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We have recorded on DVD the following Leadership Luncheon Workshops. You can purchase them for $25 each or you can stop over at our conference room in the Counseling Center and watch one of the workshops for $10 per person
TO ORDER: Contact Ami Jo Scamihorn (amijo@wabashfriends.org); 563.8452 to order your DVD or make arrangements to view a workshop in our conference room.

Developing Your Team: High Performance Collaboration
Dr. Tim Gardner, (Executive Leadership Consultant, President & CEO of Marriage Ministries, Inc., Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Associate Research Fellow with the Sagamore Institute, Adjunct Professor at Indiana Wesleyan University)
July 10, 2008
Building effective teams in the workplace is crucial to the success of any organization; and boring team meetings are a sure-fire way to demoralize and derail any team.  Join Tim Gardner as he presents a research-based model for team creation, evaluation, and building, along with guidelines for conducting engaging, results oriented team meetings.

Overcoming Obstacles and Winning
Dr. Henry Cloud, Clinical Psychologist, Executive Leadership Consultant
[via satellite]
June 5, 2008
What do effective leaders do when they come to a roadblock?  Sooner or later every leader will face it: an obstacle or personnel problem so intimidating that it threatens the entire mission.  On the other hand, wise leaders anticipate difficulty and learn the secrets to overcoming obstacles and winning!  Cloud says, “If leadership was an easy path, everyone would do it.  The fact is that moving an organization - or a team - forward is never an easy task!” Successful leaders have a unique way of viewing and handling these difficulties. Without these resources, leaders will only go as far as their biggest obstacle.  Dr. Cloud will give your leadership team the skills it needs to maintain forward motion even in the midst of adversity. Learn what good leaders do with the obstacles in their paths.

Millennials Joining the Workforce:  How well do you know tomorrow’s employee and what motivates them? 
Dr. Todd Voss,Executive Vice President, Indiana Wesleyan University.
May 1, 2008
This workshop will unravel the challenges and blessings of tomorrow’s worker using data and evidence from today’s college student.  Helpful suggestions will be given in a fun and interactive session to prepare just about any work environment for the greatest success as Millennials become our next colleagues and future bosses.  Dr. Todd S. Voss is the Executive Vice President at Indiana Wesleyan University.  He has served IWU for almost 19 years, and has dedicated his life to studying the challenges and generational trends of students.

Go Put Your Strengths to Work
Scott Makin, Director, Wabash Friends Counseling Center
April 3, 2008
The old adage, “play to your strengths” has never been truer in regard to successful leaders and companies. A recent research study showed that employees who are able to steer their jobs toward activities where they feel strong (i.e. strengths), out produce others 38% of the time, provide higher customer satisfaction 44% of the time, and have less turn over 50% of the time. None of us are creative, innovative, or have good judgment in everything, but we usually excel in those characteristics in our areas of strength and passion.  This month’s leadership luncheon presentation will summarize key concepts in Marcus Buckingham’s book, Put Your Strengths to Work. Discover your job activities where your strengths are most evident and learn how to transfer time and energies to those areas while reducing time and energy in areas of weakness. Leaders excel by amplifying strengths, never by simply correcting weaknesses.  Most successful people and companies combine strengths and make weaknesses irrelevant.  

Developing Emotionally Intelligent Employees
Ed Turi, Turi Business Coaching, Indianapolis.
March 6, 2008
Having emotionally intelligent employees is critical to taking your business to the next level. Emotionally intelligent employees are more optimistic and are better able to find ways around obstacles.   They form stronger relationships with their peers and use those relationships to accomplish more. Organizations that have emotionally intelligent employees are more productive, have less turnover, and better morale. Ed Turi will show us the critical emotional intelligence skills that you can develop in your employees and teach you ways to encourage their growth.

SMART EMOTIONS:  Building Resilience For High Performing Leaders and Organizations. 
Byron Stock, Executive Leadership Consultant, Bryron Stock and Associates
February 7, 2008
If you had two hours to spend - would you prefer to spend it at a movie or in a meeting? Why? In a meeting we get to interact around an issue we care about, while at the movie we sit and stare at the screen. Join us in exploring how Patrick Leoncioni, author of the Five Temptations of a CEO and the Five Dysfunctions of a Team suggests we can transform our meetings to be shorter, more interesting, engaging, and productive.

