IOHRM Students Attend the NCIOP Spring Conference Held at Center for Creative Leadership

On March 18, the IOHRM students had the opportunity to attend the NCIOP Spring Conference held at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) in Greensboro. NCIOP holds a Fall and Spring Conference every year to help provide professional development opportunities for both current and aspiring Industrial-Organizational Psychologists across North Carolina.

For more than four decades, CCL has focused on leadership development for individuals, teams, and entire organizations to produce results that are meaningful and sustainable over time. The CCL is represented by thousands of organizations and millions of leaders, spanning six continents. They boast research and experience that spans across cultures, industries, and disciplines to find real world solutions through impactful work and leadership.

The morning session at CCL featured six panelists including Brooke Allison, a PhD Candidate from Clemson University, Nathan Sloan, Principal at Deloitte Consulting, Jenn McGinnis, Organizational Effectiveness Manager at the Office of State Human Resources, Claire White, Manager of Performance Management at TIAA-CREF, Maria Pannozzo, Director of Executive and Leadership Effectiveness at Duke Energy, and Brodie Riordan, Senior Consultant at PDRI, a Corporate Executive Board Company. Our very own first year, Sarah Willis, moderated this discussion where the panelists offered current perspectives, research, and case studies on what their organizations are doing regarding performance management, with a focus on addressing the current media hype and attention. They used an IGNITE presentation to present on their individual companies, followed by an interactive panel discussion with the audience. A few themes that dominated this conversation were that performance management needs to be a process or everyday cycle instead of a singular event a couple times a year, it needs to be more of an informal process, and it needs to focus on teams within companies instead of just the individual.

During the afternoon session, Bill Gentry, Ph.D. from the Center for Creative Leadership, lead a session based off of his upcoming book, How To Be The Boss Everyone Wants To Work For, A Guide For New Leaders. His presentation, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do And So Is Leading Others For The First Time, offered new insight into the business world and provided information for new managers, frontline leaders, and those who work with, coach, and develop them, on how to be an effective and successful leader. His talk discussed how to ‘FLIP YOUR SCRIPT’ on your mindset, skillset, relationships, “Do It All” attitude, perspective, and focus. Dr. Gentry offered practical advice and lessons that were backed by research and science to explain the art behind leading as a first-time manager. His biggest take away point was something all new professionals need to hear: You never get a second chance to be a first-time manager; flip your script and do it right the first time.

Spring NCIOP 2016 attendees
Published: Apr 4, 2016 1:31pm

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