HumaNext 2013 Event: Employee Engagement, Emotional Intelligence, Creativity & Innovation, Inclusion & Culture Competency + Certification

1. From the moment of your arrival to the event, you will get involved in the exhilarating process of engagement and change. You will be put on a discovery journey where you will be engaged in continuous activities, discussion, and exploration of the powerful concept of employee engagement with intelligence, innovation and inclusion at work.
2. You will experience the core competencies of “Creating Employee Engagement” and its powerful impact on the corporate culture. You will receive the Employee Engagement Participant Workbook.
3. You will experience the core competencies of “Emotional Intelligence” as the primary force for creating a work culture of respect, understanding, and collaboration. You will receive the ”Emotional Intelligence at Work” Participant Workbook.
4. You will experience the core competencies of “Creativity & Innovation at Work”. You will receive the Creativity & Innovation at Work Participant Workbook.
5. You will experience the core competencies of “Diversity, Inclusion, and Culture Competency” and will receive its Participant Workbook.
6. You will experience our unique Heart & Mind methodology for learning and communication. You will spend the last hour in the event doing an activity that pulls together the powerful “Insights” of Heart & Mind as have been applied during the session, and how you will be able to apply them in your work.

Post Event Online Certification Option:

    7- You will have the opportunity of getting certified to deliver any or all of these programs / workshops and methodologies yourself as a HumaNext Certified Facilitator by taking our optional post-event online webinars. The certification in one or all of the workshops you’ve experienced will give you the rights and tools (including all documentations) to run these powerful programs at your, or your clients’, organization.

Are you still designing and delivering training or communication / information events the old way, causing many participants to sleep in their seats or not even show up for the event? At HumaNext, since its inception in 2002, we have been working to change this sad state of affairs. In 2007, we introduced a new experimental training methodology called Heart & Mind Learning and applied it to one of our HumaNext train-the-trainer events. Our thinking was: since the business-as-usual way of delivering training is not working, we must try something different; we must turn training upside down. Instead of attendees coming to the session expecting to be lectured to by the trainer, we said: “What if they participate in delivering the presentations themselves?” And you can think the same way about other events that aim at educating and communicating with any audience.

We experimented with a number of non-traditional approaches to training, learning, and communicating, including concepts like “Learning by Teaching”; “Social Learning”; “Pre-and-Post Event Communication”; “Discovery Design”; “Past-to-Present”; “Remarkable Openers”; “Energy-Generating Moments”, and others. The results astonished us: We received comments like these: “Only time will truly tell the enormous impact that you have had on my life", and “I definitely felt as though I was taking part in something very special during the last three days. I left the training inspired and energized, and looking forward to using the tools. Thank you for making the training so impactful for me. - Amy Jaffe Barzac, Co-founder, Boundless Playgrounds.

Experience the magic of transformational learning

You don’t just receive information. You get inspiration. You don’t learn by listening. You learn by teaching. You don’t attend an event. You participate in a unique collaborative experience of shared learning and growing. The difference is significant. The results are dramatic. That’s why participants say things like:

 “Listening to you all and learning from you has changed the way I see the world, and helped me to build a vision far greater than I'd ever imagined”. - Holly McLemore, Training Manager.

Specific Advantages of HumaNext Learning and Certification

• It is the only certification that enables you to certify in more than one topic / workshop in the same process. No other certification program on the market today offers this. This way, you can start or expand your own training business by offering a number of powerful workshops to your clients the day after you complete your certification.
• It is the only program that offers you complete materials, tools, and delivery documents to help you design and deliver great training on any topic, using our “Heart & Mind Learning” methodology. You will experience the magic of Heart & Mind Learning during the sessions, then get the complete program with your certification.
• Our Emotional Intelligence certification is not based on or revolves around an assessment tool, as are most other EQ certifications, where you basically get trained to use their assessment instrument. We do offer two assessment options, but we also offer a very rich content on Emotional Intelligence and a complete workshop you can deliver without using any assessments if you so choose.
• We don’t require you to buy any of our other materials or products, nor do we take commission or fees from you every time you deliver our programs, as some other certification providers do.
• Some of the world’s best organizations have sent their people to attend HumaNext events and got certified to deliver our workshops, from the Mayo Clinic and the US Army in the United States, to organizations and consultants in Canada, Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Europe.
• We keep our fees significantly lower than others, as some charge more than double what we charge, and offer only one topic certification for it.

