Remaining 2020 Meeting and Speaker Schedule
10/8/20 - Speaker Marcey Rader “Task Mastery: Get the Right Things Done to Work Well and Play More!”
Program Description
Do you have trouble prioritizing and focusing on income-generating activity? Do you need ways to be more efficient at work and home to have more free time? Stop procrastinating and get it done.
There’s no winner in who’s the busiest. We want to work on our business, not our busyness.
Topics covered include distraction management, setting boundaries, and getting focused. Then we step into action with prioritization, using a task management system, and outsourcing both professionally and personally. This workshop gives clear, actionable steps on what to do with that never-ending task list and how not to just be productive, but effective at our job. Leave busy behind.
Value To Members
Marcey gives each participant an electronic resource guide with links to all the references, programs, and tools she covers in class. All attendees are asked to make one commitment in the next 30 days and share that commitment with one other member to hold them accountable. Prioritize your list to focus on tasks that move the needle. Automate to rest your brain and reduce anxiety. Outsource creatively within your personal and professional budget. It's never just the system, but also the behavior, that makes task mastery effective. Getting tasks done is not the answer. Getting the right tasks done at the right time, efficiently and effectively, is what matters.
Biography
Marcey Rader's an award-winning, top-rated, high-energy speaker who packs presentations with actionable advice and real-world wisdom. Her #1 mantra? You can reach peak productivity without sacrificing your health to get there. You'll notice a new vibe around the table once she's inspired your Vistage group to Work Well and Play More! Marcey's the founder of the Work Well. Play More! Institute, where entrepreneurs, business leaders, and entire teams sail to seek out peak productivity and health to improve performance. Clients learn to maximize their time and energy to leave burnout in the dust, decluttering the mind, body, and business, one habit at a time.
And guess what.... she's also a Vistage member! Her speaking roster's alive with conferences and workshops for Fortune 100 companies, startups, and everyone in between. From North Dakota to Dubai, steel manufacturing to biotech. If your members are yearning for a swift kick in the energy, check out Marcey to Work Well and Play More!
11/5/20 - Speaker Jill Campen “Driving Profitability Through Strategic Pricing”
Program Description
In this highly interactive presentation, Jill Campen launches participants onto a path to improve pricing, dramatically increase profits, and grow sales. She delivers impactful content in an interactive and entertaining format, using real-world stories and relevant exercises.
Key topics include:
Power of Pricing & Discounting: Pricing has a dramatic effect on profitability. Discounting is the enemy of profitability, often used unnecessarily out of phantom fears of sales volume loss. Reducing unnecessary discounting can drive double digit profit growth. Real-world examples illustrate the power of price to lift margins.
Price Sensitivity & Segmentation: Not every customer and product or service is equally price sensitive. Leveraging variable sensitivity allows businesses to increase pricing in targeted areas for improved profit without volume loss. Even in highly competitive industries, there are pockets of unexercised pricing power.
Value-Based Pricing: Here’s a counter-intuitive truth: sellers are more focused on price than buyers. Relentless focus on understanding and communicating value allow businesses to increase pricing and grow sales.
Jill's style is very interactive, relatable, and favors high retention. She uses real-world stories, fun exercises, technology, and humor to keep her audiences engaged while delivering business content of great consequence.
Value To Members
Participants will clearly understand how to improve pricing without volume loss. Audience members walk away with practical, ready-to-implement steps to take in their own companies to drive profitability through better pricing.
Biography
Jill Campen is passionate about performance improvement focused on sales, negotiations and cultural transformation. Jill has trained over 10,000 individuals around the globe for more than 20 years, connecting with associates and executives at all levels of the organization. She has facilitated workshops in many industry settings, including medical, retail, banking, education, and luxury hotels. Jill has worked throughout her career with well known brands such as Pebble Beach Resorts, Microsoft, Accenture, and The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company.
