Communication skills are vital to success as a leader and are potentially the biggest stumbling block one will encounter. This interactive workshop is focused on helping participants to improve their ability to communicate in key areas essential to their effectiveness. More specifically, this workshop will provide tools for listening effectively, outline common styles of communication, and give participants necessary insights to acknowledge and manage emotions during conflict and confrontation. Participants will have the opportunity to role play to reinforce the concepts.
To master the art of leadership then is to work at becoming a master of how human energy systems and exchange work, and thus, how to shape, align, and focus them on change. Our human systems appear to operate within a set of universal laws, the same universal laws that appear to govern energy exchange throughout the universe. Our systems vacillate and transform from chaos to order, and order to chaos, leaving change in their wake. Why? This session will be a fun and engaging journey exploring several key universal laws and their application to human system dynamics and leadership
The COVID-19 pandemic affects many facets of associations, particularly in-person meetings and conferences. In this session, Jeffery Tenenbaum, Esq., will cover many of the legal implications involved with this current situation.
In this session we'll explore what it is to have a high performing team with steady and high levels of psychological safety, how to purposefully build and protect that dynamic, and how to leverage it to create productivity and innovation on your team.
Description: Short-term decision have been made in response to COVID-19, but what about the long-term decisions and impact? Mary Byers, CAE, author of ASAE’s bestseller, Race for Relevance: 5 Radical Changes for Associations, will join us to present a framework and filters to help with decision-making going forward. She’ll also share what she’s hearing from association professionals across the country, provide a list of resources and suggestions for working with the board, and answer your questions.
The concept of personal brands has been a mainstay in the professional community for 15 years, but few people truly understand what personal brand are, why they are important, or how to evaluate and elevate their own brand. Marny provides a clear guide to managing personal brands in a meaningful and impactful way, including specific steps for making small, simple and consistent changes that help change the way people are perceived by influencers in their careers.
This session will enable participants to understand how to leverage emotions rather than suppress or avoid them. In research from Stanford, Cal Berkeley and University of Texas at Austin, it has been shown business negotiations fail or fall short of an ideal outcome when one or more parties is suppressing their emotions. By understanding the emotional underpinnings of your behavior, business people are better able to cooperate and find common ground with direct reports, team members, bosses, vendors, colleagues and their spouses. Research suggests that emotional intelligence is responsible for nearly 60% of job performance.