Read this entire page to learn more about HumaNext events, our exciting certification options, the many benefits you get with it, and what participants who come from around the world say about it.

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Great training is an experience where participants are engaged in transformational learning that produces change in thinking and behavior. The learning is so profound and exciting that participants don’t want it to end. The impact is personal and intense. The entire experience is one that participants will remember for a long time. At the end of the training, participants write things like the following actual comments:

• Francois, Thank you so much for the wonderful class in New York, which I will never forget. It was one of the most rewarding classes that I have taken. I look forward to collaborations with the great people I met at the class and a rewarding relationship with HumanNext. - Bobbi Ball, Executive Director, Partners in Community Building, Chicago. 
•  “Only time will truly tell the enormous impact that you have had on my life"
• "Listening to you all and learning from you has changed the way I see the world, and helped me build a vision far greater than I'd ever imagined."

But how can you create such training? You can do it by applying a number of principles we have put together in a methodology we call “Heart & Mind Learning”. People who attend our annual HumaNext events experience this methodology first hand as they learn vital skills like emotional intelligence, diversity and inclusion, and cross cultural competency. The Heart & Mind Learning methodology involves twenty Insights, some of which are:

• What people focus on becomes their reality: We invite people to shift their focus from the problems they want to fix to the bigger picture of the exciting future they want to create for themselves and the organization.
• Taking the best of the past to the future: The most confident way for people to move to the future is to carry forward the best parts of the past. We help people identify what worked best for them and take it forward to create larger accomplishments.
• Change starts with the individual: We invite participants to adopt Gandhi's principle, "We must become the change we want to see in the world." We believe that people are capable of change once they choose it themselves. Our work helps participants access the source of motivation for change.
• The best way to learn a subject is to teach it. We apply this by asking participants to facilitate a short segment of the program's content, just 45 minutes or so. We give them the content they facilitate and ask that they add their own experience with the topic. The concept became so successful we now use it in all our UnConferences and workshops.
• Engagement is self-generated: One of our key "Insights" is that everybody wants to do good work that brings them self-satisfaction and the recognition and appreciation of others. Participants learn how to inspire a desire for engagement and achievement in themselves and others. Because this desire is self-generated, it produces much better results than external incentives and rewards.
• Heart & Mind Learning delivers many more equally powerful insights that work to create real change in the way people learn, think, and act.

HumaNext 2013 will enable you to experience powerful principles and practices of self and employee engagement, emotional intelligence, creativity & innovation, and managing differences, inclusion & culture competency. The 3 day event will weave these topics together, taking you from one experiential activity to the next, from one concept to its application, from one research result to its practical conclusion, until you gain a deeper understanding of these most in-demand topics and their impact on organization performance and employee engagement.

The schedule is 9 AM to 5 PM daily except the last day when we finish at 4 PM.

Specifically, the 3 day event delivers experiences, concepts, and applications on the vital topics below..

• You will learn how you can harness emotional intelligence to create more engaging communication and collaboration.
• You will learn a powerful model for applying emotional intelligence at work.
• By integrating emotional intelligence concepts, research findings and case-studies, we offer participants and organizations the most useful applications of the concept of emotional intelligence at work.
• The emphasis in our training is not on the research or theories, which we cover quickly, but rather on workplace applications in areas like self awareness, self management, attitude development, relationship management, emotionally intelligent communication, collaboration, leadership, coaching, and feedback.
• We use the most popular and easiest to understand and apply approach to emotional intelligence, based on the representation concepts of EQ pioneer Daniel Goleman.

