Ninth Annual
Amplifying Your Effectiveness (AYE) Conference

Phoenix, Arizona November 2–6, 2008

AYE is a conference that's designed to increase your effectiveness—in leadership, coaching, managing, influencing, and working in teams, whether you work in systems development, testing, product development, quality assurance, customer service, or consulting.

AYE is a different kind of conference, based entirely on experiential learning, not lectures. Our conference is limited to 75 participants, and all sessions are small—to promote interaction among participants and hosts and to allow in-depth exploration of the problems facing such professionals. You will have the opportunity to explore and share:

Individual Effectiveness

Become a better problem solver by learning new tools and principles.

Learn to observe and understand what was formerly invisible.

Improve your ability to act congruently in difficult interpersonal situations.

Acquire new ways of understanding yourself and others.

Team Effectiveness

Learn to build strong relationships in teams.

Share team experiences—good and bad—with teams from other organizations.

Amplify your own leadership effectiveness through helping others amplify theirs.

Learn how to introduce new team problem-solving techniques.

Organizational Effectiveness

Understand the elements of organizational change.

Learn how an organization’s culture affects the individual’s behavior.

Acquire and practice with tools to recognize organizational patterns.

Discover models that help you understand complex system relationships.

Plan interventions that will affect your culture in a positive way.

Presenters

AYE is led by hosts Esther Derby, Don Gray, Johanna Rothman, Steve Smith, and Jerry Weinberg.

Join us—along with other technical managers, team leaders, lead engineers, and project managers—as we amplify our effectiveness by exploring Congruent Problem Solving. You will improve your abilities as a problem solver and find answers to some of your toughest questions, based on our mutual experience and practice.

For more detailed information on the conference and to enjoy our participant-run wiki and our free library of relevant articles, visit our website at www.AYEConference.com.

If you'd like to receive the AYE Conference email newsletter, send your name and email address to Jerry Weinberg, hardpretzel@earthlink.net

Sunday Session AYE WARMUP TUTORIAL, all day with Don Gray and Steve Smith
Sunday Evening WELCOMING BUFFET DINNER
Monday Morning Sessions What is the Problem, Really? Creating Better Problem Definitions (Don Gray) How Do You Feel About Change? Experience the Satir Change Model (Steve Smith) First Steps for Organizational Change: Unearthing the Data You Need (Johanna Rothman)	Monday Afternoon Sessions New Ways of Seeing the Organization: Organizational Mapping (Steve Smith) Guiding Change with Retrospectives (Esther Derby) Making Something Happen: Diagrams that Show the Way Things Really Work (Don Gray) Remembering Your Resources When Stressed: The Self Esteem Toolkit (Jerry Weinberg)
Tuesday Morning Sessions Change that Really Works: Making the Team More Effective (Don Gray) Change that Really Works: Making the Organization More Effective (Esther Derby) Choosing the Right Coaching Approach: Congruent Coaching (Johanna Rothman) How to Lead More Fruitful Discussions (Steve Smith)	Tuesday Afternoon Sessions Go for Quality, Go for Speed: Making Tradeoffs (Steve Smith) I Think We Could Work Better Together: A Framework for Giving and Receiving Feedback (Esther Derby) Bottom Up Change (Johanna Rothman) Moving Projects Forward: The Clinic Method (Jerry Weinberg)
Wednesday Morning Sessions Selling Your Ideas to Management (Steve Smith) Building on Strengths: Making Better Use of Personality Resources (Don Gray) First Things First: Managing The Project Portfolio (Johanna Rothman) Realizing the Promised Benefits of Agile Methods: Problems and Strategies (Esther Derby)	Wednesday Afternoon Sessions Magic Team Chemistry: Starting and Sustaining Teams (Esther Derby) Testing Lies (Jerry Weinberg) Just Enough Leadership (Johanna Rothman) Now What? Bringing AYE Back to Work (Don Gray)
Wednesday Evening AYE CLOSING DINNER
Thursday All-day Workshops Designing experiential meetings and conferences (Esther Derby, Jerry Weinberg) Strategic Planning Without the BS (Johanna Rothman) 1-on-1 Consulting Opportunities with Don or Steve (Don Gray, Steve Smith)

Session descriptions can be found on http://www.ayeconference.com.