Leadership Training Institute Seminars
Congress of Cities Conference
November 13-14, 2007 — New Orleans, Louisiana

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 Tuesday Schedule  Morning | Afternoon
Wednesday schedule Full Day | Morning | Afternoon | Leadership Luncheon
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Full-Day Seminars
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

L01 - The Six Essential Tools of Public Service
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $165  Register now
Competency: Cornerstone
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. 
Instructor:  Dr. Eddie Holloway, President, Holloway and Associates, Hattiesburg, MS

L02 – Building Public Private Partnerships
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $165  Register now
Competency: Collaborator
One of the most common questions that a city has when launching a new campaign is “Who’s going to pay for it?”  Look at a broad outline of various funding models including examples of cities that have successfully used them for their own new initiatives.  Learn the specifics of a Public Private Partnership (PPP) model including who to include in the partnership, how to approach corporate partners, essential organizations, the division of power, troubleshooting and management of the partnership.  Explore examples of successful various PPP’s.  Learn ways in which a unified campaign can help all of the stakeholders save money down the road.  Engage in small groups, charged with the task of selecting the funding model most suitable for your city’s situation and identifying vital partners with whom to work. 
Instructor:  Richard Norment, Executive Director, NCPPP, National Council for Public Private Partnerships, Washington, DC

L03 – M.E.E.T. on Common Ground: Speaking up for Respect in your City
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $165 Register now
Competency: Communicator
Local leaders can contribute to an exciting, positive community council that promotes personal responsibility and respect in your city. Unlike programs that focus on high level strategic theories, learn and explore a unique ‘ground zero’ approach. Gain practical skills that you can use to create a respectful and inclusive community.  It takes people with a common understanding, skills, goals and a willingness to meet on common ground to create an environment that everyone wants to live in.
Instructor:  Dr. Todd Arwood, Principal & CEO, Todd Arwood Performance Partners, Louisville, KY

Morning Seminars
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

L04 – Leading with the Brain in Mind
9:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Registration Fee: $105  Register now
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

L05 – Can Small Towns Be Cool?
9:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Registration Fee: $105  Register now
Competency: Catalyst
‘Cool Cities’ has increasingly become a buzz-word among both community and economic development practitioners.  Are small cities in pursuit of the creative class?  The struggles and successes of larger cities are oftentimes amplified in smaller communities.  Smaller communities bring residents together through commerce, education, and a sense of personal identity.  Even big cities try to tap the power of small communities and the value and sense of place that small cities offer.  After nearly two years of research that includes site-visits and work in more than 250 communities in 10 states, discover the results and best practices that will resonate with small community leaders.  Exciting results that will make you say, “Why didn’t I think of that?”  Learn the core values that youth and residents seek in a community as a future place to live, work, and play.  Learn trends and opportunities that can impact the future of your community.
Instructor: David Ivan, Community and Economic Development Specialist, Michigan State University, St. Johns, MI

L06 – Achieving Community Goals with Effective Public Purchasing
Registration Fee: $105
9:00 am – 12:00 Noon Register now
Competency: Competent Practitioner
Government procurement is a significant part of every municipal budget and controls over 20% of the Gross Domestic Product in a national aggregate.  Learn the value of the professional procurement process as a means to achieve strategic goals while maintaining the integrity of government and the well-being of the community.  Learn how to make more informed decisions concerning the implementation of strategic goals and objectives through a community’s purchasing process.  Learn how to better leverage your cities purchasing power to create better, stronger and healthier communities.
Instructor: Michael Bevis, JD, CPPO, C.P.M., CPMP, Chief Procurement Officer, City of Naperville, IL

Afternoon Seminars
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

L07 – Ethics and Integrity… for the Other Guy
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $105 Register now
Competency: Cornerstone
New ethical challenges present themselves every day.  Public leaders are required to understand and make decisions regarding issues that may never have been heard of just a few years ago.  Ethical dilemmas require a higher order of complex thinking and interpersonal awareness to balance competing new ethical challenges.  How do public leaders deal with personal ethical dilemmas?  Just say you don’t have any?  How do leaders help colleagues face questions of ethics?  How should public leaders guide their community when ethical problems arise for the other guy?  Learn how to clarify your priorities when competing priorities arise.  Create a clear alignment between your beliefs, language and actions.  Gain a better understanding of the four universal moral principles and how to incorporate them into your leadership style.
Instructor: Donna Zajonc, Former member of the Oregon Legislature and Co-Founder, Bainbridge Leadership Center, Bainbridge Island, WA