Unlike traditional employee engagement initiatives that require significant investment in money, time, and efforts, our Self & Employee Engagement process is simple yet powerful. You will learn:

• Why start by the crucial step of engaging yourself and your team before trying to engage all employees.
• How to implement an employee engagement initiative that produces dramatic results in a short period of time with almost no budget.
• Why some initiatives fail and how to do yours right.
• How to communicate in a way that creates excitement about the initiative throughout the organization.
• How to link your employee engagement effort to other business objectives in the organization and show results.

And with the optional post-event webinar certification, you can receive all the materials, guides, assessments, and slides to run / deliver this program at your organization, or to your clients.

Creativity is now the most important leadership quality for success in business, outweighing integrity and global thinking, according to a study by IBM. We offer a unique workshop that helps people sharpen their creative thinking and problem solving skills through research-based techniques for breakthrough results. You will also learn how some of America's most innovative companies have created a culture of innovation at work and how your team can do the same.

Participants will..

• Apply nuts and bolts techniques for unleashing their creative thinking abilities.
• Learn how to generate an abundance of new ideas at work.
• Apply creative problem solving techniques to solve difficult work problems.
• Improve brain power in the areas of perception, imagination, analysis, and concentration.
• Create an environment / work culture that fosters creativity and innovation throughout the organization.

And with the optional post-event online certification, you will receive all the materials, guides, assessments, and slides to run / deliver this program at your organization, or to your clients.

Our extensive experience has shown that people will not commit to the business side of diversity and inclusion without first adopting inclusion as a personal commitment. Our workshop helps participants develop this all important "missing link". We offer inclusion / diversity training in a balanced blend between the business and the human sides of the organization. This presents inclusion at its best. It helps people adopt it as part of their value system as well a way of doing business in working with colleagues and customers.

The workshop covers all aspects of inclusion and working with differences:

• Activities to experience inclusion and exclusion and their impact.
• Strategies to foster inclusion at work.
• How men and women can work together more effectively.
• Working with Different Generations including generations X and Y.
• Working effectively with persons with Disabilities.
• Working across cultural differences.

We continue with Culture Competency:

• You will learn how to work effectively across cultural differences
• How to understand your own culture as well as the cultures of others
• How to contrast cultures using the Cultural Continuum
• How to develop global skills

Heart & Mind Methodology: We conclude the event with an activity that reviews and summarizes for you the various “Insights’ of Heart & Mind methodology that you’ve experienced throughout the 3 days. Learn more about “Heart & Mind methodology” on this page.

HumaNext’s 3i Approach to Engagement is based on the idea that true Employee Engagement starts first inside the individual and, after satisfying certain drives, spreads throughout the organization. The 3i approach addresses the 3i’s of intelligence, inclusion, and innovation.

• intelligence: Refers to emotional intelligence that goes beyond the intellect to ignite passion for performance.
• inclusion: Refers to the inclusion of employees in a culture and cause larger than themselves.
• innovation: Refers to the breakthrough work employees join together to achieve using creative, out-of-the-box thinking.

HumaNext 2013 covers the 3i topics and weaves them together in a powerful learning event where you will experience engagement at its best, and learn how to create employee engagement, emotional intelligence, diversity & inclusion, and creativity & innovation for the entire organization.

I have weaved some of the concepts (of the training) into what I am doing here at the Army... Francois leads his 'Applying Emotional Intelligence' class with a highly effective mixture of kindness, compassion and expertise. He creates and nurtures a cooperative and cohesive classroom environment, where participants are motivated to use their collective synergy to find solutions to their unique challenges."

- Andy Kirkpatrick, CERDEC Executive Coaching Program Director Employee Resources Services US Army

• I definitely felt as though I was taking part in something very special during the last three days. I left the training inspired and energized, and looking forward to using the tools. Thank you for making the training so impactful for me. - Amy Jaffe Barzac, Co-founder, Boundless Playgrounds.
• You were all so impressive and inspiring, and the materials so interesting. Thank you for sharing your spirits so freely! - Rick Richard Hammett, Full Time Doctoral Student & Graduate Assistant, Texas A&M University.
• Thank you so much for the wonderful class which I will never forget. It was one of the most rewarding classes that I have taken. I look forward to collaborations with the great people I met at the class and a rewarding relationship with HumanNext. - Bobbi Ball, Executive Director, Partners in Community Building, Chicago.

