Corporate Training By Zack Academy - Habitat X 2014 Summer National - The Home Performance Think Tank

Why Should You Register For The Habitat X 2014 Summer National - The Home Performance Think Tank?

Habitat X has become THE home performance think tank. You can join this talented group of Home Performance professionals and guide the evolution of your industry. You will super-charge your career by attending this event.

We convene these far-ranging discussions each day of the Conference. You'll be engaged in an active role. You'll learn from the experts and participate in the dialogue. This integrated program is why Habitat X has gathered such a faithful following of industry leaders.

This is an interactive and hands-on event -- you will spend four days working alongside other motivated and well-placed home performance professionals. You'll go on potent and fun field trips. You'll share your knowledge, learn about your industry, and develop your own skills. You will go home prepared to launch a new phase in your work.

We’ve worked diligently with industry stakeholders to develop our strongest program ever for the 2014 Summer National Conference. It’ll follow three distinct tracks with topics of relevance to anyone who works in the field of home performance, sustainable housing, or renewable energy. Unlike most professional conferences, we don’t just put out a call for presenters and take whoever shows up. We build the program from scratch each year to create the most fulfilling professional training imaginable.

Intended Audience:

This event attracts the best and brightest players from all sectors of the home performance, green building, and weatherization industries, including:

• Teachers and Trainers
• Business Owners
• Program Managers
• Sales People

The Habitat X Summer National Program:

We’ve built this year’s program from the ground up to help every participant reach important benchmarks of personal and professional achievement in these areas:

• Leadership and Communication
• Business and Market Transformation
• Training Tools and Techniques

You can pick and choose from among these tracks, or follow a single track the entire week. But we guarantee one thing: you will go home with the tools to boost your career and power your business to the next level.

This year’s Summer National Conference will be held at the incomparable Chico Hot Springs. It’s tucked away in Montana’s Paradise Valley, just a few miles North of Yellowstone National Park.

Conference Registration Includes:

• Attendance at all sessions, workshops, and field trips. Monday August 25th 8:30 am to Thursday August 28th 4:00 pm.
• Lunch each day from the famous restaurant at Chico Hot Springs. Morning and afternoon snacks and beverages.
• The not-to-be-missed Monday night reception in the outdoor gardens at Chico Hot Springs.
• A half-day field trip to B Bar Ranch, a working guest ranch that has made a science of sustainable management.
• Printed and digital copies of all materials used in the workshops.
• 16 CE credits for BPI and other professional organizations.
• One year’s membership to the Habitat X year-round network of services ($200 cost to non-attendees).

CEUs:  If you are certified through a professional organization, this 32-hour event may qualify for continuing education credits. After the event, we’ll provide a certificate of attendance that you can submit to your certifying organization. This event is pre-approved for 16 credits through the Building Performance Institute.

Panel Discussions:

The Habitat X Conferences hinge around the daily panel discussions. We moderate these free-ranging and inclusive dialogues to draw from the expertise within the group. We develop these panels up to a year in advance, following late-breaking trends and assuring that we have pre-eminent experts in the room. But these panel discussions often take on a life of their own, as we learn about the expertise of each conference participant and we build the final list of panelists. And this inclusive approach defines the Habitat X Conferences — because everyone is a participant, and no one sits in the back of the room!

Field Trip:

We’ll visit the B Bar Ranch as an optional field trip during 2014 Summer National. This half day field trip will give us the opportunity to experience a unique version of what is best described as “wild west sustainability.” We’ll think you’ll be impressed with how they’ve woven together high-performance construction, photovoltaics, solar thermal and wind generation to keep their operating humming. Lunch will be provided on this scenic and savory field trip. Ranch-raised organic beef and vegetables are features of their healthy and diverse menus.

Location:

This year’s Summer National Conference will be held at the incomparable Chico Hot Springs. It’s tucked away in Montana’s Paradise Valley, just a few miles North of Yellowstone National Park. People come from all over the planet to stay in the classy hotel, eat at the award-winning restaurant, and relax in the natural hot pools. They have a beautiful set of conference rooms, hotel rooms of every type, and dining options that range from burgers-at-the-bar to four courses and a white tablecloth in the famous restaurant.

The Accomodations:

Room types at Chico Hot Springs vary from single rooms in the historic Main Lodge to standalone houses that sleep 6. Our room block includes a variety of room types from economical rooms with shared baths (Main Lodge) to contemporary rooms with private baths (Fisherman’s Lodge, Warren’s Wing, and Lower Lodge). A limited number of standalone cabins, cottages, and chalets are available for groups or families.

Many attendees will bring their families, and come before the conference or stay late to take in the sights. When you register for the conference, we’ll send you a packet of information to help you plan your vacation.

Reservations:

Contact the front desk at Chico Hot Springs to make reservations. Mention Habitat X when you reserve your room to get discounted room rates of $74 – 150.

Chico Hot Springs
163 Chico Road
Pray, MT 59065
(406) 333-4933

And the good news about the 2014 venue? You can come work and play with us for four days, stay at Chico Hot Springs, and visit Yellowstone National Park for no more that the cost of attending one of the other big national conferences where you’ll get lost in the masses and be stuck in a hotel. Do the math — this will be a career changing event for most attendees, AND you get to relax in paradise.

Syllabus

A Sample of Workshops and Sessions

You can look forward to these topics like these, as we fill the four days with some of the most potent and fun education you’ve ever experienced.

• Chandler von Schrader – Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): How We Can Evolve Role of the Federal Government in Residential Efficiency, a group discussion that we’ll capture as a white paper.
• Chris Dorsi – Habitat X: Understand and Leverage Group Dynamics, an interactive learning lab that you can reproduce in your workplace.
• Ben Cichowski – Montana Weatherization Training Center: How You Can Create Great Visual Communications, a daily workshop and video production project that will be published to the Habitat X Platform
• J West – High Performance Human Habitats: Why We All Can Be Great Teachers, an all-group study.
• Colin Genge and Joe Medosch – Retrotec: Getting on Board Now with Big Data for Housing, a hands-on how-to that outshines the competition.
• Bill Spohn – TruTech Tools: The Real Low Down on Tools We Use, a hands-on demo that will have you working smarter right away.
• Chris Dorsi – Habitat X: Your Communication Skills Can Change Everything, the toastmaster work-lab that you could have used twenty years ago (it’s not too late!)
• J West  – High Performance Human Habitats: How to Sort Through Internet Garbage and Find the Good Stuff, an immediately useful work group.
• Colin Genge and Joe Medosch – Retrotec: Your Countdown to 2020 and Zero Net Energy, a group visioning session that will be linked to your own workplace timeline.
• Ben Cichowski  – Montana Weatherization Training Center: This Truth About Training Will Set You Free, a take-home training lab with hands-on templates you can share with trainers in your organization.
• Kevin Beck: How Mentoring is Changing Technical Training, a training “hack” that will save money for any training program (even if you don’t have a training program).
• Larry Zarker – Building Performance Institute (BPI): The Silver Lining in the Chaos of Washington D.C., a candid and one-time interview that will be framed to provide insight useful for all of us. Plus: the story of Home Star an how it imploded in Congress.