Virtual coffee talk

Do you want to be inclusive, but don’t know exactly what that entails? This session will address best practices in fostering inclusive environments, both at a team and corporate level. There will be a heavy focus on LGBTQ+ inclusivity, but this will also encompass welcoming all types of diverse teammates you may hire or have in your workplace. Help your team feel like they belong and can be themselves under your leadership.

Learning Objectives

1. Reflect on your own identity and assumptions
2. Identify 3 ways to welcome teammates who are different than you
3. Learn about best practices in inclusivity, especially within LGBTQ+ spaces, such as usage of pronouns and nonbinary identity.
4. Explore the idea of Employee Resource Groups and how to initiate those conversations
5. Identify points of entry to help people feel welcome, from onboarding, to communication channels, to team introductions and check-ins.

This program is ideal for: first time supervisors, managers of any type, but truly anyone.

About Our Facilitator

Laura Holt is a queer career coach who completed an SHRM mentorship program that focused on diversity and inclusion and was a corporate technical recruiter for 1.5 years on an HR team. She is the co-lead of Out@Galvanize, and founder of the Pride Employee Resource Group at her last workplace as well. Laura is a career coach who has been presenting in public forums for over ten years on multiple different topics. She participated in Toastmasters in Phoenix, Arizona, where she received her formal training in public speaking and improvisation tactics. She has worked in large corporate environments, nonprofits, and smaller startups. She speaks Spanish fluently and has traveled to over 15+ countries since she was 14. Her passion is giving leaders the confidence they need to succeed, as well as help jobseekers believe in their path forward and achieve their goals. She started her own business, Eight Legged Moves in 2021, and looks forward to what 2022 holds.

Read a book.
Lead with inspiration.

What are you reading this season? How are you preparing and reflecting upon leadership in 2022?

SLA in partnership with Muncie Public Library is offering a unique quarterly gathering, highlighting important take-aways from inspirational leadership books. At each event, facilitators will share key leadership development lessons from two leadership-focused books. This is not a book club, rather a guided discussion around the key takeaways from each book.

Prior reading of the book is not required but we encourage participants to share about what they learned and check-out one of the books from Muncie Public Library. All participants attending will be entered in a raffle to win a digital copy of one of the books discussed.

All sessions are FREE and open to the public. Some events will be in-person and some will be virtual. Registration is required.

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Virtual Workshop 2-Part Series

Session #1:
Wednesday, February 23
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Session #2:
Thursday, February 24
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Wellness is not just something you talk about, it’s something you do! During this session, we will define what wellness is generally, but also what it looks like for you personally! We will talk about ways to create lasting habits, ways to make small, but impactful changes, as well as ways to move your body intentionally throughout the day. Incorporating wellness into your daily routine is simple! It isn’t going to take a complete overall of your day but instead is all about focusing on the small ways you can be more intentional.

Learning Objectives

1. Definition of wellness & how it relates to yourself
2. Establishing wellness practices in your life
3. Actionable Steps to stay consistent in wellness practices

This program is ideal for: Anyone and everyone looking to make small, but important improvements to their day!

About Our Facilitator

Shaina Partlow is a certified health coach who virtually coaches busy millennial women to become experts on their own bodies to live their healthiest life. Shaina received her Health Coaching certificate from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.

She graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor’s degree in English Literature. She went on to receive her master’s degree from Ball State University in Student Affairs Administration in Higher Education. After working as a Career Coach at Purdue University, Shaina realized that many of the students she was working with also needed help in other areas of their lives. She decided to get certified as a Health Coach to help people better understand how health is interrelated to all areas of their lives.

Shaina coaches her clients in areas of nutrition, physical activity, relationships, career, and joy to name a few. Her clients learn how to be body literate – how to listen and understand what their body wants while still enjoying life! Shaina believes that health involves moving your body, eating foods you enjoy, and being with the people you love.

Shaina lives in South Carolina with her husband and her sassy labradoodle Sage.

Virtual coffee talk

This 90 minute session takes participants through a mindset analysis and challenges the current thoughts and perceptions they have towards everyday moments. With a negativity bias, we often default to the worst case scenario. But with a mindset shift and understanding how and when the brain chooses to change view, we can learn to look at the world with a more positive light.

Learning Objectives

1. The science behind positive and negative psychology
2. How to become more aware of present situations and emotional responses
3. Ways to look at life with a lens of gratitude and true joy
4. Connections between the community and commonalities you may not see otherwise
5. Tangible takeaways to apply to your own life and to inspire others

This program is ideal for: Business Owners, Managers, Community Leaders

About Our Facilitator

Kyleigh Mazer is a Southern Indiana native who is excited to serve businesses across Indiana with the ActionCOACH brand. She enjoys helping people build a business they are proud of and a life they love. Having grown up in her family’s business, she was bitten early on by the entrepreneurial bug and has continued that passion since. Kyleigh holds two degrees from Ball State University with an undergraduate degree in Entrepreneurial Management, Marketing, and Leadership, and her MBA, and had a side gig as Charlie Cardinal during her time at school.