• Francois Basili, founder of HumaNext LLC, has more than twenty years experience as a corporate training/HRD and communication executive and consultant.
• He trained and certified hundreds of trainers in the US and abroad using his Heart & Mind Learning methodology for designing and delivering great learning experiences.
• He developed nationally recognized training programs, and led workshops attended by executives from American, European, and Asian corporations.
• Mr. Basili has given speeches to national and international audiences in major training conferences for the Strategic Research Institute and others, and has given interviews to several national publications on critical workplace issues.
• He has developed internationally distributed training programs on emotional intelligence, employee engagement, creativity & innovation, diversity and inclusion, communication skills, and others.

Attending Without Certification: Register now for 3 days of May 15, 16 & 17, 2013 - Regular Now! $1495

Student Rate (Available to full time college/university students only): $395

Adding Post-Event Online Certification: Register now for Post-Event Online Certification at $295 for first workshop, and $195   for each additional workshop after the first - to get certified to deliver the workshop(s) of your choice, with Leader’s Guide, PP Slides, and Reproducible Participant Manual, PLUS Heart & Mind program.Click the red "Add To Cart" to select your certification workshop.

You may also pay with a Purchase Order, or by a check payable to HumaNext LLC, at 8 Brownstone Terrace, Hawthorne, NJ 07506 USA

Cancellation policy: Refund of amount paid (minus $150 processing fee) when cancelled more than 60 days prior to event, 50% refund with 30 to 60 days notice, no refund for less than 30 days before event. If workshop is given again in the future, forfeited amount (minus 15% or $150 ) may be applied toward future fees.)

• Clarion Empire Meadowlands Hotel – Harmon Plaza, Secaucus, New Jersey, US, 07094 - (5 Miles from New York City).
• Phone: (201) 348-6900
• Hotel's website: http://www.clarionhotel.com/hotel-secaucus-new_jersey-NJ318  
• This stylish hotel places guests a short bus ride away from New York City- Manhattan.
• The closest airport is Newark Liberty International Airport.

HumaNext has reserved a block of rooms at the reduced rate of $99 per night (plus tax). Don’t make reservations online. Call the hotel and ask for HumaNext rate.

• Experience the transformational power of these concepts as they turn into action in your work-life.
• Since its inception 11 years ago, HumaNext has been dedicated to helping people and organizations create the work culture of engagement, intelligence, innovation, and inclusion.
• Attend our annual event HumaNext 2013 to learn, with optional certification to run, these vital programs for your organization or your clients.

• Intelligence is Power! And it comes in various forms: From emotional intelligence, creative thinking and innovation; to social intelligence, employee engagement, and inclusion in a culture and a cause.
• And it comes in all these forms to HumaNext 2013.
• Charge yourself with the power of intelligence.
• Be smart. Be the change. Register for HumaNext 2013

HumaNext 2013: A Different Learning Experience - Transformation, not information

• Engagement that starts inside the individual and spreads to the organization.
• Intelligence that goes beyond the intellect to ignite passion for performance.
• Innovation that turns creativity into reality.
• Organizational culture that affirms inclusion, collaboration, and cultural competence.

Learn more about HumaNext 2013 on this page..

• According to research by the Gallup Organization, personal friendships at work can increase satisfaction by as much as 50%. The Gallup’s study entitled Vital Friends: The People You Can’t Afford To Live Without, which was based on more than 5 million interviews, showed that people with three friends at work were 46% more likely to be extremely satisfied with their jobs and 88% more likely to be satisfied with their lives, as well as having fewer work-related accidents and being more engaged with customers.
• In fact, Gallup’s Q-12 employee engagement benchmark survey includes the question, ‘Do I have a best friend at work?’ as one of the indicators of greater engagement in the workplace, with links to higher levels of productivity, profit, employee retention and customer satisfaction.
• As a result, your employee engagement initiative should include strategies to facilitate the development and sustenance of friendships among employees. One of the ways to start this off is by offering retreats where employees can learn together. While acquiring vital business-related skills, employees often find themselves making long-term friendships with their co-workers through the sharing of personal development opportunities, experiences, plans, and ideas.

