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 Angie Schlemmer (angie@wabashfriends.org); 563.8452 to order your DVD or make arrangements to view a workshop in our conference room.

Enemies and Idiots:  How to Deal with Toxic People
July 8, 2010, Noon to 1 pm
Dr. Henry Cloud, psychologist, author, leadership consultant.  A Video Workshop by CCN Satellite Network Series.

Some people just sap the life out of others. 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. Often, the most difficult people may also be the key members of your organization or executive board.  The good news is that there are some very concrete, loving and appropriate tools for managing the difficult or toxic people around you. Don’t let difficult people stand between you and effective leadership!

Leadership in the Digital Age:  How to Survive and Thrive in High Velocity and Uncertain Times
June 3, 2010, Noon to 1 pm
Bryan Gray, CEO, Media Sauce.

Over the past few years, there have been irreversible changes in the way we connect, engage, and convert our stakeholders to action.   The exponential growth in the broadband pipeline, the movement of information from paper to screens, and the change from a one-way communication push to an interconnected conversation has transformed our world.  If online has accelerated the rate of change, and is the means to our future, how can we keep up with this moving target? 
Organizations will learn how to embrace this environment and rise to the top, or continue to do what is familiar and will risk heading down the path to irrelevancy.  In this general session we will cover both the challenge and the opportunities at hand.  You will learn how to lead your organizations forward in such high velocity and uncertain times, how your brand and message will remain relevant and the changes necessary to effectively drive your business development efforts.
MediaSauce is the second multi-million dollar business Bryan Gray has built from scratch. Beginning with just one person in 2003, MediaSauce has grown to 35+ strong, with revenues up 3,760% over the last five years. MediaSauce recently appeared in Inc. Magazine’s annual list of the nation’s fastest-growing privately-owned businesses; and is the 15th fastest growing media company in the United States.  

Switch:  How to Change Things When Change is Hard!
May 6, 2010, Noon to 1 pm
Scott Makin, Director of Wabash Friends Counseling Center, Licensed Mental Health Counselor.
Do you want to learn how to make transformative changes in your life, the productivity of your team, your organization, your church, your family or in your community?  Do you want to learn how to market your business, an event or product that will be more successful in getting people to attend or buy?  This workshop will summarize the key principles from Chip and Dan Heath’s book of the same name.  They previously wrote Made to Stick, the #1 Business Book in 2007.  “In a story driven narrative about a rider, and elephant and a path, they bring counter-intuitive research that sheds light how successful changes follow a pattern, a pattern you can use to make the change that matter to you, whether your interest is in changing the world or changing your waistline” (Book cover).  You will learn the steps to initiate change and make sure it gets embedded in your work culture or your personal life.  You also will be given a marketing checklist that apply these change principles to the marketing of events, products or your business.

Followership
April 1, 2010, Noon to 1 pm
Dr. Sharon Drury, (Professor of Organizational Leadership, College of Graduate Studies, Indiana Wesleyan University)
How followers are changing leaders and their organizations?  Several books have hit the shelves on this topic in the last couple of years, and it is a hot topic in leadership studies here as well.

A Growth Path for Leaders
March 4, 2010, Noon to 1 pm
Dr. Henry Cloud (Licensed Psychologist, Executive Leadership Consultant, Author of 21 books)
It's a fairly simple truth: a good leader is a growing leader.  Strong leadership emerges from persons who are deeply committed to their own emotional, spiritual, personal and professional growth. Without this quality, both leader and leadership stagnates. However, it's definitely not as simple as it sounds. Leaders in both ministry and business arenas often have difficulty finding the time, energy and resources to pay attention to fostering their own growth. Once they do, it can be equally hard to evaluate whether they are on the right track.  You and your leadership team will learn how to set your own personal growth plan into motion while discovering:

• Key ingredients which facilitate growth
• Core issues which all leaders must confront and resolve

Leadership During Lean Times
February 11, 2010, Noon to 1 pm
Dr. Jo Young Switzer, (President, Manchester College.)
Challenging economic times strain organizations and their leaders.  Together, we will consider ways to lead with confidence during an economic downturn.  We will also take the oft-quoted advice about “never let a crisis go to waste” to consider how to use a downturn to strengthen an organization so it is ready for a positive trajectory once the crisis has passed.

