Leadership is not about personality; it is about behavior—an observable set of skills and abilities.  This session will include an overview of The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® and a copy of The Leadership Challenge® book and pocket card.  When co-authors, Kouzes & Posner, set out to discover what effective leaders do, they asked people to think of a peak leadership experience.  Despite differences in culture, gender and age these responses revealed similar patterns of behavior.  The authors discovered The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®: Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to Act and Encourage the Heart.

OBJECTIVES for this Session:

• Identify your leadership strengths and weaknesses
• Set the exampleple for others
• Identify your vision of the future and inspire others to share
• Search of opportunities to improve your organization
• Experiment with innovative ideas and learn from mistakes
• Build collaboration, teamwork and trust
• Strengthen the abilities of others to excel
• Recognize the accomplishments of others
• Apply the lessons learned to a current organizational challenge

The Leadership Challenge, Copyright © 2017 by James M Kouzes and Barry Posner

Your Presenter: Kim Worlow is a certified Leadership Development Coach and Trainer. She holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Illinois. Kim spent over 10 years with the University of Arkansas as a leadership trainer.  More recently, she served as the Director of Education at Baxter Regional Medical Center, where she focused on leadership development across the organization.  She specializes in helping professionals accelerate their growth and mastery in all things leadership!  She currently lives in Mountain Home, AR and her company is called InspireMe.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team outlines the root causes of politics and dysfunction on the teams where you work and the keys to overcoming them. Counter to conventional wisdom, the causes of dysfunction are both identifiable and curable. However, they don't die easily. Making a team functional and cohesive requires levels of courage and discipline that many groups cannot seem to muster. The workshop is based on the book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni.

The objectives of the workshop: 

• Help teams make substantial progress in working together as a team
• Have a deeper understanding of the contributions of each team member
• Develop strategies to help the team overcome each of the five dysfunctions

Your Presenter: Kim Worlow is a certified Leadership Development Coach and Trainer. She holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Illinois. Kim spent over 10 years with the University of Arkansas as a leadership trainer.  More recently, she served as the Director of Education at Baxter Regional Medical Center, where she focused on leadership development across the organization.  She specializes in helping professionals accelerate their growth and mastery in all things leadership!  She currently lives in Mountain Home, AR and her company is called InspireMe.

Employers want employees with strong work ethic. Employers want employees who have a personality that chooses good conduct, habits, and values that help the employers do what they are in business to do. Work Matters, Work Ethic Matters.

Integrity is foundational to the workplace. Honest communication is necessary for production and service delivery. Good decision-making relies on accuracy. Dishonesty harms everyone. Our reputations are the only things that really matter. Without a good reputation, we won’t have opportunities. Integrity reflects our reputation. Eventually, the culture rots. When the company suffers, jobs are lost.

The idea of providing service to others might seem like it belongs in a job called Customer Service. The truth is that every interaction we have with others while we are at work is giving customer service. The assistance and advice we provide others is constant. The person to whom we offer these things are the customers. The greater the culture of helping one another, the greater the chance the company will be successful.

Students will reflect on present skill level via self-assessment for each of the 3 components (work ethic, integrity, and customer service) before learning.

Students will learn constructs of work ethic, integrity, and customer service

Students will set goal(s) for improvement of skills

Whether it is correcting poor work or turning a dead-end performance around, you will leave this session with a plan of action and the skills to make it happen.  This session will help take the fear out of giving crucial feedback to your employees. We will tackle your real-world conflict head on. 

OBJECTIVES for this Session:

• Learn when, where and how to address conflict
• Learn how to navigate difficult conversations
• Shift your thinking to a new level of understanding about fear and feedback

Your Presenter: Kim Worlow is a certified Leadership Development Coach and Trainer. She holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Illinois. Kim spent over 10 years with the University of Arkansas as a leadership trainer.  More recently, she served as the Director of Education at Baxter Regional Medical Center, where she focused on leadership development across the organization.  She specializes in helping professionals accelerate their growth and mastery in all things leadership!  She currently lives in Mountain Home, AR and her company is called InspireMe.

Energy Leadership is a process that develops and supports a personally effective style of leadership that positively influences and changes not only yourself, but also those with whom you work and interact.  This session will teach you how to understand the most important personal resource of all—your energy!  Managers and leaders from all walks of life can use the principles of Energy Leadership to inspire themselves and others to produce results and achieve success in the workplace.

OBJECTIVES for this Session:

• Recognize seven distinct levels that are the key to understanding why everyone thinks and acts the way they do, in life and specifically within the workplace.
• Distinguish truly effective leaders from those who deplete the energy of the people around them, and specific techniques to shift energy levels to inspire peak performance.
• Identify the Big Four Energy Blocks and discover proven techniques and strategies for overcoming.
• Develop the ability to shift internal energy to meet any leadership challenge and use this newfound power to inspire respect, confidence and loyalty in others.

Your Presenter: Kim Worlow is a certified Leadership Development Coach and Trainer. She holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Illinois. Kim spent over 10 years with the University of Arkansas as a leadership trainer.  More recently, she served as the Director of Education at Baxter Regional Medical Center, where she focused on leadership development across the organization.  She specializes in helping professionals accelerate their growth and mastery in all things leadership!  She currently lives in Mountain Home, AR and her company is called InspireMe.

1,000,000 employees miss work each day because of stress. Let’s do something about it!  This session is interactive, entertaining and thought provoking and is guaranteed to shift your thinking about stress.  SOULutions for Stress will support you to get your energy (and even your stress) working for you instead of against you!

OBJECTIVES for this Session:

• Check your thinking on what is "really" causing your stress (you may be surprised!)
• Identify 4 major blocks to your peace of mind & what to do about each of them
• Learn 6 ways to influence your stress immediatley, right now, today
• Learn new strategies for responding to your stress long term

Your Presenter: Kim Worlow is a certified Leadership Development Coach and Trainer. She holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Illinois. Kim spent over 10 years with the University of Arkansas as a leadership trainer.  More recently, she served as the Director of Education at Baxter Regional Medical Center, where she focused on leadership development across the organization.  She specializes in helping professionals accelerate their growth and mastery in all things leadership!  She currently lives in Mountain Home, AR and her company is called InspireMe.