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It takes some smart people to create a smart home. Luckily, CEDIA, the Association for Smart Home Professionals™, just happens to know about 30,000 of them. The Integration Conversation lets you tap into the minds of the people responsible for defining excellence in the industry as they create beautiful, technology-rich experiences in homes around the globe. Hosted by the community, for the community, each episode explores a new topic, from on-the-job insights and business growth strategies to emerging technology trends and collaboration with allied trades.
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Now displaying: April, 2018
Apr 27, 2018

Sam Woodward from Lutron, Peter Aylett from Archimedia, and Iain Shaw of Brilliant Lighting join the CEDIA podcast crew to parse the difference between lighting design and lighting control design — and reveal a ton of new info in the offing.

Apr 20, 2018

“No matter what size the firm, no matter what you do in that business, micromanagement leads to turnover.” – Courtney Berg, CourtSide Consulting

http://www.courtsidehr.com/

Our guest for this podcast, Courtney Berg, has been consulting small businesses on HR issues for years, and she’s volunteered as an instructor at numerous CEDIA Expos. She’s hosting three small-business HR webinars for CEDIA this year: The first, titled “Employees 101, The Employee Life Cycle,” was presented on April 5, 2018.

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5937867855081432067

The next webinar, called “5 Keys to Teamwork and Trust,” will be presented May 3. On June 7, Berg tackles “Discipline to Termination – 5 Steps to Doing it Right.”

http://cedia.net/events/event-detail-page/2018/05/03/default-calendar/webinar-the-5-keys-to-teamwork-and-trust

http://cedia.net/events/event-detail-page/2018/06/07/default-calendar/webinar-discipline-to-termination-5-steps-to-doing-it-right

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Apr 13, 2018

"Once you get that it's not about you, it's about somebody else, and how to enhance THEIR lives, then you can apply the process to anything: Your relationship with your customers, your sales staff, your installation staff, your marketing staff." -- Rich Green, Rich Green Design

Rich Green and Peter Aylett tell us about the incredibly broad applications of Design Thinking, and preview how they and Stanford Professor Michael Shanks will present the concept at the next CEDIA Business Xchange. (There's also a coupon code in this cast that'll save you $100.)

Register for the event at cedia.net/business-xchange.

Apr 6, 2018

Sam Woodward of Lutron and Mark Warburton of Ivory Egg both attended “L&B” in Frankfurt, Germany, and they’ve got info on the latest lighting tech. Peter Aylett (Archimedia) also joins in.

“Going back over the past 14 years, and you’d be hard-pressed to find much in the way of LED. Now it’s dominant; it’s everywhere.” – Sam Woodward

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