2008 CESSE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE PROGRAM

LEADING THE WAY:
Energize Your Brain, Enhance your Skills and Learn from the Experts

As leaders, you are role models for all around you. With information, demands and technology growing exponentially you need to think, act and manage in new ways. You need to increase your self-awareness, lead from your strengths, expand your imagination and unlock your creativity. Don’t miss this chance to kick-off the conference with a new perspective of yourself, additional tactics to work smarter and renewed enthusiasm for your work.

This three-part, interactive, energizing program, led by scientist, professor, professional speaker and leadership coach Nancy Riesz, MBA will take you in-depth on the following topics:

Part 1 - Innovative Thinking 
With the session title of What Do You Think? Are You a Genius? be prepared for an interactive, experiential session. As we become immersed in habits and the busyness of our daily routines, we lose perspective. We cease to question and challenge what is going on, often accepting ineffective ways to do things because that is the way it has always been done. Nancy will show you how to open your mind to new ideas and ways of thinking. And, provide skills and ideas to be the kind of leader who attracts and keeps the best staff and members. It also demonstrates how to have fun while learning and working.

Topics included in this session include:
• Methods to open you and your mind to new ways of thinking
• Techniques to recognize and move beyond perceptual barriers to change
• Practices to create ideas that solve problems, make $$$ and further your career

Part 2 – How to Be a Great Coach for Your Team
After a short break, you will enter a new realm of leadership effectiveness. Coaching is an innovative, non-threatening way to lead people in today’s associations. Whether it is your boss, colleagues, staff or volunteers, coaching is not something you just start doing. It is a specific practice to learn and a skill to be developed with a language of its own. Coaching is the essential skill to convert people’s talents into performance.
Topics in this session include:
• Essential elements for attracting and keeping great players
• How to develop peak performance in players
• The language of coaching
• Hands on practice: You as the coach

Part 3 – Interview the Experts
Facilitated by Nancy Riesz, the closing segment will focus on the practical applications, perspectives and experiences of three CESSE leaders as well as Q & A. Hear how this group of prominent executives think, act and lead their organizations.

THE PANEL
• Steve Nelson, Executive Vice President, AACC International   
• Lynn Strother, Executive Director, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
• Roque Calvo, Executive Director, The Electrochemical Society, Inc.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
All Team Leaders, Managers, Directors, and newly appointed Executive Directors. In fact, any CESSE member, staff or supplier who is interested in learning about unique approaches to leadership in today’s world will benefit from attending.

WHAT YOU WILL TAKE AWAY
1. New perspectives on thinking and innovation that will allow you to see problems with people, processes or systems differently, more creatively, truly more effectively.
2. Coaching skills that will allow you to become a more effective leader within your organization including how to best manage different personalities and generations within your staff.
3. Insights from the panel of CESSE leaders who will share secrets of success from their experiences in leadership in their organizations and within CESSE.
4. A bound booklet that includes session learning materials, ample space for notes and several excellent articles about being a better leader.

ABOUT NANCY RIESZ, MBA, MT(ASCP)                
President, Success Catalyst

Nancy Riesz is an internationally-known interpersonal effectiveness expert, a Success Catalyst, who teaches people how to work together… better. During her 20+ years in the clinical laboratory and in-vitro diagnostics industry, Nancy earned a reputation for blending practical business strategies with challenge and inspiration.  Her positive outlook and insightful perspectives lead people to shift their thinking, change their actions and create significant, sustainable outcomes. Through her personalized presentations and seminars, leadership coaching, and consulting, she energizes people and transforms organizations. Her goal is to create working environments that attract high-impact people who want to do remarkable work and teach executives how to be leaders people want to work with.

During her 15 years of coaching and speaking Nancy has worked with over 50 associations from regional chapters to national organizations including being a regular speaker at past ASAE Annual Meetings and Great Ideas Conferences. Her work with prominent corporations such as Procter & Gamble, McDonnell Douglas (now bioMerieux N.A.) and Bayer Diagnostics provides a perspective on leadership in the for-profit world which is a benefit in these times of associations viewing themselves more as a “business”.
   
Nancy earned a MBA in Management from Xavier University’s Executive Program, a BS in Medical Technology from the University of Cincinnati and a certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University. Nancy is President of Success Catalyst, which she founded in 1993. She is an adjunct professor at Xavier University, a certified Women Business Enterprise owner, a member of the Chapter Leadership Council of National Speakers Association and International Coach Federation, on the staff of the Mercy Franciscan Holistic Health Centers, a member of the Cincinnati Regional Chamber Small Business Advisory Board, a United Way Ambassador, a Rotarian, a member of the Executive Women Golf Association and a Hospice of Cincinnati volunteer.