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Thought Leadership Q&A With Alexia Vernon and Halelly Azulay

Hailed as “a Millennial superstar setting the bar for America’s next generation of leaders” by bestselling business and workplace author, Alexandra Levit, author Alexia Vernon is an in-demand speaker, International Coach Federation (ICF) certified coach, trainer, and media personality who specializes in helping organizations recruit, retain, educate, and grow their young professional workforce. As a member of Generation Y and with her unique approach to talent development—which fuses coaching, interactive role play, and her infectious sense of humor—Alexia has been an asset to a range of industries, from education, health care, nonprofits, and the corporate sector, and has been featured in hundreds of media outlets including CNN, NBC, Wall Street Journal, CBS MoneyWatch, FOX Business News, Forbes.com, ABCNews.com, TheGlassDoor.com, and Mint.com.

Alexia Vernon

There are many books focused on career development in the ATD bookstore, but I thought I’d highlight a few that are on my summer reading list. What's more, ATD is having a Midsummer Book Sale! One day only—Tuesday, August 4—you can get 20% off all in-stock ATD books. And from August 5–14, all 2015 book releases will be 20% off. _The Self-Aware Leader_By Dan Gallagher and Joseph Costal The Self-Aware Leader was given to me by a friend before I came to work for ATD to use as a tool in my career coaching practice. I found its practical lessons on becoming more self-aware as a manager were beneficial for me as well as my clients. It offers insights regarding aspects of your management career, including which characteristics drive desirable leadership outcomes and personal success. **_Career Moves 3rd Edition_**By Annabelle Reitman and Caitlin WilliamsUpdated in 2013, Career Moves by career experts Caitlin Williams and Annabelle Reitman, shows you how to create your dream career by using practical planning exercises and techniques. Explore key competencies that professionals need to be successful, and learn how to make them work for you. Special bonus: If you have an iPad, don’t miss its app to make the book come alive. **_90 Days 90 Ways: Onboard Young Professionals to Peak Performance_**By Alexia VernonAlexia Vernon’s 90 Days 90 Ways: Onboard Young Professionals to Peak Performance demonstrates how to achieve the goal of getting new employees oriented, integrated, and trained within the first 90 days of their employment so they can make significant contributions to your business. **_Connection Culture_**By Michael Lee StallardMichael Stallard’s new book on developing a “connection culture” where employees feel valued and included is definitely worth a read. The book provides a practical and fresh way of thinking about leadership and offers recommendations for how to tap into the power of human connection. Inspiring and practical, this book challenges you to set the performance bar high and to keep reaching.  Coming Soon...Beyond Happy: Women, Work, and Well-Being  By Beth CabreraI’m also looking forward to reading Beth Cabrera’s new book, Beyond Happy, which is scheduled to come out on August 24. Why? Over the course of a decade, positive psychology authority Dr. Beth Cabrera has surveyed and interviewed more than a thousand women to gather insight into how to effectively balance career and family responsibilities. In Beyond Happy: Women, Work, and Well-Being, she gathers her essential findings and offers women proven strategies for living more authentic, meaningful lives. Helpful self-assessments guide you toward feeling good and doing good, and each chapter delivers tried-and-true tactics that real women have used to manage the difficulties of fulfilling their multiple, often conflicting, roles.

Your Career Development Summer Reading List

90 Days 90 Ways offers specific, actionable strategies and corresponding techniques for ensuring that the new hires under your guidance are integrated quickly, completely, and successfully into your business.

90 Days 90 Ways: Onboard Young Professionals to Peak Performance

As a manager, you are as responsible for inspiring great performance in your new hires as you are for getting them oriented to your company and performing well in their role. Even if your organization has a formal onboarding program, as a manager you are the most important person in the onboarding process. You are tasked, often with limited training and resources, to systematically meet your new employees where they are, give them what they need to know to succeed, and most importantly provide them with daily, intentional opportunities to stretch into their highest performance. 

An onboarding expert and the author of the ASTD Press book, 90 Days 90 Ways: Onboard Young Professionals to Peak Performance, during this webinar Alexia Vernon will show you how:
• To provide the appropriate balance of structure and freedom to set new hires up to succeed
• To use coaching conversations to diffuse nervousness, co-create responsibilities and expectations, provide actionable feedback and skill development, and achieve performance goals
• To adapt onboarding best practices for virtual employees
• To provide appropriate opportunities for leadership, even within the first 90 days

Participants will learn actionable strategies to immediately apply in their management. Through interactive role-plays around real-world scenarios, Alexia will frame her recommendations in the everyday realties of employee development.
 

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