Learn more about creating employee engagement at work with emotional intelligence, innovation, and inclusin at HumaNext 2013 event. Read more on this page.

• You will become a HumaNext Certified Facilitator, gaining the benefits of associating with a training company that offers the most innovative training needed by organizations today. Just visit our three web sites to see the range of our capabilities, products, and services. You will be entitled - but not obligated - to use your HumaNext certification to promote your training.
• HumaNext offers other services, such as a complete online training library, a full training video service, and assessment center, and more. Having a company like HumaNext behind you to give you support is one of the powerful advantages you will gain from this certification.
• You will receive a full 20% discount on all training products and programs offered by us (except some videos) for as long as you maintain your certification status (by paying a fee – currently $295 per year, after the first two years since attending which are included in your first certification.)
• You will receive a complete workshop facilitation package for each workshop you get certified to deliver. This includes a comprehensive step-by-step Facilitator’s Guide and dramatic PowerPoint slides to enable you to deliver the workshop with ease and mastery, and a reproducible Participant’s Workbook Master. You will be able to reproduce the Workbooks for hundreds of participants in your workshops at no additional charge, unlike many other certification providers who charge you for each workbook every time you deliver a workshop.

We use the most relevant profiles and assessments in the areas covered by our workshops. For example, for Emotional Intelligence we offer a choice of in print or online assessment to suit your clients’ needs. We also offer a large selection of other print and online assessments covering a wide range of topics and competencies.

Your certification enables you to offer our assessments / profiles to your clients at a discount and mark it up to make a profit. Here are some of the profiles you can offer your clients:

• Emotional Intelligence Profile.
• Creativity and Innovation Profile and Innovation Gap
• Employee Engagement Profile
• Inside-out Profile for personal transformation
• Communication Effectiveness Profile
• Valuing Diversity Profile
• Cross Cultural Skills Profile
• Team Effectiveness Profile
• Culture Compass for Corporate Culture Assessment

“Learning by Teaching” is part of the innovative "Heart & Mind Learning" approach to learning we use in our Un-Conference. There are many other innovations that together deliver a uniquly powerful learning experience for participants. Suffices here to give you some examples of the kind of evaluation comments participants write at the end of the Un-Conference:

• "I never shared with you how meaningful the New York experience was for me. Listening to you all and learning from you has changed the way I see the world, and helped me to build a vision far greater than I'd ever imagined. - Holly McLemore, Training Manager
• I left the training inspired and energized, and looking forward to using the tools. I appreciate each and every one of you and thank you for making the training so impactful for me. - Amy Jaffe Barzac, Co-founder, Boundless Playgrounds.
• Thank you for making this learning voyage both productive and pleasant. I have begun to consider the challenge, and opportunity the training presents in my personal life, administrative roles, and consulting practice. - George Roets, Director, Public Health Services, Watkins Glen, New York.
• You were all so impressive and inspiring, and the materials so interesting - I definitely felt as though I was taking part in something very special during the last three days. Thank you for sharing your spirits so freely! - Your Admiring Alumnus, Rick Richard Hammett, Full Time Doctoral Student & Graduate Assistant, Texas A&M University.)
• Francois, Thank you so much for the wonderful class is New York, which I will never forget. It was one of the most rewarding classes that I have taken. - Bobbi Ball, Executive Director, Partners in Community Building, Chicago.

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Attending Without Certification: Register now for 3 days of May 15, 16 & 17, 2013 -  $1495

Boot camps are valuable when you want to become skilled in a limited number of topics, usually one to three, on a much deeper level. The number of attendees is usually small to give ample opportunities for participation, discussions, activities, and shared learning.

