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Walt Thompson

Is the Organization Ready For Quality Circles

Sean Dubberke is director of learning at RW3 CultureWizard. Since 2008, he has helped organizations and their professionals develop skills to work successfully in a global environment. Leading a diverse network of facilitators, consultants, and program managers, Sean partners with organizations to design and deliver learning worldwide. His experience spans global and virtual team building, global leadership development, country-specific consulting, international assignment support, intercultural assessment, train-the-trainer certification, learning needs analysis, and blended learning solutions. Clients have included the Walt Disney Company, KPMG, Thomson Reuters, Gap, Astra Zeneca, The Financial Times, Pfizer, CSL Behring, Rolls Royce, and Newell Rubbermaid. Sean holds an MSc in economic history from the London School of Economics, an MA in global studies from the University of Leipzig, and a BA in global studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He speaks Spanish fluently and has studied Arabic, German, French, and Japanese. Sean has traveled to 50 countries and has lived and worked abroad for three years in Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

Sean Dubberke

Join us as ATD’s International Conference and EXPO heads to ‘The Big Easy’ from May 19-22. Want to know what to expect from this year’s conference? In this video, we’re taking you on the road and giving you an inside look at the ultimate talent development experience of 2024. Featuring our incredible line up of inspiring keynote speakers such as Matthew McConaughey, Daniel Pink, and Venus Williams, along with hundreds of education sessions tailored to all levels of experience in the field of talent development, and an extensive EXPO floor showcasing cutting-edge technologies and training resources, ATD24 is the premiere event for professionals in the learning and development industry. Register now and join thousands of talent development professionals from around the world to learn new skills, level up your training programs, and explore best practices in training and development.Don’t miss out! Let the good times roll in New Orleans at this year’s conference!#atd24 #conference #talentdevelopment #learninganddevelopment #neworleans #traininganddevelopment #professionaldevelopment

ATD24: On the Road to This Year's Conference in NOLA!

February 2022 - TD Magazine

Rising leaders want more feedback and more time to learn.

Skill the Next Generation in Leadership

It’s ironic that successful self-leadership has more to do with others and less to do with self. I learned this later in life. The sooner you see it, the better for your career. Following are three lessons I learned from personal and professional experiences.Surprise #1: Serve a Cause Greater than SelfThe first surprise about self-leadership is that working for money, power, and fame is an unfulfilling pursuit. Frances Hesselbein says it succinctly: to serve is to live.Choose a career that helps others by bringing truth, goodness, or beauty into the world and you will find greater career satisfaction and contentment. From time to time, you will experience the joy that comes from seeing the efforts of your work directly improve the lives of others. Here are a few examples:The teacher who helps a student learn to read brings greater truth and goodness to the world.The landscape architect who designs aesthetically pleasing outdoor environments brings greater beauty to the world.The journalist who helps the public see both sides of a story brings greater truth to the world.The salesman who helps a customer find the right product or service to meet a real need brings greater goodness into the world.You should seek to serve others in these ways, too.Surprise #2: Get a Coach or Mentor(s)No world-class athlete gets to the top without the help of a coach or multiple coaches. We need other people to help us achieve our potential.For instance, each of us has blind spots. Your blind spot may be that you are argumentative or perhaps you don’t speak up when you should. Some people have a blind spot when it comes to not knowing when to end a conversation or meeting. Some managers have blind spots of being over-controlling, and others don’t interact enough with the people they are responsible for leading.The need for coaching and mentoring goes beyond needing to address our blind spots, though. We need experts to help us develop skills. When I left Wall Street to write a book and begin public speaking and teaching, I needed the help of Twyla Thompson, a top acting coach at the Actors Institute. Twyla taught me how to emotionally connect with an audience.On Wall Street, I had learned to turn off my emotions when communicating and I needed Twyla’s help to turn my emotions back on. She had me do exercises that included speaking to a group of acting students. I had to make eye contact with one student at a time and maintain eye contact until the student raised his or her hand to signal that he or she felt connected to me.Twyla’s colleague Gifford Booth would stand at the back of the room and yell, “Louder, louder,” as I spoke. He helped me see a blind spot I had: I was too soft spoken. I could never have learned these things on my own and I’m grateful that Twyla and Gifford helped me become a more effective speaker.#3: Be Intentional About Connecting With PeopleI learned the hard way that all people are hardwired to connect. Connect with God.  Connect with one another. When we don’t connect, we become dysfunctional. We feel lonely, which makes us more vulnerable to stress, anxiety, and depression.  Connection makes us healthier, happier, and more productive. It helps us grow in competence and character. It gets us through the inevitable difficult seasons we all experience in life, a lesson I learned as our family and friends helped us get through the three bouts of cancer my wife Katie experienced. Today, she is cancer free and thriving.Bottom line: You can be more successful in your career and life if you serve a cause greater than yourself, get coaches and/or mentors to help you learn and grow in competence and character, and be intentional about connecting with God, family, and friends. As you experience greater peace, hope, and joy that comes from having an abundance of connection in your life, you will discover wealth of even greater value.Is your workplace culture supporting your success with self-leadership? Join Michael Lee Stallard for the June 23 webcast, “Your Workplace Culture: Life-Giving or Draining the Life Out of You?” to learn about three predominant relational cultures in the workplace—and how each affects your productivity, health, and happiness.Editor’s Note: This post is adapted from Connection Culture: The Competitive Advantage of Shared Identity, Empathy and Understanding at Work. Read more on the Connection Culture website.

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