12/3/20 - Speaker Corinne Hancock “Thriving in Chaos”
Program Description
In business and in life, we’re put to the test not when things are going right, but when they get chaotic. How we react can be the difference between success and failure, and determine whether our team comes together or falls apart. Learn strategies to adapt your thoughts and plans on a moment’s notice, lead through uncertainty, and thrive in chaos.
Using Corinne’s Chaos Ready Framework, we’ll explore how to get your company chaos ready and how to stay in a mindset focused on solutions when chaos hits. We will explore what you do, how you respond and who you are as a leader during times of chaos.
Participants will gain practical tools and ideas for how to rise to the occasion and to empower others, regardless of their chaotic situation.
Value To Members
· Understanding and clarity on how your thoughts, actions and language influence others, and impact your ability to lead and thrive in chaos.
· A tested framework to prepare your company, your team and yourself to thrive in chaos, no matter the environment
· Tools and exercises you can immediately use to engage and inspire both yourself and your team regardless of situation.
Corinne Hancock was on the front lines, building teams in high-pressure, stressful situations around the globe as the Director of Clinics for Project CURE, and as a State Department contracted leadership coach. She brought together multi-generational, multi-cultural teams to train leaders, open clinics and deliver medical care in some of the most remote locations on the planet. Corinne truly knows how to THRIVE in CHAOS!
Biography
Corinne Hancock is a globally recognized expert in building world-class leaders, effective teams and cultural diversity, in chaotic environments. With over a decade of international aid and development experience working around the world developing bold leaders, building highly effective teams, delivering medical trainings and delivering medical care.
Corinne translates her expertise from working in chaotic environments into REAL RESULTS through EFFECTIVE and INTERACTIVE keynote presentations, corporate trainings and executive coaching, helping organizations and individuals THRIVE IN CHAOS.
Corinne not only challenges the status quo in international development and relief, but also pushes her own participants to achieve growth beyond their expectations. She has worked on over 50 international projects with leading organizations across for-profit, non-profit and governmental sectors such as US Department of State, USAID, Project C.U.R.E., Newmont Mining, Kinross Gold, BoldLeaders, State Civic Design Team, Raising Malawi, Mountain 2 Mountain, Edge of Seven, Valor Bridge and more.
Corinne was on the front lines, building teams in high-pressure, stressful situations around the globe as the Director of Clinics for Project CURE, and as a contracted State Department leadership coach. She brought together multi-generational, multi-cultural teams to create new community based projects, open hospitals and clinics, and deliver medical care in some of the most remote locations on the planet.
Most recently, Corinne directed leadership and entrepreneurship programs for one of Colorado’s leading edge private schools. Her programs included professional leadership development for the entire teaching and admirative staff, hosting educational workshops for the school community and even teaching leadership and mindfulness classes to middle school aged children.
Corinne studied Human Development and Cultural Anthropology and furthered her education, becoming an ICF Master Certified Coach from I.P.E.C., one of the leading coach training programs in the world.
2021 Meeting and Speaker Schedule
1/14/21 - Speaker Bob Kulhan “Virtual Leadership: How Do You Show Up?”
Program Description
The method in which we communicate has changed drastically. We hit pause on our in-person meetings and replaced them with virtual engagements. Whether we are leading a meeting with our internal team or we are pitching and presenting to an external client, the way we package and present ourselves has become even more important now than ever before. The casual lead-in chats are replaced by scheduled meetings, and in virtual sessions, we are always “on”. To add to the adversity, we only have the time “on screen” to affect our audience and we have limited ways to gauge our audience’s reaction to our message. This “Ride the Bike” style Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) is a high-energy, experiential learning program that is rooted in behavioral science, dynamic discussions, and real-world applicability. From a participant’s perspective, Business Improv programs are very dynamic experiences. Each participant learns every exercise en masse (concurrent learning), which strengthens muscle memory (unconscious competency) and core decision-making. Further, our approach creates a psychologically safe environment wherein no one is “singled out” as an example and each participant has the opportunity to learn from doing (procedural learning), rather than learn from watching (declarative learning). Attendees will walk out of this session with Business Improv tools and techniques that they can apply immediately!
