Past Event - 2nd Annual Kentuckiana Bridges Congress (In Person)

2nd Annual Kentuckiana Bridges Congress – October 18, 2022

Topic: Professional Development Day

Description:

MORNING PROGRAM

Productive Conflict Workshop 

3 Business Acumen PDUs

When you think of conflict, does your heart start to race and sweat roll down your back? Conflict is one of the core behaviors of a high performing team. It is also the behavior that has the lowest performance score among thousands of teams. When done correctly, conflict can lead to Innovation, Creativity, a more resilient culture, better decisions, profitability, retention of staff, productivity, inclusiveness, and greater safety.

If there are so many benefits from conflict, why is it avoided and managed so poorly in teams and organizations? There is a wide range of productive and destructive conflict. Destructive conflict leads to reduced innovation, wasted & lost time, wasted & lost opportunities, absenteeism, high employee turnover, legal costs, bad press, and more. Learn what you and your organization can do to manage and harvest the benefits of productive conflict.

Workshop Benefits:

1. Understand the various kinds of conflict.
2. Identify your preference for conflict and where your interests and concerns may be incompatible with others.
3. Identify your conflict hooks or personal triggers which can lead to unproductive conflict.
4. Learn to manage your hooks for more productive conflict.

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LUNCH PROGRAM

Grow! From Pains to Gains Keynote 

1 Power Skills PDU

Right now, people are hurting because of uncertainty, change in working conditions, exhaustion, and anxiety. Many are looking to improve their work satisfaction, happiness, and their physical and mental health for themselves and their families. Professionals dissatisfied with their work are leaving employers in record numbers. This phenomenon has been called “The Great Resignation.” Some people are waiting for things to change. Many feel powerless because they can’t do what they normally do, so they do nothing.

We will discuss how to step into a more powerful persona to help you climb the mountains you may be facing and to help manage anxiety, stress, and grief. You will learn techniques that will help you easily put on your cape and increase your confidence to help you achieve better business results and breakthrough roadblocks to your success and happiness.

Session Benefits:

1. Identify self-sabotaging thoughts and actions so you can begin to recognize and minimize their impact.
2. Learn strategies to “own the new normal” including the “Personal Power Model”
3. Gain motivation to climb your personal mountains.
4. Evidence of the power of these principles will be shared in stories.

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AFTERNOON PROGRAM

There is an "I" in Team: Lead with Impact! Workshop 

3.5 Power Skills PDUs

Team performance starts when you ask, “how can I take more responsibility for my team’s troubles instead of pointing at others?How can I match my good intentions to my impact so I can be the leader and team member my team deserves?” Only 10% of teams are high performing. Sustainable high performance is possible. The “I” is your impact! There is often a gap between your good intentions and your impact. We will discuss why that happens and how you can close this gap and create the conditions of psychological safety needed to help your team members engage and perform at a higher level. You will improve your ability to solve challenges you face every day and achieve your goals more successfully. There is an “I” in Team will help your ability to think clearly under pressure, manage and motivate people effectively, and to change your approach as necessary. It will help you improve your emotional intelligence and your impact!

This topic provides you with the skills to recognize how emotions drive behaviors, the difficulty in managing your emotions, and the emotions of those around you. Gain tools to manage interpretation of information and review appropriate levels of reaction. As a leader, you will become more aware of your unconscious behaviors and learn to effectively manage your emotions to make conscious decisions for better outcomes.

Participant Benefits:

• Learn how Emotional Intelligence impacts your leadership effectiveness.
• Recognize the cycle of how emotions drive behaviors and build habits.
• Gain tools to build awareness of how you behave in moments of tension and the impact of that behavior on achieving our goals.
• Learn techniques to interrupt those behavior patterns for better outcomes.

BIO

Spencer Horn, Altium Leadership

International Speaker, High Performance Team Expert, Executive Leadership Coach, Conflict Advocate, Accountability Evangelist

Businesses internationally look to Spencer as an enthusiastic, insightful source for counsel and advice on developing productive and focused corporate cultures. Spencer draws upon his 30 years of executive experience to reenergize seasoned and emerging professionals and increase organizational effectiveness. He inspires change, to develop: a powerful culture, effective communication, high performing teams and engagement. 

Spencer is the President of Altium Leadership. He has previously been the CEO of a leadership development company and Vice President of a NASDAQ company, which developed IMAX theaters in tourist destinations. There he worked with major organizations such as IMAX Corp., National Geographic Television, Radio City Productions, Disney Films and more. He has been speaking professionally since 2009. He has been speaking and presenting at PMI chapter development conferences since 2010 and has been a regular speaker at the PMI Leadership Institute Meeting (LIM) North America Conference, since 2014 and the closing keynote speaker of LIM AP & NA 2021. He is consistently one of the highest rated speakers for the yearlong, PMI Leadership Institute Master Class (LIMC) since 2015.

He is a co-author of the "Speakers on Life"​ anthology "The Power of the Platform" along with Jack Canfield, Les Brown, Brian Tracy and more.

He holds a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in economics from the University of Utah. He is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) with the National Speakers Association, a designation which less than 17% of NSA speakers and 2% of speakers worldwide achieve. He is a Certified Team Performance Coach (CTPC) and facilitator through Team Coaching International and a certified Professional Dynametric Programs trainer and administrator through PDP Global. Spencer has been married to his amazing wife, Jana, for more than 36 years. She is his partner and COO of Altium Leadership. Together they have five beautiful children and six grandchildren.