Directly out of college, Kyleigh jumped into the hustle of a startup located in Indy where she gained new insight and experience serving clients of the growing company. She has also served as a Business Advisor with the Indiana Small Business Development Center. Kyleigh holds certifications as a facilitator & coach with Gallup CliftonStrengths, FourSight Innovation, LEGO® Serious Play®, and the Entrepreneurial Mindset Profile.

Outside of work, Kyleigh enjoys spending time at the lake, reading, jogging, and playing board games with her friends and family. Any chance to learn, pet a dog, or eat ice cream is right up her alley.

Virtual Workshop 2-Part Series

Session #1:
Wednesday, March 23
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Session #2:
Thursday, March 24
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Whether you are a leader, manager, or frontline employee, you can benefit from increased creativity. This is increasingly important as jobs become automated and organizations are called upon to adapt and pivot in a rapidly changing environment. Understanding what creativity is and how to foster it will help you whether you are leading a company, seeking to enhance your career, or want to expand your personal life. Join me, as we follow the lead of The Magic Schoolbus’ Ms. Frizzle and explore the power of taking chances, making mistakes, and getting messy!

Learning Objectives

1. What is creativity?
2. What are the benefits of creativity?
3. How can leaders support creativity?
4. How can individuals nurture their own creativity?

This program is ideal for: executives, managers, employees, and anyone who wants to increase their creativity.

About Our Facilitator

Morgan O’Donnell grew up exploring the Appalachian mountains before joining the Army where she was trained as a Russian linguist for military intelligence. Besides serving in the military, she has worked in a variety of interesting jobs, including taxi driver, office manager for psychologists, teaching fellow, public services librarian, and graduate advisor to name a few. In her last traditional job she worked with university leaders to coordinate and oversee graduate recruitment. Morgan has spent many years advising and assisting people from new Toastmasters members to students to nonprofit leaders. Creatively, her first passion was writing where she published poetry and essays in different journals as well as launching her own online poetry and art journal and a small chapbook press. More recently, Morgan has focused her creative energies on metal embossing, sculpture, and mixed media experiments.

In-Person Workshop

You’ve done the strength assessments; you’ve done the SWOT analysis, and you’ve participated in the office retreats. It’s all been great, but you can’t help but feel that some pieces just aren’t fitting together, all the blocks don’t seem to be forming a whole shape. Maybe it’s time to reconstruct how we approach self-assessment and goal setting. Maybe it’s time to start building ourselves up one brick at a time. In this highly interactive workshop, we will engage with LEGO® Serious Play®, a powerful and innovative consulting tool that’s being used in teams and businesses around the world. This methodology utilizes flow theory and neurological aspects of play to get past our filters and reveal things about our strengths and talents that we never knew we knew. If you’ve ever felt like goal setting or strength development was arbitrary or without outcomes, it may be time to play with LEGO® again in one of the most introvert/extrovert-friendly programs ever developed.

Learning Objectives

1. Construct a visual, narrative representation of their strengths, goals, and opportunities
2. Have a clearer picture of their immediate and long-term professional goals
3. Identify a specific contribution that they can make to their career growth or current role
4. Craft a “next steps” statement before departing the workshop

This program is ideal for: anyone trying to create a well-designed life and career. Educators or team leaders may also find great value in learning more about this tool.

About Our Facilitator

Dillon Waggoner is a career coach at Ball State University, where he facilitates workshops and one-on-one sessions to help students identify and develop strengths and skills. Since completing his masters degree in 2017, he has sought to bring play and game elements into learning and professional development. He and the BSU Career Center team have created escape rooms to teach workplace problem solving and strive to add highly interactive elements into all of center’s career development efforts. Dillon become a certified facilitator in LEGO® Serious Play® methodology in 2020.

IN-Person Lunch & Learn

With so many places pushing information out, it’s hard sometimes to know what’s real and what’s fiction. As local journalists, we can help provide tools that will help anyone with access to the internet be sure that the information they are not only reading, but sometimes more importantly sharing comes from trusted and reliable sources. We’ll talk about journalism ethics, what real reporters are required to do prior to sharing a story, and why much of the information you see on social media platforms often isn’t news at all. We’ll answer questions about how we do what we do, and do some myth-busting about who we are and the work we do.

Learning Objectives

1. How to be a smart consumer of online information
2. What you should know about certain “news” outlets so you can arm yourself with good information.
3. What ethics journalists must follow to do their work the right way.

This program is ideal for: anyone

About Our Facilitator

Lisa Renze (advisor) and staff of the Ball State Daily News are national award-winning journalists who are committed to the 100-year-old tradition of student media and community journalism that began at the university a century ago. We follow a code of ethics, have many built-in checks and balances we engage when doing our work and believe in the power of responsible, ethical journalism.

In-Person Workshop

This session will use the “Quilt” to have participants, possibly from the same company, spend time writing down their thoughts related to the future development of their company given the various challenges companies face. This could also be done for parents doing family planning and for individuals developing a personal strategic plan to better themselves personally or professionally. Each participant will spend some time either with ‘team or family members’ or solo writing down a wide range of ideas related to ‘the plan’. Time will be spent working through these and then each participant will ‘move’ these ideas into a central area of the Quilt. Once there they’ll decide the key changes needed to get the results they want, which would be nice to add if possible and if they truly have the resources yet a third layer can be added to their future plan.