Value To Members
Business Improv programs are based in high-energy experiential learning exercises that are pinned down by the behavioral sciences linking directly to real-world applications. You will walk out with tools & techniques which you can apply immediately to drive performance for increased profits.
Virtual Presence (Showing Up) – Cultivating a greater sense of self-awareness; maintaining accountability to oneself within virtual settings; understanding of how energy + attitude + simple framing of language can influence others positively within virtual communication
Virtual Relationship Building – Strengthening empathetic communication and connection by developing an aptitude for better adaptive communication and collaboration in a virtual world
Virtual Collaboration – Developing the skill set for overcoming barriers to communication, while creating collaborative and creative environments for adaptive problem solving in virtual arenas
Influence – Defining what makes a message sticky and the messenger memorable
Transferability & Sustainability – Defining the techniques that can be applied immediately and authentically in the next virtual engagements
Biography
Bob Kulhan is an adjunct professor at Duke Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School and the Founder & CEO of Business Improv® – a 21-year-old consultancy that links improv to business through the behavioral sciences and real-world application. Kulhan is a master improviser, and for 26 years Bob has performed and taught improvisation internationally, at the highest levels. His teaching and performing credits include Chicago's famed Second City (main stage (understudy), core faculty & master artist), Improv Olympic (resident company/faculty), Baby Wants Candy (2005 Ensemble of the Year Award), Columbia College, London TheaterSports, The Banff Centre, The Australian Graduate School of Management, and Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. Based out of Chicago, LA & New York City, Business Improv is a world-class leader in developing experiential On-Site, Virtual Instructor-Lead Training (VILT) & Digital asynchronous learning programs for businesses. Kulhan has tailored Business Improv programs around the globe for a number of blue-chip companies and organizations including AstraZeneca, Glaxo Smith Kline, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Hilton Hotels Worldwide, Booz Allen Hamilton, Pricewaterhouse Cooper, Marathon Oil, Colgate-Palmolive, Raytheon, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and the New York Red Bulls. Kulhan specializes in working with Boards of Directors, C-Suites, Executives, Senior Leadership, and High Potential executives and teams. Specifically for C-Suite and Senior Executive Leadership, Kulhan and Business Improv has created original programs for the US Department of Defense (Vanguard Program), Jumeirah Emirates Towers in Dubai, Hilton Hotels Worldwide, The Spaceship Company (TSC), Danaher, Vanguard, Structure Tone, Aetna, Amgen, Procter & Gamble R&D University (Band V), and Takada (VBU), and the US Naval Academy, to name a few. Bob has published white papers and his writing has been featured in a number of publications including Inc, Entrepreneur.com and Training Magazine. Bob is also the author of ‘GETTING TO YES AND: The Art of Business Improv’, by Stanford University Press, January 2017.
2/11/21 - Speaker Linda Schwefel “Insights into Leadership Development, Managing Relationships and High Performance Teams”
Program Description
Linda Schwefel teaches how the Insights Discovery System, developed in 1988 and now experienced by more than five million people, can be applied to improving leadership effectiveness, developing better managers, improving teams and increasing sales performance. This program is also excellent for spouse retreatS. Using personal preference data collected in advance of the session, Linda Schwefel will help Vistage members to identify their own personal communications style using the Insights Discovery Profile.
This session begins with an introduction of Jungian psychology, starting with perception, and key exercises that enable CEOs, leaders, managers to realize that most of their work environment is a function of their perception. Participants will then experience an increase in awareness of their own conscious and less conscious states, and begin to differentiate between the behaviors associated with both. Each participant will then receive a 22-page individual Insights Discovery Profile created from online responses gathered in advance of the session. Participants then engage actively with each other to put their knowledge of self, combined with their new understanding of others, through various personal and workplace scenarios.
