Lunchtime Learning

Mindful Leadership: Master Your Focus and Attention Control | January 18, 11:30am to 1pm
Presenter: Krista Scammahorn
Focus and attention can be scarce resources in the workplace, but they are attainable for those who are willing to work for them. If you’d like to learn how to better direct your brain and your mind in high-stakes situations, the practical tips packed in this session will help. You will explore science-based strategies to sustain and strengthen your concentration, which has the potential to positively impact every single aspect of your life.

Creativity Tools for Non-Creative People | February 8, 11:30am to 1pm
Presenter: Kyle Eastham
Did you ever wish you could be more like your creative colleagues? Ever get stuck and tell yourself, “Oh well, I’m just not creative?” Well, there’s hope! If you can follow a checklist or a recipe, you can generate lots of new ideas with a few tools, templates, and a little time. Whether you need ideas for new product development, better employee retention, a new marketing campaign, or a junior high fundraiser, these creativity tools will help. In this session, you will learn components needed for creativity (one is especially critical!) and you will get practice using specific creativity tools and free templates to generate more ideas.

Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance | March 8, 11:30am to 1pm
Presenter: Anna Irwin
Email replies that show up a week later. Video chats full of “oops sorry no you go.” Ambiguous text-messages. Weird punctuation you can’t make heads or tails of. How did we lose our innate capacity to understand each other? Humans rely on body language to connect and build trust, but with most of our communication happening from behind a screen, traditional body language signals are no longer visible. In her book Digital Body Language, author Erica Dhawan, combines cutting edge research with engaging storytelling to decode the new cues that have replaced traditional body language across genders, generations, and culture. In this fast-paced session, facilitator Anna Irwin will provide strategies from Dhawan’s book to turn your daily misunderstandings into a set of collectively understood laws that foster connection insights build trust and clarity in our ever-changing world.

Take a Walk in Their Shoes: Understanding How and Why Customers Choose You | April 12, 11:30am to 1pm
Presenter: Cara Adney
To best serve your clients and customers, you first have to understand them. From broad generalizations to specific behavior patterns, your business has a lot to gain from taking a deep dive into your customer’s patterns of behavior. Curating a customer journey map is a simple way you can begin to understand your customer’s experiences. By identifying how and why your customers choose you, you can explore new ways to meet their needs. This session will simplify what a customer journey is, break down why this process benefits all businesses, and provide templates so you can develop journey maps for your clients.

How to Recognize and Cultivate the Ideal Team Player | May 10, 11:30am to 1pm
Presenter: Lorinda Schrammel
Every organization wants to identify, hire, and develop ideal team players, but what steps do you take to actually do that? Author Patrick Lencioni believes the best team members are humble, hungry and smart. In fast-paced session, based on Lencioni’s recent bestseller of the same name, you will explore each of those virtues, and learn how to build a culture of hiring and developing around those virtues. Whether you’re a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork, a manager looking to hire real team players, or a team player wanting to improve yourself, this session will prove to be as useful as it is compelling.

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These sessions will be hosted at Meridian Technology Center, and lunch is included in your registration fee.

If you discover that you will not be able to attend the event(s) you register for, please notify Marcy Luter at 405-377-3333 or marcyl@meridiantech.edu no later than three business days before the program to receive a full refund on your registration fee. If the notification is within three days of the program, we offer you the option to send someone in your place.

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