L08 – Leadership in a Diverse Community
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $105  Register now
Competency: Collaborator
Expand your awareness of the factors that influence human perceptions and examine how those perceptions influence behavior and actions when interacting with people who are different – ethnicity, gender, age, culture, race, religion, abilities and disabilities.  Examine the perceptions of various styles used to communicate thoughts, ideas and opinions, and their impact.  Examine the factors that influence the quality of varied leadership and human interactions, both politically and personally.  Learn how to control the negative impact of personal biases and prejudices. Develop your leadership awareness and the skills necessary for enhancing win-win human interactions and interdependent relationships in a diverse community.
Instructor: Claude Hurst, President, C. H. Hurst Associates, Inc., Miami, Florida

L09 – Effectively Handling the Media Beyond Thirty Seconds of Fame
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $105 Register now
Competency: Communicator
Effective city leaders understand the ‘ins and outs’ of dealing with the media in order to maintain a unified message for yourself and your community.  Learn how to present yourself through body language, appearance and tone… in effect: How you look, How you sound, and What you say.  Learn how to develop concise content and improve clarity and confidence in your media relationship.
Instructor: Carolyn Sawyer, President/CEO, Tom Sawyer Company, Columbia, SC

Full-Day Seminars
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

L10 – Leadership Power and Spirit
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $165  Register now
Competency: Cornerstone
Successful leaders of the 21st century have to identify and make sense of complex situations before taking appropriate action.  Explore the four leadership lenses that will provide you a clear view and sharper focus on the difficult challenges that face your community.  Gain a more in-depth knowledge of your own strengths and vulnerability. Understanding the dynamics of complex situations, as well as, allowing leaders to engage appropriate skills, provides the opportunity for sound decisions and effective action.  Engage in a dynamic program as you examine the value of both cognitive and behavioral complexity challenges while using diverse cognitive leadership lenses or frames.  Renew your enthusiasm, power and spirit for leadership in your community.
Instructor: Dr. Neil Katz, Director of Organizational Training and Development, Executive Education, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

L11 – Community Vision for Great Cities: Making your City Successful
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $165  Register now
Competency: Catalyst
Examine where your community is headed and the process that will be used to get there.  Define the meaning of vision along with the issues and goals for your community as you identify the key stakeholders and resources involved.  Engage in a review of your community as you solicit ideas and identify key elements for moving your community into action and in the direction that you know is crucial for its future. Examine a consensus-building process that can range from simple and short to more complex, longer-term designs and plan for your home community.  Your city’s future is determined by how you confront the realities of today.  Understand how leaders take charge of their city’s future and create a future that you envision.  Learn to embrace the challenges and opportunities facing your city to make your community vision a reality.  Learn from successful cities and their “Best Practices” where leaders have been successful in setting their vision for a great city.
Instructor: Lyle Sumek, President, Lyle Sumek Associates, Inc., Heathrow, FL

L12 – Public Leaders as Collaborators and Conveners: Creating Powerful Partnerships
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $165  Register now
Competency: Collaborator
Successful community leaders must acquire a variety of collaborative and convening skills to work with the complex and often chaotic issues facing you.  Learn the four stages of public leadership; gain insights into when and how to apply effective collaboration and convening skills.  Assess your own personal leadership point of view and gain insights into your public leadership philosophies, motivations, and abilities. Learn the essential roles of collaboration and convening, as well as how to apply these roles to an action planning tool for creating powerful partnerships for achieving results. 
Instructor: Donna Zajonc and David Womeldorff, Former member of the Oregon Legislature and Co-Founder, Bainbridge Leadership Center, Bainbridge Island, WA

Morning Seminars
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

L13 – Time Management Skills for Effective Leadership
9:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Registration Fee: $105  Register now
Competency: Cornerstone
Learn techniques for managing time so you can become a more effective leader and still have time for family, friends, and relaxation.  You can stay up later and get up earlier, but the bottom line is there are still only 24 hours in a day.  Learn to recognize your priorities as a leader and how to more effectively manage your time.  Discover how to lead a balanced and less stressful life by knowing how to say yes, and how to tactfully say no without alienating or team members, colleagues, constituents, family or friends.  Learn the steps to take to determine your priorities, vision, and responsibilities for a particular task or job.  Better understand how to manage stress and gain the tools necessary to develop a personal time management plan.
Instructor: Marlene A. Pontrelli, Esq., Attorney, Mariscal Weeks McIntyre & Friedlander, P.A., Phoenix, AZ

L14 – Community Branding: Whose Job Is It?
9:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Registration Fee: $105  Register now
Competency: Catalyst
Learn how to help guide your community to its preferred future through a community branding initiative that marshals the resources of your community to their best use.  Understand brand marketing, what it is, and its value and unique application to communities.  Learn the skills and steps necessary to make your community unique.  Learn from case-studies and explore the development of strategic branding applications for your community.  An effective community brand requires a leader who can balance the need to build collaborative partnerships with the need for a strategic message.
Instructor:  Don McEachern, CEO, North Star Destination Strategies, Nashville, TN

L15 – Intergenerational Communication: Tools for Communicating with Your Constituents
9:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Registration Fee: $105 Register now
Competency: Communicator
Can communications become more difficult?  In all likelihood, your community includes five generations with different values, beliefs, and priorities, along with a different ‘set of words’ to communicate.  In addition, each generation holds a different ‘view of the world’ and their ‘place in history.’  Successful leaders understand that each individual is different and there is no ‘one fits all solution’ when working with people.  Broaden your understanding of the key traits that make each generation unique. Develop a better understanding of why people react the way they do to a given situation.  Engage in a practical program that will build your set of tools for improved communications and learn which communication tools work best with each generation.
Instructor: Kathy Condon, Executive Coach and Trainer, KC Solutions, Vancouver, WA

L16 – Performance Budgeting in Government
9:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Registration Fee: $105  Register now
Competency: Competent Practitioner
When faced with budget gaps, the most common solution is to focus on how to cut 10 or 15 percent from an already “tight” budget. Across-the-board cuts are a too frequent occurrence that doesn’t distinguish what is working from what is not.   Learn how to start with a set of results that matter to citizens and to allocate available dollars to each of those results.  In eras of budget constraint or surplus, there are new strategies that have proven to be an effective tool for local leaders.  
Instructor: Lloyd Blanchard, Executive Assistant to the Chancellor, Associate Professor, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Afternoon Seminars
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

L17 – Contemporary Trends in Local Government
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $105  Register now
Competency: Catalyst
How do we use the techniques of modernization to build unique communities? Two trends dominate the work of local government officials—modernizing the organization and citizen engagement.  These are independent, world wide trends that must be bridged in order to create, maintain, and preserve communities with identity.  On the one hand, the modernization trend creates homogeneity; on the other hand, the engagement trend seeks identity.  Effective local government officials increasingly find themselves in the role of "bridging" the gaps the trends create.  Examine the trends and the skills that the bridge building role requires. 
Instructor: John Nalbandian, Chair, Dept. of Public Administration, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

L18 – Conflict Management
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $105  Register now
Competency: Collaborator
Recognize the essential role that conflict plays in life and learn to respect and actively manage conflict related to personal hot buttons.  Utilize a self-assessment tool to identify areas that are ripe for personal and interpersonal conflict.  Learn critical skills for resolving conflict with others, understand the principle of flexible response to conflict situations; learn to understand and use a proven method for analysis of conflict and a more productive response.  Learn how to build the most effective techniques for addressing conflict within group dynamics and in your role as a member of city council.
Instructor: Steven B. Montague, Trainer, Southlake, TX

L19 – Perfecting Your Message: A Guide for Elected Officials
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $105  Register now
Competency: Communicator
Effective city leaders understand the ‘ins and outs’ of dealing with the media in order to maintain a unified message for yourself and your community.  Learn how to present yourself through body language, appearance and tone… in effect: how you look, how you sound, and what you say.  Learn how to develop concise content and improve clarity and confidence in your media relationship.
Instructor: Carolyn Sawyer, President/CEO, Tom Sawyer Company, Columbia, SC

L20 – Local Economic Development: The Good, Bad, and Ugly
1:30 – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $105  Register now
Competency: Competent Practitioner
Officials lead with their vision of city renewal.  However, they often find themselves in a conundrum over whether the public benefits promoted are worth the long-term tax breaks that the private development partners demand. What’s a city official to do? Know how to address the technical problem by learning the tools to discern the good from bad proposals. Understand the economic dynamics in three urban markets – housing, labor, and education. Learn how these are inextricably linked, creating the ugly blighted conditions that are targeted by good economic development policy. 
Instructor: Lloyd Blanchard, Executive Assistant to the Chancellor, Associate Professor, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
 
Leadership Luncheon
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

L21 – Leadership Luncheon
12:00 noon – 1:30 pm
Registration Fee: $40  Register now
Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze Certificate level recipients will be recognized.  A time to network with colleagues and an opportunity to support your fellow seminar participants’ training activities and leadership work. 
Facilitator: Doug Echols, Chair, Leadership Training Council, Mayor, Rock Hill, SC