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Session:

Bette Price - GenBlending™: Leveraging the Talent of a New Generation

Are you leveraging the talents of this new generation called Gen Y? GenBlending™ provides valuable insights, based on extensive research, to help business leaders more realistically understand, respond to, engage and develop this new generation of talent in order to ensure future growth and profitability.

With today’s aging demographics there is a great need to integrate into the workplace a whole new generation of talent—the Millennials—more often referred to as Gen Y. Unfortunately, there are many misconceptions about this generation; about their motivation and their capabilities.

This presentation will bring to life some fact-based realities based on multi-faceted research. It will help you to better understand, respond to, engage and develop this new generation of talent. As a result, you will be able to more effectively embrace the potential of this bright, talented and energetic young generation and leverage their talent to ensure your future growth and profitability.

About the Speaker:

Bette Price is an international author who speaks, writes and consults on management, leadership and generational issues. Her successful book, True Leaders, has been published in seven languages and her extensive GenBlending™ research sheds fresh, important realities on the impact of a new generation of leaders.

As president of The Price Group, a marketing and management consulting firm which she founded in 1982, Bette has served clients throughout the U. S. and Asia. She is a 25-year member of the National Speakers Association and is certified in the science of how and why people perform in the workplace. She is president of the Dallas/Ft. Worth Chapter of CEO Netweavers, an organization devoted to servant leadership, and serves on its national board of directors. Prior to operating her own business Bette was an award-winning print and broadcast journalist and part of the team coverage that earned The Kansas City Star a Pulitzer Prize for it’s coverage of the tragic Hyatt Hotel skywalk collapse. Today she continues to write extensively, contributing to various trade publications and as a ghost writer of several books for other business leaders.

Overview:

The Grapevine Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce its 2013 Leadership Breakfast Series sponsored by Lead It 2 Win It®. This series is open to all Chamber members and designed for individual employees, managers or business owners who are interested in improving or developing their leadership skills overall.

Each month the Chamber will offer a series of leadership sessions designed to shift your thinking, and provide actionable ideas to enhance your skills. With today’s competitive market place, it is imperative to become a better leader, and it’s through clear, thought-leadership that you and your business will grow and stand out! This 12-month program is designed to build your core leadership components, like:

• Communications skills

• Diversity

• Vision & strategies

• And much more!

Lead It 2 Win It® is a team of Carlos Merla of Merla Leadership Group and Lauren Midgley of Courage to Succeed Coaching, and they will bring in speakers who are subject matter experts, providing information and practical examples followed by open discussions.