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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://sqlblog.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Search results matching tags 'professional development', 'Internals', and 'Leadership'</title><link>http://sqlblog.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?o=DateDescending&amp;tag=professional+development,Internals,Leadership&amp;orTags=0</link><description>Search results matching tags 'professional development', 'Internals', and 'Leadership'</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.1)</generator><item><title>One Week Until Louisville!</title><link>http://sqlblog.com/blogs/kevin_kline/archive/2012/07/09/one-week-until-louisville.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:04:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:44263</guid><dc:creator>KKline</dc:creator><description>&lt;p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:19px;"&gt;&lt;a title="Louisville, KY" href="http://kevinekline.com/wp-admin/www.louisvilleky.gov/Visitors/"&gt;Louisville&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;has a special place in my heart because it was my brother's home for more than 15 years. I spent a lot of time on I-65 traveling from my home town of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="Huntsville, AL" href="http://kevinekline.com/wp-admin/www.huntsville.org"&gt;Huntsville, AL&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to visit my bro in Louisville and New Albany, after he bought a place on the north side of the mighty Ohio River. It's always felt like a home away from home, even long after he moved on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:19px;text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.churchilldowns.com/"&gt;&lt;img class="aligncenter" title="The Iconic Churchill Downs - They Use SQL Server!" alt="" width="427" height="518" style="border:2px solid black;cursor:default;display:block;margin:2px auto;" src="http://www.cityprofile.com/forum/attachments/kentucky/8613-louisville-churchill-downs1.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:19px;"&gt;&lt;a title="SQL Saturday 122 in Louisville, KY" href="http://www.sqlsaturday.com/122/eventhome.aspx"&gt;SQL Saturday 122&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is just around the corner and I'll be speaking both in a full day, pre-conference seminar plus a couple sessions at the SQL Saturday itself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2 style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:19px;"&gt;Leadership Skills for the IT Professional&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:19px;"&gt;My pre-con is all about learning the essential leadership skills to lead IT people. &amp;nbsp;It's designed for IT technologists who've been promoted into a leadership role and find that their technology skills don't readily transfer into leading people. &amp;nbsp;Details for the class and registration are available here at&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="Leadership Skills for IT Professionals" href="http://sqlsat122precon3.eventbrite.com/"&gt;Leadership Skills for IT Professionals&lt;/a&gt;. &amp;nbsp;As is traditional at IT conferences, professional development classes don't get as much attendance as the hard technology classes. &amp;nbsp;So, please spread the word to other IT leaders in your organizations and help me fill the class. &amp;nbsp;It's fully applicable to other IT disciplines besides DBAs and Developers, so tell your Exchange admins, HelpDesk bosses, and others.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:19px;"&gt;If you're interested in the topic, but can't attend for some reason, consider purchasing my DVD set and/or the streaming media. &amp;nbsp;Get the details here for the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="Leadership Skills for the IT Professional DVD and vConference" href="http://www.vconferenceonline.com/event/home.aspx?id=671"&gt;vConference and DVDs on Leadership Skills for the IT Professional&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2 style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:19px;"&gt;SQL Saturday 122 Sessions&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:19px;"&gt;I'll be presenting in a few&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title="SQL Saturday 122 Schedule" href="http://www.sqlsaturday.com/122/schedule.aspx"&gt;sessions at the SQL Saturday&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;itself, including my popular session&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;SQL Server Internals and Architecture&lt;/em&gt;. I'll also be sitting in the Women In Technology panel at lunch, filling the 'token male' quota and offering my perspective as the dad of three daughters and three step-daughters urging them on to bigger and better things. &amp;nbsp;Right after that, I'll be presenting one module of my leadership training called&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Communicating Upward&lt;/em&gt;, which is all about influencing your boss and your boss' boss.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:19px;"&gt;Please spread the word. &amp;nbsp;I hope to see you there! Enjoy,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:19px;"&gt;-Kev&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif;line-height:19px;"&gt;-&lt;a title="Kevin Kline's Twitter Feed" href="http://twitter.com/kekline"&gt;Follow me on Twitter&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>