Value To Members
They then learn how to leverage this knowledge to:
• Better lead their organizations
• Better manage stress and improve personal wellness
• Quickly develop their emerging managers
• Improve team performance
• Increase sales
• Improve their personal relationships
Biography
Linda Schwefel, Managing Partner of Discover Yourself, brings over 20 years of training, keynote speaking, coaching, and professional selling experience to her role as speaker, facilitator and Vistage presenter. She has been a Sales Manager, and Top Salesperson with Xerox, where she was the Marketing Representative of the Year Nationwide for her first year. Linda later worked as an Account Manager for Versyss Corporation (OEM for IBM), where she was ranked 2nd nationally out of 700 Sales Representatives 5 years in a row. Today she delivers keynotes, teaches and coaches using the Insights Discovery System. Linda delivers an engaging and informative session. She lives in Excelsior, MN with her husband Scott, who is also a Vistage speaker.
3/3/21 - Speaker Craig Weber “Action Dialogue: Piercing Conversations”
Program Description
Tom Peters has said that management enemy number-one is misinformation. This is especially true for CEO's. Their effectiveness is contingent on the quality of the information used to solve problems and make decisions, and CEO's are largely dependent on their subordinates for the accuracy and timeliness of this information. Yet because the CEO is the pinnacle of authority in an organization, people are often reticent to speak candidly and directly about tough issues affecting the business. As a result, CEO's are often subject to high levels of information cover-up, distortion and misinformation. This problem tends to increase precisely when it is most problematic: when a pressing organizational issue demands timely, accurate, clear information. In this highly interactive workshop, Craig Weber works with members to help them learn a rigorous, highly usable method for crafting conversations that answer this critical question: "how can I be honest, direct and authentic in confronting tough issues in a way that actually educates and encourages others to do the same?"
Value To Members
This workshop is valuable for anyone interested in taking personal responsibility for creating more robust and highly effective patterns of communication in the business. A strong emphasis is placed on using these skills in the workshop so that members walk out with a strong conceptual framework and tangible new skills. Members will learn to: Promote rigorous conversations about tough business issues that generate openness and trust. Work more effectively with difficult people. Increase the quality of collaborative problem solving and decision making. Create conditions which enable the people around them to act with higher levels of candor, respect and responsibility. Moderate crippling psychological binds that hamper executive effectiveness. Work with an extraordinary "presence of mind" when facing stiff challenges. Help your team more effectively navigate non-routine problems and complex issues. Decrease the counter-productive politics, game-playing and one-up-manship that hampers personal and organizational performance.
Biography
Craig Weber is a founder of The Weber Consulting Group, an alliance that helps managers, teams and executives cultivate actionable skills for leadership, learning and change. His work focuses on improving how people collaboratively engage tough, complex and adaptive challenges.
He has worked with leaders from such diverse organizations as Pfizer, Clif Bar, Boeing, Los Alamos National Labs, The Royal Bank of Canada, The U.S. Air Force, Monitor Company, Sense Corp., Novo Nordisk, Suncorp Australia and the Webster University School of Business & Technology.
Craig's formal education in organizational development at Brigham Young University-Hawaii and organizational psychology at Columbia University, combined with his extensive consulting experience, has led to a rigorous, research-based, user-friendly approach to helping people build more effective teams and organizations.
3/18/21 - Retreat Speaker Charles Scott “What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?”
Program Description
Charles R. Scott, a 14-year veteran of Intel Corporation and co-founder of Team See Possibilities, explores how to create a meaningful life that encompasses more than just a professional title. Charles believes the answer to the question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" is the work of a lifetime. The workshop is structured around three modules, each with an interactive exercise:
Module 1 - Obstacles and Growth: sharing anecdotes from cycling over 7,000 miles with his young children across Japan, Iceland, Europe and the U.S., and from guiding the first blind runner to cross the Grand Canyon and back nonstop, Charles offers a unique perspective on leadership, naysayers and the sometimes unexpected benefits that can come from loss.
