Leadership Training Institute Seminars
Congressional City Conference
March 11-12, 2006

FULL-DAY SEMINARS
Saturday, March 11, 2006

L01: Community Meetings: Practical Tools for Effective Public Forums
9:00 am ? 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $160
Competency: Collaborator
Explore how to engage citizens in a positive, productive forum.  Learn practical tools, techniques and tips for effective public meetings and recognize when community meetings are most useful.  Know how to plan successful meetings and how to make the sessions more productive as you learn how to prepare and design a meeting.  Learn key tips for managing challenging situations and people. Discover new ideas for ensuring follow-through and positive outcomes.
Instructors:
Pam Plumb, Principal, Pam Plumb & Associates, Portland, Maine
Dee Kelsey, Principal, Dee Kelsey & Associates, Portland, Maine

L02: Building Accountability and Commitment: The Restoration of Community
9:00 am ? 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $160
Competency: Competent Practitioner
Broaden your set of tools for building accountability and commitment in your community as you develop a road map for creating a culture of accountability back home.  Rethink the way you integrate the ?doing? and ?managing? of your work as a local leader.  Learn new tools to change the conversation, so in effect you can change the community.  Learn how to create and provide an environment where accountability is chosen, not forced, and individuals feel like an owner and an involved member of your community.
Instructor:
Bill Brewer, Trainer and Director of Client Relations, Designed Learning, Oxford, Ohio

Morning Seminars
Saturday, March 11, 2006

L03: Developing an Effective Emergency Preparedness Plan
9:00 am ? 12:00 pm
Registration Fee: $100
Competency: Competent Practitioner
Is your community ready?  Is your plan up-to-date and does it fully cover the short term operations of restoring vital services to the community, as well as the long term focus of restoring the community to a normal or improved condition?  When confronted with a minor emergency, each department and division of the community can normally carry out their responsibilities.  However, when a large scale emergency or disaster strikes, it will involve multiple departments, divisions, and jurisdictions.  Examine the key components of an Emergency Preparedness Plan and your responsibilities as a local city official.  Broaden your understanding of your role and the critical tools needed to prepare your community for a prompt, efficient emergency response and a successful recovery. 
Instructor:
Robert Zienkowski, City Manager, City of Brunswick, Ohio

Afternoon Seminars
Saturday, March 11, 2006

L04: Building Public Trust through Performance Leadership
1:30 pm ? 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $100
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, Texas

L05: Community Leadership and System Change
1:30 pm ? 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $100
Competency: Catalyst
Too often communities embark on a significant change with the goal of enhancing services and supports to the community, only to ask, ?When did this become so difficult??  Elected officials are expected to lead a change process but are rarely given the tools to ensure success of their efforts.  Examine your role as a local community leader as you focus on current changes and their challenges in your community.  Learn those crucial tools and leadership abilities needed as a local official to bring about successful change and improvement in your community.
Instructor:
Gary DeCarolis, President, Center for Community Leadership, Burlington, Vermont

L06: Diversity Awareness: More than Just Black and White
1:30 pm ? 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $100
Competency: Collaborator
?Hold up the mirror? and explore the many differences that are present around your everyday experience.  Take a deeper look at biases, stereotypes and assumptions.  Begin to see the biases and assumptions that get in the way of leading your community in a way that is respectful and focused on getting the job done.  Realize that diversity is ?more than just black and white.? Craft an action plan to leverage diversity both inside and outside your daily activities as a local city leader.  Discover unique ways to integrate diversity, making it a process that is part of an everyday way of doing business as a local city official.
Instructor:
Floyd ?Sonny? Massey III, Principal, SOKAKI & Associates, Corona, CA

L07: Managing Communication Style Differences
1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $100
Competency: Communicator
Individuals have different predispositions and preferences in communication styles, particularly in stressful conditions.  Instead of causing conflict and avoidance, these differences can be utilized as a positive force.  Assess your own preferred communication style by examining different styles under both ?calm? and ?storm? conditions.  Identify different communication styles, appreciate their unique contributions and challenges, and become more adept in working with them to manage interactions with others in a constructive manner.  Learn about the precipitators of your own preferred style and the impact on others as different situations occurs.
Instructor:
Dr. Neil Katz, Director of Organizational Training and Development, Executive Education, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York

