2013 Perlmutter Leadership Conference Discover your individual strengths and develop your leadership capacity

Conference Program Schedule 11:00–11:40am

Check-in and Lunch Outside of Benton Hall Room 102

12:00–12:30pm

Welcome and Keynote Benton Hall Room 102

12:40–2:40pm

StrengthsQuest™ Workshop Benton Hall, Garland Hall

2:40–3:00pm

Break with Refreshments Outside of Benton Hall Room 102

3:00–3:50pm

Leadership Workshop Benton Hall, Garland Hall, Engineering Building

4:00–4:30pm

Small Group Reflection Benton Hall, Garland Hall, Engineering Building

4:30–5:00pm

Closing Benton Hall Room 102

Brought to you by the Harry T. Wilks Leadership Institute

2013 Perlmutter Leadership Conference Discover your individual strengths and develop your leadership capacity

Table of Contents 2

Welcome

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About Our Keynote Speaker

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What is StrengthsQuest™?

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StrengthsQuest™ Workshops

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Leadership Workshops

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Building Maps

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Notes Space

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2013 Perlmutter Leadership Conference Discover your individual strengths and develop your leadership capacity

Welcome October 27, 2013 Welcome and thank you for attending the 2013 Perlmutter Leadership Conference! This annual conference provides students unique and valuable opportunities for professional and leadership development. The conference is named after Diane Perlmutter, a Miami graduate. Ms. Perlmutter valued her Miami Experience so highly that she established this conference as a way of giving back to her alma mater. We hope you enjoy the conference and learn how to apply your top five signature themes to your classes, involvement pursuits, and within everyday life at Miami University. Sincerely, The Perlmutter Leadership Institute Conference Planning Team

Dr. Eric Buller, Director of the Wilks Leadership Institute Kathy Jicinsky, Assistant Director of the Wilks Leadership Institute Meghan Morris, Graduate Assistant in the Wilks Leadership Institute Elizabeth Cochran, Leadership Development Specialist in the Wilks Leadership Institute Bri Deer, Perlmutter Conference Planning Team Member Maria Minnie, Perlmutter Conference Planning Team Member Alex Schachtel, Perlmutter Conference Planning Team Member

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About Our Keynote Speaker

It's Not What You Do, It's Who You Are Picking a major, landing a first job, building a resume...These activities can be allconsuming. But underlying these choices is a deeper set of talents, passions and natural abilities. Find out how your signature strengths can be a compass for understanding who you really are and where those strengths may take you. Dr. Anne Harbison is a 1989 Miami graduate and the Founder and Managing Partner of Leadership & Learning Solutions, a management consulting firm creating transformational development experiences for leaders across the world. She started her career at Procter & Gamble in Brand Management, went on to receive her doctorate at Harvard University and then spent seven years with Gallup's Executive Leadership practice. Anne is passionate about helping leaders build on their greatest talents to create meaningful, lasting change in their organizations and communities. She lives with her husband and two children in Minneapolis, MN.

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What is StrengthsQuest™? For years, people have invested in the belief that one must “fix” one’s weaknesses. Strengths-Based Leadership, a concept created by the research-oriented Gallup Organization, challenges this belief. StrengthsQuest™ is grounded in the theoretical perspective of Positive Psychology. As highlighted by Gallup, this perspective focuses on what is positive and normal about people, rather than focusing on their deficiencies or abnormalities. Similarly, StrengthsQuest™ Program’s framework is built on two concepts: talents and strengths. According to Gallup, a great number of talents naturally exist within each individual, and individuals can develop their talents into strengths by refining their knowledge and skills. A talent becomes a strength when one is able to provide consistent, near-perfect performance in a given activity. In other words, the StrengthsQuest™ Program is based on the following six principles of human nature and behavior: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

You have a group of talents within you. Your greatest talents hold the key to high achievement, success, and progress at levels of personal excellence. Becoming aware of your talents builds confidence and provides a basis for achievement. Learning how to develop and apply strengths will improve your levels of achievement. Each of your talents can be applied in many areas including relationships, learning, academics, leadership, service, and careers. As you develop and apply strengths, your achievements will increase and you will experience greater and more frequent successes.

StrengthsQuest™ is a tool designed to help students identify and understand their top five signature themes of talent out of 34 different themes. It begins with the Clifton StrengthsFinder™ assessment , which has been taken by more than 9 million people around the world. After completing the assessment, individuals receive a customized report that lists their top five signature themes of talent in the order in which they are most dominant. The report also lists action items and recommendations for how individuals can develop their talents into strengths with the goal of being successful in all contexts of life--academic, career, and personal. Discovering and understanding their personal strengths can help students become better leaders, group members, and citizens. Ultimately, StrengthsQuest™ helps students to answer the questions “Who am I?” and “How do I best contribute to make this a better world?” As Clifton and Anderson—the developers of StrengthsQuest™-state, “In a sense, the development and application of strengths generates a feeling that you are fulfilling your personal destiny.” Braskamp, L. (2006). The StrengthsQuest™ Guidebook: Introducing Strengths-Based Development and StrengthsQuest to Higher Education Leaders. Princeton, NJ: The Gallup Organization. Gallup, Inc. (2010). About. StrengthsQuest™. Retrieved from: http://www.strengthsquest.com/ content/141728/index.aspx

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2013 Perlmutter Leadership Conference Discover your individual strengths and develop your leadership capacity

StrengthsQuest™ Workshops Benton Hall and Garland Hall: Note room assignment at check-in Beginner Strengths Workshop Presenters: Room

Level

Presenters

Benton 100

Beginner

Eric Buller

Benton 114

Beginner

Jessica Gunzburger

Benton 115

Beginner

Sarah Allard & Cody Garcia-Pusateri

Benton 204

Beginner

Adam Leftin & Buffy Stoll Turton

Benton 206

Beginner

Brian Jicinsky & Chanelle White

Intermediate Strengths Workshop Presenters: Room

Level

Garland 153

Intermediate

Anne Harbison

Presenters

Garland 155

Intermediate

Steve Reudisili

Facilitated by staff members of Miami University who have received special training from the Gallup Organization, the StrengthsQuest™ Institute session will help participants better understand the results that they received when they took the StrengthsFinder™ assessment online. Unlike the Leadership Workshop portion of the day in which participants will select the topic that interest them most, the StrengthsQuest™ workshop is one that all participants will attend, creating a common vocabulary and base of leadership knowledge for the rest of the day.