Module 2 - The Secret to Optimal Performance: Charles shares the hard-won secrets of success from a world-renowned professional marathoner and, in a unique and provocative twist, applies those principles to the workplace. This module often stimulates lively discussion about practical actions business people can take to work more efficiently and with greater satisfaction.
Module 3 - What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up? Charles builds on this age-old question, guiding participants through creative exercises intended to identify opportunities to inject vitality into their professional lives.
Value To Members
Members receive tips on effective leadership skills, handling naysayers, and developing healthy work environments. They are also guided through three interactive exercises designed to:
- Offer insights on ways to grow from loss
- Improve workplace performance while simultaneously increasing leisure time, and
- Identify and harness the sparks of vitality that live within each of us.
Biography
Charles R. Scott is a National Geographic-featured adventurer, author of two books, co-founder of the nonprofit organization Team See Possibilities, and a 14-year veteran of Intel Corporation. He conducts executive workshops on developing an adventurous mindset for business success and personal growth. He has delivered this popular workshop to hundreds of CEOs and senior executives across North America, and has spoken at Uber, Intel, The World Bank, Harvard Business School and many others. His adventures have been featured in press around the world, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, FOX News, and Outside Magazine. He also gives talks at schools and to parent groups about raising resilient children. Mixing in anecdotes from cycling over 7,000 miles with his young children across Japan, Iceland, Europe and the U.S., and from guiding the first blind runner to cross the Grand Canyon and back nonstop, he describes how to use discomfort to your advantage, encourages informed risk taking, and shares the secret to optimal performance. For an excerpt of his talks, see: Adventure Speaker Charles Scott - Corporate 1 on Vimeo
4/8/21 - Executive Session
5/13/21 - Speaker Todd Musselman “The Vital Choice – The Victim vs. The Ownership Mindset”
Program Description
Todd’s focus for the workshop is on creating a mindset of personal ownership to optimize each individual's leadership skills, capabilities and results. Todd utilizes the victim/owner distinction to demonstrate the profound difference between operating in the victim mindset (reacting to circumstances) vs. the ownership mindset (creating your circumstances) and the effect each mindset has on one's overall performance as a leader. Using a series of distinctions, the presentation clearly defines and differentiates these mindsets, and demonstrates how to choose into the ownership mindset more consistently to produce lasting results both personally and professionally. Examples of these distinctions include: “Have to” (victim) vs. “Want to” (owner), “Pleasing” (victim) vs. “Serving” (owner), “Interested (victim) vs. “Committed” (owner). In addition, the workshop provides steps to further develop each individual’s leadership qualities in six critical areas: trust, integrity, effective communication, acknowledgement/empowerment, accountability and collaboration.. Using a dynamic combination of stories, humor and experiential exercises, Todd provides a fun, inspiring and highly interactive workshop that will leave each participant with the tools and the mindset to create powerful results in their lives.
Value To Members
The primary value that each member will receive from Todd’s workshop is a greater awareness of how they are showing up as leaders both at work and at home. Are they consistently coming from the victim mindset or the ownership mindset? The training will clearly illuminate their dominant mindset and the effect it has on their leadership and overall performance. By gaining this awareness, each individual can then choose out of the limiting mindset (victim) and into the empowering mindset (owner) more intentionally. The workshop provides tangible strategies and action steps that demonstrate how to choose into the ownership mindset more consistently and by doing so greatly enhance their leadership capabilities. In addition, each participant will walk away with tools that enable them to create greater value through their conversations at work and at home. The workshop has as much value to members in their personal life as it does in their role as a leader of their organization.
