Sessions
Leadership Power Groups Schedule
OPENING SESSION – Meet the Players.
You’ll meet the sponsors, the guest speakers and the facilitators, as well as those leaders who have made the commitment to join.
Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2010
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Maricopa Community Colleges
Small Business Development Center
2400 Central Avenue, Suite 104
Phoenix, AZ 85004
Event Dates
Ten Sessions will be held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, from 4 to 7 pm.
October 13, 2010
November 10, 2010
December 08, 2010
January 12, 2011
February 09, 2011
March 09, 2011
April 13, 2011
May 11, 2011
June 08, 2011
July 13, 2011
The Ten LPG Sessions:
#1. The Leader’s Role in the New Reality – Overview of the course; expectations between sessions; Identifying new leadership skills needed in the New Reality. Leaders: Margaret Jacoby & Sylva Leduc
#2. Vision & Values Determine Your Level of Success – 1. Explore, question and identify your company’s true core values; 2. Identify, implement and ensure you are operating from those values and not compromising your core integrity. Leaders: Margaret Jacoby & Kandi Lee
#3. A. The High Cost of Doing Nothing-Impact your Bottom Line-Leverage Your Talent.
#3. B. “ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?!”-Communicate Effectively-Engage Your Employees.” – Engaging, retaining, creating a dynamic and high performance organization; Examining the multi-generational & virtual workforce. Leaders: Margaret Jacoby, Ted Szaniawski & John Guettler
#4. Customer Service is the New Marketing - Who are your profitable customers? Learn how to find more; how do you engage customers; product development using customer feedback. Leaders: Margaret Jacoby & Norma Huibregtse
#5. Marketing, Branding & Other Strategic Issues in the New Economy – The Value Proposition & Positioning Statement that reflect your business precisely. Identifying risks. Sustainability in your organization. Leaders: Margaret Jacoby, Tom Fulcher & Fay Feeney
#6. Building a High Performance Sales Team…for Selling in the New Normal – Selling in the New Normal requires new rules, strategies & ways of thinking – the customer & the selling environment have changed. Leaders: Margaret Jacoby & Vickie Bouffard
#7. Using Social Media & Strategic Visibility in the New Economy – Developing strategic social media strategy; what are the right tools to use; gaining strategic visibility. Leaders: Margaret Jacoby, Ann Videan and Panel of Strategists
#8. A. Financing a Growth Company
#8.B. Measuring the Cost of Growth & Forecasting ROI – Creating the future of your organization on paper; calculating and measuring the cost of growth. Leaders: Margaret Jacoby & Rosiland Moore
#9. Things are Different Now: Leveraging the System – Identify Social Capital in Your Organization – Leverage productivity and impact the bottom line by identifying Social Capital in relation to Human Capital in your organization; a culture scan of the organization. Leaders: Margaret Jacoby & Dr. Deborah Peck
10. Leadership Wrap Up/Next Steps/Graduation – Look back over the 10 months of the program; share learnings and successes you have experienced; look at where to go next. Leaders: Margaret Jacoby, Mark Engle & Speakers from all sessions..