Developing Wisdom in Leaders: The Journey to Inspirational Decisions
January 7, 2010, Noon to 1 pm
Scott Livingston, (MBA, Executive Coach, Founder of IntegrateEI Inc, Indianapolis.)
Wisdom is often thought of as the pinnacle of human development and is a skill built through learning and discipline.  If a leader refuses to act on what he/she has knowledge of, it is difficult to maximize achievement over the long term. When was the last time, as a leader, you reflected upon the qualities that enable you to live a remarkable and recognizable life? When leaders make poor decisions, the outcome affects not only the leader but the entire organization.  In this session we will discuss three essential elements that leaders must consider in order to make wise decisions in organizations.  We will also describe and discuss the traps that leader’s fall into when poor and unwise choices are made.  Workshop attendees will finally create a tool that links the elements of wisdom to a decision that commands the need to be wise and that will also develop safeguards against unwise choices.

How to Develop Leaders Within Your Organization
December 3, 2009, Noon to 1 pm
Luther Whitfield, (Senior Pastor at New Covenant Worship Center, an Associate Pastor of The Chapel, The Director of Primetime Community Center, and the National Community Ministries Consultant for Youth For Christ, U.S.A.)
Luther Whitfield will present practical principles on how we can Create Leaders from within Your Company.  One of the key characteristics of strong, growing businesses is their ability to mentor people into leaders!  This workshop will help you do that with those in your department or team.

How the Mighty Fall and Why Some Companies Never Give In
October 1, 2009, Noon to 1 pm
Ed Vessels, (CEO, Leadership Development Consulting Firm – HiValu, LLC, Fort Wayne)
Ed Vessels will present Jim Collin’s (Good to Great and Built to Last) newest book by the same title that focuses on the dark side of how a fall from greatness can happen, to even the seemingly invisible.  You will learn the signs of the 5 stages of decline (Hubris Born of Success; Undisciplined Pursuit of More; Denial of Risk and Peril; Grasping for Salvation; Capitulation to Irrelevance or Death).  You will discover how most decline is self-inflicted and the path of recovery lies in our own hands not the economy.  An institution can look strong on the outside and already in decline on the inside. The signature of the truly great versus the merely successful is not the absence of difficulty, but the ability to come back from setbacks stronger than before.  Ed is the former Director of Operations and Modules General Manager for Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems, having served Bendix in various Management positions for 31 years.

Maximizing Your Leadership
September 3, 2009, Noon to 1 pm
Rick Hawks, (Founder and Senior Pastor, The Chapel, Ft. Wayne.)
When you become an effective leader, you will start running into various challenges and obstacles that will tempt you to abandon your key values and organizational mission.  These tempting diversions will also dominate your time so you have less time to focus on the most important things.  You will learn 8 practical principles on what these challenges are and how to meet them.

A Leader Who Confronts Successfully
August 13, 2009, Noon to 1 pm
Dr.John Townsend, (Best-selling co-author of Boundaries and author of "Who's Pushing Your Buttons", A Video Workshop 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!

First, Break All the Rules:  What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
July 2, 2009, Noon to 1 pm
Ed Turi, (Turi Business Coaching, Indianapolis)
In this bestselling book Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman use the Gallup organizations study of 80,000 managers in 400 companies to reach the conclusion that a company that lacks great frontline managers will bleed talent, no matter how attractive the compensation packages and training opportunities. With this in mind, they sought the answers to the following questions: "How do great managers find, focus and keep talented employees." Ed Turi will guide us through their findings that discipline, focus, trust, and, most important, willingness to treat each employee as an individual are the overall secrets for turning talent into lasting performance.  Turi will then share with us the recommendations the book makes on how to become a great manager, including ideas for interviewing for talent, how to develop a performance management routine, and how to get the best performance from talented employees.

Building a Leadership Culture in Your Organization
June 4, 2009, Noon to 1 pm
Dr. Henry Smith, (President, Indiana Wesleyan University)
How do you build a culture of focused commitment and best performance to achieve your mission?  Utilizing a case study, you will discover how leadership development strategies can create a great organizational culture by accelerating the development of current and next generation leaders.  In addition, learn about the enabling factors that lead to improved levels of employee engagement based on research about “best workplace practices.”

