Special Event

Best Practices in Leadership Effectiveness & Employee Engagement

November 11 Post-Conference Workshops -- Detailed Descriptions, Biographies

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8:30-12:00 Leadership that Gets Engagement Results, MDA Leadership

Workshop Description  Slides    

Great leaders get high engagement results by understanding their strengths, weaknesses, and preferences, creating a great atmosphere to work in, creating their team climate through the use of six leadership styles, and selecting the right styles in response to the demands of the situation.  The goal is to provide a leadership workshop that focuses on the foundational attributes of effective leadership, understanding different leadership styles and increase level of self-awareness by utilizing tools, best practices, and activities to help leaders achieve greater results.

Workshop Outline                 

• MDA Leadership Competency Model

• 

  Leadership vs. Management
• Tool:  Balance of Leadership and Management
• Why leadership style is important?
• HBR Article:  Leadership That Gets Results*
• Style and Organizational climate survey
• Self-assessment of your leadership style*
• Managerial Style Workbook
• Understand the range of leadership styles and Emotional Intelligence
• Determine leadership style strengths and development areas
• Communicating and influencing for results
• Tool:  MDA Six Elements of Leadership Presence
• Reflection and action planning

Facilitator Bio

For more than 20 years, Nancy Weidenfeller has found that there is a common element in the work that excites her: helping organizations achieve performance results by focusing on the people issues. She loves to partner with leaders on building their organization's ability to assess its current level of functionality and change it to achieve the desired goals.  Nancy earned a Doctorate of Education in Organization Development from the University of St. Thomas. She currently serves as an adjunct instructor on the faculty of St. Mary’s University and the University of St. Thomas.  See http://www.mdaleadership.com/who-we-are/our-team/nancy-weidenfeller/ for more details

8:30-12:00 Passionwerx: How To Keep Your Most Motivated & Engaged Employees, Mateffy & Assoc

Workshop Description  [No slides available; workbook available in workshop]

This dynamic 3.5-hour learnign experience will show leaders a practical way to motivate and engage themselves and, in turn, their people.  It will show participants how to build the work life they've always wanted.  It will also change the way managers look at their jobs and the way they increase the performance of their people.  Using fun and powerful accelerated adult learning skills, such as mind mapping, attention density, moments of insight, and brain pattern redevelopment, participants are finding this workshop extremely interactive, compelling, and in many cases, life changing.

Through this interactive workshop, you will:

• Learn what it takes to build a more fully engaged, truly motivated work life.
• Discover exactly what gest you excited about work.
• Replace ineffective employee motivation practices, such as asking managers to be primary motivators of employees, with a self-sustaining process.
• Discover the new skill sets needed to recognize, support, and keep your best and brightest.

Facilitator Bio

Over the past 25 years, Mateffy and Company, has provided organizational development, communication and marketing solutions for clients across the country. In the process we studied the distinct differences between high performing organizations and their less successful peers. We found a direct correlation between the strength of an organization's employee engagement level and the strength of their corporate growth and profits. We also found that most organizations had a corporate culture that led to average or below average levels of employee engagement. A few organizations did have cultures that ignited the collective passions of employees to achieve excellent results, however, even they had difficulty sustaining high levels of performance. At Mateffy and Company,we help our clients capitalize on the competitive advantage of having consistently high employee engagement levels.

1:00-4:30 Storytelling for Leaders, Arthur Maxwell

Workshop Description  [No slides available; workbook available in workshop]

If we want to be great leaders we must find ways to touch those we wish to lead.  Storytelling gives us another medium to establish and nurture relationships with these very people.  We can touch many people with a single story and we can reach some we never could have without story.  Add storytelling to your leadership skills and you add another dimension in which to connect to the people you want to lead.

The first objective of Storytelling for Leaders is to introduce attendees to storytelling as a powerful leadership skill.  This objective will be the focus of the first half of the workshop.  The facilitator will use a presentation and large group discussion format along with good story examples (audio, video, written and facilitator demonstration).  The workshop’s second objective is to help attendees start to develop storytelling as a leadership skill.  During the second half of the workshop attendees will work in small groups to develop their own story and practice their delivery. Exercises will be supported by guidance from the facilitator and a workbook that will also help attendees continue their storytelling skill development after the workshop.

Facilitator Bio

Christine Moore is a Consultant, Facilitator, and Instructor specializing in Project, Program, and Change Management.  For over 15 years, Christine has led, trained and coached teams charged with making change.  Specializing in creating engaging learning experiences for leaders to broaden their perspective and develop their skills, Christine uses story and simulation to bring subject matters to life.   Christine routinely presents to large and small groups within her clients’ organizations and has delivered hundreds of workshops in all regions of the world.

Christine is certified as a professional facilitator by the International Association of Facilitators, is a certified Myers-Briggs® consultant, a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®), holds a Bachelors degree in Management Information Systems, and is working toward a Masters degree in Human Resource Development.

1:00-4:30 Engagement is Infectious!  What Is Your Role?, WiseLeader and Vision One Consulting

Workshop Description  Slides  Workbook

Leaders know that employee engagement is an important ingredient to creating successful teams and high performing organizations.  Engaged employees work with passion and feel a profound connection to their company. They drive innovation and move the organization forward. However engagement research shows that only 33 percent of workers are engaged in their jobs, 49 percent are not engaged, and 18 percent are actively disengaged.   Only 22% of employees plan on staying in their current positions.

Facilitator Bio

Rita Webster, Ph.D. has been the Chief Leadership Officer at WiseLeader since 1997. Rita is a regular attendee at PIN meetings, has been a PIN presenter and has been a Baldrige Examiner.  Participants in Rita’s programs have consistently found her programs to be value-added for their organizations and filled with practical ideas that can be immediately implemented.

Michelle Bonahoom, is the President of Vision One Coaching and Consulting. She has been conducting engagement driver surveys, measuring and improving engagement scores with her clients for over 5 years.  Michelle is a familiar face at the Minnesota Council for Quality being actively involved with chairing a committee and her work as a Baldrige examiner. Michelle is a seasoned presenter. Her audiences appreciate her engaging style and her wealth of experience.

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Costs

• Cost for Nov 10 full-day main conference Nov 10 is $200 for members, $300 for members of our partners, or $400 non-members.
• Cost for Nov 11 post-conference workshops is $200 (member), $300 for members of our partners, or $400 non-members.
• Cost for both days (Nov 10-11) combined is $350 for members, $550 for members of our partners, or $700 for non-members.

Registration

To register for workshops and/or the conference, email brian.lassiter@councilforquality.org, with:

* Name

* Organization affilitation

* Membership status

* Event preferences (conference and/or post-conference workshops)

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