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"Dear Jim, Thank you for making the trek to Washington to help our county officials think positively aobu their communications! One participant wrote, 'This was the most enlightening, thought-provoking, engaging seminar I have ever attended.' I know you would like more specific feedback, but I'm sure you know that the attendees went away happy and energized. Your packet of materials was impressive."

Association Event Coordinator

"Dear Mr. Lukaszewski, I wanted to thank you for contributing to our program by presenting the ethical Socratic dialog on Friday. I understand the evening was successful and students contributed."

Director for Continuing Studies Program at a University

"Jim, I was primarily responsible for your invitation to address the public information officers at the recent NACo Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C. I just want you to know that your presentation was very well received by those in attendence and for that I thank you. Your presentation was one of the most professional I have seen (and I have seen more than a few). Again, thank you for your time and expertise and I hope you enjoyed it as much as those of us who were there!"

Larry Liddell Program Director, National Association of County Information Officers (NACIO)

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Coaching Leaders

It is practitioners and staffers like you who help transform managers into leaders and who help executives polish, target, and focus their leadership skills. And, sometimes, it's professionals like you who are called upon to rehabilitate, restart, or initiate the development of leaders. While many practitioners work in the presence of leadership, they rarely have the opportunity to shape, burnish, or have an impact on leadership other than in very tactical ways. This two-hour seminar is about how you transform yourself into someone who can assist, coach, teach, and contribute to the leaders around you.
Leadership is about verbalizing vision. Coaching leaders is an exercise in building verbal visionaries. This is a program designed to inspire and motivate participants to become verbal visionaries themselves.

Crisis-Proofing Your Organization

First response--managing the first 60 minutes, the first 120 minutes, and the first several hours of a crisis--forecasts how any crisis situation will ultimately be resolved and consequently the character, reputation, and sincerity of the perpetrating organization. Contrary to popular belief, a true crisis--a people-stopping, show-stopping, product-stopping, reputationally defining event that causes victims and explosive responsibility--must be brought under control and responses organized within the first 120 minutes. After that the proces disintegrates into a whole host of problems, distractions, and opportunities for litigation and collateral damage.
In this program, we discuss conclusive first response strategies; the importance of creating scenarios for planning and testing response capabilities; modeling approaches; incident specific scenario development; responding to crisis in war time; and practical tools, such as flow charts, to expedite planning and response.

Ingredients of Leadership: How to Become an Outstanding Individual

What is leadership? Who has this magical quality? How do they get it? Are leaders born, not made? Why do they seem to choose someone else, or take someone else's advice over yours? This session is designed to help managers and senior staff better understand the nature of leadership so they can both practice and teach/coach key leadership principles throughout their organizations.
Leadership is primarily a verbal skill involving vision, forward thinking, and strategy. Managing is making and exceeding goals and helping people at lower levels achieve or exceed their individual potential.
This session unlocks, explores, and illustrates eight crucial communication ingredients of leadership. Each participant will go through and interesting leadership self-analysis.

Inside the Mind of a Modern CEO

Today's CEOs are under more scrutiny and performance pressure than ever before. Where do they come from? How do they learn to be CEOs? How long will they be there? How do they think?
Senior executives know that marshalling communications power is every bit as important as having a solid business strategy or winning product. What does it take to get their attention and be truly helpful, even a confidant? Why do they, many times, rely more heavily on outside advice rather than on those who work for them every day?
During this highly energetic presentation, management communication expert Jim Lukaszewski will discuss: six major change trends in the CEO's environment you need to know before you get to the table; understanding the four crucial tasks the CEO faces alone, everyday; four critical feedbacks CEOs need everyday; six powerful personal habits of the strategic advisor; and four crucial tests that ideas, concepts, and recommendations must pass to be truly useful to the CEO.
This highly insightful and interactive presentation explores both the mind and the world of the CEO.

Leading With Integrity

A recent study, reported in the American Law Journal, cited the enormous negative impact of the recent run of corporate scandals on jurors and juries. A similar impact is now being seen in employee attitude surveys. Recent employee surveys show a dramatic decline in employee trust of management, for ethical reasons. We've learned that unethical and immoral workplace behavior can eventually lead to criminal behavior.
How can employees, and leadership, deal with the issues? What are the patterns to look for that can alert management to inappropriate or borderline, unethical behavior and negative attitudes?
In this powerful and personally moving presentation, Jim Lukaszewski, through very dramatic stories and experiences, helps clarify, identify, and label the key ideas and issues that will help employees and management prevent, detect, deter and deal more appropriately with the intensity and negativity that today's workplace can generate.

The 51% Factor: Building Public Consent

Is there another way to change people's minds, help them better understand, and control their own destiny than by speaking just to the news media? The answer, according to Jim Lukaszewski, is a resounding YES--through direct communication.
In this dynamic, interesting, and mind-shaping presentation, Lukaszewski walks through his concept of how to have influence in powerfully positive ways that tend to reduce or even manage the media's power during the most urgent of situations. He will talk about the Theory of Mutual Inattention and blow a hole in the old notion of Reservoirs of Good Will. He'll describe the Six Myths of Communication and why facts and data are often unconvincing. He'll talk about the five Axioms of Influence, and why the audiences that really don't care are the most important to influence. And, he'll talk about reducing the media's power by recognizing the obvious and leveraging reality into persuasive power.

Transforming Managers to Leaders

What is leadership? Who has this magical quality? How do they get it? Are leaders born, or made? This session is designed to help managers or senior staff better understand the nature of leadership so they can teach/coach the key leadership principles that transform managers into leaders.
Leadership is primarily a verbal skill involving vision, forward thinking, and strategy. Managing is making and exceeding goals and helping people at lower levels achieve or exceed their individual potential. The transformation to leadership is among the most difficult but exciting tasks managers can undertake.
This session unlocks, explores, and illustrates crucial communication themes and ingredients of leadership. Each participant also goes through an interesting personal leadership self-analysis.

Why Won't They Listen: Influencing Employee Attitudes

"Who are they? Who are those people who come to work here every day? What are they about? Why can't we communicate with them? Why won't they listen? Why won't they just do what they're told?" -the words of countless frustrated managers.
Getting through to workers to successfully influence their behaviors, attitudes, and work habits is one of the most frustrating aspects of organizational management communication. How can senior executives, supervisors, and managers generate enough loyalty, enough motivation, enough focus to move the organization forward each day despite rumors, uncertainty, failed opportunities, abrupt shifts in direction, obvious mistakes in decision making, and the daily sense that there really is no one in charge, no plan, or strategy in place to meet future contingencies.
Communication expert James E. Lukaszewski will take participants through a unique analysis of employee presence at work. His approach helps clarify why it is so difficult to communicate with employees in either direction.

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