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2013 Perlmutter Leadership Conference Discover your individual strengths and develop your leadership capacity

Leadership Workshops Whale Done! Using Positive Reinforcement to Influence Others

Benton Hall Room 115

Cody Garcia-Pusateri, Resident Director/First Year Adviser Ever wonder how the trainers at Sea World get the world's largest predator to jump through a hoop? Utilizing concepts from the works of Bolman and Deal, Kouzes and Posner, and from Ken Blanchard's book "Whale Done!", this presentation will focus on using positive reinforcement strategies to motivate supervisees and peers to accomplish organizational goals. Individuals will understand organizational models, the importance of investing in people, and why reframing how you view the members of your organization can yield huge results. While the people you work with won't be doing backflips, you'll be surprised by what you get out of people when you invest in them.

Why People Follow

Benton Hall Room 114 Jessica Gunzburger, Doctoral Student, Student Affairs in Higher Education Intergroup Dialogues Coordinator Why do people follow? As aspiring and current leaders we spend a great deal of time working to develop our skills and knowledge related to leadership, but often neglect to think about what causes other people to follow. Gallup conducted an extensive study about why people follow, and four key themes emerged. Come to this interactive session to learn about what makes people follow a leader, and how you can leverage your top 5 themes and leadership home bases to meet your follower’s needs!

CCL Visual Explorer - Using Imagery in Your Leadership

Benton Hall Room 100

Dr. Eric Buller, Director of the Wilks Leadership Institute Using the Visual Explorer exercise created by the Center for Creative Leadership, we will identify images that represent your personal visualization of leadership and also talk about how imagery can be used in organizations to visualize problems or solutions. This is an innovative leadership technique that stimulates more creative thinking in your teams.

Worthy to follow: Leading From the Inside, Out

Benton Hall Room 207

Wilson Okello, Resident Director/First Year Adviser What does it mean to be authentic? We remember the leaders who invest their full selves into what they do. Using current literature on leadership development and identity development, I will provide a framework for owning individual core values as a way to promote and enhance leadership skills.

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Leadership Workshops (continued) 25 Hours

Eng. Bldg. Room 162

Allie Engelhart, Marketing Student, Farmer School of Business Learning what your personal brand is and living it every day is a powerful practice. This workshop will provide an overview of what it means to find your brand and how to maximize that brand to lead, communicate, and execute to the best of your ability.

It Starts with ONE

Eng. Bldg. Room 266 Jelene Grace, Assistant Director for Academic Advising and Living Learning Communities Courtney Clark-Hachtel, Graduate Student It Starts with ONE. An interactive discussion on bystander behavior, everyday situations we encounter and obstacles that we face. Through the use of video and current events we will provide strategies for overcoming barriers, becoming an active bystander and taking a stand toward a culture change.

The Five Secrets to Creating Winning Teams

Eng. Bldg. Room 270 Carlos Suarez, Student President, The National Society of Leadership & Success (Sigma Alpha Pi) Teamwork is the spirit that pulls together a group of committed individuals and turns them into a high-functioning team. Sadly, many leaders sabotage their own team-building efforts without even knowing. In this workshop, you'll learn the three mistakes leaders make that squash the spirit of teamwork and five new strategies to breathe life, creativity, and innovation into any team you're a part of.

Building a Strengths-Based Leadership Brand

Garland Hall Room 153 Anne Harbison, Founder and Managing Principal of Leadership & Learning Solutions, LLC We often think of brands as products and packaging, but as a leader you should have a brand that is an authentic representation of your truest talents and values. Building off your signature strengths, this workshop will allow you to define the way you want to uniquely lead others based on who you truly are.

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Building Maps Benton Hall:

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2013 Perlmutter Leadership Conference Discover your individual strengths and develop your leadership capacity

Thank you! For attending the 2013 Perlmutter Leadership Conference We would like to thank the following people who helped make this year’s conference a success!

Our keynote speaker: Anne Harbison

Our StrengthsQuest Workshop presenters:

Our small group facilitators:

Sarah Allard Eric Buller Brian Jicinsky Cody Garcia-Pusateri Jessica Gunzburger Anne Harbison Adam Leftin Steve Reudisili Buffy Stoll Turton Chanelle White

Sarah Allard Amy Corron Elizabeth Cochran Briana Deer Cody Garcia-Pusateri Jessica Gunzburger Chelsea Hauser Caren Kay Maria Minnie Alex Schachtel Josh Schiets Carlos Suarez

Our Leadership Workshop presenters: Other contributors: Eric Buller Courtney Clark-Hachtel Allie Engelhart Cody Garcia-Pusateri Jelene Grace Jessica Gunzburger Anne Harbison Wilson Okello Carlos Suarez

Diane Perlmutter Harry T. Wilks Papa John’s Pizza LaRosa’s Pizzeria Insomnia Cookies Miami University Office of the Registrar

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