{"id":434,"date":"2018-03-17T16:35:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T16:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=434"},"modified":"2018-03-22T16:47:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T16:47:27","slug":"searching-for-the-wizard-of-oz-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"Searching for the Wizard of Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?attachment_id=435\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-435\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-435\" src=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/NC-IPMA_logo-300x69.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"69\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/NC-IPMA_logo-300x69.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/NC-IPMA_logo-768x178.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/NC-IPMA_logo-1024x237.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/NC-IPMA_logo.jpg 1327w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I enjoyed speaking to the NC-IPMA on Friday in\u00a0Atlantic Beach, NC. \u00a0So who is the NC-IPMA? It is the\u00a0North Carolina Chapter\u00a0of the International Public Management Association for Human Resources (IPMA-HR).\u00a0 It s\u00a0the\u00a0premier\u00a0professional association\u00a0for public sector human resources\u00a0professionals<strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0HR professionals from all over the state attended. My presentation focused on Searching for the Wizard of Oz &#8211; At Work (and at Home).<\/p>\n<p>It was a challenge getting there as the wind was gusting at 50-60 miles per hour and had even toppled a pine tree across Highway 70 near Kinston. There is\u00a0joke that speakers blow in, blow off, and then blow out. Well, it was the\u00a0wind\u00a0that was blowing on Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed speaking to the NC-IPMA on Friday in\u00a0Atlantic Beach, NC. \u00a0So who is the NC-IPMA? It is the\u00a0North Carolina Chapter\u00a0of the International Public Management Association for Human Resources (IPMA-HR).\u00a0 It s\u00a0the\u00a0premier\u00a0professional association\u00a0for public sector human resources\u00a0professionals.\u00a0HR professionals from all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=434\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}