"Lagniappe" Sessions and Networking Opportunity
A lagniappe (pronounced "lanny-yap") is a New Orleans expression for something thrown in, gratis, for good measure. Take advantage of our Workforce Innovations lagniappe to receive bonuses that will last long beyond the conference! To paraphrase, Mark Twain these Thursday afternoon bonus opportunities are worth staying in New Orleans to get!
Pre-registration (before or during the conference) is required only for "Rebuilding Communities." There are no additional fees to conference registrants for these opportunities.
| Click on the links below to learn more about Workforce Innovations 2008 Lagniappe Sessions | |
| Lagniappe (Bonus) Opportunities | |
| Rebuilding Communities: Building One Home at a Time | Thursday, July 17, 1:00 - 6:00 p.m. |
| Strategic Doing - A seminar with Ed Morrison | Thursday, July 17, 1:20 - 3:00 p.m. |
| Bring It! - A lively discussion with Jim "Mr. Energy" Smith, Jr. | Thursday, July 17, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. |
| A Lagniappe Social - Social Networking goes down smooth with ice cream! | Thursday, July 17, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. |
Rebuilding Communities: Building One Home at a Time
Thursday, July 17, 2008
1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Assist in relief, recovery and rebuilding efforts by renovating homes for New Orleans residents. Work with members of YouthBuild and The Corps Network on renovating homes in neighborhoods devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Volunteers will have the opportunity to assist in framing, insulation of doors and windows, drywall, green and energy efficient building techniques, and finish carpentry work. No construction experience is required. Work alongside experts who will guide you throughout the day. Volunteers should be prepared for moderately physical, outdoors work. Together we can help New Orleans rebuild!
YouthBuild is a youth and community development program that simultaneously addresses several core issues facing low-income communities: education, employment, crime prevention, and leadership development and housing. For more information see: www.youthbuild.org.
The Corps Network is a new multi-site youth Corps for the Greater New Orleans region, based on the Civic Justice Corps model. The Conservation Corps of Greater New Orleans will engage 800 young people, including formerly incarcerated and court-involved youth, in environmental restoration, energy conservation, and restoration of historic structures. The Conservation Corps of Greater New Orleans is a vehicle for systems change: viewing youth as assets, employers as primary partners, justice agencies as allies, and education as a
living connection to solutions for community needs.
www.corpsnetwork.org/ConservationCorpsofGreaterNewOrleansSiteInformation.asp
Accelerating Collaborations with Strategic Doing
Thursday, July 17
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Ernest M. Morial Convention Center
Successful workforce development strategies require innovation, collaboration and alignment. But how do you do that? Join your colleagues and Ed Morrison, a well-respected workforce practitioner, to learn how to build civic networks to engage partners in your region. Through practical disciplines of "strategic doing," you can develop the organizational habits you need to identify partners, pick transformative initiatives, and keep your activities on track after the conference.
Ed is economic policy advisor to the Purdue Center for Regional Development and the founder of I-Open, a non-profit corporation that promotes the practices of open innovation in economic development and workforce development. I-Open is a spin-out from Case Western Reserve University. He has been an economic development consultant for over 20 years. He teaches strategic planning at the Economic Development Institute and is a member of the Regional Experts Committee for the Council on Competitiveness. He has J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Virginia and a B.A. degree from Yale University.
"Bring It!" with Jim "Mr. Energy" Smith, Jr.
Thursday, July 17
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Ernest M. Morial Convention Center
Take advantage of this opportunity to bring:
- Key conference concepts and takeaways back to the job
- Passion and hunger to the workplace each and every day
- A spirit of resiliency to situations that don't go in one's favor
- A positive mindset to every encounter and eliminating the "toxic talk" and excuses we sometimes make for not achieving our goals and dreams.
Presenter Jim "Mr. Energy" Smith, Jr. is the CEO of JIMPACT and author of From Average to Awesome. Throughout the conference, Jim will help participants "Bring it Home" with reminders and tips for extending the learning from the conference beyond New Orleans.
Jim Smith, Jr., (President and CEO of JIMPACT Enterprises Inc.) consults, writes, speaks and facilitates in the areas of motivation/inspiration, professional trainer development, presentation and facilitation skills, diversity and leadership. He is the author of the best selling empowerment book From Average to Awesome and the Co-author (with Ken Blanchard, Jack Canfield and others) of the leadership book, The Masters of Success. His newest book, Crash and Learn: 600+ Road-Tested Tips to Keep Audiences Fired Up and Engaged! is on the ASTD best seller list. Prior to JIMPACT, Jim held leadership positions for Simmons Associates, Core States Bank, the Vanguard Group of Investments, the Prudential AARP Operations and the Bob Pike Group.
"…Mark Twain writes about the word in a chapter on New Orleans in Life on the Mississippi (1883). He called it "a word worth travelling to New Orleans to get":
We picked up one excellent word - a word worth travelling to New Orleans to get; a nice limber, expressive, handy word - "lagniappe." They pronounce it lanny-yap. It is Spanish - so they said. We discovered it at the head of a column of odds and ends in the Picayune, the first day; heard twenty people use it the second; inquired what it meant the third; adopted it and got facility in swinging it the fourth. It has a restricted meaning, but I think the people spread it out a little when they choose. It is the equivalent of the thirteenth roll in a "baker's dozen." It is something thrown in, gratis, for good measure. The custom originated in the Spanish quarter of the city. When a child or a servant buys something in a shop - or even the mayor or the governor, for aught I know - he finishes the operation by saying - "Give me something for lagniappe." The shopman always responds; gives the child a bit of licorice-root, gives the servant a cheap cigar or a spool of thread, gives the governor - I don't know what he gives the governor; support, likely. When you are invited to drink, and this does occur now and then in New Orleans - and you say, "What, again? - no, I've had enough;" the other party says, "But just this one time more - this is for lagniappe." When the beau perceives that he is stacking his compliments a trifle too high, and sees by the young lady's countenance that the edifice would have been better with the top compliment left off, he puts his "I beg pardon - no harm intended," into the briefer form of "Oh, that's for lagniappe."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagniappe
