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FULL-DAY SEMINARS
TUESDAY, November 10, 2009

L01: Local Action for Sustainable Economic Renewal
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $180
Competency: Competent Practitioner
Develop knowledge and skills for leading and implementing innovative programs to address the current economic crisis.  Explore the key elements of a vibrant local economy and new ways to address difficult topics with your constituents.  Learn about policies, programs, and best practices that have been successfully implanted in cities.  Discover new ideas for economic development linked to the stimulus package, successful job creation strategies that simultaneously address social and environmental issues.  Engage in short presentations, small group work, skill practices, and group exercises called the Community Change Game. Find out how to gain a new sense of confidence using concrete tools and techniques to introduce innovative economic practices and programs in your community. Understand how local action for sustainable economic renewal is increasingly essential to foster a vibrant local economy.
Instructor: Gwendolyn Hallsmith, Director, Planning and Community Development, Montpelier, VT

MORNING SEMINARS
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

L02: Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: Building Community in Today’s Economy
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Registration Fee: $120
Competency: Collaborator
Depleted resources for public services, the need to do more with less while at the same time providing a high level of service are issues that are increasingly relevant to cities.  Learn new avenues to keep city employees engaged, residents happy and optimistic, and the financial strain minimized while laying the groundwork for a sustainable economic recovery in your community.
Instructors: Marlene A. Pontrelli, Attorney, Mariscal, Weeks, McIntyre & Friedlander, P.A., Phoenix, AZ  and Barb Carter, former Council Member, Tempe, AZ
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L03: Understanding and Effectively Using the New Media
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Registration Fee: $120
Competency: Communicator
Just when you thought you mastered the media, the rules have changed with a growing trend of new media; news aggregators, citizen journalists, blogs, twitter, facebook, and other news outlets.  Given the rise of social networking tools and the fragmentation of the news media, being ‘heard’ today as a policy leader or a thought leader is not an easy task.  Learn how to effectively use new media tools to enhance your communication skills and abilities in an era of new media. Recognize how clear communication serves your constituents to better understand your leadership work in your community.
Instructor: Lindsay Strand, President, Lindsay Strand Associates, Minnetonka, MN
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L04: The Policymaker’s Role in Creating Healthy Communities: What’s Health Got to Do with It?
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Registration Fee: $120
Competency: Catalyst
The research is clear: place matters. Where children and families live, learn, work and play affects their health. People thrive when they earn living wages, have access to safe and affordable housing, are in close proximity to parks and recreation, and can shop at grocery stores selling healthy food. Explore ways to develop prevention strategies that foster healthy communities. Learn how healthy communities create mechanisms for conserving healthcare funding, developing infrastructure, and delivering vital services to residents—even creating a link to stimulating the local economy. Learn specialized tools, skills and knowledge as a policymaker to build healthier communities, and find out how to advance policies that improve healthy eating and physical activity opportunities in your community.
Instructor: Linda Shak, Program Manager, Prevention Institute, Oakland, CA
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L05: Managing Your Time as a Municipal Leader
9:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Registration Fee: $120
Competency: Cornerstone
Local leaders are continually being challenged to do more with less. The economic crisis has amplified this challenge by increasing work-loads and stress—making it even more difficult for you to provide the clear direction and calm focus that enable you to be most effective. Engage in an innovate response that has benefitted hundreds of leaders to cultivate and sustain both their energy and attention. Learn to spend limited time more productively improve your work/life balance and reinvigorate your leadership skills.
Instructor: David Peter Stroh, Principal, Bridgeway Partners, Brookline, MA

AFTERNOON SEMINARS
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

L06: Sustainability 101: Going Green and the Local Elected Officials Role
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $120
Competency: Competent Practitioner
Local leaders need a fundamental knowledge of sustainability—green building, green space, green infrastructure, public transportation, reducing greenhouse gases, recycling, and much more.  Being green means different things in different parts of the country.  What should you know about green and creating a move livable community as a local leader? How green is your community?  Are you doing your part of just leaving it to city staff? Explore exciting innovative tools that you can use to ensure that your community is on the road to green and an improved quality of life in your community.  Discover and expand your set of resources to help create a more sustainable community for your residents.
Instructor: Sara Pesek, Director, Environmental Finance Center at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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L07: Media Messaging: Building the Right Media Message
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $120
Competency: Communicator
Learn how to develop, control and deliver persuasive key messages to the media and constituents.  Learn how to develop concise messages to improve clarity and build confidence in your relationship with the media.  Through role playing, learn how to assert control in an interview and effectively answer both the anticipated questions and the surprise questions.  Learn how to improve your presentation abilities and recognize how clear communication serves your constituents to better understand you as a leader.  Focus on practical tips to stay cool in the hot seat, deliver the intended message and convey the proper image.  Build your ability to work with the media and strengthen your day-to-day communications skills.  
Instructor: Lindsay Strand, President, Lindsay Strand Associates, Minnetonka, MN

L08: City Leaders Who Make a Difference
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $120
Competency: Catalyst
As the challenges facing local government become more complex, cities have an even greater need for an effective political leader. The city leader needs to be effective at promoting a sense of direction, coalescing the council, and helping to ensure that all keep players work together constructively—particularly in communities fragmented by interest groups and disinterested constituents. Learn a new perspective on leadership emerging from case studies of mayors in 14 cities ranging in population from 1,500 to 1.5 million.  Explore the multitude of ways make a difference. Develop your vision and learn how to facilitate the contributions of council and staff to provide a sense of direction. Find out how to apply these unique skills and garner support as a local public official.
Instructor: James H. Svara, Professor, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University
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L09: Staying Sane and Finding Your Game: Handling Conflicts in the Public Eye
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $120
Competency: Collaborator
Develop your skills to resolve conflicts, while influencing and building partnerships, resolving conflicts and maintaining open lines of communication.  Become more confident and be seen as a leader who develops positive outcomes.  Understand how conflicts and disputes develop and why; distinguish between beneficial and destructive conflicts; and understand the STEPS to handling disputes and unpleasant interactions.  Learn to prepare for and defuse irate colleagues or citizens and understand how perceptions are influenced by emotions.  Engage in a fresh approach to handling conflicts in the public eye and stay sane with a professional attitude.
Instructor: Eric S. Trogdon, Mediator, Trainer and Author, STEPS Canada, Burlington, Ontario, Canada

L10 – Public Sector Leadership: Stewards of the Common Good
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $120
Competency: Cornerstone
Public sector leaders are intended to be stewards of the Common Good. Broaden your understanding of three essential components: Reclaiming the Public Good, Developing Moral Courage, and Practicing Values-based Leadership. Discuss the intimate connection between ethics, economics and the common good to develop a fresh understanding of the role of stewardship in public life. Build your understanding of moral courage, how to embrace it, where it comes from, and how to tap into your source of moral courage. Examine the concepts of integrity and transformational leadership as you integrate these principles into real life. Learn a new approach to balance the forces of self-interest and the common good.
Instructor: Bill Grace, Grace and Associates, Bellevue, WA
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FULL-DAY SEMINARS
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

L11 – A Foundation of Success: Build a Better Understanding of Yourself and Others
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $180
Competency: Cornerstone
Are you as effective as you can be as a local leader?  How well do you know yourself and the impact that you have with others?  Build your understanding of different leadership styles and human behavior; understand how it relates to your role as a local municipal leader. Identify your own personal behavior and leadership style so that you can maximize your behavior strengths to be an effective leader.  At the same time, expand your appreciation of all other leadership and behavior styles as you learn to anticipate and minimize potential conflict situations.  Learn how to be better at influencing and inspiring others.  Develop new strategies for success as you build a better understanding of yourself and others that you work with or lead.
Instructor: Joshua A. Sky, President, The Sky’s the Limit Consulting, Inc., Estero, FL

L12 – Effective Councils and Boards: Avoiding the Board Trap
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $180
Competency: Collaborator / Competent Practitioner
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?  City halls, elected officials and constituents are better served when local councils and boards perform at the greatest effectiveness.  Collaboration, teambuilding and team work will foster political effectiveness.  Expand your understanding of your role on the board.  Build your knowledge of the strategic planning process, organizational visioning and vital service in leadership in municipal government.  Examine best practices in board service along with different leadership styles, and stages of development.  Avoid the board trap and become the most effective council and board to serve your city.
Instructor: Dr. Eddie Holloway, President, Holloway and Associates, Hattiesburg, MS
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MORNING SEMINARS
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

L13 – Building Public Trust through Performance Leadership
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Registration Fee: $120
Competency: Cornerstone
Leaders who want to win back public trust must do so by achieving performance results that matter to citizens and stakeholders.  Evaluate your own performance by asking yourself key questions: What are we doing? How are we doing? How do we lead change? Examine those key leadership attributes of vision, participation, collaboration and inspiration in an effort to build public trust in your performance leadership.  Learn vital tools and practices for local government leaders to put performance management onto the streets and into action in your community.
Instructor: Kevin Baum, Founder and Principal, InCentergy, Austin, TX

L14 – Leadership in Changing Communities: The Impact of Paradigms upon Perceptions
9:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Registration Fee: $120
Competency: Collaborator
An ongoing cycle of change and demographic shift within your community often presents local leaders with a new frontier. Each encounter in these diverse communities contains a different experience, perception, value, paradigm, culture, and assumption.  Because leaders’ perceptions are often misunderstood, their approach to an idea or issue will affect important interaction between both parties. Learn how to asses your own personal values, perceptions, values, and paradigms, and determine their impact upon your interaction with community stakeholders.
Instructor: Claude Hurst, President, C.H. Hurst Associates, Inc., Miramar, FL
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L15: Advocating for Your City: The Art of Persuasion
9:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Registration Fee: $120
Competency: Communicator
How do leaders become more or less persuasive?  Learn how to augment your communication skills as you enhance your effectiveness as an advocate for your community and its priorities.  From the day you become a city official, you establish a ‘brand’ name. What are you known for in your community? What is your ‘brand’ name? As a city leader, you are known for certain things and not known for others.  The more you understand your ‘brand’ name, the more successful you will be as a leader; the more effective you will be as an advocate for your community.
Instructor: John Daly, Ph.D., Professor, College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

L16 – Local Government Finance: Guarding the Public Checkbook
9:00 am – 12:00 Noon
Registration Fee: $140
Competency: Competent Practitioner
Learn strategies and techniques to increase your proficiency and comfort in dealing with financial oversight responsibilities.  Gain knowledge of budget management, financial crisis warning signs, the perils of micro-management and establishing an adequate fund balance.  Participants will also receive the book “Local Government Dollars & Sense: 225 Financial Tips for Guarding the Public Checkbook.”  
Instructor: Len Wood, President, The Training Shoppe, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
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AFTERNOON SEMINARS
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

L17 –How to Inject Innovation into Local Government
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $120
Competency: Catalyst
Governments are in the business of public service; they are looked to as bodies to foster innovative ideas necessary to positively impact today’s public policy issues.  The key to unleashing local leaders and city employees to engage in real talk about innovation is introducing a method to confront today’s social and economic challenges.  Adopt a maverick approach of smart risk-taking and explore innovative ways to rethink, reconnect, reinvent and redesign strategy, and service delivery.  Engage in a series of thought-provoking activities which will focus on participants to become less dependent on best practices and more reliant on the four aspects of maverick-thinking. Explore the ways to overcome the current forces that impact local governments today by bypassing the typical responses supporting the ‘we’ve always done it that way’ approach to problem-solving.  Find out how to craft a robust and practical action plan to implement innovation in your community.  
Instructor: Patrick Ibarra, Co-Founder & Partner, The Mejorando Group, Glendale, AZ

L18 – Leading with the Brain in Mind
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $120
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
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L19 – The Communicator: Using Likeability and Storytelling to Connect with Constituents  
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $120
Competency: Communicator
If you are likable, then they will listen to you.  If you tell stories, then they will remember you.  As a leader, when they like you and remember you; you will expand your political opportunities.  The best communicators are likeable storytellers. Discover how to use likeability and storytelling telling to motivate and inspire. Learn simple steps to telling stories that will help you improve your message while getting your audience to connect with you and believe in you.  Explore how to present your most likeable self and create better connections with all people, even adversaries. Learn how to tell stories that will deliver your message in a simpler, more memorable way.
Instructor: Bill Graham, Professional Speaker and Trainer, Graham Corporate Communications, Montclair, NJ

L20 – Collaborative Ventures: Building a Vibrant Future in Your Community
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $120
Competency: Collaborator
Looking to the next development cycle, one reality is clear: a new thinking toward old partnerships needs to emerge.  No longer can development take place in a vacuum.  In order to succeed, city leaders must take advantage of collaborative ventures to meet the development goals of their community.  By doing so, you will redefine the future landscape of their community and the course for development takes place, not only in their hometowns, but also in communities across the country.  City officials can lead their communities by identifying new partners and building the road for successful economic development, while involving residents in the planning process for the future of a vibrant and lively community.  Leading in the face of uncertainty is the hallmark of great leadership; now is the time to prepare your city for the opportunities of tomorrow.
Instructor: Katherine Aguilar Perez, Executive Director, Urban Land Institute, Los Angeles District Council, Los Angeles, CA
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L21: Leadership Luncheon
12:00 noon – 1:30 pm
Registration Fee: $40
Diamond, Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze Certificate level recipients will be recognized.  Enjoy a special opportunity to network with colleagues and support colleagues and fellow seminar participants’ training activities and leadership work.  
Moderator: Gene Schulter, Chair, Leadership Training Council, Alderman, Chicago, IL

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 hotline at (202) 626-3170.
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