Biography
https://vimeo.com/114826228, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qSLAvRGXCA&feature=youtu.be
Todd Musselman is the owner of Timberline Leadership. Founded in 2009, Timberline’s mission is to be an agent of positive transformation for individuals, teams and organizations. Todd is a powerful and effective leader who combines his background as a business owner, director of sales, and sales representative to produce strong, measurable results in the fields of cultural change, sales training, motivational speaking and executive/life coaching. As an organizational/leadership trainer, Todd brings over 25 years of experience working in his family owned business. As part owner of the company, Todd served in many different capacities. His primary role was that of director of sales. Todd was charged with managing 55 independent sales representatives across the US and Canada. In addition, as a sales representative, Todd successfully created and maintained an account base of over 350 retail businesses. Further, Todd played an integral role in personnel management, product development, marketing/sales strategy, cultural initiatives and board governance. Given his background, Todd is particularly adept in creating results in the area of sales, leadership development and cultural transformation. Todd graduated from Colorado State University in 1986 with a BA in Sociology.
6/10/21 - Speaker Harvey Goldberg “Leadership at 12 O’Clock High”
Program Description
The classic movie “ 12 O'Clock High,” is probably the most influential movie used in management training. This surprising fact is a consequence of the movie's remarkable portrayal of leadership styles. Leadership can be a difficult topic to fully grasp in a meeting room environment. This highly interactive, “showing rather than telling” presentation, explores leadership in a unique way. The movie is used as a case study. The group will closely observe segments of the movie and analyze the behavior of two key characters.
The presentation focuses on differing leadership behavioral emphases. The group will critically evaluate two commanders with very different styles, then discuss the effectiveness of the leadership behaviors demonstrated, and experience how an effective leader adapts leadership emphasis to meet specific situations.
Trained by David Hutton (Rightbrain World), Harvey Goldberg delivers this experiential presentation to illustrate behaviors to inform and educate the "Right Brain" emotional, creative side of participants through movie segments.
Value to members
This program will enable members to:
Evaluate their own natural leadership behavior
Improve their understanding of adaptive leadership behaviors
Develop specific action plans to expand their range of leadership behaviors
Biography
Harvey Goldberg is a thought provoker. He doesn't believe everything he thinks. He is more interested in thinking about and questioning what he believes. From Harvey's perspective, this is the key to growth, continuous improvement and achieving peak performance results. Harvey has more than 30 years of experience in company ownership and management and more than 4000 hours of direct coaching of CEO's and business owners Currently, he is an advisor to an extremely diverse set of companies and nonprofits, including the Washington Humane Society. Teaching principles he has learned and successfully executed in fueling the growth of his own companies is one of Harvey's greatest gifts. Helping business owners grow and maximize their business and personal potential is his life's work and passion. A former Vistage member, Harvey became a Vistage Chair after selling his business.
7/8/21 - Executive Session
8/12/21 - Speaker Rob Teschner “Debrief to Win: Foundations of Accountable Leadership”
Program Description
Many organizations struggle with implementing system-wide accountability. Holding people accountable for their decisions is a challenging prospect for anyone, especially those who lack experience in this field. An additional pressure point is the prospect of accountable leadership in a rapidly-changing environment, in an age where disruptors are constantly emerging, challenging “the old way” of doing business. Organizations that thrive in this age of rapid change are those that have built processes and employ methodologies focusing on human interactions. Critically, they’ve adopted cultures that embrace improvement and value accountability in ALL aspects of their operations. Either by design or chance they are following the approach high-performing military teams take to enable success in complex environments the world-over. Learning from these high-performing military teams is a powerful option for any organization that intends to win despite disruptive change. In his interactive program, Mr. Teschner will provide participants clear insight into how high-performing military teams teach leadership, practice accountability and deal with complexity in a program that includes the following: A brief history of the development of popular systems that promote innovation; An outline of the core elements of The Debrief-Focused Approach™; A case study of accountable leadership in action; The steps for creating an Accountable Leadership process.