Enemies and Idiots
May 7, 2009, Noon to 1 pm
Dr. Henry Cloud, (psychologist, author, leadership consultant. A Video Workshop by CCN Satellite Network Series.)
Some people just sap the life out of others. 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. Often, the most difficult people may also be the key members of your organization or executive board.  The good news is that there are some very concrete, loving and appropriate tools for managing the difficult or toxic people around you. Don’t let difficult people stand between you and effective leadership!

Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
April 16, 2009, Noon to 1 pm
Scott Makin, (Director, Wabash Friends Counseling Center)
Our pace is rushed, rapid fire and relentless. Facing crushing workloads, we try to cram as much as possible into every day. Time management is no longer a viable solution. In his bestseller, The Power of Full Engagement, co-author and Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of the Human Performance Institute, Dr. Jim Loehr, demonstrated that managing energy, not time, is the key to enduring high performance as well as to health, happiness and life balance.  The number of hours in a day is fixed, but the quantity and quality of energy available to us is not. This fundamental insight has the power to revolutionize the way you live your life. Scott Makin will outline the key training principles and provide a powerful step-by-step program that will help you to:
* Mobilize four key sources of energy
* Balance energy expenditure with intermittent energy renewal
* Expand capacity in the same systematic way that elite athletes do
* Create highly specific, positive energy management rituals
The Power of Full Engagement approach is a highly practical, scientifically based approach grounded in over twenty-five years of work with some of the world’s greatest performers in business, law enforcement, medicine and sport to help them perform more effectively under brutal pressures. No less than 16 number ones in the world in their sport have trained with the Human Performance Institute.  During the past decade, dozens of Fortune 500 companies including PepsiCo, Citigroup, The Estée Lauder Companies, Merrill Lynch, and Procter & Gamble have learned this system. So have FBI Hostage Rescue teams, critical care physicians and nurses, and stay-at-home moms.

Customer Loyalty
March 19, 2009, Noon to 1 pm
Scott Livingston MBA, (Executive Coach, Indianapolis, Founder of IntegrateEI Inc)
What business, whether a for-profit company or a not-for-profit service provider, does not want loyal customers?  Business owners and managers know that loyal customers are the backbone of any successful business. These advocates of our businesses are the basis from which organizational growth can be obtained.  As leaders, how often do we step back and think about our loyal customers?  Why are they loyal to us?  Do they, in fact, advocate for our businesses?  Do we give our customers the tools they need to help us grow?  In this session we will discuss the five attributes that leaders need to consider in developing loyal customers.  We will also create two tools that leaders can use to create a foundation for customer loyalty in their organization.

Leadership and Vision Implementation: Disciplines to Make It Happen
February 20, 2009, Noon to 1 pm
Dr. Eugene Habecker, (President, Taylor University)
Leadership is appropriately about "the vision thing." But "vision" often doesn't become reality because there is inadequate attention to organizational "execution and implementation." In essence, the vision may be the right vision but it fails because of poor organizational execution. The focus of this presentation will be on presenting a model regarding execution and implementation to help make "vision" happen.

Being a Leader Whom People Want to Follow  
January 14, 2009, Noon to 1 pm
Dr. John Townsend, (via satellite)
By definition, a true leader is one whom others want to follow. And believe it or not, these leaders don't depend on some illusive "x" factor to make this happen. Rather, "Fruitful leaders have the ability to connect with, lead and inspire those around them," says psychologist and best-selling author, Dr. John Townsend

Getting to the Heart of Performance
Byron Stock, (Executive Leadership Consultant, Byron Stock and Associates)
October 2, 2008
In this session you will learn about a comprehensive model that identifies the factors that affect people's performance in organizations.  This model is useful in determining the likely causes of why people (or a whole department) are not performing as desired.  You’ll learn how to use the model to identify problems in your organization so you can arrive at accurate, high leverage solutions to the cause of performance problems.  Byron will also show us how Emotional Intelligence factors (or the lack of them) positively or negatively impact all of the other factors.  You’ll leave this practical session with a performance improvement tool that you can use immediately.  You may remember that Byron was with us in February when he shared with us his work and some techniques on how to develop our Emotional Intelligence skills.  Byron’s new “how to” book, SMART EMOTIONS For Busy Business People, will be available at the session at a 20% discount only to our attendees.  The companion booklet, “The Leader’s Guide to Smart Emotions” will also be available for use with your teams and work groups.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

TO ORDER: Contact Angie Schlemmer (angie@wabashfriends.org); 563.8452 to order your DVD or make arrangements to view a workshop in our conference room.