Hello All, We'd love to have you join us for our upcoming workshop. Come master the art of team collaboration and innovation. This workshop is for anyone who wants to become more effective in teamwork situations. (hosted by Design Venturers Western Mass). Collaboration is the paradigm changing factor for innovative business today. Joe Laur is a fantastic teacher with an impressive track record. Workshop: Harnessing the Power of Collaborative Design and Innovation When: Friday, April 4th, 2014, 9 - 2pm Where: The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) 100 Bigelow St. Holyoke, MA 01040 To RSVP, and for more details, see the full listing: http://bit.ly/1i1Vi0w Our purpose is to teach constructive, empowering collaboration teambuilding skills. It's with a really talented expert in the field, Joe Laur (www.seedsystems.net/) is one of the Valley's hidden gems. He has worked with companies all around the world. Joe has offered transformational training for such well known companies as Nike, Shell, Ford, Interface, WorldBank. He worked with Nike to help them transform from a social pariah to one of the top rated corporate social responsibility companies within a decade. He worked with Ray Anderson, CEO of Interface (the largest commercial carpet manufacturer in the world) as he worked to transition Interface to its goal to have zero ecological footprint by 2020. It's a rare opportunity that may not come again. Our Focus: • Grow your capacity in systems thinking, collaborative communication, and team innovation. • Learn to balance the cycle of individual learning (personal mastery) and team learning (cross pollination, cross communication). • Learn to preserve, even enhance relationships in challenging conversations. • Introduction to Design Thinking • Human happiness as core design principle Come join us if you can. Pass it forward to some friends if you can't :) Links: To RSVP and register for the workshop: • Eventbrite RSVP page - http://bit.ly/1i1Vi0w. • Design Venturers Western Mass's FB page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Design-Venturers-Western-Mass/642668199101126?ref=hl • Link to the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/478325102274174/?ref=22 Best, Lisa -- Lisa Hoag Designs PO Box 983 Wendell, MA 01379 http://www.lisahoagdesigns.com