Learning Objectives

1. Gives an individual, a company owner/manager and/or a team to spend time truly thinking about the future and the elements to remain competitive and/or make progress
2. Conversation is a key part of this once the Quilt is completed and team members begin sharing their Quilts.
3. The teams or family members will move key items to a team Quilt which will serve as a guide for future planning and development
4. It’s possible there will be more than one Quilt for a team. Planning may need to be done for personnel needs, personal needs, competition and new product development
5. The session concludes with scissors cutting around the outside of the Quilt and focusing on the ‘final strategic plan’.

This program is ideal for: businesses engaged in a competitive marketplace and the employees involved in the decision-making process. It would also work well for smaller business owners to take a ‘coffee’ break and take time to think about the future direction of their enterprise. Family members have done this session in the past and found out some interesting things about their children along with their spouses. Managers who face various competitive challenges would benefit from taking time to unleash their thoughts on the Quilt but then have to take stock in all their ideas and narrow it down to the list that is realistic and can be accomplished given any budget/employee/location restrictions.

About Our Facilitator

Dr. Joe Misiewicz, is the Emeritus Chair of the Department of Telecommunications at Ball State, and in addition to many other accomplishments, served as the President and CEO of the Indiana Broadcasters Association.

IN-Person Lunch & Learn

Everyone experiences some degree of stress and in this ever changing and uncertain time, it is ever more important to have tools in our toolbox to aid us in processing the stressors affecting each of us today. Your breath plays an important role in helping to regulate how we respond to the stressor. We are all told to “just breathe” however, many of us really do not know how to breathe any different. This workshop will help you start to identify/notice when you start to become stressed and when breathing techniques would be beneficial.

Relax and come breathe with me.

Learning Objectives

1. Why and how breath plays an important role in working through stress.
2. How to begin to become aware of the changes in our body and mind when stress.
3. Practical breath techniques for any moment of rising stress.

This program is ideal for:anyone that experiences stress.

About Our Facilitator

Nichole Linebaugh is passionate about safety and health. She has been working in the occupational safety and health field for just over 10 years and currently holding the Associate Safety Professional (ASP) designation with the Bureau of Certified Safety Professionals and working at FCC (Indiana) in Portland, IN. Nichole is also a yoga practitioner and a 500-hour yoga teacher. She is always continuing to learn and grow in health and wellness and works with private yoga clients and building her business Nurturing Rose Yoga. She helps to guide individuals find the right tools to work through everyday stress and anxiety. With working in the safety and health field, Nichole continues to apply yoga techniques and principles to work through everyday stress and stress at work.

Nichole is currently living in Union City, IN with her family and loves to spend time with them and be out in nature.

Is supervision for me?

The transition from frontline employee to supervisor is a big leap.

This program is designed to help participants better understand the roles and responsibilities of supervision. In this interactive course, we will explore the fundamentals of frontline supervision. Participants will examine core elements of supervision such as building trust, managing conflict, and communicating effectively.

At the end of the program both participants and employers will be ready to answer the question “Is supervision for me?”

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All Aboard: Board Leadership in Motion is a three-hour workshop ideal for individuals who have a desire to serve on a not-for-profit board but want to learn more about what serving as a board member entails, and how to find the potential board opportunity that suits their interests and skill sets.

This session is a partnership with the Heart of Indiana United Way and is sponsored in-part by: Stallings Wealth Management.

Participant Takeaways

• An understanding of the roles and responsibilities of a not-for-profit board member
• How to determine board opportunities that match interests, skills, & desired level of commitment
• Guidance on how to be an effective board member
• Insight on how to find potential board member opportunities
• Descriptions of board member opportunities currently available in the area

Who Should Attend?

All Aboard is ideal for individuals who have a desire to serve on a not-for-profit board but want to learn more about what serving as a board member entails and how to find the potential board opportunity that suits their interests and skill sets.

Tuition:

Thanks to our generous sponsors, All Aboard is available for free.

About Our Facilitator:

Our presenter is Dave Sternberg, Senior Partner of the Indianapolis and Ft. Lauderdale based firm of Loring, Sternberg & Associates, provides fundraising and governance consulting services to nonprofits.

Dave Sternberg has been a nonprofit professional since obtaining a bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University. Today, he is a member of the faculty at the Lilly School of Philanthropy’s Fund Raising School, a BoardSource senior governance consultant, and an independent consultant with Loring, Sternberg and Associates.

For The Fund Raising School, Dave teaches “Developing Annual Sustainability, Principles and Technique of Fundraising” and “Developing Major Gifts,” as well as numerous customized training programs nationally and internationally. As a BoardSource consultant, Dave provides counsel on such topics as strategic planning and fundraising. His clients describe him as a gifted strategist, adept at assessing and identifying solutions for organizational and board challenges, and brutally honest.

He is the only person in America to hold a position with both Board Source and the Fund Raising School.