FULL-DAY SEMINAR
Sunday, March 12, 2006

L08: Negotiation Skills and Strategies
9:00 am ? 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $160
Competency: Collaborator
A popular slogan proclaims, ?You do not always get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate.?  It is particularly critical for local elected officials to negotiate successfully with critical stakeholders and constituents to accomplish goals and objectives.  It is true that high quality negotiation skills are a key factor in meeting needs, particularly in an environment of scarce resources and increased competition.  Examine the strengths and limitations of your current negotiation style, explore the advantages of negotiation preparation, and develop competence in utilizing an interest-based process for negotiations to achieve substantive, procedural and relationship outcomes.
Instructor:
Dr. Neil Katz, Director of Organizational Training and Development, Executive Education, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York

Morning Seminars
Sunday, March 12, 2006

L09: Five Steps to a Great Meeting with Effective Parliamentary Procedure
9:00 am ? 12:00 Noon
Registration Fee: $100
Competency: Cornerstone
Recognize the mechanics 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:
Wally Carson, Trainer, A Great Meeting, Inc., Silver Spring, Maryland

L10: Leading Your Community Through Effective Strategic Communications
9:00 am ? 12:00 pm
Registration Fee: $100
Competency: Communicator
Whether you are a veteran elected official or new to public service, understanding the intricacies of message development and the media can ensure you are successful in office.   In your arsenal of governance skills, media management and message development are key to successful policy making.  Learn how to develop your message, communicate with the media, and create an effective communications campaign.  Learn valuable strategies to get your message out to your constituency and opinion leaders to further your policy agenda and ensure community success. 
Instructor:
Marcelo Gaete-Tapia, Senior Director of Programs, National Association of Latino Elected Officials Education Fund, Los Angeles, California

L11: Community Branding: Whose Job Is It?
9:00 am ? 12:00 pm
Registration Fee: $100
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, Tennessee

LTI Luncheon
Sunday, March 12, 2006

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

Afternoon Seminars
Sunday, March 12, 2006

L13: Building Communities from the Inside Out: An Asset Approach
1:30 pm ? 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $100
Competency: Competent Practitioner
Rediscover community strengths and assets as the foundation for community building, rather than focusing on the needs, problems, and deficiencies.  Learn practical approaches to increasing citizen involvement, building resident ownership and strengthening neighborhood pride.  Learn how city governments can surface new community leaders and engage them in community renewal and community asset development.  Engage in small group exercises and learn practical tips for mobilizing and capturing support for neighborhood development.
Instructor:
Henry Moore, Faculty, Asset-Based Community Development Institute, Northwestern University, HMBC, Inc., Savannah, Georgia

L14: Local Elected Officials Guide to Managing Media Mania
1:30 pm ? 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $100
Competency: Communicator
Local leaders need to handle media inquiries with confidence by communicating simply and precisely in language that conveys leadership, competence and integrity.  Learn to focus on what the media wants and needs; learn how to work with reporters to achieve your communication goals.  Learn techniques to be proactive, provide timely and accurate facts, and avoid reporters? traps. Build on your current base of media handling expertise and increase your knowledge of and comfort in dealing with the media through a variety of exercises and scenarios.  Gain new tools to hone your skills for communicating complex ideas in an understandable way. 
Instructor:
Beverly R. Silverberg, President, Beverly Silverberg Communications, Inc., Hyattsville, Maryland

L15: Performance Leader: Taking Responsibility for Results
1:30 pm ? 5:00 pm
Registration Fee: $100
Competency: Cornerstone
Discover a simple model of what it takes to be a successful performance leader and outline action steps to enhance your personal effectiveness as a leader.  Performance leaders exercise power.  Power is making decisions that people implement through their actions and are then held accountable for the results.  A successful performance leader requires you to be? a visionary leader who has defined clear expectations for the future and establishes realistic, simple goals necessary to achieve them; a team leader who develops relationships and working partnerships; an inspirational leader who mobilizes and excites people to give their maximum effort; and a production leader who produces results through others and is responsible for the bottom line results.
Instructor:
Lyle Sumek, President, Lyle Sumek Associates, Inc., Heathrow, Florida

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.