Leadership Training Institute Seminars
Congressional City Conference
March 8-12, 2008
Washington, DC

 Download 2008 CCC LTI Seminars Listing pdf

FULL-DAY SEMINARS
Saturday, March 8, 2008

L01: Public Values, Choices, & Decisions: Policy Leadership for Mayors and Council Members
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $165
Competency: Competent Practitioner
As an elected city official, how do you represent your constituents effectively and uphold your personal beliefs while working collaboratively on council to develop good public policy? Mayors and city council members are elected to represent the values that underlie public policy choices and must weigh these values in making good decisions. Growth, affordable housing, economic development, red light cameras, animal control, skateboarding - these issues reflect the value tensions that emerge as councils discuss, debate, and attempt to resolve difficult policy choices. To craft successful public policy and make good decisions, councils must incorporate public values to resolve problems while framing politically and technically feasible choices. Learn how you can use this powerful process to discuss and craft viable solutions to the most difficult policy problems. 
Instructor: Dr. Phillip Boyle, Ph.D., President, Leading and Governing Associates, Inc., Carrboro, NC

L02: Visionary Leaders Blaze a New Trail for Change
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $165
Competency: Catalyst
We instantly recognize people with vision because they are not afraid to share their hopes, their dreams, and their longing.  Engage in a dynamic program that will help you to create a compelling vision and lead the ‘people side’ of change.  Learn and examine best practices for creating new initiatives in your community.  Use the proven ‘tell your vision’ process to unleash passionate energy as you plan a better future for your community.  Become a catalyst for positive change and leading innovation.  Develop skills in motivating, promoting change and inspiring a future orientation.
Instructor: Martha Lasley, Director of Training, Leadership That Works, Troy, PA

L03: The Public Servant’s 7 Rules for Survival
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $165
Competency: Cornerstone
As public servants, elected and appointed officials have vast duties to perform, pressures to satisfy, and desired results to attain.  Is there a growing crisis in constituency confidence or a lack of trust?  Successful leaders master identifiable traits while using essential tools that have proven to be effective and successful… manage change, recognize and manage conflict; actively listen and communicate effectively; manage time effectively, implement a code of ethics, and make a commitment to situational leadership.   Broaden your understanding of the Public Servant’s 7 Rules for Survival.  Learn the tools necessary to lead your community better.
Instructor: Dr. Eddie A. Holloway, President, Holloway and Associates, Hattiesburg, MS

MORNING SEMINARS
Saturday, March 8, 2008

L04: Getting Results! An Effective Municipal Volunteer Program
9:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Registration Fee: $105
Competency: Collaborator
Learn the benefits of an effective volunteer program in your community.  Learn how a volunteer program can help your city accomplish more with less, add resources and expertise, give citizens an opportunity to be part of the team, and increase community buy-in.  Examine the benefits of having a volunteer program, the importance of liability, how to assess departmental needs, how to prepare volunteers, and how to assist staff in managing volunteers.  Broaden your understanding of the important policies and procedures necessary for a valuable municipal volunteer program.
Instructor: Robin Popik, Volunteer Resource Supervisor, City of Plano, TX

L05: Lead with Purpose: The Human Side of Local Government Leadership
9:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Registration Fee: $105
Competency: Cornerstone
Become intentional in how you develop as a leader, positively influence others, and how to best serve others.  Learn how your influence grows alongside your commitment and ability to create superb relationships while adding value to the lives of those you lead or influence. Learn to build trust through personal integrity, define and articulate a compelling vision, challenge and inspire for results, and lead with purpose.  Differentiate between life above and below the waterline.  Broaden your understanding of what is necessary to help you get outstanding sustainable results long term from those you lead and influence.
Instructor: Eric Boles, President, Edge Learning Institute, Tacoma, WA

AFTERNOON SEMINARS
Saturday, March 8, 2008

L06: Building & Renovating Green: Making Cents for Local Government
1:30 – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $105
Competency: Competent Practitioner
Explore opportunities for local governments to improve the bottom line, while protecting the environment and human health at the same time.  Research points to links between green buildings and labor productivity—an expense that dwarfs other building operating expenses. Valuable opportunities exist to cost-effectively convert many of those liabilities into benefits. A transformation is underway that will greatly enhance the way we design, construct, and operate buildings. Continuing advances in technologies, integrated design practices, and growing awareness continue to change the building industry, as green buildings and remodeled interiors can be constructed at comparable or lower cost.
Instructor: Mark Lichtenstein, Director of Operations, Syracuse Center of Excellence in Enviornmental & Energy Systems, Syracuse, NY

L07: Leading a Great Meeting with Effective Parliamentary Procedure
1:30 – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $105
Competency: Cornerstone
Understand the elements of leading a great meeting!  Learn how to handle both the basic and essential parliamentary processes to handling motions, amendments, taking votes and handling debate.   Engage in the opportunity to exercise judgment in posed difficult situations to craft solutions based on the principles that have governed the democratic process.  Discover the tools to be more confident in your ability to engage, as well as lead a great meeting.  Learn how to use the tools necessary to create a fair and balanced atmosphere in meetings where members can respectfully disagree, yet function in the best interest of the community at large.
Instructor: Colette Collier Trohan, CPP-T, PRP, Parliamentarian and Trainer, Silver Spring, MD

L08: Local Officials Guide to Effective Media Relations
1:30 – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $105
Competency: Communicator
Learn how to look and sound your best when working with the media—TV, radio, and print—from message development to successful interviews.  Learn how to develop easy-to-communicate messages and understand the differences for TV, radio and print.  Discover how not to be misquoted and how to handle both tough interviews and sensitive issues.  Engage in a mixture of training, group discussion, video taping and interaction, as you practice the best techniques for successfully working with the media for effective relations.
Instructor: Joseph M. Slye, Trainer and Media Consultant, Kalish Communications, Washington, DC

