Friday Afternoon Leadership Conversations
Hosted by The Advancing Leadership Institute of DDJ Myers, Ltd.

You are invited to actively participate in the complimentary Friday Afternoon Leadership Conversations series as a way to continue your learning as a leader, network with other industry professionals and build effective leadership practices. All you need to do is email education@ddjmyers.com or call (602) 840 9595 ext. 109 to register.  Each conversation is led and facilitated by best practices leadership coaches. I look forward to listening for you in the calls!

Best regards,
Deedee Myers

Each event is 75 minutes in length and starts at 3:00 ET.

Employee Effectiveness and Rising Gas Prices
Friday, July 11
How are we, as employers, partnering with our most valued asset, our employees, to adjust to the cost of getting to and from work, especially for those already living on restricted budgets? What effective action do we need to support the morale of our employees as their wallet thins during their daily commute?

Language of Leadership, Part 1
Friday, July 25
Explore how leaders utilize language to move people and issues forward. Gain greater awareness about how language can alter futures, generate action, and how careful attention to language distinctions will provide insights into the types of questions to ask.

Listening
Friday, August 8
Leaders can never listen enough, but the issue always remains a question of time. Paying attention to how we listen can leverage our capacity and therefore how we manage the listening side of our conversations.

Accountability
Friday, August 29
Generating accountabilities can seem time consuming and complex. A straightforward model on how to “contract” accountabilities into desired outcomes is presented. This practical model is usable immediately and helps moves requests and offers into a binding promise. (Click Here)

Career Development Plans
Friday, September 26
Employees and organizations are hungry for successful development, and the starting place is an effective development plan jointly authored in which each feels like a stakeholder. This session will walk you through creating a meaningful development plan, and will be supported by sample documents.

Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
Friday, October 10
This emerging field, using our capacity to effectively manage feelings and build meaningful relationships in order to achieve desired outcomes, is known to be a greater contributor to our leadership success than our smarts and “what we know”. The relevance of Emotional Intelligence and key distinctions of where to bring our attention for greater success are key components.

Beyond Diversity 101
Friday, November 7
A progressive organization moves beyond Diversity 101 into generative conversations that go past dress code and piercings. This session provides practical and rich tools to assess your own organization’s openness to diversity and why we need to be in this conversation.

Language of Leadership, Part 2
Friday, November 14
So much of what a leader does calls for the effective use of language. This session, an extension of the first conference, delves deeper into how language can create moods and generate (or not) the outcomes we seek.