Boundaries in Leadership
Dr. John Townsend,
January 3, 2008
Leadership is a demanding calling. It can require all you have and sometimes more.  The answers to these questions reflect the struggle:
    * Do you feel out-of-control in life and ministry?
    * Do you have difficulty saying no or delivering bad news?
    * Do you wonder if you're burning-out?
The demands of leadership so often exceed our limited resources of time and energy that burn-out seems inevitable.  Staying healthy and productive in leadership requires very clearly defined boundaries!  Dr. John Townsend will demonstrate how effective leaders set loving, yet firm boundaries - and keep them.  “Boundaries help you stay clear in your relationships and in your tasks. They protect you, your vision, and your outcomes,” says Dr. Townsend.  When a leader has difficulty setting and maintaining healthy boundaries, the result can be discouraging or even chaotic.  In this broadcast you will learn:
    * The keys to setting and keeping your boundaries
    * The triggers which allow you to be controlled or pulled off-track
    * The steps for gaining more freedom and control in your leadership

Death by Meeting
Bryan Orander, President of Charitable Advisors and the Indianapolis Not-for-Profit News
December 6, 2007
If you had two hours to spend - would you prefer to spend it at a movie or in a meeting? Why? In a meeting we get to interact around an issue we care about, while at the movie we sit and stare at the screen. Join us in exploring how Patrick Leoncioni, author of the Five Temptations of a CEO and the Five Dysfunctions of a Team suggests we can transform our meetings to be shorter, more interesting, engaging, and productive.

Good To Great
Edward Vessels, HiValu LLC: Leadership Development and Strategic Consulting
July 12, 2007
Edward Vessels, a retired Director of Operations for Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems for 31 years, will help you discover some of the principles from the landmark study by Jim Collins in his Good to Great book. You will learn the key characteristic of the leaders who took their company to 6.9 times the average cumulative stock returns over 15 years. Discover the best way to assemble a team to accomplish these results. Understand the first strategic step your team has to accomplish. Finally, you will begin to discover your “hedgehog” concept that makes all “great” companies soar.

Enemies and Idiots
How to Deal with Toxic People
Dr. Henry Cloud
June 7, 2007
Understand the difference between "enemies" and "idiots" and how best to deal with these "poisonous characters" as a leader. you will learn the difference between people who intentionally seek to undermine your leadership and those who simply lack adequate relational skills. Leaders will discover when it's time to sever relations and when it's appropriate to go the extra mile. The good news is that there are some very concrete, loving and appropriate tools for managing the difficult or toxic people around you.

Eat That Frog!
21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
May 1, 2007
Ken Rauch, Director of Human Resources, G&S Metals,Inc.
Ken Rauch will lead a discussion on this popular leadership book by Brian Tracy. He will pull out the highlights of this book and provide examples of how you can implement this to become a more effective leader. If you want to purchase a copy of this book beforehand, please email us your request by April 1st.

We cannot sell the DVDs that we tape from the satellite services but you can stop over at our conference room in the Counseling Center and watch one of the workshops for $10 per person.

Leading With Social Intelligence
April 17, 2007
Scott Makin, Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Director, Wabash Friends Counseling Center
You need more than IQ and technical skills to become a star performer. Hundreds of studies now show which interpersonal skills a person must have to be promoted more often. These skills also help you to be a more effective motivator of those you are leading and to create a work environment that helps retain your best employees. Discover what these skills are and how best to develop them.

A Leader Who Confronts Successfully
Dr. John Townsend
March 27, 2007
A Video Conference by CCN Satellite Network Series
Effective leaders do not shy from confrontation because they also have the necessary skills to handle conflict successfully. Ironically, many leaders don’t have the training or experience to do this important task well. Give the leaders on your team the skills and the vision they need to make confrontation work to everyone’s advantage!

TO ORDER: Contact Ami Jo Scamihorn (amijo@wabashfriends.org); 563.8452 to order your DVD or make arrangements to view a workshop in our conference room.