Value To Members
Participants will leave with a clear understanding of how high-performing military teams organize and prepare for operations in Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) environments. They will gain a foundational understanding of the high-performing team Debrief model, to include an appreciation for the cultural requirements necessary for successful implementation. The backbone of the high-performing team model, The Debrief-Focused Approach™, will be presented in a readily-accessible format such that participants can immediately implement the most essential components in their own organizations.
Biography
Mr. Robert “Cujo” Teschner is a retired F-15 / F-22 fighter pilot. He is also a former F-15 Weapons School Instructor, F-22 Squadron Commander, senior Joint Staff officer and combat veteran. He holds advanced degrees in Operational Art and Science and National Security Strategy, and has extensive experience in tactical planning and execution as well as organizational leadership. From 2004 – 2006 he served as the US Air Force’s expert in post-mission debriefing, the methodology used by high-performing military teams to self-correct and improve continuously. He retired immediately after pinning-on full Colonel due to complications from cancer-related care and started an international business consulting practice based in St. Louis, MO called VMax Group. VMax Group’s mission is to teach businesses how to thrive in a complex world by practicing Accountable Leadership and building high-performing teams. Mr. Teschner is a multiple award-winning fighter aviator, an award-winning writer and author of the national bestselling book, “Debrief to Win”. He is also working on his next book, titled “Team to Succeed”.
9/9/21 - Executive Session
10/14/21 - Speaker Chalmers Brothers "Leadership, Conversations, Results"
Program Description
Clearly, what constitutes effective leadership and management today is not the same as it was 20 or even 10 years ago. Many aspects of our overall business environment and individual workplace environments have certainly changed. With these adjustments come changes in the skills, tools and competencies required for successful leadership. This interactive presentation by Chalmers Brothers offers a powerful and innovative way of understanding the actual actions required for effective leadership, management and relationship-building - especially in times of seemingly constant change.
Maybe we've made things too complicated in how we approach leadership, management and the creation of organizational results. Maybe we can go a level deeper than all the models, techniques and fads of the month, and discover a new source of clarity and power.
This presentation begins by offering a new framework for understanding leadership and relationship effectiveness that is so close, we often miss it. Chalmers offers that leadership and management are primarily "conversational competencies" - that is, the actions taken by leaders and managers are actions taken in language. Effectiveness requires competency in certain conversations, in designing and convening conversations that matter. While this may at first seem obvious, Chalmers explores in a new direction, opening up a new way of understanding the entire domain of language itself. Key topics covered include:
Effective leadership and the creation of context
A new understanding of language and its connection to leadership and management
The difference between listening and hearing - and why it matters
The power connected to different ways of observing
Specific language actions and relevance for leaders
Fundamental leadership conversations connected with context, corporate culture and "the essence of execution"
The impact of moods, emotions and workplace culture on organizational results - and how to intervene in these areas effectively
Value To Members
Members will learn how to literally see themselves and their actions in leading and managing in a new and powerful way. This new perspective is the basis for members' leaving the session with the ability to much more clearly understand and identify the sources of both poor performance and improved effectiveness. They will be able to immediately begin using new tools provided in the session to improve workplace communication, coordination (execution), culture and commitment to shared goals - within virtually every aspect of their organization. They will also be able to immediately apply this shift in understanding and new tools in order to improve their own emotional and physical well-being, their personal relationships and their individual productivity.
Biography
Certified personal / executive coach, author, professional speaker and seminar leader
35 years – consulting, coaching, training; clients nationwide, large and small, public and private, including: TripAdvisor, Coca-Cola Company, Infusionsoft, Dollar General, National Science Foundation, REI Systems, Ankura Consulting, many mid-size and smaller organizations
Focus: Leadership development, personal growth, “culture change,” relationship- and trust-building, emotional intelligence, productivity, accountability and teamwork.
11/11/21 - Executive Session
12/9/21 - Executive Session