FULL-DAY SEMINARS
Sunday, March 9, 2008

L09: Effective Community Collaboration & Creative Problem Solving: Looking at the Ordinary, Seeing the Extraordinary
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $165
Competency: Catalyst & Collaborator
With a focus on creative problem solving, explore creativity as an opportunity for you to use in both your personal and professional life.  Examine exciting concepts for reframing problems into opportunities, the value of making mistakes and breaking patterns.  Uncover the reality that there’s more than one right answer.  Learn that creativity is an everyday phenomenon that can be employed on a routine basis for problem solving.  Experience an engaging session that promises to be enlightening, inspiring and most importantly, creative.
Instructor: Dr. Sheila Sheinberg, Ph.D., President, The Center for Life Cycle Sciences, Port Orchard, Washington

MORNING SEMINARS
Sunday, March 9, 2008

L10: Practical Strategic Planning for Local Government
9:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Registration Fee: $105
Competency: Catalyst
Municipal leaders experience significant challenges in the communities they lead. Those that are successful manage change through systematic strategic thinking and planning. Understanding the different frameworks and tools for making sense of changes in operating environments, and engaging in strategic planning can enhance a local government leader’s ability to position the municipality for achieving desired goals and outcomes.  Broaden your understanding of a municipality’s ability to plan strategically and implement its goals and strategies.  Learn about widely used strategic planning models including a conventional planning model as well as the Balanced Scorecard model, along with a case study simulation of strategic planning in a local government.
Instructor: Dr. David M. VanSlyke, Ph.D., Professor, The Maxwell School at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

L11: Dealing with Difficult People
9:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Registration Fee: $105
Competency: Collaborator & Communicator
Expand your emotional intelligence and awareness of needs to deepen connections and unlock human potential.  Become skilled at non-violent communication techniques to facilitate challenging exchanges, even when you think you are being attacked.  Become a more skilled communicator and collaborator.  Learn to facilitate difficult conversations that promote understanding and build coalitions.  Develop a mastery of new tools and learn new ways to expand group awareness and let people know that their needs matter. Gain life skills that you can use in your work as a city official as well as at home.  Learn to deal with difficult people, including yourself.
Instructor: Martha Lasley, Director of Training, Leadership That Works, Troy, PA

L13: The Diversity Institute: Building Bridges of Understanding and Appreciation
9:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Registration Fee: $105
Competency: Collaborator
Broaden your awareness of the underlying concepts that foster prejudice, bias and phobia as you are challenged to engage in a leadership role.  The building of bridges that link people together is key to the future of America’s success and stability.  Explore key concepts that under gird bias with proven methods of prejudice interruption.  Develop the understanding that is necessary to address the causative factors of the racial and gender divide.  Learn to develop strategies that will build bridges of understanding, inclusion and appreciation of differences in the people in your home community.
Instructor: Dr. Eddie A. Holloway, President, Holloway and Associates, Hattiesburg, MS

LEADERSHIP LUNCHEON
Sunday, March 9, 2008

L12: Leadership Luncheon
12:00 noon – 1:30 pm
Registration Fee: $40
Diamond, Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze recipients in the Certificate of Achievement in Leadership program will be recognized. 
Facilitators: Leadership Training Council

AFTERNOON SEMINARS
Sunday, March 9, 2008

L14: – Capital Budgeting and Planning: Balancing Pay As You Go vs. Debt Financing
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $105
Competency: Competent Practitioner
Learn strategies and techniques to increase your proficiency and comfort in dealing with financial oversight responsibilities.  Know capital budgeting and improvement planning, prioritization and learn to develop effective fiscal policies.  Learn how to put capital facilities and infrastructures into place.  Learn to develop strategies for capital financing in an effort for maintaining adequate operating fund balances and funding capital reserves.
Instructor:  Dr. A. John ‘Jack’ Vogt, Professor of Public Management & Government, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC

L15: StoryTeller: The Power & Practice of Story to Build Communities
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $105
Competency: Communicator
A community’s identity is shaped by the stories people speak into the space about the place.  Discover how successful civic leadership understands the power of story.  Understand how to choose stories that reinforce the community characteristics that serve its citizens, and how to use story intentionally to build the strength of community.
Instructor: Christina Baldwin, Writer, Author and Story Catcher, PeerSpirit, Inc., Langley, WA

L16: – Leading with the Brain in Mind
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $105
Competency: Cornerstone
Learn how to be able to form more creative and productive teams for problem solving and decision-making.  Discover how to raise your personal productivity and improve your management of change.  Learn how to use a unique approach to uncover your personal strengths and improve your public policy deliberations, decision-making and communication skills.  Broaden your understanding of the processes for how we think and behave, and its influence on your leadership.  Learn how to build consensus with diverse constituents and points of view. Engage in a fun, fast-paced, learning program that values your own uniqueness as you grow your appreciation and work as a leader and public servant.
Instructor: Harold Suire, CEO, ERI Services, Inc., Baton Rouge, LA

CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT IN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
...allows local elected officials to organize their professional development around critical skills necessary for effective leadership.  The program is built around five core leadership competencies for local elected officials, with each Leadership Training Institute Seminar addressing one of the following competency areas?
(1) Cornerstone;
(2) Competent Practitioner;
(3) Communicator;
(4) Collaborator;
(5) Catalyst.

To obtain more information or enroll in the Certificate of Achievement in Leadership program, contact the Leadership Training Institute at (202) 626-3170 or lti@nlc.org.