlevede) Recent Findings – an overview of projects done in the USA iWAM research – full status and Q&A for needs
10h10	Session 2	jobEQ Software: Update & Q&A What we have done during the last 2 years and what’s in the pipeline. Exchange about further software needs.
11h10	BREAK
11h30	Session 3	Roundtable: Product Q&A: What do you like about JobEQ’s tools? What would you like to see more of?
12h30	BREAK	LUNCH
13h30	Session 4	Materials & Documentation Showcase: Who has developed what? Partners get time to show the materials they developed (e.g. the iWAM resource Guide and the iWAM “Banual”). This is followed by a exchange to see how others can benefit while fairly rewarding the investment done by the partners.
14h00	Session 5	Workshop : Marketing the iWAM A learning exchange, dealing with questions as: what has worked for whom? What do our customers need?
15h20	Session 6	Needs Q&A: What do you need from jobEQ?
15h50	BREAK
16h20	Session 6/7	Action Planning What do we need to do? (Who does what by when)
17h50	Closing	Wrapping up the day (Patrick Merlevede)

jobEQ 2009 Conference – Pre-conference workshop

iWAM Trainer Certification Process - Monday 17 - Thursday 20^th August 2009

The iWAM certification training, which will run from Tuesday 18 till Thursday 20^th, will as be used as “trainer’s certification process”.  Here is how the process is structured:

1. Before the conference, candidate trainers will get a self-study package consisting of the official jobEQ training slides + additional resources, such as iWAM Resource Guide, the iWAM manual and the eBook “An introduction to Meta-programs”. 
2. Monday, August 17^th: Prior to the normal 3-day certification course, the candidate trainers will get one day “bootcamp” with Patrick Merlevede to discuss the training contents and questions they have about it. 
3. On Monday evening, they then will be assigned sections of the certification as theirs to give. 
4. Tuesday 18^th to Thursday 20^th: For the 3-day certification training, the audience will consist of people wishing to be certified as professionals as well as the other candidate trainers being present.  The candidate trainers will then be presenting the 3 other days under supervision of Patrick Merlevede. 
5. Thursday evening: Final feedback & graduation session: The presentations and interactions will provide the evidence whether candidates can be certified as iWAM trainers.  Candidates may be given a “conditional certification”, with some extra task to complete prior to receive their full certification.

Who should attend ?

• Experienced certified iWAM professionals who are also professional trainers and wish to run training sessions based on the iWAM and/or want to certify others in the use of iWAM
• LAB Profile trainer/consultants wanting to become jobEQ partners
• NLP trainers with a good knowledge of metaprograms, looking for a tool to add to their toolbox

Why is this training being organized?

To run training “Officially” (also public training), till 2008 the requirement has been: “taking the certification training” with Patrick Merlevede + being “grandfathered” (based upon LAB Profile trainer/consultant certification or an accepted NLP trainer certification, such as Dilts’ or Woodsmall’s , in combination with a good reputation as NLP trainer). 

However, in the past 2 years, we had several cases of certified iWAM users who did not meet the “grandfathering criteria”, wishing to run training based on the iWAM.  Several of them were experienced trainers and/or high-level consultants (but with another background). 

This is why a process has been created for certifying trainers, who then have to show that they are competent in running the iWAM training.  It is NOT a trainer’s training (that is left to Shelle Rose Charvet and others), but a certification process (designed for demonstrating one's competence in running a certification training).  This process also replaces most the “grandfathering procedure”, which will now be restricted to exceptional cases.

The number of attendants to this certification process is limited to a maximum 12 so that every candidate trainer will get enough chance to demonstrate their competence.

Cost of attendance:

1000 Euro for 4 days – 800 Euro when paid in full before July 1^st

Special price 2009 for certified LAB Profile trainer/consultants:
699 Euro when registering and paying by July 1^st

Venue:
The convent, Eeklo, Belgium

More information about the other training days

iWAM certification training, (Tuesday 18 till Thursday 20^th)

The iWAM certification training is a 3-day programme during which people learn to:

• distinguish the meta-programs measured by the iWAM,
• question them (in a similar way to what the LAB Profile training does,
• give feedback on them (to an individual or a team)
• use them in various applications, such as recruiting, assessment, coaching, teambuilding and modeling excellence
• use jobEQ's software to administer the iWAM questionnaire and generate the various reports.

iWAM coaching day (Thursday 20^th)

The iWAM coaching day is the last day of the iWAM certification program.  Given that several iWAM users didn’t get an extensive exposure to coaching applications of iWAM and the newest developments in this area, including coaching teams and organizational leaders, we decided to open up this last day of the training to certified users wanting to refresh their knowledge of coaching applications of the iWAM.  Applications that will be covered: individual coaching, working with pairs and team coaching. Principles covered will include the Offman model, iWAM’s communication language and focusing on strengths VS coping with development areas.  The training will be under supervision of Patrick Merlevede. The modules will be delivered by candidate trainers enrolled in the iWAM trainer certification process.

COMET certification workshop (Monday 24^th)

During this 1-day training program with Patrick Merlevede, you’ll learn how to use the COMET methodology to design a behavior based competency model and how to use this model for recruiting & assessment, either though behavior based interviewing or by using COMET questionnaires (either in self-assessment or 360°-feedback mode).  You will also learn to use the COMET method for coaching, as part of  jobEQ’s action oriented coaching approach. 

VSQ certification workshop (Tuesday 25^th)

During this 1-day workshop with Patrick Merlevede you will learn the patterns measured by jobEQ’s Value Systems Questionnaire and how they help to map organizational cultures.  Applications include Cultural Modeling, aligning organizational cultures and organizational consulting.  You will learn how to use the VSQ questionnaire and will work on a case study showing the effect of  Value Systems on organizational cultures.  Recommended pre-reading: the book “Spiral Dynamics” by Don Beck & Chris Cowan (1996).

Modeling workshop (Wednesday 26^th)

This 1-day program with Patrick Merlevede is open for experienced iWAM and/or VSQ users who want to use jobEQ’s toolset for modeling.[1]  You will learn to use the advanced modeling features available from jobEQ for making models of excellence for a job role and/or for modeling organizational cultures or even making standard groups.  The program includes the procedures to be followed to make a model and the underlying statistical principles.  We will either work on a case study from one or several of the participants who have already made models in collaboration with jobEQ or on some models jobEQ made for other projects.  Certification of this course gives you the right to create models of excellence using jobEQ’s toolset.  For being certified, we expect that you make a first model under supervision of jobEQ (this can be done prior or after attending this workshop).

[1] jobEQ’s tools have been designed around the principle of modeling excellence.  For that purpose, certified modelers can subscribe to extensions to the search engine and to team report (the subscription to the extension costs 50 credits a year, including help desk support by Patrick Merlevede).

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