HumaNext events are all of the Boot Camp type, or “Un-conferences”. We limit the number of participants to about 25 who spend the three days being immersed in the topics till they reach a level of mastery. The boot camps allow for intense, experiential, and personal learning unobtainable through traditional conferences covering tens of topics and sessions. Moreover, all our Boot Camps are designed and delivered using our Heart & Mind Learning methodology, resulting in a much more powerful and meaningful learning experience for participants. Learn more about it on this page.

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This question lies at the heart of training, as it invites the larger question of “Does training work?” What makes this question more challenging is the prevailing view that people’s minds and personalities are formed by the age of seven, or even younger. So how can we expect them to change by attending a training workshop at the age of thirty or fifty?

In her book, “Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain” Wall Street Journal science columnist Sharon Begley states, "Yes, the brain can change, and that means we can change.”

Until recently, the reigning theory was that neurons in the brain didn't regenerate. Begley documents experiments showing that new neurons are created in the brain every day, even in people in their 70s. The book provides a convincing account of recent discoveries in brain neuroplasticity. With these discoveries, we can more confidently say that training can be part of a difficult but not impossible change process available to the learner. Yes training does work and yes people can change. But change is not magical nor does it happen at a moment notice. It is a long and difficult journey.

But you cannot change what you don’t know. So for people to truly start their change process, they must first understand their mind, their personality, and themselves. It’s suggested that a training workshop on change at work covers the following points:

1. Introduction of the latest research on brain neuroplasticity (ability to be molded) and emotional intelligence concepts.
2. Exercises to help participants discover themselves using personality type / preferences tools.
3. Activities to help participants discover their genius, or core talents, skills, competencies, and life-calling.
4. Activities to help participants turn their discoveries and insights into behavior.
5. Finally, exploration of ways to apply the learning at work, using role-plays and simulations of daily work problems.

To experience some of these concepts, attend one of HumaNext events. Read more about them on this page.

• The learning events offered by HumaNext are best described as Un-Conferences. They are very different from your typical conferences.
• The UnConference comes out of a unique way of designing and delivering great learning events, which you will experience by attending our event in New Jersey.
• With your post-event certification, you also receive the Leaders’ Guide, PowerPoint slides, and reproducible participant workbook that enable you to create similarly powerful learning events - or UnConferences- using our Heart & Mind Learning methodology.
• Learn how our UnConference is different and why you should attend one in 2013. Learn more on this page.

Currently, employee engagement is the one research-proven strategy that enables people to both feel great and perform better at work. A number of “drivers of engagement” have been identified and ways to enable them have been developed. At HumaNext 2012, you will learn what these drivers of engagement are, which three among them are the most potent, and what methodology you can follow to create them at your organization.

• In a recent study reported in toolbox.com, a group of people were given a problem solving test and their scores were recorded. Participants were then interviewed individually and asked to describe a person in their lives that they thought was controlling. For 15 minutes, they were asked to describe the person, their actions and specific situations. After this interview, they were given another (equivalent) problem-solving test and overall they performed about 30% worse. Just the thought of someone controlling us decreases our ability to perform by 30%!
• When we take control away from people, their ability to think critically, to perform, and to control emotions and behaviors is compromised. They also tend to become less engaged in their work. Research on the factors that impact employee engagement indicates that the higher the level of autonomy people have at work, the higher is their level of engagement.
• Another surprising factor that impacts both performance and engagement is the thermostat.A new Cornell University study showed that when the temperature in an office is 68 degrees or lower, employees made 44% more errors and were less than half as productive as when the temperature was set at a comfortable 77 degrees.
• Another study, reported in Fast Company magazine, found that when people are cold, they're more likely to see others around them as less generous and caring, which can have an effect on employee engagement and workplace relationships.

For the latest on ways to increase employee engagement while increasing emotional intelligence, creativity, innovation, and inclusion / culture competency attend HumaNext 2013. Learn more below.